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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Maguindanao</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 43 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-43" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">43 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ace mw-list-item"><a href="https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propinsi_Maguindanao" title="Propinsi Maguindanao – Acehnese" lang="ace" hreflang="ace" data-title="Propinsi Maguindanao" data-language-autonym="Acèh" data-language-local-name="Acehnese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Acèh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88" title="ماغوييندانايو – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ماغوييندانايو" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88" title="ماگوئیندانائو – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ماگوئیندانائو" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Maguindanao" 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-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Maguindanao" 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-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Maguindanao" 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/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Maguindanao" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="Maguindanao" 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/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Maguindanao" 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/Maguind%C3%A1nao" title="Maguindánao – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Maguindánao" 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/Magindanao" title="Magindanao – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Magindanao" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88" title="ماگوئیندانائو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ماگوئیندانائو" 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/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Maguindanao" 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/Provincia_de_Maguindanao" title="Provincia de Maguindanao – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Provincia de Maguindanao" 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/%EB%A7%88%EA%B8%B4%EB%8B%A4%EB%82%98%EC%98%A4%EC%A3%BC" title="마긴다나오주 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마긴다나오주" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%93_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4" title="मगिन्दानाओ प्रान्त – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मगिन्दानाओ प्रान्त" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Maguindanao" 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/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Maguindanao" 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-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_Maguindanao" title="Provincia Maguindanao – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Provincia Maguindanao" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_di_Maguindanao" title="Provincia di Maguindanao – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Provincia di Maguindanao" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguind%C3%A1nao" title="Maguindánao – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Maguindánao" 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%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%9D" title="მაგინდანაო – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მაგინდანაო" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BE" title="Магинданао – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Магинданао" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Maguindanao" 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-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Maguindanao" 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%83%9E%E3%82%AE%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AA%E5%B7%9E" title="マギンダナオ州 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="マギンダナオ州" 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-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Maguindanao" 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-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Maguindanao" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pag mw-list-item"><a href="https://pag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Pangasinan" lang="pag" hreflang="pag" data-title="Maguindanao" 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/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Maguindanao" 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/Maguindanao" title="Maguindanao – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Maguindanao" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BE_(%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F)" title="Магинданао (провинция) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Магинданао (провинция)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" 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.ib-former-subdiv-fake-li{text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal}</style><table class="infobox ib-former-subdiv vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">Maguindanao<div class="ib-former-subdiv-native nickname">مَڬِنْدَنَوْ</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader category"><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Provinces of the Philippines">Province</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader category">1973–2022</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="noresize" style="display:table; width:100%;"> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding-left:5px;"> <div style="padding-bottom:3px;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Maguindanao_(province).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Maguindanao"><img alt="Flag of Maguindanao" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Maguindanao_%28province%29.svg/125px-Flag_of_Maguindanao_%28province%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Maguindanao_%28province%29.svg/188px-Flag_of_Maguindanao_%28province%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Flag_of_Maguindanao_%28province%29.svg/250px-Flag_of_Maguindanao_%28province%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></a></span></div> <div>Flag</div> </div> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding: 0px 5px;"> <div style="padding-bottom:3px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_Maguindanao_(province).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Seal of Maguindanao"><img alt="Seal of Maguindanao" 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class="nobold">&#160;•&#160;Coordinates</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><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=Maguindanao&amp;params=07_08_N_124_18_E_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">07°08′N</span> <span class="longitude">124°18′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this 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href="/wiki/Simeon_Datumanong" title="Simeon Datumanong">Simeon Datumanong</a> (first)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;2019–2022 </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bai_Mariam_Mangudadatu" class="mw-redirect" title="Bai Mariam Mangudadatu">Bai Mariam Mangudadatu</a> (last)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data">&#160;</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;Established </div></th><td class="infobox-data">22 November 1973</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;<a href="/wiki/2022_Maguindanao_division_plebiscite" title="2022 Maguindanao division plebiscite">Division plebiscite and disestablishment</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">17 September 2022</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;End of transition period </div></th><td class="infobox-data">January 9, 2023</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Contained&#160;within</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">&#160;•&#160;<a 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id="before-after"></div> <b>Preceded by</b></td> <td style="text-align:center;border:0; padding-bottom:0;"><b>Succeeded by</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; border:0;"> <table style="width:100%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blank.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3" data-file-height="2" /></span></span> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Cotabato_(historical_province)" title="Cotabato (historical province)">Cotabato</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;border:0;"> <table style="width:92%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Maguindanao del Norte">Maguindanao del Norte</a> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blank.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3" data-file-height="2" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Sur" title="Maguindanao del Sur">Maguindanao del Sur</a> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blank.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3" data-file-height="2" /></span></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Maguindanao</b> (<style 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title="Bangsamoro">Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao</a> (BARMM). From 2014 to 2022, its provincial capital was <a href="/wiki/Buluan" title="Buluan">Buluan</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-mb_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but the legislative branch of government, the <a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_Provincial_Board" title="Maguindanao Provincial Board">Maguindanao Provincial Board</a>, convened at the old provincial capitol in <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat,_Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte">Sultan Kudarat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mindanews_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindanews-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It bordered <a href="/wiki/Lanao_del_Sur" title="Lanao del Sur">Lanao del Sur</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Cotabato" title="Cotabato">Cotabato</a> to the east, <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat" title="Sultan Kudarat">Sultan Kudarat</a> to the south, and <a href="/wiki/Illana_Bay" title="Illana Bay">Illana Bay</a> to the west. </p><p>It is now used collectively to refer to the provinces of <a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Sur" title="Maguindanao del Sur">Maguindanao del Sur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Maguindanao del Norte">Maguindanao del Norte</a>, with which it was replaced with since September 18, 2022 after a division of the province was approved in a <a href="/wiki/2022_Maguindanao_division_plebiscite" title="2022 Maguindanao division plebiscite">plebiscite</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <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=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maguindanao_Sultanate">Maguindanao Sultanate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Maguindanao Sultanate"><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/Sultanate_of_Maguindanao" title="Sultanate of Maguindanao">Sultanate of Maguindanao</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Maguindanao_1521.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Map_of_Maguindanao_1521.png/220px-Map_of_Maguindanao_1521.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Map_of_Maguindanao_1521.png/330px-Map_of_Maguindanao_1521.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Map_of_Maguindanao_1521.png/440px-Map_of_Maguindanao_1521.png 2x" data-file-width="3830" data-file-height="3669" /></a><figcaption>The map of the Sultanate of Maguindanao in 1521, at its largest extent.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to Maguindanao royal records, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Kabungsuwan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Kabungsuwan">Sharif Muhammad Kabungsuan</a> of <a href="/wiki/Johor" title="Johor">Johor</a> introduced <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> to the Maguindanaos at the end of the 15th century. He subsequently married a <a href="/wiki/Maranao_people" title="Maranao people">Maranao</a> princess of Malabang and established the <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Maguindanao" title="Sultanate of Maguindanao">Sultanate of Maguindanao</a>. </p><p>The name of the island of Mindanao is from a 16th-century Spanish approximation of the name "Mangindanaw" which is at least a Tagalog exonym if not an endonym of the Maguindanao state and people. </p><p>Its capital of Kuta Watu (modern-day Cotabato) formed the sultanate's heartland but its influence extended from the <a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_Peninsula_(geographical_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zamboanga Peninsula (geographical region)">Zamboanga Peninsula</a> to <a href="/wiki/Sarangani_Bay" title="Sarangani Bay">Sarangani Bay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Davao_City" title="Davao City">Davao</a>. </p><p>In the 1660s, Dutch vessels from Ternate and Tidore often stopped by Maguindanao to purchase rice, beeswax and tobacco.