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A city (lungsod, sometimes siyudad, in Filipino and Tagalog) is a tier of local government in the Philippines. Cities are in the same hierarchical level as municipalities, but under the Local Government Code of 1991, cities are given special treatment in terms of bigger share from the internal revenue allotment (IRA) which forms part of the city's budget. Cities, like municipalities, are composed of barangays and are governed by elective officials such as Mayor as Local Chief Executive, Vice-Mayor, and councilors as well as appointive officials heading the different local offices under them. Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Tagalog (pronounced ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... A barangay (Tagalog: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy), also known by its former name, the barrio, is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. ...

A number of cities in the country act independently from any province and are self-governing as decreed by Philippine Law through an Act of Congress. They are classified as highly-urbanized cities. A significant number of these highly urbanized cities are in Metro Manila. The second type of cities are component cities, which are part of a province and are thus governed as part of the latter. They do not have autonomy or representation in the Philippine Congress, as Chartered Cities do. They depend on their provincial government for support and representation. Examples are Tarlac City in Tarlac province, and Palayan City, in Nueva Ecija province, and Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur province. There are, however, some component cities that are somewhat independent, like Ormoc City in Leyte. Tarlac City is a 3rd class city in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. ... REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Province of Tarlac Region: Central Luzon (Region III) Capital: Tarlac City Founded: 1872 Population: 2000 census—1,068,783 (23rd largest) Density—350 per km² (14th highest) Area: 3,053. ... Palayan City is a 4th class city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. ... Nueva Ecija is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. ... Pagadian City is a 1st class city in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. ... Zamboanga del Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao. ... The City of Ormoc is a 1st class city in the province of Leyte, Philippines. ... Leyte is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. ...

Quezon City, in Metro Manila is the most populous city in the Philippines with over 2,000,000 residents. Davao City, is one of the largest cities in the world in terms of land area, occupying more than 2,500 square kilometers. Nickname: Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Quezon City Coordinates: 14°38 N, 121°2 E Country Philippines Region National Capital Region Districts 1st to 4th districts of Quezon City Barangays 142 Incorporated (town) October 12, 1939 (as Balintawak) Incorporated (city) October 12, 1939 Government  - Mayor Feliciano Sonny... For the capital city of the Philippines, see Manila. ... Motto: Love, Peace, and Progress Map of Davao Region showing the location of Davao City Coordinates: 7° 30 N, 126° E Country Region Province None Districts 1st to 3rd Districts of Davao City Barangays 184 Incorporated (town) 1848 Incorporated (city) October 16, 1936 Government  - Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (Hugpong/PDP-Laban...

There are two metropolitan areas in the Philippines. Metro Manila is the largest conurbation or urban agglomeration in the country. It is composed of the city of Manila plus 15 neighboring cities and a municipality. The second is Metro Cebu in Cebu Province. It is centered on Cebu City, the provincial capital plus 12 surrounding cities and municipalities. A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. ... For the capital city of the Philippines, see Manila. ... A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities, towns and villages which, through population growth and expansion, have physically merged to form one continuous built up area. ... In the study of human settlements, an agglomeration is an extended city or town area comprising the built-up area of a central place (usually a municipality) and any suburbs or adjacent satellite towns. ... For other meanings of the word, see Manila (disambiguation). ... For the article on the Province of Cebu, see Cebu Province. ... Cebu is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region. ... Nickname: Map of Cebu showing the location of Cebu City Coordinates: 10°17 N 123°54 E Country Region Province Cebu (capital) Districts 1st and 2nd districts of Cebu City Barangays 80 Incorporated (town) 1565 Incorporated (city) February 24, 1937 Government  - Mayor Tomas D.R. Osmeña (BO-PK/Lakas...

Classification

City classification

Prior to the enactment of the Local Government Code in 1991, all cities were considered Chartered cities. Chartered cities are those that have been created by an Act of Congress and are run as an independent government with the Mayor as its Chief Executive, a Vice-Mayor, City Council, one Congressional District and Representative per every 250,000 population count, a Police force, a common seal, and the power to take, purchase, receive, hold, lease, convey, and disposes of real and personal property for the general interests of the City, condemn private property for public use (eminent domain), contract and be contracted with, sue and exercise all the powers conferred to it by Congress.

The Local Government Code of 1991 reclassified all cities into one of three categories:

Highly Urbanized Cities - Cities with a minimum population of two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants, as certified by the National Statistics Office, and with the latest annual income of at least Fifty Million Pesos (P50,000,000.00) based on 1991 constant prices, as certified by the city treasurer. There are 32 highly urbanized cities in the Philippines.

Independent Component Cities - Cities whose charters prohibit their voters from voting for provincial elective officials. Independent component cities shall be independent of the province. There are four (4) independent component cities in the Philippines.

Component Cities - Cities which do not meet the above requirements shall be considered component cities of the province in which they are geographically located. If a component city is located within the boundaries of two (2) or more provinces, such city shall be considered a component of the province of which it used to be a municipality. There are 100 component citites in the Philippines.

Definitions taken from National Statistical Coordination Board.

