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Highlighted rows indicate those entries in which the three-letter codes differ from column to column. The last column indicates the number of codes present followed by letters to indicate which codes are present (O for Olympic, F for FIFA, and I for ISO) and dashes when a code is absent; capital letters indicate codes which match; lower case ...
These terms sometimes overlap with demonyms of ethnic groups in the Philippines, which are also used as identifiers in common parlance. [ 1 ] * denotes an endonym , i.e., a name from the area's indigenous language(s).
ISO 3166-2:PH is the entry for the Philippines in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Laguna. laguna, Spanish for "lake," or "lagoon," referring to the large body of freshwater in Laguna de Bay (Spanish: Laguna de Bay, lit. 'Lake of Bay') that was named after the province's first capital, the town of Bay (pronounced "BA‧I"). [57] Twenty of the province's 30 towns and cities border the lake. Lanao (del Norte and del Sur)
The more than 140 cities in the Philippines as of 2022 have taken their names from a variety of languages both indigenous (Austronesian) and foreign (mostly Spanish).The majority of Philippine cities derive their names from the major regional languages where they are spoken including Tagalog (), Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Kapampangan and Pangasinense.
It defines three sets of country codes: [1] ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are used most prominently for the Internet's country code top-level domains (with a few exceptions). ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 ...
Laguna [lɐˈɣuː.na], officially the Province of Laguna (Filipino: Lalawigan ng Laguna), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region in Luzon.Its capital is Santa Cruz while its largest city is the City of Calamba (the regional center of Calabarzon) and the province is situated southeast of Metro Manila, south of the province of Rizal, west of Quezon, north of Batangas ...
The Spaniards would repeat the word until they adopt the name of the community. From then on this place was called Balanga. [9] Baguio: Benguet (geographically only) Cordillera Administrative Region: Summer Capital of the Philippines During the American period, Baguio became a chartered city and was declared the Summer Capital of the Philippines.