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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88" title="مدينة سيبو – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مدينة سيبو" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebu" title="Sebu – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sebu" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%81" title="সেবু – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সেবু" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_Chh%C4%AB" title="Cebu Chhī – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Cebu Chhī" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83_(%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4)" title="Себу (горад) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Себу (горад)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syudad_nin_Cebu" title="Syudad nin Cebu – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Syudad nin Cebu" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83" title="Себу – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Себу" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_(ciutat)" title="Cebu (ciutat) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Cebu (ciutat)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakbayan_sa_Sugbo" title="Dakbayan sa Sugbo – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Dakbayan sa Sugbo" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_de_Cebu" title="Ciudad de Cebu – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="Ciudad de Cebu" data-language-autonym="Chavacano de Zamboanga" data-language-local-name="Chavacano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chavacano de Zamboanga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceb%C3%BA" title="Cebú – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Cebú" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebuurbo" title="Cebuurbo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Cebuurbo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_Hiria" title="Cebu Hiria – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Cebu Hiria" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88_(%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1)" title="سبو (شهر) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سبو (شهر)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_(ville)" title="Cebu (ville) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Cebu (ville)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceb%C3%BA_(cidade)" title="Cebú (cidade) – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Cebú (cidade)" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%B8%EB%B6%80" title="세부 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="세부" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A5%D5%A2%D5%B8%D6%82" title="Սեբու – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սեբու" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siudad_ti_Cebu" title="Siudad ti Cebu – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Siudad ti Cebu" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kota_Cebu" title="Kota Cebu – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kota Cebu" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83_(%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80)" title="Себу (сахар) – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Себу (сахар)" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu" title="Cebu – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Cebu" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%95_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99" title="סבו סיטי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סבו סיטי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakanbalen_ning_Ceb%C3%BA" title="Lakanbalen ning Cebú – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Lakanbalen ning Cebú" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3_(%E1%83%A5%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%98)" title="სებუ (ქალაქი) – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სებუ (ქალაქი)" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caebua_(urbs)" title="Caebua (urbs) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Caebua (urbs)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebu" title="Sebu – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sebu" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebu_(miestas)" title="Sebu (miestas) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sebu (miestas)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_(telep%C3%BCl%C3%A9s)" title="Cebu (település) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Cebu (település)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu" title="Cebu – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Cebu" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3" title="სებუ – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="სებუ" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88" title="مدينه سيبو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="مدينه سيبو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_Cebu" title="Bandar Cebu – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Bandar Cebu" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83" title="Себу – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Себу" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%85%E1%80%AE%E1%80%98%E1%80%B0%E1%80%B8%E1%80%99%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B7" title="စီဘူးမြို့ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="စီဘူးမြို့" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%96" title="セブ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="セブ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83_(%D0%B3%D3%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0)" title="Себу (гӀала) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Себу (гӀала)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byen_Cebu" title="Byen Cebu – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Byen Cebu" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebu" title="Sebu – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Sebu" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pag mw-list-item"><a href="https://pag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siyudad_na_Cebu" title="Siyudad na Cebu – Pangasinan" lang="pag" hreflang="pag" data-title="Siyudad na Cebu" data-language-autonym="Pangasinan" data-language-local-name="Pangasinan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangasinan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_(cidade)" title="Cebu (cidade) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Cebu (cidade)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceb%C3%BA" title="Cebú – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Cebú" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83_(%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4)" title="Себу (город) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Себу (город)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_Ceety" title="Cebu Ceety – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Cebu Ceety" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_(kaupunki)" title="Cebu (kaupunki) – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Cebu (kaupunki)" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungsod_ng_Cebu" title="Lungsod ng Cebu – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Lungsod ng Cebu" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D" title="செபு நகரம் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="செபு நகரம்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83-%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8" title="Себу-Сити – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Себу-Сити" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B9_(%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87)" title="เซบู (เมือง) – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เซบู (เมือง)" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_City" title="Cebu City – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Cebu City" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%83_(%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE)" title="Себу (місто) – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Себу (місто)" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B4%DB%81%D8%B1" title="سیبو شہر – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="سیبو شہر" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seb%C3%B9" title="Sebù – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Sebù" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu_(th%C3%A0nh_ph%E1%BB%91)" title="Cebu (thành phố) – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Cebu (thành phố)" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syudad_han_Sugbo" title="Syudad han Sugbo – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Syudad han Sugbo" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%BF%E5%8A%A1%E5%B8%82" title="宿务市 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="宿务市" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi 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Cross</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:165px;max-width:165px"><div style="height:121px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_Cathedral_2024-07-07.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Magellan's Cross" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cebu_Cathedral_2024-07-07.jpg/163px-Cebu_Cathedral_2024-07-07.jpg" decoding="async" width="163" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cebu_Cathedral_2024-07-07.jpg/245px-Cebu_Cathedral_2024-07-07.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cebu_Cathedral_2024-07-07.jpg/326px-Cebu_Cathedral_2024-07-07.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Metropolitan_Cathedral" title="Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral">Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div style="height:95px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu-Cordova_Link_Expressway_2024-07-05.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway Bridge" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Cebu-Cordova_Link_Expressway_2024-07-05.jpg/127px-Cebu-Cordova_Link_Expressway_2024-07-05.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Cebu-Cordova_Link_Expressway_2024-07-05.jpg/191px-Cebu-Cordova_Link_Expressway_2024-07-05.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Cebu-Cordova_Link_Expressway_2024-07-05.jpg/254px-Cebu-Cordova_Link_Expressway_2024-07-05.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3875" data-file-height="2907" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Cebu%E2%80%93Cordova_Link_Expressway" title="Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway">Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div style="height:95px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_in_Cebu,_Jan_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="National Museum of the Philippines (Cebu)Basilica del Santo Niño" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_in_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/127px-National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_in_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_in_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/191px-National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_in_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_in_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/254px-National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_in_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4080" data-file-height="3072" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_%E2%80%93_Cebu" title="National Museum of the Philippines – Cebu">National Museum of the Philippines – Cebu</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:137px;max-width:137px"><div style="height:89px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_Capitol_Compund.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Cebu Provincial Capitol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Cebu_Capitol_Compund.jpg/135px-Cebu_Capitol_Compund.jpg" decoding="async" width="135" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Cebu_Capitol_Compund.jpg/203px-Cebu_Capitol_Compund.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Cebu_Capitol_Compund.jpg/270px-Cebu_Capitol_Compund.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3892" data-file-height="2584" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Provincial_Capitol" title="Cebu Provincial Capitol">Cebu Provincial Capitol</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:121px;max-width:121px"><div style="height:89px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Taoist_Temple,_Cebu,_Philippines.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Taoist Temple" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Taoist_Temple%2C_Cebu%2C_Philippines.jpg/119px-Taoist_Temple%2C_Cebu%2C_Philippines.jpg" decoding="async" width="119" height="89" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Taoist_Temple%2C_Cebu%2C_Philippines.jpg/179px-Taoist_Temple%2C_Cebu%2C_Philippines.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Taoist_Temple%2C_Cebu%2C_Philippines.jpg/238px-Taoist_Temple%2C_Cebu%2C_Philippines.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Taoist_Temple" title="Cebu Taoist Temple">Cebu Taoist Temple</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div style="height:95px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Basilica_del_Santo_Nino.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Basilica del Santo Niño" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Basilica_del_Santo_Nino.jpg/127px-Basilica_del_Santo_Nino.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Basilica_del_Santo_Nino.jpg/191px-Basilica_del_Santo_Nino.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Basilica_del_Santo_Nino.jpg/254px-Basilica_del_Santo_Nino.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o" title="Basilica del Santo Niño">Basilica del Santo Niño</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div style="height:95px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_San_Pedro_side_view_(Cebu_City;_09-05-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Fort San Pedro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Fort_San_Pedro_side_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/127px-Fort_San_Pedro_side_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Fort_San_Pedro_side_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/191px-Fort_San_Pedro_side_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Fort_San_Pedro_side_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/254px-Fort_San_Pedro_side_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a></span></div><div class="text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Fort_San_Pedro" title="Fort San Pedro">Fort San Pedro</a></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td 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class="infobox-full-data">Nicknames: <div class="ib-settlement-nickname nickname"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Queen City of the South;</li> <li>Oldest City in the Philippines;</li> <li>First Capital of the Philippines; and</li> <li>Creative Capital of the Philippines</li></ul> </div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Anthem: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-news/2023/07/04/2278562/cebu-city-launches-official-hymn">Sugbuanon ako</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ph_locator_cebu_cebu.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Map of Cebu 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Philippines_location_map_(square).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cebu City is located in Philippines"><img alt="Cebu City is located in Philippines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Philippines_location_map_%28square%29.svg/250px-Philippines_location_map_%28square%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Philippines_location_map_%28square%29.svg/375px-Philippines_location_map_%28square%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Philippines_location_map_%28square%29.svg/500px-Philippines_location_map_%28square%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1332" data-file-height="1332" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:64.538%;left:57.57%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Cebu City"><img alt="Cebu City" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:4px"><div>Cebu City</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Cebu_City&params=10.293_N_123.902_E_region:PH_type:city(964169)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">10°17′35″N</span> <span class="longitude">123°54′07″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">10.293°N 123.902°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">10.293; 123.902</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_the_Philippines" title="Regions of the Philippines">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Central_Visayas" title="Central Visayas">Central Visayas</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Provinces of the Philippines">Province</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cebu" title="Cebu">Cebu</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(geographically only)</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_the_Philippines#District_representation" title="House of Representatives of the Philippines">District</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Legislative_districts_of_Cebu_City" title="Legislative districts of Cebu City">1st (North) and 2nd (South) districts of Cebu City</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Date_of_establishment" class="mw-redirect" title="Date of establishment">Founded</a><br /><small><span class="nowrap">(as Spanish colony)</span></small><br />Reincorporated <small> <span class="nowrap">(as city)</span></small></th><td class="infobox-data">1565<br /><br /> 24 February 1937</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highly urbanized city</th><td class="infobox-data">December 22, 1979</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Barangay" title="Barangay">Barangays</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><b></b>80 (see <a href="#Barangays">Barangays</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sangguniang_Panlungsod" title="Sangguniang Panlungsod">Sangguniang Panlungsod</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Cebu_City" title="Mayor of Cebu City">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Raymond Alvin N. Garcia (<a href="/wiki/Partido_Federal_ng_Pilipinas" title="Partido Federal ng Pilipinas">PFP</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Vice_Mayor" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice Mayor">Vice Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dondon_Hontiveros" title="Dondon Hontiveros">Donaldo C. Hontiveros</a> (<a href="/wiki/Partido_Barug" title="Partido Barug">Partido Barug</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Council" title="Cebu City Council">City Council</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left; border:none; padding: 0;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><a href="/wiki/Councilor" class="mw-redirect" title="Councilor">Councilors</a></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0; text-align:left;display:none;white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;max-width:15em;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Nestor Archival</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Jerry Guardo</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Joel Garganera</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Edgardo Labella II</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Mary Ann de los Santos</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Joy_Augustus_Young" title="Joy Augustus Young">Joy Augustus Young</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Noel Wenceslao</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Pastor Alcover Jr.</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><div style="border-style:solid none;border-width:thin;border-color:black Gainsboro;background-color:#e6e6e6;text-align:center;font-variant:small-caps;">1st District (North)</div></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Dondon_Hontiveros" title="Dondon Hontiveros">Dondon Hontiveros</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Jose Abellanosa</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Jocelyn Pesquera</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Phillip Zafra</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Renato Osmeña Jr.</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">James Anthony Cuenco</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Rey Gealon</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Pancrasio Esparis</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><div style="border-style:solid none;border-width:thin;border-color:black Gainsboro;background-color:#e6e6e6;text-align:center;font-variant:small-caps;">2nd District (South)</div></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_the_Philippines" title="House of Representatives of the Philippines">Congress</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left; border:none; padding: 0;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_the_Philippines#Current_composition" title="House of Representatives of the Philippines">Representatives</a></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0; text-align:left;display:none;white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;max-width:15em;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><div style="border-style:solid none;border-width:thin;border-color:black Gainsboro;background-color:#e6e6e6;text-align:center;font-variant:small-caps;">1st LegDist (North)</div></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Rachel_del_Mar" title="Rachel del Mar">Rachel del Mar</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><div style="border-style:solid none;border-width:thin;border-color:black Gainsboro;background-color:#e6e6e6;text-align:center;font-variant:small-caps;">2nd LegDist (South)</div></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Eduardo Rama Jr.</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><div style="border-top:thin solid black;"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.comelec.gov.ph/?r=2019NLE/ElectionResults_">Commission on Elections</a></span></div></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_Philippines#Qualification" title="Elections in the Philippines">Electorate</a></th><td class="infobox-data">733,044 voters (<a href="/wiki/Philippine_general_election,_2022" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine general election, 2022">2022</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-popcen2015_r3_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popcen2015_r3-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • City</div></th><td class="infobox-data">315.00 km<sup>2</sup> (121.62 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Urban<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-db-worldua_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-db-worldua-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">205 km<sup>2</sup> (79 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Metro<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,062.88 km<sup>2</sup> (410.38 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">34th out of 145</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">34 m (112 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">981 m (3,219 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Lowest elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">0 m (0 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2020 census)<sup id="cite_ref-2020Popcen_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020Popcen-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • City</div></th><td class="infobox-data">964,169</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">6th</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">3,100/km<sup>2</sup> (7,900/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">Urban</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,454,000<sup id="cite_ref-db-worldua_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-db-worldua-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">Metro</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">3,164,337</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Metro density</th><td class="infobox-data">3,000/km<sup>2</sup> (7,700/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Household" title="Household">Households</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">238,317</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Cebuano</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Economy<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">Gross domestic product</a> (GDP)</th><td class="infobox-data">₱288.6 billion (2022)<sup id="cite_ref-gdpcenvis2022_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gdpcenvis2022-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> $5.099 billion (2022)<sup id="cite_ref-imfdec2022phptousd_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-imfdec2022phptousd-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_the_Philippines#Income_classification" title="Municipalities of the Philippines">Income class</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1st city income class</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Measuring_poverty" title="Measuring poverty">Poverty incidence</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="width:100px;display:inline;"><div role="img" style="border-color:none;box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa;border-radius:0.2em; height: 1.0em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: olivedrab; width: 9.80%; height: 100%;"></div></div>9.80</div>% (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Revenue" title="Revenue">Revenue</a></th><td class="infobox-data">₱ 7,096 million (2020), 3,483 million (2012), 4,908 million (2013), 5,141 million (2014), 6,289 million (2015), 5,070 million (2016), 6.283 million (2017), 6,744 million (2018), 7,425 million (2019), 7,363 million (2021), 9,258 million (2022)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Assets" class="mw-redirect" title="Assets">Assets</a></th><td class="infobox-data">₱ 34,754 million (2020), 16,189 million (2012), 16,759 million (2013), 16,730 million (2014), 32,410 million (2015), 32,623 million (2016), 33,861 million (2017), 33,884 million (2018), 34,712 million (2019), 33,343 million (2021), 30,545 million (2022)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Expenditure" class="mw-redirect" title="Expenditure">Expenditure</a></th><td class="infobox-data">₱ 8,693 million (2020), 3,217 million (2012), 4,461 million (2013), 4,519 million (2014), 4,422 million (2015), 4,164 million (2016), 5,645 million (2017), 6,388 million (2018), 5,576 million (2019), 10,275 million (2021), 10,555 million (2022)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Liability_(financial_accounting)" title="Liability (financial accounting)">Liabilities</a></th><td class="infobox-data">₱ 17,073 million (2020), 8,674 million (2012), 9,213 million (2013), 8,875 million (2014), 24,287 million (2015), 24,034 million (2016), 24,718 million (2017), 24,497 million (2018), 16,170 million (2019), 17,655 million (2021), 15,768 million (2022)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Service provider<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_electric_distribution_utilities_in_the_Philippines" title="List of electric distribution utilities in the Philippines">Electricity</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Visayan_Electric_Company" title="Visayan Electric Company">Visayan Electric Company</a> (VECO)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B8" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+8">UTC+8</a> (<a href="/wiki/Philippine_Standard_Time" title="Philippine Standard Time">PST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ZIP_codes_in_the_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="List of ZIP codes in the Philippines">ZIP code</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">6000</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://psa.gov.ph/classification/psgc/"><abbr title="Philippine Standard Geographic