Key facts
- Country
- Philippines
- Region
- Cordillera Administrative Region
- Founded
- May 8, 1995
- Capital and largest city
- Tabuk
- Governor
- James S. Edduba ( Lakas )
- Vice governor
- Jocel C. Baac ( Aksyon )
- Legislature
- Kalinga Provincial Board
- Total
- 3,231.25 km (1,247.59 sq mi)
- Rank
- 41st out of 82
- Highest elevation mount alchan
- 2,617 m (8,586 ft)
- Estimate 2020
- 220,329
- Density
- 72.8483/km (188.676/sq mi)
- Demonyms
- Kalinga Kalingan
- Component cities
- 1 Tabuk
- Municipalities
- 7 Balbalan Lubuagan Pasil Pinukpuk Rizal Tanudan Tinglayan
- Districts
- Legislative district of Kalinga
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( PHT )
- Idd area code
- +63 (0)74
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Encyclopedic overview
Kalinga ( IPA: [ka'liŋɡa]), officially the Province of Kalinga (Ilocano: Probinsia ti Kalinga; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Kalinga), is a landlocked province in the Philippines situated within the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital (and largest city) is Tabuk and borders Mountain Province to the south, Abra to the west, Isabela to the east, Cagayan to the northeast, and Apayao to the north. Kalinga and Apayao are the result of the 1995 partitioning of the former province of Kalinga-Apayao which was seen to better service the respective needs of the various indigenous peoples in the area.
President Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed Lubuagan town the seat of government for 73 days from March 6, 1900, to May 18, 1900, before finally fleeing to his last hideout in Palanan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q13827” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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