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spanish_attacks">Spanish attacks</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Spanish attacks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Spanish frequently attacked the sultanate starting in the 1600s. In the middle of the 19th century, the Spanish were able to build a military post at what is now Barangay Tamontaka, <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="American_rule">American rule</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: American rule"><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/Moro_Province" title="Moro Province">Moro Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Mindanao_and_Sulu" title="Department of Mindanao and Sulu">Department of Mindanao and Sulu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_(historical_province)" title="Cotabato (historical province)">Cotabato (historical province)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Maguindanao" title="Battle of Maguindanao">Battle of Maguindanao</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_(historical_province)" title="Cotabato (historical province)">historical province of Cotabato</a> covered the present area of Maguindanao. In 1903, the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(1898%E2%80%931946)" title="History of the Philippines (1898–1946)">American colonial government</a> established the <a href="/wiki/Moro_Province" title="Moro Province">Moro Province</a> and made Cotabato as one of its districts. Upon the conversion of the Moro Province into the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Mindanao_and_Sulu" title="Department of Mindanao and Sulu">Department of Mindanao and Sulu</a> in 1914, the districts were made into provinces.<sup id="cite_ref-CotabatoGovPH-History_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CotabatoGovPH-History-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GovPH-Act2711_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GovPH-Act2711-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1942, the <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Japanese forces</a> first attacked what is now Maguindanao.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag needs further explanation. (April 2016)">further explanation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>In 1945, Maguindanao was liberated by allied <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Commonwealth" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine Commonwealth">Philippine Commonwealth</a> troops and <a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_people" title="Maguindanao people">Maguindanaon</a> guerrilla units after defeating the Japanese Imperial forces in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Maguindanao" title="Battle of Maguindanao">Battle of Maguindanao</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag needs further explanation. (April 2016)">further explanation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third_Philippine_Republic_onwards">Third Philippine Republic onwards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Third Philippine Republic onwards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Reinstitution_as_a_province">Reinstitution as a province</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Reinstitution as a province"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The territory of the <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_(historical_province)" title="Cotabato (historical province)">old province of Cotabato</a> was reduced in 1966 when several of its municipalities were separated from it and constituted into the newly created province of <a href="/wiki/South_Cotabato" title="South Cotabato">South Cotabato</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ChanRobles-RA4849_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChanRobles-RA4849-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1973, Cotabato was dissolved when it was split to create three new provinces: Maguindanao, <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_(province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cotabato (province)">(North) Cotabato</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat" title="Sultan Kudarat">Sultan Kudarat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GovPH-PD341_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GovPH-PD341-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maguindanao is the only Muslim-majority province of the four created out of the original Cotabato Province. In 1989, majority of its voters opted to join the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Region_in_Muslim_Mindanao" title="Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao">Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao</a> but <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a> did not. Despite this, the city would later serve as the provisional capital of the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Region_in_Muslim_Mindanao" title="Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao">Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao</a> (ARMM) and host line agency offices for the province. </p><p>On August 23, 1992, 16 senior officers of the insurgent <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Philippines" title="Communist Party of the Philippines">Communist Party of the Philippines</a>-<a href="/wiki/New_People%27s_Army" title="New People&#39;s Army">New People's Army</a> (CPP-NPA) operating in the province were arrested by intelligence operatives of the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_National_Police" title="Philippine National Police">Philippine National Police</a>, with officials considering it to be a significant hit against the organization's progress in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shariff_Kabunsuan_creation_and_nullification">Shariff Kabunsuan creation and nullification</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Shariff Kabunsuan creation and nullification"><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/Shariff_Kabunsuan" title="Shariff Kabunsuan">Shariff Kabunsuan</a></div> <p>On October 31, 2006, Maguindanao voters <a href="/wiki/2006_Shariff_Kabunsuan_creation_plebiscite" title="2006 Shariff Kabunsuan creation plebiscite">approved the creation of a new province</a> to be composed of 10 towns from the province.<sup id="cite_ref-PhilStar-MaguindanaoSplit_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PhilStar-MaguindanaoSplit-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Of more than 500,000 voters registered, 285,372 favored the creation of the province, and 8,802 voted against it. The new province, <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Kabunsuan" title="Shariff Kabunsuan">Shariff Kabunsuan</a>, established through <i>Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 201</i> by the <a href="/wiki/ARMM_Regional_Legislative_Assembly" title="ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly">ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly</a>, became the country's 80th province and the 6th in the ARMM. It was composed of the towns of <a href="/wiki/Datu_Odin_Sinsuat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao">Datu Odin Sinsuat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kabuntalan,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabuntalan, Maguindanao">Kabuntalan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upi,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Upi, Maguindanao">Upi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao">Sultan Kudarat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Datu_Blah_T._Sinsuat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Datu Blah T. Sinsuat, Maguindanao">Datu Blah T. Sinsuat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Mastura,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Mastura, Maguindanao">Sultan Mastura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parang,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Parang, Maguindanao">Parang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buldon,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Buldon, Maguindanao">Buldon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matanog,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Matanog, Maguindanao">Matanog</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barira,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Barira, Maguindanao">Barira</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RLA-ARMMGovPH_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RLA-ARMMGovPH-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, in July 2008, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines" title="Supreme Court of the Philippines">Supreme Court</a>, in an 8–6 vote, nullified the province's creation, restoring its municipalities to Maguindanao, ruling that "Only <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Philippines" title="Congress of the Philippines">Congress</a> can create provinces and cities because the creation of provinces and cities necessarily includes the creation of legislative districts".<sup id="cite_ref-ABS-CBNNews_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABS-CBNNews-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2009_election_violence">2009 election violence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: 2009 election violence"><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/Maguindanao_massacre" title="Maguindanao massacre">Maguindanao massacre</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maguindanao_guerillas,_1999.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Maguindanao_guerillas%2C_1999.jpg/220px-Maguindanao_guerillas%2C_1999.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Maguindanao_guerillas%2C_1999.jpg/330px-Maguindanao_guerillas%2C_1999.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Maguindanao_guerillas%2C_1999.jpg/440px-Maguindanao_guerillas%2C_1999.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="396" /></a><figcaption>Maguindanao <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">guerillas</a> in 1999</figcaption></figure> <p>On November 23, 2009, a 2010 gubernatorial election caravan supporting <a href="/wiki/Esmael_Mangudadatu" title="Esmael Mangudadatu">Esmael Mangudadatu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vice_mayor" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice mayor">vice mayor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Buluan" title="Buluan">Buluan</a>, was attacked.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Fifty-seven people were killed, including Mangudadatu's wife and sisters, supporters, local journalists, and bystanders.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On December 4, 2009, a number of homes belonging to the Ampatuan political family were raided in connection with the massacre.<sup id="cite_ref-RFI-2009Massacre_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RFI-2009Massacre-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>President <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo" title="Gloria Macapagal Arroyo">Gloria Macapagal Arroyo</a> officially declared <a href="/wiki/Martial_law" title="Martial law">martial law</a> in the province of Maguindanao on December 5, 2009, Saturday morning.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a press conference past 7&#160;am, Executive Secretary <a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Ermita" title="Eduardo Ermita">Eduardo Ermita</a> announced <i>Proclamation No. 1959</i> declaring a state of martial law and suspending the privilege of the <a href="/wiki/Writ_of_habeas_corpus" class="mw-redirect" title="Writ of habeas corpus">writ of habeas corpus</a> in the province of Maguindanao, except for certain areas identified as <a href="/wiki/Bailiwick" title="Bailiwick">bailiwicks</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Moro_Islamic_Liberation_Front" title="Moro Islamic Liberation Front">Moro Islamic Liberation Front</a> (MILF) separatists.<sup id="cite_ref-PhilStar-2009MartialLaw_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PhilStar-2009MartialLaw-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The declaration of <a href="/wiki/Martial_law" title="Martial law">martial law</a> led to the "arrests without warrants" of other members of the <a href="/wiki/Ampatuan_clan" class="mw-redirect" title="Ampatuan clan">Ampatuan clan</a> who have been linked to the November 23 massacre of 58 civilians.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fallen_44_PNP_SAF.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Fallen_44_PNP_SAF.jpg/180px-Fallen_44_PNP_SAF.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Fallen_44_PNP_SAF.jpg/270px-Fallen_44_PNP_SAF.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Fallen_44_PNP_SAF.jpg/360px-Fallen_44_PNP_SAF.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1230" /></a><figcaption>The 44 police officers who perished during the clash</figcaption></figure> <p>On August 15, 2011, Mangudadatu and his convoy were ambushed as they were on their way to his birthday celebration. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mamasapano_clash">Mamasapano clash</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Mamasapano clash"><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/Mamasapano_clash" title="Mamasapano clash">Mamasapano clash</a></div> <p>On January 25, 2015, 44 members of the <a href="/wiki/Special_Action_Force" title="Special Action Force">Special Action Force</a> were killed after they killed the <a href="/wiki/Jemaah_Islamiyah" title="Jemaah Islamiyah">Jemaah Islamiyah</a> terrorist <a href="/wiki/Zulkifli_Abdhir" title="Zulkifli Abdhir">Zulkifli Abdhir</a> aka Marwan, by allegedly <a href="/wiki/Moro_Islamic_Liberation_Front" title="Moro Islamic Liberation Front">Moro Islamic Liberation Front</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bangsamoro_Islamic_Freedom_Fighters" title="Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters">Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mamasapano,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamasapano, Maguindanao">Mamasapano, Maguindanao</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2016_El_Niño"><span id="2016_El_Ni.C3.B1o"></span>2016 El Niño</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: 2016 El Niño"><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/2014%E2%80%9316_El_Ni%C3%B1o_event#Impact" class="mw-redirect" title="2014–16 El Niño event">2014–16 El Niño event §&#160;Impact</a></div> <p>In February 2016, Maguindanao experienced the effects of the <a href="/wiki/2014%E2%80%9316_El_Ni%C3%B1o_event" class="mw-redirect" title="2014–16 El Niño event">2014–16 El Niño</a>, causing destruction on rice and corn fields due to drought.<sup id="cite_ref-philstar_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philstar-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The province declared a state of calamity in response to the damages caused.<sup id="cite_ref-philstar_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philstar-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abolition_and_division">Abolition and division</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Abolition and division"><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/2022_Maguindanao_division_plebiscite" title="2022 Maguindanao division plebiscite">2022 Maguindanao division plebiscite</a></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/17th_Congress_of_the_Philippines" title="17th Congress of the Philippines">17th Congress</a>, then <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_the_Philippines" title="House of Representatives of the Philippines">House</a> Deputy Speaker Bai Sandra Sema (barred by law to run for another term in <a href="/wiki/Legislative_districts_of_Maguindanao#1st_District" title="Legislative districts of Maguindanao">her current district</a> in 2019) introduced a bill on March 2, 2017, seeking to establish a new province called <i>Maguindanao North</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-hb5185_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hb5185-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bta22_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bta22-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later in the <a href="/wiki/18th_Congress_of_the_Philippines" title="18th Congress of the Philippines">18th Congress</a>, two new House bills were filed: one by First District Rep. Datu Roonie Sinsuat Sr., Sema's successor, seeking the creation of <i>Western Maguindanao</i>; another by Second District Rep. <a href="/wiki/Esmael_Mangudadatu" title="Esmael Mangudadatu">Esmael Mangudadatu</a> with same naming proposal as Sema. A substitute bill was later authored by both <a href="/wiki/Legislative_districts_of_Maguindanao" title="Legislative districts of Maguindanao">Maguindanao representatives</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Tarlac%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Tarlac&#39;s 3rd congressional district">Tarlac Third District</a> Rep. Noel Villanueva, and approved in the final reading in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-bta22_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bta22-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_the_Philippines" title="Senate of the Philippines">Senate</a>, three bills were also filed seeking for the same division with Sen. <a href="/wiki/Bong_Revilla" title="Bong Revilla">Bong Revilla</a> pursuing instead the same naming proposal as Sinsuat. This time, those bills, except one by Revilla, would name the divided provinces as <i>Northern Maguindanao</i> and <i>Southern Maguindanao</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the substitute bill in the House, <i>Northern Maguindanao</i> will consist the municipalities that became part of <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Kabunsuan" title="Shariff Kabunsuan">Shariff Kabunsuan</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Sumagka" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Sumagka">Sultan Sumagka</a>, and its designated provincial capital will be <a href="/wiki/Datu_Odin_Sinsuat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao">Datu Odin Sinsuat</a>, while the capital of <i>Southern Maguindanao</i> will be <a href="/wiki/Buluan" title="Buluan">Buluan</a>. Both proposed provinces will comprise a lone legislative district. Prior to the final version, the municipalities of <a href="/wiki/Datu_Anggal_Midtimbang" title="Datu Anggal Midtimbang">Datu Anggal Midtimbang</a> (by Sema and Mangudadatu) and <a href="/wiki/South_Upi" title="South Upi">South Upi</a> (by Sinsuat) were proposed to became part of <i>Maguindanao North/Western Maguindanao</i>; <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao">Sultan Kudarat</a> was proposed by Mangudadatu to be the capital of the then-proposed province. </p><p>The proposed division was signed by Pres. <a href="/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte" title="Rodrigo Duterte">Rodrigo Duterte</a> on May 27, 2021, as <i>Republic Act No. 11550</i>, with new provinces to be named <i><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Maguindanao del Norte">Maguindanao del Norte</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Sur" title="Maguindanao del Sur">Maguindanao del Sur</a></i> (named as the mother province of Maguindanao).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The original schedule of the plebiscite, to be supervised by the <a href="/wiki/Commission_on_Elections_(Philippines)" title="Commission on Elections (Philippines)">Commission on Elections</a> (COMELEC), was in September 2021, ninety days after the effectivity of the law, but was postponed as the COMELEC was preparing for the <a href="/wiki/2022_Philippine_general_election" title="2022 Philippine general election">2022 general election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>RA No. 11550</i> was ratified on September 17, 2022, in a plebiscite, thus dividing Maguindanao. Among the province-wide plebiscites, it was the most participated in terms of number of registered and actual voters, with the voter turnout as the second highest, only behind that of the 1998 plebiscite creating and taking <a href="/wiki/Compostela_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Compostela Valley">Compostela Valley</a> from <a href="/wiki/Davao_del_Norte" title="Davao del Norte">Davao del Norte</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With that division, <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Provinces of the Philippines">the number of provinces in the country has raised to 82</a>. </p><p>A transition period would take place which lasted until January 9, 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</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=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" 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:Ph_fil_Maguindanao.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ph_fil_Maguindanao.png/190px-Ph_fil_Maguindanao.png" decoding="async" width="190" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ph_fil_Maguindanao.png/285px-Ph_fil_Maguindanao.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ph_fil_Maguindanao.png/380px-Ph_fil_Maguindanao.png 2x" data-file-width="1417" data-file-height="1319" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>Maguindanao was situated in the central section of <a href="/wiki/Mindanao" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a>, bordered by <a href="/wiki/Lanao_del_Sur" title="Lanao del Sur">Lanao del Sur</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Cotabato" title="Cotabato">Cotabato</a> to the east, <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat" title="Sultan Kudarat">Sultan Kudarat</a> to the south, and <a href="/wiki/Illana_Bay" title="Illana Bay">Illana Bay</a> to the west. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Administrative divisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Maguindanao comprised 36 <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_the_Philippines" title="Municipalities of the Philippines">municipalities</a>, further subdivided into 508 <a href="/wiki/Barangay" title="Barangay">barangays</a>. <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a>, although geographically grouped with Maguindanao, was <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines#Independent_cities" title="Cities of the Philippines">administratively independent</a> from the province. </p><p>The province was divided into two <a href="/wiki/Legislative_districts_of_Maguindanao" title="Legislative districts of Maguindanao">congressional districts</a>. In October 2006, the <a href="/wiki/Maguindanao%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Maguindanao&#39;s 1st congressional district">first congressional district</a> was split off into a new province, <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Kabunsuan" title="Shariff Kabunsuan">Shariff Kabunsuan</a>. However, the <a href="/wiki/ARMM_Regional_Legislative_Assembly" title="ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly">ARMM's Act</a> creating the province was nullified by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines" title="Supreme Court of the Philippines">Supreme Court</a> in July 2008, on the basis that creation of a <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Provinces of the Philippines">province</a> is a function of the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Philippines" title="Congress of the Philippines">Philippine legislature</a>. 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/ &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.7193°N 124.7921°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.7193; 124.7921</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Buluan</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#FFF1BF;"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;border-right:0;"><a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;border-left:0;">∗∗ </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legislative_districts_of_Cotabato_City&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Legislative districts of Cotabato City (page does not exist)">Lone</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td>299,438 </td> <td>271,786 </td> <td>1.86% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">176.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">67.95 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,700 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,400 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">37 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.2208_N_124.2466_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Cotabato+City"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°13′15″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°14′48″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; 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/ &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">7.0096°N 124.3277°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">7.0096; 124.3277</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Datu Anggal Midtimbang</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Datu_Blah_T._Sinsuat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Datu Blah T. Sinsuat, Maguindanao">Datu Blah T. Sinsuat</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">1st </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000213163783623085♠" style="display:none"></span>2.1%</td> <td style="text-align:right">25,024 </td> <td>16,533 </td> <td>8.21% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">147.21 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">56.84 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">170 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">440 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">13 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><i><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=6.9272_N_123.9716_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Datu+Blah+T.+Sinsuat"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">6°55′38″N</span> <span class="longitude">123°58′18″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.9272°N 123.9716°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.9272; 123.9716</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Datu Blah T. Sinsuat</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></i> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Datu_Hoffer_Ampatuan,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, Maguindanao">Datu Hoffer Ampatuan</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000213061563138611♠" style="display:none"></span>2.1%</td> <td style="text-align:right">25,012 </td> <td>16,295 </td> <td>8.50% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">461.10 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">178.