municipality
administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government or jurisdiction
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Summary
municipality is an administrative territorial entity type[1]. municipality ranks in the top 5% of administrative territorial entity type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,288 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: political territorial entity[3], government organization[4]
- Commons category: Municipalities[5]
- Said to be the same as: commune[6], opština[7], concelho[8], local government[9], obec[10], parish[11], local government area[12]
- Has part(s): neighborhood[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Municipalities[14]
- OpenStreetMap tag: place=municipality[15]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17], The New Student's Reference Work[18]
- Topic has template: Q8118767[19]
- Equivalent class: http://kbpedia.org/kko/rc/Municipality[20]
- Different from: municipal government[21], Gemeinde (theology)[22], special-purpose district of the United States[23], city[24]
- Properties for this type: P12280[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Cities[27]
Why It Matters
municipality has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] municipality is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]