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Cebu Province

Cebu Island is a large island in the region of the . Cebu Province is that island plus several nearby small islands. The larger Negros Island lies just across the Tañon Strait to the west. and are to the east.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Cebu City and Lapu-Lapu.

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

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is an island city of Cebu Province 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 and, like that city, it is on Cebu Island. Just off the coast opposite is Mactan Island with the city of on it.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Metro Cebu and Moalboal.

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is in Cebu Province in the . It is the country's second largest urban area, after , and the main urban center both of the province and of the larger region which forms the central third of the country.

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is a small town on the south-west side of Cebu Island. The town sits at the base of a peninsula which runs north from there and has an assortment of tourist facilities — resorts, dive schools, bars and restaurants — along much of its west coast.

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, officially the City of , is a component city in the province of Cebu, . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 207,314 people.

, officially the City of , is a component city in the province of Cebu, . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 90,187 people.

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is the southernmost municipality in Cebu Province, 137 km from . It does not attract many tourists on its own merits, though there are some beach resorts.

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, officially the Municipality of , is a municipality in the province of Cebu, . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 43,735 people.

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, officially the Municipality of , is a municipality in the province of Cebu, . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 78,187 people.

is a municipality in Cebu Province, on the northwest side of Cebu Island. It has the longest coastline on the island and is an entry point to Bantayan Island via its Hagnaya Port.

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is a small village south of , near the southern tip of Cebu Island. It has started blossoming into a tourist stop due to whale sharks that swim close to the coast.

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, officially the Municipality of , is a municipality in the province of Cebu, . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 53,424 people.

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, officially the Municipality of , is a municipality in the province of Cebu, . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 95,080 people.

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Island is an island located in the Visayan Sea, . It is situated to the west of the northern end of Cebu, across the . According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 145,436.

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is an island in Cebu Province north of Cebu Island. The first image offers will stay with you for a long time: an exceedingly beautiful pristine stretch of white sand, crystal clear waters bordered by coconut trees and a dozen scattered native-style resorts.

The Camotes are a small island group in the . Administratively, they are part of Cebu Province but they are some distance east of Cebu Island, actually closer to .

Cebu Province

Latitude of center
10.47° or 10° 28′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
123.83° or 123° 49′ 48″ east
Population
3,400,000
Elevation
511 metres (1,677 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305704484
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1717511
Wiki­data ID
Q13786
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yiddish—“Cebu Province” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Cebu”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Cebu”
  • Arabic: “سبو”
  • Arabic: “سيبو”
  • Armenian: “Սեբու”
  • Asturian: “Cebu”
  • Balinese: “Cebu”
  • Banjar: “Cebu”
  • Basque: “Cebu”
  • Belarusian: “Сэбу”
  • Bengali: “সেবু প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “সেবু”
  • Breton: “Cebu”
  • Capiznon: “Cebu”
  • Catalan: “Cebú”
  • Catalan: “Província de Cebu”
  • Catalan: “Província de Cebú”
  • Cebuano: “Lalawigan sa Sugbo”
  • Cebuano: “Sugbo”
  • Central Bikol: “Cebu”
  • Chavacano: “Cebu”
  • Chinese: “Cebu”
  • Chinese: “宿务省”
  • Chinese: “宿務省”
  • Chinese: “宿雾省”
  • Chinese: “宿霧/宿务”
  • Chinese: “宿霧省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sebu”
  • Czech: “Cebu”
  • Danish: “Cebu”
  • Dutch: “Cebu”
  • Esperanto: “Cebuo”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Cebuo”
  • Estonian: “Cebu”
  • Finnish: “Cebu”
  • Finnish: “Cebun provinssi”
  • French: “Cébou (province)”
  • French: “Cebu”
  • Galician: “Cebú”
  • Georgian: “სებუ (პროვინცია)”
  • Georgian: “სებუს პროვინცია”
  • German: “Cebu”
  • German: “Provinz Cebu”
  • Gorontalo: “Cebu”
  • Greek: “Σεμπού”
  • Gujarati: “સિબુ”
  • Hebrew: “סבו”
  • Hiligaynon: “Cebu”
  • Hindi: “सिबु”
  • Hindi: “सेबू के प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Cebu”
  • Iban: “Cebu”
  • Iloko: “Cebu”
  • Indonesian: “Cebu”
  • Indonesian: “Kesugbuan”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Cebu”
  • Interlingua: “Cebu”
  • Interlingua: “Provincia de Cebu”
  • Italian: “Cebu”
  • Italian: “provincia di Cebu”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Cebu”
  • Japanese: “セブ”
  • Japanese: “セブ州”
  • Javanese: “Cebu”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆಬು”
  • Kashmiri: “سیبو”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តសេប៊ូ”
  • Khmer: “សេប៊ូ”
  • Kinaray-A: “Cebu”
  • Korean: “세부”
  • Korean: “세부주”
  • Lao: “ເຊບູ”
  • Latin: “Caebua”
  • Latin: “Provincia Caebuāna”
  • Latvian: “Sebu”
  • Lithuanian: “Sebu”
  • Macedonian: “Себу”
  • Malagasy: “Cebu (nosy)”
  • Malagasy: “Cebu”
  • Malay: “Cebu”
  • Malayalam: “സെബൂ”
  • Marathi: “सिबू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cebu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “宿務省”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “宿霧省”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “束務省”
  • Minangkabau: “Cebu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cebu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cebu”
  • Norwegian: “Cebu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cebu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Cebu”
  • Ossetian: “Себу”
  • Pampanga: “Cebu”
  • Pangasinan: “Cebu”
  • Persian: “جزیره سبو”
  • Persian: “سیبو”
  • Polish: “Cebu”
  • Portuguese: “Cebu”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Cebu”
  • Russian: “Себу”
  • Scots: “Cebu”
  • Serbian: “Себу”
  • Sinhala: “සේබූ”
  • Slovenian: “Cebu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیبو”
  • Spanish: “Cebú”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Cebú”
  • Sundanese: “Cebu”
  • Swedish: “Cebu”
  • Tagalog: “Cebu”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Cebu”
  • Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Cebu”
  • Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Cebu”
  • Tamil: “செபு மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “செப்பு”
  • Telugu: “సెబు”
  • Tetum: “Cebu”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเซบู”
  • Thai: “เซบู”
  • Turkish: “Cebu”
  • Ukrainian: “Себу”
  • Urdu: “سیبو”
  • Venetian: “Provìnsia de Sebù”
  • Venetian: “Sebù”
  • Vietnamese: “Cebu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sugbo”
  • Wu Chinese: “宿务”
  • Wu Chinese: “宿务省”
  • Yiddish: “סעבו”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cebu Province”. Photo: Matt Kieffer, CC BY-SA 2.0.