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Mimaropa (officially stylized in all caps), officially the Southwestern Tagalog Region [3] [4] (Filipino: Rehiyong Timog-Kanlurang Tagalog), is an administrative region in the Philippines. The name is an acronym combination of its constituent provinces : Mindoro (divided into Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro ), Marinduque , Romblon , and ...
Marinduque (/ ˌ m æ r ə n ˈ d uː k eɪ /; Tagalog pronunciation: [maɾinˈduke]), officially the Province of Marinduque, is an island province in the Philippines located in Southwestern Tagalog Region or Mimaropa, formerly designated as Region IV-B. Its capital is the municipality of Boac, the most populous in the province.
July 25, 1975 – Regions IX and XII are declared as Autonomous Regions in Western and Central Mindanao, respectively. [4] August 21, 1975 – Region IX is divided into Sub-Region IX-A and Sub-Region IX-B. Some regions in Mindanao are reorganized. [5] November 7, 1975 – Metro Manila is created. [6]
Calabarzon (officially stylized in all caps; [3] English: / ˌ k ɑː l ə b ɑːr ˈ z ɒ n /; Tagalog: [kalɐbaɾˈsɔn]), sometimes referred to as Southern Tagalog [4] (Tagalog: Timog Katagalugan [5]) and designated as Region IV‑A, [a] is an administrative region in the Philippines.
Administrative regions are groupings of geographically adjacent LGUs that are established, disestablished, and modified by the president of the Philippines based on the need to more coherently make economic development policies and coordinate the provision of national government services within a larger area beyond the province level.
Southern Tagalog was the largest region in the Philippines in terms of both land area and population. The 2000 Census of Population and Housing showed the region having a total of 11,793,655 people, which comprised 15.42 percent of the 76.5 million population of the country at that time.
August 4, 1969 – Samal sub-province created from Davao del Norte through Republic Act No. 5999, but never inaugurated. [146] 1971–1998. October 4, 1971 – Maranaw province created from Lanao del Sur through Republic Act No. 6406, remained unorganized due to the disruption caused by the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines.
Previously, Pasig served as the capital, a designation it retained even after becoming part of the National Capital Region in 1975. [4] [5] The province is a part of Greater Manila Area. It is the 5th largest province in the Philippines in terms of population.