How is place=municipality used correctly and are there country/state-specific rules not to use it at all?

[Harald_Hetzner]

@alan_gr

I’d say administrative subdivisions are fairly country-specific in practice, and I wouldn’t expect any global wiki page to capture the nuances of mapping in any specific country. The concept of a municipality is certainly not global, and the English description “single urban administrative division having corporate status” is probably meaningless in most countries. Even as a native English speaker I’m not sure what it means.

This is true. But for Germany and Austria, I would say that the administrative structure is pretty similar.