metropolitanen
Metropolitanen is a term used in some languages to describe metropolitan areas, metropolitan regions, or related urban complexes. It can function as either a plural noun or as the plural form of an adjective used as a noun, depending on the language. In English, the concept is usually expressed as metropolitan area or metropolitan region, rather than metropolitanen.
The root is the Greek metropolis, meaning a large or governing city, with the suffix -en common
In practice, metropolitanen refer to a core city and its surrounding municipalities that share economic ties,
Common concepts linked to metropolitanen include the functional urban area, commuter shed, and metropolitan region, with
Examples of metropolitan regions illustrate the concept, and the term metropolitanen itself is not universally used;