common throughout most of the world
an adjective that describes a species that is widely dispersed; describes a species that is found all over the world, or has a wide range. See also pandemic.
a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"
composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"
(adj.) -- worldly; international; eclectic.
found throughout the world
common to the whole world
The word cosmopolitan describes an environment where many cultures from around the world coexist; or a person whose perspective reflects exposure to a variety of cultures. It may also have the weaker senses of "worldly" or "sophisticated".