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">54 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">140 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">11 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=6.8514_N_124.4300_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Datu+Hoffer+Ampatuan"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">6°51′05″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°25′48″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; 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Pendatun</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000239391856264369♠" style="display:none"></span>2.4%</td> <td style="text-align:right">28,103 </td> <td>24,004 </td> <td>3.05% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">189.37 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">73.12 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">150 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">390 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">19 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=6.8260_N_124.7537_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Gen.+S.+K.+Pendatun"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">6°49′34″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°45′13″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.8260°N 124.7537°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.8260; 124.7537</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Gen. S. K. Pendatun</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Guindulungan,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Guindulungan, Maguindanao">Guindulungan</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000169609338863461♠" style="display:none"></span>1.7%</td> <td style="text-align:right">19,911 </td> <td>16,071 </td> <td>4.16% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">130.68 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">50.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">150 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">390 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">11 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><i><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=6.9562_N_124.3976_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Guindulungan"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">6°57′22″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°23′51″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.9562°N 124.3976°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.9562; 124.3976</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Guindulungan</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></i> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Kabuntalan,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabuntalan, Maguindanao">Kabuntalan</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">1st </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000147163424147715♠" style="display:none"></span>1.5%</td> <td style="text-align:right">17,276 </td> <td>16,794 </td> <td>0.54% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">371.08 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">143.27 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">47 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">120 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">17 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.1176_N_124.3844_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Kabuntalan"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°07′03″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°23′04″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">7.1176°N 124.3844°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">7.1176; 124.3844</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Kabuntalan</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Mamasapano,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamasapano, Maguindanao">Mamasapano</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000211255667912904♠" style="display:none"></span>2.1%</td> <td style="text-align:right">24,800 </td> <td>22,354 </td> <td>2.00% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">85.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">32.94 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">290 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">750 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">14 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=6.8949_N_124.5047_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Mamasapano"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">6°53′42″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°30′17″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.8949°N 124.5047°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.8949; 124.5047</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Mamasapano</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Mangudadatu,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Mangudadatu, Maguindanao">Mangudadatu</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000213351187844621♠" style="display:none"></span>2.1%</td> <td style="text-align:right">25,046 </td> <td>14,864 </td> <td>10.44% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">98.16 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">37.90 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">260 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">670 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">8 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><i><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=6.6910_N_124.8015_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Mangudadatu"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">6°41′28″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°48′05″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.6910°N 124.8015°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.6910; 124.8015</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Mangudadatu</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></i> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Matanog,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Matanog, Maguindanao">Matanog</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">1st </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000253591985232547♠" style="display:none"></span>2.5%</td> <td style="text-align:right">29,770 </td> <td>23,269 </td> <td>4.80% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">146.50 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">56.56 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">200 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">520 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">8 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><i><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.4380_N_124.2539_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Matanog"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°26′17″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°15′14″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">7.4380°N 124.2539°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">7.4380; 124.2539</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Matanog</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></i> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Kabuntalan,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao">Northern Kabuntalan</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">1st </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000214935605353968♠" style="display:none"></span>2.1%</td> <td style="text-align:right">25,232 </td> <td>14,251 </td> <td>11.49% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">106.77 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">41.22 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">240 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">620 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">11 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><i><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.1703_N_124.4311_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Northern+Kabuntalan"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°10′13″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°25′52″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">7.1703°N 124.4311°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">7.1703; 124.4311</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Northern Kabuntalan</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></i> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Pagalungan,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagalungan, Maguindanao">Pagalungan</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000337779072570581♠" style="display:none"></span>3.4%</td> <td style="text-align:right">39,653 </td> <td>31,891 </td> <td>4.24% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">898.76 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">347.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">44 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">110 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">12 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.0549_N_124.7001_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Pagalungan"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°03′18″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°42′00″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; 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/ &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.8549°N 124.1434°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.8549; 124.1434</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">South Upi</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao">Sultan Kudarat</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">1st </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000810957695200663♠" style="display:none"></span>8.1%</td> <td style="text-align:right">95,201 </td> <td>82,758 </td> <td>2.70% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">712.91 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">275.26 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">130 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">340 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">39 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.2793_N_124.3032_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Sultan+Kudarat+%28Nuling%29"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°16′45″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°18′12″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">7.2793°N 124.3032°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">7.2793; 124.3032</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Sultan Kudarat (Nuling)</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Mastura,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Mastura, Maguindanao">Sultan Mastura</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">1st </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000189627517072950♠" style="display:none"></span>1.9%</td> <td style="text-align:right">22,261 </td> <td>21,712 </td> <td>0.48% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">242.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">93.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">92 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">240 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">13 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.3043_N_124.2795_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Sultan+Mastura"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°18′15″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°16′46″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">7.3043°N 124.2795°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">7.3043; 124.2795</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Sultan Mastura</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Sultan_sa_Barongis,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao">Sultan sa Barongis</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000191024530360761♠" style="display:none"></span>1.9%</td> <td style="text-align:right">22,425 </td> <td>22,547 </td> <td>−0.10% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">291.30 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">112.47 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">77 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">200 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">12 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=6.8822_N_124.6004_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Sultan+sa+Barongis+%28Lambayong%29"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">6°52′56″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°36′01″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.8822°N 124.6004°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.8822; 124.6004</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Sultan sa Barongis (Lambayong)</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Sumagka,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Sumagka, Maguindanao">Sultan Sumagka</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000126608588394738♠" style="display:none"></span>1.3%</td> <td style="text-align:right">14,863 </td> <td>13,328 </td> <td>2.10% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">62.96 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">24.