Editing Village (section)

===Philippines===

In urban areas of the [[Philippines]], the term "village" most commonly refers to private subdivisions, especially [[gated community|gated communities]]. These villages emerged in the mid-20th century and were initially the domain of [[elite]] urban dwellers. Those are common in [[Cities in the Philippines|major cities in the country]] and their residents have a wide range of income levels.

Such villages may or may not correspond to a [[barangay]] (the country's basic unit of government, also glossed as village), or be privately administered. Barangays correspond more to precolonial villages; the chairman (formerly the village [[datu]]) now settles administrative, intrapersonal, and political matters or polices the area though with much less authority and respect than in Indonesia or Malaysia.