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id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Etymology">1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Meaning">2 Meaning</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Age_of_towns_scheme">2.1 Age of towns scheme</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#History">3 History</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Neolithic">3.1 Neolithic</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Roman_era">3.2 Roman era</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#By_country">4 By country</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Afghanistan">4.1 Afghanistan</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Albania_and_Kosovo">4.2 Albania and Kosovo</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Australia">4.3 Australia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Austria">4.4 Austria</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Brazil">4.5 Brazil</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Bulgaria">4.6 Bulgaria</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Canada">4.7 Canada</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Chile">4.8 Chile</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Czechia">4.9 Czechia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Denmark">4.10 Denmark</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Estonia">4.11 Estonia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Finland">4.12 Finland</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#France">4.13 France</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Germany">4.14 Germany</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Greece_and_Cyprus">4.15 Greece and Cyprus</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Hong_Kong">4.16 Hong Kong</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="#Hungary">4.17 Hungary</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Iceland">4.18 Iceland</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#India">4.19 India</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#Iran">4.20 Iran</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="#Iraq">4.21 Iraq</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29"><a href="#Ireland">4.22 Ireland</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-30"><a href="#Planning_and_Development_Act_2000">4.22.1 Planning and Development Act 2000</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-31"><a href="#Central_Statistics_Office_criteria">4.22.2 Central Statistics Office criteria</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32"><a href="#Isle_of_Man">4.23 Isle of Man</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33"><a href="#Israel">4.24 Israel</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-34"><a href="#Italy">4.25 Italy</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35"><a href="#Japan">4.26 Japan</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-36"><a href="#Korea">4.27 Korea</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-37"><a href="#Latvia">4.28 Latvia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-38"><a href="#Lithuania">4.29 Lithuania</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-39"><a href="#Malaysia">4.30 Malaysia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-40"><a href="#Netherlands">4.31 Netherlands</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-41"><a href="#Norway">4.32 Norway</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-42"><a href="#Philippines">4.33 Philippines</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-43"><a href="#Poland">4.34 Poland</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-44"><a href="#Portugal">4.35 Portugal</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-45"><a href="#Romania">4.36 Romania</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-46"><a href="#Russia">4.37 Russia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-47"><a href="#Singapore">4.38 Singapore</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-48"><a href="#South_Africa">4.39 South Africa</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-49"><a href="#Spain">4.40 Spain</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-50"><a href="#Sweden">4.41 Sweden</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-51"><a href="#Ukraine">4.42 Ukraine</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-52"><a href="#United_Kingdom">4.43 United Kingdom</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-53"><a href="#England_and_Wales">4.43.1 England and Wales</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-54"><a href="#Scotland">4.43.2 Scotland</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-55"><a href="#United_States">4.44 United States</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-56"><a href="#Alabama">4.44.1 Alabama</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-57"><a href="#Arizona">4.44.2 Arizona</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-58"><a href="#California">4.44.3 California</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-59"><a href="#Hawaii">4.44.4 Hawaii</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-60"><a href="#Illinois">4.44.5 Illinois</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-61"><a href="#Indiana">4.44.6 Indiana</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-62"><a href="#Louisiana">4.44.7 Louisiana</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-63"><a href="#Maryland">4.44.8 Maryland</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-64"><a href="#Nevada">4.44.9 Nevada</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-65"><a href="#New_England">4.44.10 New England</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-66"><a href="#New_Jersey">4.44.11 New Jersey</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-67"><a href="#New_York">4.44.12 New York</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-68"><a href="#North_Carolina">4.44.13 North Carolina</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-69"><a href="#Oklahoma">4.44.14 Oklahoma</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-70"><a href="#Pennsylvania">4.44.15 Pennsylvania</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-71"><a href="#Texas">4.44.16 Texas</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-72"><a href="#Utah">4.44.17 Utah</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-73"><a href="#Virginia">4.44.18 Virginia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-74"><a href="#Washington">4.44.19 Washington</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-75"><a href="#Wisconsin">4.44.20 Wisconsin</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-76"><a href="#Wyoming">4.44.21 Wyoming</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-77"><a href="#Vietnam">4.45 Vietnam</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-78"><a href="#See_also">5 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-79"><a href="#References">6 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-80"><a href="#Sources">7 Sources</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-81"><a href="#External_links">8 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> The word "town" shares an origin with the <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> word Zaun, the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> word tuin, and the <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> tún.<a href="#cite_note-:0-2">[2]</a> The original <a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" title="Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> word, *tūnan, is thought to be an early borrowing from <a href="/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language" title="Proto-Celtic language">Proto-Celtic</a> *dūnom (cf. <a href="/wiki/Old_Irish" title="Old Irish">Old Irish</a> dún, <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a> din).<a href="#cite_note-Town-3">[3]</a> The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of town in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge.<a href="#cite_note-Town-3">[3]</a> In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a <a href="/wiki/Palisade" title="Palisade">palisade</a> or stockade instead.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, more specifically those of the wealthy, which had a high fence or a wall around them (like the garden of the palace of <a href="/wiki/Het_Loo_Palace" title="Het Loo Palace">Het Loo</a> in <a href="/wiki/Apeldoorn" title="Apeldoorn">Apeldoorn</a>, which was the model for the privy garden of <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Mary II</a> at <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Hampton Court">Hampton Court</a>). In Old Norse tún means a (grassy) place between farmhouses, and the word is still used with a similar meaning in modern Norwegian. Old English tūn became a common place-name suffix in England and southeastern Scotland during the Anglo-Saxon settlement period. In <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> and Early and Middle <a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a>, the words ton, toun, etc. could refer to diverse kinds of settlements from agricultural estates and holdings, partly picking up the Norse sense (as in the Scots word <a href="/wiki/Fermtoun" class="mw-redirect" title="Fermtoun">fermtoun</a>) at one end of the scale, to fortified municipalities.<a href="#cite_note-:1-1">[1]</a> Other common Anglo-Saxon suffixes included ham 'home', stede 'stead', and burh 'bury, borough, burgh'. In <a href="/wiki/Toponymic" class="mw-redirect" title="Toponymic">toponymic</a> terminology, names of individual towns and cities are called astyonyms or astionyms (from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> ἄστυ 'town, city', and ὄνομα 'name').<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoom199613-5">[5]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Meaning">Meaning</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Meaning" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> In some cases, town is an alternative name for "city" or "village" (especially a small city or large village; and occasionally even <a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">hamlets</a>). Sometimes, the word town is short for township. In general, today towns can be differentiated from townships, villages, or hamlets on the basis of their economic character, in that most of a town's population will tend to derive their living from manufacturing industry, <a href="/wiki/Commerce" title="Commerce">commerce</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Public_service" title="Public service">public services</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Primary_sector" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary sector">primary sector</a> <a href="/wiki/Industry_(economics)" title="Industry (economics)">industries</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agriculture</a> or related activities. A place's population size is not a reliable determinant of urban character. In many areas of the world, e.g. in India at least until recent times, a large village might contain several times as many people as a small town. In the United Kingdom, there are historical cities <a href="/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_England_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of urban areas in England by population">that are far smaller</a> than the larger towns. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moisakula_-_panoramio_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Moisakula_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/220px-Moisakula_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3358" data-file-height="2081"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Moisakula_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/220px-Moisakula_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Moisakula_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/330px-Moisakula_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Moisakula_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/440px-Moisakula_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B5isak%C3%BCla" title="Mõisaküla">Mõisaküla</a> is a small town in the southern part of <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>, just next to the border of <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>. The town's current population is less than 1,000 inhabitants.</figcaption></figure> The modern phenomenon of extensive <a href="/wiki/Suburb" title="Suburb">suburban</a> growth, satellite urban development, and migration of city dwellers to villages has further complicated the definition of towns, creating communities urban in their economic and cultural characteristics but lacking other characteristics of urban localities. Some forms of non-rural settlement, such as temporary <a href="/wiki/Mining" title="Mining">mining</a> locations, may be clearly non-rural, but have at best a questionable claim to be called a town. Towns often exist as distinct governmental units, with legally defined borders and some or all of the appurtenances of local government (e.g. a <a href="/wiki/Police" title="Police">police</a> force). In the United States these are referred to as "incorporated towns". In other cases the town lacks its own governance and is said to be "unincorporated". The existence of an unincorporated town may be legally set out by other means, e.g. zoning districts. In the case of some <a href="/wiki/Planned_community" title="Planned community">planned communities</a>, the town exists legally in the form of covenants on the properties within the town. The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Census">United States Census</a> identifies many <a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">census-designated places</a> (CDPs) by the names of unincorporated towns which lie within them; however, those CDPs typically include rural and suburban areas and even surrounding villages and other towns. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:View_of_Mariehamn,_2022.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/View_of_Mariehamn%2C_2022.jpg/220px-View_of_Mariehamn%2C_2022.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="121" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1109" data-file-height="611"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 121px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/View_of_Mariehamn%2C_2022.jpg/220px-View_of_Mariehamn%2C_2022.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="121" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/View_of_Mariehamn%2C_2022.jpg/330px-View_of_Mariehamn%2C_2022.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/View_of_Mariehamn%2C_2022.jpg/440px-View_of_Mariehamn%2C_2022.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Aerial view of <a href="/wiki/Mariehamn" title="Mariehamn">Mariehamn</a>, the town in <a href="/wiki/%C3%85land" title="Åland">Åland</a> with over 10,000 inhabitants</figcaption></figure> The distinction between a town and a city similarly depends on the approach: a city may strictly be an administrative entity which has been granted that designation by law, but in informal usage, the term is also used to denote an urban locality of a particular size or importance: whereas a <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval</a> city may have possessed as few as 10,000 inhabitants, today some[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch">who?</a>] consider an urban place of fewer than 100,000 as a town, even though there are many officially designated cities that are much smaller than that. <a href="/wiki/Member_states_of_the_United_Nations" title="Member states of the United Nations">193 countries</a> have been involved in a common effort to agree on a common statistical definition of the three categories: cities, towns and rural areas.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">failed verification</a>]<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">failed verification</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Age_of_towns_scheme">Age of towns scheme</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Age of towns scheme" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Australians" title="Australians">Australian</a> geographer <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Griffith_Taylor" title="Thomas Griffith Taylor">Thomas Griffith Taylor</a> proposed a classification of towns based on their age and pattern of <a href="/wiki/Land_use" title="Land use">land use</a>. He identified five types of towns:<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> <ul><li>Infantile towns, with no clear <a href="/wiki/Zoning" title="Zoning">zoning</a></li> <li>Juvenile towns, which have developed an area of <a href="/wiki/Retailing" class="mw-redirect" title="Retailing">shops</a></li> <li>Adolescent towns, where <a href="/wiki/Factory" title="Factory">factories</a> have started to appear</li> <li>Early mature towns, with a separate area of <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">high-class</a> <a href="/wiki/House" title="House">housing</a></li> <li>Mature towns, with defined <a href="/wiki/Manufacturing" title="Manufacturing">industrial</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commerce" title="Commerce">commercial</a> and various types of <a href="/wiki/Residential_area" title="Residential area">residential area</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg/220px-Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3476" data-file-height="2400"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 152px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg/220px-Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="152" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg/330px-Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg/440px-Quincy_Street_Historic_District_Hancock_100_block_N_2009.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The city of <a href="/wiki/Hancock,_Michigan" title="Hancock, Michigan">Hancock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a> along Quincy Street</figcaption></figure> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> Through different periods of recorded history, many towns have grown into sizeable settlements, with the development of properties, centres of culture, and specialized economies. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neolithic">Neolithic</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Neolithic" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk" title="Çatalhöyük">Çatalhöyük</a>, currently an archaeological site, was considered to be the oldest inhabited town, or <a href="/wiki/Proto-city" title="Proto-city">proto-city</a>, that existed from around 7500 BC. Inscribed as a <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>, it remains a depopulated town with a complex of ruins. