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Key facts
- Country
- Philippines
- Region
- Central Luzon
- Founded
- 25 April 1801
- Named after
- Écija , Spain
- Capital
- Palayan City
- Largest city
- Cabanatuan
- Type
- Sangguniang Panlalawigan
- Governor
- Aurelio Umali ( Unang Sigaw )
- Vice governor
- Gil Raymond Umali ( Unang Sigaw )
- Legislature
- Nueva Ecija Provincial Board
- Total
- 5,751.33 km (2,220.60 sq mi)
- Rank
- 12th out of 82
- Highest elevation mount kiligantian
- 1,673 m (5,489 ft)
- Estimate 2020
- 2,355,416
- Density
- 416.567/km (1,078.90/sq mi)
- Demonyms
- Novo Ecijano (m/n) Novo Ecijana (f)
- Component cities
- 5 Cabanatuan Gapan Muñoz Palayan San Jose
- Municipalities
- 27 Aliaga Bongabon Cabiao Carranglan Cuyapo Gabaldon General Mamerto Natividad General Tinio Guimba Jaen Laur Licab Llanera Lupao Nampicuan Pantabangan Peñaranda Quezon Rizal San Antonio San Isidro San Leonardo Santa Rosa Santo Domingo Talavera Talugtug Zaragoza
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of the Philippines
- Named after
- Écija
- Official name
- Lalawigan ng Nueva Ecija
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Central Luzon
- Contains
- Talugtug
- Capital
- Palayan
- Population
- 2395816
- Area
- 5751.33
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Q13870
- Official website
- www.nuevaecija.ph
- Households
- 572583
- Dialing code
- 44
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- Commons category
- Nueva Ecija
- postal code
- 3100–3133
- topic's main category
- Category:Nueva Ecija
- inception
- 1801-04-25
- electorate
- 1620166
- Köppen climate classification
- tropical monsoon climate
- language used
- Umiray Dumaget
- poverty incidence
- 10.00
- total assets
- 13780139223.35
- total liabilities
- 3684415078.66
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 5254209102.54
- total expenditure
- 4061189076.57
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Encyclopedic overview
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Nueva Ecija, officially the Province of Nueva Ecija, is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Palayan, while Cabanatuan, its former capital, is the largest city and the economic, commercial, and institutional center of Nueva Ecija. The province borders the provinces of Aurora, Bulacan, Nueva Vizcaya, Pampanga, Pangasinan, and Tarlac. The province is nationally known as the Rice Granary of the Philippines, producing the largest rice yield in the country.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nueva Ecija” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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