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Municipal corporation (India)
Municipal corporation (India), or Nagar Nigam, is the urban local body for larger urban areas under Article 243Q and the 74th Amendment (1992). First created at Madras in 1688; mayors, councils, commissioners, and state-dependent finances.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (दिल्ली नगर निगम)
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (दिल्ली नगर निगम, MCD), Delhi's main municipal body under the 1957 Act; trifurcated 2012, re-unified 22 May 2022; 1,397.3 sq km, 12 zones, 250 wards, about 20 million residents.
Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia
The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power) is a nonprofit statewide public corporation created by the Georgia General Assembly in 1975, supplying wholesale power to 49 member communities.
Municipal governance in India
Municipal governance in India, urban local self-government under the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act 1992 (Part IXA), covering Nagar Panchayats, Municipal Councils, Municipal Corporations, State Election Commissions, devolution gaps, and municipal finance.
Municipal Hospitals
Municipal hospitals are hospitals owned and controlled by a city or municipal government, distinct from national, charitable, or private hospitals; Britain's were absorbed into the NHS in 1948.
Municipal solid waste
Municipal solid waste, also known as domestic waste or urban solid waste, is mixed refuse from households, shops, and institutions, generated at 2.56 billion tonnes globally in 2022.
Municipal Stadium (Kansas City, Missouri)
Municipal Stadium (Muehlebach Field, Ruppert Stadium, Blues Stadium) was Kansas City's ballpark at 22nd and Brooklyn from 1923 to 1976, home of the Blues, Monarchs, Athletics, Royals, and Chiefs.
Municipalities of the Philippines
Municipalities (bayan) are Philippine local government units between provinces and barangays; 1,493 exist as of 2025, each led by an elected mayor and sangguniang bayan under the 1991 Local Government Code, classified into five income classes under RA 11964.
Municipality
Municipality: the basic multipurpose local government unit, directly elected, with powers and legal status defined by national or state law; covers constitutional status, structures, history, and performance assessment worldwide.
Municipio de Camagüey
Municipio de Camagüey, the capital municipality of Camagüey province, Cuba, seat of the former villa of Puerto Príncipe; 329,611 residents in 2012, governed by a Municipal Assembly of People's Power, with a UNESCO-listed 54-hectare historic center inscribed in 2008.
Municipio de Holguín
Municipio de Holguín, a municipality of Holguín province in eastern Cuba, capital city San Isidoro de Holguín, founded 1720, city title 1752, historic sugar economy, about 345,000 city inhabitants.
Municipiul Chişinău
Municipiul Chişinău is the second-level administrative-territorial unit comprising the city of Chișinău, Moldova's capital, together with its suburbs; it has 720,100 residents (2024 census) and produces about 62% of national GDP.
Municipium
Municipium (plural municipia): a Roman incorporated community whose inhabitants bore citizen duties while keeping local self-government; first applied to Caere in 353 BC, universalized in Italy after the Social War, and an intermediate provincial rank of Latin right under the Empire.
Muniellos Biosphere Reserve
Muniellos Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de Muniellos), UNESCO MAB site in Asturias, Spain, designated 2000; holds Spain's largest oak forest, a 20-visitor-daily strict reserve, brown bears, wolves and glacial lagoons.
Munin (oil platform)
Munin, formerly known as Krafla, is an unmanned oil and gas platform in the Yggdrasil area of the central North Sea, operated by Aker BP with production starting in 2027.
Munindra Nath Rai
Colonel Munindra Nath Rai, YSM, SC (1965–2015), Indian Army officer of the 9 Gorkha Rifles who commanded 42 Rashtriya Rifles in Tral, Kashmir; killed 27 January 2015 leading an operation one day after his Yudh Seva Medal was announced, posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra.
Muninn (crater)
Muninn is a proposed crater on Jupiter's small inner moon Amalthea that has no official status; the IAU gazetteer approves only the craters Pan and Gaea on Amalthea.
Munir El Haddadi
Munir El Haddadi (Munir El Haddadi Mohamed), born 1995 in El Escorial, Madrid, is a Moroccan forward and La Masia graduate who debuted for Barcelona at 18, later played for Sevilla, Getafe, Las Palmas, Leganés, Esteghlal, and Albacete, and switched from one Spain cap to Morocco in 2021.
Munir Niazi
Munir Niazi (منیر نیازی), born Mohammad Muneer Khan, was a Pakistani poet in Urdu and Punjabi known for symbolic, image-rich ghazals and nazms, dying in 2006.
Munir Pirmohamed
Munir Pirmohamed is a British clinical pharmacologist and pharmacogenomicist at the University of Liverpool known for work linking HLA genes to severe reactions to medicines such as abacavir and carbamazepine.
Munira Abdullahi
Munira Yasin Abdullahi is an American Democratic politician representing Ohio House District 9 since 2023, the first Somali American and Muslim woman to serve in the Ohio legislature.
Munis Khwarazmi
Munis Khwarazmi (Shermuhammad Munis; مونس; 1778–1829) was a Khivan historian, poet, and statesman who wrote the official history of the Khanate of Khiva, Firdaws al-iqbal, and served as chief mirab in charge of irrigation.
Muniswamy Madesh
Muniswamy Madesh, also published as Madesh Muniswamy, is an American mitochondrial physiologist at UT Health San Antonio known for identifying MICU1 as the mitochondrial calcium gatekeeper.
Muniziq Saifula
木尼孜其赛甫拉 (Muniziq Saifula), also written 木斯力赛甫拉, is a Uyghur medicine maturant decoction from Mizani Tibb (1871), listed as entry 34 of China's second Ancient Classic Famous Formula Directory (2023) for abnormal bile-humor diseases.
Munjong of Goryeo
Munjong (문종), personal name Wang Hui, was the 11th king of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, reigning from 1046 to 1083 and systematizing Goryeo's law and land administration.
Munjong of Joseon
Munjong of Joseon (문종 이향), personal name Yi Hyang, was the eldest son of King Sejong who reigned over Joseon Korea from 1450 to 1452.
Munju of Baekje
Munju of Baekje (문주왕) was the 22nd king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, reigning from 475 to 477 and moving the capital to Ungjin.
Munjya (मुंज्या)
Munjya (मुंज्या), 2024 Hindi horror-comedy by Aditya Sarpotdar for Maddock Films, based on Konkan folklore of a boy's marriage-obsessed spirit; earned ₹126.04 crore worldwide on a ₹30 crore budget.
Munjya (मुंज्या) (film)
Munjya (मुंज्या) is a 2024 Hindi horror-comedy film directed by Aditya Sarpotdar for Maddock Films, based on Konkan folklore about a vengeful spirit, with a CGI title character, starring Sharvari and Abhay Verma, and a sleeper hit earning over ₹100 crore.
Munkacs (חסידות מונקטש) (Hasidic dynasty)
Munkacs (חסידות מונקטש), also spelled Munkatch or Munkatsh, is a Hasidic dynasty founded in Mukachevo in 1882 by Shelomoh Shapira and led from 1913 by Chaim Elazar Shapira.