Municipality

A municipality is an administrative division composed of a defined territory and population. It commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a grouping thereof. A municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a council. The notion of municipality includes townships but is not restricted to them. A municipality is a general-purpose district, as opposed to a special-purpose district.

In most countries, a municipality is the smallest administrative subdivision to have democratically elected representation. Municipalities are sometimes referred to as "communes" (for example, French commune, Italian comune, Romanian comună, Swedish kommun and Norwegian/Danish kommune). The term derives from the medieval commune. The term "municipality" is used in some countries to refer to the municipal administrative building known elsewhere as the town hall or city hall.

The largest municipalities can be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland.


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