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In the Philippines, regions (Filpino:rehiyon, ISO 3166-2:PH) are administrative division that serve primarily to organize the 81 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.
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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.
The Philippines consists of 17 regions. The 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, MIMARO, and SOCCSKSARGEN are capitalized because they are acronyms that stand for their component provinces or cities.1
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Regional center | Provinces | |
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National Capital Region (NCR; Metro Manila) |
Manila | No provinces |
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Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) |
Baguio City | |
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Ilocos Region (Region I) |
San Fernando City | |
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Cagayan Valley (Region II) |
Tuguegarao City | |
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Central Luzon (Region III) |
San Fernando City | |
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CALABARZON (Region IV-A) |
Calamba City | |
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MIMARO (Region IV-B) |
Calapan City | |
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Bicol Region (Region V) |
Legazpi City |
| Map | Region (short name) |
Regional center | Provinces |
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Western Visayas (Region VI) |
Iloilo City | |
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Central Visayas (Region VII) |
Cebu City | |
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Eastern Visayas (Region VIII) |
Tacloban City |
(Some information are not accurate.) The Palawan Islands on the west of the Visayas Islands are not part of Region 6, nor part of the Visayas Island Group. Palawan is part of Region 4-B and is part of the Luzon Island Group. That is why Region 4-B above is known as MIMAROPA: MIndoro, MArinduque, ROmblon, and PAlawan.
| Map | Region (short name) |
Regional center | Provinces |
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Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) |
Pagadian City | |
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Northern Mindanao (Region X) |
Cagayan de Oro | |
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Davao Region (Region XI) |
Davao City | |
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SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII) |
Koronadal City | |
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Caraga (Region XIII) |
Butuan City | |
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Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) |
Cotabato City |
The following are regions that do not exist, explanations about their current status follow each region's name.
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