Editing Cebu (section)

{{Short description|Province in Central Visayas, Philippines}}
{{About|the province in the Philippines|its independent capital city|Cebu City| the city in Malaysia|Sibu}}
{{redirect|Sebu|other uses|Sebu (disambiguation) }}
{{redirect-distinguish|Sugbu|Nasugbu}}
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{{Use Philippine English|date=September 2022}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Cebu
| native_name        = {{nativename|ceb|Sugbo}}
| nickname           = ''The Gateway to a Thousand Journeys''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thephilippines.com/p/cebu.html |title=What To Know About Cebu, Philippines |publisher=The Philippines Tourism Board |access-date=August 21, 2016}}</ref>
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| image1                   = Osmeña Peak, Cebu, Philippines.jpg    
| image2                   = MactanShrine.jpg
| image3                   = Kawasan Falls, Cebu, Philippines1.jpg
| image4                   = Cebu Cathedral, Jan 2024.jpg
| image5                   = View of Cebu City from Fuente Hotel de Cebu 002.jpg
| image6                   = Malapascua (island), Tropical beach, Philippines.jpg
| image7                   = Cebu Capitol Compund.jpg
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| image_alt          = 
| image_caption      = Left to right, from the top: [[Dalaguete|Osmeña Peak]], [[Mactan Shrine|Magellan Monument]], [[Kawasan Falls]], [[Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral]], [[Cebu City]], 
[[Malapascua|Malapascua Island]], [[Cebu Provincial Capitol]]
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| motto              = {{PH wikidata|motto}}
| anthem             = ''[[Sugbo (hymn)|Sugbo]]'' (Cebu)<br /><div style="display:inline-block;margin-top:0.4em;">{{center|[[File:"Sugbo", Hymn of Cebu Province.ogg]]}}</div>
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| map_caption        = Location in the Philippines
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| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = {{PH wikidata|country}}
| subdivision_type1  = [[Island groups of the Philippines|Island Group]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Visayas]]
| established_title  = [[Date of establishment|Founded]]
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| seat_type          = Capital<br/>{{nobold|and largest city}}
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| leader_title       = [[List of governors of Cebu|Governor]]
| leader_name        = [[Gwendolyn F. Garcia]] ([[One Cebu|1Cebu]])
| leader_title1      = [[List of vice governors of Cebu|Vice Governor]]
| leader_name1       = [[Hilario R. Davide III]] ([[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal]])
| leader_title2      = Legislature
| leader_name2       = [[Cebu Provincial Board]] {{PH Town Council
 |  1 = <div style="border-style:solid none; border-width:thin; border-color:Gainsboro; background:#e6e6e6; text-align:center; width:95%; font-variant:small-caps;">1st ProvDist</div>
 |  2 = Yolanda Daan
 |  3 = Raul Bacaltos
 |  4 = <div style="border-style:solid none; border-width:thin; border-color:Gainsboro; background:#e6e6e6; text-align:center; width:95%; font-variant:small-caps;">2nd ProvDist</div>
 |  5 = Edsel Galeos
 |  6 = Jose Mari Salvador
 |  7 = <div style="border-style:solid none; border-width:thin; border-color:Gainsboro; background:#e6e6e6; text-align:center; width:95%; font-variant:small-caps;">3rd ProvDist</div>
 |  8 = Victoria Corominas
 |  9 = John Ismael Borgonia
 | 10 = <div style="border-style:solid none; border-width:thin; border-color:Gainsboro; background:#e6e6e6; text-align:center; width:95%; font-variant:small-caps;">4th ProvDist</div>
 | 11 = Kerrie Keane Shimura
 | 12 = Horacio Franco
 | 13 = <div style="border-style:solid none; border-width:thin; border-color:Gainsboro; background:#e6e6e6; text-align:center; width:95%; font-variant:small-caps;">5th ProvDist</div>
 | 14 = Miguel Magpale
 | 15 = Andrei Duterte 
 | 16 = <div style="border-style:solid none; border-width:thin; border-color:Gainsboro; background:#e6e6e6; text-align:center; width:95%; font-variant:small-caps;">6th ProvDist</div>
 | 17 = Glenn Soco
 | 18 = Thadeo Ouano
 | 19 = <div style="border-style:solid none; border-width:thin; border-color:Gainsboro; background:#e6e6e6; text-align:center; width:95%; font-variant:small-caps;">7th ProvDist</div>
 | 20 = Jerome Librando
 | 21 = Christopher Baricuatro
 | com = https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/eleksyon2019/results/local/REGION+VII/CEBU/?tfb_a&smartsearch
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| total_type         = Total&nbsp;{{small|(province)}}
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| area_rank          = 20th out of 81
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| elevation_max_m    = 1,072
