Ethnic townships, towns, and sums explained

Order:st
Ethnic township
T:民族鄉
S:民族乡
P:mínzú xiāng
Gr:mintzwu shiang
Myr:míndzú syāng
Zha:minzcuz yangh
minzcuz cinq
Uig:مىللىي يېزا
Uly:milliy yëza
Bpmf:ㄇㄧㄣˊ   ㄗㄨˊ   ㄒㄧㄤ
Also Known As:Ethnic town
T2:民族鎮
S2:民族镇
P2:mínzú zhèn
Gr2:mintzwu jenn
Myr2:míndzú jèn
Bpmf2:ㄇㄧㄣˊ   ㄗㄨˊ   ㄓㄣˋ
Altname3:Ethnic sum
T3:民族蘇木
S3:民族苏木
P3:mínzú sūmù
Gr3:mintzwu sumuh
Myr3:míndzú sūmù
Bpmf3:ㄇㄧㄣˊ   ㄗㄨˊ
ㄙㄨ   ㄇㄨˋ
Lang1:kk
Lang1 Content:Kazakh: ۇلتتىق اۋىل
Kazakh: Ұлттық ауыл
Lang2:ky
Lang2 Content:Kirghiz; Kyrgyz: ۇلۇتتۇق ايىل
Kirghiz; Kyrgyz: Улуттук айыл
Mon:үндэстэний шиян
Monr:ündüsüten-ü siyaŋ

Ethnic townships (officially translated as nationality townships[1]), ethnic towns, and ethnic sums are fourth-level administrative units designated for ethnic minorities of political divisions in the People's Republic of China. They are not considered to be autonomous and do not enjoy the laws pertaining to the larger ethnic autonomous areas such as autonomous regions, autonomous prefectures, autonomous counties, and autonomous banners.

The only ethnic sum is the Evenk Ethnic Sum in Old Barag Banner, Inner Mongolia.

List of ethnic townships and ethnic towns

Shangrao Municipality

Taiyuan She-nation Ethnic Township (Chinese: 太源畲族乡) in Yanshan County

Huangbi She-nation Ethnic Township (Chinese: 篁碧畲族乡) in Yanshan County

Yingtan Municipality

Zhangping She-nation Ethnic Township (Chinese: 樟坪畲族乡) in Guixi City

Fuzhou Municipality

Jinzhu She-nation Ethnic Township (Chinese: 金竹畲族乡) in Le'an County

Ganzhou Municipality

Chitu She-nation Ethnic Township (Chinese: 赤土畲族乡) in Nankang City

Ji'an Municipality

Donggu She-nation Ethnic Township (Chinese: 东固畲族乡) in Qingyuan District

Longgang She-nation Ethnic Township (Chinese: 龙冈畲族乡) in Yongfeng County

Jinping Minority-nation Ethnic Township (Chinese: 金坪民族乡) in Xiajiang County

The PRC has claimed Taiwan and Penghu as part of its territory and there are no ethnic townships in this region. See Indigenous Areas of the Republic of China (Taiwan) for details.

Within the Tibet Autonomous Region there are eight ethnic townships (མི་རིགས་ཤང་ mi-rigs shang 民族乡 mínzúxiāng), five belonging to the Monpa ethnicity (མོན་པ་/ mon pa /门巴/ Ménbā) and three belonging to the Lhopa ethnicity (ལྷོ་པ་/ lho-pa/ 珞巴/ Luòbā).

Five of these are under Shannan/Lhokha Prefecture:

Under མཚོ་སྣ་རྫོང་/ mtsho-sna rdzong/ 错那县/ Cuònà Xiàn

1) Le Monpa སླས་མོན་པ་ slas mon-pa 勒门巴族乡 Lēi Ménbāzú xiāng2) Kongri Monpa ཀོང་རི་མོན་པ་ kong-ri mon-pa 贡日门巴族乡 Gòngrì Ménbāzú xiāng3) Kyipa Monpa སྐྱིད་པ་མོན་པ་ skyid-pa mon-pa 吉巴门巴族乡 Jíbā Ménbāzú xiāng4) Marmang Monpa མར་མང་མོན་པ་ mar-mang mon-pa 麻玛门巴族乡 Mámă Ménbāzú xiāng

Under ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་/ lhun-rtse rdzong/ 隆子县/ Lóngzǐ Xiàn 5) Doyul Lhopa མདོ་ཡུལ་ལྷོ་པ་ mdo-yul lho-pa 斗玉珞巴族乡 Dòuyù Luòbāzú xiāng

Three of these are under Nyingchi Prefecture:

Under མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་/ me-tog rdzong/ 墨脱县/ Mòtuō Xiàn 6) Takmo Lhopa སྟག་མོ་ལྷོ་པ་ stag-mo lho-pa 达木珞巴族乡 Dámù Luòbāzú xiāng

Under སྨན་གླིང་རྗོང་/ sman-gling rdzong/ 米林县/ Mǐlín Xiàn

7) Neyul Lhopa གནས་ཡུལ་ལྷོ་པ་ gnas-yul lho-pa 南伊珞巴族乡 Nányī Luòbāzú xiāng

Under བྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས་/ brag-yib chus/ 巴宜区/ Bāyí Qū

8) Guntshang Monpa དགུན་ཚང་མོན་པ་ dgun-tshang mon-pa 更章门巴民族乡 Gèngzhāng Ménbā mínzú xiāng

Notes and References

  1. [Constitution of the People's Republic of China]