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman_era">Roman era</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Roman era" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Roman_villa" title="Roman villa">Roman villa</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Original_research plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Original_research" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section possibly contains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">original research</a>. Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit">improve it</a> by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifying</a> the claims made and adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Inline_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">inline citations</a>. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (December 2021) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Town" title="Special:EditPage/Town">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>. (January 2022) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman times</a>, a villa was a rural settlement formed by a main residential building and another series of secondary buildings. It constituted the center from which an agricultural holding was administered. Subsequently, it lost its agricultural functions and reduced its activity to residential.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] With the consolidation of large estates during the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>, the town became the center of large farms.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] A distinction was created between rustic and urban settlements: <ul><li>Rustic villas, from where the exploitation of resources was directed, slave workers resided, livestock were kept and production was stored.</li> <li>Urban villas, in which the <a href="/wiki/Lord" title="Lord">lord</a> resided and which increasingly adopted the architectural and beautification forms typical of urban mansions. When from the first century the great territorial property was divided between the area directly exploited by the lord and that ceded to tenant settlers, urban villas became the centers of the administrative power of the lords,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] appearing the forms of vassalage typical of feudalism of the fourth century.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="By_country">By country</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: By country" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Afghanistan" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Afghanistan" title="List of cities in Afghanistan">List of cities in Afghanistan</a></div> In <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, a <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Afghanistan" title="List of cities in Afghanistan">city</a> and a town are both referred to as shār (<a href="/wiki/Dari_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Dari language">Dari</a>: شهر; <a href="/wiki/Pashto_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashto language">Pashto</a>: ښار).<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital</a> of each of its 34 <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Afghanistan" title="Provinces of Afghanistan">provinces</a> may include a major city such as <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> whose population is over five million people or a town such as <a href="/wiki/Parun" title="Parun">Parun</a>, the capital of <a href="/wiki/Nuristan_Province" title="Nuristan Province">Nuristan Province</a>, whose population is less 20,000 people. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Albania_and_Kosovo">Albania and Kosovo</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Albania and Kosovo" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a> qytezë means 'town', which is very similar to the word for city (qytet), although there is no official use of the term for any settlement. In <a href="/wiki/Albanian_language" title="Albanian language">Albanian</a> qytezë means 'small city' or 'new city', while in ancient times it referred to a small residential center within the walls of a castle. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia">Australia</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Australia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Australia, most rural and regional centres of population can be called towns; many small towns have populations of less than 200.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> The smallest may be described as townships. In addition, some local government entities are officially styled as towns in <a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Australia" title="South Australia">South Australia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Territory" title="Northern Territory">Northern Territory</a>, and formerly also (till the 1990s) in <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Austria">Austria</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Austria" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Austria" title="List of cities and towns in Austria">List of cities and towns in Austria</a></div> The Austrian legal system does not distinguish between villages, towns, and cities. The country is partitioned into 2098 municipalities (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: Gemeinden) of fundamentally equal rank. Larger municipalities are designated as market towns (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: Marktgemeinden) or cities (Städte), but these distinctions are purely symbolic and do not confer additional legal responsibilities. There is a number of smaller communities that are labelled cities because they used to be regional population centers in the distant past. The city of <a href="/wiki/Rattenberg" title="Rattenberg">Rattenberg</a> for example has about 400 inhabitants. The city of <a href="/wiki/Hardegg" title="Hardegg">Hardegg</a> has about 1200 inhabitants. There are no unincorporated areas. Of the 201 cities in Austria, 15 are <a href="/wiki/Statutory_city_(Austria)" title="Statutory city (Austria)">statutory cities</a> (Statutarstädte). A statutory city is a city that is vested, in addition to its purview as a municipality, with the duties of a <a href="/wiki/District_(Austria)" class="mw-redirect" title="District (Austria)">district administrative authority</a>. The status does not come with any additional autonomy: district administrative authorities are essentially just service centers that citizens use to interact with the national government, for example to apply for driver licenses or passports. The national government generally uses the provinces to run these points of contact on its behalf; in the case of statutory cities, the municipality gets to step up. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brazil">Brazil</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Brazil" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Brazil, since 1938, it was defined that the seat of the municipalities would pass to the category of city and give it the name and the districts would be designated by the name of their respective seats, and if they were not municipal seats, they would have the category of village. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Bulgaria" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Bulgaria" title="List of cities and towns in Bulgaria">List of cities and towns in Bulgaria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peshtera--downtown.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Peshtera--downtown.jpg/220px-Peshtera--downtown.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="667"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Peshtera--downtown.jpg/220px-Peshtera--downtown.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Peshtera--downtown.jpg/330px-Peshtera--downtown.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Peshtera--downtown.jpg/440px-Peshtera--downtown.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The town of <a href="/wiki/Peshtera" title="Peshtera">Peshtera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a></figcaption></figure> Bulgarians do not, in general, differentiate between 'city' and 'town'. However, in everyday language and media the terms "large towns" and "small towns" are in use. "Large towns" usually refers to <a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plovdiv" title="Plovdiv">Plovdiv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Varna,_Bulgaria" title="Varna, Bulgaria">Varna</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burgas" title="Burgas">Burgas</a>, which have population over 200,000. <a href="/wiki/Ruse,_Bulgaria" title="Ruse, Bulgaria">Ruse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stara_Zagora" title="Stara Zagora">Stara Zagora</a> are often included as well due to presence of relatively developed infrastructure and population over 100,000 threshold. It is difficult to call the remaining <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Bulgaria" title="Provinces of Bulgaria">provincial capitals</a> "large towns" as, in general, they are less developed and have shrinking population, some with as few as 30,000 inhabitants. In <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of Ministers of Bulgaria">Council of Ministers</a> defines what constitutes a settlement, while the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Bulgaria" title="President of Bulgaria">President of Bulgaria</a> grants each settlement its title. In 2005 the requirement that villages that wish to classify themselves as town must have a social and technical infrastructure, as well as a population of no fewer than 3500 people. For resort settlements the requirements are lower with the population needing to be no fewer than 1000 people but infrastructure requirements remain. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canada">Canada</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Canada" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Canada" title="List of towns in Canada">List of towns in Canada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Municipal_government_in_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal government in Canada">Municipal government in Canada</a></div> The legal definition of a town in Canada varies by <a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">province or territory</a>, as each has jurisdiction over defining and legislating towns, cities and other types of municipal organization within its own boundaries. The province of <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a> is unique in that it makes no distinction under law between towns and cities. There is no intermediate level in French between village and ville (municipality is an administrative term usually applied to a legal, not geographical entity), so both are combined under the single legal status of <a href="/wiki/Ville" title="Ville">ville</a>. While an informal preference may exist among English speakers as to whether any individual ville is commonly referred to as a city or as a town, no distinction and no objective legal criteria exist to make such a distinction under law. <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a> allows municipalities to select whichever administrative term they like with no legal distinction existing between towns, townships, cities, and villages.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> Instead all municipalities, with the exception of Toronto and Ottawa, fall into one of three legal categories under the Municipalities Act: Single-tier (I.e. towns that are located within a region or county but that are considered separate for municipal purposes such as <a href="/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario" title="Hamilton, Ontario">Hamilton</a>), lower-tier (i.e. municipalities that are part of a region or county such as <a href="/wiki/St._Catharines" title="St. Catharines">St. Catharines</a>), or upper-tier (i.e. regional municipalities such as <a href="/wiki/Regional_Municipality_of_Niagara" title="Regional Municipality of Niagara">Niagara</a>).<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Accordingly, many larger municipalities continue to use the title of town due to it better reflecting the character of the municipality. For example, <a href="/wiki/Oakville,_Ontario" title="Oakville, Ontario">Oakville</a> (2021 Population: 213,759) is the largest municipality to use the title of town to reflect its largely suburban character while other municipalities such as <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Hill,_Ontario" title="Richmond Hill, Ontario">Richmond Hill</a> (2021 Population: 202,022) have opted to change their status from "town" to "city" to encourage investment.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chile">Chile</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Chile" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a>, towns (Spanish: pueblos) are defined by the National Statistics Institute (INE) as an urban entity with a population from 2001 to 5000 or an area with a population from 1001 to 2000 and an established economic activity. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Czechia">Czechia</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Czechia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Obec" title="Obec">Obec</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_the_Czech_Republic" title="List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic">List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic</a></div> In <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czechia</a>, a municipality can obtain the title of a <a href="/wiki/Statutory_city_(Czech_Republic)" title="Statutory city (Czech Republic)">city</a> (<a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a>: statutární město), town (<a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a>: město) or <a href="/wiki/M%C4%9Bstys" title="Městys">market town</a> (<a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a>: městys). The title is granted by law. Statutory cities (in English usually called just "cities"), which are defined by law no. 128/2000 Coll.,<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> can define their own self-governing municipal districts. There are 26 such cities, in addition to <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>, which is a de facto statutory city. All the Czech municipalities with more than 40,000 inhabitants are cities. Town and market town are above all ceremonious honorary degrees, referring to population, history and regional significance of a municipality. <a href="/wiki/Obec#Statistics" title="Obec">As the statistics of Czech municipalities</a> shows, towns usually have between 1,000 and 35,000 inhabitants, with median around 4,000 and average around 6,500. Nowadays a municipality must have at least 3,000 inhabitants to have the right to request the town title. Market towns usually have between 500 and 4,000 inhabitants, with median and average both around 1,000. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Denmark">Denmark</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Denmark" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Denmark, in many contexts no distinction is made between "city", "town" and "village"; all three translate as by. In more specific use, for small villages and <a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">hamlets</a> the word landsby (meaning 'country town') is used, while the Danish equivalent of English city is storby (meaning 'large town'). For formal purposes, <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">urban areas</a> having at least 200 inhabitants are considered by.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Historically some towns held various privileges, the most important of which was the right to hold market. They were administered separately from the rural areas in both fiscal, military and legal matters. Such towns are known as købstad (roughly the same meaning as borough albeit deriving from a different etymology) and they retain the exclusive right to the title even after the last vestiges of their privileges vanished through the reform of the local administration carried through in 1970. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Estonia">Estonia</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Estonia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>, there is no distinction between a town and a city as the word linn is used for both bigger and smaller settlements, which are bigger than villages and boroughs. There are 30 <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Estonia" title="Municipalities of Estonia">municipal towns</a> (omavalitsuslik linn) in Estonia and a <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Estonia" title="List of cities and towns in Estonia">further 17 towns</a>, which have merged with a municipal parish (vallasisene linn). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finland">Finland</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Finland" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vammala,_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Vammala%2C_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg/220px-Vammala%2C_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Vammala%2C_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg/220px-Vammala%2C_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Vammala%2C_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg/330px-Vammala%2C_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Vammala%2C_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg/440px-Vammala%2C_Onkiniemenkatu.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The town of <a href="/wiki/Sastamala" title="Sastamala">Sastamala</a>, Finland</figcaption></figure> In Finland, there is no distinction between a town and a city as the word kaupunki is used for both bigger and smaller settlements, which are bigger than villages and boroughs; although when talking about the word town, the word pikkukaupunki is used (pikku means 'little' or 'small'). There are over one hundred <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Finland" title="Municipalities of Finland">municipal towns</a> in Finland. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: France" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG/220px-Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG/220px-Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG/330px-Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG/440px-Salins_les_Bains_2.