The phrase "autonomous municipality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a municipality that has self-governing powers and operates independently from higher levels of government.
Example: "The city was designated as an autonomous municipality, allowing it to make its own laws and regulations."
Alternatives: "self-governing municipality" or "independent municipality".
Abidjan is a communications centre and the site of an international airport (at Port-Bouët, an autonomous municipality within Abidjan).
Kâmpóng Saôm, also spelled Kompong Som, also called Sihanoukville, town, autonomous municipality, and the only deepwater port of Cambodia, situated on a peninsula of the Gulf of Thailand.
Touba became the Mourides' holy city, an autonomous municipality considered the private home of the brotherhood's leader -- a place that still does not pay taxes or answer to the federal government.
The shooters are thought to belong to the Union for the Social Wellbeing of the Triqui Region (UBISORT a deceptively beneficent-sounding group set up by the ruling party in 1994 to enforce its authority in the remote mountain area.In 2007 San Juan Copala and various nearby villages declared themselves an "autonomous municipality".
Other than Beijing, major cities in the region include the autonomous municipality of Tianjin (est. pop. 15.5 million), and the largest cities in Hebei province, Baoding (est. pop. 11.2 million) and Shijiazhuang (est. pop. 10.7 million) [1].
He argued that Italian politics should be fundamentally restructured around a federation of relatively autonomous municipalities, or "communities".
The Brussels-Capital Region has its own elected regional assembly and is composed of 19 administratively autonomous municipalities (French: communes; Flemish: gemeenten).
On the contrary, the Zapatists have pushed ahead with the establishment of "autonomous" municipalities, which the authorities have tried to suppress, though the idea behind them is not unlike one envisaged in the 1996 accord.
There are many instances in South America which have provided inspiration for the anti-globalisation movement – the Zapatista organisation of autonomous municipalities is the best known example, where people control their local area and production through democratic communities, ignoring local councils entirely or requiring these councils to recognise them as the real power.
This paper decomposes urban infrastructure economic benefit into four effects which are consumption effect, investment effect, government purchase effect and external demand effect for the first time and introduces an integrated approach to analyze its level taking four Chinese autonomous municipalities as an example.
These five Caracoles bring together some 30 autonomous municipalities dating from 2003 in which around 250,000 indigenous people make a living from their production of coffee, corn, and various other micro-enterprises.
