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Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States. According to the 2010 United States Census, Maryland is the 19th most populous state with 5,773,785 inhabitants and the 9th smallest by land area spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km²) of land. The state is divided into 23 counties and contains 157 incorporated municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. Its municipalities cover only 4.4% of the state's land mass but are home to 26.2% of its population.

Incorporated places in Maryland are self-governing municipalities chartered as cities, towns, or villages by an Act of the Maryland General Assembly or, in some cases, by a referendum. Municipalities are the lowest tier administrative units in the state, and all except Baltimore are also subject to county administration. Despite the designations of city, town, or village, there are no differences in municipal power and authority. There is no official classification of municipal governments and the municipalities are equal under state law. The municipalities themselves decide whether to avail themselves of the specific powers conferred on them by the Maryland Constitution and state code. Since its separation from Baltimore County in 1851, the City of Baltimore functions more as a county than a city under state law since it exercises charter home rule, which empowers the city with broad legislative authority like Maryland's six home rule counties.

The largest municipality by population in Maryland is Baltimore, an independent city, with 620,961 residents, and the smallest municipality by population is Port Tobacco Village with 13 residents. The largest municipality by land area is also Baltimore, which spans 80.94 sq mi (209.6 km²), while Brookview is the smallest at 0.04 sq mi (0.10 km²). Many of Maryland's largest population centers (such as Columbia, Germantown, Silver Spring, Waldorf, Glen Burnie, and Ellicott City) are unincorporated census designated places.

Largest municipalities in Maryland by population
Skyline of Baltimore, the largest municipality in Maryland
Skyline of Rockville, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Gaithersburg, a suburb of Washington D.C.
Downtown Bowie, the fifth largest municipality in Maryland
Downtown Annapolis, capital and seventh largest city of Maryland

