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Is municipality really the proper translation for Gemeinde? "Commune," on the French model, seems more appropriate. john k 22:22, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Let's merge commune (subnational entity) here. Chl 17:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
A municipality ... is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government.
It seems to me, correct if I'm wrong, that this definitions is based on US view (see in article the US part). The explanations in many other countries are referring to type of counties vs towns (county as land area where is villages, fields, forest etc vs town which is houses and parks, when defining simplified way) see Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden etc. -- TarmoK 2 July 2005 06:23 (UTC)
Entry on JAPAN states that all governments other than the national government are called municipalities. This is clearly not the case: Prefectures are hugely important political/administrative statutory governing bodies. Randal
The article says "In Hungary, a municipality (kistérség) is part of a county (megye)." I don't know if this terminology is correct; when speaking about Hungary in English, municipality is often used as a term that encompasses cities, towns and villages, while kistérség is usually translated as district, the same as the translation for járás (note that a kistérség has importace mainly in statistics only, I'm not even sure they have some kind of local government). – Alensha 寫 词 13:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
At the time of writing the bit about the UK reads as follows: "In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a municipality is governed by official political borders, such as that of the Greater Belfast area in Northern Ireland. As is the same for the Greater London area and not just the City of London."
I know little about local government in Northern Ireland, but I know how it works in London, and the Greater London level - the Mayor of London and the Greater London Assembly - has power over policing, public transport, strategic planing and a few other bits and pieces but the lower-tier London Boroughs - Westminster, Ealing, etc, have power over most major services, e.g. education, social services, housing and local roads. Describing Greater London as a municipality in the sense described in this article seems a little odd. To be honest, as has been mentioned earlier, this article seems to be exporting the US concept of municipalities worldwide and so doesn't map very successfully to the local government structures in most other countries. 80.229.220.14 19:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
This distinction needs to be defined and motivated (what is exactly the difference? why is it important?), or removed. Chl 11:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
The merger proposal fails for lack of consensus. See additional comments at
Talk:Township
Yellowdesk (
talk) 00:01, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Oppose merger of township, as a common English term yet with variants in usage in different locations. It deserves its own article, if for nothing more than to facilitate linking. Probably the others, too; though they might be combined with other similar in function or similarly named entities. Gene Nygaard 14:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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First of all, I support a merger with township, as the two articles cover much the same ground. More importantly, both articles are confusing and incorrect because they use the term municipality incorrectly in various places. A municipality refers to the local government of a town, or an area governed like a town. Rural (or urban) sub-units with small populations, and very limited administrative responsibilities, are not municipalities but parishes or communities, and those expressions should be used to translate commune, Gemeinde, and all the equivalents in other languages. Ehrenkater ( talk) 19:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
The part where it says Netherlands is messed up, since the text below it is about new zealand. somehow a header must have been deleted somewhere. I am too busy to edit it, and not sure if I am really correct, but this needs fixing - 77.249.244.103 ( talk) 13:16, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
municipalities in mexico act like counties. there is a municipality seat and surrounding communities. just like a counties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.25.15.158 ( talk) 21:54, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
This article is completely unreferenced.
I have serious doubts about the lower level / first level definitions by country. Other editors have voiced similar doubts. The problem comes from an attempt of mapping the generic meaning of municipality into a specific context of another nation.
I strongly recommend removing the country-specific explanations, unless they can be properly sourced. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so translations into other languages are out. -- BsBsBs ( talk) 05:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
"The largest municipalities can be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland."
This statement contradicts the Wikipedia article on Chongqing. The article on Chongqing states it is 'possibly the worlds largest municipality by both size and population". At 31,000,000 people I suspect this is probably right, at least for population. 122.59.243.157 ( talk) 02:53, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Folks, this article is going down the drain. It is full of information, but there is not a single reference. The introduction is mostly pure fantasy. The long lists of upper and lower level municipalities all over the world are likewise unreferenced and usually fall into the trap of translating the purely generic meaning of “municipality” into a national context. The result is humbug.
So “in most countries, a municipality is the smallest administrative subdivision to have democratically elected representation?” Citation needed. There are many countries and municipalities on this planet that don’t have a democratically elected representation. Some of the world’s most populous municipalities fall in this category.
