Also known as: City of Cabanatuan, Lungsod ng Cabanatuan
Cabanatuan City is a component city in Nueva Ecija, Region III (Central Luzon). Population 327K (PSA 2020 census), 89 barangays, land area 192.29 km².
Cabanatuan City is a component city in Nueva Ecija, Region III (Central Luzon).
No. Cabanatuan City is a component city in Nueva Ecija, Region III (Central Luzon), outside Metro Manila (the National Capital Region).
Cabanatuan City covers 192.29 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Cabanatuan City has 89 barangays.
Cabanatuan City is Nueva Ecija's largest city and its commercial, institutional, and trade center, sitting at the heart of Central Luzon's "Rice Granary" region with roughly 10 rice mills, among the highest concentration of any city in the region. The city also carries a significant World War II history: it was the site of a Japanese POW camp holding Bataan Death March survivors, and the January 30, 1945 Raid at Cabanatuan by the U.S. Army's 6th Ranger Battalion and Alamo Scouts freed roughly 500 prisoners, a rescue later dramatized in the film The Great Raid. The site is preserved today as the Camp Pangatian Memorial Shrine.
Key industries: Rice trading and milling, Regional trade and commerce, Government and institutional services, Agriculture
That rice-economy identity keeps producing real, dated infrastructure investment: in September 2026, the Department of Agriculture inaugurated a ₱74.4 million Rice Processing System III facility in the city, funded under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund, including a multi-stage rice mill and recirculating dryers expected to benefit 4,060 farmers cultivating at least 8,976 hectares. Cabanatuan's population grew from 327,325 in the 2020 Census to 343,672 in the 2024 Census.
Officials managing Cabanatuan's agricultural infrastructure and heritage-site planning can compare notes with other Central Luzon rice-belt cities in the LGU directory. Planning teams evaluating digital compliance tools can explore the pilot program or schedule a consultation.
More on the regulatory framework: CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / EO 72 / DHSUD) · SGLG explainer (RA 11292) · full glossary.
Cabanatuan has to track agricultural infrastructure investment across thousands of hectares of farmland alongside a preserved WWII heritage site and its own zoning records — a cross-department planning picture spanning agriculture, heritage preservation, and land use. Nova Gov's platform is built for exactly this kind of cross-department coordination, and the pilot program is designed to help planning offices bring project and land-use records into one place.
A new ₱74.4 million rice-processing facility is set to benefit over 4,000 Cabanatuan-area farmers. See how a founding pilot could line up that kind of infrastructure investment with zoning and permitting records.
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