municipality

Term name
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.

Recommendation
As Applicable

Guidelines

 * Use controlled vocabulary (see link below)
 * Use your internal controlled vocabulary (own language)
 * Use verbatim

Controlled vocabulary
For smaller subdivisions (i.e. county, canton, department, region, municipality etc.) use a local gazetteer or use the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names at: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
 * Use this controlled vocabulary:

Usage examples
Note: If the municipality is recorded in a foreign language, do not translate but use the name as recorded as in the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names or use a local gazetteer for reference. If you can't find the municipality in the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names or a local gazetteer, leave the "municipality" field blank, but make sure to enter the original verbatim data in the verbatimLocality field. [KCP: this is my wording, may need to be revised]

Other resources
LINKS TO RESOURCES, PERHAPS WITH EXPLANATION