Central Visayas
Cebu Province
Metro Cebu

Cebu City

Cebu City is the main city on Cebu Island in the and is known as the Queen City of the South. It is the capital of , a transport hub, and a popular tourist destination in its own right.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort San Pedro and Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu.

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is a military defense structure in , Philippines, built by the Spanish under the command of Miguel López de Legazpi, first governor of the Captaincy General of the Philippines.

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The Basílica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebú, alternatively known as the Minor Basilica of the Holy Child or simply Santo Niño Basilica, is a minor basilica in Cebu City in the that was founded in 1565 by Fray Andrés de Urdaneta and Fray Diego de Herrera.

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is a three-story, pre-war, neoclassical heritage site and landmark in Cebu City, . Dedicated to the national hero, Jose P.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue.

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is an island city of in the , part of . It is home to about 498,000 people. The city has the main airport of the region, many beaches and dive sites, and quite a few resorts.

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is a city in the , part of . is just north of Cebu City and, like that city, it is on Cebu Island. Just off the coast opposite is Mactan Island with the city of on it.

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Mandaue, officially the City of Mandaue, is a highly urbanized city in the region of the . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 364,482 people.

Cebu City

Latitude
10.2935° or 10° 17′ 37″ north
Longitude
123.9018° or 123° 54′ 7″ east
Population
965,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
IATA airport code
CEB
United Nations Location Code
PH CEB
Open location code
7Q257WV2+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259009337
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1717512
Wiki­data ID
Q1467
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cebu City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cebu Stad”
  • Amis: “Cebu City”
  • Arabic: “مدينة سبو”
  • Arabic: “مدينة سيبو”
  • Armenian: “Սեբու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sebu”
  • Balinese: “Cebu City”
  • Balinese: “Kota Cebu”
  • Banjar: “Cebu City”
  • Basque: “Cebu City”
  • Basque: “Cebu Hiria”
  • Batak Toba: “Cebu City”
  • Belarusian: “Себу (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Себу”
  • Belarusian: “Сэбу”
  • Bengali: “সেবু”
  • Buginese: “Cebu City”
  • Bulgarian: “Себу”
  • Burmese: “စီဘူးမြို့”
  • Capiznon: “Cebu City”
  • Catalan: “Cebu City”
  • Catalan: “Cebu”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Sugbo”
  • Cebuano: “Sugbo”
  • Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Cebu”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad de Cebu”
  • Chechen: “Себу (гІала)”
  • Chechen: “Себу”
  • Chinese: “Cebu Chhī”
  • Chinese: “宿务市”
  • Chinese: “宿雾市”
  • Chinese: “宿霧”
  • Chinese: “宿霧市”
  • Chinese: “宿霧市行政區”
  • Croatian: “Cebu City”
  • Croatian: “Cebu”
  • Czech: “Cebu City”
  • Dagbani: “Cebu City”
  • Danish: “Cebu City”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cebu”
  • Dutch: “Cebu City”
  • Dutch: “Cebu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيبو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه سيبو”
  • Esperanto: “Cebo”
  • Esperanto: “Cebu City”
  • Esperanto: “Cebuurbo”
  • Fijian: “Cebu City”
  • Finnish: “Cebu”
  • French: “Cébou (ville)”
  • French: “Cebu”
  • Galician: “Cebú (cidade)”
  • Galician: “Cebú”
  • Georgian: “სებუ (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “სებუ”
  • German: “Cebu City”
  • German: “Cebu-Stadt”
  • German: “City of Cebu”
  • Gorontalo: “Cebu City”
  • Greek: “Σεμπού Σίτι”
  • Gujarati: “સેબુ શહેર”
  • Hausa: “Cebu City”
  • Hebrew: “סבו סיטי”
  • Hiligaynon: “Cebu”
  • Hiligaynon: “Dakbanwa sang Cebu”
  • Hindi: “सीबू शहर”
  • Hindi: “सेबु सिटी”
  • Hindi: “सेबू शहर”
  • Hiri Motu: “Cebu City”
  • Hungarian: “Cebu City”
  • Hungarian: “Cebu”
  • Hungarian: “Lungsod ng Cebu”
  • Igbo: “Cebu City”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Cebu”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Cebu”
  • Irish: “Cebu City”
  • Italian: “Cebu”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Cebu City”
  • Japanese: “セブ”
  • Japanese: “セブ市”
  • Javanese: “Cebu City”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆಬು ನಗರ”
  • Kashmiri: “سیبو شَہَر”
  • Kinaray-A: “hangbanwa kang Sugbo”
  • Kinaray-A: “Sugbo”
  • Kongo: “Cebu City”
  • Korean: “세부”
  • Korean: “세부시”
  • Latin: “Caebua”
  • Latin: “Urbs Caebuāna”
  • Latvian: “Sebu”
  • Lithuanian: “Sebu”
  • Macedonian: “Себу”
  • Malagasy: “Cebu City”
  • Malagasy: “Cebu”
  • Malay: “Bandar Cebu”
  • Maori: “Cebu City”
  • Marathi: “सेबु शहर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cebu Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “宿務市”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “宿霧市”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “束務市”
  • Minangkabau: “Cebu City”
  • Mingrelian: “სებუ”
  • Moksha: “Сэбу (ошсь)”
  • Moksha: “Сэбу”
  • Mongolian: “Себу”
  • Nauru: “Cebu City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cebu City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Cebu”
  • Norwegian: “Cebu City”
  • Norwegian: “Cebu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cebu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cebu City”
  • Oromo: “Cebu City”
  • Ossetian: “Себу (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Себу”
  • Paiwan: “Cebu City”
  • Pampanga: “Cebu Lakanbalen”
  • Pampanga: “Lakanbalen ning Cebú”
  • Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Cebu”
  • Persian: “سبو”
  • Polish: “Cebu City”
  • Polish: “Cebu”
  • Portuguese: “Cebu”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Cebu”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Cebu City”
  • Romanian: “Cebú”
  • Russian: “Себу”
  • Sakizaya: “Cebu City”
  • Samoan: “Cebu City”
  • Scots: “Cebu Ceety”
  • Scots: “Cebu City”
  • Silesian: “Cebu City”
  • Sinhala: “සෙබු නගරය”
  • Slovenian: “Cebu City”
  • Slovenian: “Cebu”
  • Slovenian: “mesto Cebu”
  • Slovenian: “Sebu”
  • Spanish: “Cebú”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Cebú”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Reina de Filipinas”
  • Sundanese: “Cebu City”
  • Swahili: “Cebu City”
  • Swedish: “Cebu City”
  • Swedish: “Cebu”
  • Tagalog: “Cebu”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Cebu”
  • Tahitian: “Cebu City”
  • Tamil: “செபு நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Себу-Сити”
  • Telugu: “సెబు నగరం”
  • Telugu: “సెబు సిటీ”
  • Tetum: “Cebu City”
  • Thai: “เซบู”
  • Thai: “นครเซบู”
  • Tok Pisin: “Cebu City”
  • Turkish: “Cebu City”
  • Ukrainian: “Себу”
  • Urdu: “سیبو شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Sebu”
  • Venetian: “Sebù”
  • Vietnamese: “Cebu”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Cebu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Sugbo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad Sugbo”
  • Welsh: “Cebu City”
  • Wu Chinese: “宿务市”
  • Xhosa: “Cebu City”
  • Yiddish: “סעבו”
  • Yoruba: “Cebu City”
  • Yue Chinese: “宿霧”
  • Zulu: “Cebu City”
  • “Cebu”
  • “Cebu City”
  • “Cebu, Cebu”
  • “ma tomo Sepu”

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