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">240 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">620 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">9 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><i><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.0283_N_124.3957_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Sultan+Sumagka+%28Talitay%29"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°01′42″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°23′45″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">7.0283°N 124.3957°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">7.0283; 124.3957</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Sultan Sumagka (Talitay)</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></i> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Talayan,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Talayan, Maguindanao">Talayan</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000255823799143562♠" style="display:none"></span>2.6%</td> <td style="text-align:right">30,032 </td> <td>16,042 </td> <td>12.68% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">143.84 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">55.54 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">210 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">540 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">15 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=6.9845_N_124.3559_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Talayan"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">6°59′04″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°21′21″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">6.9845°N 124.3559°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">6.9845; 124.3559</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Talayan</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background-color:initial;" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Upi,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Upi, Maguindanao">Upi</a> </th> <td style="text-align:center;">1st </td> <td style="text-align:right"><span data-sort-value="7000456440018297466♠" style="display:none"></span>4.6%</td> <td style="text-align:right">53,583 </td> <td>45,444 </td> <td>3.19% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">742.95 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">286.85 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">72 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">190 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">23 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Maguindanao&amp;params=7.0106_N_124.1625_E_region:PH-MAG_type:city&amp;title=Upi"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">7°00′38″N</span> <span class="longitude">124°09′45″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">7.0106°N 124.1625°E</span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; / <span class="geo">7.0106; 124.1625</span></span><span style="display:none">&#xfeff; (<span class="fn org">Upi</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom"> <th scope="row" colspan="4" style="text-align:left;">Total<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_Totalnone"><a href="#endnote_Totalnone">[B]</a></sup> </th> <th scope="col" style="text-align:right;">1,173,933 </th> <th scope="col" style="text-align:right;">944,718 </th> <th scope="col" style="text-align:right;">4.22% </th> <th scope="col" style="text-align:right;">—<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone"><a href="#endnote_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone">[C]</a></sup> </th> <th scope="col">—<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone"><a href="#endnote_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone">[C]</a></sup> </th> <th scope="col" style="text-align:right;">—<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone"><a href="#endnote_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone">[C]</a></sup> </th> <th scope="col" style="text-align:right;">—<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone"><a href="#endnote_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone">[C]</a></sup> </th> <th scope="col">508 </th> <th scope="col" style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">(see <a href="#External_links">GeoGroup box</a>)</span> </th></tr> <tr class="sortbottom" style="background-color:#F2F2F2;border-top:double grey;line-height:1.3em;"> <td colspan="13"> <div><ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha"><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Coordnone"><a href="#ref_Coordnone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Coordinates" class="mw-redirect" title="Coordinates">Coordinates</a> are sortable by <a href="/wiki/Latitude" title="Latitude">latitude</a>. <dl><dd>(<i>Italicized</i> entries indicate the generic location. Otherwise, they mark the <a href="/wiki/Town_center" class="mw-redirect" title="Town center">city or town center</a>).</dd></dl></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_Totalnone"><a href="#ref_Totalnone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> Total figures exclude the <i>independent component city</i> of Cotabato, which is geographically within and traditionally grouped with the province.</li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone"><a href="#ref_TotalArea&amp;Densitynone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> Total population density and area (sum of all component municipalities: <b>10,190.14&#160;km<sup>2</sup> or 1,019,014&#160;ha</b>) is inconclusive as it conflicts with the figures given by the Maguindanao Provincial Government website (<b>5,970.53&#160;km<sup>2</sup> or 597,052.79&#160;ha</b>),<sup id="cite_ref-MaguindanaoGovPH-Profile_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MaguindanaoGovPH-Profile-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as well as the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Statistics_Authority" title="Philippine Statistics Authority">Philippine Statistics Authority</a> itself (<b>9,729.04&#160;km<sup>2</sup> or 972,904&#160;ha</b>).<sup id="cite_ref-PSA-NSCB-ProvinceList_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSA-NSCB-ProvinceList-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_CotabatoCitynone"><a href="#ref_CotabatoCitynone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> The <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">city of Cotabato</a>, which is geographically within and traditionally grouped with the province, is <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines#Independent_cities" title="Cities of the Philippines">independent from the province</a> and does not vote for provincial officials. Only votes with Maguindanao for representation in the various national legislatures.</li><li>Dashes (—) in cells indicate unavailable information.</li></ol></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>&#32; </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>The province saw establishments of new municipalities, especially during the 2000s. Then ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly (RLA) secretary Dick Mali said such establishments would help in "decentralizing functions and resources" and provide the people "more efficient public service and governance from their public officials." However, Benedicto Bacani of the Institute of Autonomy and Governance in the Notre Dame University said such acts are methods to prevent potential conflicts between political families by having their own local government units where they can have governmental positions.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <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=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></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:left;clear:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Population census of Maguindanao</caption><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 &quot;census years&quot; (years divisible by 10) the reference date would be May 1st, but for all other years, the reference date is to be the &quot;middle of the year&quot;. 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">89,871</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1918 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">69,717</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.68%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1939 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">126,568</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.88%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1948 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">224,382</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+6.57%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1960 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">339,600</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.51%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1970 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">415,154</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.03%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1975 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">411,022</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.20%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1980 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">452,675</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.95%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1990 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">630,674</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.37%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1995 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">662,180</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.92%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2000 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">801,102</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.17%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2007 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,273,715</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+6.60%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2010 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">944,718</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−10.30%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2015 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,173,933</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.22%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2020 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,667,258</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.14%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">2007 population figure without <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Kabunsuan" title="Shariff Kabunsuan">Shariff Kabunsuan</a> is 710,829.<br />(<i>including Cotabato City</i>)<br />Source: Philippine Statistics Authority<sup id="cite_ref-PSA15–ARMM_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSA15–ARMM-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NSO10–ARMM_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NSO10–ARMM-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NSO10–15_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NSO10–15-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; 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">Languages Spoken (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></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;">Speakers</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em"><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_language" title="Maguindanao language">Maguindanao</a></td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Purple; width:64.5px; overflow:hidden">&#8195;</div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">608,431</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em"><a href="/wiki/Iranun_language" title="Iranun language">Iranun</a></td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Orange; width:18.4px; overflow:hidden">&#8195;</div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">173,806</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em"><a href="/wiki/Tiruray_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiruray language">Teduray/Tiruray</a></td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Red; width:8.4px; overflow:hidden">&#8195;</div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">79,007</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:3.2px; overflow:hidden">&#8195;</div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">30,026</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right:0.4em; padding-left:0.4em"><a href="/wiki/Cebuano_language" title="Cebuano language">Cebuano/Bisaya/Boholano</a></td> <td style="border-left:solid 1px silver;border-right:solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Blue; width:3.2px; overflow:hidden">&#8195;</div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">29,812</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:Gray; width:2.4px; overflow:hidden">&#8195;</div></td> <td colspan="2" style="min-width:3em;padding-left:0.4em; text-align:right">22,728</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <p>The population of Maguindanao in the 2020 census was 1,667,258 people. When Cotabato City was included for geographical purposes, the province's population is 1,667,258 people. </p><p>The majority (64.5 percent) of the people in Maguindanao were <a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_people" title="Maguindanao people">Maguindanaoans</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Iranun_people" title="Iranun people">Iranuns</a> which dominate the northern towns of Parang, Barira, Buldon and Matanog made up the second largest group with 18.4 percent. The <a href="/wiki/Teduray_people" title="Teduray people">Tedurays</a>, which are the <a href="/wiki/Lumad" title="Lumad">Lumads</a> of the southwestern highlands of the province, made up 8.4 percent of the entire population, while Hiligaynons and Cebuanos constituted the remaining significant groups in the province with each making up 3.2 percent of the population. </p><p>The main native languages were <a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_language" title="Maguindanao language">Maguindanao</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iranun_language" title="Iranun language">Iranun</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a> had emerged as the primary language among younger generations and was the primary medium of education, making it the province's lingua franca.