Code">PSGC</abbr></a></span></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://psa.gov.ph/classification/psgc/?q=psgc/barangays/072217000&regcode=07&provcode=22">072217000</a></span></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/International_direct_dialing" title="International direct dialing">IDD</a><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>:<span style="white-space: nowrap;"> <a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_Philippines" title="Telephone numbers in the Philippines">area code</a> </span></span></th><td class="infobox-data">+63 (0)32</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Sister_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister cities">Sister cities</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left; border:none; padding: 0;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0; text-align:left;display:none;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>International</b></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Busan" title="Busan">Busan</a>, South Korea</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Guadalajara" title="Guadalajara">Guadalajara</a>, Mexico</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Haarlemmermeer" title="Haarlemmermeer">Haarlemmermeer</a>, Netherlands</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Kaohsiung" title="Kaohsiung">Kaohsiung</a>, Taiwan</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Kortrijk" title="Kortrijk">Kortrijk</a>, Belgium</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Sabrosa" title="Sabrosa">Sabrosa</a>, Portugal</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, U.S</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/St_Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St Petersburg">St Petersburg</a>, Russia</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Vladivostok" title="Vladivostok">Vladivostok</a>, Russia</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Xiamen" title="Xiamen">Xiamen</a>, China</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Yokohama" title="Yokohama">Yokohama</a>, Japan</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Yeosu" title="Yeosu">Yeosu</a>, South Korea</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><b>Local</b></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Butuan" title="Butuan">Butuan</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Davao_City" title="Davao City">Davao City</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/General_Santos" title="General Santos">General Santos</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Ozamiz" title="Ozamiz">Ozamiz</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Catholic diocese</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Cebu" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cebu">Archdiocese of Cebu</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cebucity.gov.ph">cebucity<wbr />.gov<wbr />.ph</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Cebu City</b>, officially the <b>City of Cebu</b> (<a href="/wiki/Cebuano_language" title="Cebuano language">Cebuano</a>: <i lang="ceb">Dakbayan sa Sugbo</i>), is a 1st class <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines#Legal_classification" title="Cities of the Philippines">highly urbanized city</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Central_Visayas" title="Central Visayas">Central Visayas</a> <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_the_Philippines" title="Regions of the Philippines">region</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 964,169 people,<sup id="cite_ref-PSA20–07_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSA20–07-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making it the sixth-most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the <a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayas</a> and in Central Visayas Region. </p><p>It serves as the capital of <a href="/wiki/Cebu" title="Cebu">Cebu</a> wherein it is geographically situated and grouped under the province by the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Statistics_Authority" title="Philippine Statistics Authority">Philippine Statistics Authority</a>, but is one of three cities (together with <a href="/wiki/Lapu-Lapu_City" title="Lapu-Lapu City">Lapu-Lapu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mandaue" title="Mandaue">Mandaue</a>) that are administratively independent of the provincial government and also the largest city within that province. It also serves as the regional center of <a href="/wiki/Central_Visayas" title="Central Visayas">Central Visayas</a>, and its <a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu" title="Metro Cebu">metropolitan area</a> exerts influence on commerce, trade, industry, education, culture, tourism, and healthcare beyond the region, over Central and Eastern <a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayas</a> and partly over <a href="/wiki/Mindanao" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a>. It is the Philippines' main domestic shipping port and is home to about 80% of the country's domestic shipping companies. Additionally, Cebu City is the prime trading center of the southern Philippines. </p><p>Cebu City is bounded on the north by the town of <a href="/wiki/Balamban,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Balamban, Cebu">Balamban</a> and the city of <a href="/wiki/Danao,_Cebu" title="Danao, Cebu">Danao</a>, on the west by the city of <a href="/wiki/Toledo_City,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Toledo City, Cebu">Toledo</a>, on the east by the cities of <a href="/wiki/Lapu-Lapu_City" title="Lapu-Lapu City">Lapu-Lapu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mandaue" title="Mandaue">Mandaue</a> and the towns of <a href="/wiki/Liloan,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Liloan, Cebu">Liloan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Consolacion" title="Consolacion">Consolacion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Compostela,_Cebu" title="Compostela, Cebu">Compostela</a> and to the south by the city of <a href="/wiki/Talisay,_Cebu" title="Talisay, Cebu">Talisay</a>. Located at the center of the eastern seaboard of <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Cebu Island">Cebu Island</a>, it is the core city of <a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu" title="Metro Cebu">Metro Cebu</a>, the second largest <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">metropolitan area</a> in the Philippines, which includes the cities of <a href="/wiki/Carcar" title="Carcar">Carcar</a>, Danao, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue, <a href="/wiki/Naga,_Cebu" title="Naga, Cebu">Naga</a> and Talisay and the municipalities (towns) of Compostela, Consolacion, <a href="/wiki/Cordova,_Cebu" title="Cordova, Cebu">Cordova</a>, Liloan, <a href="/wiki/Minglanilla" title="Minglanilla">Minglanilla</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_Cebu" title="San Fernando, Cebu">San Fernando</a>. Metro Cebu had a total population of 3,165,799 as of the 2020 census.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The current political boundaries of the city are an incorporation of the former municipalities of Cebu, San Nicolas, El Pardo, Mabolo, Talamban and Banilad in the Commonwealth period.<sup id="cite_ref-Letigio_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Letigio-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city has experienced rapid economic growth since the 1990s, a phenomenon also known as "<a href="/wiki/Ceboom" title="Ceboom">Ceboom</a>". Owing to its economic importance and influence in modern times, Cebu City is also popularly referred to as the <i>Queen City of the South</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_Guardian_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_Guardian-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The word <i>sugbú</i> in Cebuano means "to dive into water",<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also in Tagalog, Hiligaynon,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aklanon, and Mansaka languages with more or less the same meaning. The name is probably derived from the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Philippine_language" title="Proto-Philippine language">Proto-Philippine</a> word *<i>sug(e)bu</i> meaning "to wade into water".<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As with most settlements in the Philippines whose common origin is either derived from an abundance of plants, for example, <a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a> and one of the most common names of cities in the Philippines, <a href="/wiki/Terminalia_catappa" title="Terminalia catappa">Talisay</a> and settlements near a body of water, for example, <a href="/wiki/Iloilo" title="Iloilo">Iloilo</a> and the island of <a href="/wiki/Mindanao" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a>. Early iterations of the name include Çubu, and Zubu,<sup id="cite_ref-:4_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then eventually "Cebu". Thus, the modern name is either probably a 16th–17th century Spanish pronunciation of the native name or as how it was heard by early chroniclers in that time period. The <a href="/wiki/Selden_Map" title="Selden Map">Selden map</a> records the island known to the Ming dynasty as <i>sokbu</i> (束務), a Hokkien pronunciation of the name (in Mandarin Chinese "<i>suwu"</i>), in the early 17th century.<sup id="cite_ref-CarmelaAng_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CarmelaAng-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Selden_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Selden_map.jpg/220px-Selden_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="358" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Selden_map.jpg/330px-Selden_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Selden_map.jpg/440px-Selden_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1353" data-file-height="2199" /></a><figcaption>The Philippines in the lower right corner of the Selden Map, ca. 17th century.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-Hispanic_period">Pre-Hispanic period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pre-Hispanic period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Cebu#Spanish_Colonial_Period" title="Cebu">Cebu § Spanish Colonial Period</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shiva_Bronze_Image_Mactan.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Shiva_Bronze_Image_Mactan.png/220px-Shiva_Bronze_Image_Mactan.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Shiva_Bronze_Image_Mactan.png/330px-Shiva_Bronze_Image_Mactan.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Shiva_Bronze_Image_Mactan.png/440px-Shiva_Bronze_Image_Mactan.png 2x" data-file-width="489" data-file-height="545" /></a><figcaption>A picture of a Bronze Image of the Hindu God <a href="/wiki/Shiva" title="Shiva">Shiva</a> (lost during World War 2), found at Mactan-Cebu. It shows how the culture of the area was Hindu and <a href="/wiki/Greater_India" title="Greater India">Indianized</a>.</figcaption></figure><p>Very little is known about when the site was first settled prior to colonization, but artifacts have been discovered near the city, if not exactly at the site in what is now Cebu City dating back to at least the 14th to 15th centuries CE. Other geological and archaeological studies revealed that Cebu as a settlement began sometime during the 10th century CE.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though there are artifacts detailing the settlement of the island as early as 2000 BCE, the exact date of when the village was settled and named "<i>Sugbu"</i> is unknown, since prior to colonization most <a href="/wiki/Visayans" title="Visayans">Visayans</a> were illiterate up until the <a href="/wiki/Baybayin#Early_history" title="Baybayin">later half of the 16th century</a>. </p><p>The city's only reliable historical record started with Portuguese explorer, <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" title="Ferdinand Magellan">Ferdinand Magellan</a>'s landing in the island in 1521 CE and then after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mactan" title="Battle of Mactan">Battle of Mactan</a>, it is then followed by a brief period of silence and almost nihility, and back again in 1565 CE when <a href="/wiki/Miguel_L%C3%B3pez_de_Legazpi" title="Miguel López de Legazpi">Miguel López de Legazpi</a> led an expedition back to the island. When Magellan and crew arrived in 1521 CE, the Europeans did not mention or state a thriving city in a European or Chinese sense and nor it was ever been described as a "kingdom" as <a href="/wiki/Precolonial_barangay" title="Precolonial barangay">there were no kingdoms</a> in pre-colonial Philippines other than it was merely a simple fishing and trading village.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this notion is challenged by a new translation of ancient Chinese Annals, a kingdom called <i>Suwu</i><sup id="cite_ref-Shao-yun_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shao-yun-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was mentioned in the 1225 Chinese Annals, the Zhufan Zhi (諸蕃志), and during the 17th Century this was the same name used for Cebu among Chinese traders to the Philippines, thus, it is presumed to be the same location.<sup id="cite_ref-CarmelaAng_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CarmelaAng-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cebu was referenced in association with Boni (<a href="/wiki/Brunei" title="Brunei">Brunei</a>) wherein it was written: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"The countries of Xilonggong (Sailunggung/Sailengkeng, possibly Selingaan Island ), Shimiao (Simmiu/Simbio), Rili (Jatlai/Jitleh, possibly Jelai ), Hulumantou (Wulomantau/Holobantau), <b>Suwu</b> (Somat/Sobut), Lima (Leima/Libeh), Danyu (Damjyu/Tamu), and Manuo (Manok/Belok) are located on islands in the sea. Their people travel to and fro in small boats, and their clothing and diet are the same as those of Boni. They produce sheng agarwood, lakawood, beeswax, and tortoiseshell. Merchants can trade for these with white porcelain ware, wine, rice, coarse salt, white spun silk, and trade-quality gold."<sup id="cite_ref-Shao-yun_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shao-yun-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Zhao Rukuo</cite></div></blockquote> <p>There is a popular myth that the city was supposedly founded by "Sri Lumay" and that the place was once "Kang Sri Lumayng Sugbo". However, the authenticity of this source is highly debatable and should not be taken seriously.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are no existing documents predating Spanish chroniclers that made a reference to the island, and there was no mention of the so-called "Sri Lumay". <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Ignacio_Alcina" title="Francisco Ignacio Alcina">Fr. Francisco Ignacio Alcina</a>'s <i>History of the Bisayan Islands</i><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> does not even mention the epic or any reference to that person. Also, in the compilation of Spanish accounts by esteemed American historian specializing in Philippine history, <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Scott_(historian)" title="William Henry Scott (historian)">William Henry Scott</a>, there is no mention of any scorched earth tactics in Visayan warfare.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is likely then that the "legend" is an invention by Jovito Abellana.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The supposed capital city, "<i><a href="/wiki/Singhapala" title="Singhapala">Singhapala</a>"</i>, was also not mentioned as a capital city. Instead, <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Pigafetta" title="Antonio Pigafetta">Antonio Pigafetta</a>, a chronicler in Magellan's crew, records <i>"Cingapola"</i> as a <a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">town</a>, whose chiefs are <i>Cilaton, Ciguibucan, Cimaninga, Cimaticat,</i> and <i>Cicanbul</i><sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><i>.</i> If it were a rich city, it would be very unlikely to be ignored by the chronicler, and also by the absence of Indian stone structures were not found nor erected before the late 16th to the 17th century. </p><p>Despite the smallness of the <a href="/wiki/Rajahnate_of_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajahnate of Cebu">polity of Cebu</a> it borrowed a considerable degree of Indo–Malay culture as its more well-developed advanced neighbors like <a href="/wiki/Rajahnate_of_Butuan" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajahnate of Butuan">Butuan</a> in Southeast Asia which it had dynastic links to, as Rajah Siagu of Butuan was the cousin of Rajah Humabon,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also proven by the titles of native Cebuano nobility, wherein Chief Humabon (mistakenly referred as a "king" in Pigafetta's writings) was addressed in the Sanskrit title of "<a href="/wiki/Rajah" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajah">Rajah</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Macachor_2011_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Macachor_2011-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tupas, also known as <a href="/wiki/Rajah_Tupas" title="Rajah Tupas">Rajah Tupas</a> who was the chief of Cebu in 1565, descended from the brother of Rajah Humabon who was a "Bendara" which means "Treasurer" or "Vizier" in Sanskritized Malay<sup id="cite_ref-Astrid_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Astrid-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is a shortening of the word "Bendahara" (भाण्डार) which means "Storage house" in Sanskrit.<sup id="cite_ref-Becoming_Indian_p.125_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Becoming_Indian_p.125-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spanish_period">Spanish period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Spanish period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(1565%E2%80%931898)" title="History of the Philippines (1565–1898)">History of the Philippines (1565–1898)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Magellan%27s_Cross_inside_front_(Cebu_City;_09-07-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Magellan%27s_Cross_inside_front_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/220px-Magellan%27s_Cross_inside_front_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Magellan%27s_Cross_inside_front_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/330px-Magellan%27s_Cross_inside_front_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Magellan%27s_Cross_inside_front_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/440px-Magellan%27s_Cross_inside_front_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Magellan%27s_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Magellan's Cross">Magellan's Cross</a>, which is said to be the cross planted by <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" title="Ferdinand Magellan">Ferdinand Magellan</a>'<a href="/wiki/Magellan_expedition" title="Magellan expedition">s expedition</a> in 1521.</figcaption></figure> <p>On April 7, 1521, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_discoveries" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguese discoveries">Portuguese explorer</a> at the service of the Spanish Crown and leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate the world, <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" title="Ferdinand Magellan">Ferdinand Magellan</a>, landed in Cebu. He was welcomed by <a href="/wiki/Rajah_Humabon" title="Rajah Humabon">Rajah Humabon</a>. Magellan, however, was killed in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mactan" title="Battle of Mactan">Battle of Mactan</a>, and the remaining members of his expedition left Cebu soon after several of them were poisoned by Humabon, who was fearful of foreign occupation. The last ruler of Sugbo, prior to Spanish colonization, was Rajah Humabon's nephew, <a href="/wiki/Rajah_Tupas" title="Rajah Tupas">Rajah Tupas</a> (d. 1565).<sup id="cite_ref-:3_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On February 13, 1565, Spanish and (probably some) Mexican conquistadors led by <a href="/wiki/Miguel_L%C3%B3pez_de_Legazpi" title="Miguel López de Legazpi">Miguel López de Legazpi</a> together with Augustinian friars whose prior was <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_de_Urdaneta" title="Andrés de Urdaneta">Andrés de Urdaneta</a>, left New Spain (modern Mexico) and arrived in Samar, taking possession of the island thereafter. They Christianized some natives and Spanish remnants in Cebu. Afterwards, the expedition visited <a href="/wiki/Leyte" title="Leyte">Leyte</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Juan,_Southern_Leyte" title="San Juan, Southern Leyte">Cabalian</a>, Mazaua, <a href="/wiki/Camiguin" title="Camiguin">Camiguin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bohol" title="Bohol">Bohol</a> where the famous <i><a href="/wiki/Sandugo" title="Sandugo">Sandugo</a></i> or blood compact was performed between López de Legazpi and <a href="/wiki/Datu_Sikatuna" title="Datu Sikatuna">Datu Sikatuna</a>, the chieftain of Bohol on March 16, 1565. The Spanish arrived in Cebu on April 15, 1565. They then attempted to parley with the local ruler, Rajah Tupas, but found that he and the local population had abandoned the town. Rajah Tupas presented himself at their camp on May 8, feast of the <a href="/wiki/Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel</a>, when the island was taken possession of on behalf of the Spanish King. The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Cebu_(1565)" title="Treaty of Cebu (1565)">Treaty of Cebu</a> was formalized on July 3, 1565. López de Legazpi's party named the new city "Villa de San Miguel de Cebú" (later renamed "Ciudad del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús)." In 1567 the Cebu garrison was reinforced with the arrival of 2,100 soldiers from <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of New Spain">New Spain</a> (Mexico).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The growing colony was then fortified by <a href="/wiki/Fort_San_Pedro" title="Fort San Pedro">Fort San Pedro</a>. Aside from these Mexican soldiers, the city of Cebu was founded by 80 Spanish colonists from Spain.<sup id="cite_ref-SettlerColonists_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SettlerColonists-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_escondrillas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Cebu_escondrillas.jpg/220px-Cebu_escondrillas.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Cebu_escondrillas.jpg/330px-Cebu_escondrillas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Cebu_escondrillas.jpg/440px-Cebu_escondrillas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="925" /></a><figcaption>A 19th-century map of Cebu City</figcaption></figure> <p>By 1569, the Spanish settlement in Cebu had become important as a safe port for ships from <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> and as a jumping-off point for further exploration of the archipelago. Small expeditions led by <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Salcedo" title="Juan de Salcedo">Juan de Salcedo</a> went to <a href="/wiki/Mindoro" title="Mindoro">Mindoro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Luzon" title="Luzon">Luzon</a>, where he and <a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_de_Goiti" title="Martín de Goiti">Martín de Goiti</a> played a leading role in the subjugation of the Kingdoms of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Tondo" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Tondo">Tundun</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seludong" class="mw-redirect" title="Seludong">Seludong</a> in 1570. One year later, López de Legazpi departed Cebu to discuss a peace pact with the defeated Rajahs. An agreement between the conquistadors and the Rajahs to form a city council paved the way for the establishment of a new settlement and the construction of the Christian walled city of <a href="/wiki/Intramuros" title="Intramuros">Intramuros</a> on the razed remains of Islamic Manila, then a vassal-state of the <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Brunei" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultanate of Brunei">Sultanate of Brunei</a>. </p><p>In 1571, the Spanish carried over infantry from Mexico, to raise an army of Christian Visayan warriors from <a href="/wiki/Cebu" title="Cebu">Cebu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iloilo" title="Iloilo">Iloilo</a> as well as mercenaries from the Tagalog region and assaulted the Sultanate of Brunei in what is known as the <a href="/wiki/Castilian_War" title="Castilian War">Castilian War</a>. The war also started the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93Moro_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish–Moro Wars">Spanish–Moro Wars</a> waged between the Christian Visayans and Muslim Mindanao, wherein Moros burned towns and conducted slave raids in the Visayas islands and selling the slaves to the Sultanates of the <a href="/wiki/Malay_Archipelago" title="Malay Archipelago">Malay Archipelago</a> and the Visayans fought back by establishing Christian fort-cities in Mindanao, cities such as <a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_City" title="Zamboanga City">Zamboanga City</a>. </p><p>On August 14, 1595, <a href="/wiki/Pope_Clement_VIII" title="Pope Clement VIII">Pope Clement VIII</a> created the diocese of Cebu as a suffragan to the <a href="/wiki/Archdiocese_of_Manila" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdiocese of Manila">Archdiocese of Manila</a>. The years: 1603, 1636, 1670, and 1672; saw the deployment of 86, 50, 135, and 135; Latin-American soldiers from <a href="/wiki/Mexican_settlement_in_the_Philippines" title="Mexican settlement in the Philippines">Mexico at Cebu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mexicans_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mexicans-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1608, Muslim Moros from Magindanao raided the nearby Visayan province of <a href="/wiki/Carigara" title="Carigara">Carigara in Leyte</a>. Cebu under Commander Salgado led an expedition of 70 Spanish and 60 Pampango marines that had intercepted and destroyed them.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On January 6, 1635; under orders by Juan de Alcarazo the Alcalde-Mayor of Cebu, a force of 50 Spanish and 1,000 Visayan troops, battled rebels who had uprisings at and settled in Bohol.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At April 5, 1635: Cebu sent a force of 300 Spanish and 1,000 Visayan troops to settle and colonize <a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_City" title="Zamboanga City">Zamboanga City</a> under the command of Captain Juan de Chavez.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1700s, Cebu housed 625 <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Filipino" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Filipino">Spanish Filipino</a> families and 28,112 native families<sup id="cite_ref-Estadismo2_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Estadismo2-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 113">: 113 </span></sup> </p><p>On April 3, 1898, local revolutionaries led by the <a href="/wiki/Negrense" class="mw-redirect" title="Negrense">Negrense</a> <a href="/wiki/Leon_Kilat" class="mw-redirect" title="Leon Kilat">Leon Kilat</a> rose up against the Spanish colonial authorities and took control of the urban center after three days of fighting. The uprising was only ended by the treacherous murder of Leon Kilat and the arrival of soldiers from Iloilo and Manila.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On December 26, 1898, the Spanish Governor, General Montero, evacuated his troops to Zamboanga, turning over government property to Pablo Mejia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEForeman1906522_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEForeman1906522-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next day, a provincial government was formed under Luis Flores as president, General Juan Climaco as military chief of staff, and <a href="/wiki/Julio_A._Llorente" title="Julio A. Llorente">Julio Llorente</a> as mayor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="American_occupation_and_World_War_II">American occupation and World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: American occupation and World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Philippine_Island_-_Cebu_-_NARA_-_68155922.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Philippine_Island_-_Cebu_-_NARA_-_68155922.jpg/220px-Philippine_Island_-_Cebu_-_NARA_-_68155922.