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The Philippines has 18 regions, and a good deal of what is printed still shows 17. The Negros Island Region was created in 2024 out of three provinces that had belonged to two other regions, which makes it the newest line on the map. This page is all of them, grouped by island group the way the game groups them, and what tells you which one you are in.
A region is an administrative grouping of provinces, not a government: it has no elected governor or legislature, but it is how national agencies organise themselves, how regional offices are addressed, and how Filipinos say where they are from. Most regions are known by a Roman numeral as well as a name, and the numerals are worth learning because they appear on government signage and plates. Two are different in kind. Metro Manila is the capital region, made of cities and one municipality rather than provinces. The Bangsamoro region in the south is autonomous, with its own parliament, and replaced the older Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in 2019.
The number that matters is 18. Three changes explain most of the confusion over it:
Each group can be switched on and off on its own in the start dialog. The Visayas are the one most players have to relearn, since two of their four regions changed shape in 2024.
Negros Island Region, the west half of the middle of the Visayas. It joins the island of Negros with Siquijor off its southern tip, and the map shows it as the one region that is nearly all a single island between Panay and Cebu.
Metro Manila: the national capital region, on the shore of Manila Bay and the smallest region on the map by a wide margin. It is a few pixels across with the whole archipelago in view, so it has a tap area to be clickable at all.
18, since the Negros Island Region was created in 2024. Before that there were 17, and many maps and lists still show that number.
A region created in 2024 from Negros Occidental, which had been in Western Visayas, and Negros Oriental and Siquijor, which had been in Central Visayas. It puts the whole island of Negros in one region.
A province has an elected governor and a legislature and is the first tier of local government. A region is a grouping of provinces used by national agencies, with no government of its own, except the Bangsamoro region, which is autonomous.
Luzon in the north, the Visayas in the middle and Mindanao in the south. They are geography rather than administration, but they are how the country is described and how this game groups its regions.
Each is an acronym built from the provinces it was first made of. The names stayed even where the membership has since changed.
More administrative maps in the region: Philippines Provinces, Indonesia Provinces, Thailand Provinces, Vietnam Provinces and India States.
