Some villages (vesnice) are parts of cities (Sedlec-Prčice is "město" but contain two towns and 34 small villages as municipal parts), some villages are parts of big municipalities which contain several (up to tens) of villages, some villages constitute a small one-village municipality. Municipalities which are neither "město" nor "městys" are sometimes called "vesnice" but that is incorrect and confusing. Municipalities which are neither "město" nor "městys" are called simply "obec" (municipality). 

 Cities and towns are also municipalities but use the word "město" or "městys" instead of "obec". (There exists also differentiation by administrative level - the first grade is simply obec, the second grade is "pověřená obec" ("obec s pověřeným obecním úřadem"), the third grade is "obec s rozšířenou působností". Most of the second-grade municipalites and nearly all third-grade municipalities are cities (but many of smaller cities are of the first grade). The biggest 26 cities (cca over 40.000 inhab.) are titled "statutární město". 

 Besides that, some cities are seat of the district ("okresní město", now only formal) or seat of the region ("krajské město", in both systems of regions). Prague as "hlavní město" (capital city) have a special status.