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city hall
Sign in to saveAlso known as municipal building, town hall, civic building, townhall, seat of local government, civic centre, guildhall, village hall
chief administrative seat of a municipality
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Vinony's link graph records 2,394 inbound references to city hall, and connects out to municipality, metonymy and local government.
It is catalogued under topics including Local government and Seats of local government.
Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Commons category
- Town halls
- topic's main category
- Category:Seats of local government
- different from
- ayuntamiento
- equivalent class
- schema.org/CityHall
- permanent duplicated item
- mairie
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Encyclopedic overview
Palazzo Senatorio, seat of the municipality of Rome, Italy. It has been a town hall since 1144, making it the oldest town hall in the world.
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal hall (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city or town council and at least some other arms of the local government. It also often functions as the office of the mayor (or other executive), if the relevant municipality has such an officer. In large cities, the local government is often administratively expansive, and the city hall may bear more resemblance to a municipal capitol building.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “city hall” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.