Banner (administrative division)

Banner (administrative division)

Banner, a type of administrative division, may refer to:

*Banner (Inner Mongolia), an administrative division of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.
*Autonomous banner, an area associated with one or more ethnic minorities designated as autonomous within the People's Republic of China.
*Eight Banners, administrative divisions of China into which all Manchu families were placed.

*Sanjak, literally "a banner, flag", the original first level subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire.
*Liwa, an Arabic term meaning "banner" as a type of administrative division.

ee also

*Banner (disambiguation)



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