<P> The center is a population group, larger than a village, and smaller than a city . </P> <P> In Australia, towns or "urban centre localities" are commonly understood to be those centers of population not formally declared to be cities and having a population in excess of about 200 people . Centers too small to be called towns are generally understood to be a township . </P> <P> In addition, some local government entities are officially styled as towns in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and before the statewide amalgamations of the 1990s in Victoria some local government entities were styled as towns, but now towns are only localities that contain an urban centre with a population greater than 200 . </P> <P> The Austrian legal system does not distinguish between villages, towns, and cities . The country is partitioned into 2098 municipalities (German: Gemeinden) of fundamentally equal rank . Larger municipalities are designated as market towns (German: Marktgemeinden) or cities (Städte), but these distinctions are purely symbolic and do not confer additional legal responsibilities . There is a number of smaller communities that are labelled cities because they used to be regional population centers in the distant past . The city of Rattenberg for example has about 400 inhabitants . The city of Hardegg has about 1200 inhabitants, although the historic city core − Hardegg proper without what used to be the surrounding hamlets − is home to just 80 souls . </P>

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