Ranking

Largest cities and municipalities in MIMAROPA

Puerto Princesa City (Palawan) is the largest of the 73 cities and municipalities in MIMAROPA, with 316,384 people at the 2024 census.^[1]

Below are all 73 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 MIMAROPA, top 73
Rank	Name	Province or region	People, 2024	People, 2020	Change since 2020
1	Puerto Princesa City	Palawan	316,384	307,079	+3.0%
2	Calapan City	Oriental Mindoro	148,558	145,786	+1.9%
3	San Jose	Occidental Mindoro	143,495	153,267	−6.4%
4	Naujan	Oriental Mindoro	109,122	109,587	−0.4%
5	Sablayan	Occidental Mindoro	91,406	92,598	−1.3%
6	Pinamalayan	Oriental Mindoro	90,420	90,383	+0.0%
7	Bataraza	Palawan	87,384	85,439	+2.3%
8	Taytay	Palawan	85,258	83,357	+2.3%
9	Narra	Palawan	80,572	77,948	+3.4%
10	Bongabong	Oriental Mindoro	77,540	76,973	+0.7%
11	Brooke's Point	Palawan	76,715	73,994	+3.7%
12	Roxas	Palawan	69,729	69,624	+0.2%
13	Coron	Palawan	69,439	65,855	+5.4%
14	Quezon	Palawan	68,532	65,283	+5.0%
15	Mansalay	Oriental Mindoro	60,597	59,114	+2.5%
16	Dr. Jose P. Rizal	Palawan	59,040	56,162	+5.1%
17	Roxas	Oriental Mindoro	58,428	58,849	−0.7%
18	Boac	Marinduque	54,365	57,283	−5.1%
19	Gloria	Oriental Mindoro	52,296	50,496	+3.6%
20	Victoria	Oriental Mindoro	52,215	52,175	+0.1%
21	Santa Cruz	Marinduque	51,594	54,692	−5.7%
22	El Nido	Palawan	51,367	50,494	+1.7%
23	Odiongan	Romblon	48,133	49,284	−2.3%
24	Bulalacao	Oriental Mindoro	46,439	44,366	+4.7%
25	Mamburao	Occidental Mindoro	44,554	47,705	−6.6%
26	Bansud	Oriental Mindoro	44,396	42,671	+4.0%
27	Balabac	Palawan	42,662	42,527	+0.3%
28	Puerto Galera	Oriental Mindoro	42,301	41,961	+0.8%
29	Socorro	Oriental Mindoro	41,612	41,585	+0.1%
30	Magsaysay	Occidental Mindoro	40,987	39,767	+3.1%
31	Rizal	Occidental Mindoro	40,319	40,429	−0.3%
32	Baco	Oriental Mindoro	40,159	39,817	+0.9%
33	Santa Cruz	Occidental Mindoro	40,010	42,417	−5.7%
34	Aborlan	Palawan	39,972	38,736	+3.2%
35	Sofronio Española	Palawan	39,371	37,416	+5.2%
36	Romblon	Romblon	39,004	40,554	−3.8%
37	Pola	Oriental Mindoro	35,771	35,455	+0.9%
38	Gasan	Marinduque	35,315	36,197	−2.4%
39	San Vicente	Palawan	33,768	33,507	+0.8%
40	Mogpog	Marinduque	32,577	34,516	−5.6%
41	Abra De Ilog	Occidental Mindoro	31,910	35,176	−9.3%
42	Calintaan	Occidental Mindoro	31,088	30,190	+3.0%
43	Torrijos	Marinduque	28,535	30,476	−6.4%
44	Busuanga	Palawan	26,974	25,617	+5.3%
45	Cuyo	Palawan	24,702	23,489	+5.2%
46	Buenavista	Marinduque	24,136	26,043	−7.3%
47	Culion	Palawan	23,985	23,213	+3.3%
48	Dumaran	Palawan	23,795	23,528	+1.1%
49	San Agustin	Romblon	23,698	24,115	−1.7%
50	San Fernando	Romblon	23,660	24,171	−2.1%
51	Cajidiocan	Romblon	23,488	23,259	+1.0%
52	Looc	Romblon	21,964	21,799	+0.8%
53	San Teodoro	Oriental Mindoro	19,650	19,121	+2.8%
54	Paluan	Occidental Mindoro	19,461	18,566	+4.8%
55	Lubang	Occidental Mindoro	18,761	17,437	+7.6%
56	Santa Fe	Romblon	17,578	17,802	−1.3%
57	Linapacan	Palawan	16,782	16,424	+2.2%
58	Alcantara	Romblon	16,417	17,171	−4.4%
59	San Andres	Romblon	16,350	15,940	+2.6%
60	Magdiwang	Romblon	15,170	15,385	−1.4%
61	Araceli	Palawan	14,554	14,434	+0.8%
62	Agutaya	Palawan	13,351	12,867	+3.8%
63	Magsaysay	Palawan	13,273	12,603	+5.3%
64	San Jose	Romblon	11,626	11,759	−1.1%
65	Calatrava	Romblon	11,254	11,342	−0.8%
66	Looc	Occidental Mindoro	9,426	7,802	+20.8%
67	Corcuera	Romblon	9,021	10,112	−10.8%
68	Santa Maria	Romblon	8,360	8,989	−7.0%
69	Ferrol	Romblon	7,826	8,005	−2.2%
70	Cagayancillo	Palawan	7,164	6,884	+4.1%
71	Banton	Romblon	5,848	5,737	+1.9%
72	Concepcion	Romblon	3,427	3,561	−3.8%
73	Kalayaan	Palawan	406	193	+110.4%

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.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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