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List of provinces

Province Capital Region Population

(2007)

Population

rankArea

(km

)

Area

rankPop. density

(per km)

Pop. density

rank

Abra Bangued CAR 230,953 67 4,198.20 33 55.01 76

Agusan del Norte[4]

Cabadbaran[5]

Region XIII

612,405 46 3,546.86 40 172.66 49

Agusan del Sur Prosperidad Region XIII 609,447 47 9,989.52 5 61.01 73

Aklan Kalibo Region VI 495,122 57 1,821.42 66 271.83 24

Albay Legazpi City Region V 1,190,823 24 2,565.77 57 464.12 11

Antique

San Jose de Buenavista

Region VI

515,265 54 2,729.17 53 188.8 44

Apayao Kabugao[6] CAR 103,633 76 4,351.23 31 23.82 79

Aurora Baler Region III 187,802 69 3,147.32 47 59.67 74

Basilan Isabela City ARMM[7] 496,505 56 2,217.13 59 223.94 37

Bataan Balanga City Region III

662,153 43 1,372.98 72 482.27 9

Batanes Basco Region II 15,974 79 219.01 79 72.94 69

Batangas Batangas City Region IV-A 2,245,869 8 3,119.72 48 719.89 7

Benguet[8] La Trinidad CAR 674,459 42 2,826.59 50 238.61 35


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Biliran Naval Region VIII 150,031 74 536.01 76 279.9 23

Bohol Tagbilaran City Region VII 1,230,110 23 4,820.95 26 255.16 30

Bukidnon Malaybalay City Region X 1,190,284 25 10,498.59 4 113.38 62

Bulacan Malolos City Region III 2,826,936 4 2,774.85 51 1018.77 5

Cagayan Tuguegarao City Region II 1,072,571 28 9,295.75 6 115.38 60

Camarines Norte Daet Region V 513,785 55 2,320.07 58 221.45 38

Camarines Sur[9]

Pili Region V 1,693,821 15 5,465.26 20 309.93 20

Camiguin Mambajao Region X 81,293 78 237.95 78 341.64 16

Capiz Roxas City Region VI 701,664 39 2,594.64 56 270.43 25

Catanduanes Virac Region V 232,757 66 1,492.16 71 155.99 51

Cavite Imus[10] Region IV-A 2,856,765 3 1,512.41 69 1888.88 2

Cebu[11]

Cebu City[12]

Region VII 3,848,730 1 5,331.07 23 724.66 6

Compostela Valley Nabunturan Region XI 637,366 44 4,479.77 28 142.28 54

Cotabato Kidapawan City Region XII 1,121,974 27 9,008.90 7 124.54 58

Davao del Norte Tagum City Region XI 847,440 32 3,426.97 44 244.73 32

Davao del Sur[13] Digos City Region XI 2,185,743 10 6,377.62 13 342.72 18

Davao Oriental[14]

Mati Region XI 486,104 58 5,164.46 19 94.12 68


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Eastern Samar Borongan Region VIII 405,114 62 4,640.73 27 87.3 67

Guimaras Jordan Region VI 151,238 73 604.57 75 250.16 31

Ifugao Lagawe CAR 180,711 71 2,628.21 54 68.76 72

Ilocos Norte Laoag City Region I 547,284 49 3,504.30 42 156.17 50

Ilocos Sur Vigan City Region I 632,255 45 2,595.96 55 243.55 33

Iloilo[15] Iloilo City[12] Region VI 2,110,588 11 7,899.35 10 267.19 26

Isabela[16]

