Cebu City

Also known as Cebu, City of Cebu, Queen City of the Philippines

city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Cebu

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Cebu City is the capital city of Cebu province in the Philippines and serves as a major urban center in the country. It is an important economic and cultural hub in the region.

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Official name: City of Cebu
Demonym: Sebwano
Population: 965332
Area: 315.00
Elevation: 135
Official website: cebucity.gov.ph
Image: Cebu downtown, capitol view from Tops Lookout (Cebu City; 09-06-2022).jpg
Households: 238317
Dialing code: 32

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postal code: 6000
Commons category: Cebu City
inception: 1937-02-24
nickname: Queen City of the Philippines
poverty incidence: 9.80
fiscal/tax revenue: 9258082009.24
total assets: 30544871230.30
electorate: 721469
total expenditure: 10555338189.82
total liabilities: 15768061349.91
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Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu, is a highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 965,332 people, making it the sixth-most populated city in the country and the most populous in the Central Visayas Region and in the whole Visayas.

It serves as the capital of the Cebu province wherein it is geographically situated and grouped under the province by the Philippine Statistics Authority, but is one of three cities (together with Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue) that are administratively independent of the provincial government and also the largest city within that province. 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 Central and Eastern 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.