Q54605
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Key facts
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- Updated Flag of Paombong.png
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- 120x80px
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- Paombong Bulacan.png
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- 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.nickname
- Vinegar Capital of the Philippines
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- Abante Bagong Paombong Pantay Pantay na Karapatan sa Pag-asa sa Kaunlaran
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- District
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- Founded
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- 1619
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- Barangays
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Paombong ( or ), officially the Municipality of Paombong (), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people.
==Etymology== Legend has it that the name Paombong was taken from the Tagalog word bumbóng or tukil, a long bamboo tube used for collecting nipa sap. The practice of extracting nipa sap bumbóng made the town known as the "town with many bumbóng."
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