A rural municipality is a classification of

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

, a type of

local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...

, found in several countries. These include: * Rural municipalities in Canada, a type of municipal status in the

Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

provinces of

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Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...

, and

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. In other provinces, such as

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and

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, the term refers to municipal districts that are not explicitly urban, rather than being a distinct type of municipality. * Rural municipalities in Estonia, also called

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

es, of which there are 64 in the country. Municipalities may contain one or several settlements, and while all urban municipalities contain only one settlement, only 6 rural municipalities do. Of these, five are so-called "borough-parishes", consisting of one borough, while Ruhnu Parish consists of one village. *

Gaunpalika A gaunpalika ( ) is an administrative division in Nepal. The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (Nepal), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development dissolved the existing Village development committee (Nepal), village developm ...

(, "rural municipality") is a newly formed lower administrative division in

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (Nepal) dissolved the existing village development committees and announced the establishment of this new local body. There are currently 460 rural municipalities in Nepal. * Rural council or officially, village council (, ), often shortened to (, ), a

local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a federated state, state, province, division (politica ...

as well as one of the lowest forms of administrative division of Ukraine that is associated with rural populated places in

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. These populated places can refer to either villages (, ) or uralsettlements (, ). The status of rural council was defined by a 1997

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...

law ''"On the Local Self-Government of Ukraine."'' In 2015, there was a total of 10,279 registered rural councils. * Rural municipalities of Sweden between 1863 and 1971, see socken. * Rural municipalities or communes in Albania (), a former type of municipal status in

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prior to the 2015 reorganization of local government, which replaced them with administrative units and placed them under the supervision of the nearest urban municipalities

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