Also known as: Lalawigan ti Abra
Abra is a province in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). Population 247K (PSA 2024 census), 0 cities + 27 municipalities, 303 barangays total, land area 4,165.25 km². Provincial capital: Bangued.
Abra is a province in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). Its capital is Bangued.
Abra had 246,948 residents in the 2024 census (PSA 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN 2024), reference date July 1, 2024). That is the most recent official count. There is no 2026 census result, so any 2026 population figure is an estimate.
Abra covers 4,165.25 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Abra has 0 component cities and 27 municipalities (27 LGUs under the province), per PSA's Philippine Standard Geographic Code (2Q 2026), and 303 barangays.
Abra has no component cities. Its 27 municipalities are Bangued, Boliney, Bucay, Bucloc, Daguioman, Danglas, Dolores, La Paz, Lacub, Lagangilang, Lagayan, Langiden, Licuan-Baay, Luba, Malibcong, Manabo, Peñarrubia, Pidigan, Pilar, Sallapadan, San Isidro, San Juan, San Quintin, Tayum, Tineg, Tubo and Villaviciosa.
Abra is fully landlocked, with no coastline at all — a genuinely distinguishing geography among Philippine provinces that makes every trade and access route riverine or overland. It is also one of the older Philippine provinces, first constituted in 1846, later folded back into Ilocos Sur as a sub-province in 1901, and permanently re-established as its own province by Act No. 2683 of the Philippine Legislature on March 9, 1917.
Key industries: Agriculture (rice, corn, tobacco), Mining (gold, copper, molybdenum exploration), Handicrafts (binakol/inabel weaving, bamboo and rattan)
The Tinguian (Itneg) people are Abra's principal Indigenous group, traditionally organized into valley-dwelling wet-rice cultivators and mountain-dwelling dry cultivators, with a council-of-elders governance tradition (panglakayen). A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck the province directly on July 27, 2022, with an epicenter near Tayum and Dolores — Abra accounted for over 98% of the entire region's displaced persons in the disaster, and a magnitude-6.4 aftershock followed that October. Gold, copper, and molybdenum exploration is currently active across several upland municipalities, though drilling has been suspended pending required consultations with Indigenous communities.
Key industries: Agriculture (rice, corn, tobacco), Mining (gold, copper, molybdenum exploration), Handicrafts (binakol/inabel weaving, bamboo and rattan)
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