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The town of <a href="/wiki/Salins-les-Bains" title="Salins-les-Bains">Salins-les-Bains</a>, France</figcaption></figure> From an administrative standpoint, the smallest level of local authorities are all called <a href="/wiki/Communes_of_France" title="Communes of France">communes</a>. They can have anywhere from a handful to millions of inhabitants, and France has 36,000 of them. The French term for town is <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourg" class="extiw" title="fr:Bourg">bourg</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> but French laws generally do not distinguish between towns and cities which are all commonly called villes. However, some laws do treat these authorities differently based on the population and different rules apply to the three big cities <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a>. For historical reasons, <a href="/wiki/List_of_French_villages_destroyed_in_World_War_I" title="List of French villages destroyed in World War I">six communes</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Meuse_(department)" title="Meuse (department)">Meuse</a> département exist as independent administrative entities despite having no inhabitants at all. For statistical purposes, the national statistical institute (<a href="/wiki/INSEE" class="mw-redirect" title="INSEE">INSEE</a>) operates a distinction between urban areas with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants and bigger communes, the latter being called villes. Smaller settlements are usually called villages. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germany">Germany</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Germany" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Germany" title="List of cities and towns in Germany">List of cities and towns in Germany</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Großstadt" redirects here. For the painting, see <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_(Dix)" title="Metropolis (Dix)">Metropolis (Dix)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Putbus_(2011-05-21)_14.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Putbus_%282011-05-21%29_14.JPG/220px-Putbus_%282011-05-21%29_14.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 146px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Putbus_%282011-05-21%29_14.JPG/220px-Putbus_%282011-05-21%29_14.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="146" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Putbus_%282011-05-21%29_14.JPG/330px-Putbus_%282011-05-21%29_14.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Putbus_%282011-05-21%29_14.JPG/440px-Putbus_%282011-05-21%29_14.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Putbus" title="Putbus">Putbus</a> on <a href="/wiki/R%C3%BCgen" title="Rügen">Rügen Island</a>, Germany</figcaption></figure> Germans do not, in general, differentiate between 'city' and 'town'. The German word for both is Stadt, as it is the case in many other languages that do not differentiate between these concepts. The word for a 'village', as a smaller settlement, is Dorf. However, the International Statistics Conference of 1887 defined different sizes of Stadt, based on their population size, as follows: Landstadt ('country town'; under 5,000), Kleinstadt ('small town'; 5,000 to 20,000), Mittelstadt ('middle town'; between 20,000 and 100,000) and Großstadt ("large town"; 100,000 to 1,000,000).<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> The term Großstadt may be translated as 'city'. In addition, Germans may speak of a Millionenstadt, a city with anywhere between one and five million inhabitants (such as <a href="/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>). Also, a city with more than five million inhabitants is often referred to as a Megastadt (commonly translated as <a href="/wiki/Megacity" title="Megacity">megacity</a>).<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> Historically, many settlements became a Stadt by being awarded a <a href="/wiki/Town_privileges" title="Town privileges">Stadtrecht</a> in medieval times. In modern German language use, the historical importance, the existence of central functions (education, retail etc.) and the population density of an urban place might also be taken as characteristics of a Stadt. The modern local government organisation is subject to the laws of each <a href="/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">state</a> and refers to a Gemeinde (<a href="/wiki/States_of_Germany#Municipalities_(Gemeinden)" title="States of Germany">municipality</a>), regardless of its historic title. While most Gemeinden form part of a Landkreis (<a href="/wiki/States_of_Germany#Administrative_districts_(Kreise)" title="States of Germany">district</a>) on a higher tier of local government, larger towns and cities may have the status of a kreisfreie Stadt, combining both the powers of a municipality and a district. Designations in different states are as diverse as e.g. in Australian States and Territories, and differ from state to state. In some German states, the words Markt ('market'), Marktflecken (both used in southern Germany) or Flecken ('spot'; northern Germany e.g. in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a>) designate a town-like residential community between Gemeinde and Stadt with special importance to its outer conurbation area. Historically those had Marktrecht (market right) but not full town privileges; see <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">Market town</a>. The legal denomination of a specific settlement may differ from its common designation (e.g. Samtgemeinde – a legal term in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a> for a group of villages [Dorf, pl. Dörfer] with common local government created by combining municipalities [Gemeinde, pl. Gemeinden]). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Greece_and_Cyprus">Greece and Cyprus</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Greece and Cyprus" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In ordinary speech, <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greeks</a> use the word χωριό ('village') to refer to smaller settlements and the word πόλη or πολιτεία ('city') to refer to larger ones. Careful speakers may also use the word κωμόπολη to refer to towns with a population of 2,000–9,999. In Greek administrative law there used to be a distinction between δήμοι, i.e. municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants or considered important for some other geographical (county seats), historical or ecclesiastical (bishops' seats) reason, and κοινότητες, referring to smaller self-governing units, mostly villages. A sweeping reform, carried out in two stages early in the 21st century, merged most κοινότητες with the nearest δήμοι, dividing the whole country into 325 self-governing δήμοι. The former municipalities survive as administrative subdivisions (δημοτικά διαμερίσματα, δημοτικές ενότητες). Cyprus, including the Turkish-occupied areas, is also divided into 39 δήμοι (in principle, with at least 5,000 inhabitants, though there are exceptions) and 576 κοινότητες. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hong_Kong">Hong Kong</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Hong Kong" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Hong_Kong#Towns" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities and towns in Hong Kong">List of cities and towns in Hong Kong</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg/220px-ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg/220px-ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg/330px-ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg/440px-ShatinTownHall_20070529.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Nearly every town in Hong Kong has its own town hall. The picture shows the <a href="/wiki/Sha_Tin_Town_Hall" title="Sha Tin Town Hall">Sha Tin Town Hall</a> in the town of <a href="/wiki/Sha_Tin" title="Sha Tin">Sha Tin</a>.</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> started developing new towns in the 1950s, to accommodate exponential population increase. The first new towns included <a href="/wiki/Tsuen_Wan_New_Town" title="Tsuen Wan New Town">Tsuen Wan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kwun_Tong" title="Kwun Tong">Kwun Tong</a>. In the late 1960s and the 1970s, another stage of new town developments was launched. Nine new towns have been developed so far. Land use is carefully planned and development provides plenty of room for public housing projects. Rail transport is usually available at a later stage. The first towns are <a href="/wiki/Sha_Tin_New_Town" title="Sha Tin New Town">Sha Tin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tsuen_Wan_New_Town" title="Tsuen Wan New Town">Tsuen Wan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuen_Mun_New_Town" title="Tuen Mun New Town">Tuen Mun</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tseung_Kwan_O" title="Tseung Kwan O">Tseung Kwan O</a>. <a href="/wiki/Tuen_Mun_New_Town" title="Tuen Mun New Town">Tuen Mun</a> was intended to be self-reliant, but was not successful and turned into a <a href="/wiki/Bedroom_community" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedroom community">bedroom community</a> like the other new towns. More recent developments are <a href="/wiki/Tin_Shui_Wai_New_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Tin Shui Wai New Town">Tin Shui Wai</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Lantau_New_Town" title="North Lantau New Town">North Lantau (Tung Chung-Tai Ho)</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hungary">Hungary</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Hungary" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Hungary there is no official distinction between a city and a town (the word for both in Hungarian is város). Nevertheless, the expressions formed by adding the adjectives kis ('small') and nagy ('large') to the beginning of the root word (e.g. nagyváros) have been normalized to differentiate between cities and towns (towns being smaller, therefore bearing the name kisváros.) In Hungary, a village can gain the status of város ('town'), if it meets a set of diverse conditions for quality of life and development of certain public services and utilities (e.g. having a local secondary school or installing full-area sewage collection pipe network). Every year the Minister of Internal Affairs selects candidates from a committee-screened list of applicants, whom the President of Republic usually affirms by issuing a bill of town's rank to them. Since being a town carries extra fiscal support from the government, many relatively small villages try to win the status of városi rang ('town rank') nowadays. Before the <a href="/wiki/End_of_communism_in_Hungary" title="End of communism in Hungary">fall of communism</a> in 1990, Hungarian villages with fewer than 10,000 residents were not allowed to become towns. Recently some settlements as small as 2,500 souls have received the rank of town (e.g. Visegrád, Zalakaros or Gönc) and meeting the conditions of development is often disregarded to quickly elevate larger villages into towns. As of middle 2013, there are 346 towns in Hungary, encompassing some 69% of the entire population. Towns of more than 50,000 people are able to gain the status of megyei jogú város (town with the rights of a <a href="/wiki/County" title="County">county</a>), which allows them to maintain a higher degree of <a href="/wiki/Public_service" title="Public service">services</a>. (There are a few exceptions, when towns of fewer than 50,000 people gained the status: <a href="/wiki/%C3%89rd" title="Érd">Érd</a>, <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B3dmez%C5%91v%C3%A1s%C3%A1rhely" title="Hódmezővásárhely">Hódmezővásárhely</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salg%C3%B3tarj%C3%A1n" title="Salgótarján">Salgótarján</a> and <a href="/wiki/Szeksz%C3%A1rd" title="Szekszárd">Szekszárd</a>)<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> As of middle 2013, there are only 23 such towns in Hungary.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iceland">Iceland</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Iceland" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Iceland" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities and towns in Iceland">List of cities and towns in Iceland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg/220px-A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="604" data-file-height="453"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg/220px-A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg/330px-A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg/440px-A_street_in_H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Town of <a href="/wiki/H%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk" title="Húsavík">Húsavík</a> in Iceland</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="India">India</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: India" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg/220px-One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg/220px-One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg/330px-One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg/440px-One_of_the_high_streets_in_Paravur.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>A street in <a href="/wiki/Paravur,_Kollam" title="Paravur, Kollam">Paravur</a> town, India</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/2011_Census_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Census of India">2011 Census of India</a> defines towns of two types: statutory town and <a href="/wiki/Census_town" title="Census town">census town</a>. Statutory town is defined as all places with a <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a>, <a href="/wiki/Municipal_corporation" title="Municipal corporation">corporation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cantonment_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantonment Board">cantonment board</a> or notified town area committee. Census towns are defined as places that satisfy the following criteria: <ol><li>Minimum population of 5,000</li> <li>At least 75% of male working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits</li> <li>Density of population at least 400/km2. (1,000 per sq. mile).</li></ol> All the statutory towns, census towns and <a href="/wiki/Out_growth" title="Out growth">out growths</a> are considered as urban settlements, as opposed to rural areas.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> Towns in India usually have basic infrastructure like shops, electricity, bituminised roads, <a href="/wiki/Post_offices" class="mw-redirect" title="Post offices">post offices</a>, banks, telephone facilities, high schools and sometimes a few government offices. The human population living in these towns may be a few thousand. There are some towns which can be labelled as Main road town. In state of <a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a>, towns are known as Pete or Pura in the <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada language</a>. Sometimes the terms pattana ('city') or ooru, which generally means 'place', are used for towns. The administrative council which governs these towns is known as Pura Sabhe or Nagara Sabhe in Kannada depending on the number of people living within the town's boundaries. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iran">Iran</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Iran" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In contemporary <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> texts, no distinction is made between city and town; both translate as Shahr (شهر). In older Persian texts (until the first half of the 20th century), the Arabic word Qasabeh (قصبه) was used for a town. However, in the past 50 years,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">as of?</a>] this word has become obsolete. There is a word in Persian which is used for special sort of satellite townships and city neighborhoods. It is Shahrak (شهرک), (lit.: 'small city'). Another smaller type of town or <a href="/wiki/Neighborhood" class="mw-redirect" title="Neighborhood">neighborhood</a> in a big city is called Kuy (کوی). Shahrak and Kuy each have different legal definitions. Large cities such as <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mashhad" title="Mashhad">Mashhad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isfahan" title="Isfahan">Isfahan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a>, etc. which have millions inhabitants are referred to as Kalan-shahr (کلان‌شهر), <a href="/wiki/Metropole" title="Metropole">metropole</a>. The pace in which different large villages have gained city status in <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> shows a dramatic increase in the last two decades. Bigger cities and towns usually are centers of a <a href="/wiki/Township" title="Township">township</a> (in Persian: Shahrestan (شهرستان). Shahrestan itself is a subdivision of Ostan (استان), 'province'. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iraq">Iraq</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Iraq" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The word Jarayeh (جرَية) is used to describe villages, the word Garmat (كَرمة) to describe towns, and the word Wilaya (ولاية) to describe cities. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ireland">Ireland</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Ireland" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_populated_places_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="List of populated places in the Republic of Ireland">List of populated places in the Republic of Ireland</a></div> The Local Government act 2001 provides that from 1 January 2002 (section 10 subsection (3)): <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Within the county in which they are situated and of which they form part, there continue to be such other local government areas as are set out in Schedule 6 which –<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="margin-left: 1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em">(a) in the case of the areas set out in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of that Schedule, shall be known as boroughs, and</li><li style="margin-left: 1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em">(b) in the case of the areas set out in Chapter 2 of Part 1 and Part 2 of that Schedule,</li></ul></div> shall be known as towns, and in this Act a reference to a town shall include a reference to a borough.</blockquote> These provisions affect the replacement of the boroughs, towns and urban districts which existed before then. Similar reforms in the nomenclature of local authorities (but not their functions) are affected by section 11 part 17 of the act includes provision (section 185(2)) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Qualified electors of a town having a population of at least 7,500 as ascertained at the last preceding census or such other figure as the Minister may from time to time prescribe by regulations, and not having a <a href="/wiki/Town_council" title="Town council">town council</a>, may make a proposal in accordance with paragraph (b) for the establishment of such a council</blockquote> and contains provisions enabling the establishment of new town councils and provisions enabling the dissolution of existing or new town councils in certain circumstances The reference to "town having a population of at least 7,500 as ascertained at the last preceding census" hands much of the power relating to defining what is in fact a town over to the Central Statistics Office and their criteria are published as part of each census. