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The following are regions that no longer exist, listed along with their current status: Southern Tagalog (Region IV, now divided into Calabarzon, Central Luzon , Metro Manila (several cities that were part of Rizal), and Mimaropa; the name remains as a cultural-geographic region only)
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.
The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification . [ 2 ]
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands, [8] and with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), it is the world's fifth largest island country. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 9 ] The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area.
The Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) is a systematic classification and coding for geographic areas in the Philippines. It classifies areas based on the country's four levels of administrative divisions : regions, provinces, municipalities or cities, and barangays .
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.
Now part of several regions in Mindanao. Ambos Camarines (1901–1908) – Divided into Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur , although the wording of Act No. 2809 implies Camarines Norte was created from Ambos Camarines , the remainder of which was renamed Camarines Sur. Camarines Sur retained the provincial capital of Nueva Caceres .