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In Jersey, a municipality refers to the honorary officials elected to run each of the 12 parishes into which it is subdivided. This is the highest level of regional government in this jurisdiction.

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In the People’s Republic of China, a direct-controlled municipality is a city with equal status to a province: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing.

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In Australia, the term local government area (LGA) is used in place of the generic municipality. Here, the “LGA Structure covers only incorporated areas of Australia. Incorporated areas are legally designated parts of states and territories over which incorporated local governing bodies have responsibility.”

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The English word “Municipality” derives from the Latin social contract “municipium”, meaning duty holders, referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy).

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s 11-day event, Summerfest, promotes itself as “The World’s Largest Music Festival”, a title certified by the Guinness World Records and held since 1999. Operating annually since 1968, the festival attracts between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people each year, and hosts over 800 musical acts. The Woodstock Festival in 1969 drew nearly 500,000 attendees, and the Polish spin-off Przystanek Woodstock drew 700,000 in 2011.

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