Talk:Municipality
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[edit] Municipality and commune
Is municipality really the proper translation for Gemeinde? "Commune," on the French model, seems more appropriate. john k 22:22, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- What is the difference between municipality and commune (subnational entity)? According to our articles, it seems that they are just two different words for the same thing. Maybe commune (subnational entity) should be merged into this article. Chl 19:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Let's merge commune (subnational entity) here. Chl 17:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Not fully correct definition(?)
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
[edit] Hungary
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)
[edit] United Kingdom
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)
[edit] First- / Second-Level Entities
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)
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