 In Canada, municipal districts are a type of rural municipality within the Province of Alberta governed by elected councils with the mandate to administer rural areas that can include farmlands, resource areas and unincorporated hamlets and rural residential subdivisions.Statistics Canada recognizes Alberta's 64 municipal districts as a type of census subdivision for statistical purposes.In Alberta, the term "county" is synonymous with the term "municipal district" – it is not its own incorporated municipal status that is different from that of a municipal district.