List of municipalities in Georgia (country)

A municipality (Georgian: მუნიციპალიტეტი, munits'ipaliteti) is a subdivision of Georgia, consisting of a settlement or a group of settlements, which enjoys local self-government. There are two types of municipalities—self-governing cities (ქალაქი, k'alak'i), 12 in total, and self-governing communities (თემი, t'emi), 64 in total.

Background

The municipalities were first established in 2006. Most of them were successors to the earlier subdivisions, known as raioni (რაიონი), "districts". In addition, new municipalities were formed to govern those settlements in the disputed entities of Abkhazia and South Ossetia that then remained under Georgia's control. After the Russo-Georgian War of 2008, Georgia treats these municipalities as parts of its occupied territories. The former districts not under Georgia's effective sovereignty at the moment of the local government reform of 2006 were not transformed into municipalities. Rather, the laws of Georgia include a notion that the final mode of subdivision and system of local self-government should be established after the restoration of the state jurisdiction over the occupied territories.^[1][2] In 2014, the system of local government was further reformed and a total number of municipalities were increased at the expense of adding more self-governing cities. Each municipality is divided into administrative units (ადმინისტრაციული ერთეული), which can comprise one or several settlements.^[3]

The municipalities outside the two autonomous republics of Adjara and of Abkhazia and the capital city of Tbilisi are grouped, on a provisional basis, into nine regions (mkhare): Guria, Imereti, Kakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Samtskhe-Javakheti, and Shida Kartli.^[1]

Alphabetical list of municipalities

Municipalities of Georgia

Self-governing cities

1. Akhaltsikhe
2. Ambrolauri
3. Batumi
4. Gori
5. Kutaisi
6. Mtskheta
7. Ozurgeti
8. Poti
9. Rustavi
10. Tbilisi
11. Telavi
12. Zugdidi

Self-governing communities

Abasha, Adigeni, Akhalgori, Akhalkalaki, Akhaltsikhe, Akhmeta, Ambrolauri, Aspindza, Azhara, Baghdati, Bolnisi, Borjomi,

Chiatura, Chkhorotsku, Chokhatauri, Dedoplistsqaro, Dmanisi, Dusheti, Eredvi, Gardabani, Gori, Kareli, Kaspi, Kazbegi,

Gurjaani, Keda, Kharagauli, Khashuri, Khelvachauri, Khobi, Khoni, Khulo, Kurta, Kobuleti, Kvareli, Lagodekhi,

Lanchkhuti, Lentekhi, Marneuli, Martvili, Mestia, Mtskheta, Ninotsminda, Oni, Ozurgeti, Sachkhere, Sagarejo, Samtredia,

Senaki, Shuakhevi, Sighnaghi, Telavi, Terjola, Tetritsqaro, Tianeti, Tigva, Tkibuli, Tsageri, Tsalka,

