Municipio (Spanish: [muniˈθipjo], Italian: [muniˈtʃiːpjo]) and município (Portuguese: [muniˈsipiu]) are country subdivisions in Italy and several Hispanophone and Lusophone nations, respectively. They are often translated as "municipality". In the English language, a municipality often is defined as relating to a single city or town; however, in Spanish, the term "municipio" may not mean a single city or town, but rather a jurisdiction housing several towns and cities, like a township, county, borough, or civil parish. The Italian term "municipalità" refers either to a single city or a group of cities and towns in a township, but the Portuguese use is almost entirely restricted to group of cities or towns like in a county, township, and so forth.
|Country||Term||Detailed article||Administered by||Comment|
|Angola||Município is used||Municipalities of Angola|
|Argentina||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Argentina||According to laws of the provinces|
|Bolivia||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Bolivia||Below the provinces|
|Brazil||Município is used||Municipalities of Brazil||Município with elected Prefeito (mayor) and Vereador (plural: Vereadores) (councilors)|
|Chile||Comuna is used||Communes of Chile||Municipalidad with elected alcalde (mayor) and councilors|
|Colombia||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Colombia||Below departments|
|Costa Rica||Municipalidad is used||Municipalities of Costa Rica||Coterminous with the Cantones|
|Cuba||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Cuba|
|Dominican Republic||Municipio is used||Municipalities of the Dominican Republic||ayuntamiento (elected municipal council) and síndico (mayor)|
|Ecuador||Municipalidad is used||Municipalities of Ecuador|
|El Salvador||Municipio is used||Municipalities of El Salvador||Alcalde||Below departments|
|Guatemala||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Guatemala||Municipalidad||Below departments|
|Honduras||Municipalidad is used||Municipalities of Honduras||Alcalde||Below departments|
|Italy||Municipalità (municipio is the comune hall, the building housing the government.)
Municipio is also a station on the Naples Metro.
|Municipalities of Italy||Sometimes a subdivision of comune|
|Mexico||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Mexico||Ayuntamiento, headed by a municipal president||Below states|
|Nicaragua||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Nicaragua||Alcalde||Below departments|
|Paraguay||Municipalidad is used||Municipalities of Paraguay|
|Peru||Municipalidad is used||Municipalities of Peru|
|Philippines||Municipalidad (Spanish), Munisipalidad, or Munisipyo (Tagalog and Cebuano)||Municipalities of the Philippines||alkalde (informal expression for mayor) and councilors (konsehal, a Spanish loanword in local languages)||Below provinces|
|Portugal||Município is used (also called concelho)||Municipalities of Portugal||Câmara Municipal (executive) and Assembleia Municipal (legislative)|
|Puerto Rico||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Puerto Rico||Alcalde and municipal legislature|
|Spain||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Spain||Ayuntamiento, headed by an alcalde or Presidente de la Corporación|
|Uruguay||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Uruguay||Alcaldía (municipal council), headed by an alcalde|
|Venezuela||Municipio is used||Municipalities of Venezuela||Consejo Municipal (municipal council) with separately elected alcalde and independent comptroller||Below state|
- "Municipality". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- "municipio". Word Reference. Word Reference. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
English: township - borough - county - township line
- "Município". Word Reference. Word Reference. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- Municipalità refers only to administration, whereas comune refers to both administration and territory; it is also an administrative sub-division of a large city, such as Rome
- In Catalan/Valencian municipi (IPA: [muniˈsipi]), Galician municipio (IPA: [muniˈθipjo]) or bisbarra (IPA: [bizˈβara]) and Basque udalerria (IPA: [udaleria]).
- "Creación de municipios en Uruguay a partir de 2010". data.com.uy. 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2011.