So most municipalities “fall into one of two categories: (1) a single settlement, a city, town, or village, and (2) a land area similar to a township that may contain multiple settlements, or even just part of one, such as a city's borough. A town municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a council, while others may have appointed prefects?” Where did that come from? Citation, please.
Merriam Webster defines municipality as “a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.”
The Free Dictionary concurs: A municipality is “a political unit, such as a city, town, or village, incorporated for local self-government.”
Wiktionary agrees: A municipality is “a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.”
That’s it. There is not more to a municipality. It's a generic term. It can be used from a tiny hamlet (if it has a local government) all the way to a city bigger than many countries.
The fact that the article is completely unreferenced has been brought up quite a while ago. See above. This was met with silence.
The assertion that “the largest municipalities can be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland” has been challenged (and rightfully so.) The challenge has been ignored. The World's largest municipalities by population are in China, Pakistan, and India. The World's largest municipalities by surface area are in China, Brazil, Australia, and Canada.
This article is largely a work of fantasy. It needs to be cleaned up, referenced, or deleted. Putting it out of its misery would probably be the best solution, as the only thing of substance left after a thorough cleanup and removal of unreferenced fiction would most likely be: “A municipality is a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.” And since Wikipedia is no dictionary, we can dispense with the article. BsBsBs ( talk) 06:52, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
I've tried that on a few and it leads to nothing. We have two major problems:
1.) The intro is unreferenced. I can find no references for the assertions made. And some of the assertions are plain wrong.
2.) The mapping of "municipality" into other countries and their languages rests on the fallacious assumption that these countries have their own interpretation of "municipality." They don't. They use a term of their language and work with that. "Municipality" is an English word, and it means “a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.” From an English speaking perspective, there are no differences between municipalities in Albania and Zambia, because all will have "primarily urban political units having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.” From an Albanian perspective, the country may have a "bashki" or "komunë," but it has no "municipality" in its own language. Or maybe it does. But then that Albanian word needs to mean “a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.”
I have tried to follow some country specific links and either found nothing, or more nonsense. For instance, the German entry references "Gemeinde" which links to Municipalities of Germany. This likewise unreferenced article says "Municipalities (Gemeinde) are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany." True for "Gemeinde." Not true for "municipality." Berlin, the capital of Germany with the status of a state, is a municipality. The country specific entries are full of mistakes. It says that "in the People's Republic of China, a direct-controlled municipality is a city with equal status to a province: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing." True. But it gives the impression as if each municipality in China is a direct controlled municipality. It does that by faking "see Municipality of China" which leads to Direct-controlled municipality. China is full of other municipalities which are not direct controlled.
In Taiwan, even bigger lies are perpetrated. Supposedly, in Taiwan, "a municipality is a city with equal status to a province: Taipei and Kaohsiung. (see Municipalities of Taiwan)." Again, a Direct-controlled municipality has the status of a province, hence the term, the others don't. And the list goes on.
This is more than severe toothache. This is cancer. BsBsBs ( talk) 20:18, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
I hate deleting articles. Sometimes, I dream of creating a PROD rescue site. I never deleted an article or nominated one for deletion. But I’m afraid this article is beyond salvage. It rests on two erroneous assumptions:
1.) The article assumes that a municipality is something special. It is not. "Municipality" is a generic term for an administrative local entity. A municipality can be anything from a village to a city. Just like “motor vehicle” can be anything on wheels (and not on rails) with an engine.
2.) The article assumes that “municipality” means something different in different countries. It does not. Sure, a “motor vehicle” is an F150 in the USA, a Mercedes S-Class in Germany, and a Hilux with a machine gun in Somalia. All true. But the fact remains that in all countries, a motor vehicle is anything on wheels (and not on rails) with an engine.
Correct these two erroneous and unreferenced assumptions, and the article evaporates. Just look at the talk entries. Nearly every entry finds fault. Nearly every fault is ignored.
Truly translating “municipality” into other languages would be as ridiculous as revealing the astounding fact that motor vehicle means “Kraftfahrzeug” in German. Or maybe only in Germany, who knows.
