The study of the active regions distribution at the solar surface provides an important information about the solar global magnetic field structure. It is expected that during the phase of solar minimum this structure is a dipole-like. The analysis of the active regions distribution at the solar surface during the current solar activity minimum (2018-2020 yy) is done on the base of the sunspot areas data and the magnetic data represented by the WSO synoptic maps. It was found that the sizable latitudinal and longitudinal asymmetry existed during all analyzed period: the sunspot croups and high magnetic fluxes are observed mainly in the Northern hemisphere, the majority of large sunspot groups and the most strong local magnetic fluxes are concentrated in the comparably narrow band of the Carrington longitudes. The rotational velocity of these "active longitudes" exceeds the Carrington velocity by of about 0.2 deg /day. The observed sunspots longitudinal pattern indicates the existence of long living local subphotospheric source of magnetic fluxes with a rotation period close to equatorial surface rotation rate. That can point on formation of non-axysymmetrical component of the solar global magnetic field by the mechanism of a solar dynamo.
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