Category talk:Municipalities of Spain

proposed subcategorisation
Clearly, as this category has potentially thousands of members, some form of subcategorisation is desirable.

I propose a series of subcats with the form,  , where is one of the smaller regional administrative subdivisions in Spain.

I further propose that be (for most, if not all cases) at the Spanish provincial level, since doing this at the autonomous communities of Spain level would in many instances still be too large a subdivision. These municipalities in... subcats can still be associated with their respective autonomous communities by parenting them also to the autonomous community's category, so for example and  would both have  as parent cat, as well as this one (ie.

If desired, a similar category scheme based on comarcas could be maintained, where these exist, particularly where these differ from provinces; however in many cases comarca boundaries are ill-defined.

The above proposal would yield about fifty subcats (there are some 50 provinces). The various already appear to be arranged in this way, only the task of refining the category schema remains.--cjllw |  TALK  04:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)