* 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.

The symbol of the town is reproduced on the coat of arms – the large black tower on the right as well as the smaller toll tower on the left bank of the Aare linked by the bridge in between.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

Some are no more than a widening of a stream valley ; others, such as the Konya Ovasi, are large basins of inland drainage or are the result of limestone erosion.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

The Ancestral Pueblo residents of Chaco Canyon cut large ramps and stairways into the cliff rock to connect the roadways on the ridgetops of the canyon to the sites on the valley bottoms.

Agriculture in the Annapolis valley boomed in the late 19th century with the arrival of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, later the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which developed large export markets for Annapolis Valley apples.

" Invading the Po valley with a large army they drove out the Etruscans and resettled it, the Boii taking the right bank in the center of the valley.

In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic.

This area of rolling hills is thus located on the western edge of the Indus valley, where, around 2500 BCE, a large urban civilization emerged at the same time as those of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Egypt.

The resulting floodwaters enlarged the small Marietta valley to a size more typical of a large river.

Most of the region lies in a large valley in northeastern Luzon, between the Cordilleras and the Sierra Madre mountain ranges.

During the last ice age, the basin now filled by the bay was a large linear valley with small hills, similar to most of the valleys of the Coast Ranges.

Some are no more than a widening of a stream valley ; others, such as the Konya Ovasi, are large basins of inland drainage or are the result of limestone erosion.

A large mudflow partly filled of the Lewis River valley sometime between 1000 BCE and 500 BCE.

During the Christmas and Easter seasons, the Lewiston Jaycees have two large lighted displays on the Lewiston Hill ( technically, the Washington side, and specifically, in Whitman County, above Clarkston in Washington state ), visible from nearly everywhere in the valley.

Cropland is typically irrigated with large ( 1 / 4-mile radius ) center-pivot irrigation systems, and a common feature of the Rio Grande Delta area where the Rio Grande enters the valley are large piles of potato-sized rocks screened from the soil.

Sections are often set back from the river to form a wider channel, and flood valley basins are divided by multiple levees to prevent a single breach from flooding a large area.

It lies on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah ( Wadi Araba ), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.

Monreale ( Sicilian: Murriali ) is a town and comune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy, on the slope of Monte Caputo, overlooking the very fertile valley called " La Conca d ' oro " ( the Golden Shell ), famed for its orange, olive and almond trees, the produce of which is exported in large quantities.

Muskellunge are found in oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes and large rivers from northern Michigan, northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota through the Great Lakes region, north into Canada, throughout most of the St Lawrence River drainage and northward throughout the upper Mississippi valley, although the species also extends as far south as Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley.

An improvised system, placing large pipes over the spillway to siphon water over it, was soon installed, but the inflow from an unusually wet spring was such that the dam would have overflowed anyway, leading to a spectacular cascade over the huge rock steps formed when the rock used for the dam itself was quarried from the valley walls.

Along with Symphony Woods, many other stands of mature trees have been maintained in Columbia, including the large Middle Patuxent Environmental Area in the western part of the city between Harper's Choice and River Hill villages, protecting much of the river valley from development.