Participating Regions

Regions participating in the annual Palarong Pambansa became bigger in numbers as some regions were split and became another region. For instance, Southern Tagalog Regional Athletics Association or STRAA represented the ten (10) provinces of Southern Tagalog in the later Palarong Pambansa. But it was divided into two which is now Region 4-A or the CALABARZON region and Region 4-B or the MIMAROPA region. Both regions are taking part in Palarong Pambansa as different teams or regions.

Creation of administrative and autonomous regions such as Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and Cordillera Administrative Region and splitting of big region into new regions like the Southern Mindanao causes more teams. All these reasons made the seventeen (18) regions participating in Palarong Pambansa.

Negros Island Region became the newest and latest addition of Palarong Pambansa. Its athletics association called NIRAA wiil debut this 2016 edition.

	Regions Code Name ARMMAA Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao CARAA Cordillera Administrative Region NCRAA National Capital Region IRAA Region I or Ilocos Region CAVRAA Region II or Cagayan Valley CLRAA Region III or Central Luzon STCAA Region IV-A or Southern Tagalog - CALABARZON MIMAROPAA Region IV-B or Southern Tagalog - MIMAROPA BRAA Region V or Bicol Region WVRAA Region VI or Western Visayas CVRAA Region VII Central Visayas EVRAA Region VIII or Eastern Visayas ZPRAA Region IX or Zamboanga Peninsula NMRAA Region X or Northern Mindanao DAVRAA Region XI or Davao Region CRAA Region XII or SOCCSKSARGEN CARAGA Region XIII or CARAGA
	NIRAA             Region XVIII or Negros Island Region
	Note: This is same as seen in Wikipedia since the author is the same who created this blog. Also, 2013 Palarong Pambansa Wikipedia article was created by the same creator of this blog. Since, anyone can edit Wikipedia articles, I decided to create by own blog about Palarong Pambansa so that no one can change my article. Sorry but I don't want my article to be altered by any, I spend months for research and editing in Wikipedia then suddenly it was changed by someone.