Search results for "村" - New World Encyclopedia

(市, -shi), five towns (町, -chō or machi), and eight villages (村 -son or -mura), each of which has a local government. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is headed by a publicly elected governor and metropolitan assembly ...

gates in the former Beijing city wall. Other place names end in cūn (村), meaning "village," as they were originally villages outside the city wall. ==Politics and government== Municipal government is regulated ...