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Philippine_Island_-_Cebu_-_NARA_-_68155922.jpg/330px-Philippine_Island_-_Cebu_-_NARA_-_68155922.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Philippine_Island_-_Cebu_-_NARA_-_68155922.jpg/440px-Philippine_Island_-_Cebu_-_NARA_-_68155922.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6895" data-file-height="5360" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of Cebu, 1936</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aduana_Sugbo_1910.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Aduana_Sugbo_1910.jpg/220px-Aduana_Sugbo_1910.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Aduana_Sugbo_1910.jpg/330px-Aduana_Sugbo_1910.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Aduana_Sugbo_1910.jpg/440px-Aduana_Sugbo_1910.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1758" data-file-height="1125" /></a><figcaption><i>Aduana</i> (Customs) building in 1910, now known as the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_the_Philippines_%E2%80%93_Cebu" title="National Museum of the Philippines – Cebu">National Museum of the Philippines – Cebu</a>. </figcaption></figure> <p>The signing of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1898)" title="Treaty of Paris (1898)">Treaty of Paris</a> at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a> provided for the cession of Cebu along with the rest of the Philippine Islands to the United States until the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_the_Philippines" title="Commonwealth of the Philippines">Commonwealth Era (1935–46)</a>. On February 21, 1899, the <a href="/wiki/USS_Petrel_(PG-2)" title="USS Petrel (PG-2)">USS Petrel (PG-2)</a> deployed a landing party of 40 marines on the shores of Cebu.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEForeman1906523_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEForeman1906523-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cebu's transfer to the American government was signed by Luis Flores although others, most notably General <a href="/wiki/Arcadio_Maxilom" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcadio Maxilom">Arcadio Maxilom</a> and Juan Climaco, offered resistance until 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEForeman1906524_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEForeman1906524-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Governor <a href="/wiki/W._H._Taft" class="mw-redirect" title="W. H. Taft">W. H. Taft</a> visited Cebu on April 17, 1901, and appointed Julio Llorente as the first provincial governor.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEForeman1906526_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEForeman1906526-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Juan Climaco was elected to that office in January 1904.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEForeman1906526_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEForeman1906526-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cityhood">Cityhood</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Cityhood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines" title="Cities of the Philippines">Cities of the Philippines</a></div> <p>With its city status<sup id="cite_ref-pares.mcu.es_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pares.mcu.es-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> granted by the King of Spain in 1594 invalidated by the change of colonial administration, in 1934 the neighboring municipalities of El Pardo, Mabolo, Talamban, Banilad, and San Nicolas were dissolved and merged to become the revived City of Cebu, which received its renewed official Charter on February 24, 1937. These former towns were broken up into several barangays, including their town centers which assumed their names (in contrast, Manila and Iloilo preserved their incorporated towns as geo-political districts) resulting this in expansion of its territory.<sup id="cite_ref-Letigio_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Letigio-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many other Philippine cities such as Dansalan (now <a href="/wiki/Marawi" title="Marawi">Marawi</a>), <a href="/wiki/Iloilo_City" title="Iloilo City">Iloilo City</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bacolod" title="Bacolod">Bacolod</a> were also incorporated at the same time (see <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines" title="Cities of the Philippines">Cities of the Philippines</a>). Alfredo V. Jacinto was then serving as mayor when the city's status was restored by law. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Japanese_occupation">Japanese occupation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Japanese occupation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Along with the rest of the country, Cebu came under <a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_the_Philippines" title="Japanese occupation of the Philippines">Japanese occupation of the Philippines</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. The Japanese encountered opposition from guerrillas and irregular forces led by <a href="/wiki/James_M._Cushing" title="James M. Cushing">Col. James Cushing</a> and the Cebu Area Command. A Japanese businessman established Cebu's first "comfort station" during the war, where Japanese soldiers routinely gang-raped, humiliated, and murdered kidnapped girls and teenagers who they forced into sexual slavery under the brutal "<a href="/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women">comfort women</a>" system.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was finally liberated with the <a href="/wiki/Battle_for_Cebu_City" title="Battle for Cebu City">Battle for Cebu City</a> in March and April 1945. The military general headquarters of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 8th Constabulary Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary, active from January 3, 1942, to June 30, 1946, was stationed in Cebu City during World War II. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-war_years">Post-war years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Post-war years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_City.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cebu_City.jpg/220px-Cebu_City.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="121" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cebu_City.jpg/330px-Cebu_City.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cebu_City.jpg/440px-Cebu_City.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1424" data-file-height="783" /></a><figcaption>Skyline of Uptown Cebu in 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>The war virtually razed Cebu City to the ground. Reconstruction, however, was rapid. The city's central business district, which had been confined largely to the coast and the area around the port before the war, had expanded inland. <a href="/wiki/Colon_Street" title="Colon Street">Colon Street</a>, the oldest national road in the Philippines, which was once a residential area in the pre-war years, became the center of a dense and compact area in <a href="/wiki/Downtown" title="Downtown">downtown</a> Cebu City, becoming home to many shopping and business activities, including the city's most fashionable shops, restaurants, and movie houses. In 1962, construction of the Cebu City North Reclamation Area commenced, finishing eventually in 1969, which expanded the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Cebu" title="Port of Cebu">port of Cebu</a> and provided the city with more developable land close to the city center. During this time, Cebu also became a prominent educational center for the Visayas and Mindanao regions, and new schools were established in Cebu's uptown areas, such as the Talamban campus of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Carlos" title="University of San Carlos">University of San Carlos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="During_the_Marcos_dictatorship">During the Marcos dictatorship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: During the Marcos dictatorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Martial_law_under_Ferdinand_Marcos" title="Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos">Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_of_the_Marcos_dictatorship" title="Human rights abuses of the Marcos dictatorship">Human rights abuses of the Marcos dictatorship</a></div> <p>Cebu became a key center of resistance against the <a href="/wiki/Martial_law_under_Ferdinand_Marcos" title="Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos">Marcos dictatorship</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> first becoming apparent when the hastily put-together lineup of Pusyon Bisaya defeated the entire slate of Marcos' <a href="/wiki/Kilusang_Bagong_Lipunan" title="Kilusang Bagong Lipunan">Kilusang Bagong Lipunan</a> (KBL) in Region VII.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the Cebuanos immediately arrested by the Marcos dictatorship when Martial law was announced on September 23, 1972, were columnist and future National Artist <a href="/wiki/Resil_Mojares" class="mw-redirect" title="Resil Mojares">Resil Mojares</a> and human rights lawyer and Carcar Vice Mayor Democrito Barcenas, who were both detained at Camp Sergio Osmeña.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the Marcos Martial Law desaparecidos from Cebu was Redemptorist priest Fr. Rudy Romano,<sup id="cite_ref-MongayaSunStarRemembering_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MongayaSunStarRemembering-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a prominent Marcos critic and executive secretary of Cebu's Coalition against People's Persecution, who was accosted by armed men in Tisa, Labangon, Cebu City, on June 11, 1985, and never seen again.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BantayogProfileRomanoRudy_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BantayogProfileRomanoRudy-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Levi Ybañez, Romano's colleague in the Coalition against People's Persecution, was abducted on the same day as Fr. Romano, and was also never heard from again.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BantayogProfileYbanez_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BantayogProfileYbanez-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later, Cebu would play a key role in the days leading up to the 1986 <a href="/wiki/People_Power_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="People Power revolution">People Power revolution</a> and the ouster of Marcos. It was from Fuente Osmeña circle in Cebu City that the opposition forces relaunched a civil disobedience campaign against the Marcos regime and its cronies on February 22, 1986. After that, the Carmelite Monastery in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City, served as a refuge for opposition candidates Aquino and Laurel during the first day of the People Power revolution, because it was not yet safe to go back to Manila.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_boom_and_contemporary_history">Economic boom and contemporary history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Economic boom and contemporary history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_Downtown_CCLEX_top_view_(Cebu_City;_09-07-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Cebu_Downtown_CCLEX_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/220px-Cebu_Downtown_CCLEX_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Cebu_Downtown_CCLEX_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/330px-Cebu_Downtown_CCLEX_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Cebu_Downtown_CCLEX_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/440px-Cebu_Downtown_CCLEX_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Cebu%E2%80%93Cordova_Link_Expressway" title="Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway">Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway</a> (CCLEX), the longest sea-crossing bridge in the Philippines as of 2022, connects Cebu City to the municipality of <a href="/wiki/Cordova,_Cebu" title="Cordova, Cebu">Cordova</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mactan_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Mactan Island">Mactan Island</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1990, <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Ruping" class="mw-redirect" title="Typhoon Ruping">Typhoon Ruping</a> (international name <i>Mike</i>) hit <a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayas</a> and Cebu in particular, causing considerable damage to the infrastructure of the city and province. The typhoon cut off many of the city's communication lines, and was virtually cut from the outside, causing delays for aid from the national government in <a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a>. This forced local authorities to rethink governmental priorities, and enforced some radical measures, such as food, water, and fuel rations.<sup id="cite_ref-AP10_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AP10-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the city quickly recovered, and by the end of the decade, it was experiencing rapid economic growth,<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> dubbed <a href="/wiki/Ceboom" title="Ceboom">Ceboom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The economic growth of the city also spread economic growth to <a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu" title="Metro Cebu">its neighboring cities and municipalities</a>, which spreads from <a href="/wiki/Danao,_Cebu" title="Danao, Cebu">Danao</a> from the north all the way to <a href="/wiki/Carcar" title="Carcar">Carcar</a> to the south. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_Business_Park_and_IT_Park_skyline_(Cebu_City;_09-07-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Cebu_Business_Park_and_IT_Park_skyline_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/220px-Cebu_Business_Park_and_IT_Park_skyline_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Cebu_Business_Park_and_IT_Park_skyline_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/330px-Cebu_Business_Park_and_IT_Park_skyline_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Cebu_Business_Park_and_IT_Park_skyline_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/440px-Cebu_Business_Park_and_IT_Park_skyline_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Business_Park" title="Cebu Business Park">Cebu Business Park</a> as 2022. </figcaption></figure> <p>Within the city, economic growth was observed in other areas as well, and much of the business activity shifted from the old and derelict downtown area to the more modern and more diverse business districts located in other areas of the city, including areas around <a href="/wiki/Fuente_Osme%C3%B1a" class="mw-redirect" title="Fuente Osmeña">Fuente Osmeña</a> (colloquially known as "Uptown Cebu"), the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Business_Park" title="Cebu Business Park">Cebu Business Park</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_IT_Park" title="Cebu IT Park">Cebu IT Park</a>, among other areas. The opening of the aforementioned Ayala Mall and <a href="/wiki/SM_City_Cebu" title="SM City Cebu">SM City Cebu</a> had also shifted significant retail activities away from Colon, though it remained to serve as an important transit point for public utility <a href="/wiki/Jeepney" title="Jeepney">jeepneys</a> (PUJ) covering arterial routes within the city. </p><p>In 2002, the <a href="/wiki/South_Road_Properties" title="South Road Properties">South Road Properties</a> (SRP) was completed, initially with the intention of being a hub for <a href="/wiki/Light_industries" class="mw-redirect" title="Light industries">light industries</a> but gradually shifted to be a hub for <a href="/wiki/Mixed-use_developments" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed-use developments">mixed-use developments</a>. The Cebu South Coastal Road, which traverses through SRP, has helped alleviate the city's traffic by serving as an alternative to the <a href="/wiki/Natalio_Bacalso_Avenue" title="Natalio Bacalso Avenue">Natalio Bacalso Avenue</a>. <a href="/wiki/SM_Seaside_City_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="SM Seaside City Cebu">SM Seaside City Cebu</a> opened in 2015, and was one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_malls_in_the_Philippines" title="List of largest shopping malls in the Philippines">largest shopping malls in the Philippines</a> upon opening. The opening of the <a href="/wiki/Cebu%E2%80%93Cordova_Link_Expressway" title="Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway">Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway</a> in 2022, which links the city to <a href="/wiki/Cordova,_Cebu" title="Cordova, Cebu">Cordova</a> in Mactan, is poised to unlock the SRP's potential as the city's next economic hub. Other infrastructure projects, such as the <a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu_Expressway" title="Metro Cebu Expressway">Metro Cebu Expressway</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Bus_Rapid_Transit_System" title="Cebu Bus Rapid Transit System">Cebu Bus Rapid Transit System</a>, are also in place to help facilitate the city's future growth.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_City_skyline_Cebu_Strait_(Cebu_City;_01-13-2024).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Cebu_City_skyline_Cebu_Strait_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-13-2024%29.jpg/220px-Cebu_City_skyline_Cebu_Strait_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-13-2024%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Cebu_City_skyline_Cebu_Strait_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-13-2024%29.jpg/330px-Cebu_City_skyline_Cebu_Strait_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-13-2024%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Cebu_City_skyline_Cebu_Strait_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-13-2024%29.jpg/440px-Cebu_City_skyline_Cebu_Strait_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-13-2024%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of Cebu City in 2024.</figcaption></figure> <p>Cebu City has a land area of 315 square kilometers (122 sq mi). To the northeast of the city is <a href="/wiki/Mandaue_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandaue City">Mandaue City</a> and the town of <a href="/wiki/Consolacion,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Consolacion, Cebu">Consolacion</a>; to the west is <a href="/wiki/Toledo_City,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Toledo City, Cebu">Toledo City</a> and the towns of <a href="/wiki/Balamban,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Balamban, Cebu">Balamban</a> and <a href="/wiki/Asturias,_Cebu" title="Asturias, Cebu">Asturias</a>; to the south is <a href="/wiki/Talisay_City,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Talisay City, Cebu">Talisay City</a> and the town of <a href="/wiki/Minglanilla,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Minglanilla, Cebu">Minglanilla</a>. </p><p>Across Mactan Strait to the east is Mactan island where Lapu-Lapu is located. Further east across the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Strait" title="Cebu Strait">Cebu Strait</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Bohol_(island)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bohol (island)">island of Bohol</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Barangays">Barangays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Barangays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_barangays_in_Cebu_City" title="List of barangays in Cebu City">List of barangays in Cebu City</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ph_fil_cebu_city.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Ph_fil_cebu_city.png/170px-Ph_fil_cebu_city.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="229" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Ph_fil_cebu_city.png/255px-Ph_fil_cebu_city.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Ph_fil_cebu_city.png/340px-Ph_fil_cebu_city.png 2x" data-file-width="14401" data-file-height="19441" /></a><figcaption>Political map of Cebu City</figcaption></figure> <p>Cebu City is politically subdivided into 80 barangays. Each barangay consists of <a href="/wiki/Purok" title="Purok">puroks</a> and some have <a href="/wiki/Sitios" class="mw-redirect" title="Sitios">sitios</a>. </p><p>These barangays are grouped into two <a href="/wiki/Legislative_districts_of_Cebu_City" title="Legislative districts of Cebu City">congressional districts</a>, with 46 barangays in the northern district and 34 in the southern district.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of the 2020 census, 58 barangays are classified as urban barangays where 888,481 (92.15%) of Cebu City's population lives, while the remaining 22 rural barangays are home to 75,668 residents, representing 7.85% of the total population.<sup id="cite_ref-CebuPSGC_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CebuPSGC-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most populous barangays in the city, as of the 2020 census, are Guadalupe (70,039), Tisa (47,364), and Lahug (45,853), while Kalubihan is the least populous barangay with only 663 residents. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cebu City has a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_monsoon_climate" title="Tropical monsoon climate">tropical monsoon climate</a> under the <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a>. The city has a lengthy <a href="/wiki/Wet_season" title="Wet season">wet season</a> and a short <a href="/wiki/Dry_season" title="Dry season">dry season</a>, with only the months of March and April falling into the latter season. Average temperatures show little variance during the year with average daily temps ranging from 27 °C (81 °F) to 29 °C (84 °F). The city on averages experiences roughly 1,700 millimeters (67 in) of precipitation annually. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Cebu City (<a href="/wiki/Mactan_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Mactan International Airport">Mactan International Airport</a>) 1991–2020, extremes 1972–2020 </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF3700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.5<br />(92.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF2E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.8<br />(94.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF3400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.9<br />(93.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF2800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.6<br />(96.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF1F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.0<br />(98.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF1A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.6<br />(99.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF2A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.3<br />(95.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF2800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.6<br />(96.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF2800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.6<br />(96.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF3000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.4<br />(93.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF3500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.8<br />(92.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.0<br />(93.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF1A00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">37.6<br />(99.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF5100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.7<br />(85.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.0<br />(86.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.0<br />(87.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF4000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.2<br />(90.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF3B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.8<br />(91.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.2<br />(90.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.6<br />(88.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.9<br />(89.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.9<br />(89.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.4<br />(88.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.0<br />(87.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.3<br />(86.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF4600; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">31.3<br />(88.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF6500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.8<br />(80.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.0<br />(80.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF5E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.8<br />(82.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF5700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.8<br />(83.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF5300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.4<br />(84.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.9<br />(84.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF5A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.3<br />(82.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF5900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.5<br />(83.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF5A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.4<br />(83.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF5B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.2<br />(82.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.0<br />(82.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.4<br />(81.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF5C00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">28.1<br />(82.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.0<br />(75.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.0<br />(75.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.6<br />(76.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.5<br />(77.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.0<br />(78.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.5<br />(77.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.1<br />(77.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.2<br />(77.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.0<br />(77.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF7200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.9<br />(76.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.0<br />(77.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF7400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.6<br />(76.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7200; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">24.9<br />(76.8) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF952C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.8<br />(67.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9429; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.0<br />(68.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9831; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.4<br />(66.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF850C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.1<br />(71.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.0<br />(71.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.2<br />(68.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8E1E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.8<br />(69.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8E1E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.8<br />(69.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8914; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.5<br />(70.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF8913; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.6<br />(70.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9123; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.4<br />(68.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF9429; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.0<br />(68.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9831; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">19.4<br />(66.