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A municipality (Georgian: მუნიციპალიტეტი, romanized: munitsip'alit'et'i) is a subdivision of Georgia, consisting of a settlement or a group of settlements (community, თემი, temi), which enjoy local self-government. A total of 69 municipalities are registered as of January 2019. Five municipalities are entirely located in breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and are effectively not governed by Tbilisi. The remaining 64 are divided over five self-governing cities (ქალაქი, kalaki) and 59 self-governing communities. Municipalities can be subdivided into administrative units, referred to as a community (თემი, temi).

Background

The municipalities were first established in 2006. Most of them were successors to the earlier subdivisions, known as raioni (რაიონი), "districts". In addition, new municipalities were formed to govern those settlements in the disputed entities of Abkhazia and South Ossetia that at the time remained under Georgia's control. After the Russo-Georgian War of 2008, Georgia treats these municipalities as parts of its occupied territories. The former districts not under Georgia's effective sovereignty at the moment of the local government reform of 2006 were not transformed into municipalities. Rather, the laws of Georgia include a notion that the final mode of subdivision and system of local self-government should be established after the restoration of the state jurisdiction over the occupied territories. Each municipality is divided into administrative units (ადმინისტრაციული ერთეული), which can comprise one or several settlements.

The municipalities outside the two autonomous republics of Adjara and of Abkhazia and the capital city of Tbilisi are grouped, on a provisional basis, into nine regions (mkhare): Guria, Imereti, Kakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Samtskhe-Javakheti, and Shida Kartli.

List of municipalities as of 2019

Kazbegi Akhalgori Mtskheta Dusheti Tianeti Gori Kareli Kaspi Khashuri Java Akhmeta Telavi Lagodekhi Kvareli Gurjaani Sighnaghi Dedoplistskaro Sagarejo Tetritskaro Tsalka Marneuli Bolnisi Dmanisi Gardabani c. Rustavi Tbilisi Lentekhi Tsageri Ambrolauri Oni Khoni Tskaltubo Tkibuli Terdjola Samtredia Vani Baghdati Zestaponi Kharagauli Chiatura Sachkhere c. Kutaisi Mestia Tsalendjikha Chkhorotsku Martvili Zugdidi Khobi Senaki Abasha c. Poti Lanchkhuti Ozurgeti Chokhatauri Khulo Keda c. Batumi Khelvachauri Shuakhevi Kobuleti Borjomi Akhaltsikhe Adigeni Ninotsminda Akhalkalaki Aspindza Gagra Gudauta Sokhumi Gulripshi Ochamchire Gali Azhara

Notes

1. ^ Territories in Abkhazia or South Ossetia outside of Georgia's control and defined by Georgia as "occupied territories".
2. ^ Official statistics are not available for the territories not under Georgia's control (Abkhazia and South Ossetia).
3. ^ Temporary administrative-territorial unit, entirely located in South Ossetia or Abkhazia outside of Georgia's control. Defined by Georgia as "occupied territories". Municipal body formally in Tbilisi.
4. ^ Municipalities which include at least some settlements in South Ossetia outside of Georgia's control that are defined by Georgia as "occupied territories".
5. ^ Official statistics available only for those parts of the municipalities that are controlled by Georgia.

See also

• List of cities and towns in Georgia
• Occupied territories of Georgia
• Administrative divisions of Georgia

References

1. "Registry of Municipalities" (in Georgian). National Agency of Public Registry. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
2. ^ "ტერიტორიული მოწყობა და მმართველობა (Territorial Structure and Government)" (in Georgian). Administration of the President of Georgia (Saakashvili Archive). Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
3. ადგილობრივი თვითმმართველობის კოდექსი [Code of Local Self-Government] (Organic law 1958-IIს) (in Georgian). 5 February 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
4. "Transparency remains a challenge for self-governing cities". Transparency International Georgia. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
5. "Population and Demography - Population as of 1 January (2021) by regions and urban-rural settlements". National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). Retrieved 22 December 2021.

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