Cebu City
Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Hiligaynon: Dakbanwa sang Cebu; Filipino: Lungsod ng Cebu), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. It is the capital of the province of Cebu, where it is geographically located but is one of three cities (together with Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue) that are administratively independent of the provincial government. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 964,169 people, making it the sixth-most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the Visayas.
Cebu City
Dakbayan sa Sugbo | |
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Magellan's Cross National Museum of the Philippines – Cebu | |
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| Anthem: Sugbuanon ako | |
Map of Cebu Province with Cebu City highlighted | |
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Cebu City Location within the Philippines | |
| Coordinates: 10°17′35″N 123°54′07″E | |
| Country | Philippines |
| Region | Central Visayas |
| Province | Cebu (geographically only) |
| District | 1st (North) and 2nd (South) districts of Cebu City |
| Founded (as Spanish colony) Reincorporated (as city) | 1565 24 February 1937 |
| Highly urbanized city | December 22, 1979 |
| Barangays | 80 (see Barangays) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Sangguniang Panlungsod |
| • Mayor | Michael L. Rama (PDP–Laban) |
| • Vice Mayor | Raymond Alvin N. Garcia (Partido Barug) |
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| • Congress | |
| • Electorate | 733,044 voters (2022) |
| Area | |
| • City | 315.00 km2 (121.62 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 205 km2 (79 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,062.88 km2 (410.38 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 34th out of 145 |
| Elevation | 34 m (112 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 981 m (3,219 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
| • City | 964,169 |
| • Rank | 6th |
| • Density | 3,100/km2 (7,900/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,454,000 |
| • Metro | 3,164,337 |
| • Metro density | 3,000/km2 (7,700/sq mi) |
| • Households | 238,317 |
| Demonym | Cebuano |
| Economy | |
| • Gross domestic product (GDP) | ₱288.6 billion (2022) $5.099 billion (2022) |
| • Income class | 1st city income class |
| • Poverty incidence | 6.70 |
| • Revenue | ₱ 7,096 million (2020) |
| • Assets | ₱ 34,754 million (2020) |
| • Expenditure | ₱ 8,693 million (2020) |
| • Liabilities | ₱ 17,073 million (2020) |
| Service provider | |
| • Electricity | Visayan Electric Company (VECO) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (PST) |
| ZIP code | 6000 |
| PSGC | |
| IDD : area code | +63 (0)32 |
| Sister cities | List |
| Catholic diocese | Archdiocese of Cebu |
| Website | cebucity |
It also serves as the regional center of Central Visayas, and its metropolitan area exerts influence on commerce, trade, industry, education, culture, tourism, and healthcare beyond the region, over all of the Visayas and partly over Mindanao. It is the Philippines' main domestic shipping port and is home to about 80% of the country's domestic shipping companies. Additionally, Cebu City is the prime trading center of the southern Philippines.
Cebu City is bounded on the north by the town of Balamban and the city of Danao, on the west by the city of Toledo, on the east by the cities of Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue and the towns of Liloan, Consolacion and Compostela and to the south by the city of Talisay. Located at the center of the eastern seaboard of Cebu Island, it is the core city of Metro Cebu, the second largest metropolitan area in the Philippines, which includes the cities of Carcar, Danao, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue, Naga and Talisay and the municipalities (towns) of Compostela, Consolacion, Cordova, Liloan, Minglanilla and San Fernando. Metro Cebu had a total population of 3,165,799 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area of the nation, after Metro Manila in Luzon and Metro Davao in Mindanao.
The current political boundaries of the city are an incorporation of the former municipalities of Cebu, San Nicolas, El Pardo, Mabolo, Talamban and Banilad in the Commonwealth period.
The city has experienced rapid economic growth since the 1990s, a phenomenon also known as "Ceboom". Owing to its economic importance and influence in modern times, Cebu City is also popularly referred to as the Queen City of the South, a sobriquet adopted from Iloilo City after its economic decline in the mid-1900s.