The communecode: fra promoted to code: fr (French pronunciation:[kɔmyn](listen)) is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communescode: fra promoted to code: fr are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeindencode: deu promoted to code: de in Germany, comunicode: ita promoted to code: it in Italy, or municipioscode: spa promoted to code: es in Spain. The UK's equivalent are boroughs and/or civil parishes. Communescode: fra promoted to code: fr are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The communescode: fra promoted to code: fr are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France.
Communescode: fra promoted to code: fr vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. Communescode: fra promoted to code: fr typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All communescode: fra promoted to code: fr have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are communescode: fra promoted to code: fr ("lieu dit" or "bourg"), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the municipal arrondissements of its largest cities, the communescode: fra promoted to code: fr are the lowest level of administrative division in France and are governed by elected officials including a mayor (mairecode: fra promoted to code: fr ) and a municipal council (conseil municipalcode: fra promoted to code: fr ). They have extensive autonomous powers to implement national policy.
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