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Poverty incidence of Aurora 10 20 30 40 2006 30.46 2009 18.19 2012 30.83 2015 33.77 2018 16.39 2021 16.50 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Corn, rice and other major agricultural crops are grown in Aurora, with a total of 13% of the provincial land area used for agriculture. It also has 8,945 hectares (22,100 acres) of rice plantation that averages 24,000 metric tons (24,000 long tons ...
Aurora. Spanish given name. The province was named in honor of Aurora Quezon, wife of president Manuel Quezon, who in turn was born in the town of Baler, now the province's capital; Aurora Quezon herself was also born in Baler. Aurora itself is the Latin word for "dawn," [12] this is also a Spanish loanword from Latin itself. Basilan
Poverty incidence of Baler 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 2006 11.60 2009 9.56 2012 9.99 2015 9.13 2018 7.34 2021 14.37 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Government Local government Main article: Sangguniang Bayan Baler Municipal Hall The current officials of Baler, Aurora (as of June 30, 2022) Name Designation Rhett Ronan Angara Mayor Bobong Ong Vice Mayor Pandus Valenzuela Member, Sangguniang ...
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Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
"The Left Coast" – a name shared with the West Coast of the United States, referring to the region notably leaning politically left. [6]"British California" – a play on the initials of the province, referring to its similarities with California in terms of culture, geography (particularly in the Lower Mainland), politics, and demographics.
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
The -r-also began to disappear from the name on early maps, resulting in the current Acadia. [20] Possibly derived from the Míkmaq word akatik, pronounced roughly "agadik", meaning "place", which French-speakers spelled as -cadie in place names such as Shubenacadie and Tracadie, possibly coincidentally. [21]