Sum (subnational entity)
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Sum, sumu, sumon, and somon are a type of administrative district used in Mongolia and nearby areas.
Mongolia
A sum (mongolian сум, plural somon, сомон) is the second level administrative subdivision below the Aymags (provinces), roughly comparable to a County in the USA. There are 331 somon in Mongolia.On average, each sum administers an territory of 4,200 km2 with about 5,000 inhabitants, primarily nomadic herders. It has total revenues of 120 Million Tögrög, 90 % of which come out of national subsidies.
Each sum is again subdivided into baga (singular bag). Most baga are of an entierly virtual nature. Their purpose is to sort the families of nomads in the sum into groups, without a permanent human settlement.
China
In Inner Mongolia, a 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 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.
Russian Federation
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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