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Caloocan → Kalookan → Caloocan. Capangan → Kapangan. Carig → Santiago de Carig → Santiago (1910) [27] Cava → Caba. Cavite El Viejo → Cavite Viejo → Kawit (1907) [28] Cavite La Punta → Cavite Nuevo → Cavite (1903) [29] Cayan → Kayan → Tadian (1959) [30] Cayapa → Kayapa.
This is a complete list of cities and municipalities in the Philippines.The Philippines is administratively divided into 82 provinces (Filipino: lalawigan).These, together with the National Capital Region, are further subdivided into cities (Filipino: lungsod) and municipalities (Filipino: bayan).
An 1801 map of the East Indies Isles which shows the placement of the Spratly Islands. Most of the names have changed since then. The Republic of the Philippines claims the Spratly islands and are based on sovereignty over the Spratly Islands on the issues of res nullius and geography.
The more than 140 cities in the Philippines as of 2022 have taken their names from a variety of languages both indigenous (Austronesian) and foreign (mostly Spanish).The majority of Philippine cities derive their names from the major regional languages where they are spoken including Tagalog (), Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Kapampangan and Pangasinense.
Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Islas Filipinas (Spanish, lit. " Hydrographical and Chorographical Chart of the Philippine Islands "), more commonly known as the Velarde map, is a map of the Philippines made and first published in Manila in 1734 by the Jesuit cartographer Pedro Murillo Velarde [es], the engraver Nicolás de la Cruz ...
Quezon City, the most populous. Palayan, the least populous. Manila, the capital and most densely populated. Puerto Princesa, the most sparsely populated. Davao City, the largest in terms of land area. San Juan, the smallest in terms of land area. Carmona, the newest city. Cebu City, the oldest city.
A city (Filipino: lungsod or siyudad) is one of the units of local government in the Philippines.All Philippine cities are chartered cities (Filipino: nakakartang lungsod), whose existence as corporate and administrative entities is governed by their own specific municipal charters in addition to the Local Government Code of 1991, which specifies their administrative structure and powers.
Taguig (Tagalog: [taˈɡiɡ] ⓘ), officially the City of Taguig (Filipino: Lungsod ng Taguig), is a coastal city located in eastern shores of Metro Manila. It is the fifth-most populous city in the Philippines with a population of 1.2 million people. [ 4 ] The city is one of the Philippines' cultural, financial, high-tech, entertainment and ...