Northwestern Region is the term preferred by a number of Pangasinan residents to refer to Region 1 in the Philippines. The use of Ilocos Region to refer to the provinces in the northwest region of the Philippines, including Pangasinan, promotes the wrong notion that all the residents of Region 1 are Ilocanos. Actually a substantial percentage or 25% of the residents of Region 1 are not Ilocanos and are Pangasinan. Pangasinan, officially Province of Pangasinan (Pangasinan: Luyag na Pangasinan), is one of the provinces of the Republic of the Philippines. ... The Ilocano people are the third largest Filipino ethnic group. ... Pangasinán is a language of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family of languages spoken by more than two million people in Pangasinan, other Pangasinan communities in the Philippines, and by a significant number of Pangasinan immigrants in the United States; it is the primary language in Pangasinan...