Sum , sumu , sumon , and somon (Plural: sumd ) are a type of administrative district used in China , Mongolia , and Russia .
In Inner Mongolia , a sumu (Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠮᠤ , transliteration: sumu ; Chinese : 苏木 , pinyin : sūmù ) is a township-level political/administrative division . The sumu division is equivalent to a township but is unique to Inner Mongolia. It is therefore larger than a village (Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭᠠ гацаа ) and smaller than a banner (the Inner Mongolia equivalent of the county -level division).
Sumu whose population is predominated by ethnic minorities are designated ethnic sumu – parallel with the ethnic township in the rest of China. As of 2010[update] , there is only one ethnic sumu in China, the Evenk Ethnic Sumu .
Mongolia [ edit ]
A sum (Mongolian : сум ) is the second level administrative subdivision below the Aimags (provinces), roughly comparable to a County in the USA. There are 331 sums in Mongolia. Each sum is again subdivided into bags .[ 1]
In Russia , a sumon is an administrative division of the Tuva Republic , and somon is that of the Buryat Republic . Both are describing the Russian term "selsoviet ".
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References [ edit ]
^ Ole Bruun Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market. 2006- Page 68 "The historical administrative units of aimag, sum, and bag (Khotont constitutes one of nineteen sums in Arkangai aimag) still form the bases of "
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