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Regions of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (450 words) |
 | A region (Filipino: Rehiyon) is a administrative subdivision in the Philippines. |
| Regions are generally organized to group provinces that have the same cultural and ethnological characteristics. |
| The Cordillera Administrative Region was originally intended to be autonomous (Cordillera Autonomous Region), but objections from Congress reduced it to a regular administrative region. |
| Encyclopedia: Special Administrative Region (2169 words) |
| In the political division of the Republic of China, "special administrative regions" were historically used to designate special areas, most of which were eventually converted into provinces. |
| Chahar was made a special administrative region in 1914 by the Republic of China, as a subdivision of the then Zhili province, with 6 banners and 11 counties. |
| Administrative divisions of North Korea As of 2004, North Korea consisted of two directly-governed cities (Chikalshi; 직할시;直轄市), three special administrative regions with various designations, and nine provinces (Do, singular and plural; 도; 道). |
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