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.

Apart from these exceptions, all land in Brazil, even the remotest wilderness areas, is in the territory of some municipality, and, hence, technically under the jurisdiction of a " city.

The municipality administers an area of, of which is land, with 71, 938 residents ( in May 2006 ).

In the beginning of year 2009 the municipality of Savonranta and a land strip from Enonkoski between Savonlinna and Savonranta were consolidated with Savonlinna.

In the United States, a conservation easement ( also called a conservation covenant or conservation restriction ) is an encumbrance — sometimes including a transfer of usage rights ( easement )— which creates a legally enforceable land preservation agreement between a landowner and a government agency ( municipality, county, state, federal ) or a qualified land protection organization ( often called a " land trust "), for the purposes of conservation.

After the actual establishment of the club, the municipality officially gave permission to use the land.

The town was known in Swedish by the name until 1 January 1977 when the surrounding land municipality of Kaarlela () was consolidated with Kokkola, and the town took over the Swedish name of.

The municipality of Ponce is the second largest in Puerto Rico by land area, and it was the first in Puerto Rico to obtain its autonomy, becoming The Autonomous Municipality of Ponce in 1992.

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

A summary of all the barrios of the municipality, their population, population density, and land and water areas as given by the U. S. Census Bureau is as follows:

Irrigated land made up 9. 13 km² of the 10. 57 km² of agricultural land in the municipality in 1986 ( 47 % of the municipal territory ).

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.

The municipality has the largest land area in the Netherlands.

The municipality has 31. 801 inhabitants ( 31 May 2009, Source: CBS ) and has a land area of 47, 12 km².

There have been plans for a connection to the A12 motorway to the north ( to facilitate for a better connection from the western parts of Houten ) since 2002, but since this road needs to be built across land of the neighbouring municipality Bunnik, these plans are blocked by NIMBY lobby groups.

As of 2006, the total area of the municipality is 29. 86 km² ( 11. 5 sq mi ), of which 27. 02 km² is land and 2. 84 km² is water.

It is now the smallest municipality in the Netherlands in land area, following the merger of Rozenburg into Rotterdam.

The village has a total area of 0. 001924 mile² ( 4983 m² ), and is claimed to be the municipality with the smallest land area in the United States.

This led to the foundation of a new municipality called Berkeley, which included all of North Kinloch Park plus land to the northwest and which formed a new school district.

Pittsburg is the only New Hampshire municipality to border Canada, the only one that borders both Maine and Vermont, and the only one to share a land border with Vermont.

At, Hamilton Township has the largest land area of any municipality in New Jersey.

Levitt was able to acquire the great majority of the land in Willingboro ; the historic village of Rancocas, in the southeast portion of the township, was annexed to Westampton Township to keep it from being bulldozed, as Levitt wished to keep the development within the boundaries of a single municipality.