A commune (Spanish: comuna, IPA: [koˈmuna]) is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile.
In highly populated areas, such as Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción, a conurbation may be broken into several communes.
A comuna is similar to a "county" in Anglo-American usage and practice, and may be more universally understood as a "municipality".
The communal civil service administration is known as the municipality (municipalidad) and is headquartered at the mayor's office (alcaldía).
Each commune's municipality website is given along with the area and population from the National Statistics Institute's most recent census conducted in 2002.