The phrase "ethnic regions" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "Many parts of the world have distinct ethnic regions that show the history of different cultures."
They feared that wider regional fragmentation would bleed into their own ethnic regions.
Whole ethnic regions are closed to outsiders so that the military "can do some cleansing".
The Chinese Constitution promises autonomy in ethnic regions and says local governments there should use the languages in common use.
Here, as in other ethnic regions, are hundreds of "shooting galleries" where $1 will buy a fix.
Fifth largest in size but 36th in population, New Mexico, with five electoral votes, has long been a political bellwether with a patchwork of political and ethnic regions.
Likewise, in the fifteen months since an uprising in Tibet had exposed a well of explosive discontent facing Chinese authorities in some of the nation's ethnic regions, Caijing had largely steered clear of the story.
"We are an ethnic region, and we want to create a festive atmosphere and promote our uniqueness," he said.
But they are also increasingly fighting among themselves.Kurdish militias in the north-east, keen on delineating their own ethnic region, have engaged in bloody clashes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a radical affiliate of al-Qaeda.
The forest landscape in the Jinuo ethnic region is quickly transforming due to changing agricultural practices, and as a result bird diversity and richness are declining, while the Hani ethnic region (Mengsong), with a stable form of traditional swidden agriculture, is maintaining a high diversity and richness of birds.
Two individuals, both from the same ethnic region (Edo), presented with two missense variants each (p.M129L and p.S167N; p.M129L and p.V380L).
There was variation in characteristics by study site as expected, associated with urban rural and ethnic region site locations.