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Planning_and_Development_Act_2000">Planning and Development Act 2000</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Planning and Development Act 2000" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Another reference to the Census and its role in determining what is or is not a town for some administrative purpose is in the Planning and Development act 2000 (part II chapter I which provides for Local area plans): <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">A local area plan shall be made in respect of an area which—<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="margin-left: 1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em">(i) is designated as a town in the most recent census of population, other than a town designated as a suburb or environs in that census,</li><li style="margin-left: 1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em">(ii) has a population in excess of 2,000, and</li><li style="margin-left: 1.5em; text-indent:-1.5em">(iii) is situated within the functional area of a planning authority which is a county council.</li></ul></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Central_Statistics_Office_criteria">Central Statistics Office criteria</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Central Statistics Office criteria" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> These are set out in full at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/documents/census_2006_Appendices.pdf">2006 Census Appendices</a>. In short they speak of "towns with legally defined boundaries" (i.e. those established by the Local Government Act 2001) and the remaining 664 as "census towns", defined by themselves since 1971 as "a cluster of 50 or more occupied dwellings in which within a distance of 800 meters there is a nucleus of 30 occupied houses on both sides of the road or twenty occupied <a href="/wiki/House" title="House">Houses</a> on one side of the road". There is also a "200 meter criterion" for determining whether a house is part of a census town. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Isle_of_Man">Isle of Man</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Isle of Man" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> There are four settlements which are historically and officially designated as towns (Douglas, Ramsey, Peel, Castletown); however <ul><li>Peel is also sometimes referred to as a city by virtue of its cathedral.</li> <li>Onchan and Port Erin are both larger in population than the smallest "town", having expanded in modern times, but are designated as villages.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel">Israel</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Israel" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Modern_Hebrew" title="Modern Hebrew">Modern Hebrew</a> does provide a word for the concept of a town: Ayara (עיירה), derived from Ir (עיר), the biblical word for 'city'. However, the term ayara is normally used only to describe towns in foreign countries, i.e. urban areas of limited population, particularly when the speaker is attempting to evoke nostalgic or romantic attitudes. The term is also used to describe a <a href="/wiki/Shtetl" title="Shtetl">Shtetl</a>, a pre-<a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">Holocaust</a> <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern European</a> Jewish town. Within Israel, established urban areas are always referred to as cities (with one notable exception explained below) regardless of their actual size. Israeli law does not define any nomenclature for distinction between urban areas based on size or any other factor – meaning that all urban settlements in Israel are legally referred to as "cities". The exception to the above is the term Ayeret Pituakh (עיירת פיתוח, lit. 'Development Town') which is applied to certain cities in Israel based on the reasons for their establishment. These cities, created during the earlier decades of Israeli independence (1950s and 1960s, generally), were designed primarily to serve as commercial and transportation hubs, connecting smaller agricultural settlements in the northern and southern regions of the country (the "Periphery") to the major urban areas of the coastal and central regions. Some of these development towns have since grown to a comparatively large size, and yet are still referred to as development towns, particularly when the speaker wishes to emphasize their (often low) socio-economic status. Nonetheless, they are rarely (if ever) referred to simply as towns; when referring to one directly, it will be called either a development town or a city, depending on context. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Italy">Italy</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Italy" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG/220px-Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG/220px-Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG/330px-Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG/440px-Satriano_di_Lucania_centro.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Satriano_di_Lucania" title="Satriano di Lucania">Satriano di Lucania</a>, a town in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Melandro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Melandro (page does not exist)">Melandro Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basilicata" title="Basilicata">Basilicata</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Italy" title="South Italy">South Italy</a></figcaption></figure> Although Italian provides different words for city (città), town (cittadina or paese) and village (villaggio, old-fashioned, or <a href="/wiki/Frazione" title="Frazione">frazione</a>, most common), no legal definitions exist as to how settlements must be classified. Administratively, both towns and cities are ruled as <a href="/wiki/Comuni" class="mw-redirect" title="Comuni">comuni</a>/<a href="/wiki/Comune" title="Comune">comunes</a>, while villages might be subdivisions of the former. Generally, in everyday speech, a town is larger or more populated than a village and smaller than a city. Various cities and towns together may form a metropolitan area (area metropolitana). A city can also be a culturally, economically, or politically prominent community with respect to surrounding towns. Moreover, a city can be such by <a href="/wiki/President_of_Italy" title="President of Italy">Presidential</a> decree. A town, in contrast, can be an inhabited place which would elsewhere be styled a city, but has not received any official recognition. Remarkable exceptions do exist: for instance, <a href="/wiki/Bassano_del_Grappa" title="Bassano del Grappa">Bassano del Grappa</a>, was given the status of città in 1760 by <a href="/wiki/Francesco_Loredan" title="Francesco Loredan">Francesco Loredan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Doge_(title)" title="Doge (title)">dogal</a> decree and has since then carried this title. Also, the Italian word for 'town' (paese with lowercase P) must not be confused with the Italian word for 'country/nation' (Paese usually with uppercase P). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Japan">Japan</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Japan" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Japan city status (市 <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_Japan" title="Cities of Japan">shi</a>) was traditionally reserved for only a few particularly large settlements. Over time however the necessary conditions to be a city have been watered down and today the only loose rules that apply are having a population over 50,000 and over 60% of the population in a "city centre". In recent times many small villages and towns have merged in order to form a city despite seeming geographically to be just a collection of villages. The distinction between towns (町 <a href="/wiki/Towns_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Towns of Japan">machi/chō</a>) and villages (村 <a href="/wiki/Villages_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Villages of Japan">mura/son</a>) is largely unwritten and purely one of population size when the settlement was founded with villages having under 10,000 and towns 10,000–50,000. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Korea">Korea</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Korea" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Eup_(administrative_division)" title="Eup (administrative division)">Eup (administrative division)</a></div> In both of South Korea and North Korea, towns are called <a href="/wiki/Eup_(administrative_division)" title="Eup (administrative division)">eup</a> (읍). Most cities in North Korea are built around a central square. Perhaps it is to symbolize the importance of the society over the individual, or just a handy place for mass gatherings and celebrations.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latvia">Latvia</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Latvia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Valka,_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_(1).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Valka%2C_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_%281%29.JPG/220px-Valka%2C_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_%281%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Valka%2C_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_%281%29.JPG/220px-Valka%2C_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_%281%29.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Valka%2C_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_%281%29.JPG/330px-Valka%2C_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_%281%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Valka%2C_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_%281%29.JPG/440px-Valka%2C_Semin%C4%81ra_iela_%281%29.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The town of <a href="/wiki/Valka" title="Valka">Valka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a></figcaption></figure> In <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>, towns and cities are indiscriminately called pilsēta in singular form. The name is a <a href="/wiki/Contraction_(grammar)" title="Contraction (grammar)">contraction</a> of two Latvian words: pils ('castle') and sēta ('fence'), making it very obvious what is meant by the word – what is situated between the castle and the castle fence. However, a city can be called lielpilsēta (big city) or mazpilsēta (small city/town) in reference to its size. Latvia also has administrative units such as state cities(<a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valstspils%C4%93ta" class="extiw" title="lv:Valstspilsēta">valstspilsēta</a>) A village is called ciemats or ciems in Latvian. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lithuania">Lithuania</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Lithuania" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Lithuania" title="List of towns in Lithuania">List of towns in Lithuania</a></div> In <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuanian</a>, a city is called <a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/miestas" class="extiw" title="lt:miestas">miestas</a> and a town is called <a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/miestelis" class="extiw" title="lt:miestelis">miestelis</a> (literally 'small miestas'). <a href="/wiki/Metropolis" title="Metropolis">Metropolises</a> are called <a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/didmiestis" class="extiw" title="lt:didmiestis">didmiestis</a> (literally 'big miestas'). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Malaysia">Malaysia</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Malaysia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>, a town is the area administered by a municipal council (<a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a>: Majlis Perbandaran). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Netherlands">Netherlands</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Netherlands" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg/220px-41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4621" data-file-height="2783"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 132px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg/220px-41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="132" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg/330px-41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg/440px-41012_Zuidhavenpoort_zierikzee_Met_Noordhavenpoort.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The small town of <a href="/wiki/Zierikzee" title="Zierikzee">Zierikzee</a>, Netherlands</figcaption></figure> Before 1848 there was a legal distinction between stad and non-stad parts of the country, but the word no longer has any legal significance. About 220 places were granted stadsrechten ('city rights') and are still so called for historical and traditional reasons, though the word is also used for large urban areas that never obtained such rights. Because of this, in the Netherlands, no distinction is made between city and town; both translate as stad. A hamlet (gehucht) usually has fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, a village (dorp) ranges from 1,000 up to 25,000 inhabitants, and a place above 25,000 can call itself either village or city, mostly depending on historic reasons or size of the place. As an example, <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a> never gained city rights, but because of its size – more than half a million inhabitants – it is regarded as a city. <a href="/wiki/Staverden" title="Staverden">Staverden</a>, with only 40 inhabitants, would be a hamlet, but because of its city rights it may call itself a city. For statistical purposes, the Netherlands has three sorts of cities: <ul><li>kleine stad (small city): 50,000–99,999 inhabitants</li> <li>middelgrote stad (medium-sized city): 100,000–249,999 inhabitants</li> <li>grote stad (large city): 250,000 or more</li></ul> Only <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a> and <a href="/wiki/Utrecht" title="Utrecht">Utrecht</a> are regarded as a grote stad. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Norway">Norway</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Norway" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Norway, city and town both translate to <a href="/wiki/By_(city_or_town)" class="mw-redirect" title="By (city or town)">by</a>, even if a city may be referred to as storby ('large town'). They are all part of and administered as a <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipalities of Norway">kommune</a> ('<a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a>'). Norway has had inland the northernmost city in the world: Hammerfest. Now the record is held by New Ålesund on the Norwegian island Svalbard.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG/220px-Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="106" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3771" data-file-height="1823"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 106px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG/220px-Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="106" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG/330px-Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG/440px-Brygga_i_T%C3%B8nsberg.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The oldest town in Norway is <a href="/wiki/T%C3%B8nsberg" title="Tønsberg">Tønsberg</a>. Originally a <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a>, it is today a big city.</figcaption></figure> The oldest town in Norway is <a href="/wiki/T%C3%B8nsberg" title="Tønsberg">Tønsberg</a>, founded during the <a href="/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a>. The year when the town was founded and which person who founded it is unknown, but <a href="/wiki/Snorri_Sturluson" title="Snorri Sturluson">Snorri Sturluson</a> says in the <a href="/wiki/Saga_of_Harald_Fairhair" title="Saga of Harald Fairhair">Saga of Harald Fairhair</a> that the <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a> existed before the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hafrsfjord" title="Battle of Hafrsfjord">Battle of Hafrsfjord</a> in the year 872. Nowadays Tønsberg is considered a city (storby).<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philippines">Philippines</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Philippines" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_municipalities_in_the_Philippines" title="List of cities and municipalities in the Philippines">List of cities and municipalities in the Philippines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_the_Philippines" title="Municipalities of the Philippines">Municipalities of the Philippines</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg/220px-Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1636" data-file-height="966"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 130px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg/220px-Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="130" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg/330px-Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg/440px-Loboc_Bohol_1.