A municipio (Spanish: [muniˈθipjo/muniˈsipjo]) or município (Portuguese: [muniˈsipiu]) is an administrative division in several Hispanophone and Lusophone nations, respectively.
In English, a municipality often is defined as relating to a single city or town,[1] but in Spainsh, the term municipio may mean not a single city or town but rather a jurisdiction with several towns and cities such as a township, county, borough or civil parish.
[2] The Italian term municipalità refers to a single city or to a group of cities and towns in a township, and the term municipio is used for city subdivisions.
On the other hand, usage of município in Portuguese is almost entirely restricted to a cluster of cities or towns such as a county or township.
However, in Brazil, a municipio is an independent city and a public corporation with the status of a federated entity.