Also known as: Lalawigan ng Misamis Occidental
Misamis Occidental is a province in Region X (Northern Mindanao). Population 622K (PSA 2024 census), 3 cities + 14 municipalities, 490 barangays total, land area 2,006.63 km². Provincial capital: Oroquieta City.
Misamis Occidental is a province in Region X (Northern Mindanao). Its capital is Oroquieta City.
Misamis Occidental had 621,993 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.
Misamis Occidental covers 2,006.63 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Misamis Occidental has 3 component cities and 14 municipalities (17 LGUs under the province), per PSA's Philippine Standard Geographic Code (2Q 2026), and 490 barangays.
Misamis Occidental's 3 component cities are Oroquieta City, Ozamiz City and Tangub City. Its 14 municipalities are Aloran, Baliangao, Bonifacio, Calamba, Clarin, Concepcion, Don Victoriano Chiongbian, Jimenez, Lopez Jaena, Panaon, Plaridel, Sapang Dalaga, Sinacaban and Tudela.
Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental were created together by splitting the old Misamis province via Legislative Act No. 3537, effective January 1, 1930. Unlike several other provinces in this dataset, none of Misamis Occidental's three cities — Oroquieta (the capital), Ozamiz, or Tangub — are independently-chartered; all three are component cities, so the province's population figure already includes them in full.
Key industries: Fishing (Panguil Bay, Iligan Bay), Coconut (Oroquieta coconut processing), Rice, Forest products and clay deposits (Lopez Jaena, Concepcion)
Roughly 34,000 hectares of the province, spanning parts of all three cities and 12 of the 14 municipalities, fall within the Mt. Malindang Range Natural Park (RA 9304, 2004), a protected area that also overlaps Subanon ancestral domain claims. In May 2026, BFAR issued a red tide alert across Panguil Bay after toxic plankton blooms were confirmed, with shellfish from Tangub City testing positive for paralytic shellfish toxin.
Key industries: Fishing (Panguil Bay, Iligan Bay), Coconut (Oroquieta coconut processing), Rice, Forest products and clay deposits (Lopez Jaena, Concepcion)
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