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The town center of <a href="/wiki/Loboc,_Bohol" class="mw-redirect" title="Loboc, Bohol">Loboc, Bohol</a></figcaption></figure> In the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, the local official equivalent of the town is the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine municipality">municipality</a> (Filipino: bayan). Every municipality, or town, in the country has a mayor (alkalde) and a vice mayor (bise alkalde) as well as local town officials (<a href="/wiki/Sangguniang_Bayan" title="Sangguniang Bayan">Sangguniang Bayan</a>). Philippine towns, otherwise called municipalities, are composed of a number of villages and communities called <a href="/wiki/Barangays" class="mw-redirect" title="Barangays">barangays</a> with one (or a few cluster of) barangay(s) serving as the town center or <a href="/wiki/Poblacion" title="Poblacion">poblacion</a>. Unique in Philippine towns is that they have fixed budget, population and land requirements to become as such, i.e. from a barangay, or a cluster of such, to a town, or to become cities, i.e. from town to a city. Respectively, examples of these are the town of <a href="/wiki/Braulio_E._Dujali,_Davao_del_Norte" class="mw-redirect" title="Braulio E. Dujali, Davao del Norte">B. E. Dujali</a> in <a href="/wiki/Davao_del_Norte" title="Davao del Norte">Davao del Norte</a> province, which was formed in 1998 from a cluster of five barangays, and the city of <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador,_Misamis_Oriental" title="El Salvador, Misamis Oriental">El Salvador</a>, which was converted from a town to a city in 2007. Each town in the Philippines was classified by its <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_the_Philippines#Income_classification" title="Municipalities of the Philippines">annual income and budget</a>. A sharp, hierarchical distinction exists between Philippine <a href="/wiki/Philippine_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine city">cities</a> (lungsod or siyudad) and towns, as towns in the country are juridically separate from cities, which are typically larger and more populous (some smaller and less populated) and which political and economic status are above those of towns. This was further supported and indicated by the income classification system implemented by the National Department of Finance, to which both cities and towns fell into their respective categories that indicate they are such as stated under Philippine law. However, both towns and cities equally share the status as <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Philippines#Local_government_units" title="Administrative divisions of the Philippines">local government units</a> (LGUs) grouped under and belong to <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Provinces of the Philippines">provinces</a> and <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_the_Philippines" title="Regions of the Philippines">regions</a>; both each are composed of barangays and are governed by a mayor and a vice mayor supplemented by their respective LGU legislative councils. However despite this some towns in the Philippines are significantly larger than some cities in the Philippines such as <a href="/wiki/Rodriguez,_Rizal" title="Rodriguez, Rizal">Rodriguez, Rizal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Maria,_Bulacan" title="Santa Maria, Bulacan">Santa Maria, Bulacan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minglanilla,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Minglanilla, Cebu">Minglanilla, Cebu</a> are actually bigger than some regional centers. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poland">Poland</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Poland" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Poland" title="List of cities and towns in Poland">List of cities and towns in Poland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg/220px-Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg/220px-Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg/330px-Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg/440px-Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87._Ratusz..jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87" title="Zamość">Zamość</a> in Poland is an example of a <a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopian</a> <a href="/wiki/Ideal_town" class="mw-redirect" title="Ideal town">ideal town</a>. It was declared a <a href="/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="UNESCO World Heritage Site">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a> in 1992.</figcaption></figure> In the <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish language</a>, there is no linguistic distinction between a city and a town, both translated miasto. The word for both is miasto, as a form of settlement distinct from types of rural settlements: village (wieś), <a href="/wiki/Przysi%C3%B3%C5%82ek" title="Przysiółek">przysiółek</a>, osada, or kolonia, see <a href="/wiki/Classification_of_localities_and_their_parts_in_Poland" title="Classification of localities and their parts in Poland">Classification of localities and their parts in Poland</a>. Cities are the biggest municipalities, distinguished through being managed by a city mayor (prezydent miasta, literally translated city president) instead of a town mayor (burmistrz) as the head of the city executive, thus being informally called miasto prezydenckie, with such privilege automatically awarded to municipalities either inhabited by more than 100,000 residents (currently 37) or those enjoying the status of a <a href="/wiki/City_with_powiat_rights" title="City with powiat rights">city with powiat rights</a> (currently 66). As of 2022, all of the former group fit into the latter, though it was not always the case in the past. There is, however, a number of exemptions due to historic or political reasons, when a municipality meets neither of these two conditions but nevertheless has the city status, including the only 3 capitals of the former <a href="/wiki/Voivodeships_of_Poland_(1975%E2%80%931998)" title="Voivodeships of Poland (1975–1998)">voivodeships of Poland (1975–1998)</a> not meeting the abovementioned criteria, as well as further 38 municipalities which do not fit into any of the mentioned categories but have nevertheless been allowed to keep the earlier awarded status due to unspecified historical reasons. Towns may sometimes be called miasteczko, a diminutive colloquially used for localities with a few thousand residents. Such localities have a town mayor (burmistrz) as the head of the town executive. Town/city rights are conferred by government legislation; new towns/cities are designated by the government in an annual regulation effective from the first day of the year. Some settlements tend to remain villages even though they have a larger population than many smaller towns, primarily in order not to lose eligibility for the <a href="/wiki/European_Agricultural_Fund_for_Rural_Development" title="European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development">European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development</a>. As of 30 April 2022, there are altogether 2477 municipalities (<a href="/wiki/Gmina" title="Gmina">gmina</a>) in Poland, including 1513 rural gminas, while the remaining 968 ones contain cities and towns. Among them, 666 towns are part of an urban-rural gmina while 302 cities and towns are standalone as an urban gmina. The latter group includes 107 cities (governed by a prezydent miasta), including 66 <a href="/wiki/City_with_powiat_rights" title="City with powiat rights">cities with powiat rights</a>. 37 cities among the latter group are over 100,000, including 18 cities serving as a seat for <a href="/wiki/Voivode" title="Voivode">voivode</a> or <a href="/wiki/Voivodeship_sejmik" title="Voivodeship sejmik">voivodeship sejmik</a>, informally called voivodeship cities. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Portugal">Portugal</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Portugal" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Like other Iberian cultures, in Portugal there is a traditional distinction between towns (vilas) and cities (cidades). Similarly, although these areas are not defined under the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Portugal" title="Constitution of Portugal">Portuguese Constitution</a> and have no political and administrative functions (with associated organs), they are defined by law,<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> and a town must have: <ul><li>at least 3,000 voters</li> <li>at least half of these services: health unit, pharmacy, cultural centre, public transportation network, post office, commercial food and drinking establishments, primary school and/or bank office</li></ul> In this context, the town or city is an urban settlement located in the area of a local government (<a href="/wiki/Freguesia" title="Freguesia">civil parish</a> or <a href="/wiki/Concelho" title="Concelho">municipality</a>), in comparison to the North American context, where they have political functions. In special cases, some <a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">villages</a> may be granted the status of town if they possess historical, cultural or architectonic importance. <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_heraldry#Municipal_heraldry" title="Portuguese heraldry">Portuguese local governments heraldry</a> reflects if the seat of the respective civil parish or municipality is a city, town or another type of settlement. The <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a> of a local government with a seat in a town bears a mural crown with four towers, while the coat of arms of a local government with a set in a city bears a crown with five towers.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> This difference between towns and cities is still in use in other Portuguese-speaking countries. In Brazil, since the beginning of the 20th century, all municipal seats receive the status of city. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romania">Romania</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Romania" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Romania" title="List of cities and towns in Romania">List of cities and towns in Romania</a></div> In Romania there is no official distinction between a city and a town (the word for both in <a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a> is oraş). Cities and towns in Romania can have the status either of oraş <a href="/wiki/Municipiu" title="Municipiu">municipiu</a>, conferred to large urban areas, or only oraş to smaller urban localities. Some settlements remain villages (<a href="/wiki/Communes_of_Romania" title="Communes of Romania">comune</a>) even though they have a larger population than other smaller towns. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russia">Russia</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Russia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Types of inhabited localities in Russia">Types of inhabited localities in Russia</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg/220px-Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="5994" data-file-height="3977"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 146px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg/220px-Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="146" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg/330px-Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg/440px-Vyborg_SevernyVal3-5_006_8242.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The town of <a href="/wiki/Vyborg" title="Vyborg">Vyborg</a> in <a href="/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast" title="Leningrad Oblast">Leningrad Oblast</a>, Russia</figcaption></figure> Unlike English, the Russian language does not distinguish the terms city and town—both are translated as город (gorod). Occasionally the term город is applied to <a href="/wiki/Urban-type_settlement" title="Urban-type settlement">urban-type settlements</a> as well, even though the status of those is not the same as that of a city/town proper. In Russia, the criteria an inhabited locality needs to meet in order to be granted city/town (gorod) status vary in different <a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia" title="Federal subjects of Russia">federal subjects</a>. In general, to qualify for this status, an inhabited locality should have more than 12,000 inhabitants and the occupation of no less than 85% of inhabitants must be other than agriculture. However, inhabited localities which were previously granted the city/town status but no longer meet the criteria can still retain the status for historical reasons. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singapore">Singapore</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Singapore" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/New_towns_of_Singapore" title="New towns of Singapore">New towns of Singapore</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg/290px-1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="114" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="7078" data-file-height="2774"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 290px;height: 114px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg/290px-1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg" data-width="290" data-height="114" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg/435px-1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg/580px-1_2014_panorama_bishan_park_aerial_gopro_dji_phantom.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bishan,_Singapore" title="Bishan, Singapore">Bishan</a>, one of Singapore's towns, is the 38th biggest in terms of geographical size and the 21st most populated planning area in the country.</figcaption></figure> In Singapore, towns are large scale satellite housing developments which are designed to be self-contained. It includes public housing units, a town centre and other amenities.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Helmed by a hierarchy of commercial developments, ranging from a town centre to precinct-level outlets, there is no need to venture out of town to meet the most common needs of residences. Employment can be found in industrial estates located within several towns. Educational, health care, and recreational needs are also taken care of with the provision of schools, hospitals, parks, sports complexes, and so on. The most populous town in the country is <a href="/wiki/Bedok" title="Bedok">Bedok</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="South_Africa">South Africa</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: South Africa" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In South Africa the <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans" title="Afrikaans">Afrikaans</a> term dorp is used interchangeably with the English equivalent town. A town is a settlement that has a size that is smaller than that of a city. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spain">Spain</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Spain" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Spain, the equivalent of town would be villa, a population unit between a village (pueblo) and a city (ciudad), and is not defined by the number of inhabitants, but by some historical rights and privileges dating from the Middle Ages, such as the right to hold a market or fair. For instance, while <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a> is technically a villa, <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>, with a smaller population, is known as a city. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sweden">Sweden</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Sweden" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Stad_(Sweden)" title="Stad (Sweden)">Stad (Sweden)</a> and <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ping" title="Köping">Köping</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg/220px-%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg/220px-%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg/330px-%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg/440px-%C3%96vre_Finngr%C3%A4nd_7_Sta_Maria_29_Visby_Gotland.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>View towards <a href="/wiki/Visby_Cathedral" title="Visby Cathedral">St Mary's Cathedral</a> in <a href="/wiki/Visby" title="Visby">Visby</a>, Sweden. Visby is one of the most well-preserved former <a href="/wiki/Hanseatic_League" title="Hanseatic League">Hanseatic</a> cities in Sweden and a <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>. Today it is the seat of <a href="/wiki/Gotland_Municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Gotland Municipality">Gotland Municipality</a>.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish language</a> does not differentiate between towns and cities in the English sense of the words; both words are commonly translated as stad, a term which has no legal significance today. The term tätort is used for an <a href="/wiki/Urban_areas_in_Sweden" title="Urban areas in Sweden">urban area</a> or a locality, which however is a statistical rather than an administrative concept and encompasses densely settled villages with only 200 inhabitants as well as the major cities. The word <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ping" title="Köping">köping</a> corresponds to an English <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a> (chipping) or German <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Markt" class="extiw" title="wikt:Markt">Markt</a> but is mainly of historical significance, as the term is not used today and only survives in some <a href="/wiki/Toponym" class="mw-redirect" title="Toponym">toponyms</a>. Some towns with names ending in -köping are cities with over 100,000 inhabitants today, e.g. <a href="/wiki/Link%C3%B6ping" title="Linköping">Linköping</a>. Before 1971, 132 larger <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipalities</a> in Sweden enjoyed special royal charters as <a href="/wiki/Stad_(Sweden)" title="Stad (Sweden)">stad</a> instead of <a href="/wiki/Kommun" class="mw-redirect" title="Kommun">kommun</a> (which is similar to a US <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">county</a>). However, since 1971 all municipalities are officially defined as kommun, thus making no legal difference between, for instance, <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a> and a small countryside municipality. Every urban area that was a stad before 1971 is still often referred to as a stad in daily speech. Since the 1980s, 14 of these municipalities have branded themselves as stad again, although this has no legal or administrative significance, as they still have to refer to themselves as kommun in all legal documentation. For statistical purposes, <a href="/wiki/Statistics_Sweden" title="Statistics Sweden">Statistics Sweden</a> officially defines a stad as an urban area of at least 10,000 inhabitants. Since 2017 it also defines a storstad (literally 'big town') as a municipality with a population of at least 200,000 of which at least 200,000 are in its largest tätort.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> This means that <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gothenburg" title="Gothenburg">Gothenburg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malm%C3%B6" title="Malmö">Malmö</a> are storstäder, i.e. 