| Mongolia |
 This article is part of the series: |
|
|
|
Other countries · Atlas Politics portal |
A sum (Mongolian: сум, arrow, sometimes rendered as soum or - from the Russian form - as somon, or translated as district) is a second level administrative subdivision of Mongolia. The Aimags of Mongolia are divided into 331 sums.
On average, each sum administers a 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 bags. Most bags are of an entirely virtual nature. Their purpose is to sort the families of nomads in the sum into groups, without a permanent human settlement.
Officially, and occasionally on maps, many sum centers bear a name different from that of the sum. However, in practice the sum center is most often referred to under the name of the sum, to the point of the official name of the center being unknown even to the locals.
The sums are listed below, by aimag:
Arkhangai aimag
Bayan-Ölgii aimag
Bayankhongor aimag
Bulgan aimag
Darkhan-Uul aimag
Dornod aimag
Dornogovi aimag
Dundgovi aimag
Govi-Altai aimag
Govisümber aimag
Khentii aimag
Khovd aimag
Khövsgöl aimag
Ömnögovi aimag
Orkhon aimag
Övörkhangai aimag
Selenge aimag
Sükhbaatar aimag
Töv aimag
Uvs aimag
|
Zavkhan aimag
See also
|
||||||||
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