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cebuano_language" title="Cebuano language">Cebuano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hiligaynon_language" title="Hiligaynon language">Hiligaynon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chavacano_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Chavacano language">Chavacano</a>, and, to the lesser extent, <a href="/wiki/Ilocano_language" title="Ilocano language">Ilocano</a> were also spoken by Ilocano settlers from Northern Luzon, with the Chavacano dialect spoken in Cotabato City being called <i>Cotabateño</i> spoke by settlers from <a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_City" title="Zamboanga City">Zamboanga City</a>, which evolved from the Zamboangueño dialect and Cebuano as spoken as the lingua franca of most of Mindanao who are settlers from <a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayas</a>. Teduray, also native to the province, was spoken in the municipalities of Upi, South Upi, and Datu Blah T. Sinsuat. <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, being one of the country's official languages, was also spoken, while <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> was taught in Islamic schools. </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=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Maguindanao inhabitants are predominantly practitioners of <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_the_Philippines" title="Islam in the Philippines">Islam</a> which comprises 82.99% of the population,<sup id="cite_ref-PSA_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSA-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> majority of which are followers of <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>. A minority are <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Philippines" title="Christianity in the Philippines">Christians</a> (mostly <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_the_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism in the Philippines">Roman Catholics</a>), who were mostly Cebuanos, Ilonggos and Chavacanos.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Roman Catholics of Maguindanao fell under the jurisdiction of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Kidapawan" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Kidapawan">Roman Catholic Diocese of Kidapawan</a>, a suffragan of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Cotabato" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotabato">Archdiocese of Cotabato</a>. Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) had several locales in Maguindanao. </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=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Maguindanao was divided into <a href="/wiki/Legislative_districts_of_Maguindanao" title="Legislative districts of Maguindanao">two congressional districts</a>, which elected members to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Philippines)" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Representatives (Philippines)">House of Representatives</a>. For the brief period that the province of <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Kabunsuan" title="Shariff Kabunsuan">Shariff Kabunsuan</a> existed, Maguindanao became a lone-district province. Since the appointment of a new set of provincial officials for the reunified province of Maguindanao by the ARMM Governor in January 2009, the provincial government reverted to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan district configuration from before Shariff Kabunsuan was created. </p><p>Having elected to join the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Region_in_Muslim_Mindanao" title="Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao">Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao</a> (ARMM), Maguindanao also sent six representatives (three per SP district) to the <a href="/wiki/ARMM_Regional_Legislative_Assembly" title="ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly">ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly</a> that convened in <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Provincial_capital">Provincial capital</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit 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class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Maguindanao_Provincial_Capitol_%284th_Maguindanao_MTB_Challenge%29.jpg/200px-Maguindanao_Provincial_Capitol_%284th_Maguindanao_MTB_Challenge%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Maguindanao_Provincial_Capitol_%284th_Maguindanao_MTB_Challenge%29.jpg/300px-Maguindanao_Provincial_Capitol_%284th_Maguindanao_MTB_Challenge%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Maguindanao_Provincial_Capitol_%284th_Maguindanao_MTB_Challenge%29.jpg/400px-Maguindanao_Provincial_Capitol_%284th_Maguindanao_MTB_Challenge%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1365" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">The Ampatuan-built former provincial capitol complex in <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Aguak" title="Shariff Aguak">Shariff Aguak</a> (Left), and new provincial capitol complex in <a href="/wiki/Buluan,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Buluan, Maguindanao">Buluan</a> (Right).</div></div></div></div> <p>When the province was established in 1973, the designated seat of government was the municipality of <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Aguak" title="Shariff Aguak">Maganoy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GovPH-PD341_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GovPH-PD341-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The first appointed governor, Simeon Datumanong, held office in Limpongo,<sup id="cite_ref-pcij_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcij-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> a former barangay in Maganoy which is now part of the municipality of <a href="/wiki/Datu_Hoffer_Ampatuan" title="Datu Hoffer Ampatuan">Datu Hoffer Ampatuan</a>. </p><p>Datumanong's successor Zacaria Candao, on the other hand, held office at P.C. Hill,<sup id="cite_ref-pcij_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcij-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the site of the former headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Constabulary" title="Philippine Constabulary">Philippine Constabulary</a><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a>, an autonomous chartered city not under Maguindanao's provincial jurisdiction. </p><p>In 1977 following the resignation of Candao, <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Philippines" title="President of the Philippines">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos" title="Ferdinand Marcos">Ferdinand Marcos</a> moved the province's seat of government to the municipality of <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao">Sultan Kudarat</a> (hometown of the newly appointed governor Sanggacala Baraguir) by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 1170.<sup id="cite_ref-pd1170_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pd1170-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During his term Baraguir held office at the then-newly constructed provincial capitol in that municipality's Barangay Simuay Crossing.<sup id="cite_ref-pcij_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcij-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The next governor, Sandiale Sambolawan, held office in his hometown of Maganoy following his election to the governorship in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-pcij_43-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcij-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In an attempt to legitimize the restoration of Maganoy's status as the seat of provincial government, Batas Pambansa Blg. 211 was enacted in 1982, but with the explicit provision that the change will only take effect after a plebiscite affirms the transfer.<sup id="cite_ref-bp211_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bp211-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A plebiscite was scheduled for December 18, 1982,<sup id="cite_ref-proc2245_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-proc2245-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but was never administered,<sup id="cite_ref-philstar2_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philstar2-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> thus making the municipality of Sultan Kudarat still capital of Maguindanao by law (<i>de jure</i>), but Maganoy being the capital in practice (<i>de facto</i>). Following the end of the Marcos Regime, the next two governors – Zacaria Candao (1986–1992; 1995–2001) and Norodin Matalam (1992–1995) – both held office in the existing capitol at Sultan Kudarat thereby restoring the municipality's status as both <i>de jure</i> and <i>de facto</i> provincial capital from 1986 to 2001. </p><p>Despite the lack of legal justification in the form of a law amending P.D. No. 1170 of 1977 or the passage of a supporting Sangguaniang Panlalawigan (SP) resolution, the next governor, <a href="/wiki/Andal_Ampatuan_Sr." title="Andal Ampatuan Sr.">Andal Ampatuan Sr.</a> (governor from 2001 to 2008), and his successor, son Sajid Ampatuan (2008–2009), held office in the Ampatuan clan stronghold of <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Aguak" title="Shariff Aguak">Shariff Aguak</a> (renamed from Maganoy in 1996<sup id="cite_ref-MMMA45_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MMMA45-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>), citing security concerns connected to clan rivalry.<sup id="cite_ref-mindanews_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindanews-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A new <span style="white-space: nowrap">₱</span>218-million provincial capitol complex, inaugurated in 2009 in the presence of <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Philippines" title="President of the Philippines">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo" title="Gloria Macapagal Arroyo">Gloria Macapagal Arroyo</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-arroyo_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-arroyo-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was located adjacent to the homes of the Ampatuans,<sup id="cite_ref-pcij_43-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcij-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and sat on a piece of Amaptuan clan land that had not been legally deeded to the government.<sup id="cite_ref-Unson_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unson-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Ampatuans were even known to spend more time within the "satellite offices" they set up within their private properties, despite though the new capitol being located adjacent to their homes.<sup id="cite_ref-mindanews2_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindanews2-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Esmael_Mangudadatu" title="Esmael Mangudadatu">Esmael Mangudadatu</a>, who took office after defeating <a href="/wiki/Andal_Ampatuan_Jr." title="Andal Ampatuan Jr.">Andal Ampatuan Jr.</a> in the 2010 gubernatorial election, cited security concerns when he decided to work from a "satellite office," named the Rajah Buayan Silongan Peace Center, in his hometown of <a href="/wiki/Buluan" title="Buluan">Buluan</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-pcij_43-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcij-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> this move was supported by Resolution No. 5, series 2010, of the <a href="/wiki/Sangguniang_Panlalawigan" title="Sangguniang Panlalawigan">Sangguniang Panlalawigan</a> (SP) of Maguindanao.