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Poverty incidence of Eastern Visayas 10 20 30 40 50 2006 41.51 2009 42.58 2012 45.23 2015 41.30 2018 30.75 2021 22.20 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Eastern Visayas is primarily an agricultural region with rice, corn, coconut, sugarcane and banana as its major crops. Primary sources of revenue are manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade and services. Mining, farming, fishing and ...
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).
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]
In the Philippines, provinces (Filipino: lalawigan or probinsiya) are one of its primary political and administrative divisions.There are 82 provinces at present, which are further subdivided into component cities and municipalities.
Below is a full list of primary-level subdivisions of local government in the Philippines.As of June 11, 2024, there are 82 provinces ( province ), 33 highly urbanized cities ( HUC ), 5 independent component cities ( ICC ), and one independent municipality ( NCR municipality ).
Each province is guaranteed at least one seat, and more populous provinces are also provided more. Many cities that have a population of at least 250,000 inhabitants are also granted one or more seats. If a province or a city is composed of only one legislative district, it is said to be the lone district (e.g., the "Lone District of Guimaras").
There are 149 cities of the Philippines as of July 8, 2023. [3] Thirty-three of these are highly urbanized cities (HUC), five are independent component cities (ICC), with the rest being component cities (CC) of their respective provinces.
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.