Regions of the Philippines

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The regions themselves do not possess a separate local government, with the exception of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which has an elected regional assembly and governor. The Cordillera Administrative Region was originally intended to be autonomous (Cordillera Autonomous Region), but the failure of two plebiscites for its establishment reduced it to a regular administrative region.

History

Regions first came to existence in on September 24, 1972, when the provinces of the Philippines were organized into 11 regions by Presidential Decree № 1 as part of the Integrated Reorganization Plan of President Ferdinand Marcos.

Since that time, other regions have been created and some provinces have been transferred from one region to another.

  • July 7, 1975: Region XII created and minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.[1]
  • July 25, 1975: Regions IX and XII declared as Autonomous Regions in Western and Central Mindanao respectively.[2]
  • August 21, 1975: Region IX divided into Sub-Region IX-A and Sub-Region IX-B. Minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.[3]
  • November 7, 1975: Metropolitan Manila created.[4]
  • June 2, 1978: Metropolitan Manila declared as the National Capital Region.[5]
  • July 15, 1987: Cordillera Administrative Region created.[6]
  • August 1, 1989: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) created.[7] Region XII reverted to an administrative region.
  • October 23, 1989: First creation of Cordillera Autonomous Region.[8] Ratification rejected by residents in a plebiscite.
  • October 12, 1990: Executive Order 429 issued by President Corazon Aquino to reorganize the Mindanao regions but the reorganization never happened (possibly due to lack of government funds).[9]
  • February 23, 1995: Region XIII (Caraga) created and minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions. Sultan Kudarat transferred to Region XI.[10]
  • 1997: Minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.
  • December 22, 1997: Second creation of Cordillera Autonomous Region.[11] Ratification rejected by residents in a plebiscite.
  • December 18, 1998: Sultan Kudarat returned to Region XII.[12]
  • March 31, 2001: ARMM expanded.[13]
  • September 19, 2001: Most Mindanao regions reorganized and some renamed.[14]
  • May 17, 2002: Region IV-A (CALABARZON) and Region IV-B (MIMAROPA) created from the former Region IV (Southern Tagalog) region. Aurora transferred to Region III.[15]
  • May 23, 2005: Palawan transferred from Region IV-B to Region VI; MIMAROPA renamed to MIMARO.[16]
  • August 19, 2005: Transfer of Palawan to Region VI held in abeyance.[17]
  • May 29, 2015: Negros Island Region (NIR) created. Negros Occidental and Bacolod from Region VI and Negros Oriental from Region VII transferred to new region.[18]

List of regions

Administrative regions

Map of the Philippine regions before the establishment of the Negros Island Region

As of May 2015, the Philippines consists of 18 administrative regions, with one being autonomous. Some of the region designations include numeric components, some do not.[19] These regions are geographically combined into the three island groups of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

Following is a list of the regions in their island groupings. To get overviews of the regions, see the respective articles on the island groups. The regions CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, and SOCCSKSARGEN are capitalized because they are acronyms that stand for their component provinces or cities.[20]

  • Component local government units: the data column is limited to primary LGUs, which pertains to component provinces, highly urbanized cities and independent component cities, as well as the independent municipality of Pateros. All city names, except those under the National Capital Region, are italicized.
  • Location: the location map column can be sorted from North-to-South, West-to-East.
Location Region
(regional designation)		 Island
group		 Regional
center		 Component local
government units		 Area (km²) Population
(2010)[21]		 Density
(per km2)
90px National
Capital Region
(NCR)		 Luzon Manila
17
 636 11,855,975 18641.5
90px Ilocos Region
(Region I)		 Luzon San Fernando
(La Union)
5
 12,840 4,748,372 369.8
90px Cordillera
Administrative
Region
(CAR)		 Luzon Baguio
7
 18,294 1,616,867 88.4
90px Cagayan Valley
(Region II)		 Luzon Tuguegarao
6
 26,838 3,229,163 120.3
90px Central Luzon
(Region III)		 Luzon San Fernando
(Pampanga)
9
 21,470 10,137,737 472.2
90px Calabarzon
(Region IV-A)		 Luzon Calamba
6
 16,229 12,609,803 777
90px MIMAROPA
(Region IV-B)		 Luzon Calapan
6
 27,456 2,744,671 100
90px Bicol Region
(Region V)		 Luzon Legazpi
7
 17,632 5,420,411 307.4
90px Western Visayas
(Region VI)		 Visayas Iloilo City
6
 12,258 4,194,579 342.2
90px Negros Island
Region
(NIR or Region XVIII)		 Visayas Bacolod and
Dumaguete[upper-alpha 1]
(interim)
3
 13,351 4,194,525 314.2
90px Central Visayas
(Region VII)		 Visayas Cebu City
6
 9,565 5,513,514 576.4
90px Eastern Visayas
(Region VIII)		 Visayas Tacloban
5
 21,432 4,101,322 191.4
90px Zamboanga
Peninsula
(Region IX)		 Mindanao Pagadian
5
 14,811 3,407,353 230.1
90px Northern Mindanao
(Region X)		 Mindanao Cagayan de Oro
7
 17,125 4,297,323 250.9
90px Caraga
(Region XIII)		 Mindanao Butuan
6
 18,847 2,429,224 128.9
90px Davao Region
(Region XI)		 Mindanao Davao City
6
 20,244 4,468,563 220.7
90px SOCCSKSARGEN
(Region XII)		 Mindanao Koronadal
6
 18,433 4,109,571 222.9
90px Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM)		 Mindanao Cotabato City
5
 12,695 3,256,140 256.5
Notes
  1. ↑ Bacolod and Dumaguete are proposed to be joint, temporary regional centers for a three-year transition period. Kabankalan and neighboring Mabinay are envisioned to be joint, permanent regional centers.[24]
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Judicial regions

Note that insofar as the Judiciary is concerned, specifically the first and second level courts, the country is divided into judicial regions as provided by Batas Pambansa Bilang 129. The coverage of these judicial regions generally coincides with that of the administrative regions in the Executive branch of government.

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For a list of these judicial regions, see Regional Trial Court#List.

Proposed regions

  • Bangsamoro (proposed as a replacement of the ARMM. Includes areas outside the current ARMM.)
  • Cordillera Autonomous Region[26] (proposed to convert the Cordillera Administrative Region into an autonomous region.)

Defunct regions

The following are regions that no longer exist, listed along with their current status:

See also

References

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  19. ↑ List of Regions, National Statistical Coordination Board'"'.
  20. ↑ Some regions use acroyms in their names, examples include CALABARZON, which is derived from CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal, and QueZON; MIMAROPA, which is derived from MIndoro (for Mindoro Occidental and Mindoro Oriental), MArinduque, ROmblon, and PAlawan; and SOCCSKSARGEN, which is derived from SOuth Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, SARangani, and GENeral Santos.
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  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 An independent component city, not under the jurisdiction of any provincial government.
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  25. ↑ A component city, part of the province of Basilan, but whose regional services are provided by the offices of Region IX.
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External links

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