Also known as: Lalawigan ng Agusan del Norte
Agusan del Norte is a province in Region XIII (Caraga). Population 404K (PSA 2024 census), 1 component city + 10 municipalities, 167 barangays total, land area 2,611.63 km². Provincial capital: Cabadbaran City.
Agusan del Norte is a province in Region XIII (Caraga). Its capital is Cabadbaran City.
Agusan del Norte had 404,100 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.
Agusan del Norte covers 2,611.63 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Agusan del Norte has 1 component city and 10 municipalities (11 LGUs under the province), per PSA's Philippine Standard Geographic Code (2Q 2026), and 167 barangays. Butuan City is a highly urbanized city located within Agusan del Norte but administered independently of the province, so it is not counted above; counting it, there are 2 cities in all.
Agusan del Norte's 1 component city is Cabadbaran City. Its 10 municipalities are Buenavista, Carmen, Jabonga, Kitcharao, Las Nieves, Magallanes, Nasipit, Remedios T. Romualdez, Santiago and Tubay. Butuan City is a highly urbanized city located within Agusan del Norte but administered independently of the province, so it is not counted above; counting it, there are 2 cities in all.
Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur were split from a single undivided Agusan province by Republic Act No. 4979 in 1967, ratified by plebiscite that November. At creation, Agusan del Norte's capital was Butuan itself; Republic Act No. 8811 formally transferred the capital and seat of government to Cabadbaran in 2000, though it took Cabadbaran's own cityhood until 2011 to become a city, and provincial offices reportedly still partly operate out of Butuan a quarter-century after the legal transfer.
Key industries: Agriculture (rice, corn, coconut, abaca, banana), Fishing and aquaculture (Agusan River, Lake Mainit), Nickel mining (Jabonga, Santiago, Tubay)
Butuan City itself, the province's namesake and once its capital, is a separately-chartered Highly Urbanized City today, administratively independent and excluded from the province's own population and area figures. The province shares Lake Mainit — the Philippines' deepest lake at 223 meters — with neighboring Surigao del Norte. In November 2025, Typhoons Tino (Kalmaegi) and Uwan (Fung-wong) caused severe flooding that displaced over 1,000 families across the province's own towns.
Key industries: Agriculture (rice, corn, coconut, abaca, banana), Fishing and aquaculture (Agusan River, Lake Mainit), Nickel mining (Jabonga, Santiago, Tubay)
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