Ilagan Region II 1,401,495 18 13,778.76 2 101.71 64

Kalinga Tabuk CAR 182,326 70 3,231.25 46 56.43 75

La Union San Fernando City Region I 720,972 36 1,503.75 70 479.45 10

Laguna Santa Cruz Region IV-A 2,473,530 6 1,823.55 65 1356.44 3

Lanao del Norte[17] Tubod Region X 846,329 33 3,824.79 35 221.3 39

Lanao del Sur Marawi City ARMM 1,138,544 26 12,051.85 3 94.47 65

Leyte[18] Tacloban City[12] Region VIII 1,722,036 14 6,515.05 14 264.32 27

Maguindanao[19] Shariff Aguak ARMM 1,532,868 17 7,623.75 11 201.06 42

Marinduque Boac Region IV-B 229,636 68 952.58 74 241.07 34

Masbate Masbate City Region V 768,939 34 4,151.78 34 185.21 45

Misamis Occidental Oroquieta City Region X 531,680 52 2,055.22 63 258.7 29


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Misamis Oriental[20]

Cagayan de Oro City[12]

Region X 1,302,851 19 3,515.70 41 370.58 14

Mountain Province Bontoc CAR 148,661 75 2,157.38 60 68.91 71

Negros Occidental[21]

Bacolod City[12]

Region VI 2,869,766 2 7,965.21 9 360.29 15

Negros Oriental Dumaguete City Region VII 1,231,904 22 5,385.53 22 228.74 36

Northern Samar Catarman Region VIII 549,759 48 3,692.93 37 148.87 53

Nueva Ecija Palayan City[22] Region III 1,853,853 13 5,751.33 18 322.33 19

Nueva Vizcaya Bayombong Region II 397,837 63 4,378.80 30 90.86 66

Occidental Mindoro Mamburao Region IV-B 421,592 61 5,865.71 17 71.87 70

Oriental Mindoro Calapan City Region IV-B 735,769 35 4,238.38 32 173.6 48

Palawan[23] Puerto Princesa City[12] Region IV-B 892,660 30 17,030.75 1 52.41 77

Pampanga[24] San Fernando City Region III 2,226,444 9 2,044.99 64 1088.73 4

Pangasinan[25]

Lingayen Region I 2,645,395 5 5,451.08 21 485.3 8

Quezon[26] Lucena City[12] Region IV-A 1,882,900 12 8,926.01 8 210.95 41

Quirino Cabarroguis Region II 163,610 72 3,486.16 43 46.93 78

Rizal[27] Antipolo City[28] Region IV-A 2,284,046 7 1,175.76 73 1942.61 1

Romblon Romblon Region IV-B 279,774 65 1,533.45 68 182.45 46

Samar Catbalogan Region VIII 695,149 40 6,048.03 15 114.94 61


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Sarangani Alabel Region XII 475,514 59 3,601.25 39 132.04 55

Siquijor Siquijor Region VII 87,695 77 337.49 77 259.84 28

Sorsogon Sorsogon City Region V 709,673 38 2,119.01 62 334.91 17

South Cotabato[29]

Koronadal City Region XII 1,296,797 20 4,428.81 29 292.81 21

Southern Leyte Maasin City Region VIII 390,847 64 1,797.22 67 217.47 40

Sultan Kudarat Isulan Region XII 675,644 41 5,251.34 24 128.66 57

Sulu Jolo ARMM 849,670 31 2,135.25 61 397.93 13

Surigao del Norte Surigao City Region XIII 530,281 53 3,009.27 49 176.22 47

Surigao del Sur[14]

Tandag Region XIII 541,347 51 4,925.18 25 109.91 63

Tarlac Tarlac City Region III 1,243,449 21 2,736.64 52 454.37 12

Tawi-Tawi Bongao[30] ARMM 450,346 60 3,426.55 45 131.43 56

Zambales[31]

Iba Region III 720,355 37 3,714.40 36 193.94 43

Zamboanga del Norte Dipolog City Region IX 907,238 29 7,301.00 12 124.26 59

Zamboanga del Sur[32] Pagadian City Region IX 1,688,685 16 5,914.16 16 285.53 22

Zamboanga Sibugay Ipil Region IX 546,186 50 3,607.75 38 151.39 52

Metro Manila[27] Manila(Regional center) NCR 11,553,427 -- 636 -- 18747.04 --


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Regions of the Philippines

Philippines

In the Philippines, regions (Filipino: rehiyon, ISO 3166-2:PH) are administrative divisions that serve primarily to organize the 80

provinces (lalawigan) for administrative convenience. Most government offices establish regional offices instead of individualprovincial offices, usually (but not necessarily always) in the city designated as the regional center.