Independent Cities

All Philippine cities are chartered cities - they have their own charters (in the form of the Acts/Commonwealth Acts/Republic Acts which created them) from which they derive their additional powers (powers that are not given to municipalities such as power to levy higher taxes, the right to have own congressional district, etc.). Highly-urbanized cities and independent component cities are independent in the sense that once they are classified as such:

• They stop sharing their revenues with the province, and
• their Sangguniang Panlungsod legislation becomes no longer subject to review and approval by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. Component cities are the opposite.

However, some independent cities still serve as the seat of government of the respective provinces in which they are geographically located: Bacolod (Negros Occidental), Butuan (Agusan del Norte), Cagayan de Oro (Misamis Oriental), Cebu City (Cebu), Iloilo City (Iloilo), Lucena (Quezon), Pasig (Rizal) and Puerto Princesa (Palawan). In such cases, the provincial government takes care of the expenses of maintaining its properties such as provincial government buildings and offices outside its jurisdiction by paying for the actual cost of running these facilities as well as providing the host city government with an annual amount (which the province determines at its discretion) to aid in relieving incidental costs incurred to the city.

While all independent cities enjoy legal and fiscal autonomy from provinces, some have specific charter provisions that enable the city's residents to vote for and/or run for elective positions (governor, vice-governor, provincial board members) in the provincial government.

• Independent cities whose residents are allowed to vote and run for provincial offices: Lucena, Mandaue
• Independent cities whose residents are allowed to only vote for provincial officials: Lapu-Lapu, Puerto Princesa
• Independent cities whose residents are allowed to only run for provincial offices: Dagupan, Iloilo, Naga (Camarines Sur)

Registered voters of the cities of Bacolod, Baguio, Butuan, Cebu, Cotabato, Davao, General Santos, Olongapo, Ormoc, Santiago, Zamboanga, as well as all cities within Metro Manila are not qualified to vote for provincial officials or be elected to any position in the provincial government.

Prior to 1980, the eligibility of cities to vote for provincial officials was determined by their respective charters. With the enactment of Batas Pambansa Bilang 51 on December 22, 1979, all cities that were classified as belonging to the newly-introduced "highly urbanized city" distinction lost their eligibility to participate in provincial elections regardless of what their charters indicated. As a result, the cities of Bacolod, Butuan, Cebu, Iloilo and Olongapo became ineligible to vote for provincial officials. Exceptions to this rule are the cities which were incorporated (chartered, i.e. given a charter) before 1980 but declared as highly urbanized after 1987 (Lapu-Lapu, Lucena, Mandaue and Puerto Princesa), as Section 452 (c) of the Local Government Code of 1991 (Republic Act 7160) guarantees this.

The representation of a city in the House of Representatives (or lack thereof) is not a criterion for its independence from a province, as Congress is for national legislation and is part of the national government. While 21 independent cities have their own representive(s) in Congress (22 in 2010 when Navotas gets its own seat) some still remain as part of the partial representation of the province to which they belonged. Independent cities that do not vote for provincial officials are excluded in Sangguniang Panlalawigan districts, and the allotment of SP members is adjusted accordingly. For example, Agusan del Norte has eight SP members and 2 congressional districts. The seats of the SP are not distributed 4-4 between ADN's first and second congressional districts because its first congressional district contains Butuan City, which does not vote for provincial officials. The seats are distributed 1-7 to account for the small population of the first Sangguniang Panlalawigan district (comprised only of Las Nieves) and the bulk of the province's population being in the second district.

Despite Antipolo and San Jose del Monte having their own representatives in Congress, they are still component cities of Rizal and Bulacan respectively.

Income classification

Cities are classified according to average annual income based on the previous 3 calendar years. [1]

• 1st class - P300 million or more
• 2nd class - P240 million or more but less than P 300 million
• 3rd class - P180 million or more but less than P240 million
• 4th class - P120 million or more but less than P180 million
• 5th class - P60 million or more but less than P120 million
• 6th class - Below P 60 million

League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP)

The League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) is a non-profit organization and is not a government agency. It has a membership of 117 cities and was founded in 1988. The organization was formed to help coordinate efforts to improve governance and local autonomy and to tackle issues such as preserving the environment and improving public works.

List of Cities

For a full detailed sortable list, including population, area and density figures, please see List of cities in the Philippines.

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Largest cities

The following is a list of the 10 largest cities in the country in terms of population, ordered according to their 2007 census population.

