Also known as: Lalawigan ng Bukidnon, Probinsya ta Bukidnon
Bukidnon is a province in Region X (Northern Mindanao). Population 1.60M (PSA 2024 census), 2 cities + 20 municipalities, 464 barangays total, land area 10,498.59 km². Provincial capital: Malaybalay City (component city).
Bukidnon is a province in Region X (Northern Mindanao). Its capital is Malaybalay City (component city).
Bukidnon had 1,601,902 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.
Bukidnon covers 10,498.59 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Bukidnon has 2 component cities and 20 municipalities (22 LGUs under the province), per PSA's Philippine Standard Geographic Code (2Q 2026), and 464 barangays.
Bukidnon's 2 component cities are Malaybalay City and Valencia City. Its 20 municipalities are Baungon, Cabanglasan, Damulog, Dangcagan, Don Carlos, Impasug-ong, Kadingilan, Kalilangan, Kibawe, Kitaotao, Lantapan, Libona, Malitbog, Manolo Fortich, Maramag, Pangantucan, Quezon, San Fernando, Sumilao and Talakag.
Bukidnon occupies a wide, elevated plateau in the north-central interior of Mindanao, averaging roughly 915 meters above sea level and ringed by mountain ranges rather than coastline — it is the only landlocked province in Northern Mindanao. That geography shapes everything about how the province plans land use: every export crop and manufactured good has to move out through a neighboring province's port or airport, principally Cagayan de Oro to the north (Misamis Oriental) and Davao City to the south, along corridors like the Sayre Highway and the Bukidnon-Davao Road that the provincial government doesn't control past its own boundary.
The plateau's fertile volcanic soil and cool climate make Bukidnon one of the country's major agribusiness provinces. Del Monte Philippines' pineapple plantations, concentrated around Manolo Fortich, Impasugong, and Libona, sit alongside a corn economy large enough to make Bukidnon the second-largest corn-producing province in the Philippines, plus rice, sugarcane, and cattle ranching. That mix of large-scale plantation agriculture and smallholder farming inside the same 22-LGU province is a recurring source of the reclassification and boundary disputes RA 7160's CLUP process exists to resolve.
Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park, protected since 2000 under RA 8978 as critical nesting habitat for the Philippine eagle, spans the territory of Malaybalay City and four surrounding municipalities — Lantapan, Impasugong, Sumilao, and Libona — making it a standing multi-LGU coordination case for any development near its boundary. On the province's western edge, the Pulangi River carries the 255-megawatt Pulangi IV hydroelectric plant in Maramag, which the National Power Corporation says supplies close to a quarter of Mindanao's hydroelectric output — meaning a single dam site inside Bukidnon has grid-wide significance well beyond the municipality that hosts it, the same pattern that puts a regionally critical airport inside neighboring Misamis Oriental's borders.
All of this sits inside a province whose elevation swings from river-valley lowlands to the 2,941-meter summit of Mount Dulang-dulang, the country's second-highest peak — meaning the same PDPFP has to plan for lowland agribusiness expansion, upland forest and watershed protection, and a Philippine-eagle habitat corridor, across 2 component cities and 20 municipalities that experience very different development pressure depending on how close they sit to the plateau's edge.
Key industries: Agribusiness (Del Monte Philippines pineapple plantations and processing), Corn production (2nd-largest producing province nationally), Livestock and cattle ranching, Sugarcane milling, Hydropower (Pulangi River), Rice and banana farming
More on the regulatory framework: CLUP explainer · RA 7160 explainer · SGLG explainer · full glossary. Working a CLUP review cycle? Run the CLUP readiness self-check or see CLUP compliance monitoring.
Bukidnon's provincial planning office coordinates CLUP submissions from 2 cities and 20 municipalities that depend entirely on transport corridors and port access controlled by neighboring provinces, while also managing a Philippine-eagle protected area that spans five of its own LGUs at once. Nova Gov's pilot program is designed to help a planning office like Bukidnon's hold one consistent, current picture of where each LGU's CLUP submission actually stands, without needing to chase down twenty-two separate offices individually.
Bukidnon's 2 cities and 20 municipalities coordinate pineapple and corn agribusiness, a Philippine-eagle protected area spanning five LGUs, and export logistics that run entirely through neighboring provinces. See how Nova Gov's pilot program approaches multi-LGU CLUP coordination.
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