🇵🇭 Philippines 24 administrative divisions

24 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 5,623 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1: PH · PHL · 608
Capital: Manila
Continent: Asia
Currency: PHP — Philippine peso
Calling code: +63
Internet domain: .ph
Divisions: 24
Cities and towns: 5,623

Divisions

The 24 divisions of Philippines

24 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division	ISO 3166-2	Cities and towns	Population
Calabarzon	PH-40	622	16,933,234
Central Visayas	PH-07	515	6,640,875
Metro Manila	PH-00	459	14,001,751
Ilocos Region	PH-01	435	5,342,453
Mimaropa	PH-41	397	3,245,446
Bicol Region	PH-05	383	6,064,426
Central Luzon	PH-03	372	12,989,074
Eastern Visayas	PH-08	314	4,625,929
Western Visayas	PH-06	293	4,861,911
Northern Mindanao	PH-10	249	5,178,326
Cagayan Valley	PH-02	224	3,777,608
Soccsksargen	PH-12	211	4,462,776
Zamboanga Peninsula	PH-09	211	3,943,837
Davao Region	PH-11	190	5,389,422
Caraga	PH-13	161	2,865,196
Negros Occidental	PH-NEC	156	2,680,477
Cordillera Administrative Region	PH-15	111	1,808,985
Negros Oriental	PH-NER	85	1,492,038
Lanao del Sur	PH-LAS	45	1,368,137
Basilan	PH-BAS	28	541,947
Tawi-Tawi	PH-TAW	25	482,645
Maguindanao del Sur	PH-MGS	24	813,243
Siquijor	PH-SIG	20	107,642
Maguindanao del Norte	PH-MGN	16	1,124,811

A further 77 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Philippines
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/PH.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/PH/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.