Banner, a type of administrative division, may refer to: * Banner (Inner Mongolia), an administrative division of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. * Autonomous banner, an area associated with one or more ethnic minorities designated as autonomous within the People's Republic of China. * Eight Banners, ancient administrative divisions of China into which all Manchu families were placed. * Bandon (Byzantine Empire), "banner", the lowest Byzantine administrative-cum-military unit * Sanjak, literally "a banner, flag", the original first level subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire. * Liwa, an Arabic term meaning "banner" as a type of administrative division.