Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Poverty incidence of Lipa 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 25.60 2009 3.86 2012 5.21 2015 4.20 2018 9.95 2021 12.03 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Downtown Lipa Aerial view of Lipa at night Lipa's proximity to the country's capital, Manila, having an approximate distance of 86 kilometers (53 mi) or approximately an hour-and-half drive via the South Luzon Expressway enhances its strategic access ...
The mayor of Lipa (Filipino: Punong Lungsod ng Lipa) is the head of the local government of Lipa in Batangas who elected to three year terms. The Mayor is also the executive head and leads the city's departments in executing the city ordinances and improving public services.
This page was last edited on 2 November 2015, at 02:59 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is the local legislative body of a city government in the Philippines. [1] The name of the legislative body comes from the Filipino words "sanggunian" ("council") – ultimately from the root word "sangguni" ("to consult") – both of Tagalog origins, with the latter word also of Kapampangan and Old Tagalog origins, and "lungsod" ("city") of both Tagalog ...
Such special purpose districts may encompass areas in multiple municipalities or counties. According to the US Census Bureau's data collected in 2012, there were 89,004 local government units in the United States. This data shows a decline from 89,476 units since the last census of local governments performed in 2007. [2]
The Local Government Code of 1991 provides for the three levels of Local Government Units or LGUs in the Philippines: (1) the province (2) city and municipality, and (3) the barangay. [16] The country remains a unitary state and the National Government continues to have strong influence over local government units.
A municipality (Tagalog: bayan / munisipalidad / munisipyo / puweblo; Hiligaynon: banwa; Cebuano: lungsod; Pangasinan: baley; Kapampangan: balen / balayan; Central Bikol: banwaan; Waray: bungto; Ilocano: ili) is a local government unit (LGU) in the Philippines. It is distinct from city, which is a different category of local government unit.
A city (Filipino: lungsod or siyudad) is one of the units of local government in the Philippines.All Philippine cities are chartered cities (Filipino: nakakartang lungsod), whose existence as corporate and administrative entities is governed by their own specific municipal charters in addition to the Local Government Code of 1991, which specifies their administrative structure and powers.