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About the Philippines

• The Facts
• History
• Government
• Geography
• Demographics
• Culture

• Region 1 (Ilocos Region)
• Region 2 (Cagayan Valley Region)
• Region 3 (Central Luzon Region)
• Region 4-A (CALABARZON Region)
• Region 4-B (MIMARO Region)
• Region 5 (Bicol Region)
• Region 6 (Western Visayas Region)
• Region 7 (Central Visayas Region)
• Region 8 (Eastern Visayas Region)
• Region 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula Region)
• Region 10 (Northern Mindanao Region)
• Region 11 (Davao Region)
• Region 12 (SOCCSKSARGEN Region)
• Region 13 (Caraga Region)
• CAR (Cordillera Administrative Region)
• NCR (National Capital Region)
• ARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao)

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Philippine Regions

The region (rehiyon) is an administrative division of the Philippines that primarily serve 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.

Here's a table of all regions of the Philippines, their names, and the center of local government: