Editing Town (section)

=== Denmark ===
In Denmark, in many contexts no distinction is made between "city", "town" and "village"; all three translate as {{Lang|da|by}}. In more specific use, for small villages and [[hamlet (place)|hamlets]] the word {{lang|da|landsby}} (meaning 'country town') is used, while the Danish equivalent of English ''city'' is {{lang|da|storby}} (meaning 'large town'). For formal purposes, [[urban area]]s having at least 200 inhabitants are considered {{Lang|da|by}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dst.dk/Vejviser/dokumentation/Varedeklarationer/emnegruppe/emne.aspx?sysrid=000766 |title=Byopgørelsen pr. 1. januar – Varedeklaration – Danmarks Statistik |publisher=Dst.dk |date=22 March 2005 |access-date=6 August 2010}}</ref>

Historically some towns held various privileges, the most important of which was the right to hold market. They were administered separately from the rural areas in both fiscal, military and legal matters. Such towns are known as {{lang|da|købstad}} (roughly the same meaning as ''borough'' albeit deriving from a different etymology) and they retain the exclusive right to the title even after the last vestiges of their privileges vanished through the reform of the local administration carried through in 1970.