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Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Filipino: Lungsod ng Cebu), is a highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 964,169 people, [ 8 ] making it the sixth-most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the Visayas and the ...
Cebu Island is the 126th largest island in the world. Cebu Island itself is long and narrow, ... The population of Cebu province, ... also known as Binaki, ...
Cebu International Port and Cebu Domestic Port serves container vessels and passenger ships with destinations around the country and the world. Cebu International Port is a multipurpose terminal covering an area of 10 hectares with 690 meters of berthing space and a controlling draught of minus 8.5 meters at MLLW.
With only two provinces: Cebu and Bohol, as well as three highly urbanized cities: Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu, and Mandaue, it has the fewest number of provinces out of any region in the country. Despite this, it is the most populous region in the Visayas, with a population of 6,545,603. The regional center, as well as its largest city, is Cebu City.
Cebu is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas (Region VII) region. Cebu may also refer to: Cebu City, an independent highly urbanized city and the capital & largest city of the island province of Cebu; Metro Cebu or Cebu Metropolitan Area, the metropolitan area centered on Cebu City
The new Bogo City Hall was inaugurated on April 19, 2013, by President Benigno Aquino III. [6] Later that year, on November 8, a powerful super typhoon Yolanda, [7] [8] also known as Typhoon Haiyan, badly hit northern Cebu, where Bogo City is located, and the city was not spared in the ensuing widespread devastation.
A recent genetic study found 10-20% of Cebuano ancestry is attributable to South Asian (Indian) descent, [7] dated to a time when Precolonial Cebu practiced Hinduism. [8] Meanwhile, according to Spanish era tribute-censuses, Spanish-Filipinos compose 2.17% of the Cebuano people's recorded population. [9]: 113
About 13.48 million people (12 percent of the Philippines' population) live in Metro Manila, [470] the country's most populous metropolitan area [471] and the world's fifth most populous. [472] Between 1948 and 2010, the population of the Philippines increased almost fivefold from 19 million to 92 million.