Cities of the Philippines

The article cities in the Philippines provides an overview of the development of the population of the larger cities of the South East Asian country of the Philippines and an explanation of the political structure as well as classification of the cities of the country.

2.1 Classification of Cities
2.2 Income Classification

4.1 sorted by size
4.2 Ordered by provinces

Explanation

A City ( Lungsod, sometimes siyudad, in Filipino) is the Philippines a level of local government. Cities are in the hierarchy at the same level of responsibility as individually managed Philippine communities, but are cities after the " Local Government Code" of 1991, dealt with in relation to their larger share of the tax revenue (IRA ), which forms the municipal budget in part, separately.

Cities, such as municipalities, divided into barangays ( districts ) and are just ruled by elected officials, such as mayors as local chairman, a deputy mayor, several council members as of salaried officials who preside over the various local offices.

A number of cities of the island state are independent of provinces and be self administered with the disposal of the Philippine Court and a law passed by Congress. Classified as these places are recorded town ( chartered cities ), they also have their own representatives in Congress. Examples include Davao City, Valenzuela City, San Jose del Monte City, and Zamboanga City.

A certain proportion of authenticated cities is also rated as Huc, as highly urbanized cities (Highly Urbanized Cities ). Manila, Quezon City and Davao City are examples of this category.

Another type of cities are provincial towns (component cities ) that are part of a province and politically subject to the provincial government. These cities do not have their own autonomy or have representatives in the Philippine Congress, as is the case with the notarized cities. Examples of this class are Tarlac City in the province of Tarlac, Palayan City, in the province of Nueva Ecija and Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur.

Another group of cities is independent of any province. They are so -called Independent Component Cities, such as Ormoc City in Leyte province.

Metropolitan regions

Quezon City, which is part of Metro Manila, is the most populous city in the Philippines with a population of 2,679,450 ( 2007 census ). Davao City is. Regarding the area, with a metropolitan area of 2,444 square kilometers, one of the largest cities in the world

There are three metropolitan areas in the Philippines. By far the largest conurbation or urban agglomeration in the Philippines, Metro Manila with a population of 11,553,427 (2007). Thus 13 percent of the country's population is concentrated in the capital region. They recognized both the city of Manila, as well as 16 neighboring cities and communities.

The second is Metro Cebu in Cebu Province with 2,314,897 inhabitants (2007 ). Its center is the provincial capital Cebu City, which includes a total of 12 surrounding towns and individually managed communities. The third and youngest metropolis is the Metro Davao with 1,363,337 inhabitants (2007 ).

Classification

Classification of cities

Highly Urbanized Cities ( high urbanized cities) - These are cities with a population of at least 200,000 people and one, designated by the Treasurer of the City annual income of at least fifty million pesos ( P50, 000,000.00 ). The price constants of 1991 are used as basis. A highly urbanized city is certified by the National Statistics Office.

Authenticated cities ( Chartered Cities ) - City, who were appointed by a decree of the Congress. The conditions for granting a city charter are the presence of an independent governmental body with a mayor as chairman, a deputy mayor, a city council, of belonging to a congressional district and providing each one representative per 250,000 residents, a police station, an official seal and power to take all that influence to obtain, keep, loan, to promote and to arrange to take the real and personal properties for the fundamental interests of the city. It is also to be condemned, when private functions are misused for public benefit. Only then will the certification is signed by the power and the authority of Congress and approved.

Province Independent cities ( Independent Component Cities ) - City whose principles the voters keeps them to vote for electors province deputies. These cities are independent of their geographical corresponding province.

Provincial cities (Component Cities ) - cities which do not meet the above requirements for authenticated cities should be considered as a component, are thus considered as part of the province in which they are located geographically. If there is a Component City on the border of two or more provinces, the city of the province should belong to which they previously stood as a community. The definitions are set by the "National Statistical Coordination Board ."

Income classification

Cities are classified on the basis of their average annual income of the last three calendar years.

League of Cities of the Philippines ( LCP)

The League of Cities of the Philippines ( League of Cities of the Philippines - LCP ) is a not -for-profit organization that is subject to any government authority. Founded in 1988, the league belong to 117 cities. The organization was founded to coordinate joint efforts to improve administrative control and local autonomy and tasks, how to manage the preservation of the urban area and the improvement of public employment in the way.

List of cities in the Philippines

Sorted by size

The following table lists the cities and municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, and the results of censuses ( VZ ) from 1 May 1990, September 1, 1995, May 1 2000 and 1 August 2007. Listed is also the parent management unit ( district and province ), to which the city belongs. The cities and municipalities of Metro Manila and Butuan City, Cotabato City and Davao City belong to any province. The population figures refer to the community in its political boundaries, without politically independent suburbs.

Locations with the addition of City shall have the status of a city, places without this addition the status of an independently administered municipality ( Municipality ).

( VZ = Census )

Source: National Statistics Office