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Fast facts!
>According to the Philippine National Statistical Coordination Board, there are 81 provinces, 118 cities, 1,510 municipalities, and 41,995 barangays in the Philippines as of December 31, 2006. >The province with the most number of barangays is Iloilo, with 1,901 barangays, 42 municipalities, and 2cities. >Batanes has the least number of barangays --- 29 districts only!
>Region with the most number of cities: Region VI (Western Visayas) with 16 cities. Negros Occidental has 13 cities while Capiz and Iloilo have 1 and 2 cities respectively. >Oldest province: Aklan, established as early as 1213 by settlers of Borneo. Oldest city: Cebu City, site of the earliest European settlement established by Spanish conqueror Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in 1565. Oldest town: now 481 years old, having been established in 1521, the same year that Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines. >Youngest province: Dinagat Islands province split from Surigao del Norte on December 2, 2006. >The Liga ng mga Barangay, an organization of all the barangays all over the country, serves for the ventilation, articulation, and resolution of issues affecting barangay government administration. >In the 2004 National and Local Elections, COMELEC declared a total number of 17,717 elective government positions. Local government seats include positions for governor, vice-governor, board members, mayor, vice-mayor, councilors, and Sangguniang Kabataan members.
Trivia:
Sri Lanka - ang dating pangalan ng bansang ito ay Ceylon. Turkey - ang dating pangalan ng bansang ito ay Asia Minor na madalas na nababanggit sa Bibliya sa Bagong Testament. Philippines -Ang naging dating pangalan ng bansa natin. Las Islas De San Lazaro at Felipinas. Thailand- dating pangalan ay Siam Jordan- ang bansang Jordan ay ipinangalan mula sa karatig ilog na Ilog Jordan. Hawaii-Ang dating pangalan ng bansang ito ay Sandwich Islands. Iran-ay ang dating Mesopotamia. Russia- ang dating pangalan nito ay Union Soviet Socialist Republic dahil sa 15 pang bansang nakapaloob dito.Ang mga bansa ay : * Armenia Vietnam- Indochina ang dating katawagan sa bansang ito. * Azerbaijan * Belarus * Estonia * Georgia * Kazakhstan * Kyrgyzstan * Latvia * Lithuania * Moldavia * Russia * Tajikistan * Turkmenistan * Ukraine * Uzbekistan