State capital and county seat

County seat

List of municipalities in Maryland
Name	Type	County(ies)	Population (2010)	Population (2000)	Change	Land area (2010)	Population density
					sq mi	km²
Annapolis	City	Anne Arundel	38,394	35,838	+7.1%	7.18	18.6	5,347.4/sq mi (2,064.6/km²)
Baltimore	City	—	620,961	651,154	−4.6%	80.94	209.6	7,671.9/sq mi (2,962.1/km²)
Barnesville	Town	Montgomery	172	161	+6.8%	0.49	1.3	351.0/sq mi (135.5/km²)
Bel Air	Town	Harford	10,120	10,080	+0.4%	2.93	7.6	3,453.9/sq mi (1,333.6/km²)
Berwyn Heights	Town	Prince George's	3,123	2,942	+6.2%	0.69	1.8	4,526.1/sq mi (1,747.5/km²)
Bladensburg	Town	Prince George's	9,148	7,661	+19.4%	1.00	2.6	9,148.0/sq mi (3,532.1/km²)
Bowie	City	Prince George's	54,727	50,269	+8.9%	18.43	47.7	2,969.5/sq mi (1,146.5/km²)
Brentwood	Town	Prince George's	3,046	2,844	+7.1%	0.38	0.98	8,015.8/sq mi (3,094.9/km²)
Brookeville	Town	Montgomery	134	120	+11.7%	0.12	0.31	1,116.7/sq mi (431.1/km²)
Capitol Heights	Town	Prince George's	4,337	4,138	+4.8%	0.80	2.1	5,421.3/sq mi (2,093.2/km²)
Centreville	Town	Queen Anne's	4,285	1,970	+117.5%	2.45	6.3	1,749.0/sq mi (675.3/km²)
Cheverly	Town	Prince George's	6,173	6,433	−4.0%	1.35	3.5	4,572.6/sq mi (1,765.5/km²)
Chevy Chase	Town	Montgomery	2,824	2,726	+3.6%	0.47	1.2	6,008.5/sq mi (2,319.9/km²)
Chevy Chase Section Five	Village	Montgomery	658	641	+2.7%	0.10	0.26	6,580.0/sq mi (2,540.6/km²)
Chevy Chase Section Three	Village	Montgomery	760	773	−1.7%	0.12	0.31	6,333.3/sq mi (2,445.3/km²)
Chevy Chase View	Town	Montgomery	920	863	+6.6%	0.28	0.73	3,285.7/sq mi (1,268.6/km²)
Chevy Chase Village	Town	Montgomery	1,953	2,043	−4.4%	0.42	1.1	4,650.0/sq mi (1,795.4/km²)
Church Creek	Town	Dorchester	125	85	+47.1%	0.34	0.88	367.6/sq mi (141.9/km²)
College Park	City	Prince George's	30,413	24,657	+23.3%	5.64	14.6	5,392.4/sq mi (2,082.0/km²)
Colmar Manor	Town	Prince George's	1,404	1,257	+11.7%	0.47	1.2	2,987.2/sq mi (1,153.4/km²)
Cottage City	Town	Prince George's	1,305	1,136	+14.9%	0.25	0.65	5,220.0/sq mi (2,015.5/km²)
District Heights	City	Prince George's	5,837	5,958	−2.0%	0.93	2.4	6,276.3/sq mi (2,423.3/km²)
Eagle Harbor	Town	Prince George's	63	55	+14.5%	0.12	0.31	525.0/sq mi (202.7/km²)
Edmonston	Town	Prince George's	1,445	959	+50.7%	0.39	1.0	3,705.1/sq mi (1,430.6/km²)
Fairmount Heights	Town	Prince George's	1,494	1,508	−0.9%	0.27	0.70	5,533.3/sq mi (2,136.4/km²)
Forest Heights	Town	Prince George's	2,447	2,585	−5.3%	0.48	1.2	5,097.9/sq mi (1,968.3/km²)
Gaithersburg	City	Montgomery	59,933	52,613	+13.9%	10.20	26.4	5,875.8/sq mi (2,268.7/km²)
Garrett Park	Town	Montgomery	992	917	+8.2%	0.26	0.67	3,815.4/sq mi (1,473.1/km²)
Glenarden	City	Prince George's	6,000	6,318	−5.0%	1.22	3.2	4,918.0/sq mi (1,898.9/km²)
Glen Echo	Town	Montgomery	255	242	+5.4%	0.10	0.26	2,550.0/sq mi (984.6/km²)
Greenbelt	City	Prince George's	23,068	21,456	+7.5%	6.28	16.3	3,673.2/sq mi (1,418.2/km²)
Hagerstown	City	Washington	39,662	36,687	+8.1%	11.79	30.5	3,364.0/sq mi (1,298.9/km²)
Highland Beach	Town	Anne Arundel	96	109	−11.9%	0.06	0.16	1,600.0/sq mi (617.8/km²)
Hyattsville	City	Prince George's	17,557	14,733	+19.2%	2.67	6.9	6,575.7/sq mi (2,538.9/km²)
Indian Head	Town	Charles	3,844	3,422	+12.3%	1.23	3.2	3,125.2/sq mi (1,206.6/km²)
Kensington	Town	Montgomery	2,213	1,873	+18.2%	0.48	1.2	4,610.4/sq mi (1,780.1/km²)
Landover Hills	Town	Prince George's	1,687	1,534	+10.0%	0.30	0.78	5,623.3/sq mi (2,171.2/km²)
La Plata	Town	Charles	8,753	6,551	+33.6%	7.40	19.2	1,182.8/sq mi (456.7/km²)
Laurel	City	Prince George's	25,115	19,960	+25.8%	4.30	11.1	5,840.7/sq mi (2,255.1/km²)
Laytonsville	Town	Montgomery	353	277	+27.4%	1.04	2.7	339.4/sq mi (131.1/km²)
Leonardtown	Town	St. Mary's	2,930	1,896	+54.5%	3.18	8.2	921.4/sq mi (355.7/km²)
Martin's Additions	Village	Montgomery	933	875	+6.6%	0.14	0.36	6,664.3/sq mi (2,573.1/km²)
Morningside	Town	Prince George's	2,015	1,295	+55.6%	0.56	1.5	3,598.2/sq mi (1,389.3/km²)
Mount Rainier	City	Prince George's	8,080	8,498	−4.9%	0.65	1.7	12,430.8/sq mi (4,799.5/km²)
Myersville	Town	Frederick	1,626	1,382	+17.7%	1.02	2.6	1,594.1/sq mi (615.5/km²)
New Carrollton	City	Prince George's	12,135	12,589	−3.6%	1.53	4.0	7,931.4/sq mi (3,062.3/km²)
North Beach	Town	Calvert	1,978	1,880	+5.2%	0.33	0.85	5,993.9/sq mi (2,314.3/km²)
North Brentwood	Town	Prince George's	517	469	+10.2%	0.10	0.26	5,170.0/sq mi (1,996.1/km²)
North Chevy Chase	Village	Montgomery	519	465	+11.6%	0.11	0.28	4,718.2/sq mi (1,821.7/km²)
Poolesville	Town	Montgomery	4,883	5,151	−5.2%	3.93	10.2	1,242.5/sq mi (479.7/km²)
Port Tobacco Village	Town	Charles	13	15	−13.3%	0.16	0.41	81.3/sq mi (31.4/km²)
Queenstown	Town	Queen Anne's	664	617	+7.6%	1.45	3.8	457.9/sq mi (176.8/km²)
Rising Sun	Town	Cecil	2,781	1,702	+63.4%	1.26	3.3	2,207.1/sq mi (852.2/km²)
Riverdale Park	Town	Prince George's	6,956	6,690	+4.0%	1.65	4.3	4,215.8/sq mi (1,627.7/km²)
Rockville	City	Montgomery	61,209	47,388	+29.2%	13.51	35.0	4,530.6/sq mi (1,749.3/km²)
Seat Pleasant	City	Prince George's	4,542	4,885	−7.0%	0.73	1.9	6,221.9/sq mi (2,402.3/km²)
Somerset	Town	Montgomery	1,216	1,124	+8.2%	0.27	0.70	4,503.7/sq mi (1,738.9/km²)
Sudlersville	Town	Queen Anne's	497	391	+27.1%	0.94	2.4	528.7/sq mi (204.1/km²)
Sykesville	Town	Carroll	4,436	4,197	+5.7%	1.58	4.1	2,807.6/sq mi (1,084.0/km²)
Takoma Park	City	Montgomery	16,715	17,299	−3.4%	2.08	5.4	8,036.1/sq mi (3,102.7/km²)
University Park	Town	Prince George's	2,548	2,318	+9.9%	0.50	1.3	5,096.0/sq mi (1,967.6/km²)
Upper Marlboro	Town	Prince George's	631	648	−2.6%	0.40	1.0	1,577.5/sq mi (609.1/km²)