Zamboanga Peninsula, Region IX, Philippines

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The Philippine Republic's Region IX, Western Mindanao, comprises three provinces with a total population of 3,045,000 by the 2000 census. Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur share a long, thin peninsula pointing toward the smaller offshore island of Basilan, the third province in the region.

Flag images here drawn after Symbols of the State, published by the Philippines Bureau of Local Government.

• Zamboanga del Norte
  • Dapitan City
  • Dipolog City
• Zamboanga del Sur
  • Pagadian City
  • Zamboanga City
• Zamboanga Sibugay

See also:

• Philippines
• Philippines: index of all pages
• Philippines provincial flags

Zamboanga del Norte

by Jaume Ollé, 12 January 2001

Zamboanga del Norte has a population of 805,000 in two cities, Dapitan and Dipolog, and twenty-five towns.
John Ayer, 15 February 2001

Zamboanga del Norte's two cities are Dapitan City and Dipolog City. Dapitan is officially "The Shrine City of the Philippines," apparently because it sheltered patriot leader Dr. Jose Rizal from July 1892 to July 1896. His home in exile, an estate of sixteen hectares and several buildings, is preserved as the Rizal Shrine. The city was chartered in 1963, the date on the scroll under the shield. Eighty percent of the inhabitants practice agriculture in some form. Dipolog City, the provincial capital, seems to have quite a diversified economy.
John Ayer, 15 February 2001

Dapitan City

by Dirk Schönberger, 12 January 2001

Source: Symbols of the state

Dipolog City

by Dirk Schönberger, 12 January 2001

Source: Symbols of the state

Zamboanga del Sur

by Jaume Ollé, 12 January 2001

Zamboanga del Sur, population 1,314,000, comprises Pagadian City (the provincial capital) and Zamboanga City plus forty-two towns.
John Ayer, 15 February 2001

The Philippine Republic's Region IX, Western Mindanao, contains four cities. The two in Zamboanga del Sur are Pagadian City, the provincial capital, and Zamboanga City. Zamboanga was in the early twentieth century the capital from which Gen. John J. Pershing, U.S.A., governed Moro Province, which included the whole of Mindanao.