Pictures: Philippine province sets new Guinness world record

Synchronised Pantomina, a courtship dance, has set a new record. It was held in Sorsogon, Philippines, on Thursday.

Synchronised dance of the Pantomina on Thursday in Sorsogon, Philippines has set a new Guinness record.

Part of the pier of Sorsogon City in eastern Philippines became a dance floor for more than 7,000 people on Thursday to set a Guinness record.

Top view of the record-breaking Pantomina folk dance in Sorsogon, Philippines, October 31, 2019.

More than 7,000 people participated in the world record-smashing event for the biggest synchronised folk dance, the Pantomina, held in Sorsogon, Philippines on Thursday, October 31, 2019.

Governor of the Philippines' Sorsogon Province, Francis 'Chiz' Escudero, a Harvard-educated lawyer and former Senator, and his wife actress Heart Evangelista, take a bow after the record-setting synchronised Pantomina folk dance on Thursday, October 31, 2019.

The folk music was broadcast over public radio and pumped by loudspeakers arrayed on the main city roads in the capital, also known as Sorsogon.

Some of the participants in the Guinness Record-breaking synchronised Pantomina dance on the Sorsogon pier on Thursday, October 31, 2019.

Though the event was rained down on Thursday, people were undeterred. A participant in the record-setting "Pantomina" dance in Sorsogon, Philippines on October 31, 2019.

This folk dance is traditionally performed during wedding celebrations by the couple and their visitors. No social gathering in the Bicol Region, a volcanic, gold and mineral-rich region in eastern Philippines, is complete without the Pantomina.

A drone shot of the Pantomina record-setting event in Sorsogon, Philippine on Thursday, October 31, 2019.

A synchronised Pantomina dance in Sorsogon, Philippines, with more than 7,000 participants smashed the Guinness record on Thursday, October 31, 2019.

Top view of the record-breaking Pantomina folk dance in Sorsogon, Philippines, October 31, 2019.

Pantomina is a courtship dance popular in the eastern Philippine region of Bicol.

Street dance with the locals, or swim with the whalesharks (Butanding). Some of the offerings of Sorsogon Province, in eastern Philippines

After the numbers were confirmed, the certificate from Guinness World Records was handed over to the Governor, Chiz Escudero and his wife Heart Evangelista.

The Guinness World Record certificate given to Sorsogon on October 31, 2019.