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainfall mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #35FF35; color:#000000;" class="notheme">135.1<br />(5.32) </td> <td style="background: #6DFF6D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">88.9<br />(3.50) </td> <td style="background: #A4FFA4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60.9<br />(2.40) </td> <td style="background: #A9FFA9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.6<br />(2.19) </td> <td style="background: #72FF72; color:#000000;" class="notheme">94.4<br />(3.72) </td> <td style="background: #00E700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">180.7<br />(7.11) </td> <td style="background: #00C400; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">210.6<br />(8.29) </td> <td style="background: #13FF13; color:#000000;" class="notheme">157.9<br />(6.22) </td> <td style="background: #00D800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">190.4<br />(7.50) </td> <td style="background: #00C800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">207.6<br />(8.17) </td> <td style="background: #35FF35; color:#000000;" class="notheme">131.0<br />(5.16) </td> <td style="background: #00FD00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">171.9<br />(6.77) </td> <td style="background: #29FF29; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,685<br />(66.34) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainy days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.1 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #8585FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9 </td> <td style="background: #A8A8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 </td> <td style="background: #BFBFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5 </td> <td style="background: #8F8FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9 </td> <td style="background: #5959FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13 </td> <td style="background: #4545FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">15 </td> <td style="background: #5E5EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13 </td> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">14 </td> <td style="background: #4545FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">15 </td> <td style="background: #6666FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #5252FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">14 </td> <td style="background: #6E6EFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">138 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0000BC; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">84 </td> <td style="background: #0000C4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">82 </td> <td style="background: #0000CB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">80 </td> <td style="background: #0000D3; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">78 </td> <td style="background: #0000CF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">79 </td> <td style="background: #0000C8; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">81 </td> <td style="background: #0000C0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">83 </td> <td style="background: #0000C4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">82 </td> <td style="background: #0000C4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">82 </td> <td style="background: #0000BC; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">84 </td> <td style="background: #0000C0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">83 </td> <td style="background: #0000B8; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">85 </td> <td style="background: #0000C4; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">82 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Atmospheric,_Geophysical_and_Astronomical_Services_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration">PAGASA</a><sup id="cite_ref-PAGASAnormals_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PAGASAnormals-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PAGASAextremes_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PAGASAextremes-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Cebu" title="List of people from Cebu">List of people from Cebu</a></div> <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:24em; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#f99"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Language Generally Spoken at Home (2010)</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;">Language</td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">Inhabitants</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em"><a href="/wiki/Cebuano_language" title="Cebuano language">Cebuano</a></td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Gold; width:99.24px; overflow:hidden"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">913,324</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Orange; width:0.25px; overflow:hidden"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">2,298</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em"><a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a></td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Indigo; width:0.15px; overflow:hidden"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">1,356</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em"><a href="/wiki/Hiligaynon_language" title="Hiligaynon language">Hiligaynon</a></td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Green; width:0.08px; overflow:hidden"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">724</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em">Others</td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Brown; width:0.29px; overflow:hidden"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">2,646</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:auto;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:none;clear:none;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Population census of Cebu City</caption><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="padding:0 0.5em"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:auto"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate. Executive Order 135 §6 states that for "census years" (years divisible by 10) the reference date would be May 1st, but for all other years, the reference date is to be the "middle of the year". This means that growth rates, although correct, are not necessarily simple year-on-year comparisons.">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1903 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">45,994</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1918 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">65,502</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.39%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1939 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">146,817</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.92%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1948 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">167,503</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.48%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1960 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">251,146</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.43%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:auto"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate. Executive Order 135 §6 states that for "census years" (years divisible by 10) the reference date would be May 1st, but for all other years, the reference date is to be the "middle of the year". This means that growth rates, although correct, are not necessarily simple year-on-year comparisons.">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1970 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">347,116</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.29%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1975 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">413,025</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.55%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1980 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">490,281</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.49%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1990 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">610,417</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.22%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1995 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">662,299</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.54%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:auto"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate. Executive Order 135 §6 states that for "census years" (years divisible by 10) the reference date would be May 1st, but for all other years, the reference date is to be the "middle of the year". This means that growth rates, although correct, are not necessarily simple year-on-year comparisons.">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2000 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">718,821</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.77%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2007 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">799,762</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.48%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2010 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">866,171</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.95%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2015 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">922,611</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.21%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2020 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">964,169</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.87%</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:110%;">Source: Philippine Statistics Authority</span><span style="font-size:118%;"><sup id="cite_ref-2020Popcen_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020Popcen-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PSA15–07_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSA15–07-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NSO10–07_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NSO10–07-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NSO07-07_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NSO07-07-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGonzales2004_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGonzales2004-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The city's population reached 799,762 people in 2007, and at the time of the 2010 census, the population had grown to 866,171 people, who formed at least 161,151 households.<sup id="cite_ref-PSA20–07_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSA20–07-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Basilica_Minore_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Cebu_(Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard,_Cebu_City;_01-10-2024).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Basilica_Minore_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Cebu_%28Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg/185px-Basilica_Minore_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Cebu_%28Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="185" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Basilica_Minore_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Cebu_%28Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg/278px-Basilica_Minore_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Cebu_%28Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Basilica_Minore_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Cebu_%28Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg/370px-Basilica_Minore_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Cebu_%28Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o" title="Basilica del Santo Niño">Basilica del Santo Niño</a>, founded in 1565, was built on the spot where the image of the <a href="/wiki/Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Ceb%C3%BA" title="Santo Niño de Cebú">Santo Niño de Cebú</a> was found during the expedition of <a href="/wiki/Miguel_L%C3%B3pez_de_Legazpi" title="Miguel López de Legazpi">Miguel López de Legazpi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IFI_Cebu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/IFI_Cebu.jpg/185px-IFI_Cebu.jpg" decoding="async" width="185" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/IFI_Cebu.jpg/278px-IFI_Cebu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/IFI_Cebu.jpg/370px-IFI_Cebu.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>The Cathedral of the Holy Child of the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Independent_Church" title="Philippine Independent Church">Philippine Independent Church (<i>Iglesia Filipina Independiente</i>)</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Independent_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Catholic">Independent Catholic</a> denomination. The church was built in 1903 in a lot donated by <a href="/wiki/Vicente_Sotto" title="Vicente Sotto">Vicente Sotto</a> and dedicated to the <a href="/wiki/Christ_Child" title="Christ Child">Child Jesus</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The city is considered the birthplace of Christianity in the Far East.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cebu_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cebu-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Cebu" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cebu">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cebu</a> is currently the largest archdiocese in the Philippines and in Asia.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are plans to divide the archdiocese, which covers the entire civil <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Cebu">Province of Cebu</a>, into three dioceses, of which two are <a href="/wiki/Suffragan_diocese" title="Suffragan diocese">suffragans</a> of the archdiocese. </p><p>Christianity in the form of Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion in Cebu for about 95% of the population, making it the 2nd most Roman Catholic affiliated city among the already majority Roman Catholic nation.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The remainder of the religious population includes various Protestant faiths (<a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodists</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterians</a>), <a href="/wiki/Non-denominational" title="Non-denominational">Non-denominational</a> groups, the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Independent_Church" title="Philippine Independent Church">Philippine Independent Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo" title="Iglesia ni Cristo">Iglesia ni Cristo</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh-day Adventist">Seventh-day Adventist</a> and other Christian groups. Other religions include <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>. </p><p>Within the city is the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Taoist_Temple" title="Cebu Taoist Temple">Cebu Taoist Temple</a>, a Taoist temple located in the <a href="/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_Cebu_City" title="Beverly Hills, Cebu City">Beverly Hills</a> subdivision of Lahug. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages">Languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most recent census data on ethnicity and language (from the 2010 census) shows that the vast majority of the city's population speaks <a href="/wiki/Cebuano_language" title="Cebuano language">Cebuano</a> as the primary casual <a href="/wiki/Vernacular" title="Vernacular">vernacular</a> language.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Philippine_English" title="Philippine English">English</a> is also used as the primary <a href="/wiki/Prestige_(sociolinguistics)" title="Prestige (sociolinguistics)">formal</a> <a href="/wiki/Medium_of_instruction" title="Medium of instruction">medium of instruction</a> in schools, besides Filipino <a href="/wiki/Class_(education)" title="Class (education)">class</a> which teaches <a href="/wiki/Filipino_language" title="Filipino language">Filipino</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a>) across schools in Cebu and is also understood by the populace through Filipino <a href="/wiki/Mass_media" title="Mass media">mass media</a>. There are also a few speakers of <a href="/wiki/Hiligaynon_language" title="Hiligaynon language">Hiligaynon</a> from nearby Hiligaynon-speaking provinces in Panay and in <a href="/wiki/Soccsksargen" title="Soccsksargen">Soccsksargen</a> region in Mindanao and other speakers of other <a href="/wiki/Bisayan_languages" title="Bisayan languages">Visayan languages</a> from nearby regions. Minority speakers of other Philippine languages are also residents in the city, one of them are <a href="/wiki/Ilocano_people" title="Ilocano people">Ilocanos</a>, a Luzon ethnic group whose native language is the eponymous <a href="/wiki/Ilocano_language" title="Ilocano language">Ilocano language</a>; Ilocanos form a minority in Cebu City, where they formed an organized association for Ilocano residents and their descendants there, including nearby cities and towns within Cebu Province.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Filipino" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Filipino">Chinese Filipinos</a> also privately use <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Hokkien" title="Philippine Hokkien">Philippine Hokkien</a> among fellow speakers of the language, while <a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Chinese</a>) is also taught in Chinese class of <a href="/wiki/Chinese_school" title="Chinese school">Chinese Filipino schools</a> and few other schools in Cebu. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Port_of_Cebu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Port_of_Cebu.jpg/220px-Port_of_Cebu.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Port_of_Cebu.jpg/330px-Port_of_Cebu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Port_of_Cebu.jpg/440px-Port_of_Cebu.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="2334" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Port_of_Cebu" title="Port of Cebu">Port of Cebu</a> is the second busiest port in the country.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_IT_Park_skyline_Monterrazas_(Cebu_City;_01-11-2024).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cebu_IT_Park_skyline_Monterrazas_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-11-2024%29.jpg/220px-Cebu_IT_Park_skyline_Monterrazas_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-11-2024%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cebu_IT_Park_skyline_Monterrazas_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-11-2024%29.jpg/330px-Cebu_IT_Park_skyline_Monterrazas_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-11-2024%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cebu_IT_Park_skyline_Monterrazas_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-11-2024%29.jpg/440px-Cebu_IT_Park_skyline_Monterrazas_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-11-2024%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cebu_IT_Park" title="Cebu IT Park">Cebu IT Park</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_Business_Park_skyline_Luz_(Cebu_City;_01-16-2024).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Cebu_Business_Park_skyline_Luz_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-16-2024%29.jpg/220px-Cebu_Business_Park_skyline_Luz_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-16-2024%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Cebu_Business_Park_skyline_Luz_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-16-2024%29.jpg/330px-Cebu_Business_Park_skyline_Luz_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-16-2024%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Cebu_Business_Park_skyline_Luz_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-16-2024%29.jpg/440px-Cebu_Business_Park_skyline_Luz_%28Cebu_City%3B_01-16-2024%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Business_Park" title="Cebu Business Park">Cebu Business Park</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The term <b><a href="/wiki/Ceboom" title="Ceboom">Ceboom</a></b>, a portmanteau of "Cebu" and "boom", has been used to refer to the rapid economic development of both Cebu City and Cebu Province from the early 1990s to the early 2000s.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cebu City is considered to be the prime trading center of the southern Philippines.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With Cebu City's proximity to many islands, beaches, hotel and resorts, diving locations, and heritage sites, high domestic and foreign tourist arrivals have fueled the city's tourism industry. Due to its geographic location in the middle of the country, accessibility by air, land and sea transportation, Cebu City has become the tourist gateway to central and southern Philippines. Its port, <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Cebu" title="Port of Cebu">Port of Cebu</a>, is the country's second largest seaport.<sup id="cite_ref-casestudy_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-casestudy-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city is a major hub for the <a href="/wiki/Business_process_outsourcing" title="Business process outsourcing">business process outsourcing</a> industry of the Philippines. In 2013, Cebu ranked 8th worldwide in the "Top 100 BPO Destinations Report" by global advisory firm Tholons.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, the growth in IT-BPO revenues in Cebu grew 26.9 percent at $484 million, while nationally, the industry grew 18.2 percent at $13 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Aboitiz_Equity_Ventures" title="Aboitiz Equity Ventures">Aboitiz Equity Ventures</a>, formerly known as Cebu Pan Asian Holdings, is the first holding company from Cebu City publicly listed in the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Stock_Exchange" title="Philippine Stock Exchange">Philippine Stock Exchange</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ayala_Corporation" title="Ayala Corporation">Ayala Corporation</a>, through its subsidiary Cebu Holdings, Inc. and Cebu Property, both publicly in the PSE Index, developed the Cebu Park District where the mixed-used development zones of the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Business_Park" title="Cebu Business Park">Cebu Business Park</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cebu_IT_Park" title="Cebu IT Park">Cebu IT Park</a> are located. Both master planned areas are host to regional headquarters for various companies in the banking, finance, IT and tourism sectors among others. </p><p>Shipbuilding companies in Cebu have manufactured bulk carriers of up to 70,000 metric tons (69,000 long tons; 77,000 short tons) deadweight (DWT) and double-hulled fast craft as well. This industry made the Philippines the 4th largest shipbuilding country in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With a revenue growth rate of 18.8 percent in 2012, the real estate industry is the fastest growing sector in Cebu. With the strong economic indicators and high investors' confidence level, more condominium projects and hypermarkets are being developed in the locality.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> List of largest shopping malls in the Philippines </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Colon_Street-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard_intersection_close-up_(Cebu_City;_09-05-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Colon_Street-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard_intersection_close-up_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/220px-Colon_Street-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard_intersection_close-up_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Colon_Street-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard_intersection_close-up_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/330px-Colon_Street-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard_intersection_close-up_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Colon_Street-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard_intersection_close-up_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/440px-Colon_Street-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard_intersection_close-up_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Colon_Street" title="Colon Street">Colon Street</a> in downtown Cebu, is considered as the oldest street in the Philippines</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Colon_Street" title="Colon Street">Colon Street</a>, the oldest national road in the Philippines, as well as its neighboring streets and surrounding areas, collectively known as Downtown Cebu, is an important center of commerce for the city. It is home to many malls, stores, and stalls selling various goods and services. <a href="/wiki/Carbon_Market" title="Carbon Market">Carbon Market</a> is the city's oldest and largest farmer's market, and is set to be redeveloped to include other lifestyle and mixed-use developments. The redevelopment is scheduled to be finished by 2025.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Pasil_Fish_Market" title="Pasil Fish Market">Pasil Fish Market</a>, located in Barangays Pasil and Suba, is a major fish wholesale market, sourcing fresh catch from different parts of the <a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayas</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/South_Road_Properties" title="South Road Properties">South Road Properties</a> (SRP) is a 300-hectare (740-acre) prime property development project on a reclaimed land located a few metres off the coast of Cebu's central business district. It is a mixed-use development that will feature entertainment, leisure, residential and business-processing industries.<sup id="cite_ref-About_South_Road_Properties_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About_South_Road_Properties-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is registered with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and is funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation(JBIC).<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Traversing the property is a 12-kilometer (7.5 mi), four-lane highway known as the Cebu Coastal Road that provides the motorists with a good view of Cebu's south coast and the nearby island of Bohol. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shopping">Shopping</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Shopping"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SM_Seaside_(SRP,_Cebu_City;_01-15-2023).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/SM_Seaside_%28SRP%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-15-2023%29.jpg/220px-SM_Seaside_%28SRP%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-15-2023%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/SM_Seaside_%28SRP%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-15-2023%29.jpg/330px-SM_Seaside_%28SRP%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-15-2023%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/SM_Seaside_%28SRP%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-15-2023%29.jpg/440px-SM_Seaside_%28SRP%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-15-2023%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/SM_Seaside_City_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="SM Seaside City Cebu">SM Seaside City Cebu</a> is the largest shopping mall in the city and <a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_malls_in_the_Philippines" title="List of largest shopping malls in the Philippines">4th largest in the country</a>. </figcaption></figure> <p>Cebu City, and <a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu" title="Metro Cebu">Metro Cebu</a> as a whole, is one of the Philippines' major shopping destinations. The Gaisano family, which operates <a href="/wiki/Gaisano_Capital" title="Gaisano Capital">Gaisano Capital</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gaisano_Grand_Malls" title="Gaisano Grand Malls">Gaisano Grand Malls</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gaisano_Malls" title="Gaisano Malls">Gaisano Malls</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Metro_Retail_Stores_Group" title="Metro Retail Stores Group">Metro Retail Stores Group</a>, traces its roots to the city.