Banner (country subdivision)

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.

• Bandon (Byzantine Empire), "banner", the lowest Byzantine administrative-cum-military unit
• 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.

See also

• Banner (disambiguation)