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.

Ethnic township
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese民族乡
Traditional Chinese民族鄉
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinmínzú xiāng
Bopomofoㄇㄧㄣˊ   ㄗㄨˊ   ㄒㄧㄤ
Gwoyeu Romatzyhmintzwu shiang
Wade–Gilesmin2-tsu2 hsiang1
Yale Romanizationmíndzú syāng
IPA[mǐn.tsǔ.ɕjáŋ]
Ethnic town
Simplified Chinese民族镇
Traditional Chinese民族鎮
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinmínzú zhèn
Bopomofoㄇㄧㄣˊ   ㄗㄨˊ   ㄓㄣˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyhmintzwu jenn
Wade–Gilesmin2-tsu2 chên4
Yale Romanizationmíndzú jèn
IPA[mǐn.tsǔ.ʈʂə̂n]
Ethnic sum
Simplified Chinese民族苏木
Traditional Chinese民族蘇木
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinmínzú sūmù
Bopomofoㄇㄧㄣˊ   ㄗㄨˊ
ㄙㄨ   ㄇㄨˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyhmintzwu sumuh
Wade–Gilesmin2-tsu2 su1-mu4
Yale Romanizationmíndzú sūmù
IPA[mǐn.tsǔ sú.mû]
Zhuang name
Zhuangminzcuz yangh
minzcuz cinq
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillicүндэстэний шиян
Mongolian scriptᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠩ
Transcriptions
SASM/GNCündüsüten-ü siyaŋ
Uyghur name
Uyghurمىللىي يېزا
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqimilliy yëza
Kazakh name
Kazakhۇلتتىق اۋىل
Ұлттық ауыл
Ūlttyq auyl
Kyrgyz name
Kyrgyzۇلۇتتۇق ايىل
Улуттук айыл
Uluttuq ajyl

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

Numbers of ethnic townships, towns, and sums

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Year Quantity of ethnic townships, towns, and sums
1986      2936
1988      1571
1990       1980
1997       1545
2000     1356
2001    1165
2002    1160
2003     1147
2004    1126
2010   1098
2013   1035
2021   959

List of ethnic townships and ethnic towns

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She ethnic townships in Fujian
 
Major Autonomous areas within Guizhou. (excluding Hui)
 
Blue - miao. Dark green- Bouyei
 
Blue - miao. Brown- tujia. red - dong
  • none
 
She ethnic townships in Jiangxi

Shangrao Municipality

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

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

Yingtan Municipality

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

Fuzhou Municipality

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

Ganzhou Municipality

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

Ji'an Municipality

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

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

Jinping Minority-nation Ethnic Township (金坪民族乡)[note 1] in Xiajiang County

  • none
  • none

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 xiāng 2) Kongri Monpa ཀོང་རི་མོན་པ་ kong-ri mon-pa 贡日门巴族乡 Gòngrì Ménbāzú xiāng 3) Kyipa Monpa སྐྱིད་པ་མོན་པ་ skyid-pa mon-pa 吉巴门巴族乡 Jíbā Ménbāzú xiāng 4) 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

 
Major Autonomous areas within Yunnan. (excluding Hui)
 
She ethnic county, townships and towns in Zhejiang

Maps

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Notes

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  1. ^ Est. 2008, Jinping is home to eight minority nations, living in 19 designated villages (村, cun). The township as a whole cannot be said to be expressly for the She. In all, Jiangxi Province has 56 She villages in non-She-nation townships.

References

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