The phrase "adjacent municipalities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to towns or cities that are next to each other or share a border.
Example: "The new zoning regulations will affect several adjacent municipalities, requiring collaboration between local governments."
Alternatives: "neighboring municipalities" or "contiguous municipalities".
A conditional auto-regressive (CAR) effect was used to account for the spatial structure of the municipal-level data that effectively "borrows" information from adjacent municipalities to improve estimates for individual municipalities.
From tons of deadly mercury to common household refuse, the Meadowlands hosted as many as 300 active landfills, not to mention raw sewage from adjacent municipalities.
About three-fifths of the people live in the metropolitan area of Nouméa, which since 1965 has expanded to embrace the adjacent municipalities of Dumbéa, Mont-Dore, and Païta.
Insights from this work have general merit for regions where adjacent municipalities can benefit from cooperative regional water portfolio planning.
0.658 The majority of households in the larger urban areas and adjacent municipalities will not own a private car, but rely instead on car-sharing arrangements.
10 IM The majority of households in large urban areas and adjacent municipalities will not own a private car, but instead rely on car-sharing arrangements.
In order to enlarge the study base, the adjacent municipality of Montemarciano was also included.
If no sex by age pair could be found in the same municipality, an adjacent municipality of residence was searched to obtain this matching.
The study was carried out in two areas of Colombia: the locality of Kennedy (Bogotá, D.C). and the bordering municipality of Soacha; and three areas in Brazil: the state capital of Pernambuco, Recife, an adjacent municipality, Paulista, and a municipality of the state's interior, Caruaru.
A study funded by the Region of the Marches in 2003 found that mortality from leukemia and other HMs was increasing (nonsignificantly) over time in the municipality of Falconara and adjacent municipality of Chiaravalle, in the context of decreasing or stable HM mortality in the Province of Ancona and Region of the Marches from 1984 to 2000 [ 22].
In order to model Si, we used an intrinsic Gaussian autoregressive (CAR) structure, where the prior distribution of each Si was dependent on the value of the response variable in every adjacent municipality [ 37] with a precision (τs) ~ Gamma (0.5, 0.0005).