'major cities', while <a href="/wiki/Uppsala" title="Uppsala">Uppsala</a>, with a population of approximately 230,000 in the municipality, which covers an unusually large area, almost three times larger than the combined land area of the municipalities of Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö, is not. The largest contiguous urban area within Uppsala municipality has a population of well below 200,000, while the population of both Malmö municipality, with a land area only 1/14 the size of Uppsala municipality, and Malmö tätort, i.e. contiguous urban area, is well over 300,000, and the population of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Malm%C3%B6" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan Malmö">Malmö Metropolitan Area</a>, with a land area only slightly larger than Uppsala Municipality, is well over 700,000. A difference in the size and population of the urban area between Uppsala and the smallest storstad in Sweden, Malmö, is the reason Statistics Sweden changed the definition of storstad in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ukraine">Ukraine</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Ukraine" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8,_4_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%83_%D0%94%D0%A1%D0%9D%D0%A1_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B8,_2.jpg" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_4_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%83_%D0%94%D0%A1%D0%9D%D0%A1_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_2.jpg/440px-%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_4_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%83_%D0%94%D0%A1%D0%9D%D0%A1_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_2.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Fire station in town of <a href="/wiki/Bohorodchany" title="Bohorodchany">Bohorodchany</a></figcaption></figure> In Ukraine the term town (містечко, mistechko) existed from the Medieval period until 1925, when it was replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politics of the Soviet Union">Soviet government</a> with <a href="/wiki/Urban_type_settlement" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban type settlement">urban type settlement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Historically, a town in the Ukrainian lands was a smaller populated place that was chartered under the <a href="/wiki/German_town_law" title="German town law">German town law</a> and had a market square (see <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">Market town</a>). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: United Kingdom" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">City status in the United Kingdom</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="England_and_Wales">England and Wales</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: England and Wales" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_England_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of urban areas in England by population">List of urban areas in England by population</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_Wales_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of urban areas in Wales by population">list of urban areas in Wales by population</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rugby_town_centre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Rugby_town_centre.jpg/220px-Rugby_town_centre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1584" data-file-height="957"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 133px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Rugby_town_centre.jpg/220px-Rugby_town_centre.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="133" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Rugby_town_centre.jpg/330px-Rugby_town_centre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Rugby_town_centre.jpg/440px-Rugby_town_centre.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>A traditional English town centre at <a href="/wiki/Rugby,_Warwickshire" title="Rugby, Warwickshire">Rugby</a></figcaption></figure> In England and Wales, a town traditionally was a settlement which had a charter to hold a <a href="/wiki/Market_(place)" class="mw-redirect" title="Market (place)">market</a> or <a href="/wiki/Fair" title="Fair">fair</a> and therefore became a "<a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a>". Market towns were distinguished from villages in that they were the economic hub of a surrounding area, and were usually larger and had more facilities. In parallel with popular usage, however, there are many technical and official definitions of what constitutes a town, to which various interested parties cling. In modern official usage the term town is employed either for old market towns, or for settlements which have a <a href="/wiki/Town_council" title="Town council">town council</a>, or for settlements which elsewhere would be classed a city, but which do not have <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">the legal right</a> to call themselves such. Any parish council can decide to describe itself as a town council, but this will usually only apply to the smallest "towns" (because larger towns will be larger than a single civil parish). Not all settlements which are commonly described as towns have a town council or borough council. In fact, because of many successive changes to the structure of local government, there are now few large towns which are represented by a body closely related to their historic borough council. These days, a smaller town will usually be part of a local authority which covers several towns. And where a larger town is the seat of a local authority, the authority will usually cover a much wider area than the town itself (either a large rural hinterland, or several other, smaller towns). Additionally, there are "<a href="/wiki/New_town" class="mw-redirect" title="New town">new towns</a>" which were created during the 20th century, such as <a href="/wiki/Basildon" title="Basildon">Basildon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Redditch" title="Redditch">Redditch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Telford" title="Telford">Telford</a>. Some settlements which describe themselves as towns (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Shipston-on-Stour" title="Shipston-on-Stour">Shipston-on-Stour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a>) are smaller than some large villages (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Kidlington" title="Kidlington">Kidlington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>). The status of a city is reserved for places that have <a href="/wiki/Letters_patent" title="Letters patent">letters patent</a> entitling them to the name, historically associated with the possession of a cathedral. Some large municipalities (such as <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth" title="Bournemouth">Bournemouth</a>) are legally <a href="/wiki/Borough" title="Borough">boroughs</a> but not cities, whereas some cities are quite small — such as <a href="/wiki/Ely,_Cambridgeshire" title="Ely, Cambridgeshire">Ely</a> or <a href="/wiki/St_David%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="St David's">St David's</a>. The city of <a href="/wiki/Brighton_and_Hove" title="Brighton and Hove">Brighton and Hove</a> was created from the two former towns and some surrounding villages, and within the city the correct term for the former distinct entities is somewhat unclear. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Windhill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/Windhill.jpg/220px-Windhill.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2160" data-file-height="1440"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/Windhill.jpg/220px-Windhill.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/Windhill.jpg/330px-Windhill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/Windhill.jpg/440px-Windhill.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Stortford" title="Bishop's Stortford">Bishop's Stortford</a></figcaption></figure> It appears that a city may become a town, though perhaps only through administrative error: <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_Kent" title="Rochester, Kent">Rochester</a> in Kent had been a city for centuries but, when in 1998 the <a href="/wiki/Medway" title="Medway">Medway</a> district was created, a bureaucratic blunder meant that Rochester lost its official <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">city status</a> and is now technically a town. It is often thought that towns with <a href="/wiki/Cathedral" title="Cathedral">bishops' seats</a> rank automatically as cities: however, <a href="/wiki/Chelmsford" title="Chelmsford">Chelmsford</a> was a town until 5 June 2012 despite being the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Chelmsford" title="Diocese of Chelmsford">diocese of Chelmsford</a>, created in 1914. <a href="/wiki/St_Asaph" title="St Asaph">St Asaph</a>, which is the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_St_Asaph" title="Diocese of St Asaph">diocese of St Asaph</a>, only became a city on 1 June 2012 though the diocese was founded in the mid-sixth century. In reality, the pre-qualification of having a cathedral of the established <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>, and the formerly established <a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a> or <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a>, ceased to apply from 1888. The word town can also be used as a general term for urban areas, including cities and in a few cases, districts within cities. In this usage, a city is a type of town; a large one, with a certain status. For example, central <a href="/wiki/Greater_London" title="Greater London">Greater London</a> is sometimes referred to colloquially as "London town". (The "<a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a>" is the historical nucleus, informally known as the "Square Mile", and is administratively separate from the rest of Greater London, while the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a> is also technically a city and is also a <a href="/wiki/London_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="London borough">London borough</a>.) <a href="/wiki/Camden_Town" title="Camden Town">Camden Town</a> and <a href="/wiki/Somers_Town,_London" title="Somers Town, London">Somers Town</a> are districts of London, as <a href="/wiki/New_Town,_Edinburgh" title="New Town, Edinburgh">New Town</a> is a district of <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> – actually the Georgian centre. In recent years the division between cities and towns has grown, leading to the establishment of groups like the Centre for Towns, who work to highlight the issues facing many towns.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Towns also became a significant issue in the <a href="/wiki/2020_Labour_Party_leadership_election_(UK)" title="2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK)">2020 Labour Party leadership election</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Nandy" title="Lisa Nandy">Lisa Nandy</a> making significant reference to Labour needing to win back smaller towns which have swung away from the party.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Scotland">Scotland</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Scotland" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_burghs_in_Scotland" title="List of burghs in Scotland">List of burghs in Scotland</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_and_cities_in_Scotland_by_population" title="List of towns and cities in Scotland by population">List of towns and cities in Scotland by population</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Town" title="Special:EditPage/Town">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>. (March 2023) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> In Scotland the word town has no specific legal meaning and (especially in areas which were or are still <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Gaelic</a>-speaking) can refer to a mere collection of buildings (e.g. a farm-town or in <a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a> ferm-toun), not all of which might be inhabited, or to an inhabited area of any size which is not otherwise described in terms such as <a href="/wiki/City" title="City">city</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burgh" title="Burgh">burgh</a>, etc. Many locations of greatly different size will be encountered with a name ending with -town, -ton, -toun etc. (or beginning with the Gaelic equivalent baile etc.).<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> "<a href="/wiki/Burgh" title="Burgh">Burgh</a>" (pronounced burruh) is the <a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a> term for a town or a municipality. They were highly <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous area">autonomous</a> units of <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland" title="Local government in Scotland">local government</a> from at least the 12th century until their abolition in 1975, when a new <a href="/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Scotland_1973_to_1996" class="mw-redirect" title="Local government areas of Scotland 1973 to 1996">regional structure of local government</a> was introduced across the country. Usually based upon a town, they had a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_corporation" title="Municipal corporation">municipal corporation</a> and certain rights, such as a degree of <a href="/wiki/Self-governance" title="Self-governance">self-governance</a> and representation in the sovereign <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Scotland" title="Parliament of Scotland">Parliament of Scotland</a> adjourned in 1707. The term no longer describes units of local government, although various claims are made from time to time that the legislation used was not competent to change the status of the Royal Burghs described below. The status is now chiefly ceremonial but various functions have been inherited by current councils (e.g. the application of various endowments providing for public benefit) which might only apply within the area previously served by a burgh; in consequence a burgh can still exist (if only as a defined geographical area) and might still be signed as such by the current local authority. The word 'burgh' is generally not used as a synonym for 'town' or 'city' in everyday speech, but is reserved mostly for government and administrative purposes. Historically, the most important burghs were <a href="/wiki/Royal_burgh" title="Royal burgh">royal burghs</a>, followed by <a href="/wiki/Burgh_of_regality" title="Burgh of regality">burghs of regality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burgh_of_barony" title="Burgh of barony">burghs of barony</a>. Some newer settlements were only designated as <a href="/wiki/Police_burgh" title="Police burgh">police burghs</a> from the 19th century onward, a classification which also applies to most of the older burghs. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: United States" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg/220px-Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg/220px-Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg/330px-Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg/440px-Wyatt-indiana-from-above.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The tiny farming community of <a href="/wiki/Wyatt,_Indiana" title="Wyatt, Indiana">Wyatt, Indiana</a></figcaption></figure> The definition of town varies widely from state to state, and in many states there is no official definition. In some states, the term town refers to an area of population distinct from others in some meaningful dimension, typically population or type of government. The characteristic that distinguishes a town from another type of populated place — a city, borough, village, or <a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">township</a>, for example — differs from state to state. In some states, a town is an incorporated <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a>; that is, one with a <a href="/wiki/Charter" title="Charter">charter</a> received from the state, similar to a city (see <a href="/wiki/Incorporated_town" title="Incorporated town">incorporated town</a>), while in others, a town is unincorporated. They're originally based around a population center and in most cases correspond to the geographical designations used by the United States Census Bureau for reporting of housing and population statistics. Municipalities vary greatly in size, from the millions of residents of New York City and Los Angeles to the few hundred people who live in Jenkins, Minnesota.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> In some instances, the term town refers to a small incorporated municipality of less than a population threshold specified by state statute, while in others a town can be significantly larger. Some states do not use the term town at all, while in others the term has no official meaning and is used informally to refer to a populated place, of any size, whether incorporated or unincorporated. In some other states, the words town and city are legally interchangeable. The <a href="/wiki/Census_of_Governments" class="mw-redirect" title="Census of Governments">Census of Governments</a> treats jurisdictions called towns in the <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> states, <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> as <a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">townships</a> rather than municipalities.<a href="#cite_note-isd2022-34">[34]</a> Small-town life has been a major theme in American literature, especially stories of rejection by young people leaving for the metropolis.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> Since the use of the term varies considerably by state, individual usages are presented in the following sections: <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alabama">Alabama</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Alabama" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>, the legal use of the terms town and city is based on population. A municipality with a population of 2,000 or more is a city, while less than 2,000 is a town (Code of Alabama 1975, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130616104014/http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-40-6.htm">Section 11-40-6</a>). For legislative purposes, municipalities are divided into eight classes based on population. Class 8 includes all towns, plus cities with populations of less than 6,000 (Code of Alabama 1975, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130616104906/http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-40-12.htm">Section 11-40-12</a>). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Arizona">Arizona</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: Arizona" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, the terms town and city are largely interchangeable. A community may incorporate under either a town or a city organization with no regard to population or other restrictions according to Arizona law (see <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Revised_Statutes" title="Arizona Revised Statutes">Arizona Revised Statutes</a>, Title 9). Cities may function under slightly differing governmental systems, such as the option to organize a district system for city governments, but largely retain the same powers as towns. Arizona law also allows for the consolidation of neighboring towns and the unification of a city and a town, but makes no provision for the joining of two adjacent cities. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="California">California</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: California" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, the words town and city are synonymous by law (see Cal. Govt. Code §§ 34500–34504).<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> There are two types of cities in California: charter and general law. Cities organized as charter cities derive their authority from a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_charter" title="Municipal charter">charter</a> that they draft and file with the state, and which, among other things, states the municipality's name as "City of (Name)" or "Town of (Name)." Government Code §§ 34500–34504 apply to cities organized as <a href="/wiki/General-law_municipality" title="General-law municipality">general law cities</a>, which differ from charter cities in that they do not have charters but instead operate with the powers conferred them by the pertinent sections of the Government Code. Like charter cities, general law cities may incorporate as "City of (Name)" or "Town of (Name)." Some cities change what they are referred to as. The sign in front of the municipal offices in <a href="/wiki/Los_Gatos,_California" title="Los Gatos, California">Los Gatos, California</a>, for example, reads "City of Los Gatos", but the words engraved on the building above the front entrance when the city hall was built read "Town of Los Gatos." There are also signs at the municipal corporation limit, some of which welcome visitors to the "City of Los Gatos" while older, adjacent signs welcome people to the "Town of Los Gatos." Meanwhile, the village does not exist in California as a municipal corporation. Instead, the word town is commonly used to indicate any unincorporated community that might otherwise be known as an unincorporated village. Additionally, some people may still use the word town as shorthand for township, which is not an incorporated municipality but an administrative division of a county. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hawaii">Hawaii</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: Hawaii" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism has the statutory authority to establish, modify, or abolish the statistical boundaries for cities, town, and. villages.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> However, the only municipal government in Hawaii is the City ad County of <a href="/wiki/Honolulu" title="Honolulu">Honolulu</a>.<a href="#cite_note-isd2022-34">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Illinois">Illinois</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=60" title="Edit section: Illinois" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, the word town has been used both to denote a subdivision of a county called a township,<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> and to denote a form of municipality similar to a <a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">village</a>, in that it is generally governed by a president and trustees rather than a mayor.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> In some areas a town may be incorporated legally as a village (meaning it has at large trustees) or a city (meaning it has aldermen from districts) and absorb the duties of the township it is coterminous with (maintenance of birth records, certain welfare items). <a href="/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois" title="Evanston, Illinois">Evanston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Berwyn,_Illinois" title="Berwyn, Illinois">Berwyn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cicero,_Illinois" title="Cicero, Illinois">Cicero</a> are examples of towns in this manner. Under the current Illinois Municipal Code, an incorporated or unincorporated town may choose to incorporate as a city or as a village, but other forms of incorporation are no longer allowed.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Indiana">Indiana</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=61" title="Edit section: Indiana" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, a town is differentiated from a city in that a town can not become a city until it has a population of at least 2,000. The form of government is also different from that of a city in that the town council is both the legislative and executive branches of government. The mayor is selected by the council from within its ranks and operates as a <a href="/wiki/First_among_equals" class="mw-redirect" title="First among equals">first among equals</a>.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Louisiana">Louisiana</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=62" title="Edit section: Louisiana" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, a town is defined as being a municipal government having a population of 1,001 to 4,999 inhabitants.<a href="#cite_note-isd2022-34">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Maryland">Maryland</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=63" title="Edit section: Maryland" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> While a town is generally considered a smaller entity than a city, the two terms are legally interchangeable in Maryland.<a href="#cite_note-isd2022-34">[34]</a> The only exception is the <a href="/wiki/Independent_city" title="Independent city">independent city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, which is a special case, as it was created by the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Maryland" title="Constitution of Maryland">Constitution of Maryland</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Nevada">Nevada</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=64" title="Edit section: Nevada" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>, a town has a form of government, but is not considered to be incorporated. It generally provides a limited range of services, such as <a href="/wiki/Land_use_planning" class="mw-redirect" title="Land use planning">land use planning</a> and recreation, while leaving most services to the county. Many communities have found this "semi-incorporated" status attractive; the state has only 20 incorporated <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Nevada" title="List of cities in Nevada">cities</a>, and towns as large as <a href="/wiki/Paradise,_Nevada" title="Paradise, Nevada">Paradise</a> (186,020 in 2000 Census), home of the <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip" title="Las Vegas Strip">Las Vegas Strip</a>. Most <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seats</a> are also towns, not cities. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_England">New England</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=65" title="Edit section: New England" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/New_England_town" title="New England town">New England town</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg/220px-Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="397"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg/220px-Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg/330px-Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg/440px-Downtown_Ipswich_MA.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>A downtown of <a href="/wiki/Ipswich,_Massachusetts" title="Ipswich, Massachusetts">Ipswich, Massachusetts</a></figcaption></figure> In the six <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> states, a <a href="/wiki/New_England_town" title="New England town">town</a> is the most prevalent minor civil division, and in most cases, are a more important form of government than the county. In <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> and seven out of fourteen counties in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, in fact, counties only exist as boundaries for state services and chambers of commerce at most, and have no independent legal functions. In <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>, counties function at a limited scope, and are still not as important in northern New England as they are outside of the northeast. In all six states, towns perform functions that in most states would be county functions. The defining feature of a New England town, as opposed to a city, is that a <a href="/wiki/Town_meeting" title="Town meeting">town meeting</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Board_of_selectmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of selectmen">board of selectmen</a> serve as the main form of government for a town, while cities are run by a mayor and a city council. For example, <a href="/wiki/Brookline,_Massachusetts" title="Brookline, Massachusetts">Brookline, Massachusetts</a> is a town, even though it is fairly urban, because of its form of government. In the three southern New England states, the entire land area is divided into towns and cities, while the three northern states have small areas that are unincorporated. In Vermont and New Hampshire, the population of these areas is practically nonexistent, while in Maine, unincorporated areas make up roughly half of the state's area but only one percent of the state's population. Though the U.S. Census Bureau defines New England towns as "minor civil divisions" for statistical purposes, all New England towns are <a href="/wiki/Municipal_corporations" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal corporations">municipal corporations</a> equivalent to cities in all legal respects, except for form of government. For statistical purposes, the Census Bureau uses <a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">census-designated places</a> for the built-up population centers within towns, though these have no legal or social recognition for residents of those towns. Similarly, the Census Bureau uses a special designation for <a href="/wiki/Urban_areas" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban areas">urban areas</a> within New England, the <a href="/wiki/New_England_city_and_town_area" title="New England city and town area">New England city and town area</a>, instead of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area" title="Metropolitan statistical area">metropolitan statistical area</a> it uses in the rest of the country. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_Jersey">New Jersey</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=66" title="Edit section: New Jersey" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Town_(New_Jersey)" title="Town (New Jersey)">Town (New Jersey)</a></div> A town in the context of New Jersey local government refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. While town is often used as a shorthand to refer to a township, the two are not the same. The Town Act of 1895 allowed any municipality or area with a population exceeding 5,000 to become a Town through a petition and referendum process. Under the 1895 Act, a newly incorporated town was divided into at least three wards, with two councilmen per ward serving staggered two-year terms, and one councilman at large, who also served a two-year term. The councilman at large served as chairman of the town council. The Town Act of 1988 completely revised the town form of government and applied to all towns incorporated under the Town Act of 1895 and to those incorporated by a special charter granted by the Legislature prior to 1875. Under the 1988 Act, the mayor is also the councilman at large, serving a term of two years, unless increased to three years by a petition and referendum process. The council under the Town Act of 1988 consists of eight members serving staggered two-year terms with two elected from each of four wards. One council member from each ward is up for election each year. Towns with different structures predating the 1988 Act may retain those features unless changed by a petition and referendum process. Two new provisions were added in 1991 to the statutes governing towns. First, a petition and referendum process was created whereby the voters can require that the mayor and town council be elected to four-year terms of office. The second new provision defines the election procedure in towns with wards. The mayor in a town chairs the town council and heads the municipal government. The mayor may both vote on legislation before council and veto ordinances. A veto may be overridden by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the council. The council may enact an ordinance to delegate all or a portion of the executive responsibilities of the town to a municipal administrator. Fifteen New Jersey municipalities currently have a type of town, nine of which operate under the town form of government. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_York">New York</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=67" title="Edit section: New York" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York_(state)#Town" title="Administrative divisions of New York (state)">Administrative divisions of New York (state) § Town</a></div> In <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative divisions of New York">New York</a>, a town is a division of the county that possesses home rule powers, but generally with fewer functions than towns in New England. A town provides a closer level of governance than its enclosing county, providing almost all municipal services to unincorporated communities, called <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York_(state)#Hamlet" title="Administrative divisions of New York (state)">hamlets</a>, and selected services to incorporated areas, called <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York_(state)#Village" title="Administrative divisions of New York (state)">villages</a>. In New York, a town typically contains a number of such hamlets and villages. However, due to their independent nature, incorporated villages may exist in two towns or even two counties (example: <a href="/wiki/Almond_(village),_New_York" title="Almond (village), New York">Almond (village), New York</a>). Everyone in New York who does not live in a city or <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Indian</a> reservation lives in a town and possibly in one of the town's hamlets or villages. <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geneva,_New_York" title="Geneva, New York">Geneva</a> are the only two cities that span county boundaries. The only part of Geneva in <a href="/wiki/Seneca_County,_New_York" title="Seneca County, New York">Seneca County</a> is water; each of the <a href="/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" title="Boroughs of New York City">boroughs of New York City</a> is a county. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="North_Carolina">North Carolina</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=68" title="Edit section: North Carolina" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, all cities, towns, and villages are incorporated as <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_North_Carolina" title="List of municipalities in North Carolina">municipalities</a>. According to the North Carolina League of Municipalities,<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> there is no legal distinction among a city, town, or village—it is a matter of preference of the local government. Some North Carolina cities have populations as small as 1,000 residents, while some towns, such as <a href="/wiki/Cary,_North_Carolina" title="Cary, North Carolina">Cary</a>, have populations of greater than 100,000. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=69" title="Edit section: Oklahoma" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, according to the state's municipal code, city means a municipality which has incorporated as a city in accordance with the laws of the state, whereas town means a municipality which has incorporated as a town in accordance with the laws of the state, and municipality means any incorporated city or town.<a href="#cite_note-OklahomaLaw1-43">[43]</a> The term village is not defined or used in the act.<a href="#cite_note-OklahomaLaw1-43">[43]</a> Any community of people residing in compact form may become incorporated as a town; however, if the resident population is one thousand or more, a town or community of people residing in compact form may become incorporated as a city.<a href="#cite_note-OklahomaLaw2-44">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=70" title="Edit section: Pennsylvania" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, the incorporated divisions are townships, boroughs, and cities, of which boroughs are equivalent to towns (example: <a href="/wiki/State_College,_Pennsylvania" title="State College, Pennsylvania">State College</a> is a borough). However, one borough is incorporated as a town: <a href="/wiki/Bloomsburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania">Bloomsburg</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Texas">Texas</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=71" title="Edit section: Texas" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, although some municipalities refer to themselves as "towns" or "villages" (to market themselves as an attractive place to live), these names have no specific designation in Texas law; legally all incorporated places are considered <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Texas" title="List of municipalities in Texas">cities</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Utah">Utah</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=72" title="Edit section: Utah" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Utah" title="List of municipalities in Utah">List of municipalities in Utah</a></div> In <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>, the legal use of the terms town and city is based on population. A municipality with a population of 1,000 or more is a city, while less than 1,000 is a town. In addition, cities are divided into five separate classes based on the population.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Virginia">Virginia</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=73" title="Edit section: Virginia" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Virginia#Towns" title="Administrative divisions of Virginia">Administrative divisions of Virginia § Towns</a></div> In <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, a town is an incorporated municipality similar to a city (though with a smaller required minimum population). But while cities are by Virginia law independent of counties, towns are contained within counties.