6th District of Iloilo?

          Will there be a Sixth District of Iloilo in the near future?

          For the longest time, it has been decades since the province of Iloilo added a new legislative district. Times have changed now and populations ever increasing. Based on the population projections for Philippine municipalities, Iloilo is indeed ripe for the addition on another district, the 6th district of Iloilo.

          Based on the projection for the year 2022, the presidential election year, the map below shows how Iloilo province will be rearranged to accommodate a new district while satisfying the required 250,000 district population.

          If this will be realized this move, adding another district to Iloilo, will create more representation for the province of Iloilo in the congress.

What do you think?

Source: DOH Population Projections 2018-2022; www.doh.gov.ph/node/15619

Sixth (6th) District of Iloilo soon?

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1921 Map of the Philippines

This a map of the Philippines in 1921 during the American Occupation. I adapted this map from the old Collier's 1921 Map of the Philippine Islands.

The major differences of this map from the modern (c 2017) Philippine map are as follows:

LUZON

• The aggregate of Mountain Province:
• the modern-day Apayao, Kalinga, Ifugao and Benguet
• Bontoc with Lepanto is now named Mountain Province
• Amburayan is now part of Ilocos Sur
• Isabela (with Quirino in it)
• Metro Manila is associated with Rizal Province
• Tayabas (now Aurora, Quezon and Marinduque)
• Mindoro (now Occidental and Oriental Mindoro)
• Ambos Camarines or the "Two Camarines" (now Camarines Norte and Sur)
• Albay (with Catanduanes)

VISAYAS

• Capiz (with Aklan)
• Iloilo (with Guimaras)
• Negros Oriental (with Siquijor)
• Leyte as a whole (now Leyte and Southern Leyte)
• Samar as a whole (now Northern Samar, Samar, and Eastern Samar)

MINDANAO

• Misamis (now Camiguin, Misamis Occidental and Oriental)
• Agusan (now Agusan del Norte, A. del Sur, and Bukidnon)
• Surigao (now Dinagat Islands, Surigao del Norte, and S. del Sur)
• Moro Province - the rest of Mindanao (the two Lanaos, Zamboanga Peninsula Region, Davao Region, Cotabato Region [SOCCSKSARGEN and Maguindanao], and the Sulu Archipelago

*This the first in a series of "refurbished" old Philippine maps that I'm going to publish. I'm still finalizing the other maps. Thank You!

Philippine Local Government Map

                    This map shows the Philippines up to the municipal or city level. Municipalities are one of the lowest levels of political organization in the Philippines second only to Barangays. A city is simply a municipality that has upgraded its status and achieved cityhood because it was able to satisfy the two criteria set by the constitution in turning municipalities to cities. The first criteria is that a municipality must have an annual generating income of at least 100,000,000.00 pesos for the last two consecutive years (year 2000 prices). The second criteria is that that same municipality must have at least 100 square kilometers of land area OR a population of at least 150,000 persons. A city or municipality is headed by an elected mayor and a vice mayor.

                    The divisions in the map represent municipal/city divisions. Neighboring or clusters of  municipalities/cities having the same color indicate that they belong to the same province. A city/municipality having a darker shade of the same color in each cluster indicate that it is the capital city/municipality of that province.

Regions of the Philippines

          The Republic of the Philippines is country in Southeast Asia composed of 17 regions. Each region is composed of provinces, each with its own local government headed by a governor.The map below shows the different regions of the Philippines distributed among the three island groups namely Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Altogether, there are 16 regular regions (including NCR and CAR) and one autonomous region (ARMM).

          Luzon, the largest island group both in terms of land area and population, is composed of Regions 1 to 5, CAR, and NCR. Visayas is composed of Regions 6 to 8 and is the smallest island group in terms of land area and population. Mindanao is composed of Regions 9 to 13 plus ARMM.