The city, which spills down steep hillsides to the banks of the Kura River, has the ambiance and look of a southern European metropolis.

From Guilin, take a 60-minute flight to Guangzhou, the bustling southern metropolis also known as Canton.

His family moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1900, and Quirino spent his childhood soaking up the fast pace and left-leaning politics of the great southern metropolis.

There is constant talk these days of turning Mumbai, the southern commercial metropolis formerly known as Bombay, into a new Shanghai, China's most glitteringly modern city.

Mukul Devichand visits Guangzhou, the southern metropolis where seven million migrants form half the population.

Down on legendary Beale Street, in the heart of this southern metropolis, there is music in the streets.

Its tree-lined pathways, academic buildings, steepled Gothic church which dates back to 1930 and separate playgrounds for each sport make it a landmark in the southern metropolis.

TWENTY-SIX MIAMI-ah, my beautiful southern metropolis, lying under the polished sky of the Caribbean, no matter what say the various maps!

Jammikunta railway station is along one of busiest rail routes in India which connects the southern metropolis Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore to the northern part of the country.

Ms. Anderson left for Sydney, the southern metropolis, in 1935 at the age of 18.