* In Israel, a municipality generally takes one of three forms: city councils, which governs a large municipality, local councils, which governs a small municipality, and regional councils, which governs a group of communities, often but not necessarily of a rural nature.

* In Nepal, a municipality is a town not large enough in population or infrastructure to qualify as a sub-metropolitan city.

The large Albanian population was chiefly concentrated in Kosovo, with smaller populations in the Preševo and Bujanovac municipalities in Central Serbia, and in the south-east of Montenegro ( Ulcinj municipality ).

In addition, there are a large number of people from Taiwan living within the municipality ( 2010 estimates vary around 700, 000 ).

The commune of Dakar, whose population approached 1 million inhabitants, was deemed too large and too populated to be properly managed by a central municipality, and thus on August 30, 1996 Dakar was divided into 19 communes d ' arrondissement.

Brooklyn, a large municipality southeast of Lake Merritt, was part of what was then called the Brooklyn Township.

In Canada each municipality constructs its own courthouse, or several in the case of large cities.

However, some metropolitan areas contain more than one large city with no single municipality holding a substantially dominant position ( e. g. Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex or Minneapolis – Saint Paul ).

Ponce is a large municipality, with only Arecibo larger in land area in Puerto Rico.

A 2004 study by the University of Pittsburgh stated that Allegheny County would be better served by consolidating the southeastern portion of the county ( which includes many small, poor communities ) into one large municipality, called " Rivers City ," which would have a combined population of approximately 250, 000.

Most of the land in the municipality was still used for agricultural purposes, and photographs of the time show a landscape with few houses separated by large fields.

A large portion of the area was annexed by the municipality of North Port, and is now part of that city.

Despite being a large municipality, Fishers, unlike nearby Noblesville and Carmel, doesn't have a mayor and city council.

Reiderland () is a former municipality in the province Groningen in the northeastern Netherlands, which was founded in 1990 during a large municipal reorganization.

Because of the large number of official centres, the municipality has five postal codes:

The municipality features a large industrial and office area along the Gender, which also includes the second-largest hospital in the Eindhoven urban region, Máxima Medisch Centrum.

The municipality contains a large part of the Biesbosch area.

During the construction of the North Sea Canal ( completed 1867 ), large portions of the IJ Bay were enclosed with dikes and made into polders, thereby enlarging the area of the municipality significantly.

The municipality of Zoetermeer designates a comparatively large part of the budget to computers for schools.

Orange has a large Haitian American population, with 11. 4 % of residents identifying themselves as being of Haitian ancestry, the highest of any municipality in New Jersey and the eighth-highest in the United States.

The borough and its environs are known as the " Irish Riviera " because of the large Irish-American population in the area, with Spring Lake having the highest percentage of any municipality in the United States.

Parsippany-Troy Hills has a large Indian American community, with 8. 39 % of Parsippany-Troy Hills ' residents having identified themselves as being of Indian American ancestry in the 2000 Census, which was the eighth highest of any municipality in New Jersey, for all places with 1, 000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.

The municipality was created 1967 – 1971 through the amalgamation of the former City of Södertälje with large rural and suburban areas surrounding it.

Older IKEA stores are usually very large blue buildings with yellow accents ( also Sweden's national colours ) and few windows.

Due to Sweden's large north-south expanse there have always been regional differences in Swedish cuisine.

With few exceptions, Solna's built-up areas have a suburban character, but there are also several large parks and Sweden's national football stadium Råsunda, adjacent to Solna Centrum shopping centre and Metro station.

Sweden's Lake Siljan is a large lake created from an eroded impact crater, the Siljan Ring, that was formed by a impact event | meteorite impact about 370 million years ago.

Experience from other reforms that affected the behaviour of large groups of people ( introduction of the metric system, switching to the euro, Sweden's change from driving on the left to driving on the right on Dagen H, and Britain's and Ireland's introduction of decimal currency ) suggested that such reforms might very well be more effective with a shorter transitional period.

Persson stated that, if in power, the conservatives would tamper with Sweden's successful formula of high taxes, a large public sector and generous benefits.

He was a First Director of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre in the years 1930-1980, where he staged a large number of remarkable and historic productions.