If we want to keep the article, then all the upper-level and lower-level fantasy has to go. The country typical entries have to go. The article will be a short article, saying what it is, and that it can be anything from West Hampton Dunes, pop. 11, to Chongqing, pop 32 million, or thereabouts. BsBsBs ( talk) 06:28, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
This article did not have a single reference. It did not even have a reflist. It is a municipality ruled by anarchy. We can’t just make things up. I have edited and referenced the beginning. The wild and often contradicting sprawl clears up once sources are used. As mentioned long ago (see above) I still I have serious problems with the unreferenced rest. The theory that some countries use “municipality” as a lower level structure and some as an upper level is completely unreferenced. This sometimes leads to wild theories that are without foundation. I fail to see the sense of defining “municipality” for a country that does not have the term “municipality” in its own language. If editors insist on country-specific municipalities beyond countries that use the English word “municipality” as part of their legal framework, then please furnish references for each entry. Unreferenced entries can and will be deleted. Thank you. BsBsBs ( talk) 07:52, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I don't believe that the reference provided here supports the previous sentence, ie "Types of municipalities within Canada include cities, district municipalities, municipal districts, municipalities, parishes, rural municipalities, towns, townships, villes, and villages among others" While it may be true that there may be examples in Canada of municipal villages and parishes etc, this reference is simply a list of Census subdivisions. I don't believe that these necessarily have anything to do with whether or not the areas are municipalities or not. Derek Andrews ( talk) 13:09, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if there is something on your mind behind this discussion triggered by the recent discussion at Talk:Unincorporated area#Changes to lead (maybe as it relates to Nova Scotia). I might be incorrect but if I am correct, can you elaborate? Hwy43 ( talk) 06:50, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I've added a template cleanup-reorganize to section Municipalities by country because its the best I could think of. Look at the Notes column formatting for Brazil, Chile, and Portugal for example. Making this column wider would help, but not enough. The Notes column is essentially how 'municipality' is defined in the enclosing political jurisdiction, and there can be considerable detail, a lot of which isn't included here. If this were a printed document, it wouldn't waste all that white space. Maybe there should be a separate full page width Notes section below the table with an entry for each relevant definition of municipality. Sbalfour ( talk) 18:23, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
19 hits for this spelling in WP. GinAndChronically ( talk) 04:52, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
"municpality" 24 hits in WP GinAndChronically ( talk) 04:55, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The "Municipalities by country" section is completely unreferenced. I had noted this many years ago (see talk above) and nothing happened. We have no way of checking whether these "by country" statements are true.
I have put a big "reference" needed section on top of the article. After waiting for four years for improvements, I will wait another month. After that, all unreferenced entries will be removed.
Also, Sbalfour noted months ago that some notes have swelled to article length. This is blowing the table apart. Once references are supplied, please bring the notes down to a few words. Use links, and, well, references. Obese notes will also be removed once the month is over.
I do not think that these by country list are necessary at all. As repeatedly noted, "municipality" is a generic term that describes a lower level administrative entity. It does so all around the world. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. BsBsBs ( talk) 14:29, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
I just love it when people are determined to be current in a work that is never ending; that is why the world will never end--no one to process the paper work. I hope that goes for any word that is being used even if misspelled to represent "municipality". All that happens with a wake is disturbance of the surface and those resulting squiggly lines on the ceiling and walls from the reflection of the light. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GinAndChronically ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
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Dropped unsourced content in this tabular section, which had been been tagged as unsourced since 2014. I have serious doubts about whether this section is appropriate here at all, as Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and in general, this sort of information is not appropriate for an encyclopedia in this format. Possibly the content could be transwikified to Wiktionary. Certainly there's nothing wrong with having per-country sections about municipalities in other parts of the world, the way it is done in Village, Town, or City, and some of the information in the table rows could be moved to the appropriate country subsection in the article. In my opinion, the section Municipality#Terms in various countries should be changed to #By country, analogous to the way it's done in section Town#By country. In that section, information about the term in the local language could be included, in the context of other information about municipalities in that country. The remaining information from the Municipality#Municipalities by country table could be merged into that section. Mathglot ( talk) 18:56, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
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Is municipality really the proper translation for Gemeinde? "Commune," on the French model, seems more appropriate. john k 22:22, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Let's merge commune (subnational entity) here. Chl 17:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
A municipality ... is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government.
