Central Luzon
Central Luzon is one of the 18 regions of the Philippines. This "super region" is in the north of Manila. Home to seven provinces, this region has different and distinct cultures.Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Public domain.
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Angeles
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Angeles is a city in Pampanga province. The city is rich in history and heritage, with old and historical significant buildings dotting its landscape, but these days it is best known for its high concentration of casinos and sometimes questionable nightlife.
Tarlac City
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Tarlac City is the provincial capital of Tarlac. While it is the economic and educational center of Tarlac, it is a rather small provincial city, with little in the way of sights, and is more of a stopover for long-distance buses.
Baler
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Baler is a small town in Aurora Province on the east coast of Luzon in the Philippines. It is situated between the Sierra Madre mountain range and the Pacific Ocean, in the vast plain at the mouth of Baler's Bay.
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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.
Pampanga
Pampanga is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. Dubbed as the "Culinary Capital of the Philippines"; it used to host the largest American military facility outside the United States, which has been converted to a major business and tourism hub.
Zambales
Zambales is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. Central Luzon is also called Region III.
Tarlac
Tarlac is a province in Central Luzon. Tarlac is best known for its fine foods and vast sugar and rice plantations, and its fine cooking scene is due to its position as the crossroads of four major cultures.
Bataan
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Bataan is a province at the Central Luzon region of Luzon. A peninsula surrounded by Manila Bay to the east and the West Philippine Sea to the west, it is known in history as the last stronghold of the Americans in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded it during World War II.
Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija, officially the Province of Nueva Ecija, is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Palayan, while Cabanatuan, its former capital, is the largest city and the economic, commercial, and institutional center of Nueva Ecija.
Aurora
Aurora is a coastal province of Central Luzon region in the Philippines. Little is known about the province due to its remoteness, but its capital is known for its surfing scene, and the province has one of the largest expanses of rainforest spared from development, and also has hidden beaches and mountains.
Central Luzon
- Type: region of the Philippines with 12,400,000 residents
- Description: administrative region of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Region 3” and “Region III”
- Location: Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Central Luzon” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “መሃል ሉዞን”
- Armenian: “Կենտրոնական Լուսոն”
- Asturian: “Central Luzon”
- Asturian: “Luzon Central”
- Azerbaijani: “Mərkəzi Luzon”
- Balinese: “Central Luzon”
- Banjar: “Central Luzon”
- Basque: “Erdialdeko Luzon”
- Bengali: “কেন্দ্রীয় লুজন”
- Bengali: “মধ্য লুজন”
- Burmese: “အလယ်လူဇွန်”
- Capiznon: “Central Luzon”
- Catalan: “Luzon Central”
- Cebuano: “Tunga-tungang Luzon”
- Central Bikol: “Rehiyon Sentral na Luzon”
- Chavacano: “Luzon Central”
- Chinese: “Tiong Luzon”
- Chinese: “中呂宋”
- Chinese: “中央吕宋”
- Chinese: “中央呂宋”
- Croatian: “Središnji Luzon”
- Czech: “Střední Luzon”
- Dutch: “Central Luzon”
- Esperanto: “Centra Luzono”
- Finnish: “Keski-Luzon”
- French: “Gitnang Luzon”
- French: “Luçon centrale”
- French: “région 03”
- French: “Région III”
- Georgian: “ცენტრალური ლუსონი”
- German: “Central Luzon”
- German: “Central Luzón”
- Gorontalo: “Central Luzon”
- Hausa: “Central Luzon”
- Hebrew: “מרכז לוזון”
- Hiligaynon: “Central Luzon”
- Hindi: “क्षेत्र ३”
- Hindi: “मध्य लूज़ोन”
- Iloko: “Rehion 03”
- Iloko: “Rehion III”
- Iloko: “Tengnga a Luzon”
- Indonesian: “Luson Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Luzon Tengah”
- Indonesian: “region Lesung Tengah”
- Indonesian: “wilayah Lesung Tengah”
- Italian: “Luzon Centrale”
- Japanese: “中部ルソン地方”
- Javanese: “Central Luzon”
- Kazakh: “Орталық Luzon”
- Kinaray-A: “Kalusunan Natëng·an”
- Kirghiz: “Борбор Лузон”
- Korean: “중앙루손 지방”
- Latin: “Luconia Media”
- Latvian: “Centrālā Lusona”
- Lithuanian: “Centrinis Lusonas”
- Macedonian: “Регион III”
- Macedonian: “Централен Лусон”
- Malay: “Daerah III”
- Malay: “Luzon Tengah”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gitnang Luzon”
- Minangkabau: “Central Luzon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Central Luzon”
- Norwegian: “Central Luzon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Luzon centra”
- Oromo: “Luzon Giddugaleessa”
- Ossetian: “Центрон Лусон”
- Pampanga: “Kalibudtarang Luzon”
- Pampanga: “Labuwad III”
- Pampanga: “Labwad III”
- Pangasinan: “Central Luzon”
- Pangasinan: “Pegley na Luzon”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਲੁਜੋਨ”
- Persian: “سنترال لوزون”
- Polish: “Luzon Środkowy”
- Portuguese: “Lução Central”
- Portuguese: “Luzon Central”
- Pushto: “مرکزي لوزون”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Central Luzon”
- Russian: “Центральный Лусон”
- Slovenian: “Osrednji Luzon”
- Slovenian: “Regija 3”
- Slovenian: “Regija III”
- Somali: “Luzon Dhexe”
- Spanish: “Luzón Central”
- Sundanese: “Central Luzon”
- Swahili: “Luzon Kati”
- Swedish: “Centrala Luzon”
- Tagalog: “Gitnang Luzon”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon 3”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon III”
- Tajik: “Лузон Марказӣ”
- Tamil: “மத்திய லூசோன்”
- Tatar: “Үзәк Лузон”
- Tetum: “Central Luzon”
- Thai: “เขตกิตนางลูโซน”
- Turkish: “Merkez Luzon”
- Ukrainian: “Центральний Лусон”
- Urdu: “وسطی لوزون”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy Luzon”
- Venetian: “Luson Sentral”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Luzon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Butnga nga Luzon”
- Yue Chinese: “中呂宋”
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