page_title: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
section_title: ARMM organizational structure
hierarchical_section_title: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao / Government / ARMM organizational structure
caption_attribution_description: English: Office of the Regional Governor in Cotabato City
context_page_description: The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was an autonomous region of the Philippines, located in the Mindanao island group of the Philippines, that consisted of five predominantly Muslim provinces: Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi. It was the only region that had its own government. The region's de facto seat of government was Cotabato City, although this self-governing city was outside its jurisdiction.
  The ARMM included the province of Shariff Kabunsuan from its creation in 2006 until July 16, 2008, when Shariff Kabunsuan ceased to exist as a province after the Supreme Court of the Philippines declared the "Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act 201", which created it, unconstitutional in Sema v. COMELEC and Dilangalen.
  On October 7, 2012, President Benigno Aquino III said that the government aimed to have peace in the autonomous region and that it would become known as the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, a compound of bangsa and Moro.
caption: The Office of the Bangsamoro People, the seat of the ARMM regional government in Cotabato City[35]
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