<sup id="cite_ref-mindanews3_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindanews3-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> SP Resolution No. 78, dated May 3, 2011, further allowed the transfer of the legislative branch of the provincial government (<a href="/wiki/Sangguniang_Panlalawigan" title="Sangguniang Panlalawigan">Sangguniang Panlalawigan</a>) to the rehabilitated old capitol site in Barangay Simuay Crossing, Sultan Kudarat.<sup id="cite_ref-mindanews_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindanews-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This effectively made both Buluan and Sultan Kudarat – located 120 kilometers apart by road – the seats of the executive and legislative branches of provincial government respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-mindanews2_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindanews2-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 3, 2012, the SP of Maguindanao issued Resolution No. 132, reiterating that the town of Sultan Kudarat was the capital of Maguindanao.<sup id="cite_ref-mindanews_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindanews-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However this was superseded by a new resolution passed in 2014 naming Buluan the new capital of Maguindanao.<sup id="cite_ref-mb_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Buluan's Rajah Buayan Silongan Peace Center then served as the provisional capitol building, pending the completion of the executive building in the new capitol complex.<sup id="cite_ref-pcij_43-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcij-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the legislative branch of provincial government, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Maguindanao, continued to hold sessions in the rehabilitated buildings of the old provincial capitol in Simuay, <a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat,_Maguindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao">Sultan Kudarat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mindanews_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindanews-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Ampatuan-built former provincial capitol complex in <a href="/wiki/Shariff_Aguak" title="Shariff Aguak">Shariff Aguak</a>, initially planned to be converted for public school use,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was planned to become the new headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Region_in_Muslim_Mindanao" title="Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao">ARMM</a>'s Bureau of Fire Protection and eventually became an infantry brigade of the Philippine Army.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, incumbent governor Bai Mariam Mangudadatu held her office in the Shariff Aguak Provincial Capitol and planned to convert the Buluan provincial capitol to a district hospital.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the provincial division as approved in the 2022 plebiscite, Section 5 of Republic Act No. 11550 officially designated Buluan as the capital of the mother municipality of Maguindanao del Sur where Shariff Aguak is also located. Sultan Kudarat municipality was designated to Maguindanao del Norte but Datu Odin Sinsuat will be designated as its capital. </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=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p style="margin-left: 20px;"><b>Poverty incidence of Maguindanao</b></p> <table style="font-size:85%;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding-top:10px;margin-top:1em;max-width:420px;" class="chart noresize"> <div style="position:relative;min-height:300px;min-width:420px;max-width:420px;"> <div style="float:right;position:relative;min-height:220px;min-width:320px;max-width:320px;border-left:1px black solid;border-bottom:1px black solid;"> <div style="position:absolute;left:7.5px;top:48px;height:171px;min-width:36px;max-width:36px;background-color:#D4AF37;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;border:1px solid #D4AF37;border-bottom:none;overflow:hidden;" title="Maguindanao: 54.6"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:60.5px;top:56px;height:163px;min-width:36px;max-width:36px;background-color:#D4AF37;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;border:1px solid #D4AF37;border-bottom:none;overflow:hidden;" title="Maguindanao: 52.15"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:113.5px;top:20px;height:199px;min-width:36px;max-width:36px;background-color:#D4AF37;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;border:1px solid #D4AF37;border-bottom:none;overflow:hidden;" title="Maguindanao: 63.73"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:166.5px;top:49px;height:170px;min-width:36px;max-width:36px;background-color:#D4AF37;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;border:1px solid #D4AF37;border-bottom:none;overflow:hidden;" title="Maguindanao: 54.27"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:219.5px;top:67px;height:152px;min-width:36px;max-width:36px;background-color:#D4AF37;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;border:1px solid #D4AF37;border-bottom:none;overflow:hidden;" title="Maguindanao: 48.55"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:272.5px;top:126px;height:93px;min-width:36px;max-width:36px;background-color:#D4AF37;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;border:1px solid #D4AF37;border-bottom:none;overflow:hidden;" title="Maguindanao: 29.8"></div> </div> <div style="position:absolute;height:220px;min-width:100px;max-width:100px;"> <div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:179px;padding:0 2px">10</div> <div style="position:absolute;height=1px;min-width:5px;top:189px;left:96px;border:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:147px;padding:0 2px">20</div> <div style="position:absolute;height=1px;min-width:5px;top:157px;left:96px;border:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:116px;padding:0 2px">30</div> <div style="position:absolute;height=1px;min-width:5px;top:126px;left:96px;border:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:84px;padding:0 2px">40</div> <div style="position:absolute;height=1px;min-width:5px;top:94px;left:96px;border:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:53px;padding:0 2px">50</div> <div style="position:absolute;height=1px;min-width:5px;top:63px;left:96px;border:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:21px;padding:0 2px">60</div> <div style="position:absolute;height=1px;min-width:5px;top:31px;left:96px;border:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;height=20px;text-align:right;vertical-align:middle;width:90px;top:-10px;padding:0 2px">70</div> <div style="position:absolute;height=1px;min-width:5px;top:0px;left:96px;border:1px solid black;"></div> </div> <div style="position:absolute;top:220px;left:100px;width:320px;"> <div style="position:absolute;left:1px;top:10px;min-width:51px;max-width:51px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">2006 <br /> 54.60</div> <div style="position:absolute;left:26.5px;height:10px;width:1px;border-left:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:54px;top:10px;min-width:51px;max-width:51px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">2009 <br /> 52.15</div> <div style="position:absolute;left:79.5px;height:10px;width:1px;border-left:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:107px;top:10px;min-width:51px;max-width:51px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">2012 <br /> 63.73</div> <div style="position:absolute;left:132.5px;height:10px;width:1px;border-left:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:160px;top:10px;min-width:51px;max-width:51px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">2015 <br /> 54.27</div> <div style="position:absolute;left:185.5px;height:10px;width:1px;border-left:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:213px;top:10px;min-width:51px;max-width:51px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">2018 <br /> 48.55</div> <div style="position:absolute;left:238.5px;height:10px;width:1px;border-left:1px solid black;"></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:266px;top:10px;min-width:51px;max-width:51px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">2021 <br /> 29.80</div> <div style="position:absolute;left:291.5px;height:10px;width:1px;border-left:1px solid black;"></div> </div> </div> </div> <p style="margin-left: 20px;"> <b>Source:</b> <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Statistics_Authority" title="Philippine Statistics Authority">Philippine Statistics Authority</a><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_heritage">Musical heritage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Musical heritage"><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/Music_of_the_Philippines" title="Music of the Philippines">Music of the Philippines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kulintang" title="Kulintang">Kulintang</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kulintang_04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Kulintang_04.jpg/175px-Kulintang_04.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Kulintang_04.jpg/263px-Kulintang_04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Kulintang_04.jpg/350px-Kulintang_04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2238" data-file-height="1527" /></a><figcaption>Brass gongs used as a main melodic instrument in the <a href="/wiki/Kulintang" title="Kulintang">Kulintang</a> ensemble.</figcaption></figure> <p>The native Maguindanaon culture revolved around <a href="/wiki/Kulintang" title="Kulintang">Kulintang</a> music, a specific type of gong music, found among both Muslim and non-Muslim groups of the Southern Philippines. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maguindanao&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 22,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=ARMM+Regional+Profile&amp;rft.pub=Regional+Board+of+Investments+%28RBOI%29+of+the+Autonomous+Region+in+Muslim+Mindanao+%28ARMM%29&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Frboi.armm.gov.ph%2Finfocenter%2Fbasicfacts%2Farmmregionalprofile&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMaguindanao" class="Z3988"></span> (There seems to be major discrepancies among authoritative sources: 972,904 ha (NSCB); 6,565 km² (Historical Dictionary of the Philippines); 5,176.1 km² (NAMRIA))</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PSA20–ARMM-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-PSA20–ARMM_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCensus_of_Population2020" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Census of Population (2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://psa.gov.ph/system/files/phcd/2022-12/Table%2520B%2520-%2520Population%2520and%2520Annual%2520Growth%2520Rates%2520by%2520Province%252C%2520City%252C%2520and%2520Municipality%2520-%2520By%2520Region_AGBA_rev.xlsx"><i>Table B - Population and Annual Growth Rates by Province, City, and Municipality - By Region</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Statistics_Authority" title="Philippine Statistics Authority">Philippine Statistics Authority</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Pendatun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guindulungan" title="Guindulungan">Guindulungan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabuntalan" title="Kabuntalan">Kabuntalan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamasapano" title="Mamasapano">Mamasapano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangudadatu,_Maguindanao_del_Sur" title="Mangudadatu, Maguindanao del Sur">Mangudadatu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matanog" title="Matanog">Matanog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Kabuntalan" title="Northern Kabuntalan">Northern Kabuntalan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pagalungan" title="Pagalungan">Pagalungan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paglat" title="Paglat">Paglat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandag,_Maguindanao_del_Sur" title="Pandag, Maguindanao del Sur">Pandag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parang,_Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Parang, Maguindanao del Norte">Parang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajah_Buayan" title="Rajah Buayan">Rajah Buayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shariff_Aguak" title="Shariff Aguak">Shariff Aguak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shariff_Saydona_Mustapha" title="Shariff Saydona Mustapha">Shariff Saydona Mustapha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Upi" title="South Upi">South Upi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Kudarat,_Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte">Sultan Kudarat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Mastura" title="Sultan Mastura">Sultan Mastura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultan_sa_Barongis" title="Sultan sa Barongis">Sultan sa