Central Visayas

**Central Visayas** (Filipino: ***Gitnang Kabisayaan***) is a region o the Philippines, designatit as **Region VII**. It is locatit in the central pairt o the Visayas island group, an consists o fower provinces—Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, an Siquijor— an the heichlie urbanisit ceeties o Cebu Ceety, Lapu-Lapu Ceety, an Mandaue Ceety. The region is dominatit bi the native speakers o Cebuano. Cebu Ceety is its regional centre.

The laund aurie o the region is 15,875&nbsp;km². As o the 2010 census, it haes a population o 6,800,180 fowk, makin it the 5t maist populous o the kintra's 17 regions.

## History
Regions first came tae existence in on 24 September 1972, when the provinces o the Philippines wur organisit intae 11 regions bi Presidential Decree No. 1 as pairt o the *Integratit Reorganization Plan* o Preses Ferdinand Marcos.

Syne inception, the Central Visayas Region haes remained unchyngit in its boondaries.

## Poleetical diveesions
The Central Visayas region is componit o 4 provinces an 3 independent ceeties:

Awtho Cebu Cieety, Mandaue Ceety an Lapu-Lapu Ceety are aften groupit unner the province o Cebu for statistical purposes bi the Naitional Statistics Office, as heichlie urbanisit ceeties, thay are admeenistratively independent frae the province.

### Component ceeties
*Bais Ceety, Negros Oriental
*Bayawan Ceety, Negros Oriental
*Canlaon Ceeity, Negros Oriental
*Dumaguete Ceety, Negros Oriental
*Guihulngan Ceety, Negros Oriental
*Tanjay Ceety, Negros Oriental
*Bogo Ceety, Cebu
*Carcar Ceety, Cebu
*Danao Ceety, Cebu
*Naga Ceety, Cebu
*Talisay Ceety, Cebu
*Toledo Ceety, Cebu
*Tagbilaran Ceety, Bohol

## Demographics

As o the 2010 census, Central Visayas haed a population o 6,800,180 fowk, makkin it the 5t maist populous o the kintra's 17 regions. At the 2007 census, the population wis 6,398,628 wi a population densitie o 403.1 fowk per square kilometre (6,129.4/mi²). The 2007 census showed an average annual population growthe rate o 1.59% frae 2000 tae 2007, significantly less nor the naitional average o 2.04%.

Cebuano is the dominant leid o the region. Boholano is a dialectal variant o Cebuano spoken in Bohol. In the Camotes Islands, which is pairt o Cebu, Cebuano leid is spoken in the touns o Tudela, Pilar an San Francisco. Except the toun o Poro, in which, Porohanon is spoken (a variation or mixtur o Cebuano, Hiligaynon (Ilonggo) an Masbateño leid, wi 87% Cebuano vocabular). Tagalog, Inglis an Spainyie are spoken in this region an aw.

## Media
Cebu Ceety is the main media hub for baith the region an the island o Visayas. It is the hame tae mony media outlets for baith the million-nighttime an the 4-million daytime population o the ceety. Lairge media netwirks such as ABS-CBN Corporation, GMA Network, Inc., TV5, People's Television Network, an ETC 9 maintain thair respective local stations an branches for viewership, commercial an news coverage purposes. Maist o these stations broadcast local news an public affairs as well as entertainment an dramas tae cater the local viewers.

Cable televeesion operators are puttin up cable TV stations in an effort tae spread the TV signals aw ower the region. Thay affer free warldwide array o telly stations an aw for various channels for news, sports, drama, cartoons, an advertisements.

Aside frae the 24 naitional daily newspapers available, Cebu Ceety haes 20 local newspapers an aw. Amang the widely-read are the Sun Star Cebu. The kintra's main Islamic news jurnal, The Voice o Islam, wis foondit in 1961 an publisht in this ceety.

**Telly netwirks**
*ABS-CBN: Channel 3
*Studio 23: Channel 23
*ETC: Channel 9
*IBC: Channel 13
*CCTN: Channel 47
*TV5: Channel 21
*AksyonTV: Channel 29
*GMA Network: Channel 7
*GMA News TV: Channel 27

**ABS-CBN Cebu TV Shows**
*TV Patrol Central Visayas (simulcast ower ABS-CBN Cebu)
*Tubag
*Kapamilya Winner Ka
*Maayong Buntag Kapamilya
*Mag TV Na

**GMA Cebu TV Shows**
*Balitang Bisdak Monday-Friday 5:30 pm–6:00 pm
*Buena Mano Balita (Balita at Ibapa) Monday-Friday 6:30 am–8:30 am
*Central Visayas Isyu Karon Seturdays 7am-8am

**TV5 Cebu TV Shows**
*Aksyon Alerto (News Update)
*Aksyon Bisaya

**ETC Cebu TV Shows**
*Solar News Cebuano

**CCTN Cebu TV Shows**
*CCTN News
*CCTN Newsbreak
*Balita sa Alas Dose

**IBC Cebu TV Shows**
*News Team 13 Cebu

**PTV Cebu TV Shows**
*Balita sa Subgo (simulcast ower Subgo TV)

## Transportation

### Bi sea

The Port o Cebu is the region's main gatewey. Thare are aports in Dumaguete Ceety in Negros Oriental, Tagbilaran in Bohol an Larena in Siquijor an aw. Inter-island shippin is servit bi numerous shippin lines, twa o thaim fastcraft companies which serve aw the provinces in the region.

### By air

The Mactan-Cebu Internaitional Airport, locatit in Lapu-Lapu Ceety, is the kintra's seicont busiest airport (efter Ninoy Aquino Internaitional Airport in Metro Manila) an the anerly airport in the Visayas servin internaitional flichts (aside frae Kalibo Internaitional Airport). It is a airline hub o Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, PAL Express, an Air Philippines, wi flichts tae key ceeties throuoot the kintra. It serves internaitional flichts tae ither Asie destinations an aw.

Ither airports in the region are Sibulan Airport, servin Dumaguete Ceety an Negros Oriental wi flichts tae Manila an Cebu. Tagbilaran Airport, serves Tagbilaran Ceety an Bohol wi flichts tae Manila, Cebu Ceety, Cagayan de Oro, Camiguin, an Davao Ceety.

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Philippine Standard Geographic Code 
*Central Visayas – Region VI pota oda kamutangan