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are four major <a href="/wiki/Shopping_mall" title="Shopping mall">super-regional malls</a> in the city. <a href="/wiki/SM_City_Cebu" title="SM City Cebu">SM City Cebu</a>, located in the North Reclamation Area, opened in 1993, and is the first <a href="/wiki/SM_Supermall" class="mw-redirect" title="SM Supermall">SM Supermall</a> in the Philippines located outside <a href="/wiki/Metro_Manila" title="Metro Manila">Metro Manila</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ayala_Center_Cebu" title="Ayala Center Cebu">Ayala Center Cebu</a>, opened in 1994, is a shopping mall at the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Business_Park" title="Cebu Business Park">Cebu Business Park</a>. More than 85,000 people visit the mall every day, with the figure increasing to 135,000 daily on weekends.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/SM_Seaside" class="mw-redirect" title="SM Seaside">SM Seaside</a>, opened in November 2015, is located in the South Road Properties and is one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_malls_in_the_Philippines" title="List of largest shopping malls in the Philippines">largest shopping malls in the Philippines</a>. <a href="/wiki/Robinsons_Galleria_Cebu" title="Robinsons Galleria Cebu">Robinsons Galleria Cebu</a> opened in December 2015 and is in close proximity to the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Cebu" title="Port of Cebu">Port of Cebu</a>. Other notable retail establishments include <a href="/wiki/Ayala_Malls_Central_Bloc" title="Ayala Malls Central Bloc">Ayala Malls Central Bloc</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cebu_IT_Park" title="Cebu IT Park">Cebu IT Park</a>, Il Corso, <a href="/wiki/Gaisano_Mall_of_Cebu" title="Gaisano Mall of Cebu">Gaisano Mall of Cebu</a>, and Gaisano Country Mall, among others. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Hall" title="Cebu City Hall">Cebu City Hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Council" title="Cebu City Council">Cebu City Council</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_City_Hall_(Plaza_Sugbu,_Cebu_City;_01-21-2023).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Cebu_City_Hall_%28Plaza_Sugbu%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-21-2023%29.jpg/220px-Cebu_City_Hall_%28Plaza_Sugbu%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-21-2023%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Cebu_City_Hall_%28Plaza_Sugbu%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-21-2023%29.jpg/330px-Cebu_City_Hall_%28Plaza_Sugbu%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-21-2023%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Cebu_City_Hall_%28Plaza_Sugbu%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-21-2023%29.jpg/440px-Cebu_City_Hall_%28Plaza_Sugbu%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-21-2023%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption>Cebu City Hall, the seat of city government.</figcaption></figure> <p>Being a highly urbanized city, Cebu City (along with neighboring <a href="/wiki/Mandaue" title="Mandaue">Mandaue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lapu-Lapu,_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="Lapu-Lapu, Philippines">Lapu-Lapu</a>) is independent from Cebu province. Its electorate do not vote for provincial officials. There were proposals during the time of Governor <a href="/wiki/Emilio_Mario_Osme%C3%B1a" class="mw-redirect" title="Emilio Mario Osmeña">Emilio Mario Osmeña</a> to establish an "administrative district" that would be independent from Cebu City. This would mean carving out Cebu City's Capitol Site barangay, where the provincial capitol and other provincial offices are located. The plan, however, did not go through and was even followed by other proposals like the transfer of the capital to Balamban. </p><p>Cebu City is governed by a mayor, vice mayor and <a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Council" title="Cebu City Council">sixteen councilors</a> (eight representing the north and eight representing the south districts). Each official is popularly elected to serve for a three-year term. The chief of the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Barangay_Captains" class="mw-redirect" title="Association of Barangay Captains">Association of Barangay Captains</a> and the president of the <a href="/wiki/Sangguniang_Kabataan" title="Sangguniang Kabataan">Sangguniang Kabataan</a> Federation also serve in the city council. The day-to-day administration of the city is handled by a city administrator.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Current city officials (2022–2025)</dt></dl> <ul><li>Mayor: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Rama" title="Mike Rama">Michael L. Rama</a> (<a href="/wiki/Partido_Barug" title="Partido Barug">BARUG</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-cebudailynews.inquirer.net_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cebudailynews.inquirer.net-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 7, 2024, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Martires" title="Samuel Martires">Ombudsman Samuel Martires</a> in a 10-page Order directed a 6-month <a href="/wiki/Suspension_(punishment)" title="Suspension (punishment)">preventive suspension</a> of Rama and 7 other City officials.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Vice Mayor: Raymond Alvin N. Garcia (<a href="/wiki/Partido_Barug" title="Partido Barug">BARUG</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-cebudailynews.inquirer.net_98-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cebudailynews.inquirer.net-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/19th_Congress_of_the_Philippines" title="19th Congress of the Philippines">19th Congress</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_the_Philippines" title="House of Representatives of the Philippines">House of Representatives</a> <ul><li>1st District (North): <a href="/wiki/Rachel_del_Mar" title="Rachel del Mar">Rachel B. del Mar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nationalist_People%27s_Coalition" title="Nationalist People's Coalition">NPC</a>)</li> <li>2nd District (South): Eduardo R. Rama Jr. (<a href="/wiki/PDP%E2%80%93Laban" class="mw-redirect" title="PDP–Laban">PDPLBN</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Interior_of_the_Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Interior_of_the_Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o.jpg/220px-Interior_of_the_Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Interior_of_the_Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o.jpg/330px-Interior_of_the_Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Interior_of_the_Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o.jpg/440px-Interior_of_the_Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Devotees inside the <a href="/wiki/Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o" title="Basilica del Santo Niño">Basilica del Santo Niño</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Cebu City is a significant cultural center in the Philippines. The imprint of Spanish and Roman Catholic culture is evident. The city's most famous landmark is <a href="/wiki/Magellan%27s_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Magellan's Cross">Magellan's Cross</a>. This cross, now housed in a chapel, is reputed to have been erected by <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" title="Ferdinand Magellan">Ferdinand Magellan</a> (Fernão Magalhães) when he arrived in the Philippines in 1521.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was encased in hollow <a href="/wiki/Afzelia_rhomboidea" title="Afzelia rhomboidea">tindalo wood</a> in 1835 upon the order of the Augustinian Bishop Santos Gómez Marañon to prevent devotees from taking it home chip by chip. The same bishop restored the present template or kiosk, located at Magallanes Street between the City Hall and Colegio del Santo Niño. Revered by Filipinos, the Magellan's Cross is a symbol of Christianity in the Philippines. </p><p>A few steps away from Magellan's Cross is the <a href="/wiki/Basilica_Minore_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilica Minore del Santo Niño">Basilica Minore del Santo Niño</a> (Church of the Holy Child). This is an Augustinian church elevated to the rank of basilica in 1965 during the 400th anniversary celebrations of Christianity in the Philippines, held in Cebu. The church, which was the first to be established in the islands, is built of hewn stone and features the country's oldest relic, the figure of the <a href="/wiki/Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Ceb%C3%BA" title="Santo Niño de Cebú">Santo Niño de Cebú</a> (Holy Child of Cebu), who is <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Child_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Child Jesus">Child</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Viva_Pit_Senyor_for_Our_Beloved_Nation.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Viva_Pit_Senyor_for_Our_Beloved_Nation.jpg/220px-Viva_Pit_Senyor_for_Our_Beloved_Nation.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Viva_Pit_Senyor_for_Our_Beloved_Nation.jpg/330px-Viva_Pit_Senyor_for_Our_Beloved_Nation.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Viva_Pit_Senyor_for_Our_Beloved_Nation.jpg/440px-Viva_Pit_Senyor_for_Our_Beloved_Nation.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5622" data-file-height="4016" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sinulog" title="Sinulog">Sinulog Festival</a> is one of the grandest festival of the Philippines in honor of <a href="/wiki/Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Ceb%C3%BA" title="Santo Niño de Cebú">Senor Santo Niño</a></figcaption></figure> <p>This religious and cultural event is celebrated during the island's cultural festivities known as the <a href="/wiki/Sinulog_festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinulog festival">Sinulog festival</a>. Held every third Sunday of January, it celebrates the festival of the <a href="/wiki/Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_Ceb%C3%BA" title="Santo Niño de Cebú">Santo Niño</a>, who was formerly considered to be the patron saint of Cebu.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> (This patronage was later changed to that of Our Lady of Guadalupe after it was realized that the Santo Niño could not be a patron saint because he was an image of Christ and not a saint.) The Sinulog is a dance prayer ritual of pre-Hispanic indigenous origin.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The dancer moves two steps forward and one step backward to the rhythmic sound of drums. This movement resembles somewhat the current (sulog) of the river. Thus, the Cebuanos called it Sinulog.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>When the Spaniards arrived in Cebu, the Italian chronicler <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Pigafetta" title="Antonio Pigafetta">Antonio Pigafetta</a>, sailing under convoy with the Magellan expedition, offered a baptismal gift to Hara Amihan, wife of Rajah Humabon. She was later named Juana, the figure of the Santo Niño. The natives also honored the Santo Niño de Cebú in their indigenous sinulog ritual.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This ritual was preserved but limited to honoring the Santo Niño. Once the Santo Niño church was built in the 16th century, the Christianized-<a href="/wiki/Malay_race" title="Malay race">Austronesian natives</a> started performing the sinulog ritual in front of the church, the devotees offering candles and indigenous dancers shouting "Viva Pit Señor!"<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In the 1980s and 2000s, the city authorities of Cebu added the religious feast of Santo Niño de Cebú during the Sinulog Festival to its cultural event. </p><p>The city joined <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Creative_Cities_Network" title="Creative Cities Network">Network of Creative Cities</a> as a Design City on October 31, 2019, on the occasion of World Cities' Day.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cebu City was also recognized by the <a href="/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council">British Council</a> as the Creative Capital of the Philippines.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, it joined the UNESCO <a href="/wiki/Creative_Cities_Network" title="Creative Cities Network">Creative Cities Network</a> as a City of Design.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cebu City is regarded as the birthplace of <a href="/wiki/BisRock" class="mw-redirect" title="BisRock">BisRock</a>, a term coined by Cebuano writer Januar E. Yap in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notable BisRock bands include <a href="/wiki/Missing_Filemon" title="Missing Filemon">Missing Filemon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Junior_Kilat" title="Junior Kilat">Junior Kilat</a>, Phylum, Rundown Genova, and Scrambled Eggs, among others. Popular Filipino bands <a href="/wiki/Urbandub" title="Urbandub">Urbandub</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cuesh%C3%A9" title="Cueshé">Cueshé</a> also hail from Cebu, but mostly sing their songs in English, and in the latter's case, also in <a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a>. </p><p>The Cebu Reggae Festival is a popular <a href="/wiki/Filipino_Reggae" class="mw-redirect" title="Filipino Reggae">Filipino Reggae</a> and Roots <a href="/wiki/Music_festival" title="Music festival">music festival</a>, it now has become one of the Philippines' largest annual Reggae Festivals. </p><p>Lifedance and Sinulog Invasion are rave music festivals held in the city in the days before the <a href="/wiki/Sinulog" title="Sinulog">Sinulog</a> Festival. These music festivals are regarded as among the biggest music festivals in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Cebu Pop Music Festival is an annual music festival, founded in 1980,<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> showcasing Cebuano-language pop songs. Like Lifedance and Sinulog Invasion, the music festival is also held in the days before the <a href="/wiki/Sinulog" title="Sinulog">Sinulog</a> Festival. </p><p>On Cebuano musical heritage, the <a href="/wiki/Jose_R._Gullas_Halad_Museum" title="Jose R. Gullas Halad Museum">Jose R. Gullas Halad Museum</a> in V. Gullas St. (former Manalili) corner D. Jakosalem St. in Cebu City, holds musical memorabilia of Cebuano composers in the early 20th century, the likes of Ben Zubiri (composer of Matud Nila), Inting Rubi (Kasadya Ning Taknaa) and Minggoy Lopez (Rosas Pandan). </p><p>Since 2013, Cebu has hosted the <a href="/wiki/Visayan_Pop_Songwriting_Campaign" title="Visayan Pop Songwriting Campaign">Visayan Pop Songwriting Campaign</a>, an annual songwriting competition that aimed to showcase songs written in the Cebuano language. Founded by multi-awarded artist <a href="/wiki/Jude_Gitamondoc" title="Jude Gitamondoc">Jude Gitamondoc</a>, Ian Zafra, Cattski Espina, and <a href="/wiki/Missing_Filemon" title="Missing Filemon">Missing Filemon</a>'s front-man Lorenzo Niñal through the Artists and Musicians Marketing Cooperative (ArtistKo) with the support of the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Vispop, or sometimes Visayan pop, later on evolved from being associated with the music festival to a genre of the new wave of Visayan pop songs that gained nationwide popularity, even those songs that were not exclusively produced for or presented in the contest. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports">Sports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_City_Sports_Center_(R._Landon,_Cebu_City;_09-05-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Cebu_City_Sports_Center_%28R._Landon%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/220px-Cebu_City_Sports_Center_%28R._Landon%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Cebu_City_Sports_Center_%28R._Landon%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/330px-Cebu_City_Sports_Center_%28R._Landon%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Cebu_City_Sports_Center_%28R._Landon%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/440px-Cebu_City_Sports_Center_%28R._Landon%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Sports_Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Cebu City Sports Complex">Cebu City Sports Complex</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Schools_Athletic_Foundation,_Inc." title="Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc.">Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc.</a> is based in the city. Its member schools are located within the <a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu" title="Metro Cebu">Metro Cebu</a> area. It is often considered one of the Philippines' strongest college sports league. </p><p>The city has an active boxing scene. ALA Gym, one of the most famous boxing gyms in the Philippines, is based in the city, at the Banilad district. In addition, ALA Gym's promotion arm, the ALA Promotions, organizes the <a href="/wiki/Pinoy_Pride" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinoy Pride">Pinoy Pride</a> boxing series. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Aboitiz_Football_Cup" title="Aboitiz Football Cup">Aboitiz Football Cup</a> is the longest-running <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a> competition in Cebu. The cup has been considered to be one of the most prestigious<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="Who says this? (October 2024)">weasel words</span></a></i>]</sup> association football tournaments in the Philippines. The tournament is organized and supported by the <a href="/wiki/Aboitiz_Equity_Ventures" title="Aboitiz Equity Ventures">Aboitiz family</a>, one of the Philippines' richest families, and owners of one of the Philippines' largest conglomerates, the <a href="/wiki/Aboitiz_Equity_Ventures" title="Aboitiz Equity Ventures">Aboitiz Equity Ventures</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cebu_F.C." title="Cebu F.C.">Cebu F.C.</a> is the only professional sports club based in the city. It has played in the <a href="/wiki/Philippines_Football_League" title="Philippines Football League">Philippines Football League</a> (PFL) in <a href="/wiki/2021_Philippines_Football_League" title="2021 Philippines Football League">2021</a>. The club is the second professional football club to be based in Cebu, after <a href="/wiki/Global_F.C." title="Global F.C.">Global F.C.</a>, which also played in the PFL. The club plays its home games at the <a href="/wiki/Dynamic_Herb_Sports_Complex" title="Dynamic Herb Sports Complex">Dynamic Herb Sports Complex</a> in nearby <a href="/wiki/Talisay,_Cebu" title="Talisay, Cebu">Talisay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city has cultivated emerging sports and flourished in which Cebu Flag Football League, or known as CFFL, is an amateur sports league for <a href="/wiki/Flag_football" title="Flag football">flag football</a>. The association has partnered with Flag Football Philippines (FFP) in bringing the game of flag football in the country. </p><p>Former professional sports teams include the following: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Global_Cebu_F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Global Cebu F.C.">Global Cebu F.C.</a>, which played in the now-defunct <a href="/wiki/Philippines_Football_League" title="Philippines Football League">Philippines Football League</a> (PFL). They played their home games at the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Sports_Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Cebu City Sports Complex">Cebu City Sports Complex</a>. They have since moved to <a href="/wiki/Makati" title="Makati">Makati</a>, changing their name correspondingly into <a href="/wiki/Global_Makati_F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Global Makati F.C.">Global Makati F.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Chiefs" title="Cebu City Chiefs">Cebu City Chiefs</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">rugby league</a> team that participated in the <a href="/wiki/Philippines_National_Rugby_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippines National Rugby League">Philippines National Rugby League</a></li> <li>Cebu Dragons, a <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> team in the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Rugby_Football_Union" title="Philippine Rugby Football Union">Philippine Rugby Football Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Gems" title="Cebu Gems">Cebu Gems</a>, a basketball team that played in the now-defunct <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Basketball_Association" title="Metropolitan Basketball Association">Metropolitan Basketball Association</a> (MBA). The Gems played their home games at the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Coliseum" title="Cebu Coliseum">Cebu Coliseum</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Sharks" class="mw-redirect" title="Cebu City Sharks">Cebu City Sharks</a>, a basketball team that used to play in the South Division of the <a href="/wiki/Maharlika_Pilipinas_Basketball_League" title="Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League">Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League</a> (MPBL). The team has taken a leave of absence from the MPBL since 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The team played its home games at the <a href="/wiki/Hoops_Dome" title="Hoops Dome">Hoops Dome</a> in nearby <a href="/wiki/Lapu-Lapu_City" title="Lapu-Lapu City">Lapu-Lapu City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southwestern_University_(Philippines)" title="Southwestern University (Philippines)">Aznar Coliseum</a> in Barangay Sambag I, and at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Jose%E2%80%93Recoletos" title="University of San Jose–Recoletos">USJ-R Coliseum</a>, located in Barangay Basak Pardo.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tourism">Tourism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Tourism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tourism is a thriving industry in Cebu. It hosted the 1998 ASEAN Tourism Forum. The city also hosted the East Asian Tourism Forum in August 2002, in which the province of Cebu is a member and signatory. </p><p>Views of Cebu City and its skyline can be seen from villages and numerous gated communities located on its mountainsides.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a significant number of Filipino-Spanish heritage buildings in Cebu City such as <a href="/wiki/Fort_San_Pedro" title="Fort San Pedro">Fort San Pedro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basilica_del_Santo_Ni%C3%B1o" title="Basilica del Santo Niño">Basilica del Santo Niño</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magellan%27s_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Magellan's Cross">Magellan's Cross</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Metropolitan_Cathedral" title="Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral">Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tourism_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tourism-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city hosts the <a href="/wiki/Museo_Sugbo" title="Museo Sugbo">Museo Sugbo</a> and Casa Gorordo Museum. The <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Taoist_Temple" title="Cebu Taoist Temple">Cebu Taoist Temple</a> is also situated within the city. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Colon_Obelisk,_Cebu_City,_Jan_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Colon Street Obelisk and Historical Marker"><img alt="Colon Street Obelisk and Historical Marker" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Colon_Obelisk%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/87px-Colon_Obelisk%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="87" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Colon_Obelisk%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/131px-Colon_Obelisk%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Colon_Obelisk%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/175px-Colon_Obelisk%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2768" data-file-height="3792" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Colon_Street" title="Colon Street">Colon Street</a> Obelisk and Historical Marker</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Casa_Gorodo_Museum_(E._Aboitiz,_Cebu_City;_01-10-2024).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Casa Gorordo Museum"><img alt="Casa Gorordo Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Casa_Gorodo_Museum_%28E._Aboitiz%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg/120px-Casa_Gorodo_Museum_%28E._Aboitiz%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Casa_Gorodo_Museum_%28E._Aboitiz%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg/180px-Casa_Gorodo_Museum_%28E._Aboitiz%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Casa_Gorodo_Museum_%28E._Aboitiz%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg/240px-Casa_Gorodo_Museum_%28E._Aboitiz%2C_Cebu_City%3B_01-10-2024%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Casa Gorordo Museum</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Magellan%27s_Cross_Cebu_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Magellan's Cross Pavilion"><img alt="Magellan's Cross Pavilion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Magellan%27s_Cross_Cebu_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Magellan%27s_Cross_Cebu_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Magellan%27s_Cross_Cebu_%28cropped%29.jpg/180px-Magellan%27s_Cross_Cebu_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Magellan%27s_Cross_Cebu_%28cropped%29.jpg/240px-Magellan%27s_Cross_Cebu_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="783" data-file-height="576" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Magellan%27s_Cross_Pavilion" title="Magellan's Cross Pavilion">Magellan's Cross Pavilion</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Museo_Sugbu_(MJ_Cuenco_Avenue,_Cebu_City;_09-07-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Museo Sugbo"><img alt="Museo Sugbo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Museo_Sugbu_%28MJ_Cuenco_Avenue%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/120px-Museo_Sugbu_%28MJ_Cuenco_Avenue%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Museo_Sugbu_%28MJ_Cuenco_Avenue%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/180px-Museo_Sugbu_%28MJ_Cuenco_Avenue%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Museo_Sugbu_%28MJ_Cuenco_Avenue%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg/240px-Museo_Sugbu_%28MJ_Cuenco_Avenue%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-07-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Museo_Sugbo" title="Museo Sugbo">Museo Sugbo</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Temple_of_Leah,_Cebu_City,_Jan_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Temple of Leah"><img alt="Temple of Leah" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Temple_of_Leah%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/120px-Temple_of_Leah%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Temple_of_Leah%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/180px-Temple_of_Leah%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Temple_of_Leah%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg/240px-Temple_of_Leah%2C_Cebu_City%2C_Jan_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4080" data-file-height="3072" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Temple of Leah</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_downtown,_capitol_view_from_Tops_Lookout_(Cebu_City;_09-06-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Aerial view at Tops Lookout"><img alt="Aerial view at Tops Lookout" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Cebu_downtown%2C_capitol_view_from_Tops_Lookout_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-06-2022%29.jpg/120px-Cebu_downtown%2C_capitol_view_from_Tops_Lookout_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-06-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Cebu_downtown%2C_capitol_view_from_Tops_Lookout_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-06-2022%29.jpg/180px-Cebu_downtown%2C_capitol_view_from_Tops_Lookout_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-06-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Cebu_downtown%2C_capitol_view_from_Tops_Lookout_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-06-2022%29.jpg/240px-Cebu_downtown%2C_capitol_view_from_Tops_Lookout_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-06-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Aerial view at Tops Lookout</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sirao_Pictorial_Garden_026.