Sum (administrative division)

Mongolia

Main article: Districts of Mongolia

A sum (, , ) is the second level administrative division below the aimags (provinces), roughly comparable to a county in the United States. There are 330 sums in Mongolia. Each sum is again divided into bags, bag being commonly translated as "brigade."

Russia

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.

China

Main article: Sums of Inner Mongolia

In Inner Mongolia, a sum (), sometimes called a sumu (), 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 ({{MongolUnicode|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 is predominated by ethnic minorities are designated ethnic sums – parallel with the ethnic township in the rest of China. , there is only one ethnic sum in China, the Evenk Ethnic Sum.

References

References

1. Baskaran, S., & Ihjas, M. (2019). The Development of Public Administration in the People’s Republic of China: An Analysis of Administrative Reform. Civil Service Management and Administrative Systems in South Asia , 305-323.
2. Ole Bruun Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market (2006). p. 68. "The historical administrative units of aimag, sum, and bag (Khotont constitutes one of nineteen sums in Arkangai aimag) still form the bases …"