In 1976, the Azores became the Autonomous Region of the Azores (), one of the autonomous regions of Portugal, and the subdistricts of the Azores were eliminated.

These areas include Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Turkic regions of southern Siberia, the five republics, and Afghan Turkestan.

Category: Autonomous regions

In January 1987, the MNLF accepted the Philippine government's offer of semi-autonomy of the regions in dispute, subsequently leading to the establishment of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.

With the advent of democracy and the 1978 Constitution, the management of social housing depended mostly on the Autonomous regions.

It includes the administrative regions Nordland, Troms, Finnmark in Norway, Västerbotten County, Norrbotten County in Sweden, Lapland Province, Northern Ostrobothnia, Kainuu in Finland, and Murmansk Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic, Republic of Karelia, Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia.

It breeds in northern regions of Europe and Asia, from Iceland south to northernmost Scotland, and east through Scandinavia, the Baltic States, northern Poland and Belarus, and through most of Russia to about 165 ° E in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

The regions themselves do not possess a separate local government, with the exception of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which has an elected regional assembly and governor.

Category: Autonomous regions of Italy

In January 1987, the MNLF accepted the Philippine government's offer of semi-autonomy of the regions in dispute, subsequently leading to the establishment of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.

The Cordillera Autonomous Region is one of the country's richest regions in terms of natural resources.

Category: Autonomous regions

After the establishment of the provincial-level Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 1947, leagues of Inner Mongolia became equal to prefectures in other provinces and autonomous regions.

In 1920, a number of small southern and eastern districts ( volosti ) and villages were shifted from Vyatka as a result of the formation of the Tatar Autonomous Republic and the Mari and Votskaya the Udmurt Republic autonomous regions.

The referendum was held both in Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug and Perm Oblast, and the majority of citizens of both regions voted for merging.

In a referendum held on April 16, 2006, the majority of residents in Irkutsk Oblast and Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug agreed to the unification of the two regions.

There are about 444, 000 ethnic Yakuts ( Russian census, 2002 ) mainly in the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia ) in the Russian Federation, with some extending to the Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions, and the Taymyr and Evenki Autonomous Districts.

On 28 February 1992, the Constitution of the SR BiH declared that the territory of that Republic included " the territories of the Serbian Autonomous Regions and Districts and of other Serbian ethnic entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the regions in which the Serbian people remained in the minority due to the genocide conducted against it in World War II ", and it was declared to be a part of Yugoslavia.

Category: Autonomous regions

Category: Autonomous regions

Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte ( Spanish for " Autonomous Region of the Northern Atlantic "), sometimes shortened to RAAN, is one of two autonomous regions in Nicaragua.

Category: Autonomous regions of Nicaragua

Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur ( Spanish for " Autonomous Region of the Southern Atlantic "), sometimes shortened to RAAS, is one of two autonomous regions in Nicaragua.

Category: Autonomous regions of Nicaragua

* Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, prefecture in Sichuan, China

* 2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

The Alay range portion of the Tian Shan system dominates the southwestern crescent of the country, and, to the east, the main Tian Shan range runs along the boundary between southern Kyrgyzstan and China before extending farther east into China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Kamacite, Nantan ( Nandan ) iron meteorites, Nandan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.

Tocharian or Tokharian ( or ) is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, formerly spoken in oases on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin ( now part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China ).

Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.

As a result the majority of tribal groups formerly under Uyghur control migrated to what is now northwestern China, especially to the modern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region.

According to the China Exploration and Research Society, the source of the Yellow River is at 34 ° 29 ' 31. 1 " N, 96 ° 20 ' 24. 6 " E in the Bayan Har Mountains near the eastern edge of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

* Mani, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China

The Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR ), Tibet or Xizang for short, also called the Xizang Autonomous Region (; ) is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

Within the People's Republic of China, Tibet is identified with the Autonomous Region, which includes about half of ethno-cultural Tibet, including the traditional provinces of Ü-Tsang and the western half of Kham.

The Tibet Autonomous Region is the second-largest province-level division of China by area, spanning over, after Xinjiang, and mostly due to its harsh and rugged terrain, is the least densely populated provincial-level division of the PRC.

The Tibet Autonomous Region is a province-level entity of the People's Republic of China.

The Autonomous Region was established in 1947 on the area of former Republic of China provinces of Suiyuan, Chahar, Rehe, Liaobei and Xing ' an along with the northern parts of Gansu and Ningxia.

After the Yuan Dynasty was evicted by the Han-led Ming Dynasty in 1368, the Ming rebuilt the Great Wall of China at its present location, which roughly follows the southern border of the modern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ( though it deviates significantly at the Hebei-Inner Mongolia border ).

* Tibet Autonomous Region, a region of the People's Republic of China consisting of most of traditional Tibet

The Chinese tetrapod Sinostega pani was discovered among fossilized tropical plants and lobe-finned fish in the red sandstone sediments of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwest China.

The People's Republic of China, founded in 1949, abolished Xikang province of the Republic of China and merged western part of that province into Tibet Autonomous Region in 1965 while the rest of Xikang was made Sichuan province in 1955.

This fieldwork in Nepal ’ s Barun Valley led directly to initiating in 1984 Makalu-Barun National Park that protected over half a million acres in 1991, and across the border with China the Qomolangma national nature preserve in the Tibet Autonomous Region that protected over six million acres.

* Second East Turkestan Republic ( 1944 – 1949 )-The Second East Turkestan Republic, usually known simply as the East Turkistan Republic ( ETR ), was a short-lived Soviet-backed separatist republic which existed in the 1940s in what is now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

It is administered by China as part of Hotan County in the Hotan Prefecture of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, but is also claimed by India as a part of the Ladakh district of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

China National Highway 219 runs through Aksai Chin connecting Lazi and Xinjiang in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (, Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast ;, yidishe avtonome gegnt ) is a federal subject of Russia ( an autonomous oblast ) situated in the Russian Far East, bordering with Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast of Russia and Heilongjiang province of China.