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sirao Garden"><img alt="Sirao Garden" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Sirao_Pictorial_Garden_026.jpg/120px-Sirao_Pictorial_Garden_026.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Sirao_Pictorial_Garden_026.jpg/180px-Sirao_Pictorial_Garden_026.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Sirao_Pictorial_Garden_026.jpg/240px-Sirao_Pictorial_Garden_026.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4624" data-file-height="3468" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Sirao Garden</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Maritima_Ruins_(CSCR,_Cebu_City;_09-05-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Compañía Marítima Building"><img alt="Compañía Marítima Building" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Maritima_Ruins_%28CSCR%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/120px-Maritima_Ruins_%28CSCR%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Maritima_Ruins_%28CSCR%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/180px-Maritima_Ruins_%28CSCR%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Maritima_Ruins_%28CSCR%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/240px-Maritima_Ruins_%28CSCR%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Compa%C3%B1%C3%ADa_Mar%C3%ADtima_Building" title="Compañía Marítima Building">Compañía Marítima Building</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Archdiocesan_Museum_of_Cebu,_Jan_2024_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Archdiocesan Museum of Cebu"><img alt="The Archdiocesan Museum of Cebu" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/The_Archdiocesan_Museum_of_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024_%282%29.jpg/120px-The_Archdiocesan_Museum_of_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/The_Archdiocesan_Museum_of_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024_%282%29.jpg/180px-The_Archdiocesan_Museum_of_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/The_Archdiocesan_Museum_of_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024_%282%29.jpg/240px-The_Archdiocesan_Museum_of_Cebu%2C_Jan_2024_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3540" data-file-height="2925" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Archdiocesan Museum of Cebu</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_Fuente_Osme%C3%B1a_Circle_top_view_(Cebu_City;_09-09-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fuente Osmeña Circle and at the end of point in of Osmeña Boulevard"><img alt="Fuente Osmeña Circle and at the end of point in of Osmeña Boulevard" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Cebu_Fuente_Osme%C3%B1a_Circle_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-09-2022%29.jpg/120px-Cebu_Fuente_Osme%C3%B1a_Circle_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-09-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Cebu_Fuente_Osme%C3%B1a_Circle_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-09-2022%29.jpg/180px-Cebu_Fuente_Osme%C3%B1a_Circle_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-09-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Cebu_Fuente_Osme%C3%B1a_Circle_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-09-2022%29.jpg/240px-Cebu_Fuente_Osme%C3%B1a_Circle_top_view_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-09-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fuente Osmeña Circle and at the end of point in of <a href="/wiki/Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard" title="Osmeña Boulevard">Osmeña Boulevard</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport_Terminal_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport_Terminal_2.jpg/220px-Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport_Terminal_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport_Terminal_2.jpg/330px-Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport_Terminal_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport_Terminal_2.jpg/440px-Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport_Terminal_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport" title="Mactan–Cebu International Airport">Mactan–Cebu International Airport</a> terminal 2 in nearby <a href="/wiki/Mactan_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Mactan Island">Mactan Island</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard-CNU_(Cebu_City;_09-05-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard-CNU_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/220px-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard-CNU_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard-CNU_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/330px-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard-CNU_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard-CNU_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/440px-Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard-CNU_%28Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Osme%C3%B1a_Boulevard" title="Osmeña Boulevard">Osmeña Boulevard</a>, a major arterial thoroughfare in Cebu City.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport" title="Mactan–Cebu International Airport">Mactan–Cebu International Airport</a>, located in Lapu-Lapu, is the country's second-busiest airport and serves direct international flights and domestic destinations.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many international and cargo airlines fly to Cebu. There are also direct transfer flights via the capital's <a href="/wiki/Ninoy_Aquino_International_Airport" title="Ninoy Aquino International Airport">Ninoy Aquino International Airport</a> that readily connect the city to other destinations in the world. </p><p>The city is served by a <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Cebu" title="Port of Cebu">domestic and international port</a> which are handled by the Cebu Port Authority. Much of the city's waterfront is actually occupied by the port with around 3.5 kilometers (2.2 mi) of berthing space. The city is home to more than 80% of the country's island vessels traveling on domestic routes mostly in the Visayas and Mindanao.<sup id="cite_ref-casestudy_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-casestudy-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Transportation throughout the city and the metropolitan itself is provided by <a href="/wiki/Jeepney" title="Jeepney">jeepneys</a>, buses and taxis. The Cebu City Government conducted a 2012 feasibility study on implementing a <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Bus_Rapid_Transit" class="mw-redirect" title="Cebu Bus Rapid Transit">bus rapid transit</a> (BRT) system that will ease the transportation of the residents in the city and throughout the entire <a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu" title="Metro Cebu">Metro Cebu</a> area.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aimed to serve an estimated 330,000 passengers per day, the project would have a capacity of 176 buses running through 33 stations along Bulacao until Talamban with a link to <a href="/wiki/South_Road_Properties" title="South Road Properties">South Road Properties</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The project is currently branded as TransCebu and is expected to be fully operational by 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of March 2017<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> it was two years late, and the price had increased to ₱9.04B (US$180M).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBunachita2017_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBunachita2017-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cebu UMRT, a mass transit system that uses rail lines, has been proposed in the <a href="/wiki/Japan_International_Cooperation_Agency" title="Japan International Cooperation Agency">JICA</a> Study for both 2015 and 2019. The lines were included in the masterplan: a 67.5-kilometer Central Line as the first phase of the project is an underground railway that runs between <a href="/wiki/Carcar" title="Carcar">Carcar City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Danao,_Cebu" title="Danao, Cebu">Danao City</a>, while the line will also traverse the areas of Cebu City; and a 25-kilometer Coastal Line from <a href="/wiki/Talisay,_Cebu" title="Talisay, Cebu">Talisay</a> to <a href="/wiki/Lapu-Lapu_City" title="Lapu-Lapu City">Lapu-Lapu City</a>, which will also traverse in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2019, the <a href="/wiki/Land_Transportation_Franchising_and_Regulatory_Board" title="Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board">Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board</a> announced the opening of a new <a href="/wiki/Premium_Point-to-Point_Bus_Service" title="Premium Point-to-Point Bus Service">Premium Point-to-Point Bus Service</a> in Cebu City with three express bus routes to <a href="/wiki/Lapu-Lapu,_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="Lapu-Lapu, Philippines">Lapu-Lapu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danao,_Cebu" title="Danao, Cebu">Danao</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sibonga" title="Sibonga">Sibonga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Utilities">Utilities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Utilities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The city mostly gets its power from an interconnection grid with the Leyte Geothermal Power Plant, which also powers the majority of the <a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cebu is also powered by a coal-fired thermal plant with two units each generating 52.5-MW and 56.8-MW,<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a 43.8-MW diesel power plant and 55-MW land-based gas turbine plants located at the <a href="/wiki/Naga,_Cebu" title="Naga, Cebu">Naga</a> power complex which is planned to be rehabilitated and replaced with 150-MW coal units by 2016 and to be completed by 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Telecommunication facilities, broadband and wireless internet connections are available and are provided by some of the country's largest telecommunication companies. </p><p>In 1998, the 15-hectare (37-acre) Inayawan Sanitary Landfill was constructed to ease garbage disposal within the city. After 15 years, the landfill reached its lifespan and the <a href="/wiki/Talisay,_Cebu" title="Talisay, Cebu">Talisay</a> city government recently allowed Cebu to temporarily dump its garbage in its own 2-hectare (4.9-acre) landfill.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, Cebu appropriated a total of ₱2.5M to close and rehabilitate the landfill at Inayawan.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Metro_Cebu" title="List of colleges and universities in Metro Cebu">List of colleges and universities in Metro Cebu</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:University_of_San_Carlos_(Pantaleon_Del_Rosario,_Cebu_City;_09-05-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/University_of_San_Carlos_%28Pantaleon_Del_Rosario%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/200px-University_of_San_Carlos_%28Pantaleon_Del_Rosario%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/University_of_San_Carlos_%28Pantaleon_Del_Rosario%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/300px-University_of_San_Carlos_%28Pantaleon_Del_Rosario%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/University_of_San_Carlos_%28Pantaleon_Del_Rosario%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/400px-University_of_San_Carlos_%28Pantaleon_Del_Rosario%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Carlos" title="University of San Carlos">University of San Carlos</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:University_of_San_Jose_Recoletos_(Magallanes,_Cebu_City;_09-05-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/University_of_San_Jose_Recoletos_%28Magallanes%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/200px-University_of_San_Jose_Recoletos_%28Magallanes%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/University_of_San_Jose_Recoletos_%28Magallanes%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/300px-University_of_San_Jose_Recoletos_%28Magallanes%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/University_of_San_Jose_Recoletos_%28Magallanes%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg/400px-University_of_San_Jose_Recoletos_%28Magallanes%2C_Cebu_City%3B_09-05-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2664" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Jose_%E2%80%93_Recoletos" class="mw-redirect" title="University of San Jose – Recoletos">University of San Jose – Recoletos</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cnu_new02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Cnu_new02.jpg/200px-Cnu_new02.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Cnu_new02.jpg/300px-Cnu_new02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Cnu_new02.jpg/400px-Cnu_new02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="384" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Normal_University" title="Cebu Normal University">Cebu Normal University</a> in Osmeña Boulevard</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Cebu City, and <a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu" title="Metro Cebu">Metro Cebu</a> as a whole, is an important educational hub in Southern Philippines. Cebu City itself is currently home to ten large universities each with a number of campuses throughout <a href="/wiki/Cebu_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Cebu province">Cebu province</a> and more than a dozen other schools specializing in various courses. </p><p>Among these schools is the <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Carlos" title="University of San Carlos">University of San Carlos</a>, one of the most highly regarded educational institutions in the Philippines. It claims to trace its roots to <a href="/wiki/Colegio_de_San_Ildefonso" class="mw-redirect" title="Colegio de San Ildefonso">Colegio de San Ildefonso</a>, which was founded in 1595. It has five campuses around Cebu City, including the Downtown Campus (formerly Main Campus) and the Talamban Campus (TC), both of which are home to the school's college programs. It is currently headed by the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_Divine_Word" title="Society of the Divine Word">Society of the Divine Word</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Philippines_Cebu" title="University of the Philippines Cebu">University of the Philippines Cebu</a>, located at Barangay Camputhaw in the district near Lahug currently has eight courses and has plans of expansion and development. The U.P. Board of Regents elevated the status of U.P. Cebu as a constituent university of the University of the Philippines System on October 27, 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another Catholic university in Cebu City is the <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Jose%E2%80%93Recoletos" title="University of San Jose–Recoletos">University of San Jose–Recoletos</a> which was established in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is currently headed by the <a href="/wiki/Augustinian_Recollects" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustinian Recollects">Augustinian Recollects</a> and has two different campuses within the city, excluding a new campus outside the city located in the municipality of <a href="/wiki/Balamban" title="Balamban">Balamban</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Normal_University" title="Cebu Normal University">Cebu Normal University</a> (CNU) was established in 1902 as a provincial normal school, a branch of the Philippine Normal School. It became an independent institution in 1924, a chartered college in 1976, and a university in 1998. CNU offers academic programs at the nursery, kindergarten, elementary, junior high, undergraduate, and graduate levels. CNU is designated by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as Center of Excellence (COE) in both Nursing Education and Teacher Education.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Doctors%27_University" title="Cebu Doctors' University">Cebu Doctors' University</a> (formerly Cebu Doctors' College) was granted university status in November 2004. It is the only private school in the Philippines to achieve university status without a designated basic education (pre-school – high school) curriculum; it caters mainly to courses related to the health services field. It was relocated to a nine-story building in 2007 at the Cebu Boardwalk (now Dr. P.V. Larrazabal Jr. Avenue) in neighboring city of <a href="/wiki/Mandaue" title="Mandaue">Mandaue</a>, thus closing its old campus near the then Cebu Doctors' Hospital (now <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Doctors%27_University_Hospital" title="Cebu Doctors' University Hospital">Cebu Doctors' University Hospital</a>). As of 2016<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the university now offers senior high school (grades 11 and 12) </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cebu" title="University of Cebu">University of Cebu</a> (UC) has four campuses located within the city: Its main campus, located in Sanciangko Street, offers degree programs such as a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT), HRM, Computer Engineering, BSED and others. The Maritime Education & Training Center (METC), located in Barangay Mambaling, which hosts the university's maritime programs, was opened in 1991. Its third campus, in Barangay Banilad, was opened in June 2002. A fourth campus, the Pardo–Talisay campus, located in Barangay Bulacao Pardo, near the boundary between Cebu City and <a href="/wiki/Talisay,_Cebu" title="Talisay, Cebu">Talisay</a>, was added to the UC network in 2021 after the university's acquisition of St. Paul College Foundation, Inc. </p><p>Also located in the city is the <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Visayas" title="University of the Visayas">University of the Visayas</a>, established in 1919, and is considered to be the first educational institution in Cebu which was granted with a university status. It was granted an autonomous status by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in 2010 and currently offers basic education and a number of courses in the tertiary level including medical courses (Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Midwifery, and Health Care Services) which are housed in its campus in Banilad area. Aside from its campuses within Cebu City, it also has numerous campuses located around the <a href="/wiki/Cebu" title="Cebu">province of Cebu</a>. </p><p>Other noteworthy institutions in the city include the <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Institute_of_Technology_%E2%80%93_University" title="Cebu Institute of Technology – University">Cebu Institute of Technology – University</a> (formerly Cebu Institute of Technology), the main campus of <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Technological_University_(CTU)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cebu Technological University (CTU)">Cebu Technological University</a> (formerly the Cebu State College of Science and Technology), <a href="/wiki/Southwestern_University_(Philippines)" title="Southwestern University (Philippines)">Southwestern University</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_Philippines_Foundation" title="University of Southern Philippines Foundation">University of Southern Philippines Foundation</a> in Lahug and Mabini, <a href="/wiki/Asian_College_of_Technology" title="Asian College of Technology">Asian College of Technology</a> (formerly Asian Computer Institute), Benedicto College, <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Eastern_College" title="Cebu Eastern College">Cebu Eastern College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cebu_International_School" title="Cebu International School">Cebu International School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colegio_de_la_Inmaculada_Concepcion" class="mw-redirect" title="Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion">Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion</a>, <a href="/wiki/College_of_Technological_Sciences_-_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="College of Technological Sciences - Cebu">College of Technological Sciences - Cebu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Bosco_Technical_College%E2%80%93Cebu" title="Don Bosco Technical College–Cebu">Don Bosco Technical College–Cebu</a> (DBTC), <a href="/wiki/Saint_Theresa%27s_College_of_Cebu" title="Saint Theresa's College of Cebu">Saint Theresa's College of Cebu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sacred_Heart_School_-_Ateneo_de_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred Heart School - Ateneo de Cebu">Sacred Heart School - Ateneo de Cebu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salazar_Colleges_of_Science_and_Institute_of_Technology" title="Salazar Colleges of Science and Institute of Technology">Salazar Colleges of Science and Institute of Technology</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Velez_College" title="Velez College">Velez College</a> (together with its independently administered medical school arm <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Institute_of_Medicine" title="Cebu Institute of Medicine">Cebu Institute of Medicine</a>), among others. </p><p>Cebu City has 68 public elementary schools, 23 national high schools and 28 night high schools. These night high schools are operated by the city government. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cebu_City_Public_Library" title="Cebu City Public Library">Cebu City Public Library and Information Center</a> is the only public library in Cebu. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_television_and_radio_stations_in_Metro_Cebu" title="List of television and radio stations in Metro Cebu">List of television and radio stations in Metro Cebu</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sister_cities">Sister cities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Sister cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International">International</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: International"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/China" title="China"><img alt="China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Chengdu" title="Chengdu">Chengdu</a>, China<sup id="cite_ref-Cebu,_Chengdu_sign_sister-city_pact_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cebu,_Chengdu_sign_sister-city_pact-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Chula_Vista,_California" title="Chula Vista, California">Chula Vista, California</a>, United States<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico"><img alt="Mexico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Guadalajara" title="Guadalajara">Guadalajara</a>, Mexico<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Honolulu,_Hawaii" class="mw-redirect" title="Honolulu, Hawaii">Honolulu, Hawaii</a>, United States<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands"><img alt="Netherlands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Haarlemmermeer" title="Haarlemmermeer">Haarlemmermeer</a>, Netherlands<sup id="cite_ref-Haarlemmermeer_Officials_sojourn_here_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haarlemmermeer_Officials_sojourn_here-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan"><img alt="Taiwan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kaohsiung" title="Kaohsiung">Kaohsiung</a>, Taiwan<sup id="cite_ref-Sister_&_Friendly_Cities_of_Kaohsiung_136-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sister_&_Friendly_Cities_of_Kaohsiung-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium"><img alt="Belgium" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kortrijk" title="Kortrijk">Kortrijk</a>, Belgium<sup id="cite_ref-Cebu_City_renews_sister_city_ties_with_Belgium_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cebu_City_renews_sister_city_ties_with_Belgium-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"><img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/City_of_Parramatta" title="City of Parramatta">Parramatta City</a>, Australia<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal"><img alt="Portugal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sabrosa" title="Sabrosa">Sabrosa</a>, Portugal<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Salinas,_California" title="Salinas, California">Salinas, California</a>, United States<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Seattle,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle, Washington">Seattle, Washington</a>, United States<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, Russia<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir,_Russia" title="Vladimir, Russia">Vladimir</a>, Russia<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/China" title="China"><img alt="China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Xiamen" title="Xiamen">Xiamen</a>, China<sup id="cite_ref-Rama_renews_ties_with_Xiamen_City_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rama_renews_ties_with_Xiamen_City-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan"><img alt="Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Yokohama" title="Yokohama">Yokohama</a>, Japan<sup id="cite_ref-Cebu_Yokohama_Cities_joint_survey_mission_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cebu_Yokohama_Cities_joint_survey_mission-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea"><img alt="South Korea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Yeosu" title="Yeosu">Yeosu</a>, South Korea<sup id="cite_ref-Sokor_execs_in_Cebu_City_to_strengthen_partnership_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sokor_execs_in_Cebu_City_to_strengthen_partnership-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Local">Local</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Local"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Butuan" title="Butuan">Butuan</a>, Agusan del Norte</li><li><a href="/wiki/Davao_City" title="Davao City">Davao City</a>, Davao del Sur</li><li><a href="/wiki/Iloilo_City" title="Iloilo City">Iloilo City</a>, Iloilo</li><li><a href="/wiki/Bacolod" title="Bacolod">Bacolod</a>, Negros Occidental</li><li><a href="/wiki/Koronadal" title="Koronadal">Koronadal</a>, South Cotabato</li><li><a href="/wiki/General_Santos" title="General Santos">General Santos</a>, South Cotabato</li><li><a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a>, Metro Manila</li><li><a href="/wiki/Para%C3%B1aque" title="Parañaque">Parañaque</a>, Metro Manila</li><li><a href="/wiki/Ozamiz" title="Ozamiz">Ozamiz</a>, Misamis Occidental</li><li><a href="/wiki/Cabanatuan" title="Cabanatuan">Cabanatuan</a>, Nueva Ecija</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cebu_City&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" 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"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.530346/2015.530346.jesuits-in_djvu.txt">"Jesuits In The Philippines (1581-1768)" Page 325</a> "The alcalde mayor of Cebu, Juan de Alcarazo, hurried to the island with a force of 50 Spanish and 1,000 Visayan troops. On 6 January 1622 a pitched battle took place between part of this force and 1,500 of the rebels. As the Spanish muskets turned out to be as effective as ever, the rebels withdrew to the fortified enclosure which they had built, and which contained 1000 houses around the temple of the diuata. Alcarazo invested and took it in two weeks, thus breaking the back of the rebellion. 