Unincorporated area

The whole of the territories of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Finland, Metropolitan France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Montenegro, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, and Sweden are divided into municipalities.

In Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, all land must belong to a municipality. Even large uninhabited areas, such as forests or grasslands, are, by law, part of the nearest "city". This is because in Latin America, a "municipality" in some senses is the equivalent of what in the United States and Canada is called a "county".

In , every piece of land belongs to a county-level (third level) administrative division (equivalent to a municipality), either a district (区 qū) in an urban area, or a county-level city (县级市 xiànjíshì), county (县 xiàn) or banner (旗 qí). There is also a township-level (fourth level) administrative division, which may be a subdistrict (街道 jiēdào), town (镇 zhèn), township (乡 xiāng), or sumu (苏木 sūmù).^[28]

Mainland China

In Croatia, every piece of land belongs either to a city (grad) or to a municipality (općina).

In Estonia, the entire territory is divided into 79 , of which 14 are municipal towns and 65 are parishes. The entire territory of the country is divided into settlements of four types: towns, boroughs, small boroughs and villages.

municipalities

In France, the territory is subdivided into 36,685 (municipalities).^[29] An elected council and a mayor form the governing body of a municipality. This applies to mainland France and to overseas departments and regions, however, some territories like Clipperton Island are not incorporated. Six communes depopulated during World War I were maintained incorporated for memorial reasons, although they have no population.

communes

In Indonesia, every piece of land belongs to a or a regency (kabupaten).

municipality (kota)

In Japan, every piece of land belongs to a , of which there are four types: cities (市 shi); the special wards (特別区 tokubetsu-ku) of Tokyo; towns (町 chō or machi); villages (村 mura or son). The four southernmost islands of Hachijō Subprefecture are currently not part of any municipality as the town of Hachijō and village of Aogashima both claim administrative rights.

municipality

In Peru, the whole territory is divided into districts ("distritos"), which form provinces ("provincias"), which form regions ("regiones"). Some districts, especially in the , are vast portions of territory, but they are governed from a district capital (which can be anywhere from a city to a small village).

Amazon

In the Philippines, all land belongs to either a or a municipality, which are further subdivided into barangays.

city

In Portugal, the constitution defines territorial divisions as parishes, municipalities, and administrative regions. It has no official definition of city limits, so a city may include several parishes, or a parish may cover several villages or townships, but a municipality is usually administered from the city or town that bears its name.

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In South Africa, the constitution gives every place in the country democratically elected third-tier government.

In South Korea, every piece of land belongs to a , either a district (구/區 gu) in a city (시/市 shi) or a town (읍/邑 eub) or township (면/面 myeon) in a county (군/郡 gun).

municipality

In Sweden, all territory is divided into municipalities. Sweden has , so the land area is increasing, but municipal boundaries extend into the sea, so new land is not unincorporated.

post-glacial rebound

In the (Taiwan Island, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and some minor islands), every piece of land belongs to either a township or a county-administered city in county, or district in provincial city. There are, in total, 368 townships, county-administered cities and districts in Taiwan. See also: administrative divisions of Taiwan.

free area of the Republic of China

county

County Island

Fire sign (address)

Main road town

Unorganized area

an area without county-level government.

Unorganized Borough, Alaska

areas of England outside any civil parish

Unparished area