Barangay
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Number of barangays per Philippine province | |
| Category | Village |
| Location | Philippines |
| Found in | Municipalities, cities, and barangay districts |
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| Number | 42,011[2] (as of July 8, 2025) |
| Populations | 1 (Buenavista and Fugu)[b] – 213,229 (Commonwealth)[3] |
| Areas | 0.14 ha (0.0014 km2) (Malusak) – 65,000 ha (650 km2) (Gupitan)[4] |
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The barangay[c] (/bɑːrɑːŋˈɡaɪ/; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as the barrio,[d] is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines. Named after the precolonial polities of the same name, modern barangays are political subdivisions of cities and municipalities and are analogous to villages, districts, neighborhoods, suburbs, or boroughs.[5] The word barangay is derived from balangay, a type of boat used by Austronesian peoples when they migrated to the Philippines.[6]
All cities, including independent cities, and municipalities in the Philippines are politically subdivided into barangays, with the exception of the municipalities of Adams in Ilocos Norte and Kalayaan in Palawan, each of which contains only a single barangay. Barangays are sometimes informally subdivided into smaller areas called purok (English: "zone"), or barangay zones consisting of clusters of houses for organizational purposes, and sitios, which are territorial enclaves—usually rural—located far from the poblacion. As of January 2025, there are 42,011 barangays throughout the country.[2]
- ^ Presidential Decree No. 557 (September 21, 1974), Declaring All Barrios in the Philippines as Barangays, and for Other Purposes, Official Gazette, retrieved July 12, 2020
- ^ a b Mapa, Claire Dennis (July 8, 2025). "Second Quarter 2025 PSGC Updates: Correction of the Names of Three Barangays". Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved August 20, 2025.
- ^ "Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC)". Philippine Statistics Authority. September 30, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
- ^ Duron-Abangan, Jeanevive (May 21, 2019). "Military, civilian agencies turn focus on indigenous Manobo tribe". Reliefweb. Retrieved May 17, 2025.
- ^ "barangay". Oxford Dictionaries. June 25, 2015. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
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