自治体

Meaning

1. n
   municipality; local government; self-governing body; autonomous body

Example sentences

• 自治体はゴミ処理問題に頭を抱えている。

  The municipal government is at their wits' end concerning the garbage problem.

• 成人年齢が１８歳に引き下げられた後も、成人式は今まで通り２０歳で行うという自治体が多いようです。

  Even after the legal age of adulthood got lowered to 18, it seems like there's still a lot of places where they continue to do their coming of age ceremonies at 20, as they'd been doing before.