The regions themselves do not possess a separate local government, with the exception of the Autonomous Region in Muslim

Mindanao, which has an elected regional assembly and governor. The Cordillera Administrative Region was originally intended to beautonomous (Cordillera Autonomous Region), but the failure of two plebiscites for its establishment reduced it to a regular

administrative region.

History

Regions first came to existence in on September 24, 1972 when the provinces of the Philippines were organized into 11 regions by

Presidential Decree No. 1 as part of the Integrated Reorganization Plan of President Ferdinand Marcos.


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Since that time, other regions have been created and some provinces have been transferred from one region to another.

y July 7, 1975: Region XII created and minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.y August 21, 1975: Region IX divided into Sub-Region IX-A' and Sub-Region IX-B. Minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.y November 7, 1975: National Capital Region created.y August 1, 1989: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao created.y October 23, 1989: Cordillera Administrative Region created.y October 12, 1990: Executive Order issued to reorganize the Mindanao regions but the reorganization never happened (possibly due to

lack of government funds).

y February 23, 1995: Region XIII (Caraga) created and minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.y 1997: Minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.y September 19, 2001: Most Mindanao regions reorganized and some renamed.y May 17, 2002: Region IV-A (CALABARZON) and Region IV-B (MIMAROPA) created from the former Region IV (Southern Tagalog) region.y May 23, 2005: Palawan transferred from MIMAROPA to Western Visayas; MIMAROPA renamed to MIMARO.y August 19, 2005: The E.O. 429 of May 23, 2005 transferring Palawan from MIMAROPA to Western Visayas was later held in abeyance by

Administrative Order #129.

List of regions

As of June 2010, the Philippines consists of 17 administrative regions. Some of the region designations include numeric components,

some do not.[1]

These regions are geographically combined into the three island groups ofLuzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Followingis a list of the regions in their island groupings. To get overviews of the regions, see the respective articles on the island groups. The

regions CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, and SOCCSKSARGEN are capitalized because they are acronyms that stand for theircomponent provinces or cities.

[2]

[edit] Luzon

MapRegion

(short name)

Regional

center

Component local

government units


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National Capital Region

(NCR; Metro Manila)

Metro

Manila

y Caloocan City[3]y Las Pias City[3]y Makati City

[3]

y Malabon City[3]y Mandaluyong

City[3]

y Manila[3]y Marikina City[3]y Muntinlupa

City[3]

y Navotas City[3]

y Paraaque City[3]y Pasay City[3]y Pasig City[3]y Pateros[4]y Quezon City[3]y San Juan City[3]y Taguig City[3]y Valenzuela City

[3]

Cordillera Administrative

Region

(CAR)

Baguio City y Abray Apayaoy Baguio City[3]y Benguety Ifugaoy Kalingay Mountain

Province


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Ilocos Region

(Region I)

San

Fernando

City, La

Union

y Dagupan City[5]y Ilocos Nortey Ilocos Sury La Uniony Pangasinan

Cagayan Valley

(Region II)

Tuguegarao

City

y Batanesy Cagayany Isabelay Nueva Vizcayay Quirino

Central Luzon

(Region III)

San

Fernando

City,

Pampanga

y Auroray Bataany Bulacany Nueva Ecijay Pampangay Tarlacy Zambales

CALABARZON(Region IV-A)

Calamba City y Batangasy Cavitey Quezony Rizaly Laguna


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MIMAROPA

(Region IV-B)

Calapan City y Marinduquey Occidental

Mindoroy Oriental Mindoroy Palawany Romblon

Bicol Region

(Region V)

Legazpi City y Albayy Camarines Nortey Camarines Sury Catanduanesy Masbatey Sorsogon

[edit] Visayas

MapRegion

(short name)Regional center

Component local

government units

Western Visayas

(Region VI)

