Wingsch Real Estate Investments   

Theme Week Philippines – Cebu City

Friday, 24 January 2020 - 12:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien
Category/Kategorie: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu, also known as the Queen City of the South, is a 1st class and highly urbanized city of the island of Cebu in the Central Visayas Region, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 922,611 people, making it the fifth-most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the Visayas.

It is the regional center of Central Visayas and is the seat of government for the province of Cebu, but is governed separately from it. The city is a significant center of commerce, trade and education in the Visayas. It is the Philippines’ main domestic shipping port, and is home to about 80% of the country’s domestic shipping companies.

Located in the middle of the eastern side of Cebu Island, it is the center of Metro Cebu, the second largest metropolitan area in the Philippines by population, economy and land area, which includes the cities of Carcar, Danao, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue, Naga and Talisay; and the municipalities (towns) of Compostela, Consolacion, Cordova, Liloan, Minglanilla and San Fernando. Metro Cebu had a total population of 2,849,213 as of 2015, making it the second-most populous metropolitan area of the nation, after Metro Manila in Luzon.

Cebu is the country’s oldest city; it was the first Spanish settlement, and the first capital of the Philippines. It is the “Second City” of the Philippines after Manila. The city is considered the birthplace of Christianity in the Far East. Colon Street, the oldest national road in the Philippines, is the center of a dense and compact area in downtown Cebu City that was once the heart of Cebu City’s shopping and business activity, with fashionable shops, restaurants and movie houses. In the early 1990s, much of this activity shifted to the more modern and more diverse business districts located in almost all of the urban areas of the city, including in what was considered residential and leisure neighborhoods. Colon also serves as a transit point for public utility jeepneys (PUJ) covering arterial routes within the city.

Here you can find the complete Overview of all Theme Weeks.

Read more on Cebu City, LonelyPlanet.com – Cebu City, Wikitravel Cebu City, Wikivoyage Cebu City and Wikipedia Cebu City. Learn more about the use of photos. To inform you about latest news most of the city, town or tourism websites offer a newsletter service and/or operate Facebook pages/Twitter accounts. In addition more and more destinations, tourist organizations and cultural institutions offer Apps for your Smart Phone or Tablet, to provide you with a mobile tourist guide (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.

---

Recommended posts:

• Theme Week Philippines – Bacolod City
• Theme Week Philippines – Davao City
• Theme Week Philippines – Puerto Princesa
• Theme Week Philippines
• Theme Week Philippines – Manila
• Chocolate Hills on Bohol island
• Theme Week Amsterdam – Albert Cuyp Market, the largest daytime street market in Europe
• Theme Week Israel – The port city of Ashdod
• Theme Week Bahrain – Central Business District Manama
• Theme Week Panama – Antón
• Theme Week Mexico – Mexico City in the Valley of Mexico
• Theme Week Bahrain – Umm an Nasan Island
• Theme Week Kuwait – Mangaf
• Theme Week Ukraine – Dnipropetrovsk on the Dnieper River
• Theme Week Marseille – Košice and Marseille, European Capitals of Culture 2013