Bulacan
Bulacan is a province in the Philippines. It is located just north of Metro Manila and shares boundaries with Pampanga and Nueva Ecija in the north, and Manila Bay on the south west.Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Malolos and San Jose del Monte.
Malolos
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Malolos is a city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. It is the capital of Bulacan and occupies a special place in Philippine history as the capital of an independent Philippines in between the Spanish and American occupations.
San Jose del Monte
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San Jose del Monte, officially the City of San Jose del Monte, is a component city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 685,688 people, making it the largest local government unit within the province of Bulacan and Central Luzon, and the 18th most populated city in the Philippines.
Bocaue
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Bocaue is a town of about 141,000 in Bulacan. It is noted for its fireworks industry, its famous fluvial parade, the largest indoor stadium in the world.
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Pulilan
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Pulilan, officially the Municipality of Pulilan, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 111,384 people.
Meycauayan
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Meycauayan, officially the City of Meycauayan, is a 1st class component city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 228,023 people.
Calumpit
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Calumpit, officially the Municipality of Calumpit, is a town in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. It is the gateway to Pampanga.
Baliwag
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Baliwag is a city and the largest settlement in northern Bulacan. It has a population of about 150,000 in 2015.
Marilao
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Marilao is a municipality in Bulacan. Together with nearby Meycauayan, they form a large suburban area north of Metro Manila.
Obando
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Obando, officially the Municipality of Obando, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. Physically separated from the province by an arm of Manila Bay and an extensive river delta system, it is often treated as a suburb of Metro Manila.
San Miguel
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San Miguel, officially the Municipality of San Miguel, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. A rural town in the middle of the Central Luzon plains, it counts heritage structures, extensive national parks and dairy candy-makers among its tourist draws.
Bulakan
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Bulakan, officially the Municipality of Bulakan, is a town in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. A former provincial capital, it is relatively quieter than its neighboring towns that have become noisy thoroughfares on the Philippine highway network and manages to retain monuments from its colonial and revolutionary past.
Bulacan
- Type: State with 3,880,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Culianin”, “Kulianin”, and “Province of Bulacan”
- Neighbors: Aurora, Bataan, Metro Manila, Pampanga, and Quezon
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
15° northLongitude of center
121.0833° or 121° 5′ eastPopulation
3,880,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 305704584OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Waray—“Bulacan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Bulacan”
- Achinese: “Propinsi Bulacan”
- Arabic: “بولاكان”
- Asturian: “Bulacan”
- Balinese: “Bulacan”
- Banjar: “Bulacan”
- Bengali: “বুলাকান”
- Capiznon: “Bulacan”
- Catalan: “Bulacan”
- Cebuano: “Bulacan”
- Cebuano: “Lalawigan sa Bulacan”
- Central Bikol: “Bulacan”
- Chavacano: “Bulacan”
- Chinese: “Bulacan”
- Chinese: “布拉坎省”
- Chinese: “布拉干省”
- Chinese: “武六干省”
- Czech: “Bulacan”
- Danish: “Bulacan”
- Dutch: “Bulacan”
- Esperanto: “Bulakano”
- Finnish: “Bulacan”
- French: “Bulacain”
- French: “Bulacan”
- Georgian: “ბულაკანი”
- German: “Bulacan”
- German: “Provinz Bulacan”
- Gorontalo: “Bulacan”
- Greek: “Μπουλακάν”
- Gujarati: “બુલકન”
- Hiligaynon: “Bulacan”
- Hindi: “बलकान”
- Hindi: “बुलाकान प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Bulacan”
- Iloko: “Bulacan”
- Indonesian: “Bulacan”
- Indonesian: “provinsi Bulakan”
- Italian: “Bulacan”
- Italian: “Bulacán”
- Italian: “Bulakan”
- Italian: “provincia di Bulacan”
- Italian: “Provincia di Bulacan”
- Japanese: “ブラカン”
- Japanese: “ブラカン州”
- Javanese: “Bulacan”
- Kannada: “ಬುಲಕಾನ್”
- Kinaray-A: “Bulacan”
- Korean: “불라칸주”
- Latin: “Bulacan”
- Latvian: “Bulakana”
- Macedonian: “Булакан”
- Malay: “Bulacan”
- Marathi: “बलकन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bulacan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “武六干省”
- Minangkabau: “Bulacan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bulacan”
- Norwegian: “Bulacan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bulacan”
- Ossetian: “Булакан”
- Pampanga: “Bulacan”
- Pangasinan: “Bulacan”
- Persian: “بولاکان”
- Polish: “Bulacan”
- Portuguese: “Bulacan”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Bulacan”
- Russian: “Булакан”
- Sinhala: “බුලකෑන්”
- Slovenian: “Bucalan”
- South Azerbaijani: “بولاکان”
- Spanish: “Bulacan”
- Spanish: “Bulacán”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Bulacan”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Bulacán”
- Sundanese: “Bulacan”
- Swedish: “Bulacan”
- Tagalog: “Bulacan”
- Tagalog: “Bulakan”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Bulacan”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Bulakan”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Bulacan”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Bulakan”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Bulacan”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Bulakan”
- Tamil: “புலகன்”
- Tamil: “புலக்கான்”
- Telugu: “బులాకాన్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบูลาคัน”
- Thai: “บูลาคัน”
- Turkish: “Bulacan”
- Ukrainian: “Булакан”
- Urdu: “بولاکان”
- Vietnamese: “Bulacan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bulacan”
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