Luzon

**Luzon** is an major island in the Philippines. It is situated at northern portion of the country. The vicinity capital of the Philippines, Manila, as well as other cities like Quezon City, are on the island.

As of the 2010 census, 48.5 million people lived on Luzon.

### Mainland Luzon

There were having sub super regions the North Luzon composed Ilocos Region (I), Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Cagayan Valley (II), Central Luzon (III) and the South Luzon are Metro Manila (NCR), Calabarzon (4A), and Bicol Region (5), except Mimaropa (4B) as islands.

### Sea

The "Luzon Sea" is located at the 9 dash line of the South China Sea in the southwest neutical miles from Taiwan, The Philippine Sea to the east, West Philippine Sea to the west, Visayan Sea in the central and Mindanao Sea to the south.

## Sub regions

|scope="col"|Region|scope="col"|Six division|scope="col"|Four division|scope="col"|Three division|scope="col"|Two dibisyon|
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|rowspan=2|Ilocandia|rowspan=3|Northern Luzon|rowspan=4|Northern & Central Luzon|rowspan=4|Northern & Central Luzon|||
|Cordilleras||||||||||
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center;"|Central Luzon|||||||||
|colspan=3 style="text-align:center;"|Metro Manila|rowspan=4|Southern Luzon|||||||
|rowspan=2|Southern Tagalog|rowspan=3|Southern Luzon|rowspan=3|Southern Luzon|||||
|Bicolandia||||||||||

### Northern Luzon

Northern Luzon is a sub region located to the north of the Philippine archipelago, comprising 4 regions of Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley and Central Luzon.

- 4 divisions
|Region|Regional center|Division|
| --- | --- | --- |
|**Ilocos Region**|San Fernando|Northwestern Luzon|
|**Cordillera Administrative Region**|Baguio|Northcentral Luzon|
|**Cagayan Valley **|Tuguegarao|Northeastern Luzon|
|**Central Luzon**|San Fernando City|Central Luzon|

### Southern Luzon

Southern Luzon is located at the vicinity of Philippine capital (_Manila_), The sub regions comprising 4 regions; Metro Manila (NCR), Calabarzon (4-A), Mimaropa (4-B) and Bicol Region or 5.

- 4 divisions
|Region|Regional center|Division|
| --- | --- | --- |
|***Metro Manila, NCR***|**Manila**|Metro Manila|
|**Calabarzon, 4-A**|Calamba|Southern Luzon|
|**Mimaropa, 4-B**|Calapan|Southwestern Luzon|
|**Bicol, 5**|Legazpi|Southeastern Luzon|

- Largest cities of Luzon

### Luzon Metropolitan

|Metropolitan|Metropolitan center|Divisions|
| --- | --- | --- |
|**Metro Baguio**|Baguio|Northern Luzon/Cordillera's|
|**Metro Manila**|**Manila**|Southern Luzon/NCR|
|**Urban Laguna**|Santa Rosa||
|**Metro Naga**|Naga||
|**Metro Dagupan**|Dagupan|Northern Luzon|
|**Metro Clark**|Angeles City|Central Luzon|
|**Metro Olongapo**|Olongapo||
|**Metro Batangas**|Batangas City|Calabarzon, 4-A|

## Regions of Luzon State

|width="10%"|Map|width="26%"|Region <small>(short name)</small>|width="18%"|Regional center|width="18%"|Provinces|width="9%"|Area (km<sup>2</sup>)|width="9%"|Population (2010)|width="14%"|Density (per km<sup>2</sup>)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="7"|Island group: **LUZON** (***NORTH PHILIPPINES***)|||||||||||||
|align=center||align=center|**National Capital Region** <small>(NCR)</small>|align=left|***MANILA (capital)***|Metro Manila (cities)|636|11,855,975|18641.5|||||
|align=center||align=center|**Cordillera** <small>(CAR)</small>|align=left|_Baguio City_|align=left|*Abra *Apayao *Baguio *Benguet *Ifugao *Kalinga *Mountain Province|18,294|1,616,867|88.4||||
|align=center||align=center|**Ilocos** <small>(Region I)</small>|align=left|San Fernando City|align=left|*Ilocos Norte *Ilocos Sur *La Union *Pangasinan|12,840|4,748,372|369.8||||
|align=center||align=center|**Cagayan Valley** <small>(Region II)</small>|align=left|Tuguegarao City|align=left|*Batanes *Cagayan *Isabela *Nueva Vizcaya *Quirino *Santiago City|26,838|3,229,163|120.3||||
|align=center||align=center|**Central Luzon** <small>(Region III)</small>|align=left|San Fernando City|align=left|*Angeles City *Aurora *Bataan *Bulacan *Nueva Ecija *Olongapo *Pampanga *Tarlac *Zambales|21,470|10,137,737|472.2||||
|align=center||align=center|**CALABARZON** <small>(Region IV-A)</small>|align=left|Calamba City|align=left|*Batangas *Cavite *Laguna *Lucena City *Quezon *Rizal|16,229|12,609,803|777||||
|align=center||align=center|**MIMAROPA** <small>(Region IV-B)</small>|align=left|Calapan City|align=left|*Marinduque *Occidental Mindoro *Oriental Mindoro *Palawan *Puerto Princesa City *Romblon|27,456|2,744,671|100||||
|align=center||align=center|**Bicol** <small>(Region V)</small>|align=left|Legazpi City|align=left|*Albay *Camarines Norte *Camarines Sur *Catanduanes *Masbate *Naga City *Sorsogon|17,632|5,420,411|307.4||||

## Infobox (islands)

- **name**: Luzon
- **image**: Quezon City skyline - South Triangle with TV towers (from Mezza 2) (Quezon City)(2018-05-12).jpg
- **image caption**: Quezon City the largest city of Luzon
- **image map**: Luzon in Philippines.svg
- **map caption**: The map of Luzon, showing in the northern Philippines.
- **nickname**: Northern Pilipinas
- **location**: Southeast Asia
- **archipelago**: Philippines
- **total islands**: 7,107
- **major islands**: Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro Island, Mindoro, Palawan Island, Palawan
- **area**: 109,965 km²
- **highest mount**: Pulag
- **elevation**: 2,922  m
- **country**: Pilipinas
- **country admin divisions title**: Mga Rehiyon
- **country admin divisions**: Kalakhang Maynila, Bicol Region, Cagayan Valley, Calabarzon, Central Luzon, Cordillera Administrative Region, Cordillera, Ilocos Region, Ilocos & Mimaropa
- **subdivision type**: Largest city
- **subdivision name**: Quezon City
- **country largest city population**: 9,932,560
- **population**: 39,500,000
- **population as of**: 2000
- **density**: 359.2
- **ethnic groups**: Aeta, Agta, Bikolano, Ibanag, Igorot, Ilocano, Kapampangan, Pangasinanse, Tagalog people, Tagalog