Atlas of ethnic regional autonomies

Atlas of Ethnic Regional Autonomies is intended for academics, experts, students, journalists as well as all users who are interested in the problems of interethnic relations. The resource is designed to enable users to obtain information of varying depth in accordance with their educational, research, and other requests.

The Atlas contains a wide range of systematic data on all ethnic regional autonomies (ERAs), which currently exist or have ceased to exist in the XXI century (140 cases).

The information, which is placed on a separate page of the ERA, includes three pieces:

1) Profile - in-depth qualitative description of the autonomy (in Russian);
2) Some quantitative data – the button “Autonomy’s Parameters” (total quantitative data are presented in ERAD);
3) Interactive map of the autonomy. The page of ERA has a scalable map, which at the start displays the following layers:
- Administrative-territorial division of the whole country - gray lines;
- ERA’s boundaries - blue line;
- The area of localization of the titular ethnic group of the ERA in the country - polygon of red color (if there are two titular ethnic groups in the ERA, pink color is used as an additional color).
The button for activating all other layers is placed in the upper right corner of the map (here is also located the map’s legend and you can change the degree of limpidity of polygons and borders);
- The area of localization of the dominant (main) ethnic group in the country - polygon of yellow color (if there are two or three dominant ethnic groups in the country, blue and gray colors are used as additional colors);
- The area of localization of other significant for the ERA ethnic groups (if it is the case) in the country - polygons of green and purple colors. The maps are designed on the basis of Geo-referencing of Ethnic Groups (GREG) and Geo-referencing Ethnic Power Relations (GeoEPR); datasets; the main layer of the map - National Geographic World Map; the additional layer of luminosity - Night Light Development Index (NLDI).

Access to the page of the ERA is provided through several options:

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  Search request (enter the name or part of the name of the autonomy)
  
  

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  Lists of autonomies by regions of the world and countries (within the lists, it is possible to sort the ERAs by parameters - in the central part of the respective page)
  

  Europe

  Russia

  Asia

  America

  Australia and Oceania

  Africa

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  Cartographic section (the scalable map of the world with autonomies)
  
  
  View the map of the world with autonomies

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  The selection of ERAs by a set of parameters within the lists (year of creation, ethnic composition, conflicts, etc.) is available on the right side of the page
  Go to the Atlas of Ethnic Regional Autonomies

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For the part of ERAs, the maps are incomplete because of the lack of geo-referenced data on the localization of ethnic groups. There are also some missing quantitative data (see in detail in ERAD Codebook).

Please contact Expert Network on Identity Research (identity@list.ru) if you find mistakes, inaccuracies or have questions, comments.