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Zamboanga Sibugay Province Island Group Mindanao Region Zamboanga Peninsula Capital Ipil Area 3,607.75 km² Cities 0 Municipalities 16 Population - Total 546,186 - Density/km² 151.39 Income class 2 Location in the Philippines:

Zamboanga Sibugay

Zamboanga Sibugay is a province of the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao. It is subdivided into 16 municipalities which are further divided into 389 barangays. The provincial capital is the municipality of Ipil. The province borders Zamboanga del Norte to the north, Zamboanga del Sur to the east and Zamboanga City to the southwest. To the south lies Sibuguey Bay in the Moro Gulf.

The province of Zamboanga Sibugay was created in 2001 and is the 79th province of the country. Though 8 years old, the province is not among the ten poorest provinces of the country. It ranks 29th among the provinces of the Philippines in terms of population and population density, with an annual population growth rate of 2.09%.

The major languages spoken in the province are Subanen, Cebuano, Ilonggo and Zamboangueño/Chavacano. Tagalog, Ilocano and other ethnic tongues are spoken as well.

The leading industries in Zamboanga Sibugay are in the areas of bakery, rice and corn milling, food processing, and rattan and wood furniture production. New industries include concrete products. Garments, wax and candle factory, and other cottage industries.

Major crops of the province include rice, corn, coconuts, rubber, fruit trees, vegetables, tobacco, coffee, cacao and root crops. Livestock and poultry productions are predominantly small-scale backyard operations. Coal mining is also present in some areas of the province.

Sibug-Sibug Festival is celebrated every February 26, the foundation day of the province. The festival is celebrated through a colorful ethnic street dancing with rituals illustrating good harvest, wedding and healing. During the festival, the province endorses its number one product which is oyster or talaba which has been known to be the biggest, juiciest and meatiest oysters in the country. Zamboanga Sibugay recently achieved a world record for the World’s Longest Talaba Grill with 5 to 12 inches long oysters as the main feature. Because of this, the province of Sibugay earned the title as the “Talaba Capital of the Philippines”.

Owing to its natural land form, the province of Zamboanga Sibugay is blessed with an impressive range of excellent tourist destinations like interesting mountain formations, picture-perfect waterfalls, caves in which dwell thousands of bats as well as stalactites, hot springs, white sand beaches, and fish and sea snake sanctuaries.

The most populous cities and municipalities in Zamboanga Sibugay are:

City/Municipality	City class	Area in km²	Income class	Urbanisation	Population
					Total	Density/km²
Ipil	Municipality	241.60	1	partly urban	60,686	251.18
Titay	Municipality	350.44	2	partly urban	43,723	124.77
Kabasalan	Municipality	289.20	2	partly urban	40,169	138.90
Tungawan	Municipality	473.28	2	partly urban	37,588	79.42
Naga	Municipality	246.30	0	partly urban	37,349	151.64
Roseller Lim	Municipality	300.00	3	partly urban	34,952	116.51
Buug	Municipality	134.06	3	partly urban	34,289	255.77
Siay	Municipality	313.66	2	partly urban	33,902	108.09
Alicia	Municipality	183.08	3	partly urban	32,289	176.37
Mabuhay	Municipality	82.85	0	partly urban	30,589	369.21