Zamboanga City

Map with Zamboanga City highlighted

Zamboanga City (Chavacano: Ciudad de Zamboanga; Filipino: [Lungsod ng Zamboanga] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a city in Mindanao, Phillippines. It is the sixth-largest city of the Phillippines.

Zamboanga City is called the "Sardines Capital of the Philippines". This is because 9 of the 12 sardine companies in the country are in the city. Other names for the city are "Asia's Latin City" and "City of Flowers".

The city of Zamboanga is politically divided into 98 barangays or barrios.

Many landmarks are in the city. These include:

Media

93.1 Radyo Sincero Zamboanga (DXRX; Audiovisual Communicators/ABJ Broadcasting Services)

Zamboanga City Media

Illustration of Zamboanga ("Samboangan") and Fort Pilar, detail from the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734
Inauguration of the Municipality of Zamboanga with Datu Kalun (1901)
President Manuel L. Quezon signing the City Charter of Zamboanga in a ceremony held at the Malacañang Palace in (1936)
La Purisima Street at Night
Zamboanga-made Sardines in supermarket shelves
The administrative building of the Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority
KCC Mall de Zamboanga as seen from Santa Maria Road near Edwin Andrews Airbase
SM City Mindpro, Zamboanga City

Other websites

Official website of the City of Zamboanga

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