Cebu Province
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| Region : | Central Visayas |
| Capital : | Cebu City |
| Population : | 2,938,982 August 1, 2015 census
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| Population density : | 578 inhabitants per km² |
| Area : | 5,088.4 km² |
| PSGC : | 072200000 |
| Governor : | Agnes Magpale (interim) |
| Official website: | http://www.cebu.gov.ph/ |
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| - Highly urbanized cities | 3 |
| - provincial cities | 6th |
| - municipalities | 44 |
| - Barangays | 1,066 |
| - electoral districts | 6th |
| Location of the province in the Philippines | |
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Coordinates: 10 ° 19 ' N , 123 ° 45' E
Cebu ([ sɛˑ.ꜜbûˈ ] Cebuano : Sugbo [ sug.bɔˈ ]) is a province of the Philippines in the central island group of the Visayas . The main island of the province is Cebu .
geography
Cebu forms a province of the Central Visayas region (Region VII), the other three provinces of which are formed by the islands of Bohol , Negros Oriental and Siquijor .
The capital of the province, Cebu City , is located on the east coast of the island of Cebu .
In addition to the main island, the province of Cebu includes another 167 neighboring, smaller islands, including
- Mactan (251,000 inhabitants, 2000) in the east
- Bantayan (120,000 inhabitants, 2000) in the northwest
- Malapascua (5,000 inhabitants) in the northeast
- Olango (32,000 inhabitants, 2009) east of Mactan
- the archipelago of the Camotes Islands (89,324 inhabitants, 2007) in the east, on them lies the largest lake in the province, the 5 km long Lake Danao
The province has an area of 5,088.4 km² and a population of 3,848,919 million (as of 2007). Here the predominant language on the island of Cebu, Cebuano , also called "Visayan", is spoken. Tagalog is used as the lingua franca ; The official and business language is English. Central Cebu National Park , the smaller Sudlon National Park and Guadalupe Mabugnao Mainit Hot Spring National Park are in the province .
Administrative division
The province of Cebu is politically divided into nine cities and 44 municipalities ( municipalities ).
Cities
Boroughs
Attractions
The Church of Patrocinio de Maria in Boljoon is the oldest preserved stone church in Cebu. In 1999 the church was declared a "National Historical Landmark" by the National Historical Institute of the Philippines , and in the following year the National Museum of the Philippines declared the church a "National Cultural Treasure" "). It has been on the Philippines' list of proposals for an exception to the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006 , as a baroque church in the Philippines .
Educational institutions
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Provincial data from the 2007 census ( memento of the original from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
