Philippines Location Categories

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The Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

Philippines Location Category Structure

The administrative divisions of the Philippines are as follows:

• 17 regions
• 82 provinces
• 146 cities
• 1488 municipalities
• 42,036 barangays (the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district, or ward)

Naming convention for regions: [[Category:Region, Philippines]]

Example: [[Category:Central Luzon, Philippines]]

Naming convention for provinces: [[Category:Province, Region]]

Example: [[Category:Nueva Ecija, Central Luzon]]

Naming convention for municipalities/cities: [[Category:City/municipality, Province]]

Example: [[Category:San Jose, Nueva Ecija]]

Notes

1. Some highly urbanized cities, such as Taguig, have no province. The naming scheme would need to be adapted in such cases, to [[Category:City, Philippines]].

Examples: [[Category:Manila, Philippines]], [[Category:Taguig, Philippines]]

2. For our purposes, the baranguay units may be too small to use as a location category if it is a ward or district of a municipality. A village should probably be named in the same manner as a municipality or city.