municipality

A municipality is a local administrative unit, such as a city, town, or district, governed by elected officials and responsible for providing public services and regulations within its defined geographic area.

Aliases (50)

• town ×1,467
• county ×571
• human settlement ×557
• civil parish ×331
• district ×273
• commune of France ×192
• suburb ×189
• administrative district ×157
• coastal town ×88
• market town ×82
• borough ×63
• local government district ×60
• commune ×54
• local government authority ×47
• local authority ×45
• township ×42
• unitary authority ×39
• municipal government ×33
• local government ×32
• prefecture-level city ×28
• administrative center ×26
• non-metropolitan district ×25
• municipality of the Netherlands ×23
• borough of Mexico City ×22
• suburban town ×20
• lower-tier municipality ×18
• municipality of Sweden ×17
• metropolitan borough ×15
• London borough ×14
• incorporated town ×13
• single-tier municipality ×12
• subnational government ×12
• commune of Switzerland ×11
• large town ×11
• metropolitan municipality ×11
• municipality of Switzerland ×9
• special district ×9
• consolidated city-county ×8
• county town ×8
• rural municipality ×8
• commune of Chile ×7
• council area ×7
• county borough ×7
• Local government body ×6
• borough council ×6
• municipality in the United States ×6
• sub-provincial city ×6
• Metropolitan borough ×5
• Municipal corporation ×5
• district municipality ×5

Instances (showing first 500 of 6,807)

• Shenzhen Baoan District ("district")
• Namsos
• Pollica
• Doylestown, Pennsylvania ("borough")
• Village of Kiryas Joel, New York
• Montrose, Angus, Scotland ("town")
• Krasnaya Sloboda ("town")
• Walsall ("town")
• Kyoto
• Murmansk ("administrative center")
• Oudenarde
• Gardner, Kansas
• Xiamen ("sub-provincial city")
• Scarborough ("town")
• Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
• Hana ("town")
• Brussels, Belgium
• Tijuana
• Harpers Ferry, West Virginia ("town")
• Loudoun County, Virginia ("county")
• Jackson County, Missouri ("county")
• Southampton, New York, United States ("town")
• Orange County, North Carolina ("county")
• Durham County Board of Commissioners ("local government authority")
• Apex ("town")
• Bangkok
• Mashpee, Massachusetts ("town")
• Municipality of Playas de Rosarito
• Del Ray ("human settlement")
• Vedado district of Havana ("district")
• Collex-Bossy
• Yalta Municipality
• Hana, Maui ("town")
• Qena ("human settlement")
• Bad Tölz ("town")
• Izmir ("metropolitan municipality")
• Tunes ("town")
• San Mateo County, California ("county")
• Los Alamos, New Mexico ("town")
• Jefferson County, Alabama ("county")
• Somerville, Massachusetts
• Sandwich, Kent, England ("town")
• Clark County, Washington ("county")
• Santiago de Veraguas
• Mutare ("human settlement")
• Androscoggin County, Maine ("county")
• Multnomah County ("county")
• Matsubara
• Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Simferopol ("administrative center")
• City of Fairfax
• Warrenton ("town")
• Agecroft ("district")
• Le Mesnil-Amelot ("commune of France")
• Athis-Mons ("commune of France")
• Carnoustie ("town")
• North Queensferry ("civil parish")
• Wake County, North Carolina ("county")
• Whittier, California, United States
• Town of Carmel ("town")
• Cerro district of Havana ("district")
• Satigny ("municipality of Switzerland")
• Tarascon ("commune of France")
• East Cowes ("town")
• Greensboro, North Carolina
• River City ("prefecture-level city")
• Cresco, Iowa, United States
• Orlando
• Shelby County, Alabama ("county")
• Silver Lake ("district")
• Guernica ("town")
• Wieliczka ("town")
• Sucha Beskidzka ("town")
• Manchester ("metropolitan borough")
• City of Falls Church
• Cook County, Illinois ("county")
• Quantico ("town")
• Milan
• Rockland County ("county")
• Manchester, Georgia
• Fulton County, Georgia ("county")
• Tel Aviv
• Valladolid
• Norfolk County, Massachusetts ("county")
• Green Bay, Wisconsin ("municipality in Wisconsin")
• Aswan ("human settlement")
• Gweru ("human settlement")
• Jackson County, Florida ("county")
• Sabrosa
• Lichtenfels ("town")
• Huntington, New York, United States ("town")
• Galle ("human settlement")
• Hayabusachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo ("district")
• Ferney-Voltaire ("commune of France")
• Fakenham ("market town")
• Hay ("town")
• Temora ("town")
• Lockhart ("town")
• Menlo Park, California
• Worcester County, Massachusetts ("county")
• Sacramento County ("county")
• Arnhem
• East Cambridge ("district")
• Coimbra
• Isla de Vieques
• Morant Bay ("town")
• Stockport ("town")
• Woodbury, Georgia
• Richmond County, Georgia ("county")
• Cresco
• Gadsden County, Florida ("county")
• Aroostook County, Maine ("county")
• Sanlúcar de Barrameda
• Portland, Dorset, England ("civil parish")
• Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy
• Gaylord, Michigan, United States
• Mercer County ("county")
• Azcapotzalco ("borough of Mexico City")
• Ripon, Wisconsin
• Hyde Park, New York, United States ("town")
• Copenhagen
• Strasbourg ("commune of France")
• Snowy Mountains ("town")
• Orange County, New York ("county")
• Athens
• Puerto Williams ("town")
• Trafford ("Metropolitan borough")
• Luthersville, Georgia
• Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Leon County, Florida ("county")
• Gilead, Maine ("town")
• Mogadishu ("human settlement")
• Warm Springs, Georgia, United States ("town")
• Castro Marim
• Olkusz ("town")
• Chamonix ("commune of France")
• Tulle ("commune of France")
• Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
• Harris County, Georgia ("county")
• Sioux Center, Iowa
• Dallas County, Texas ("county")
• Municipality of Rhodes
• Everett, Massachusetts, United States
• Borough of Boston ("local government district")
• Boston Borough Council ("local authority")
• Ibadan ("human settlement")
• Chatham County, North Carolina ("county")
• Jaffna ("human settlement")
• Hillsborough County, New Hampshire ("county")
• Nijmegen
• Prince William County, Virginia ("county")
• Belmont ("town")
• Prévessin-Moëns ("commune of France")
• Grayshott, Hampshire, England ("civil parish")
• Granville County, North Carolina ("county")
• Batticaloa ("human settlement")
• Eastern Cape ("town")
• Roissy-en-France ("commune of France")
• Meriwether County, Georgia ("county")
• Bursa ("metropolitan municipality")
• Saint-Genis-Pouilly ("commune of France")
• Cuajimalpa de Morelos ("borough of Mexico City")
• Montgomery County ("county")
• Budapest
• Zurich
• Ulster County ("county")
• Gay, Georgia ("town")
• Bethel, Maine ("town")
• DeSoto
• Cockrell Hill
• Valencia
• Courmayeur ("comune of Italy")
• state government of Alaska ("subnational government")
• West Hollywood
• Birmingham ("metropolitan borough")
• Rockingham County, New Hampshire ("county")
• Edgartown, Massachusetts ("town")
• Potsdam ("district-free city")
• Eindhoven
• Burlington ("town")
• Harwich ("town")
• Tavira
• Steglitz-Zehlendorf ("administrative district")
• Furnes (Veurne)
• Vichy ("commune of France")
• Casablanca ("commune")
• Belfast City Council ("local government authority")
• Arlington ("town")
• Humboldt County ("county")
• Leiden
• Braintree ("town")
• Iztacalco ("borough of Mexico City")
• Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania ("county")
• Kingston, New York
• Front Royal ("town")
• Prague
• Helsinki
• Columbia County, New York ("county")