Iloilo City y Aklany Antiquey Bacolod City[3]y Capizy

Guimarasy Iloiloy Iloilo City[3]y Negros

Occidental


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Central Visayas

(Region VII)

Cebu City y Boholy Talisay Cityy Cebu City

[3]

y Lapu-Lapu

City[3]

y MandaueCity

[3]

y NegrosOriental

y SiquijorEastern Visayas

(Region VIII)

Tacloban City y Bilirany Eastern

Samar

y Leytey Northern

Samar

y Ormoc City[5]y Samary Southern

Leyte

y TaclobanCity

[3]

[edit] Mindanao

MapRegion

(short name)

Regional

center

Component local government

units


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Zamboanga Peninsula

(Region IX)

Pagadian

City

y Isabela City[6]y Zamboanga City[3]y Zamboanga del Nortey Zamboanga del Sury Zamboanga Sibugay

NorthernMindanao

(Region X)

Cagayan

de Oro

City

y Bukidnony Cagayan de Oro City[3]y Camiguiny Iligan City[3]y Lanao del Nortey Misamis Occidentaly Misamis Oriental

Davao Region

(Region XI)

Davao

City

y Compostela Valleyy Davao City[3]y Davao del Nortey Davao del Sury Davao Oriental

SOCCSKSARGEN

(Region XII)

Koronadal

City

y Cotabatoy Cotabato City

[5]

y General Santos City[3]y Saranganiy South Cotabatoy Sultan Kudarat


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Caraga Region Butuan

City

y Agusan del Nortey Agusan del Sury Butuan City

[3]

y Dinagat Islandsy Surigao del Nortey Surigao del Sur

Autonomous Region of

MuslimMindanao

(ARMM)

Cotabato

City

y Basilan (excluding IsabelaCity)

y Lanao del Sury Maguindanaoy Suluy Tawi-Tawi

The following are regions that do not exist; explanations about their current status follow each region's name.

y Southern Tagalog (divided into CALABARZON or Region IV-a and MIMARO or Region IV-B (Palawan is no longer included. It is now part ofVisayaz))

y Western Mindanao (now Zamboanga Peninsula, still designated as Region IX)y Central Mindanao (now SOCCSKSARGEN, still designated as Region XII)y Southern Mindanao (now Davao, still designated as Region XI)y What's in a Name?

The Department of Tourism (DoT) has the habit of using titles as a way of endorsing tourist destinations in the country.

However, other countries are also using similar titles. Aside from Filipinos, the Japanese also use the phrase "Pearl ofthe Orient" to refer to their country. While Filipinos describe the Banaue Rice Terraces as the eighth wonder of the world,the Chinese use the same title for the Great Wall of China and the Cambodians for Angkor Wat. According to Filipinos,Mount Mayon has the most beautiful cone figure among all volcanoes in the world, the same way the Japanese viewMount Fuji and Costa Ricans view Arenal volcano. Davao City is reportedly the world's largest city but other cities in theworld protest, including Puerto Princesa City of Palawan. Boracay Island is sold as the world's most beautiful beachresort, but Thailand, Indonesia, Latin American countries and several Pacific islands are ready to contest this title.


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y Aklan - oldest provinceAngono, Rizal - town of artistsAntipolo City - picnic areaApalit, Pampanga - tapayan capital

Baclayon Church, Bohol - oldest stone churchBacolod City - city of smilesBacolor, Pampanga - country's capital in 1762-1763Baguio City - summer capitalBalabac Island, Palawan - land of Philippine mouse deer

Baliuag, Bulacan - the first town to have electionBanaue Rice Terraces - stairways to the skyBarasoain Church - headquarters of the Malolos CongressBasey, Samar - town of mat festival

Batanes - smallest province; northernmost provinceBataan - last stronghold during Japanese occupationBiak na Bato, San Miguel, Bulacan - site of the Biak na Bato republicBinondo - known for Chinatown district

