A sum is an administrative division used in China , Mongolia , and Russia . Countries such as China and Mongolia have employed the sum as administrative division, which was used during the Qing dynasty . This system was acted in the 1980s after the Chinese Communist Party gained power in conjunction with their growing internal and external problems. The decentralisation of government included restructuring of organisational methods, reduction of roles in rural government and creation of sums.
9-701: Soum may refer to: Places [ edit ] Sum (administrative division) (сум; also spelt "soum") of Mongolian inhabited areas, both in Mongolia, in the People's Republic of China (Inner Mongolia), and in Russia Soum, Boulkiemdé , Burkina Faso Soum Province , Burkina Faso People [ edit ] Soum Bill , Ivorian singer Henry Soum (1899–1983), Monaco politician Other uses [ edit ] Soum (currency) (also spelled "sum" or "som"),
18-528: A sum ( ᠰᠤᠮᠤ ), sometimes called a sumu ( Chinese : 苏木 ; pinyin : sūmù ), is an administrative division . The sum division is equivalent to a township but is unique to Inner Mongolia. It is therefore larger than a gaqa ( ᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭᠠ гацаа ) and smaller than a banner (the Inner Mongolia equivalent of the county -level division). Examples include Shiwei, Inner Mongolia and Honggor Sum, Siziwang Banner . Sums whose population
27-608: A county-level administrative division. Banners were first used during the Qing dynasty , which organized the Mongols into banners, except those who belonged to the Eight Banners . Each banner had sums as nominal subdivisions. In Inner Mongolia, several banners made up a league . In the rest, including Outer Mongolia , northern Xinjiang , and Qinghai , Aimag (Аймаг) was the largest administrative division. While it restricted
36-404: A traditional Turkic unit of currency See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "soum" on Misplaced Pages. Som (disambiguation) Sum (disambiguation) Sume (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Soum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
45-682: Is predominated by ethnic minorities are designated ethnic sums – parallel with the ethnic township in the rest of China. As of 2010 , there is only one ethnic sum in China, the Evenk Ethnic Sum . Banners of Inner Mongolia A banner ( Chinese : 旗 ; pinyin : qí , "khoshun" in Mongolian ) is an administrative division of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, equivalent to
54-423: Is sorted alphabetically according to each specific title (i.e., ignoring adjectives such as New, Old, Left, Right, etc.) An autonomous banner ( Chinese : 自治旗 ; pinyin : zìzhìqí ) is a special type of banner set up by the government of China. There are three autonomous banners, all of which are found in northeastern Inner Mongolia, each with a designated ethnic majority other than Han or Mongol that
63-691: Is the second level administrative division below the aimags (provinces), roughly comparable to a county in the United States . There are 331 sums in Mongolia. Each sum is again divided into bags , bag being commonly translated as "brigade." In Russia , a sumon is an administrative division of the Tuva Republic , and somon is that of the Buryat Republic . Both describe the Russian term selsoviet . In Inner Mongolia ,
72-1685: The Mongols from crossing banner borders, the dynasty protected Mongolia from population pressure from China proper . After the Mongolian People's Revolution , the banners of Outer Mongolia were abolished in 1923. There were 49 banners and 24 tribes in Inner Mongolia during the Republic of China. Today, banners are a county-level division in the Chinese administrative hierarchy. There are 52 in total, including 3 autonomous banners. Provinces Autonomous regions Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures Autonomous prefectures Leagues (Aimag) (abolishing) Prefectures Provincial-controlled cities Provincial-controlled counties Autonomous counties County-level cities Districts Ethnic districts Banners (Hoxu) Autonomous banners Shennongjia Forestry District Liuzhi Special District Wolong Special Administrative Region Workers and peasants districts Ethnic townships Towns Subdistricts Subdistrict bureaux Sum Ethnic sum County-controlled districts County-controlled district bureaux (obsolete) Management committees Town-level city Areas Villages · Gaqa · Ranches Village Committees Communities Capital cities New areas Autonomous administrative divisions National Central Cities History: before 1912 , 1912–49 , 1949–present The following list of 49 individual banners
81-473: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soum&oldid=1111586357 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sum (administrative division) A sum ( Mongolian : сум , ᠰᠤᠮᠤ , [sʰo̙m] )
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