The municipality of Abdera, or Ávdira (, ), has 18, 573 inhabitants ( 2001 ).

The municipality has a total population of 55, 269 inhabitants and a total area of 408. 1 km².

Each municipality has an autonomous local government, comprising a mayor, directly elected by the people to a four year term, and a legislative body, also directly elected by the people.

The Norwegian municipality of Bø has the half-boat of draugen in its coat-of-arms.

Bussleiðin is the name of the urban bus service, which has five routes and is operated by the Tórshavn municipality.

This has run since 1985 and is held at Playas de Sotavento in Pájara municipality.

* Cycling Since 2004 the Marcha Ciclotourista has been held in La Oliva and the Criterium Ciclista has been held in Corralejo ( also part of the La Oliva municipality ) since 2005.

The municipality ( ville de Genève ) has a population () of, and the canton ( République et Canton de Genève, which includes the city ) has residents.

Norwegian has two standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk, the choice between which is subject to controversy: Each Norwegian municipality can declare one of the two its official language, or it can remain " language neutral ".

This usage is only nominal and has no effect on the status of the municipality.

The population of the municipality has however been decreasing with some 2, 000 people in the last 10 years, as many people move to larger cities, causing a decrease in nativity.

A dispute has arisen among various locals regarding its validity, and one of the main opponents of this fairly small movement, Jonath Mathew, also a two-time Swedish champion in pigeon shooting ( 2007 and 2009 ), has been adamant to change the name in line with the underlining theme of the municipality.

Larissa's population, within its municipality, has 163, 380 inhabitants, while the regional unit of Larissa reached a population of 284, 420 ( in 2011 ).

A city ( cidade ) is defined in Brazilian law as the urban seat of a municipality, and a municipality always has the same name as the corresponding city.

The term " municipality " has become rare in New Zealand since about 1979 and has no legal status.

It has the largest land area of any municipality in the Attica region, and the largest population in West Attica.

The municipality is unusual for one its geographical size, in that it has only one municipal district, the third-largest in Greece ( after the Sílis district in Paranesti and the Mikró Déreio district in Orfeas ) if Mount Athos is not counted.

Each municipality has a mayor and a municipal legislature elected for a 4 year term.

Once there has been a change in venue the municipality will not receive any fees from the fines collected upon the conclusion of the case.

A similar project has been going on since 2004 on Utsira, a small Norwegian island municipality.

In 2008, the municipality of Utrecht imposed a Zero Tolerance Policy to all events like the big dance party Trance Energy held in Jaarbeurs.

This gives the municipality a multi-cultural atmosphere with for example a big Syriac Orthodox Church in Hallunda and the construction of a mosque in progress in Fittja.

Värmlandsnäs, also called Näset, is a big and important part of the municipality.

The first element Stor-( meaning " big ") was later added to distinguish it from the municipality of Lille Elvedalen ( now called Alvdal ).

Prior to 1918, the municipality was called Lille-Elvdalen (" the small Elvdalen ") to distinguish it from Store Elvedalen (" the big Elvedalen ") which is now called Stor-Elvdal.

The municipality of Rissen was established in 1860 when it was separated from the big municipality of Stadsbygd.

The municipality of Lelu consists of Lelu Island ( a small satellite island of Kosrae Island ) and a big part of the northeastern portion of Kosrae Island.

A big part of the specialized schools in the region are located in Razlog ; they provide qualified labor for the different sectors of the economy, development in the municipality.

The decadence of tungsten mining, which had employed up to 254 workers, and the end of the construction of the big reservoirs along the Navia River, together with the gradual abandonment of cattle farming ( still at present the main economic activity of the municipality ) led to new migratory flows, especially from the 1950s on, but in this case they were directed preferentially to other regions of Spain ( the industrialized center of Asturias, Madrid, etc.

The island economy is based largely on tourism: the income from visits to the Cave of Antiparos form a very big part of the budget of the municipality.

Before this Birjand had been probably not as big and important as a municipality but a rural community.

Cavite el Viejo was then a big town, comprising the municipality of Kawit today, Cavite la Punta ( now Cavite City ), Noveleta ( called Tierra Alta by the Spaniards ), and Imus.

The traditional work of the municipality has centered on the textile industry-there are several big factories manufacturing socks, tights and textile wear.

The municipality is composed of 40 Barangays, 12 of which are located along the coast and the rest are considered inland / upland barangays located along two big rivers of Paningayan and Cairawan.

Cauayan used to be a big municipality in terms of land area, however, with the creation of the neighboring municipalities of Luna ( Antatet ) Cabatuan, Reina Mercedes ( Callering ), Aurora and San Mateo ; its land area was reduced to about 336. 40 square kilometers.

According to the manuscript written by Lorenzo Babula, one of the old town executives of this municipality, the first people who lived here were big, tall, and were strong of build.

During the 15th of August there is a big festivity held at the town center that includes all elementary and high school students dressed in colorful costumes performing dances and routines that follows a street parade around the municipality.

By 1940 it was big enough to be declared a municipality and was administered by the Town Council until 1996.

HYDROGRAPHY The rivers play an important role in the development of peoples because they are major routes of communication when they have reached maturity, but we see that in the main town and several villages that make up the municipality only have small rivers, due to the mountainous nature the territory of the slabs, the rivers are not flowing or big, for this and for the low volume of water into the dry season, villagers prefer to call them broken, and some completely lose their flow during this period.

Its villages and settlements are located on big depressions around the municipality capital.

The municipality capital is up on a big mountain.

According to the elder inhabitants, close to the municipality capital there is a big deposit of several metals, but the owner of this property has no intention to exploit it and has rejected some millionaire offers from multi-nationals companies.

Ocos is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. It is situated on the Pacific Ocean coast, very close to the border with Mexico-only 4 m altitude and two big rivers-the Suchiate and the Naranjo rivers. The coast is perfect for surfing activities.