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Cebu City. / 10.293°N 123.902°E / 10.293; 123.902. Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu ( Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Filipino: Lungsod ng Cebu ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines.
The Philippines has three metropolitan areas officially recognized by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) due to their prominence, population, size, and economy: Manila, Cebu, and Davao. [1] [2] The most populous is Metro Manila, which comprises the City of Manila, 15 neighboring cities, and a municipality.
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.
An urban area [a] is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. This is the core of a metropolitan statistical area in the United States, if it contains a population of more than 50,000. [1] Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns ...
Quezon City is a planned city. It covers a total area of 161.11 square kilometers (62.20 sq mi), [5] making it the largest city in Metro Manila in terms of land area. It is politically subdivided into Six Congressional Districts, which represent the city in the Lower House of the Congress of the Philippines.
Geography of the Philippines. The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands, [ 8] and with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), it is the world's fifth largest island country. [ 2][ 3][ 9] The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about ...
The Philippines is divided into four levels of administrative divisions, with the lower three being defined in the Local Government Code of 1991 as local government units (LGUs). [1] They are, from the highest to the lowest: Regions ( Filipino: rehiyon) are mostly used to organize national services. Of the 17 regions, only one—the Bangsamoro ...
Ever since its inception to the present day, the term "municipality" holds the same definition as "town" when the first towns grew in size under the Spanish pueblo system (pueblo meaning "town" in Spanish language) to be granted municipal charters, hence the current official term for such type of settlements. [2] [12]