About Scene
Every place in the Philippines, told plainly.
Scene is a guide to the country that starts where you live: your barangay, your town, your province. Each place gets a page with its map, its people and its neighbours, built from the government's own records and open maps.
Why we built it
Facts about our places are hard to find, and harder to read.
A town's population sits in one government file, its map in another, its history in a book few people can reach. Much of it is out of date, and most of it was written for experts.
Scene brings it together on one page for every place, in words anyone can follow, with a source you can check.
18
regions
82
provinces
1,642
cities and towns
42,010
barangays
Every one has its own page in the Atlas.
What we hold to
Every place counts
Not just the big cities. All 42,010 barangays have a page, the smallest island ones too.
Show where it came from
Every figure names its source. Tap the small mark beside it to see where it came from.
Pictures before paragraphs
A map, a chart or a photo first. When we use words, they are short and plain.
Names spelled right
Ñ and all, the way the PSA writes them, with the old names a place was known by.
More than the Atlas
Beside the Atlas, Scene has five more worlds. Each is tied to a place in the Atlas, and each shows a piece only when it is real: a world with nothing published yet says so on its page.
Where the facts come from
Scene is independent. It is not a government website and does not speak for any agency. A border on Scene is a guide, not the legal boundary; the legal lines are kept by the agencies that set them. Read the disclaimer.
This release is built from the PSA's list of places, PSGC 2nd Quarter 2026, as of June 30, 2026. Sources read up to October 9, 2026. Release notes
Every source and how we use itThe main sources
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
The official list of places and their codes (PSGC 2nd Quarter 2026), the censuses of people and households, and the poverty and economy figures.
Other government agencies
PAGASA for climate, the Commission on Elections and the Department of the Interior and Local Government for governors, mayors and districts, PHLPost for ZIP codes, and the laws that created each place.
PSA and NAMRIA, through UN OCHA
The borders on our maps, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO licence. Read the licence
OpenStreetMap contributors
Public places such as beaches, parks and town halls, and the rivers, lakes and coasts, under the Open Database License. Read the licence
Copernicus
The 30-metre surface model of the Earth that gives each place its lowest, average and highest ground.
Wikimedia Commons
Photos, each credited under it with its author and its licence.
See something wrong? Tell us.
Send the page's address and what looks off. We check it against the official source and fix it.