Bocaue, Bulacan - firecrackers' capitalBohol - land of chocolate hillsBoracay Island - world's finest beach resortBulacan - land of heroes and beautiful women

Bukidnon - pineapple countryCalamba, Laguna - birthplace of Jose RizalCalamian Islands - land of Calamian deerCalauit Island, Palawan - animal sanctuary

Camiguin -lan

dof vo

lcanoesCapiz - seafood capital

Catanduanes - land of howling windsCebu City - premiere city in the southCentral Luzon - rice bowlCorregidor Island - island fortress; the rockCrisologo Street, Vigan - kamestizoan district

Davao City- world's largest city; durian capitalDavao Oriental - easternmost province


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Divisoria - bargain capitalDonsol, Sorsogon - sanctuary of whale sharks

Gapan, Nueva Ecija - newest cityGeneral Santos City - most competitive city; tuna capitalGuiginto, Bulacan - cutflower capitalGuimaras - mango capitalHundred Islands, Pangasinan - actually composed of 400 isletsIligan City - land of waterfallsIntramuros, Manila - walled cityKabayan, Benguet - land of mummiesKalibo, Aklan - land of ati-atihan

Kawit, Cavite - first independent townLaguna - resort provinceLaguna de Bay - largest lakeLanao del Sur - center of IslamLas Pinas City - land of the bamboo organLipa, Batangas - coffee capitalLubao, Pampanga - the birthplace of Diosdado MacapagalLucban, Quezon - Pahiyas townLuzon - world's 17th largest island

Magallanes, Agusan del Norte - site of the oldest treeMakati City - financial centerMalolos, Bulacan - site of the First Philippine RepublicManila - capital cityMaria Cristina Falls, Iligan City - mother of industryMarikina City - shoe capitalMexico, Pampanga - formerly known as Masicu

Meycauayan, Bulacan - jewelry capital

Miag-ao Church,Il

oilo - fortress churchMindanao - world's 19th largest island

Mindoro - land of the tamarawsMount Apo - highest peakMount Arayat - legendary home of Mariang SinukuanMount Mayon - a volcano with nearly perfect coneNayong Pilipino - Philippines in miniature. (The theme park was opened in 1972 and closed on June 25, 2002.)

Negros Occidental - sugar capital; sports capitalPagsanjan Falls - Philippines' el dorado


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Palawan - the last frontier; largest province; westernmost provincePampanga - culinary capital of LuzonPaete, Laguna - town of wood carvers

Paoay Church, Ilocos Norte - earthquake baroquePaombong, Bulacan - vinegar capitalPhilippine Deep - world's second deepest spotPhilippines - pearl of the orientRio Grande de Cagayan - longest riverRomblon - marble countrySan Agustin Church, Intramuros - oldest church in Luzon

San Fernando, Pampanga - lantern capital of the world

San Juanico Bridge - longest suspension bridgeSan Sebastian Church - the only steel church in AsiaSiargao Island - perfect waves islandSpratleys - the islands claimed by six countriesSta. Maria, Bulacan - egg nest of the PhilippinesSta. Maria Church, Ilocos Sur - outstanding example of Spanish baroque architectureSubic Freeport - American townTaal Volcano - world's smallest volcanoTagaytay City - the next summer capital

Tangub City - Christmas symbol capitalTawi-Tawi - southernmost provinceTrinidad Valley - land of strawberry and vegetablesTubbataha Marine Park - world's richest bio-geographic area

Unisan, Quezon - oldest townUniversity of San Carlos, Cebu City - oldest universityVigan, Ilocos Sur - Spanish colonial town

Zamboanga Sibugay - newest province


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TRIVIA

Longest province capital name: san juan de buenavista, aklan

Province with the only English name: mountain province

Province with same capital: la union and Pampanga (san Fernando city)

Largest province: Palawan

Province with the highest population: cebu

Shortest province capital name: iba, zambales

Only Capital with English name: Jordan, guimaras

Provinces name with same capital name: 8

If arranged, the first province: abra

If arranged, the last province: zamboanga sibugay

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