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Poverty incidence of Valderrama 10 20 30 40 50 2006 34.20 2009 43.48 2012 30.19 2015 32.20 2018 42.59 2021 32.91 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Government The newly-elected Mayor Jocelyn Posadas took her oath on June 21, 2016, after winning the elections May 9, 2016. The new set of the municipality's government officials are Josefino Castillón as Vice Mayor and 8 Sangguniang Bayan ...
English: Map of the Philippines showing the location of all the regions and provinces. Notes: The map does not depict cities that are independent of any province. It also does not depict the status of Sabah, the Spratly Islands, and Scarborough Shoal as disputed Philippine territories.
The rice terraces of the Cordilleras are one of the few monuments in the Philippines that show no evidence of having been influenced by colonial cultures. Owing to the difficult terrain, the Cordillera tribes are among the few peoples of the Philippines who have successfully resisted any foreign domination and have preserved their authentic tribal culture.
Regions first came to existence on September 24, 1972, when the provinces of the Philippines were organized into eleven regions under Presidential Decree No. 1 as part of the Integrated Reorganization Plan of President Ferdinand Marcos. [1] Since that time, other regions have been created and some provinces have been transferred from one region ...
An autonomous region, while possessing a government, is not a local government unit (LGU) per se, as the autonomous regional government's organization and structure are not defined by the Local Government Code of 1991, unlike provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays. [1] Rather, an autonomous region is a group of LGUs to which Congress ...
January 1 – Civil government of the Province of Cebu restored through Act No. 322 enacted on December 20, 1901. [81] January 28 – Civil government of the Province of Nueva Vizcaya established through Act No. 337. [82] April 1 – Civil government of the Province of Bohol restored through Act No. 365 enacted on March 3, 1902. [83]
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 ). [ 1 ] [ needs update ] All 120 primary-level LGUs (local government units) are under general administrative supervision of the President of the Philippines .
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. Currently for the Philippines, ISO 3166-2 codes are ...