municipality

administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government or jurisdiction
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municipality

Summary

municipality is an administrative territorial entity type[1]. municipality ranks in the top 5% of administrative_territorial_entity_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (869 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • municipality's instance of is recorded as administrative territorial entity type[3].
  • municipality is a type of political territorial entity[4].
  • municipality is a type of government organization[5].
  • municipality's Commons category is recorded as Municipalities[6].
  • municipality's said to be the same as is recorded as commune[7].
  • municipality's said to be the same as is recorded as opština[8].
  • municipality's said to be the same as is recorded as concelho[9].
  • municipality's said to be the same as is recorded as local government[10].
  • municipality's said to be the same as is recorded as obec[11].
  • municipality's said to be the same as is recorded as parish[12].
  • municipality's said to be the same as is recorded as local government area[13].
  • municipality comprises neighborhood[14].
  • municipality's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Municipalities[15].
  • municipality's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as place=municipality[16].
  • municipality's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • municipality's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • municipality's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[19].
  • municipality's topic has template is recorded as Q8118767[20].
  • municipality's equivalent class is recorded as http://kbpedia.org/kko/rc/Municipality[21].
  • municipality's different from is recorded as municipal government[22].
  • municipality's different from is recorded as Gemeinde (theology)[23].
  • municipality's different from is recorded as special-purpose district of the United States[24].
  • municipality's different from is recorded as city[25].
  • municipality's properties for this type is recorded as P12280[26].
  • municipality's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27].

Body

Definition and Type

municipality's instance of is recorded as administrative territorial entity type[3]. Recorded subclass of include political territorial entity[4] and government organization[5].

Use and Application

municipality comprises neighborhood[14].

Why It Matters

municipality ranks in the top 5% of administrative_territorial_entity_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (869 views/month).[2] municipality has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] municipality is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . cognonto.com. cognonto.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). municipality. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/municipality
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_municipality_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{municipality}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/municipality}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main wikidata property
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 10083, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  2. 9d ago · Yirba · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main wikidata property
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1687]]: [[Property:P14408]]"
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