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Cebu_City" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Cebu City">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metro_Cebu" title="Metro Cebu">Metropolitan area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Cebu" title="List of people from Cebu">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_television_and_radio_stations_in_Metro_Cebu" title="List of television and radio stations in Metro Cebu">Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Metro_Cebu" title="List of tallest buildings in Metro Cebu">Skyscrapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_Cebu_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Transportation in Cebu City">Transportation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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Public Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Metro_Cebu" title="List of colleges and universities in Metro Cebu">Colleges and universities</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Institute_of_Technology_%E2%80%93_University" title="Cebu Institute of Technology – University">Cebu Institute of Technology – University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Normal_University" title="Cebu Normal University">Cebu Normal University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Technological_University" title="Cebu Technological University">Cebu Technological University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwestern_University_(Philippines)" title="Southwestern University (Philippines)">Southwestern University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Cebu" title="University of Cebu">University of Cebu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Carlos" title="University of San Carlos">University of San Carlos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Jose%E2%80%93Recoletos" 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title="Sinulog">Sinulog</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_Cebu_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Transportation in Cebu City">Transportation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_streets_in_Cebu#Cebu_City" title="List of streets in Cebu">Streets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cebu_North_Bus_Terminal" title="Cebu North Bus Terminal">Cebu North Bus Terminal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cebu_South_Bus_Terminal" title="Cebu South Bus Terminal">Cebu South Bus Terminal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mactan%E2%80%93Cebu_International_Airport" title="Mactan–Cebu International Airport">Mactan–Cebu International Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_of_Cebu" title="Port of Cebu">Port of Cebu</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cebu_Bus_Rapid_Transit_System" title="Cebu Bus Rapid Transit System">Cebu 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(capital and largest city)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_the_Philippines" title="Municipalities of the Philippines">Municipalities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alcantara,_Cebu" title="Alcantara, Cebu">Alcantara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcoy,_Cebu" title="Alcoy, Cebu">Alcoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alegria,_Cebu" title="Alegria, Cebu">Alegria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aloguinsan" title="Aloguinsan">Aloguinsan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argao" title="Argao">Argao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asturias,_Cebu" title="Asturias, Cebu">Asturias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badian,_Cebu" title="Badian, Cebu">Badian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balamban" title="Balamban">Balamban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bantayan,_Cebu" title="Bantayan, Cebu">Bantayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barili" 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Cebu">Santander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibonga" title="Sibonga">Sibonga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sogod,_Cebu" title="Sogod, Cebu">Sogod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabogon" title="Tabogon">Tabogon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabuelan" title="Tabuelan">Tabuelan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuburan,_Cebu" title="Tuburan, Cebu">Tuburan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tudela,_Cebu" title="Tudela, Cebu">Tudela</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines#Classification" title="Cities of the Philippines">Component cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bogo,_Cebu" title="Bogo, Cebu">Bogo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carcar" title="Carcar">Carcar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danao,_Cebu" title="Danao, Cebu">Danao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naga,_Cebu" title="Naga, Cebu">Naga</a></li> 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title="Alicia, Bohol">Alicia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aloguinsan" title="Aloguinsan">Aloguinsan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anda,_Bohol" title="Anda, Bohol">Anda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antequera,_Bohol" title="Antequera, Bohol">Antequera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argao" title="Argao">Argao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asturias,_Cebu" title="Asturias, Cebu">Asturias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baclayon" title="Baclayon">Baclayon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badian,_Cebu" title="Badian, Cebu">Badian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balamban" title="Balamban">Balamban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balilihan" title="Balilihan">Balilihan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bantayan,_Cebu" title="Bantayan, Cebu">Bantayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barili" title="Barili">Barili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batuan,_Bohol" title="Batuan, Bohol">Batuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bien_Unido" title="Bien Unido">Bien Unido</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bilar,_Bohol" title="Bilar, Bohol">Bilar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boljoon" title="Boljoon">Boljoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borbon,_Cebu" title="Borbon, Cebu">Borbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buenavista,_Bohol" title="Buenavista, Bohol">Buenavista</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calape" title="Calape">Calape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candijay" title="Candijay">Candijay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmen,_Bohol" title="Carmen, Bohol">Carmen (Bohol)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmen,_Cebu" title="Carmen, Cebu">Carmen (Cebu)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catigbian" title="Catigbian">Catigbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catmon,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Catmon, Cebu">Catmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarin,_Bohol" title="Clarin, Bohol">Clarin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compostela,_Cebu" title="Compostela, Cebu">Compostela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consolacion,_Cebu" class="mw-redirect" title="Consolacion, Cebu">Consolacion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cordova,_Cebu" title="Cordova, Cebu">Cordova</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Mandaluyong" title="Mandaluyong">Mandaluyong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandaue" title="Mandaue">Mandaue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marikina" title="Marikina">Marikina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muntinlupa" title="Muntinlupa">Muntinlupa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navotas" title="Navotas">Navotas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olongapo" title="Olongapo">Olongapo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Para%C3%B1aque" title="Parañaque">Parañaque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasay" title="Pasay">Pasay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasig" title="Pasig">Pasig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Princesa" title="Puerto Princesa">Puerto Princesa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quezon_City" title="Quezon City">Quezon City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Juan,_Metro_Manila" title="San Juan, Metro Manila">San Juan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacloban" title="Tacloban">Tacloban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taguig" title="Taguig">Taguig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valenzuela,_Metro_Manila" title="Valenzuela, Metro Manila">Valenzuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_City" title="Zamboanga City">Zamboanga City</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines#Independent_cities" title="Cities of the Philippines">Independent<br />component cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagupan" title="Dagupan">Dagupan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naga,_Camarines_Sur" title="Naga, Camarines Sur">Naga, Camarines Sur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ormoc" title="Ormoc">Ormoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santiago,_Isabela" title="Santiago, Isabela">Santiago</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines" title="Cities of the Philippines">Component cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alaminos,_Pangasinan" title="Alaminos, Pangasinan">Alaminos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antipolo" title="Antipolo">Antipolo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bacoor" title="Bacoor">Bacoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bago,_Negros_Occidental" title="Bago, Negros Occidental">Bago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bais,_Negros_Oriental" title="Bais, Negros Oriental">Bais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balanga,_Bataan" title="Balanga, Bataan">Balanga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baliwag" title="Baliwag">Baliwag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batac" title="Batac">Batac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batangas_City" title="Batangas City">Batangas City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayawan" title="Bayawan">Bayawan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baybay" title="Baybay">Baybay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayugan" title="Bayugan">Bayugan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bi%C3%B1an" title="Biñan">Biñan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bislig" title="Bislig">Bislig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bogo,_Cebu" title="Bogo, Cebu">Bogo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borongan" title="Borongan">Borongan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabadbaran" title="Cabadbaran">Cabadbaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabanatuan" title="Cabanatuan">Cabanatuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabuyao" title="Cabuyao">Cabuyao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadiz,_Negros_Occidental" title="Cadiz, Negros Occidental">Cadiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calaca,_Batangas" title="Calaca, Batangas">Calaca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calamba,_Laguna" title="Calamba, Laguna">Calamba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calapan" title="Calapan">Calapan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calbayog" title="Calbayog">Calbayog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candon" title="Candon">Candon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canlaon" title="Canlaon">Canlaon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carcar" title="Carcar">Carcar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmona,_Cavite" title="Carmona, Cavite">Carmona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catbalogan" title="Catbalogan">Catbalogan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cauayan,_Isabela" title="Cauayan, Isabela">Cauayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavite_City" title="Cavite City">Cavite City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danao,_Cebu" title="Danao, Cebu">Danao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dapitan" title="Dapitan">Dapitan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dasmari%C3%B1as" title="Dasmariñas">Dasmariñas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digos" title="Digos">Digos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dipolog" title="Dipolog">Dipolog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumaguete" title="Dumaguete">Dumaguete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Salvador,_Misamis_Oriental" title="El Salvador, Misamis Oriental">El Salvador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Escalante,_Negros_Occidental" title="Escalante, Negros Occidental">Escalante</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gapan" title="Gapan">Gapan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Trias" title="General Trias">General Trias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gingoog" title="Gingoog">Gingoog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guihulngan" title="Guihulngan">Guihulngan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Himamaylan" title="Himamaylan">Himamaylan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilagan" title="Ilagan">Ilagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imus" title="Imus">Imus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iriga" title="Iriga">Iriga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabela,_Basilan" title="Isabela, Basilan">Isabela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabankalan" title="Kabankalan">Kabankalan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kidapawan" title="Kidapawan">Kidapawan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koronadal" title="Koronadal">Koronadal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Carlota,_Negros_Occidental" title="La Carlota, Negros Occidental">La Carlota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamitan" title="Lamitan">Lamitan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laoag" title="Laoag">Laoag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legazpi,_Albay" title="Legazpi, Albay">Legazpi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligao" title="Ligao">Ligao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lipa,_Batangas" title="Lipa, Batangas">Lipa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maasin" title="Maasin">Maasin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mabalacat" title="Mabalacat">Mabalacat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaybalay" title="Malaybalay">Malaybalay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malolos" title="Malolos">Malolos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marawi" title="Marawi">Marawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masbate_City" title="Masbate City">Masbate City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mati,_Davao_Oriental" title="Mati, Davao Oriental">Mati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meycauayan" title="Meycauayan">Meycauayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mu%C3%B1oz,_Nueva_Ecija" title="Muñoz, Nueva Ecija">Muñoz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naga,_Cebu" title="Naga, Cebu">Naga, Cebu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oroquieta" title="Oroquieta">Oroquieta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ozamiz" title="Ozamiz">Ozamiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pagadian" title="Pagadian">Pagadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palayan" title="Palayan">Palayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panabo" title="Panabo">Panabo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passi,_Iloilo" title="Passi, Iloilo">Passi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roxas_City" title="Roxas City">Roxas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagay,_Negros_Occidental" title="Sagay, Negros Occidental">Sagay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samal,_Davao_del_Norte" title="Samal, Davao del Norte">Samal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Carlos,_Negros_Occidental" title="San Carlos, Negros Occidental">San Carlos, Negros Occidental</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Carlos,_Pangasinan" title="San Carlos, Pangasinan">San Carlos, Pangasinan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_La_Union" title="San Fernando, La Union">San Fernando, La Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_Pampanga" title="San Fernando, Pampanga">San Fernando, Pampanga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_Nueva_Ecija" title="San Jose, Nueva Ecija">San Jose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_del_Monte" title="San Jose del Monte">San Jose del Monte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Pablo,_Laguna" title="San Pablo, Laguna">San Pablo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Pedro,_Laguna" title="San Pedro, Laguna">San Pedro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_Laguna" title="Santa Rosa, Laguna">Santa Rosa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santo_Tomas,_Batangas" title="Santo Tomas, Batangas">Santo Tomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silay" title="Silay">Silay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sipalay" title="Sipalay">Sipalay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorsogon_City" title="Sorsogon City">Sorsogon City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surigao_City" title="Surigao City">Surigao City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabaco" title="Tabaco">Tabaco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabuk,_Kalinga" title="Tabuk, Kalinga">Tabuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacurong" title="Tacurong">Tacurong</a></li> <li><a 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Albay">Legazpi</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Apayao" title="Apayao">Apayao</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Kabugao" title="Kabugao">Kabugao</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Luna,_Apayao" title="Luna, Apayao">Luna</a></i><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Aurora_(province)" title="Aurora (province)">Aurora</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Baler,_Aurora" title="Baler, Aurora">Baler</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bataan" title="Bataan">Bataan</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Balanga,_Bataan" title="Balanga, Bataan">Balanga</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Batanes" title="Batanes">Batanes</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Basco,_Batanes" title="Basco, Batanes">Basco</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Batangas" title="Batangas">Batangas</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Batangas_City" title="Batangas City">Batangas City</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Benguet" title="Benguet">Benguet</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/La_Trinidad,_Benguet" title="La Trinidad, Benguet">La Trinidad</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bulacan" title="Bulacan">Bulacan</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Malolos" title="Malolos">Malolos</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Cagayan" title="Cagayan">Cagayan</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Tuguegarao" title="Tuguegarao">Tuguegarao</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Camarines_Norte" title="Camarines Norte">Camarines Norte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Daet" title="Daet">Daet</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Camarines_Sur" title="Camarines Sur">Camarines Sur</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Pili,_Camarines_Sur" title="Pili, Camarines Sur">Pili</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Catanduanes" title="Catanduanes">Catanduanes</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Virac,_Catanduanes" title="Virac, Catanduanes">Virac</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Cavite" title="Cavite">Cavite</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Imus" title="Imus">Imus</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Trece_Martires" title="Trece Martires">Trece Martires</a></i><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ifugao" title="Ifugao">Ifugao</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Lagawe" title="Lagawe">Lagawe</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ilocos_Norte" title="Ilocos Norte">Ilocos Norte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Laoag" title="Laoag">Laoag</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ilocos_Sur" title="Ilocos Sur">Ilocos Sur</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Vigan" title="Vigan">Vigan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Isabela_(province)" title="Isabela (province)">Isabela</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Ilagan" title="Ilagan">Ilagan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Kalinga_(province)" title="Kalinga (province)">Kalinga</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Tabuk,_Kalinga" title="Tabuk, Kalinga">Tabuk</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/La_Union" title="La Union">La Union</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_La_Union" title="San Fernando, La Union">San Fernando</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Laguna_(province)" title="Laguna (province)">Laguna</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_Laguna" title="Santa Cruz, Laguna">Santa Cruz</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Marinduque" title="Marinduque">Marinduque</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Boac,_Marinduque" title="Boac, Marinduque">Boac</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Masbate" title="Masbate">Masbate</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Masbate_City" title="Masbate City">Masbate City</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Province" title="Mountain Province">Mountain Province</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Bontoc,_Mountain_Province" title="Bontoc, Mountain Province">Bontoc</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Nueva_Ecija" title="Nueva Ecija">Nueva Ecija</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Palayan" title="Palayan">Palayan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Nueva_Vizcaya" title="Nueva Vizcaya">Nueva Vizcaya</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Bayombong" title="Bayombong">Bayombong</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Occidental_Mindoro" title="Occidental Mindoro">Occidental Mindoro</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Mamburao" title="Mamburao">Mamburao</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Mindoro" title="Oriental Mindoro">Oriental Mindoro</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Calapan" title="Calapan">Calapan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Palawan" title="Palawan">Palawan</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Princesa" title="Puerto Princesa">Puerto Princesa</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pampanga" title="Pampanga">Pampanga</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_Pampanga" title="San Fernando, Pampanga">San Fernando</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pangasinan" title="Pangasinan">Pangasinan</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Lingayen" title="Lingayen">Lingayen</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Quezon" title="Quezon">Quezon</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Lucena" title="Lucena">Lucena</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Quirino" title="Quirino">Quirino</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Cabarroguis" title="Cabarroguis">Cabarroguis</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Rizal_(province)" title="Rizal (province)">Rizal</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Antipolo" title="Antipolo">Antipolo</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Romblon" title="Romblon">Romblon</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Romblon,_Romblon" title="Romblon, Romblon">Romblon</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sorsogon" title="Sorsogon">Sorsogon</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Sorsogon_City" title="Sorsogon City">Sorsogon City</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tarlac" title="Tarlac">Tarlac</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Tarlac_City" title="Tarlac City">Tarlac City</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Zambales" title="Zambales">Zambales</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Iba,_Zambales" title="Iba, Zambales">Iba</a></li></ul> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible expanded navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Visayas" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayas</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 18em;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Aklan" title="Aklan">Aklan</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Kalibo" title="Kalibo">Kalibo</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Antique_(province)" title="Antique (province)">Antique</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/San_Jose_de_Buenavista" title="San Jose de Buenavista">San Jose de Buenavista</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Biliran" title="Biliran">Biliran</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Naval,_Biliran" title="Naval, Biliran">Naval</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bohol" title="Bohol">Bohol</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Tagbilaran" title="Tagbilaran">Tagbilaran</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Capiz" title="Capiz">Capiz</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Roxas_City" title="Roxas City">Roxas</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Cebu" title="Cebu">Cebu</a></b>: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cebu City</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Samar" title="Eastern Samar">Eastern Samar</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Borongan" title="Borongan">Borongan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Guimaras" title="Guimaras">Guimaras</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Jordan,_Guimaras" title="Jordan, Guimaras">Jordan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Iloilo" title="Iloilo">Iloilo</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Iloilo_City" title="Iloilo City">Iloilo City</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Leyte_(province)" title="Leyte (province)">Leyte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Tacloban" title="Tacloban">Tacloban</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Negros_Occidental" title="Negros Occidental">Negros Occidental</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Bacolod" title="Bacolod">Bacolod</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Negros_Oriental" title="Negros Oriental">Negros Oriental</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Dumaguete" title="Dumaguete">Dumaguete</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Northern_Samar" title="Northern Samar">Northern Samar</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Catarman,_Northern_Samar" title="Catarman, Northern Samar">Catarman</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Samar" title="Samar">Samar</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Catbalogan" title="Catbalogan">Catbalogan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Siquijor" title="Siquijor">Siquijor</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Siquijor,_Siquijor" title="Siquijor, Siquijor">Siquijor</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Southern_Leyte" title="Southern Leyte">Southern Leyte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Maasin" title="Maasin">Maasin</a></li></ul> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible expanded navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Mindanao" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Mindanao" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 18em;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Agusan_del_Norte" title="Agusan del Norte">Agusan del Norte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Cabadbaran" title="Cabadbaran">Cabadbaran</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Butuan" title="Butuan">Butuan</a></i><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Agusan_del_Sur" title="Agusan del Sur">Agusan del