Metro

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Metro is a general term for an urban transportation system, which can include underground train systems but is not limited to it. Other components can include wheeled busses and light rail systems that run on streets. A few systems have more exotic transportation components such as monorails and magnetically levitated trains.

An underground urban component is called "underground" in British English, but may be called "Metro" in many languages, and "subway" in American English.

Paris Metro

New York transit system

Washington, D.C. Metro