Mapun
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Mapun, officially the Municipality of Mapun (), is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 30,038 people.
Key facts
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- Mapun Municipal Hall.jpg
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- Municipal Hall
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- Flag_of_Mapun,_Tawi-Tawi.png
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- 120x80px
- Settlement.seal_size
- 100x80px
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- yes
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- Philippines
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- left
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- Location within the
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- Country
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- Philippines
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- Region
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- Province
- Settlement.native_name
- مڤون
- Settlement.other_name
- Cagayan de Sulu/Tawi-Tawi
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- District
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- Established
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- February 11, 1904 (as Cagayan de Sulu)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Philippines
- Official name
- Municipality of Mapun
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Tawi-Tawi
- Population
- 29218
- Area
- 181.29
- Elevation
- 6.7
- Body of water
- Sulu Sea
- Households
- 4928
- Dialing code
- 68
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- postal code
- 7508
- office held by head of government
- mayor
- Köppen climate classification
- tropical climate
- language used
- Tausug
- poverty incidence
- 38.18
- electorate
- 19996
- Commons category
- Mapun
- total assets
- 51392501.68
- total expenditure
- 154959770.76
- total liabilities
- 4177468.04
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 180749973.46
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- History
- Colonial period
- Sulu Sultanate at the growing external trade (Late 1700s–early 1800s)
- Internal trade
- Challenges in the external trade and its aftermath
- Trade in the "Sulu Zone", second half of the 19th century
- American colonial period
- Japanese occupation
- Contemporary
- In the final decades as part of Sulu
- As part of Tawi-Tawi and later developments
- Geography
- Barangays
- Climate
- Demographics
- Education
- Culture
- Mapun Day
- Economy
- See also
- References
- External links
Mapun, officially the Municipality of Mapun (), is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 30,038 people.
It was formerly known as Cagayan de Sulu until 1984, then as Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi until 1988.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mapun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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