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Key facts
- Country
- Philippines
- Island group
- Luzon
- Regional center and largest city
- Legazpi
- Total
- 18,155.82 km (7,010.00 sq mi)
- Highest elevation mayon volcano
- 2,463 m (8,081 ft)
- Density
- 334.0210/km (865.1105/sq mi)
- Per capita
- US$2,146
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( PST )
- Iso 3166 code
- PH-05
- Provinces
- 6 Albay Camarines Norte Camarines Sur Catanduanes Masbate Sorsogon
- Independent component city
- 1 Naga
- Component cities
- 6 Iriga Legazpi Ligao Masbate City Sorsogon City Tabaco
- Barangays
- 3,471
- Languages
- Bikol languages ( Central Bikol Albayanon Rinconada Northern Catanduanes Southern Catanduanes ) Visayan languages ( Masbateño Northern Sorsogon Waray Sorsogon ) Tagalog English
- Hdi
- 0.680 ( Medium )
- Hdi rank
- 15th in the Philippines (2022)
- Website
- dilgbicol .org
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bicol Region, designated as Region V, is an administrative region of the Philippines. It comprises six provinces, four on the Bicol Peninsula (the southeastern end of Luzon): Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Sorsogon, and two off the shore: Catanduanes and Masbate, and one independent component city of Naga.
The regional administrative center and the most populous city is Legazpi, while the region's commercial and educational center is the independent component city of Naga. The region is bounded by Lamon Bay to the north, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Sibuyan Sea and Ragay Gulf to the west. The northernmost provinces, Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, are bordered to the west by the province of Quezon in the Calabarzon region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bicol Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.