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Washington">Washington</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=74" title="Edit section: Washington" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/City_government_in_Washington_(state)" title="City government in Washington (state)">City government in Washington (state)</a></div> A town in the state of <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a> is a municipality that has a population of less than 1,500 at incorporation, however an existing town can reorganize as a code city.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> Town government authority is limited relative to <a href="/wiki/City_(Washington)" class="mw-redirect" title="City (Washington)">cities</a>, the other main classification of municipalities in the state.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> As of 2012,<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit">[update]</a> most municipalities in Washington are cities (see: <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="List of towns in Washington">List of towns in Washington</a>). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=75" title="Edit section: Wisconsin" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Wisconsin" title="Administrative divisions of Wisconsin">Administrative divisions of Wisconsin</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Wisconsin" title="List of towns in Wisconsin">List of towns in Wisconsin</a></div> <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> has towns which are areas outside of incorporated cities and villages. These towns retain the name of the civil township from which they evolved and are often the same name as a neighboring city. Some towns, especially those in urban areas, have services similar to those of incorporated cities, such as police departments. These towns will, from time to time, incorporate into cities, such as <a href="/wiki/Fox_Crossing,_Wisconsin" title="Fox Crossing, Wisconsin">Fox Crossing</a> in 2016 from the former town of <a href="/wiki/Menasha_(town),_Wisconsin" title="Menasha (town), Wisconsin">Menasha</a>.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> Often this is to avoid annexation into neighboring cities and villages. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wyoming">Wyoming</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=76" title="Edit section: Wyoming" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> A <a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a> statute indicates towns are incorporated municipalities with populations of less than 4,000. Municipalities of 4,000 or more residents are considered "first-class cities".<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vietnam">Vietnam</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=77" title="Edit section: Vietnam" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In Vietnam, a <a href="/wiki/District-level_town_(Vietnam)" class="mw-redirect" title="District-level town (Vietnam)">district-level town</a> (<a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a>: thị xã) is the second subdivision, below a province (tỉnh) or municipality (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương). A <a href="/wiki/Commune-level_town_(Vietnam)" class="mw-redirect" title="Commune-level town (Vietnam)">commune-level town</a> (thị trấn) a third-level (commune-level) subdivision, below a <a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Vietnam" title="List of districts of Vietnam">district</a> (huyện). </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=78" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output 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They pay both town and county property taxes, and town residents get to vote for a town council/mayor.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=County+vs.+Town+vs.+City+in+Virginia&rft.au=Charles+A.+Grymes&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvirginiaplaces.org%2Fvagupnova%2Fcountytowncity.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATown" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130620001644/http://www.mrsc.org/subjects/governance/locgov31.aspx">"Classification of Washington Cities"</a>. Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mrsc.org/subjects/governance/locgov31.aspx">the original</a> on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Classification+of+Washington+Cities&rft.pub=Municipal+Research+and+Services+Center+of+Washington&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrsc.org%2Fsubjects%2Fgovernance%2Flocgov31.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATown" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080725204227/http://www.mrsc.org/Subjects/Management/forms/townandcodecity.aspx">"A Comparison of the Powers of a Town and a Noncharter Code City"</a>. Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mrsc.org/subjects/management/forms/townandcodecity.aspx">the original</a> on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 14 December 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+Comparison+of+the+Powers+of+a+Town+and+a+Noncharter+Code+City&rft.pub=Municipal+Research+and+Services+Center+of+Washington&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrsc.org%2Fsubjects%2Fmanagement%2Fforms%2Ftownandcodecity.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATown" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170211054509/http://www.town-menasha.com/town-of-menasha-incorporation-update/">"Incorporation Information - Town of Menasha Town of Menasha"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.town-menasha.com/town-of-menasha-incorporation-update/">the original</a> on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Incorporation+Information+-+Town+of+Menasha+Town+of+Menasha&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.town-menasha.com%2Ftown-of-menasha-incorporation-update%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATown" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211102125427/https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title15.docx">"Title 15 - Cities and Towns; Chapter 1 - General Provisions; Article 1 - Powers and Miscellaneous Matters; 15-1-101. Definitions"</a>. State of Wyoming. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title15.docx">the original</a> on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Title+15+-+Cities+and+Towns%3B+Chapter+1+-+General+Provisions%3B+Article+1+-+Powers+and+Miscellaneous+Matters%3B+15-1-101.+Definitions&rft.pub=State+of+Wyoming&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwyoleg.gov%2Fstatutes%2Fcompress%2Ftitle15.docx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATown" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=80" title="Edit section: Sources" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoom1996" class="citation book cs1">Room, Adrian (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XEtiAAAAMAAJ">An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies</a>. Lanham and London: The Scarecrow Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-3169-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-3169-8"><bdi>978-0-8108-3169-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Alphabetical+Guide+to+the+Language+of+Name+Studies&rft.place=Lanham+and+London&rft.pub=The+Scarecrow+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-3169-8&rft.aulast=Room&rft.aufirst=Adrian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXEtiAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATown" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Town&action=edit&section=81" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large 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<div class="read-more-container"></div> </div> <div id="p-lang"> <h4>Languages</h4> <section> <ul id="p-variants" class="minerva-languages"></ul> <ul class="minerva-languages"><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinstadt" title="Kleinstadt – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Kleinstadt" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A9" title="بلدة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="بلدة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa" title="Villa – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Villa" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_(poblaci%C3%B3n)" title="Villa (población) – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Villa (población)" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%C9%99s%C9%99b%C9%99" title="Qəsəbə – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Qəsəbə" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%DA%A9" title="شهرک – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="شهرک" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%B0" title="ছোট শহর – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ছোট শহর" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%ACn" title="Tìn – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Tìn" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8F%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Мястэчка – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Мястэчка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8F%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Мястэчка – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Мястэчка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE" title="कस्बा – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="कस्बा" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">भोजपुरी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banwaan" title="Banwaan – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Banwaan" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0" title="Касаба – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Касаба" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%82%E0%BE%B2%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BE%A1%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8D" title="གྲོང་རྡལ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="གྲོང་རྡལ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target">བོད་ཡིག</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila" title="Vila – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Vila" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungsod" title="Lungsod – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Lungsod" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarati" title="Jarati – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Jarati" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target">ChiShona</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tref" title="Tref – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Tref" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinstadt" title="Kleinstadt – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kleinstadt" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%89%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B7" title="Κωμόπολη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κωμόπολη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_(poblaci%C3%B3n)" title="Villa (población) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Villa (población)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbeto_(urbo)" title="Urbeto (urbo) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Urbeto (urbo)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herri_(hiria)" title="Herri (hiria) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Herri (hiria)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%DA%A9" title="شهرک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town" title="Town – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Town" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fiji Hindi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourg" title="Bourg – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Bourg" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baile" title="Baile – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Baile" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balley" title="Balley – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Balley" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaelg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baile" title="Baile – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Baile" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila" title="Vila – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Vila" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%84" title="마을 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마을" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="नगर – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="नगर" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama" title="Ama – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="Ama" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Igbo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ili" title="Ili – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Ili" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kota_kecil" title="Kota kecil – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kota kecil" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xh mw-list-item"><a href="https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolophu" title="Idolophu – Xhosa" lang="xh" hreflang="xh" data-title="Idolophu" data-language-autonym="IsiXhosa" data-language-local-name="Xhosa" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiXhosa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidlidli" title="Isidlidli – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="Isidlidli" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiZulu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A6r" title="Bær – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Bær" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cittadina" title="Cittadina – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Cittadina" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%94" title="עיירה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="עיירה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%A3" title="ಪಟ್ಟಣ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಪಟ್ಟಣ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A5%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%98" title="ქალაქი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ქალაქი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre" title="Tre – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Tre" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mji" title="Mji – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Mji" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajarok" title="Bajarok – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Bajarok" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppidum" title="Oppidum – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Oppidum" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazpils%C4%93ta" title="Mazpilsēta – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Mazpilsēta" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisv%C3%A1ros_(fogalom)" title="Kisváros (fogalom) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kisváros (fogalom)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Паланка – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Паланка" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%82" title="പട്ടണം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="പട്ടണം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A6%E1%83%90" title="ნოღა – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ნოღა" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B2_(%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF)" title="مركز (بلد) – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="مركز (بلد)" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekan" title="Pekan – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Pekan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%83%EA%AF%8C%EA%AF%A3%EA%AF%9C%EA%AF%82%EA%AF%9D" title="ꯃꯌꯣꯜꯂꯝ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯃꯌꯣꯜꯂꯝ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD" title="Суурин – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Суурин" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B7" title="မြို့ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="မြို့" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town" title="Town – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Town" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0" title="नगर – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="नगर" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A1%97" title="街 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="街" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville" title="Ville – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="Ville" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nouormand</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg" title="Borg – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Borg" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%B0" title="ਨਗਰ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਨਗਰ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%A8%DB%81" title="قصبہ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="قصبہ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%9A%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AB%DB%8C" title="ښارګی – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ښارګی" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila" title="Vila – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Vila" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora%C8%99_mic" title="Oraș mic – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Oraș mic" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%A3%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Мѣстечко – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Мѣстечко" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русиньскый</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4" title="Малый город – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Малый город" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toun" title="Toun – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Toun" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qyteza" title="Qyteza – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Qyteza" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisi_(antropolugg%C3%ACa)" title="Paisi (antropoluggìa) – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Paisi (antropoluggìa)" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%94%E0%B7%85%E0%B7%94_%E0%B6%B1%E0%B6%9C%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%BA" title="සුළු නගරය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="සුළු නගරය" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target">සිංහල</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a 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