'minority regions' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any geographical region with a population that is not in the majority. For example, "there has been increased funding for minority regions in recent years."
It comes from increasingly aggressive separatist groups in Kurdish, Baluch, Azeri and Arab ethnic minority regions that collectively make up some 44percentt of Persian-dominated Iran's population.
This is surprising given its tendency to react very strongly when it feels its national interest is threatened on issues such as trade or minority regions like Tibet.
The traditional mission of Minzu University is to train students from ethnic minority regions of China who might then return to those regions and work for the government.
While the Beijing government has long provided subsidies to ethnic minority regions, the new plans appear to go far beyond any previous ones and Tibet will be a special beneficiary of the grand Western Development Program.
After all, the authors point out, most people in Spain's minority regions see themselves as both Spanish and Basque (or Catalan or Galician)—not just one or the other.
The Chinese government has actively encouraged Han migration to ethnic minority regions in western China, particularly Tibet and Xinjiang, and that in turn has led to rising tensions between locals and the Han settlers who come seeking jobs and business opportunities.
Yet scholars of Xinjiang raised doubts that the attack was terrorism, saying the Chinese were waving the banner of their own "war on terror" to tighten their hold on the area, an independent-minded ethnic minority region that is rich in oil and natural gas.
During the long Mao era, two of my mother's sisters faced a dilemma when they graduated from college: be assigned to locations separate from those assigned to their fiancés, or to accompany them and volunteer together in a hardship minority region.
However, it is important to note that neither are they advantaged in their own minority region.
This behavior leads to an inefficient allocation of resources in the federation, which may be "unattractive" for the minority region.
These developments, however, haven't touched the area around Mong La; the rebels who control the Shan and Akha ethnic minority region are not party to the ceasefire, and no one here has voted.
