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In the Philippines, regions (Filipino: rehiyon, ISO 3166-2:PH) are administrative divisions that
serve primarily to organize the 80 provinces (lalawigan) for administrative convenience. Most
government offices establish regional offices instead of individual provincial offices, usually (but
not necessarily always) in the city designated as the regional center.
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.

Contents
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• 1 History
• 2 List of regions
○ 2.1 Luzon
○ 2.2 Visayas
○ 2.3 Mindanao
• 3 Defunct regions
• 4 Notes
• 5 See also
• 6 References

[edit] 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 No. 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.
• August 21, 1975: Region IX divided into Sub-Region IX-A' and Sub-Region IX-B.
Minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.
• November 7, 1975: National Capital Region created.
• August 1, 1989: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao created.
 • October 23, 1989: Cordillera Administrative Region created.
• October 12, 1990: Executive Order issued to reorganize the Mindanao regions but the
reorganization never happened (possibly due to lack of government funds).
• February 23, 1995: Region XIII (Caraga) created and minor reorganization of some
Mindanao regions.
• 1997: Minor reorganization of some Mindanao regions.
• September 19, 2001: Most Mindanao regions reorganized and some renamed.
• May 17, 2002: Region IV-A (CALABARZON) and Region IV-B (MIMAROPA) created
from the former Region IV (Southern Tagalog) region.
• May 23, 2005: Palawan transferred from MIMAROPA to Western Visayas;
MIMAROPA renamed to MIMARO.
• August 19, 2005: The E.O. 429 of May 23, 2005 transferring Palawan from MIMAROPA
to Western Visayas was later held in abeyance by Administrative Order #129.
[edit] List of regions
Today the Philippines consists of 17 regions which 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.[1]
[edit] Luzon
Region Regional Component local
Map (short name) center government units
National Manila • Caloocan
Capital and City[2]
Region Quezon
(NCR; Metro City • Las Piñas
Manila) City[2]
• Makati
City[2]
• Malabon
City[2]
• Mandaluyon
g City[2]
• Manila[2]
• Marikina
City[2]
• Muntinlupa
City[2]
• Navotas
City[2]
 • Parañaque
City[2]
• Pasay City[2]
• Pasig City[2]
• Pateros[3]
• Quezon
City[2]
• San Juan
City[2]
• Taguig
City[2]
• Valenzuela
City[2]
Cordillera Baguio • Abra
Administrati City
ve Region • Apayao
(CAR) • Baguio
City[2]
• Benguet
• Ifugao
• Kalinga
• Mountain
Province
Ilocos Region San • Dagupan
(Region I) Fernando City[4]
City, La
Union • Ilocos Norte
• Ilocos Sur
• La Union
• Pangasinan
Cagayan Tuguegar • Batanes
Valley ao City
(Region II) • Cagayan
• Isabela
• Nueva
Vizcaya
• Quirino
 Central San • Aurora
Luzon Fernando
(Region III) City, • Bataan
Pampang • Bulacan
a
• Nueva Ecija
• Pampanga
• Tarlac
• Zambales
CALABARZ Calamba • Batangas
ON City
(Region IV-A) • Cavite
• Quezon
• Rizal
• Laguna

MIMAROPA Calapan • Marinduque

(Region IV-B) City
• Occidental
Mindoro
• Oriental
Mindoro
• Palawan
• Romblon
Bicol Region Legazpi • Albay
(Region V) City
• Camarines
Norte
• Camarines
Sur
• Catanduanes
• Masbate
• Sorsogon

[edit] Visayas
Region Regional Component local
Map (short name) center government units
 Western Iloilo • Aklan
Visayas City
(Region VI) • Antique
• Bacolod
City[2]
• Capiz
• Guimaras
• Iloilo
• Iloilo City[2]
• Negros
Occidental
Central Cebu • Bohol
Visayas City
(Region VII) • Cebu
• Cebu City[2]
• Lapu-Lapu
City[2]
• Mandaue
City[2]
• Negros
Oriental
• Siquijor
Eastern Tacloban • Biliran
Visayas City
(Region VIII) • Eastern
Samar
• Leyte
• Northern
Samar
• Ormoc City[4]
• Samar
• Southern
Leyte
• Tacloban
City[2]

[edit] Mindanao
Region
Region Component local
Map al
(short name) government units
center
Zamboanga Pagadi • Isabela City[5]
Peninsula an City
(Region IX) • Zamboanga
City[2]
• Zamboanga del
Norte
• Zamboanga del
Sur
• Zamboanga
Sibugay
Northern Cagaya • Bukidnon
Mindanao n de
(Region X) Oro • Cagayan de Oro
City City[2]
• Camiguin
• Iligan City[2]
• Lanao del Norte
• Misamis
Occidental
• Misamis
Oriental
Davao Region Davao • Compostela
(Region XI) City Valley
• Davao City[2]
• Davao del
Norte
• Davao del Sur
• Davao Oriental
SOCCSKSA Korona • Cotabato<socsa
RGEN dal rgen>
(Region XII) City
• Cotabato City[4]
• General Santos
City[2]
• Sarangani
• South Cotabato
• Sultan Kudarat
 Caraga Butuan • Agusan del
Region City Norte
• Agusan del Sur
• Butuan City[2]
• Dinagat Islands
• Surigao del
Norte
• Surigao del Sur
Autonomous Cotaba • Basilan
Region of to City (excluding
Muslim Isabela City)
Mindanao
(ARMM) • Lanao del Sur
• Maguindanao
• Sulu
• Tawi-Tawi

[edit] Defunct regions

The following are regions that do not exist, explanations about their current status follow each
region's name.
• Southern Tagalog (divided into CALABARZON or Region IV-a and MIMARO or
Region IV-B (Palawan is no longer included. It is now part of Visayas))
• Western Mindanao (now Zamboanga Peninsula, still designated as Region IX)
• Central Mindanao (now SOCCSKSARGEN, still designated as Region XII)
• Southern Mindanao (now Davao, still designated as Region XI)
[edit] Notes
1. ^ 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 City.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac A highly urbanized city, independent from any
province.
3. ^ An independent municipality, not governed by any province.
4. ^ a b c An independent component city, not under the jurisdiction of any provincial government.
5. ^ A component city, part of the province of Basilan, but whose regional services are provided by
the offices of Region IX.

[edit] See also

• Super regions of the Philippines
 • ISO 3166-2:PH
[edit] References
• National Statistical Coordination Board
• Philippines-Archipelago (Political Map)
• National Statistics Office
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Basilan • Bataan • Batanes • Batangas • Benguet • Biliran • Bohol • Bukidnon • Bulacan •
P Cagayan • Camarines Norte • Camarines Sur • Camiguin • Capiz • Catanduanes • Cavite •
r Cebu • Compostela Valley • Cotabato • Davao del Norte • Davao del Sur •
o Davao Oriental • Eastern Samar • Guimaras • Ifugao • Ilocos Norte • Ilocos Sur • Iloilo •
v Isabela • Kalinga • La Union • Laguna • Lanao del Norte • Lanao del Sur • Leyte •
i Maguindanao • Marinduque • Masbate • Misamis Occidental • Misamis Oriental •
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s Siquijor • Sorsogon • South Cotabato • Southern Leyte • Sultan Kudarat • Sulu •
Surigao del Norte • Surigao del Sur • Tarlac • Tawi-Tawi • Zambales •
Zamboanga del Norte • Zamboanga del Sur • Zamboanga Sibugay

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