Barongis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talitay" title="Talitay">Talitay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talayan" title="Talayan">Talayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upi,_Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Upi, Maguindanao del Norte">Upi</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 component city</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> <small>(<i>administratively and statistically independent from the province, but grouped with Maguindanao for geographical and the purpose of electing <a href="/wiki/Philippine_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine House of Representatives">representatives</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Philippines" title="Congress of the Philippines">Congress of the Philippines</a></i>)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Articles_related_to_Maguindanao" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" 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title="Lanao del Sur">Lanao del Sur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Norte" title="Maguindanao del Norte">Maguindanao del Norte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maguindanao_del_Sur" title="Maguindanao del Sur">Maguindanao del Sur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tawi-Tawi" title="Tawi-Tawi">Tawi-Tawi</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 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/Cotabato_City" title="Cotabato City">Cotabato City</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines#Classifiction" title="Cities of the Philippines">Component cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" 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title="Municipalities of the Philippines">Municipalities</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/Akbar,_Basilan" title="Akbar, Basilan">Akbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Barka" title="Al-Barka">Al-Barka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amai_Manabilang" title="Amai Manabilang">Amai Manabilang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ampatuan,_Maguindanao_del_Sur" title="Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur">Ampatuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bacolod-Kalawi" title="Bacolod-Kalawi">Bacolod-Kalawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balabagan" title="Balabagan">Balabagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balindong" title="Balindong">Balindong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barira" title="Barira">Barira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayang" title="Bayang">Bayang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binidayan" title="Binidayan">Binidayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bongao" title="Bongao">Bongao</a></li> <li><a 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Sinsuat">Datu Blah T. 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Pendatun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guindulungan" title="Guindulungan">Guindulungan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadji_Mohammad_Ajul" title="Hadji Mohammad Ajul">Hadji Mohammad Ajul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadji_Muhtamad" title="Hadji Muhtamad">Hadji Muhtamad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabuntalan" title="Kabuntalan">Kabuntalan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kadayangan" title="Kadayangan">Kadayangan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapai" title="Kapai">Kapai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapalawan" title="Kapalawan">Kapalawan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapatagan,_Lanao_del_Sur" title="Kapatagan, Lanao del Sur">Kapatagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languyan" title="Languyan">Languyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lantawan" title="Lantawan">Lantawan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligawasan" title="Ligawasan">Ligawasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lumba-Bayabao" title="Lumba-Bayabao">Lumba-Bayabao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lumbaca-Unayan" title="Lumbaca-Unayan">Lumbaca-Unayan</a></li> <li><a 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id="Former_Philippine_provinces,_sub-provinces,_and_cities" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Former <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippine</a> <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Provinces of the Philippines">provinces</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sub-provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Sub-provinces of the Philippines">sub-provinces</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines" title="Cities of the Philippines">cities</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Provinces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agusan_(province)" title="Agusan (province)">Agusan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambos_Camarines" title="Ambos Camarines">Ambos Camarines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concepci%C3%B3n_(military_district)" title="Concepción (military district)">Concepción</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cotabato_(historical_province)" title="Cotabato (historical province)">Cotabato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davao_(province)" title="Davao (province)">Davao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilocos_(province)" title="Ilocos (province)">Ilocos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalinga-Apayao" title="Kalinga-Apayao">Kalinga-Apayao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanao_(province)" title="Lanao (province)">Lanao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lepanto-Bontoc" title="Lepanto-Bontoc">Lepanto-Bontoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manila_(province)" title="Manila (province)">Manila</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Maguindanao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mindoro_(province)" title="Mindoro (province)">Mindoro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misamis_(province)" title="Misamis (province)">Misamis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moro_Province" title="Moro Province">Moro Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morong_(district)" title="Morong (district)">Morong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negros_(province)" title="Negros (province)">Negros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negros_del_Norte" title="Negros del Norte">Negros del Norte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samar_(historical_province)" title="Samar (historical province)">Samar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shariff_Kabunsuan" title="Shariff Kabunsuan">Shariff Kabunsuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surigao_(province)" title="Surigao (province)">Surigao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_(province)" title="Zamboanga (province)">Zamboanga</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sub-provinces<sup>*</sup></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/Abra_(province)" title="Abra (province)">Abra</a> (1905–1917)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amburayan" title="Amburayan">Amburayan</a> (1902–1920)<sup>2</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apayao" title="Apayao">Apayao</a> (1907–1995)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurora_(province)" title="Aurora (province)">Aurora</a> (1951–1979)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batanes" title="Batanes">Batanes</a> (1907–1909)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benguet" title="Benguet">Benguet</a> (1908–1966)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biliran" title="Biliran">Biliran</a> (1959–1992)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Province" title="Mountain Province">Bontoc</a> (1902–1966)<sup>3</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bukidnon" title="Bukidnon">Bukidnon</a> (1907–1914)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agusan_(province)" title="Agusan (province)">Butuan</a> (1907–1914)<sup>4</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camiguin" title="Camiguin">Camiguin</a> (1956–1966)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catanduanes" title="Catanduanes">Catanduanes</a> (1905–1945)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guimaras" title="Guimaras">Guimaras</a> (1966–1992)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ifugao" title="Ifugao">Ifugao</a> (1908–1966)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalinga_(province)" title="Kalinga (province)">Kalinga</a> (1907–1995)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lepanto-Bontoc" title="Lepanto-Bontoc">Lepanto</a> (1902–1920)<sup>2</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marinduque" title="Marinduque">Marinduque</a> (1907–1920)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masbate" title="Masbate">Masbate</a> (1906–1920)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quirino" title="Quirino">Quirino</a> (1966–1971)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romblon" title="Romblon">Romblon</a> (1907–1917)<sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siquijor" title="Siquijor">Siquijor</a> (1907–1971)<sup>1</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isabela,_Basilan" title="Isabela, Basilan">Basilan</a><sup>5</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaro,_Iloilo_City" title="Jaro, Iloilo City">Jaro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Greater_Manila" title="City of Greater Manila">Greater Manila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legazpi,_Albay" title="Legazpi, Albay">Legazpi</a><sup>6</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nueva_C%C3%A1ceres" title="Nueva Cáceres">Nueva Cáceres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lal-lo" title="Lal-lo">Nueva Segovia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><small><sup>*</sup> <i>All sub-provinces were temporarily abolished during the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_the_Philippines" title="Japanese occupation of the Philippines">Japanese occupation of the Philippines</a> (1942–1945).</i></small></li> <li><small><sup>1</sup> <i>Converted to full-fledged province.</i></small></li> <li><small><sup>2</sup> <i>Dissolved and divided between neighboring (sub-)provinces.</i></small></li> <li><small><sup>3</sup> <i>Became the only sub-province left comprising Mountain Province in 1966, and therefore assumed the name of the mother province.</i></small></li> <li><small><sup>4</sup> <i>Became the only sub-province left comprising Agusan in 1914, and therefore assumed the name of the mother province.</i></small></li> <li><small><sup>5</sup> <i>Delimited to the downtown area of present-day <a href="/wiki/Isabela,_Basilan" title="Isabela, Basilan">Isabela City</a> in 1973; dissolved in 1975.</i></small></li> <li><small><sup>6</sup> <i>Legazpi City from 1948 to 1954 consisted of the present-day territories of <a href="/wiki/Legazpi_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Legazpi City">Legazpi City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daraga,_Albay" class="mw-redirect" title="Daraga, Albay">Daraga</a>; this city was dissolved in 1954 into its two former constituent municipalities. 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title="Elections in the Philippines">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_Philippines" title="Foreign relations of the Philippines">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Philippines" title="Human rights in the Philippines">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in the Philippines">LGBT</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_legal_codes" title="Philippine legal codes">Legal codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_families_in_the_Philippines" title="List of political families in the Philippines">Political families</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_Philippines" title="List of political parties in the Philippines">Political parties</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Government" scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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the Philippines">President</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Philippines" title="Congress of the Philippines">Legislative</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Senate_of_the_Philippines" title="Senate of the Philippines">Senate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_the_Philippines" title="House of Representatives of the Philippines">House of Representatives</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judiciary_of_the_Philippines" title="Judiciary of the Philippines">Judicial</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines" title="Supreme Court of the Philippines">Supreme Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeals_of_the_Philippines" title="Court of Appeals of the Philippines">Court of Appeals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_Trial_Court" title="Regional Trial Court">Regional Trial Court</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_the_Philippines" title="Armed Forces of the Philippines">Armed Forces</a> <ul><li><a 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