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Central Visayas
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region of the Philippines
Key facts
- Country
- Philippines
- Island group
- Visayas
- Regional center and largest city
- Cebu City
- Total
- 10,114.52 km (3,905.24 sq mi)
- Highest elevation osme a peak
- 1,072 m (3,517 ft)
- Density
- 647.1491/km (1,676.109/sq mi)
- Per capita
- US$3,834
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( PST )
- Iso 3166 code
- PH-07
- Provinces
- 2 Bohol Cebu
- Independent cities
- 3 Cebu City Lapu-Lapu City Mandaue
- Component cities
- 7 Bogo Carcar Danao Naga Tagbilaran Talisay Toledo
- Barangays
- 2,312
- Languages
- Cebuano Boholano Porohanon Bantayanon Filipino English
- Hdi
- 0.704 ( High )
- Hdi rank
- 8th in the Philippines (2019)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 6640875
- Area
- 15895.66
- Households
- 1966588
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- Commons category
- Central Visayas
- short name
- Region VII
- electorate
- 4389344
- poverty incidence
- 22.10
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Central Visayas (Cebuano: Tunga-tungang Kabisay-an; Tagalog: Gitnang Kabisayaan; Filipino: Gitnang Visayas), designated as Region VII, is an administrative region in the Philippines. With only two provinces: Cebu and Bohol, as well as three highly urbanized cities: Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu, and Mandaue, it has the fewest number of provinces out of any region in the country. Despite this, it is the most populous region in the Visayas, with a population of 6,545,603.
The regional center, as well as its largest city, is Cebu City. The Cebuano language is the region's lingua franca. The region is also dominated by the native speakers of three Visayan languages: Bantayanon, Boholano and Porohanon.