Property:municipality

[mtrekels]

Label	Municipality
Definition	The full, unabbreviated name of the next smaller administrative region than county (city, municipality, etc.) in which the Location occurs. Do not use this term for a nearby named place that does not contain the actual location.
Usage	The full, unabbreviated name of the next smaller administrative region than county (city, municipality, etc.) from which objects in the collection originated. Do no use this term for a nearby named place that does not contain the actual location.
Existing property	dwc:municipality
Existing class	Location
Existing property identifier	http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/municipality
Format	Text
Required	No
Repeatable	No
Constraints	Controlled vocabulary
Examples	Holzminden Araçatuba Ga-Segonyana
Notes	Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.

[nielsraes]

Definition dwc: The full, unabbreviated name of the next smaller administrative region than county (city, municipality, etc.) in which the Location occurs. Do not use this term for a nearby named place that does not contain the actual location.
Examples dwc: Holzminden, Araçatuba, Ga-Segonyana

[pzermoglio]

Updating

Definition	The full, unabbreviated name of the next smaller administrative region than county (city, municipality, etc.) in which the Location occurs. Do not use this term for a nearby named place that does not contain the actual location.
Dimension
Existing property	dwc:municipality
Existing class	Location
Existing property identifier	http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/municipality
Format	controlled vocabulary
Required	No
Repeatable	No
Constraints
Examples	Holzminden, Araçatuba, Ga-Segonyana
Notes	Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.

[DaveASmith]

Updated definition to the exact dwc. Added former (more appropriate) defintion to notes.