A municipality is a word used for a city, a town or a village, or a small group of them. It has a clearly defined territory, and all the people living on that territory share one common local government . In most countries, a municipality is the smallest administrative subdivision to have its own democratically elected representative leadership.

Municipal status. As a second level administrative division municipalities are the third tier of public administration in the Netherlands after the central government and the provinces. The Netherlands is a decentralized unitary state, which means that the central government is supreme and delegates certain tasks to lower levels of government by law. The different levels do, …

34 rows · Ontario is the most populous province in Canada with 14,223,942 residents as of 2021 and is third-largest in land area at 892,412 km 2 (344,562 sq mi). Ontario's 444 municipalities cover only 17% of the province's land mass yet are home to 99% of its population. These municipalities provide local or regional municipal government services within either a single …

53 rows · This is a list of municipalities of South Africa. The largest metropolitan areas are governed by metropolitan municipalities, while the rest of the country is divided into district municipalities, each of which consists of several local municipalities. Since the boundary reform at the time of the municipal election of 3 August 2016 there are 8 ...

Malmö Municipality (Swedish: Malmö kommun), or City of Malmö (Malmö stad), is a Swedish municipality in Skåne County, the southernmost of the counties of Sweden (and conterminous with the historical province (landskap) of Scania).. When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863, the Old City of Malmö was made one of the country's 88 city …

municipality: [noun] a primarily urban political unit having corporate (see corporate 1a) status and usually powers of self-government.