Municipality

Municipalities make up most of the departments of Colombia with 1,122 municipalities (municipios).

French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy or municipios in Spain.

Special districts (also known as special service districts, special district governments, limited purpose entities, or special-purpose districts) are independent, special-purpose governmental units that exist separately from local governments such as county, municipal, and township governments, with substantial administrative and fiscal independence.

The communal civil service administration is known as the municipality (municipalidad) and is headquartered at the mayor's office (alcaldía).

In India, a Municipal Council (also known as Municipality, Nagar Palika, or Nagar Palika Parishad) is an Urban Local Body that administers a city of population 100,000 or more.

Most states and territories have at least two tiers of local government: counties and municipalities.

A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries.

The departments of Benin are subdivided into 77 communes, which in turn are divided into arrondissements and finally into villages or city districts.

The widespread provision of public utilities as public services in developed countries usually began in the late nineteenth century, often with the municipal development of gas and water services.

3) Civil − a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, incorporated place, municipality, parish, town, township)."