Editing Township (section)

==Philippines==
In the [[Philippines]], townships refer to administrative divisions established during the [[History of the Philippines (1898–1946)|American Civil Government]] in the country. Many of these political divisions were originally established as [[rancheria]]s during the [[History of the Philippines (1521-1898)|Spanish Regime]]. The term was later replaced with "[[municipal district]]".<ref name=TamingPhilH>{{cite book|last1=Keesing|first1=Felix Maxwell|last2=Keesing|first2=Marie Margaret|last3=Keesing|first3=Marie Martin|title=Taming Philippine Headhunters: A Study of Government and of Cultural Change in Northern Luzon|date=1934|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804721103|page=104|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0OsAAAAIAAJ|access-date=11 November 2014}}</ref> Most municipal districts would later be converted into [[Municipalities in the Philippines|regular municipalities]] by [[executive order]]s from the Philippine president.<ref name=GovPH>{{cite web|title=Executive Order No. 42, s. 1963: Declaring Certain Municipal Districts in the Philippines as Municipalities|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1963/06/25/executive-order-no-42-s-1963/|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|access-date=25 October 2014}}</ref>

[[Mambukal]], a [[hill station]] geographically located in [[Murcia, Negros Occidental]], is the only legally constituted township in the Philippines, created under Republic Act No. 1964, approved in June 1957.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

As a term, the word "township" in the Philippines is used to refer to new developments with their own amenities, including both vertical and horizontal projects. The modern and largest townships in the Philippines are [[New Clark City]] with 9,450 hectares in [[Capas]] of [[Tarlac]], Hamilo Coast with 5,900 hectares in [[Nasugbu]] of [[Batangas]], Nuvali with 2,290 hectares in [[Santa Rosa, Laguna|Santa Rosa]] of [[Laguna (province)|Laguna]], Lancaster New City with 2,000 hectares in Kawit Imus GenTri of [[Cavite]], Vista City with 1,500 hectares in Las Piñas Muntinlupa of [[Metro Manila]], and [[Dasmariñas]] of Cavite, Twin Lakes with 1,149 hectares in [[Tagaytay]] of Cavite and Alviera with 1,125 hectares in [[Porac]] of [[Pampanga]]. The majority of the current townships are near Metro Manila, which permits faster access to the capital region by road or rail transport.