Jeonju was given metropolitan status in 1935, and the city was founded in 1949.

Charlotte achieved metropolitan status then because of annexation of new areas, but the others did so through population growth.

Rostov archbishops were granted a metropolitan status in 1589.

Bek tried to revive a scheme to make St David's independent from Canterbury, and to elevate it to metropolitan status.

In these western cities the streets were numbered even more carefully than in the east to suggest future prosperity and metropolitan status.

Grainger and Jefferson counties lost metropolitan status in 1990.

This was the first time any Scottish bishopric had received metropolitan status from the papacy.

Hazleton was added as a primary city in the 1990 census, while Monroe County lost its metropolitan status.

After the 2000 census, Columbia County lost metropolitan status, while Hazleton was removed as a primary city.

Damascus was raised to metropolitan status by the patriarch Timothy I (780-823).