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July 15, 1987 – The Cordillera Administrative Region is created. [10] August 1, 1989 – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is created. [11] Region XII reverted to an administrative region. January 30, 1990 – Residents reject in a plebiscite the ratification to create the Cordillera Autonomous Region. [12]
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.
Thirteen of these regions are numerically designated from north to south, while the National Capital Region, the Cordillera Administrative Region, the Southwestern Tagalog Region (Mimaropa), the Negros Island Region, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are only designated by acronyms.
An autonomous region of the Philippines (Filipino: rehiyong awtonomo ng Pilipinas) is a first-level administrative division that has the authority to control a region's culture and economy. The Constitution of the Philippines allows for two autonomous regions: in the Cordilleras and in Muslim Mindanao .
Cordillera Administrative Region (6 C, 9 P) D. Davao Region (5 C, 2 P) E. Eastern Visayas (6 C, 4 P) I. ... List of regions of the Philippines by GDP *
Region Highest Point Highest elevation 1 XI-Davao Region: Mount Apo: 2,954 m 9,692 ft XII-SOCCSKSARGEN: 2 X-Northern Mindanao: Mount Dulang-dulang: 2,941 m 9,649 ft 3 II-Cagayan Valley: Mount Pulag: 2,922 m 9,587 ft Cordillera Administrative Region: 4 Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao: Mount Ragang: 2,815 m 9,236 ft 5 IV-B ...
Currently for the Philippines, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions: 17 regions; 82 provinces; Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is PH, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Philippines. The second part is either of the following: two digits: regions; three letters: provinces
List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008