| elevation_max_point = [[Osmeña Peak]]
| population_footnotes = {{PH census|current}}
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| population_as_of   = {{PH wikidata|population_as_of}}
| population_rank    = 5th out of 81
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_density_rank = 7th out of 81
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| population_blank1  = {{PH wikidata|electorate}}
| population_blank2_title = Language
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| population_note    = Population data excludes independent cities
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* {{small|Highly urbanized cities of}}: <br /> {{bulleted list|[[Cebu City]] | [[Lapu-Lapu City|Lapu-Lapu]] | [[Mandaue]]}} }}
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* [[Bogo, Cebu|Bogo]]
* [[Carcar]]
* [[Danao, Cebu|Danao]]
* [[Naga, Cebu|Naga]]
* [[Talisay, Cebu|Talisay]]
* [[Toledo, Cebu|Toledo]]}}
 }}
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| demographics1_title4 = [[Barangay]]
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{{!}} style="text-align:right;max-width:2em;padding-right:0;" {{!}} 1,066 {{!!}}
{{!}}-
{{!}} style="text-align:right;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;" {{!}} {{nowrap|+&nbsp; 137}} {{!!}} style="text-align:left;padding-left:0.3em;line-height:0.8;padding-top:0;" rowspan=2{{!}} {{small|including [[Independent component city|independent cities]]}}
{{!}}-
{{!}} style="text-align:right;border-top:solid thin;border-bottom:double medium;padding-left:0.4em;padding-right:0;" {{!}} 1,203
{{!)}}
| demographics1_title5 = [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|Districts]]
| demographics1_info5 = {{bulleted list|[[Legislative districts of Cebu]] | [[Legislative districts of Cebu City]] | [[Legislative district of Lapu-Lapu]]|[[Legislative district of Mandaue]] }}
| timezone           = [[Philippine Standard Time|PST]]
| utc_offset         = +8
| postal_code_type   = [[List of ZIP codes in the Philippines|ZIP code]]
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| blank_info_sec1    = {{PH wikidata|income_class_ordinal}}
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| blank1_info_sec1   = {{PSGC detail}}
| blank2_name_sec1   = [[ICAO]]
| blank2_info_sec1   = {{PH wikidata|icao}}
| blank3_name_sec1   = [[IATA]]
| blank3_info_sec1   = {{PH wikidata|iata}}
| blank2_name_sec2   = Patron
| blank2_info_sec2   = [[Santo Niño de Cebu]]
| iso_code           = {{PH wikidata|iso_code}}
| website            = {{PH wikidata|website}}
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}}
'''Cebu''' ({{IPAc-en|s|ɛ|ˈ|b|uː}} {{respell|seb|OO}}; {{langx|ceb|Sugbo}}), officially the '''Province of Cebu''' ({{langx|ceb|Lalawigan sa Sugbo|links=no}}; {{Langx|fil|Lalawigan ng Cebu}}), is a [[Provinces of the Philippines|province]] of the [[Philippines]] located in the [[Central Visayas]] {{nowrap|(Region VII)}} [[Regions of the Philippines|region]], and consists of a main island and [[List of islands of Cebu|167 surrounding islands and islets]]. The coastal zone of Cebu is identified as a site of highest marine biodiversity importance in the [[Coral Triangle]].<ref name="Asaad18">{{cite journal |last1=Asaad |first1=Irawan |last2=Lundquist |first2=Carolyn J. |last3=Erdmann |first3=Mark V. |last4=Costello |first4=Mark J. |title=Delineating priority areas for marine biodiversity conservation in the Coral Triangle  |journal=Biological Conservation |date=June 2018|volume=222 |issue=2 |pages=198–211|doi=10.1016/j.biocon.2018.03.037|bibcode=2018BCons.222..198A |url= https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320717310200 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Its capital and largest city is [[Cebu City]], nicknamed "the Queen (Catholic) City of the South" having the Second Cardinal, the oldest city and first [[capital of the Philippines]], which is politically independent from the provincial government along with [[Mandaue]] and [[Lapu-Lapu City]]. The Cebu Metropolitan Area or [[Metro Cebu]] is the [[List of metropolitan areas in the Philippines|third largest metropolitan area]] in the Philippines (after [[Metro Manila]] and [[Metro Davao]]) with Cebu City as the main center of commerce, trade, education and industry in the [[Visayas]] as well as the regional center of [[Central Visayas]]. Being one of the most developed provinces in the Philippines, in a decade it has transformed into a global hub for business processing services, tourism, shipping, furniture-making, and [[heavy industry]]. [[Mactan–Cebu International Airport]], located on [[Mactan Island]], is the second busiest airport in the Philippines.

Cebu has the most combined cities and municipalities of any province in the Philippines, with 53 in total. With 9 cities in total, it has the second most number of cities after its neighboring province of [[Negros Occidental]].