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A fierce storm was blowing out of the northern Philippines Tuesday after leaving at least 14 people dead in landslides, floods and swollen rivers, disaster-response officials said. Storm warnings ...
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 ...
Map of ancient Manila in 1570. The polity of Maynila shown in yellow.. Manila, to the extent that it has this placename, was likely founded in the Middle Ages, in the early 16th century [13] due to the Sanskrit origin of the component "nila" in its name which refers to "indigo", [14] and the prevalence of the placename during the rule of Rajah Matanda, the old king of Maynila, who was born ...
August 18, 1908 – Mountain Province, with seven sub-provinces, formed by merging territories of the entire province of Lepanto-Bontoc (with Amburayan, Bontoc, Kalinga and Lepanto sub-provinces); the district in the province of Nueva Vizcaya that formerly comprised the Spanish-era Comandancia of Quiangan (annexed as Ifugao sub-province); the ...
Parties of current Philippine provincial governors shaded for their respective provinces. The Philippines has 82 provinces. Each province has a governor who serves as the chief executive of its government. [1] The governor is elected by the voters in the province for a three-year term with a maximum of three consecutive terms. [2]
This is a complete list of cities and municipalities in the Philippines. The Philippines is administratively divided into 82 provinces ( Filipino : lalawigan ). These, together with the National Capital Region , are further subdivided into cities (Filipino: lungsod ) and municipalities (Filipino: bayan ).
This is a list of regions and provinces of the Philippines by poverty rate as of 2021. The international poverty rate used by the World Bank is used in the following list. The national poverty rate of the Philippines was estimated to be at 22.4% in early 2023.
June 2, 1978 – Metro Manila is declared the National Capital Region. [8] June 11, 1978 – The regional center of Region IX is transferred from Jolo, Sulu to Zamboanga City. [9] July 15, 1987 – The Cordillera Administrative Region is created. [10] August 1, 1989 – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is created. [11]