Metropolis
Metropolis is a small city in Southern Illinois probably named out of wishful thinking which hasn't really been borne out. The town's current claim to fame is as the host for a floating riverboat casino run by the Harrah's casino chain of Reno, Nevada.- Type: Town with 6,420 residents
- Description: city in Illinois, United States
- Postal code: 62960
Notable Places in the Area
Fort Massac
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Fort Massac is a French colonial and early National-era fort on the Ohio River in Massac County, Illinois.
Massac Memorial Hospital
Massac Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed general medical and surgical hospital located in Metropolis, Illinois, United States.Metropolis
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Massac, Southern Illinois, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.1512° or 37° 9' 4" northLongitude
-88.732° or 88° 43' 55" westPopulation
6,420Elevation
110 metres (361 feet)United Nations Location Code
US METOpen Location Code
869H5729+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 153490026OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4244462Wikidata ID
Q304036Metropolis Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Metropolis, Illinois
- Arabic: متروبوليس
- Basque: Metropolis (Illinois)
- Basque: Metropolis
- Bulgarian: Метрополис
- Catalan: Metropolis
- Cebuano: Metropolis
- Chechen: Метрополис (Иллинойс)
- Chechen: Метрополис
- Chinese: Metropolis
- Chinese: 梅特罗波利斯
- Croatian: Metropolis (Illinois)
- Croatian: Metropolis
- Danish: Metropolis
- Dutch: Metropolis
- Egyptian Arabic: متروبوليس
- English: Metropolis, IL
- English: Metropolis, Illinois
- French: Metropolis
- German: Metropolis
- Haitian: Metropolis, Ilinwa
- Hungarian: Metropolis
- Ido: Metropolis, Illinois
- Irish: Metropolis
- Italian: Metropolis
- Japanese: メトロポリス
- Ladin: Metropolis (Illinois)
- Ladin: Metropolis
- Min Nan Chinese: Metropolis
- Nepali: मेट्रोपोलिस, इलियोनोई
- Newari: मेट्रोपोलिस (इलियोनोई)
- Newari: मेट्रोपोलिस, इलियोनोई
- Newari: मेट्रोपोलिस
- Norwegian Bokmål: Metropolis
- Persian: متروپلیس، ایلینوی
- Persian: متروپولیس، ایلینوی
- Polish: Metropolis
- Portuguese: Metropolis
- Serbian: Метрополис
- Serbo-Croatian: Metropolis, Illinois
- Serbo-Croatian: Metropolis
- South Azerbaijani: متروپلیس، ایلینوی
- Spanish: Metropolis
- Spanish: Metropolis (Illinois)
- Swedish: Metropolis, Illinois
- Tatar: Метрополис (Иллинойс)
- Tatar: Метрополис
- Ukrainian: Метрополіс
- Urdu: میٹروپولس، الینوائے
- Uzbek: Metropolis
- Vietnamese: Metropolis, Illinois
- Vietnamese: Metropolis
- Volapük: Metropolis
- Waray (Philippines): Metropolis, Illinois
- Welsh: Metropolis, Illinois
- Metropolis City
Other Places Named Metropolis
Localities in the Area
- Metropolis JunctionLocality
- Massac CityHamlet
- High PointHamlet, 4½ km south
- ChilesHamlet, 4½ km south
- GrahamvilleHamlet, 6 km southwest
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