Tskaltubo, Vani, Zestaponi, Zugdidi

Regions, municipalities, and districts of Georgia

Territorial unit as of 2015	Corresponding district as of 2006	Population (01.01.2010 estimate)[4]
Georgia		4,394,700
Tbilisi, City of		1,152,500
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia^*		n.a.^****
—	1. Gagra*	n.a.^****
—	2. Gali*	n.a.^****
—	3. Gudauta*	n.a.^****
Azhara, Community of*	4. Gulripshi*	n.a.^****
—	5. Ochamchire*	n.a.^****
—	6. Sokhumi*	n.a.^****
Autonomous Republic of Adjara		386,900
1. Batumi, City of		123,500
2. Keda, Community of	Keda District	20,200
3. Kobuleti, Community of	Kobuleti District	91,100
4. Khelvachauri, Community of	Khelvachauri District	94,000
5. Khulo, Community of	Khulo District	35,500
6. Shuakhevi, Community of	Shuakhevi District	22,600
region of Guria		139,800
1. Ozurgeti, City of	Ozurgeti District
4. Chokhatauri, Municipality of	Chokhatauri District	23,000
2. Lanchkhuti, Community of	Lanchkhuti District	38,900
3. Ozurgeti, Community of	Ozurgeti District	77,900
region of Imereti		700,400
1. Kutaisi, City of		192,500
2. Baghdati, Community of	Baghdati District	28,700
3. Vani, Community of	Vani District	33,800
4. Zestaponi, Community of	Zestaponi District	75,400
5. Terjola, Community of	Terjola District	45,000
6. Samtredia, Community of	Samtredia District	60,300
7. Sachkhere, Community of	Sachkhere District	47,300
8. Tkibuli, Community of	Tkibuli District	30,100
9. Tskaltubo, Community of	Tskkaltubo District	73,600
10. Chiatura, Community of	Chiatura District	55,000
11. Kharagauli, Community of	Kharagauli District	27,500
12. Khoni, Community of	Khoni District	31,200
region of Kakheti		404,500
1. Telavi, City of	Telavi District	42,000
2. Akhmeta, Community of	Akhmeta District	42,000
3. Gurjaani, Community of	Gurjaani District	70,500
4. Dedoplis Tskaro, Community of	Dedoplis Tskaro District	30,500
5. Telavi, Community of	Telavi District	70,500
6. Lagodekhi, Community of	Lagodekhi District	51,800
7. Sagarejo, Community of	Sagarejo District	59,400
8. Sighnaghi, Community of		43,300
8. Qvareli, Community of	Qvareli District	37,100
region of Mtskheta-Mtianeti		108,800
1. Mtskheta, City of	Mtskheta District
2. Akhalgori, Community of	Akhalgori District	n.a.^***
3. Dusheti, Community of	Dusheti District	33,800
4. Tianeti, Community of	Tianeti District	13,200
5. Mtskheta, Community of	Mtskheta District	56,900
6. Kazbegi, Community of	Kazbegi District	4,900
region of Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti		47,600
1. Ambrolauri, City of		14,500
2. Ambrolauri, Community of	Ambrolauri District	14,500
3. Lentekhi, Community of	Lentekhi District	9,000
4. Oni, Community of	Oni District	8,500
5. Tsageri, Community of	Tsageri District	15,600
region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti^*		474,100
1. Poti, City of		47,700
2. Zugdidi, City of	Zugdidi District
3. Abasha, Community of	Abasha District	27,800
4. Zugdidi, Community of	Zugdidi District	175,000
5. Martvili, Community of	Martvili District	44,700
6. Mestia, Community of	Mestia District	14,500
7. Senaki, Community of	Senaki District	52,300
8. Chkhorotsku, Community of	District	30,300
8. Tsalenjikha, Community of	Tsalenjikha District	40,500
9. Khobi, Community of	Khobi District	41,300
region of Samtskhe-Javakheti		211,300
1. Akhaltsikhe, City of	Akhaltsikhe District
2. Adigeni, Community of	Adigeni District	20,700
3. Aspindza, Community of	Aspindza District	12,900
4. Akhalkalaki, Community of	Akhalkalaki District	63,700
4. Akhaltsikhe, Community of	Akhaltsikhe District	47,700
5. Borjomi, Community of	Borjomi District	31,700
6. Ninotsminda, Community of	Ninotsminda District	34,600
region of Kvemo Kartli		499,900
1. Rustavi, City of		119,500
2. Bolnisi, Community of	Bolnisi District	77,800
3. Gardabani, Community of	Gardabani District	97,600
4. Dmanisi, Community of	Dmanisi District	28,500
5. Tetritsqaro, Community of	Tetritsqaro District	27,700
6. Marneuli, Community of	Marneuli District	126,300
7. Tsalka, Community of	Tsalka District	22,500
region of Shida Kartli		310,600
1. Gori, City of	Gori District
2. Gori, Community of	Gori District**	144,100***
3. Kaspi, Community of	Kaspi District	52,600
4. Kareli, Community of	Kareli District**	51,600***
5. Khashuri, Community of	Khashuri District	62,300
—	Java District**	n.a.^****
6. Eredvi, Community of**	Gori District****
7. Kurta, Community of**	Gori District****
8. Tigva, Community of**	Kareli District****

^*– The territories of Abkhazia outside Georgia's control and defined by Georgia as "occupied territories" as of 2015.

^**– These municipalities which include settlements in South Ossetia outside Georgia's control and defined by Georgia as "occupied territories" as of 2015.

^***– Official statistics available only for those parts of the municipalities that are controlled by Georgia.

^****– Official statistics are not available for the territories not under Georgia's control (Abkhazia and South Ossetia).

See also

• Occupied territories of Georgia

References

1. "ტერიტორიული მოწყობა და მმართველობა [Territorial Structure and Government]". Administration of the President of Georgia. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
2. ადგილობრივი თვითმმართველობის კოდექსი [Code of Local Self-Government], Organic law No. 1958-IIს of 5 February 2014 (in Georgian). Retrieved on 9 July 2015.
3. "Transparency remains a challenge for self-governing cities". Transarency International Georgia. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
4. Department of Statistics Under Ministry of Economic Development of Georgia Archived November 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.