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Encyclopedia > Municipio

Municipio (Spanish and Italian) and Município (Portuguese) are the terms used for the following subnational entities: Subnational entity is a generic term for an administrative region within a country — on an arbitrary level below that of the sovereign state — typically with a local government encompassing multiple municipalities, counties, or provinces with a certain degree of autonomy in a varying number of matters. ...

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Município

  • Município (Brazil)
  • Município (Portugal), more commonly called concelho

A concelho is the primary local administrative unit in Portugal (and other Lusophone countries). ...

Municipio

  • Municipio (Colombia)
  • Municipio (Italy), more commonly called comune
  • Municipio (Mexico)
  • Municipio (Puerto Rico)
  • Municipio (Spain)
  • Municipio (Venezuela)

In Italy, the commune (comune, plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township. ... A municipio (Spanish for municipality) is a second-level political and administrative division in Mexico. ...

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Município

Many of the municipalities of Portugal are older than the country itself. ...

Municipio

Below the departments Colombia is divided into municipalities (municipios). ... A municipio (Spanish for municipality) is one of the two types of second level municipality in Mexico. ... There are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the United States Government, but Puerto Rico has 78 municipalities at the second order. ... Below the states, Venezuela is divided into municipalities. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ...

Similar terms

A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Municipalidad is a Spanish term used in government. ... A municipality is one form of a subnational entity of Argentina. ... Below the provinces Chile is divided into comunas, often translated as municipality. ...

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The Mexican municipios can be compared to the counties of the United States, although the local municipal government (ayuntamiento), headed by a presidente municipal ("municipal president"), can be more usefully compared to that of a city mayor in the United States.
The first reference to the municipio as a national subdivision was mentioned during the Second Mexican Empire when Mexico was divided in departamentos, these in distritos and these in municipios.
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