Arural municipality is a classification ofmunicipality, a type oflocal government, found in several countries.

These include:

• Rural municipalities in Canada, atype ofmunicipal status in theCanadian provinces ofManitoba,Saskatchewan,^[1] andPrince Edward Island.^[2] In other provinces, such asAlberta andNova Scotia, the term refers to municipal districts that are not explicitly urban, rather than being a distinct type of municipality.^[3][4]
• Rural municipalities in Estonia, also calledparishes, of which there are 64 in the country. Municipalities may contain one or severalsettlements, and while all urban municipalities contain only one settlement, only 6 rural municipalities do. Of these, five are so-called "borough-parishes", consisting of one borough, whileRuhnu Parish consists of one village.
• Gaunpalika (Nepali:गाउँपालिका,romanized: gāunpālikā, "rural municipality") is a newly formed lower administrative division inNepal.^[5][6] TheMinistry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (Nepal) dissolved the existingvillage development committees and announced the establishment of this new local body. There are currently 460 rural municipalities in Nepal.^[7][8]
• Rural council or officially, village council (Ukrainian:сільська́ ра́́да,silska rada), often shortened to (Ukrainian:сільра́́да,silrada), alocal government area as well as one of the lowest forms of administrative division of Ukraine that is associated with rural populated places inUkraine. These populated places can refer to either villages (Ukrainian:село,selo) or [rural] settlements (Ukrainian:селище,selysche). The status of rural council was defined by a 1997Verkhovna Rada law"On the Local Self-Government of Ukraine."^[9] In 2015, there was a total of 10,279 registered rural councils.^[10]
• Rural municipalities of Sweden between 1863 and 1971, seesocken.
• Rural municipalities orcommunes in Albania (Albanian:komunë), a former type ofmunicipal status inAlbania prior to the 2015 reorganization of local government, which replaced them withadministrative units and placed them under the supervision of the nearesturban municipalities

• Municipality,town,township, &village
• Urban municipalities of Albania
• Maalaiskunta

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