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A city (lungsod, or sometimes siyudad, in
Filipino and Tagalog) is a tier of local govern-
ment in the Philippines. All Philippine cities
are chartered cities, whose existence as
corporate and administrative entities is gov-
erned by their own specific charters in addi-
tion to the Local Government Code of 1991,
which specifies the administrative structure
and political powers of subnational govern-
ment entities. Cities are given the power to
have one congressional district and repres-
entative per every 250,000 population count,
a police force, a common seal, and the power
to take, purchase, receive, hold, lease, con-
vey, and disposes of real and personal prop-
erty for the general interests of the City, con-
demn private property for public use (emin-
ent domain), contract and be contracted
with, sue and exercise all the powers con-
ferred to it by Congress. Only an Act of Con-
gress can create or amend a city charter, and
with this city charter Congress confers to a
city certain powers that regular municipalit-
ies or even other cities may not have. Despite
the differences in the powers acco