It seems to me, correct if I'm wrong, that this definitions is based on US view (see in article the US part). The explanations in many other countries are referring to type of counties vs towns (county as land area where is villages, fields, forest etc vs town which is houses and parks, when defining simplified way) see Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden etc. -- TarmoK 2 July 2005 06:23 (UTC)
Entry on JAPAN states that all governments other than the national government are called municipalities. This is clearly not the case: Prefectures are hugely important political/administrative statutory governing bodies. Randal
The article says "In Hungary, a municipality (kistérség) is part of a county (megye)." I don't know if this terminology is correct; when speaking about Hungary in English, municipality is often used as a term that encompasses cities, towns and villages, while kistérség is usually translated as district, the same as the translation for járás (note that a kistérség has importace mainly in statistics only, I'm not even sure they have some kind of local government). – Alensha 寫 词 13:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
At the time of writing the bit about the UK reads as follows: "In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a municipality is governed by official political borders, such as that of the Greater Belfast area in Northern Ireland. As is the same for the Greater London area and not just the City of London."
I know little about local government in Northern Ireland, but I know how it works in London, and the Greater London level - the Mayor of London and the Greater London Assembly - has power over policing, public transport, strategic planing and a few other bits and pieces but the lower-tier London Boroughs - Westminster, Ealing, etc, have power over most major services, e.g. education, social services, housing and local roads. Describing Greater London as a municipality in the sense described in this article seems a little odd. To be honest, as has been mentioned earlier, this article seems to be exporting the US concept of municipalities worldwide and so doesn't map very successfully to the local government structures in most other countries. 80.229.220.14 19:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
This distinction needs to be defined and motivated (what is exactly the difference? why is it important?), or removed. Chl 11:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
The merger proposal fails for lack of consensus. See additional comments at
Talk:Township
Yellowdesk (
talk) 00:01, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Oppose merger of township, as a common English term yet with variants in usage in different locations. It deserves its own article, if for nothing more than to facilitate linking. Probably the others, too; though they might be combined with other similar in function or similarly named entities. Gene Nygaard 14:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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First of all, I support a merger with township, as the two articles cover much the same ground. More importantly, both articles are confusing and incorrect because they use the term municipality incorrectly in various places. A municipality refers to the local government of a town, or an area governed like a town. Rural (or urban) sub-units with small populations, and very limited administrative responsibilities, are not municipalities but parishes or communities, and those expressions should be used to translate commune, Gemeinde, and all the equivalents in other languages. Ehrenkater ( talk) 19:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
The part where it says Netherlands is messed up, since the text below it is about new zealand. somehow a header must have been deleted somewhere. I am too busy to edit it, and not sure if I am really correct, but this needs fixing - 77.249.244.103 ( talk) 13:16, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
municipalities in mexico act like counties. there is a municipality seat and surrounding communities. just like a counties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.25.15.158 ( talk) 21:54, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
This article is completely unreferenced.
I have serious doubts about the lower level / first level definitions by country. Other editors have voiced similar doubts. The problem comes from an attempt of mapping the generic meaning of municipality into a specific context of another nation.
I strongly recommend removing the country-specific explanations, unless they can be properly sourced. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, so translations into other languages are out. -- BsBsBs ( talk) 05:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
"The largest municipalities can be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland."
This statement contradicts the Wikipedia article on Chongqing. The article on Chongqing states it is 'possibly the worlds largest municipality by both size and population". At 31,000,000 people I suspect this is probably right, at least for population. 122.59.243.157 ( talk) 02:53, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Folks, this article is going down the drain. It is full of information, but there is not a single reference. The introduction is mostly pure fantasy. The long lists of upper and lower level municipalities all over the world are likewise unreferenced and usually fall into the trap of translating the purely generic meaning of “municipality” into a national context. The result is humbug.
So “in most countries, a municipality is the smallest administrative subdivision to have democratically elected representation?” Citation needed. There are many countries and municipalities on this planet that don’t have a democratically elected representation. Some of the world’s most populous municipalities fall in this category.
