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Largest cities and municipalities in Lanao del Sur

Marawi City (Lanao del Sur) is the largest of the 40 cities and municipalities in Lanao del Sur, with 259,993 people at the 2024 census.[1]

Below are all 40 cities and municipalities, ordered by their people in the 2024 census, each with its 2020 count and its change since.

People are counted as of July 1, 2024 (the 2024 Census of Population) and May 1, 2020 (the 2020 Census of Population and Housing), both by the Philippine Statistics Authority.

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Largest cities and municipalities in Lanao del Sur, top 40
RankNameProvince or regionPeople, 2024People, 2020Change since 2020
1Marawi CityLanao del Sur259,993207,010+25.6%
2MalabangLanao del Sur58,37749,088+18.9%
3WaoLanao del Sur51,08150,366+1.4%
4Lumba-BayabaoLanao del Sur50,95945,909+11.0%
5MarantaoLanao del Sur46,23337,763+22.4%
6PiagapoLanao del Sur40,55830,132+34.6%
7BalindongLanao del Sur40,04732,573+23.0%
8MaguingLanao del Sur37,29230,436+22.5%
9TamparanLanao del Sur37,19032,074+16.0%
10MasiuLanao del Sur36,80333,580+9.6%
11GanassiLanao del Sur33,89730,802+10.1%
12MarogongLanao del Sur33,59530,118+11.5%
13Poona BayabaoLanao del Sur33,30731,141+7.0%
14BalabaganLanao del Sur31,22729,863+4.6%
15BayangLanao del Sur30,22728,023+7.9%
16MadalumLanao del Sur30,04426,478+13.5%
17TarakaLanao del Sur29,55827,184+8.7%
18SaguiaranLanao del Sur28,80726,712+7.8%
19BubongLanao del Sur28,73326,514+8.4%
20BinidayanLanao del Sur27,03125,965+4.1%
21Ditsaan-RamainLanao del Sur26,91824,406+10.3%
22TugayaLanao del Sur26,28324,778+6.1%
23ButigLanao del Sur25,39422,768+11.5%
24LumbatanLanao del Sur24,98822,780+9.7%
25MadambaLanao del Sur24,88622,050+12.9%
26Bacolod-KalawiLanao del Sur24,38123,129+5.4%
27Buadiposo-BuntongLanao del Sur23,28318,046+29.0%
28KapataganLanao del Sur23,22820,498+13.3%
29MulondoLanao del Sur23,15919,932+16.2%
30KapaiLanao del Sur21,63020,581+5.1%
31LumbayanagueLanao del Sur21,46919,091+12.5%
32PicongLanao del Sur19,29618,907+2.1%
33PualasLanao del Sur18,02014,526+24.1%
34CalanogasLanao del Sur17,58514,985+17.4%
35TubaranLanao del Sur17,56716,896+4.0%
36PagayawanLanao del Sur15,65915,057+4.0%
37Amai ManabilangLanao del Sur14,83712,124+22.4%
38Sultan DumalondongLanao del Sur12,98412,500+3.9%
39Tagoloan IILanao del Sur12,84312,602+1.9%
40Lumbaca-UnayanLanao del Sur8,7688,131+7.8%

Sources

Every count here is the PSA's own, for the place as the PSA names it today. The change and the order are Scene's arithmetic on those counts. How Scene works out the rest.

  1. 1.Philippine Statistics Authority. Population and Annual Population Growth Rate of the Philippines and its Regions, Provinces, and Highly Urbanized Cities Based on the 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2024 Population Census (OpenSTAT table 0211A6DAPG0). Published August 7, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source

Scene works out the rest from these sources: growth rates, shares, areas, densities, coordinates, neighbours and distances. How.

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