Municipalities of Milan
, Italy is divided into nine municipalities. They are numbered from 1 to 9. The organization was established in 1997, implemented in 1999 and reformed in 2016; prior to that the city was divided into 20 administrative zones.
Borough Councils
Each Municipality has a local government called Consiglio di Municipio. Every Council is composed of a President and 40 members for boroughs exceeding 100,000 inhabitants or 30 members for smaller ones.While the 1997 plan was intended to ascribe several rights and functions to borough councils, this has been largely unattended, so that borough councils have, in practice, little power and few duties. Some of the actual functions of borough councils are:
- expressing opinions on urbanistic and social issues such as public works, town planning, maintenance of green spaces, regulamentation of street markets. These opinions are not binding for the higher level city government.
- managing funds provided by the city government for specific purposes, such as those intended to guarantee the right to education for poorer families.
The nine boroughs
With the exception of Municipio 1, which corresponds to the historical city centre, the boroughs are organized in a sunburst pattern, and numbered from the north-east zone clockwise. While boroughs are mostly referred to by number, each borough also has an official name, usually a list of its main districts or areas.Current boroughs are described in the table below, along with their names, area and population, as well as a list of the main districts comprising each zone. Note that districts are informal.