Ethnic townships, towns, and sumu


Ethnic townships, ethnic towns, and ethnic sumu are fourth-level administrative units designated for ethnic minorities of political divisions in 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.

Numbers of ethnic townships/towns/sumu

YearQuantity of ethnic townships/towns/sumu
19862936
19881571
19901980
19971545
20001356
20011165
20021160
20031147
20041126
20101098

List of ethnic townships and ethnic towns

[Anhui]

[Guangdong]

[Hainan]

[Hunan]

[Jiangsu]

[Shangrao] Municipality

Taiyuan She-nation Ethnic Township in Yanshan County
Huangbi She-nation Ethnic Township in Yanshan County

[Yingtan] Municipality

Zhangping She-nation Ethnic Township in Guixi City

Fuzhou">Fuzhou, Jiangxi">Fuzhou Municipality

Jinzhu She-nation Ethnic Township in LeAn County

[Ganzhou] Municipality

Chitu She-nation Ethnic Township in Nankang City

[Ji'an] Municipality

Donggu She-nation Ethnic Township in Qingyuan District
Longgang She-nation Ethnic Township in Yongfeng County
Jinping Minority-nation Ethnic Township in Xiajiang County

[Jilin]

[Qinghai]

[Shaanxi]

[Shandong]

[Tianjin]

Within the Tibet Autonomous Region there are eight ethnic townships, five belonging to the Monpa ethnicity and three belonging to the Lhopa ethnicity.
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

[Xinjiang]

[Yunnan]

[Zhejiang]