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Poverty incidence of Central Visayas 10 20 30 40 2006 35.90 2009 31.01 2012 30.22 2015 29.36 2018 17.7 2021 22.10 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Central Visayas has the fourth-largest economy in the Philippines. Cebu City serves as the region's economic hub. Transportation Ports Fastcraft terminal for ferrying passengers from Cebu to Negros Island. The Port of Cebu is the region's ...
The Visayas ( / vɪˈsaɪəz / viss-EYE-əz ), or the Visayan Islands [2] ( Visayan: Kabisay-an, locally [kabiˈsajʔan]; Filipino: Kabisayaan [kɐbɪsɐˈjaʔan] ), are one of the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Luzon and Mindanao. Located in the central part of the archipelago, it consists of several ...
Poverty incidence of Western Visayas 10 20 30 40 2006 29.08 2009 30.80 2012 29.14 2015 24.60 2018 16.32 2021 13.80 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Western Visayas is the sixth largest economy in the Philippines, comprising three major sectors: agriculture, forestry, and fishery; services; and industry. Iloilo City serves as the region's economic hub. Other major trading and commercial ...
Bohol (Tagalog pronunciation:), officially the Province of Bohol (Cebuano: Lalawigan sa Bohol; Hiligaynon: Kapuoran sang Bohol; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Bohol), is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, consisting of the island itself and 75 minor surrounding islands. [6] Its capital is Tagbilaran.
Magellan's Cross chapel and historical marker in Cebu City, Cebu. This list of historical markers installed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) in Central Visayas (Region VII) is an annotated list of people, places, or events in the region that have been commemorated by cast-iron plaques issued by the said commission.
The Cebuano people ( Cebuano: Mga Sugbuanon) are the largest subgroup of the larger ethnolinguistic group Visayans, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the country. They originated in the province of Cebu in the region of Central Visayas, but then later spread out to other places in the Philippines, such as Siquijor ...
Lapu-Lapu City, officially the City of Lapu-Lapu (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu; Filipino: Lungsod ng Lapu-Lapu), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 497,604. [2] It was formerly known as Opon, the city being renamed to its present name in 1961.
Terminology. "Visayan" is the anglicization of the hispanized term Bisayas (archaic Biçayas ), in turn derived from Visayan Bisaya. Kabisay-an refers both to the Visayan people collectively and the islands they have inhabited since prehistory, the Visayas. The exact meaning and origin of the name Bisaya is unknown.