Editing Unitary authority (section)

==Similar concepts in other jurisdictions==

* In Canada, each province creates its own system of local government, including several analogous to unitary authorities:
** In [[Alberta]] and [[Nova Scotia]] there is ''only'' one level of local government in that province.
** In [[Ontario]] the term [[single-tier municipalities]] is used, for a similar concept.
* In Germany, [[kreisfreie Stadt]] ({{literally|circle-free city}}) is the equivalent term for a city with the competences of both the [[Gemeinde (Germany)|Gemeinde]] (municipality) and the [[Districts of Germany|Kreis]] (district, literally ''circle'') administrative level.
* In France, the city of [[Paris]] works like a department council and a municipal council. The department councils of the two departments of [[Corsica]] and of the region merged into a ''collectivité territoriale''.
* In [[Poland]], a [[City with powiat rights]], or "urban county", is a city which is also responsible for district (poviat) administrative level, being part of no other ''powiat'' (e.g. [[Kraków]], [[Łódź]], [[Wrocław]], [[Poznań]]). In total, 66 cities in Poland have this status.
* In Taiwan, most cities have only one tier of local government. Unlike the three [[County-administered city|county-administered cities]] ([[Chiayi]], [[Keelung]], and [[Hsinchu]]), they are independent of their surrounding county. [[Special municipality (Taiwan)|Special municipalities]], with the exception of a few [[District (Taiwan)|mountain indigenous districts]] within them, are also unitary.
* In the United States, there are several types of single-tier governments.
** In the states of [[Connecticut]], [[Rhode Island]], and much of [[Massachusetts]], county government has been abolished, and the municipalities (known as [[New England town]]s) are the only governing tier below the state government.
** In Virginia, all municipalities with ''city'' status are, by definition, independent from any county.
** The [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]] has had no lower tiers of government since the [[District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871]].