municipality vs town

municipality and town both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
municipality	Yes	No	No	No
town	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, town is a hyponym of municipality; that is, town is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than municipality:

Other hyponyms of municipality include city, metropolis, townsfolk, townspeople.

As nouns, town is a hyponym of municipality; that is, town is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than municipality:

municipality: an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
town: an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city

Other hyponyms of municipality include city, metropolis, urban center.

municipality (noun)	town (noun)
people living in a town or city having local self-government	the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government	an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
	an administrative division of a county