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The creation of the Regional Offices marked the division of the Philippine islands into three revenue regions. The Bureau's organizational set-up expanded beginning 1956 in line with the regionalization scheme of the government. Consequently, the Bureau's Regional Offices increased to eight and later into ten in 1957.
The barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines. [1] Although "barangay" is sometimes translated into English as "village", a barangay can be: an urban neighborhood, such as a city block or a gated community (e.g., Forbes Park, Makati); a sizable urban district (e.g., Payatas, Quezon City);
In the Philippines, regions (Filipino: rehiyon; ISO 3166-2:PH) are administrative divisions that primarily serve to coordinate planning and organize national government services across multiple local government units (LGUs). Most national government offices provide services through their regional branches instead of having direct provincial or ...
Office of Information and Communications Technology → Department of Information and Communications Technology (2016) Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council → Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (2019) Philippine Overseas Employment Administration → Department of Migrant Workers (2021)
Metro Manila, the capital region of the Philippines, is a large metropolitan area that has several levels of subdivisions. Administratively, the region is divided into seventeen primary local government units with their own separate elected mayors and councils who are coordinated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, a national government agency headed by a chairperson directly ...
Philippine congressional districts are contiguous and compact territories composed of adjacent local government units where practicable. They are single-member districts which return one member each to the lower chamber, elected to serve a maximum of three consecutive three-year terms through a first-past-the-post voting system. [ 1 ]
Below is a full list of primary-level subdivisions of local government in the Philippines. As of June 11, 2024, there are 82 provinces ( province ), 33 highly urbanized cities ( HUC ), 5 independent component cities ( ICC ), and one independent municipality ( NCR municipality ).
The district of Molo is one of the major commercial areas in Iloilo City. It is home to various government agencies, including regional offices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). These agencies play crucial roles in providing social services and ensuring tax compliance in the region.