Autonomous oblast

An autonomous oblast is an autonomous entity within the state which is on the ''

oblast An oblast ( or ) is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Historically, it was used in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The term ''oblast'' is often translated i ...

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province A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

) level of the overall administrative subdivision. There were autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union and later some

federal subjects of Russia The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation () or simply as the subjects of the federation (), are the administrative division, constituent entities of Russia, its top-level political division ...

were autonomous oblasts: the one remaining is the

Jewish Autonomous Oblast The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China. Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan. ...

. Eastern Rumelia was an autonomous province (''oblast'' in Bulgarian, one of its official languages) of the Ottoman Empire. Serb Autonomous Regions are known as ''oblasts''. Types of administrative division {{Gov-stub