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The following are regions that no longer exist, listed along with their current status: Southern Tagalog (Region IV, now divided into Calabarzon, Central Luzon , Metro Manila (several cities that were part of Rizal), and Mimaropa; the name remains as a cultural-geographic region only)
Nueva Vizcaya (Spanish for "new Biscay", after the province in the Basque Country of Spain.) Quezon (Spanish surname. The province, formerly known as Tayabas, was renamed in 1949 in honor of Philippine president Manuel Quezon.) Quirino (Spanish surname. Named after Philippine president Elpidio Quirino.) Rizal (Spanish surname.
When the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain in 1898, the islands were divided into four gobiernos (governments), which were further subdivided into provinces and districts. The American administration initially inherited the Spanish divisions and placed them under military government.
Filipino is used as a lingua franca in all regions of the Philippines as well as within overseas Filipino communities, and is the dominant language of the armed forces (except perhaps for the small part of the commissioned officer corps from wealthy or upper-middle-class families) and of a large part of the civil service, most of whom are non ...
Philippine Spanish speakers may be found nationwide, mostly in urban areas but with the largest concentration of speakers in Metro Manila.Smaller communities are found particularly in regions where the economy is dominated by large agricultural plantations, such as the sugarcane-producing regions of Negros, particularly around Bacolod and Dumaguete, and in the fruit-producing regions of ...
The 1987 Constitution allows for the creation of autonomous regions in the Cordillera Central of Luzon and in the Muslim-majority areas of Mindanao. [2] However, only the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and its predecessor, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, have been approved by voters in plebiscites held in 1989, 2001, and 2019.
Hispanicized form of samal, (rendered in early Spanish accounts as Zamal [6]) an indigenous term formerly used to refer to the people that inhabited the island. [96] The name originally applied to the more populous western region of the island, but was eventually applied to the whole island and the military province that was established in 1841.
An autonomous region of the Philippines (Filipino: rehiyong awtonomo ng Pilipinas) is a first-level administrative division that has the authority to control a region's culture and economy. The Constitution of the Philippines allows for two autonomous regions: in the Cordilleras and in Muslim Mindanao .