So most municipalities “fall into one of two categories: (1) a single settlement, a city, town, or village, and (2) a land area similar to a township that may contain multiple settlements, or even just part of one, such as a city's borough. A town municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a council, while others may have appointed prefects?” Where did that come from? Citation, please.
Merriam Webster defines municipality as “a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.”
The Free Dictionary concurs: A municipality is “a political unit, such as a city, town, or village, incorporated for local self-government.”
Wiktionary agrees: A municipality is “a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.”
That’s it. There is not more to a municipality. It's a generic term. It can be used from a tiny hamlet (if it has a local government) all the way to a city bigger than many countries.
The fact that the article is completely unreferenced has been brought up quite a while ago. See above. This was met with silence.
The assertion that “the largest municipalities can be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland” has been challenged (and rightfully so.) The challenge has been ignored. The World's largest municipalities by population are in China, Pakistan, and India. The World's largest municipalities by surface area are in China, Brazil, Australia, and Canada.
This article is largely a work of fantasy. It needs to be cleaned up, referenced, or deleted. Putting it out of its misery would probably be the best solution, as the only thing of substance left after a thorough cleanup and removal of unreferenced fiction would most likely be: “A municipality is a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.” And since Wikipedia is no dictionary, we can dispense with the article. BsBsBs ( talk) 06:52, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
I've tried that on a few and it leads to nothing. We have two major problems:
1.) The intro is unreferenced. I can find no references for the assertions made. And some of the assertions are plain wrong.
2.) The mapping of "municipality" into other countries and their languages rests on the fallacious assumption that these countries have their own interpretation of "municipality." They don't. They use a term of their language and work with that. "Municipality" is an English word, and it means “a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.” From an English speaking perspective, there are no differences between municipalities in Albania and Zambia, because all will have "primarily urban political units having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.” From an Albanian perspective, the country may have a "bashki" or "komunë," but it has no "municipality" in its own language. Or maybe it does. But then that Albanian word needs to mean “a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government.”
I have tried to follow some country specific links and either found nothing, or more nonsense. For instance, the German entry references "Gemeinde" which links to Municipalities of Germany. This likewise unreferenced article says "Municipalities (Gemeinde) are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany." True for "Gemeinde." Not true for "municipality." Berlin, the capital of Germany with the status of a state, is a municipality. The country specific entries are full of mistakes. It says that "in the People's Republic of China, a direct-controlled municipality is a city with equal status to a province: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing." True. But it gives the impression as if each municipality in China is a direct controlled municipality. It does that by faking "see Municipality of China" which leads to Direct-controlled municipality. China is full of other municipalities which are not direct controlled.
In Taiwan, even bigger lies are perpetrated. Supposedly, in Taiwan, "a municipality is a city with equal status to a province: Taipei and Kaohsiung. (see Municipalities of Taiwan)." Again, a Direct-controlled municipality has the status of a province, hence the term, the others don't. And the list goes on.
This is more than severe toothache. This is cancer. BsBsBs ( talk) 20:18, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
I hate deleting articles. Sometimes, I dream of creating a PROD rescue site. I never deleted an article or nominated one for deletion. But I’m afraid this article is beyond salvage. It rests on two erroneous assumptions:
1.) The article assumes that a municipality is something special. It is not. "Municipality" is a generic term for an administrative local entity. A municipality can be anything from a village to a city. Just like “motor vehicle” can be anything on wheels (and not on rails) with an engine.
2.) The article assumes that “municipality” means something different in different countries. It does not. Sure, a “motor vehicle” is an F150 in the USA, a Mercedes S-Class in Germany, and a Hilux with a machine gun in Somalia. All true. But the fact remains that in all countries, a motor vehicle is anything on wheels (and not on rails) with an engine.
Correct these two erroneous and unreferenced assumptions, and the article evaporates. Just look at the talk entries. Nearly every entry finds fault. Nearly every fault is ignored.
Truly translating “municipality” into other languages would be as ridiculous as revealing the astounding fact that motor vehicle means “Kraftfahrzeug” in German. Or maybe only in Germany, who knows.
