Also known as: Lalawigan ng Silangang Mindoro
Oriental Mindoro is a province in Region IV-B (MIMAROPA). Population 920K (PSA 2024 census), 1 city + 14 municipalities, 426 barangays total, land area 4,238.38 km². Provincial capital: Calapan City.
Oriental Mindoro is a province in Region IV-B (MIMAROPA). Its capital is Calapan City.
Oriental Mindoro had 919,504 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.
Oriental Mindoro covers 4,238.38 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Oriental Mindoro has 1 component city and 14 municipalities (15 LGUs under the province), per PSA's Philippine Standard Geographic Code (2Q 2026), and 426 barangays.
Oriental Mindoro's 1 component city is Calapan City. Its 14 municipalities are Baco, Bansud, Bongabong, Bulalacao, Gloria, Mansalay, Naujan, Pinamalayan, Pola, Puerto Galera, Roxas, San Teodoro, Socorro and Victoria.
Oriental Mindoro sits on the Verde Island Passage, a strait declared by marine conservationists as the global center of shorefish biodiversity, which makes the province's still-unresolved recovery from the February 2023 MT Princess Empress oil spill the defining land-use and coastal-planning issue of the moment. The tanker sank off Naujan carrying roughly 800,000 liters of industrial fuel, affecting 12 of the province's 14 municipalities; as of the most recent reporting, only about a third of the estimated ₱41.2 billion in damage had been compensated, and fisherfolk filed a class-action lawsuit in December 2025 ahead of the claims deadline.
Key industries: Agriculture (rice — the 'Rice Granary of MIMAROPA'), Fishing (Verde Island Passage), Tourism (Puerto Galera, Mt. Halcon)
Rice farming anchors the province's agricultural economy, while Puerto Galera, a municipality (not a separate city) on the province's north coast, has held UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve status since the 1970s and won a 2024 Galing Pook Award for its wastewater management. Mt. Halcon, at 2,616 meters the highest peak on Mindoro island, is widely regarded as the single most difficult mountain climb in the Philippines and sits on land considered sacred by the Mangyan indigenous community, who make up roughly a tenth of the province's population.
Key industries: Agriculture (rice -- the 'Rice Granary of MIMAROPA'), Fishing (Verde Island Passage), Tourism (Puerto Galera, Mt. Halcon)
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