Rank	City	Population (2007 census)	Population	Image	Description
1.	Quezon City	2,679,450	[1]		This is the former capital of the country (1948-1976); largest city in Metro Manila and the Philippines
2.	Manila City	1,660,714	[1]		This is the Capital of the country (from 1571-1948 and 1976-present).
3.	Caloocan City	1,378,856	[1]		This was called "The Nice City"
4.	Davao City	1,363,337	[2]		This was called "The Land of Promise"
5.	Cebu City	798,809	[3]	Image:C:UsersagbPictures160520081830.jpg	This was called "The Queen City of the South"
6.	Zamboanga City	774,407	[4]		This was called "the City of Flowers"; branded as Asia's Latin City
7.	Antipolo City	633,971	[3]
8.	Pasig City	617,301	[3]		"One of the top business districts in the metropolis"
9.	Taguig City	613,343	[3]		This was called "Home of the Global City"
10.	Valenzuela City	568,928	[3]		This was called "The Vibrant City"

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Defunct/dissolved cities

• Dagu-cala City (1947) - President Roxas issued Executive Order No. 96 fixing the city limits of Dagupan to include the towns of San Fabian and Calasiao but the residents of Calasiao rejected inclusion into the new city, causing controversy over the election that was held on Nov. 10, 1947. The Dagu-cala dispute was brought before the Supreme Court of the Philippines which subsequently validated the election and ruled that Dagupan became a city on June 20, 1947, when Roxas signed the charter into law.
• Legazpi City (1948-1954) - Legazpi's cityhood was approved on June 18, 1948. Under Republic Act 306, Legazpi was to become a city after the President of the Philippines proclaimed its cityhood. Comprising the present-day territories of Legazpi City and Daraga, the city was dissolved on June 8, 1954 when Legazpi and Daraga were made into separate municipalities. Legazpi eventually became a city on its own on June 12, 1959.
• Basilan City (1948-1973) - formerly part of the city of Zamboanga until it was made a city on its own in 1948. Converted to the province of Basilan in 1973 by President Ferdinand Marcos.
• Rajah Buayan City (1966) - under Republic Act 4413, the then-municipality of General Santos in what was then the unified province of Cotabato was to be formally converted into a city named after Rajah Buayan (a former ruler in Mindanao) on January 1, 1966, provided that majority of qualified voters in the municipality vote in favor of cityhood in a plebiscite. In December 1965 the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) proclaimed the cityhood of Rajah Buayan, with 4,422 people voting for and 3,066 voting against. However, two residents of the new city challenged this by arguing in the courts that the number of people who voted in favor of cityhood did not form a majority in light of the fact that there were 15,727 voters in the city. The court issued an injunction on January 4, 1966 restraining city officers from performing any acts authorized by or pursuant to provisions in RA 4413. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld this decision on October 29, 1966 and declared that the city charter was not accepted by majority of voters, thus rendering RA4413 null and void. The municipality of General Santos would later be converted into a city under the same name in 1968.

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Rejected cityhood

Note: This section only lists attempts that reached the stage where a Republic Act was enacted for the purpose of achieving cityhood.

• Batangas (1965) - A majority of the voters in the then-municipality of Batangas rejected cityhood in a plebiscite conducted on the same day as the 1965 Philippine general elections, as mandated by RA 4586. The city would have been named Laurel City in honor of Jose P. Laurel, the president of the Japanese-sponsored Second Republic. The municipality of Batangas would later be converted into a city under the same name in 1969.
• Tarlac (1969) - The city charter of Tarlac (RA 5907) was approved on June 21, 1969. Cityhood was rejected in a plebiscite held on November 11, 1969 by a majority the municipality's voters. Tarlac would later become a city in 1998.
• Ilagan (1999) - Republic Act 8474, which converted Ilagan to a component city of Isabela, was approved on February 2, 1998. However, majority of Ilagan's voters rejected cityhood in a plebiscite held on March 14, 1999.
• Novaliches (1999) - On February 23, 1998 the controversial City Charter of Novaliches (RA 8535) was approved, which sought to create a new city out of the 15 northern barangays of Quezon City. Historically a separate municipality, Novaliches was distributed between Quezon City and northern Caloocan in 1948. In a plebiscite held on October 23, 1999, majority of Quezon City's voting residents rejected the cityhood of Novaliches.
• Meycauayan (2001) - Cityhood was rejected by majority of Meycauayan's voters in a plebiscite that sought to ratify Republic Act 9021. Meycauayan would become a city five years later with the enactment of RA 9356 and its ratification through a plebiscite on December 10, 2006.

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Former names

Note: This section only lists name changes made upon or since cityhood.

• Cagayan de Oro City - the municipality of Cagayan de Misamis was converted to the city of Cagayan de Oro in 1950 by virtue of R.A. 521.
• Lapu-Lapu City - the municipality of Opon was converted to a city named after Lapu-Lapu, hero of the Battle of Mactan in 1961 by virtue of R.A. 3134.
• Marawi City - inaugurated as the City of Dansalan in 1950, renamed to Marawi on June 16, 1956 by virtue of R.A. 1552.
• Ozamiz City - the municipality of Misamis was converted to a city named after José Ozámiz, the first governor of Misamis Occidental, in 1948 by virtue of R.A. 321.
• Pasay City - inaugurated as Rizal City in 1947, reverted to Pasay on June 7, 1950 by virtue of R.A. 437.
• Roxas City - in 1951 the municipality of Capiz was converted to a city named after Manuel A. Roxas, the first president of the Third Philippine Republic and town native by virtue of R.A. 603.

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References

See also

• List of cities and municipalities in the Philippines

This is a list of cities and municipalities in the Philippines arranged by province and in alphabetical order. ...

External links

• League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP)
• Philippine Clean Cities Project
• CityMayors.com article
• Location map of the largest cities (World Gazeteer) (somewhat inaccurate)

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