• Chatham ("town")
• Pentonville ("district")
• Person County, North Carolina ("county")
• Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority ("special district")
• Sion
• Rumford, Maine ("town")
• Hamilton ("town")
• Taipei, Taiwan ("special municipality")
• Kensington ("district")
• Quakenbrück ("town")
• Coolamon ("town")
• Sitka
• Hoover, Alabama ("suburb")
• Suwannee County, Florida ("county")
• Farmington, Maine ("town")
• Ramallah ("human settlement")
• St Andrews ("town")
• Poznań
• City of Westminster ("London borough")
• Mercer County, West Virginia ("county")
• Union Vale ("town")
• Rock Valley, Iowa ("human settlement")
• Piscataway, New Jersey ("township")
• Reinickendorf ("administrative district")
• Municipal government of San Juan ("municipal government")
• Le Havre ("commune of France")
• Cathedral Quarter ("district")
• Forfar ("town")
• Vila Real de Santo António
• Tecate
• Konya ("metropolitan municipality")
• Princeton, Massachusetts (disputed) ("town")
• Iztapalapa ("borough of Mexico City")
• Palm Beach, Florida, United States ("town")
• West Oxfordshire ("local government district")
• Greene County, New York ("county")
• Naples
• Warrington ("town")
• Barstow ("human settlement")
• Mendocino County ("county")
• Peabody
• Newburgh, New York
• New Haven, Connecticut
• Titel, Serbia ("town")
• Holly Springs ("town")
• Paray-Vieille-Poste ("commune of France")
• Burntisland ("town")
• Qırmızı Qəsəbə ("town")
• Milpa Alta ("borough of Mexico City")
• Rensselaer County ("county")
• Marseille ("commune of France")
• Turin
• Runcorn ("town")
• Columbia County, Florida ("county")
• New Sharon, Maine ("town")
• Manitoba ("town")
• Municipality of Culebra
• Miami
• Bogotá
• Socorro County, New Mexico ("county")
• Addison ("town")
• Collin County, Texas ("county")
• Amman ("human settlement")
• Łódź ("urban gmina")
• College Station, Texas
• Hull, Iowa ("human settlement")
• Lancaster, California
• East Hollywood ("district")
• San Francisco County ("county")
• Charles County, Maryland ("county")
• Concepción ("commune")
• Peekskill, New York
• Ketchikan
• Barranco ("district")
• East Kern Airport District ("special district")
• Tempe, Arizona, USA
• Dewey ("town")
• Rolesville ("town")
• Lagos
• Granada
• Rosyth ("town")
• Bluefield, Virginia ("human settlement")
• Beacon
• Boyden, Iowa
• Plymouth County, Iowa ("county")
• Lenox, Massachusetts, United States ("town")
• College Park, Maryland
• Alameda County ("county")
• Stafford County, Virginia ("county")
• Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland ("town")
• Tláhuac ("borough of Mexico City")
• Echo Park ("district")
• Putnam County ("county")
• Albany County ("county")
• Lyon ("commune of France")
• Widnes ("town")
• Litchfield, Connecticut, United States ("town")
• Baker County, Florida ("county")
• Skowhegan, Maine ("town")
• Grant County, Washington ("county")
• Denton County, Texas ("county")
• Wamego, Kansas, United States
• Saratoga County ("county")
• Toulouse ("commune of France")
• Hulme, Manchester ("district")
• Whitehall ("district")
• Milton, Florida
• Canaan, Maine ("town")
• Merthyr Tydfil ("town")
• Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England ("town")
• Arromanches-les-Bains ("commune")
• Ellis, Kansas, United States ("human settlement")
• Government of San Francisco ("consolidated city-county government")
• Placer County government ("local government")
• Bluefield, West Virginia, United States
• Port of San Francisco ("special district")
• Curry County, Oregon ("county")
• Louisville, Kentucky ("consolidated city-county")
• Hawarden, Iowa ("human settlement")
• Bristol ("unitary authority")
• Dukes County, Massachusetts ("county")
• Santa Clara County ("county")
• San Antonio
• Tlalpan ("borough of Mexico City")
• Jersey City
• Nantes ("commune of France")
• Senoia, Georgia
• Crestview, Florida
• Palmyra, Maine ("town")
• Isabel Segunda ("town")
• Wilmslow ("town")
• LaRue County, Kentucky ("county")
• Needles, California
• DuPage County, Illinois ("county")
• Calvert County, Maryland ("county")
• Overland Park, Kansas ("suburb")
• Xochimilco ("borough of Mexico City")
• Falmouth ("town")
• Kings Point, New York, United States ("human settlement")
• Tampico, Illinois, United States
• Bridgend ("town")
• Chemnitz
• Wuhan ("prefecture-level city")
• Town of Chapel Hill (partial)
• Lochgelly ("town")
• Miami-Dade County ("county")
• Dutchess County ("county")
• Coconut Grove ("district")
• Coos County, Oregon ("county")
• Pleasant Valley ("town")
• Union County, South Dakota ("county")
• Pine Mountain, Georgia ("town")
• Agra ("human settlement")
• Pontypridd ("town")
• Bessemer, Alabama
• Monmouthshire County Council ("unitary authority")
• Alton, Hampshire, England ("market town")
• La Molina ("administrative district")
• Twentynine Palms, California
• Littleborough ("town")
• Pella, Iowa
• Sioux County, Iowa ("county")
• Watertown, Massachusetts
• Contra Costa County ("county")
• Berkshire County ("county")
• Saranac Lake ("human settlement")
• Philadelphia
• Upson County ("county")
• DeFuniak Springs, Florida
• Etna, Maine ("town")
• Wrocław
• Douglas County, Oregon ("county")
• Hanga Roa ("town")
• Monifieth ("town")
• Oldham borough ("metropolitan borough")
• Leatherhead ("town")
• Lingfield ("civil parish")
• Ewell ("town")
• Bagshot ("human settlement")
• Surrey County Council ("local government authority in England")
• Hebden Bridge ("town")
• Riverdale, Georgia
• Bratislava
• Lane County, Oregon ("county")
• Blackley ("district")
• Skagway
• Homewood, Alabama
• Binsted, Hampshire, England ("civil parish")
• Hefei ("prefecture-level city")
• Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
• Graves County, Kentucky, United States ("county")
• Sandwich ("town")
• Orleans ("town")
• Sheffield ("Metropolitan borough")
• Waltham, Massachusetts
• Lake County, Illinois ("county")
• Beverly Hills, California, United States