Editing Town (section)

=== Philippines ===
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[[File:Loboc Bohol 1.jpg|thumb|The town center of [[Loboc, Bohol]]]]
In the [[Philippines]], the local official equivalent of the town is the [[Philippine municipality|municipality]] (Filipino: {{lang|fil|bayan}}). Every municipality, or town, in the country has a mayor ({{lang|fil|alkalde}}) and a vice mayor ({{lang|fil|bise alkalde}}) as well as local town officials ([[Sangguniang Bayan]]). Philippine towns, otherwise called municipalities, are composed of a number of villages and communities called ''[[barangays]]'' with one (or a few cluster of) {{lang|fil|barangay}}(s) serving as the town center or ''[[poblacion]]''.

Unique in Philippine towns is that they have fixed budget, population and land requirements to become as such, i.e. from a {{lang|fil|barangay}}, or a cluster of such, to a town, or to become cities, i.e. from town to a city. Respectively, examples of these are the town of [[Braulio E. Dujali, Davao del Norte|B. E. Dujali]] in [[Davao del Norte]] province, which was formed in 1998 from a cluster of five {{lang|fil|barangays}}, and the city of [[El Salvador, Misamis Oriental|El Salvador]], which was converted from a town to a city in 2007. Each town in the Philippines was classified by its [[Municipalities of the Philippines#Income classification|annual income and budget]].

A sharp, hierarchical distinction exists between Philippine [[Philippine city|cities]] ({{lang|fil|lungsod}} or {{lang|fil|siyudad}}) and towns, as towns in the country are juridically separate from cities, which are typically larger and more populous (some smaller and less populated) and which political and economic status are above those of towns. This was further supported and indicated by the income classification system implemented by the National Department of Finance, to which both cities and towns fell into their respective categories that indicate they are such as stated under Philippine law. However, both towns and cities equally share the status as [[Administrative divisions of the Philippines#Local government units|local government units]] (LGUs) grouped under and belong to [[Provinces of the Philippines|provinces]] and [[Regions of the Philippines|regions]]; both each are composed of {{lang|fil|barangays}} and are governed by a mayor and a vice mayor supplemented by their respective LGU legislative councils. However, despite this some towns in the Philippines are significantly larger than some cities in the Philippines such as [[Rodriguez, Rizal]], [[Santa Maria, Bulacan]] and [[Minglanilla, Cebu]] are actually bigger than some regional centers.