If we want to keep the article, then all the upper-level and lower-level fantasy has to go. The country typical entries have to go. The article will be a short article, saying what it is, and that it can be anything from West Hampton Dunes, pop. 11, to Chongqing, pop 32 million, or thereabouts. BsBsBs ( talk) 06:28, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
This article did not have a single reference. It did not even have a reflist. It is a municipality ruled by anarchy. We can’t just make things up. I have edited and referenced the beginning. The wild and often contradicting sprawl clears up once sources are used. As mentioned long ago (see above) I still I have serious problems with the unreferenced rest. The theory that some countries use “municipality” as a lower level structure and some as an upper level is completely unreferenced. This sometimes leads to wild theories that are without foundation. I fail to see the sense of defining “municipality” for a country that does not have the term “municipality” in its own language. If editors insist on country-specific municipalities beyond countries that use the English word “municipality” as part of their legal framework, then please furnish references for each entry. Unreferenced entries can and will be deleted. Thank you. BsBsBs ( talk) 07:52, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
I don't believe that the reference provided here supports the previous sentence, ie "Types of municipalities within Canada include cities, district municipalities, municipal districts, municipalities, parishes, rural municipalities, towns, townships, villes, and villages among others" While it may be true that there may be examples in Canada of municipal villages and parishes etc, this reference is simply a list of Census subdivisions. I don't believe that these necessarily have anything to do with whether or not the areas are municipalities or not. Derek Andrews ( talk) 13:09, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if there is something on your mind behind this discussion triggered by the recent discussion at Talk:Unincorporated area#Changes to lead (maybe as it relates to Nova Scotia). I might be incorrect but if I am correct, can you elaborate? Hwy43 ( talk) 06:50, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I've added a template cleanup-reorganize to section Municipalities by country because its the best I could think of. Look at the Notes column formatting for Brazil, Chile, and Portugal for example. Making this column wider would help, but not enough. The Notes column is essentially how 'municipality' is defined in the enclosing political jurisdiction, and there can be considerable detail, a lot of which isn't included here. If this were a printed document, it wouldn't waste all that white space. Maybe there should be a separate full page width Notes section below the table with an entry for each relevant definition of municipality. Sbalfour ( talk) 18:23, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
19 hits for this spelling in WP. GinAndChronically ( talk) 04:52, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
"municpality" 24 hits in WP GinAndChronically ( talk) 04:55, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The "Municipalities by country" section is completely unreferenced. I had noted this many years ago (see talk above) and nothing happened. We have no way of checking whether these "by country" statements are true.
I have put a big "reference" needed section on top of the article. After waiting for four years for improvements, I will wait another month. After that, all unreferenced entries will be removed.
Also, Sbalfour noted months ago that some notes have swelled to article length. This is blowing the table apart. Once references are supplied, please bring the notes down to a few words. Use links, and, well, references. Obese notes will also be removed once the month is over.
I do not think that these by country list are necessary at all. As repeatedly noted, "municipality" is a generic term that describes a lower level administrative entity. It does so all around the world. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. BsBsBs ( talk) 14:29, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
I just love it when people are determined to be current in a work that is never ending; that is why the world will never end--no one to process the paper work. I hope that goes for any word that is being used even if misspelled to represent "municipality". All that happens with a wake is disturbance of the surface and those resulting squiggly lines on the ceiling and walls from the reflection of the light. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GinAndChronically ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
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Removed: "It is to be distinguished (usually) from the county, which may encompass rural territory or numerous small communities such as towns, villages and hamlets." 77.191.251.111 ( talk) 08:29, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Dropped unsourced content in this tabular section, which had been been tagged as unsourced since 2014. I have serious doubts about whether this section is appropriate here at all, as Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and in general, this sort of information is not appropriate for an encyclopedia in this format. Possibly the content could be transwikified to Wiktionary. Certainly there's nothing wrong with having per-country sections about municipalities in other parts of the world, the way it is done in Village, Town, or City, and some of the information in the table rows could be moved to the appropriate country subsection in the article. In my opinion, the section Municipality#Terms in various countries should be changed to #By country, analogous to the way it's done in section Town#By country. In that section, information about the term in the local language could be included, in the context of other information about municipalities in that country. The remaining information from the Municipality#Municipalities by country table could be merged into that section. Mathglot ( talk) 18:56, 20 August 2021 (UTC)