Municipalities of Palestine

In Palestine (formally the Palestinian Arab Republic), one of the 20 republics of the Arab Union, a municipality (Arabic: بلدية baladiyah, pl. بلديات baladiyāt; Hebrew: עירייה ’iriyah, pl. עיריות ’iriyot) is a unit of local government. As in the other republics, municipalities function as administrative divisions of Palestine, and form the third and lowest tier in the Arab Union's three-tiered system of government; no distinction such as counties or districts exists, and as such all municipalities are equal and their municipal governments (called councils) directly subordinate to the Palestinian government. There are currently 90 municipalities in Palestine.