The traveling supporters for Sweden's away games showed up for the first time in the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany, and since then Sweden has always had supporters in large tournaments.

Many more returned to Sweden as adults, when the prolonged post-war hardship in Finland pushed large contingents of unemployed Finns to Sweden's booming economy in the 1950s – 60s.

It ended with a large Swedish territorial gain in the Treaty of Stolbovo which laid an important foundation to Sweden's Age of Greatness.

Sweden's ability to maintain its policy of neutrality until the war's end was due in large part to luck, since events out of its control played the largest part in the fate of Sweden's policy of neutrality.

* Storstad (= literally " large city "; metropolitan area ) is a term usually reserved for Sweden's three largest cities: Stockholm, Göteborg ( Gothenburg ) and Malmö.

The bank itself was no great innovation as it was simply an imitation of the large and successful banks in Amsterdam and Hamburg that had been founded earlier in the 17th century, but it was hoped that the bank would help to stabilise Sweden's currency.

Sweden's large army of the time were paid entirely in copper currency, further issued in large numbers by Gustavus II to finance his war against Ferdinand II of Germany.

Where in the beginning locally found agates were used to make all types of objects for the European market, this became a globalized business around the turn of the 20th century: Idar-Oberstein imported large quantities of agate from Brazil, as ship's ballast.

Excavations at Uisnech in the 20th century provided evidence of large fires taking place.

By the early 20th century, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia had achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule.

Late 19th century and the 20th century were marked by large scale economic migrations abroad.

Calcium metal was not available in large scale until the beginning of the 20th century.

The late 20th century and early 21st century has seen a large number of studies of Chinese history that seek to challenge traditional paradigms.

The comparatively large population growth of western and central Canada during the immigration boom of the 20th century has reduced the Maritimes ' proportion of the national population to less than 10 %, resulting in an over-representation in Parliament, with some federal ridings having fewer than 35, 000 people, compared to central and western Canada where ridings typically contain 100, 000-120, 000 people.

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

Between the 16th and 20th centuries, European nations controlled at various times the Americas, most of Africa, Oceania, and large portions of Asia.

Starting in the 20th century, people have attempted to argue that small improvements in education can have large returns in such areas as health, wealth and well-being.

Such a pattern was observed in the sequence of about a dozen earthquakes that struck the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey in the 20th century and has been inferred for older anomalous clusters of large earthquakes in the Middle East.

Following the folk revivals of the second half of the 20th century, however, it has become common for less formal situations to find large groups of fiddlers playing together — see for example the Calgary Fiddlers, and Swedish Spelmanslag folk-musician clubs, and the worldwide phenomenon of Irish sessions.

In the latter half of the 20th century, submachine guns were being miniaturized to the point of being only slightly larger than some large handguns.

Major construction projects, such as the dockyard in the late 1890s and early 20th century brought large numbers of workers from Great Britain.

A large advance in geology in the advent of the 20th century was the ability to give precise absolute dates to geologic events through radioactive isotopes and other methods.

Earlier in the 20th century, taller retaining walls were often gravity walls made from large masses of concrete or stone.

While a large number of 20th century biblical critics argue that the teaching found in John does not go back to the historical Jesus, they usually agree that gospel is not entirely without historical value.

20th and 21st century scholarship by and large retains the view that Palestrina was a strong and refined composer whose music represents a summit of technical perfection, while emphasizing that some of his contemporaries possessed equally individual voices even within the confines of " smooth polyphony.

Through the 19th and in the early half of the 20th century, Londoners used coal for heating their homes, which produced large amounts of smoke.

Its collection boasts a large collection of 19th and early 20th century decorative arts, furnishings and material culture reflecting Iowa State and Iowa heritage.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Although the Saudi involvement in mosques around the world can be traced back to the 1960s, it was not until later in the 20th century that the government of Saudi Arabia became a large influence in foreign mosques.

At the turn of the 20th century the accepted model of the atom was J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model in which the atom was a large positively charged ball with small negatively charged electrons embedded inside of it.

Along with the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand were responsible for the large scale and indiscriminate mining of phosphate on the tiny island for most of the 20th century.

However, manpower was still needed in large amounts, and waterfronts were the hotbeds of the industrial actions of the early 20th century.