Sur</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Prosperidad" title="Prosperidad">Prosperidad</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Basilan" title="Basilan">Basilan</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Lamitan" title="Lamitan">Lamitan</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Isabela,_Basilan" title="Isabela, Basilan">Isabela</a></i><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bukidnon" title="Bukidnon">Bukidnon</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Malaybalay" title="Malaybalay">Malaybalay</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Camiguin" title="Camiguin">Camiguin</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Mambajao" title="Mambajao">Mambajao</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Cotabato" title="Cotabato">Cotabato</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Kidapawan" title="Kidapawan">Kidapawan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Davao_de_Oro" title="Davao de Oro">Davao de Oro</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Nabunturan" title="Nabunturan">Nabunturan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Davao_del_Norte" title="Davao del Norte">Davao del Norte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Tagum" title="Tagum">Tagum</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Davao_del_Sur" title="Davao del Sur">Davao del Sur</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Digos" title="Digos">Digos</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Davao_Occidental" title="Davao Occidental">Davao Occidental</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Malita" title="Malita">Malita</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Davao_Oriental" title="Davao Oriental">Davao Oriental</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Mati,_Davao_Oriental" title="Mati, Davao Oriental">Mati</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Dinagat_Islands" title="Dinagat Islands">Dinagat Islands</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_Dinagat_Islands" title="San Jose, Dinagat Islands">San Jose</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Lanao_del_Norte" title="Lanao del Norte">Lanao del Norte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Tubod,_Lanao_del_Norte" title="Tubod, Lanao del Norte">Tubod</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Lanao_del_Sur" title="Lanao del Sur">Lanao del Sur</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Marawi" title="Marawi">Marawi</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Maguindanao del Norte">Maguindanao del Norte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Datu_Odin_Sinsuat" title="Datu Odin Sinsuat">Datu Odin Sinsuat</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Sur" title="Maguindanao del Sur">Maguindanao del Sur</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Buluan" title="Buluan">Buluan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Misamis_Occidental" title="Misamis Occidental">Misamis Occidental</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Oroquieta" title="Oroquieta">Oroquieta</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Misamis_Oriental" title="Misamis Oriental">Misamis Oriental</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Cagayan_de_Oro" title="Cagayan de Oro">Cagayan de Oro</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sarangani" title="Sarangani">Sarangani</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Alabel" title="Alabel">Alabel</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/South_Cotabato" title="South Cotabato">South Cotabato</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Koronadal" title="Koronadal">Koronadal</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat" title="Sultan Kudarat">Sultan Kudarat</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Isulan" title="Isulan">Isulan</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sulu" title="Sulu">Sulu</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Jolo,_Sulu" title="Jolo, Sulu">Jolo</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Surigao_del_Norte" title="Surigao del Norte">Surigao del Norte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Surigao_City" title="Surigao City">Surigao City</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Surigao_del_Sur" title="Surigao del Sur">Surigao del Sur</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Tandag" title="Tandag">Tandag</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tawi-Tawi" title="Tawi-Tawi">Tawi-Tawi</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Bongao" title="Bongao">Bongao</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_del_Norte" title="Zamboanga del Norte">Zamboanga del Norte</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Dipolog" title="Dipolog">Dipolog</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_del_Sur" title="Zamboanga del Sur">Zamboanga del Sur</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Pagadian" title="Pagadian">Pagadian</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_Sibugay" title="Zamboanga Sibugay">Zamboanga Sibugay</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Ipil,_Zamboanga_Sibugay" title="Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay">Ipil</a></li></ul> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="padding:0.4em; line-height:1.3em;"><div><sup><small>1</small></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> seat of provincial government</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Spanish_/_Hispanic_Colonial_architecture_articles" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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selflink">Cebú</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_Centre_of_Cienfuegos" title="Historic Centre of Cienfuegos">Cienfuegos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Ana_de_Coro" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Ana de Coro">Coro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuenca,_Ecuador" title="Cuenca, Ecuador">Cuenca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuernavaca" title="Cuernavaca">Cuernavaca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cusco" title="Cusco">Cusco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granada,_Nicaragua" title="Granada, Nicaragua">Granada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guanajuato_(city)" title="Guanajuato (city)">Guanajuato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Havana" title="Old Havana">Havana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iloilo_City" title="Iloilo City">Iloílo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Paz" title="La Paz">La Paz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le%C3%B3n,_Nicaragua" title="León, Nicaragua">León</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Pueblo_de_Los_%C3%81ngeles_Historical_Monument" title="El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument">Los Ángeles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_Centre_of_Lima" title="Historic Centre of Lima">Lima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malabo" title="Malabo">Malabo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malolos" title="Malolos">Malolos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intramuros" title="Intramuros">Manila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_center_of_Mexico_City" title="Historic center of Mexico City">Mexico City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Mompox" title="Santa Cruz de Mompox">Mompox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morelia" title="Morelia">Morelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Square_(New_Orleans)" title="Jackson Square (New Orleans)">New Orleans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oaxaca_City" title="Oaxaca City">Oaxaca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panam%C3%A1_Viejo" title="Panamá Viejo">Old Panamá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casco_Viejo,_Panama" title="Casco Viejo, Panama">Panamá City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popay%C3%A1n" title="Popayán">Popayán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puebla_(city)" title="Puebla (city)">Puebla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quito#Historic_center" title="Quito">Quito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">Saint Augustine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alamo_Plaza_Historic_District" title="Alamo Plaza Historic District">San Antonio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Town,_San_Diego" title="Old Town, San Diego">San Diego</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_Pampanga" title="San Fernando, Pampanga">San Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs" title="Mission San Francisco de Asís">San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_San_Juan" title="Old San Juan">San Juan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Luis_Potos%C3%AD_(city)" title="San Luis Potosí (city)">San Luis Potosí</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Miguel_de_Allende" title="San Miguel de Allende">San Miguel de Allende</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_la_Sierra" title="Santa Cruz de la Sierra">Santa Cruz de la Sierra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plaza_de_Armas_(Santiago)" title="Plaza de Armas (Santiago)">Santiago de Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santiago_de_Cuba" title="Santiago de Cuba">Santiago de Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ciudad_Colonial_(Santo_Domingo)" title="Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo)">Santo Domingo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sucre" title="Sucre">Sucre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taal,_Batangas" title="Taal, Batangas">Taal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tayabas" title="Tayabas">Tayabas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_Centre_of_Trujillo" title="Historic Centre of Trujillo">Trujillo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veracruz_(city)" title="Veracruz (city)">Veracruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vigan" title="Vigan">Vigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zacatecas_(city)" title="Zacatecas (city)">Zacatecas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_City" title="Zamboanga City">Zamboanga</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spanish missions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Spanish_missions" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Spanish missions">List of Spanish missions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists of buildings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_oldest_buildings_in_the_Americas#Colonial_era" title="List of oldest buildings in the Americas">Oldest</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cathedrals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Argentina" title="List of cathedrals in Argentina">Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Bolivia" title="List of cathedrals in Bolivia">Bolivia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Chile" title="List of cathedrals in Chile">Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Colombia" title="List of cathedrals in Colombia">Colombia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Costa_Rica" title="List of cathedrals in Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Cuba" title="List of cathedrals in Cuba">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_Dominican_Republic" title="List of cathedrals in the Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Ecuador" title="List of cathedrals in Ecuador">Ecuador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States#Guam" title="List of cathedrals in the United States">Guam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Guatemala" title="List of cathedrals in Guatemala">Guatemala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Honduras" title="List of cathedrals in Honduras">Honduras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Mexico" title="List of cathedrals in Mexico">Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Nicaragua" title="List of cathedrals in Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Panama" title="List of cathedrals in Panama">Panama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Paraguay" title="List of cathedrals in Paraguay">Paraguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Peru" title="List of cathedrals in Peru">Peru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_Philippines" title="List of cathedrals in the Philippines">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States#Puerto_Rico" title="List of cathedrals in the United States">Puerto Rico</a></li> <li>United States <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States#Arizona" title="List of cathedrals in the United States">Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States#California" title="List of cathedrals in the United States">California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States#Florida" title="List of cathedrals in the United States">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States#Louisiana" title="List of cathedrals in the United States">Louisiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States#Texas" title="List of cathedrals in the United States">Texas</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Uruguay" title="List of cathedrals in Uruguay">Uruguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_Venezuela" title="List of cathedrals in Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Churches and monasteries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baroque_Churches_of_the_Philippines" title="Baroque Churches of the Philippines">Baroque Churches of the Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_churches_in_Bohol" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic churches in Bohol">Bohol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Churches_of_Chilo%C3%A9" title="Churches of Chiloé">Chiloé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendicant_monasteries_in_Mexico" title="Mendicant monasteries in Mexico">Mendicant monasteries in Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monasteries_on_the_slopes_of_Popocat%C3%A9petl" title="Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl">Popocatépetl</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Fortifications</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidio" title="Presidio">Presidio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortifications_on_the_Caribbean_Side_of_Panama:_Portobelo-San_Lorenzo" title="Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo">Caribbean coast of Panama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_fortifications_of_colonial_Chile" title="Coastal fortifications of colonial Chile">Coasts of Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_colonial_fortifications_in_the_Philippines" title="Spanish colonial fortifications in the Philippines">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_forts_in_colonial_Santo_Domingo" title="List of forts in colonial Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bridges and roads</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Camino_Real_de_Tierra_Adentro" title="Camino Real de Tierra Adentro">Camino Real de Tierra Adentro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_colonial_bridges_in_Tayabas" title="Spanish colonial bridges in Tayabas">Tayabas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other building types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alh%C3%B3ndiga_(building)" title="Alhóndiga (building)">Alhóndiga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bahay_na_bato" title="Bahay na bato">Bahay na bato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balconies_of_Lima" title="Balconies of Lima">Balconies of Lima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bullring" title="Bullring">Bullring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convent" title="Convent">Convent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hacienda" title="Hacienda">Hacienda</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haciendas_in_the_Valley_of_Ameca" title="Haciendas in the Valley of Ameca">Haciendas in the Valley of Ameca</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabildo_(council)" title="Cabildo (council)">Cabildo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_universities_in_Hispanic_America" title="List of colonial universities in Hispanic America">Colonial universities in Hispanic America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_schools_in_the_Philippines" title="List of the oldest schools in the Philippines">Colonial universities in the Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Plaza">Plaza</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Architecture types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Baroque_architecture" title="Spanish Baroque architecture">Baroque</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andean_Baroque" title="Andean Baroque">Andean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Churrigueresque" title="Churrigueresque">Churrigueresque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earthquake_Baroque" title="Earthquake Baroque">Earthquake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Spanish_Baroque" title="New Spanish Baroque">Mexican</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilotan_architecture" title="Chilotan architecture">Chilotan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monterey_Colonial_architecture" title="Monterey Colonial architecture">Monterey Colonial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture">Neoclassical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renaissance_architecture" title="Renaissance architecture">Renaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rococo" title="Rococo">Rococo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_Style" title="Territorial Style">Territorial</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Modern Revival styles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" 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100,000+ population</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2,000,000 and more</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quezon_City" title="Quezon City">Quezon City</a> (2,960,048)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1,000,000–1,999,999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a> (1,846,513)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davao_City" title="Davao City">Davao City</a> (1,776,949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caloocan" title="Caloocan">Caloocan</a> (1,661,584)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taguig" title="Taguig">Taguig</a> (1,261,738)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">500,000–999,999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_City" title="Zamboanga City">Zamboanga City</a> (977,234)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cebu City</a> (964,169)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antipolo" title="Antipolo">Antipolo</a> (887,399)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasig" title="Pasig">Pasig</a> (803,159)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cagayan_de_Oro" title="Cagayan de Oro">Cagayan de Oro</a> (728,402)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valenzuela,_Metro_Manila" title="Valenzuela, Metro Manila">Valenzuela</a> (714,978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dasmari%C3%B1as" title="Dasmariñas">Dasmariñas</a> (703,141)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Santos" title="General Santos">General Santos</a> (697,315)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Para%C3%B1aque" title="Parañaque">Parañaque</a> (689,992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bacoor" title="Bacoor">Bacoor</a> (664,625)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_del_Monte" title="San Jose del Monte">San Jose del Monte</a> (651,813)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Las_Pi%C3%B1as" title="Las Piñas">Las Piñas</a> (606,293)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bacolod" title="Bacolod">Bacolod</a> (600,783)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muntinlupa" title="Muntinlupa">Muntinlupa</a> (543,445)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calamba,_Laguna" title="Calamba, Laguna">Calamba</a> (539,671)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">200,000–499,999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lapu-Lapu_City" title="Lapu-Lapu City">Lapu-Lapu City</a> (497,604)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imus" title="Imus">Imus</a> (496,794)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angeles_City" title="Angeles City">Angeles City</a> (462,928)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iloilo_City" title="Iloilo City">Iloilo City</a> (457,626)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marikina" title="Marikina">Marikina</a> (456,059)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Trias" title="General Trias">General Trias</a> (450,583)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasay" title="Pasay">Pasay</a> (440,656)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandaluyong" title="Mandaluyong">Mandaluyong</a> (425,758)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Rosa,_Laguna" title="Santa Rosa, Laguna">Santa Rosa</a> (414,812)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bi%C3%B1an" title="Biñan">Biñan</a> (407,437)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarlac_City" title="Tarlac City">Tarlac City</a> (385,398)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malabon" title="Malabon">Malabon</a> (380,522)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lipa,_Batangas" title="Lipa, Batangas">Lipa</a> (372,931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butuan" title="Butuan">Butuan</a> (372,910)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baguio" title="Baguio">Baguio</a> (366,358)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandaue" title="Mandaue">Mandaue</a> (364,116)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iligan" title="Iligan">Iligan</a> (363,115)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabuyao" title="Cabuyao">Cabuyao</a> (355,330)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_Pampanga" title="San Fernando, Pampanga">San Fernando (Pampanga)</a> (354,666)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batangas_City" title="Batangas City">Batangas City</a> (351,647)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabanatuan" title="Cabanatuan">Cabanatuan</a> (327,325)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Pedro,_Laguna" title="San Pedro, Laguna">San Pedro</a> (326,001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a> (325,079)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Princesa" title="Puerto Princesa">Puerto Princesa</a> (307,079)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tagum" title="Tagum">Tagum</a> (296,202)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mabalacat" title="Mabalacat">Mabalacat</a> (293,244)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makati" title="Makati">Makati</a> (292,743)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Pablo,_Laguna" title="San Pablo, Laguna">San Pablo</a> (285,348)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucena" title="Lucena">Lucena</a> (278,924)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talisay,_Cebu" title="Talisay, Cebu">Talisay (Cebu)</a> (263,048)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malolos" title="Malolos">Malolos</a> (261,189)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olongapo" title="Olongapo">Olongapo</a> (260,317)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacloban" title="Tacloban">Tacloban</a> (251,881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navotas" title="Navotas">Navotas</a> (247,543)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ormoc" title="Ormoc">Ormoc</a> (230,998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meycauayan" title="Meycauayan">Meycauayan</a> (225,673)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santo_Tomas,_Batangas" title="Santo Tomas, Batangas">Santo Tomas</a> (218,500)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valencia,_Bukidnon" title="Valencia, Bukidnon">Valencia (Bukidnon)</a> (216,546)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pagadian" title="Pagadian">Pagadian</a> (210,542)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trece_Martires" title="Trece Martires">Trece Martires</a> (210,503)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legazpi,_Albay" title="Legazpi, Albay">Legazpi</a> (209,533)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panabo" title="Panabo">Panabo</a> (209,230)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naga,_Camarines_Sur" title="Naga, Camarines Sur">Naga (Camarines Sur)</a> (209,170)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toledo,_Cebu" title="Toledo, Cebu">Toledo</a> (207,314)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marawi" title="Marawi">Marawi</a> (207,010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Carlos,_Pangasinan" title="San Carlos, Pangasinan">San Carlos (Pangasinan)</a> (205,424)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabankalan" title="Kabankalan">Kabankalan</a> (200,198)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">100,000–199,999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Koronadal" title="Koronadal">Koronadal</a> (195,398)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bago,_Negros_Occidental" title="Bago, Negros Occidental">Bago</a> (191,210)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaybalay" title="Malaybalay">Malaybalay</a> (190,712)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digos" title="Digos">Digos</a> (188,376)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calbayog" title="Calbayog">Calbayog</a> (186,960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorsogon_City" title="Sorsogon City">Sorsogon City</a> (182,237)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roxas_City" title="Roxas City">Roxas City</a> (179,292)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagupan" title="Dagupan">Dagupan</a> (174,302)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surigao_City" title="Surigao City">Surigao City</a> (171,107)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baliwag" title="Baliwag">Baliwag</a> (168,470)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuguegarao" title="Tuguegarao">Tuguegarao</a> (166,334)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kidapawan" title="Kidapawan">Kidapawan</a> (160,791)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadiz,_Negros_Occidental" title="Cadiz, Negros Occidental">Cadiz</a> (158,544)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilagan" title="Ilagan">Ilagan</a> (158,258)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danao,_Cebu" title="Danao, Cebu">Danao</a> (156,321)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_Nueva_Ecija" title="San Jose, Nueva Ecija">San Jose (Nueva Ecija)</a> (150,917)</li> <li><a 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title="List of cities and municipalities in the Philippines">Name</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_the_Philippines" title="Regions of the Philippines">Region</a> </th> <th>Pop. </th> <th>Rank </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_municipalities_in_the_Philippines" title="List of cities and municipalities in the Philippines">Name</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_the_Philippines" title="Regions of the Philippines">Region</a> </th> <th>Pop.</th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cebu_City.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cebu City"><img alt="Cebu City" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cebu_City.jpg/120px-Cebu_City.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cebu_City.jpg/180px-Cebu_City.jpg 1.5x, 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style="text-align:center;">1</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cebu City</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Central_Visayas" title="Central Visayas">Central Visayas</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">964,169</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">11</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Bago,_Negros_Occidental" title="Bago, Negros Occidental">Bago</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Negros_Island_Region" title="Negros Island Region">Negros Island Region</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">191,210 </td> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mactan-from-above.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lapu-Lapu"><img alt="Lapu-Lapu" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Mactan-from-above.jpg/120px-Mactan-from-above.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" 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