Also known as: Lalawigan ng Bohol
Bohol is a province in Region VII (Central Visayas). Population 1.41M (PSA 2024 census), 1 city + 47 municipalities, 1,109 barangays total, land area 4,820.95 km². Provincial capital: Tagbilaran City.
Bohol is a province in Region VII (Central Visayas). Its capital is Tagbilaran City.
Bohol had 1,412,726 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.
Bohol covers 4,820.95 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Bohol has 1 component city and 47 municipalities (48 LGUs under the province), per PSA's Philippine Standard Geographic Code (2Q 2026), and 1,109 barangays.
Bohol's 1 component city is Tagbilaran City. Its 47 municipalities are Alburquerque, Alicia, Anda, Antequera, Baclayon, Balilihan, Batuan, Bien Unido, Bilar, Buenavista, Calape, Candijay, Carmen, Catigbian, Clarin, Corella, Cortes, Dagohoy, Danao, Dauis, Dimiao, Duero, Garcia Hernandez, Getafe, Guindulman, Inabanga, Jagna, Lila, Loay, Loboc, Loon, Mabini, Maribojoc, Panglao, Pilar, President Carlos P. Garcia, Sagbayan, San Isidro, San Miguel, Sevilla, Sierra Bullones, Sikatuna, Talibon, Trinidad, Tubigon, Ubay and Valencia.
Bohol's single component city (Tagbilaran) and 47 municipalities sit on an island now shaped by two forces: a tourism boom and a still-unfinished disaster recovery. The October 2013 magnitude-7.2 earthquake damaged 25 Diocese of Tagbilaran churches, 10 of them National Cultural Treasures or Important Cultural Properties — heritage reconstruction (roughly ₱650 million committed nationally) is still an active thread more than a decade later.
Key industries: Tourism (Chocolate Hills, Panglao, diving), Agriculture (rice, coconut, hog and poultry farming), IT-BPM (Tagbilaran City, a DICT-named Digital City), Fishing
Bohol-Panglao International Airport has become a deliberate second-gateway strategy: 2.2 million passengers in 2025, its first wide-body Airbus A330 arrival in November 2025, and its first direct Narita, Japan charter in May 2026. Individual LGUs are updating their CLUPs on their own timelines rather than as one provincial rollout, and Bohol Island itself was designated the Philippines' first UNESCO Global Geopark in 2023, anchored by the Chocolate Hills, a National Geological Monument since 1988.
Key industries: Tourism (Chocolate Hills, Panglao, diving), Agriculture (rice, coconut, hog and poultry farming), IT-BPM (Tagbilaran City, a DICT-named Digital City), Fishing
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Bohol's 48-LGU coordination load, split between a fast-growing international-gateway tourism economy and a decade-long heritage-reconstruction program, is the kind of dual-track planning problem a live cross-LGU dashboard is built for — reconciling CLUP updates that are currently happening one municipality at a time against province-wide tourism and disaster-recovery infrastructure that doesn't respect those boundaries.
Bohol's municipalities are each updating their CLUPs on independent timelines while the province manages an international-gateway tourism boom and ongoing heritage reconstruction. A Nova Gov pilot rolls up CLUP status across all 48 LGUs so the PPDO isn't tracking each one by hand.
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