Special Geographic Area
The 63 barangays of North Cotabato that voted to join BARMM in 2019, constituted into 8 municipalities by Bangsamoro Autonomy Acts 41 to 48 and ratified by plebiscite on April 13, 2024. Too new to appear in the PSGC edition this directory is built on, so its units are transcribed from the Parliament and PSA announcements.
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Population (2024)
8
Municipalities
63
Barangays
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Land area
Every municipality in Special Geographic Area
8
Kadayangan
Mayor MASCUD, DUMA
- Population
- —
- Barangays
- 7
Kapalawan
Mayor INALANG, NORMAN
- Population
- —
- Barangays
- 7
Ligawasan
Mayor MAMA, BOY HASHIM
- Population
- —
- Barangays
- 7
Malidegao
Mayor TIMAN, ARNAL
- Population
- —
- Barangays
- 7
Nabalawag
Mayor TUKURAN, DATU RHENZ
- Population
- —
- Barangays
- 7
Old Kaabakan
Mayor ENALANG, TONICKS
- Population
- —
- Barangays
- 7
Pahamuddin
Mayor EBRAHIM, YASSER
- Population
- —
- Barangays
- 12
Tugunan
Mayor ABAS, ABDULLAH
- Population
- —
- Barangays
- 9
About these figures
Structure from the Philippine Standard Geographic Code; population and land area from Wikidata, which carries PSA’s census figures with their census dates. Population is the 2024 Census of Population. Elected officials are the winners in COMELEC’s 2025 Certificates of Canvass, holding office to June 30, 2028.
Sulu is excluded: the Supreme Court removed it from BARMM. PSA census totals that still count Sulu will therefore be larger than the totals here. Cotabato City is listed as an area of its own, though PSA files it inside Maguindanao del Norte — the provincial figure here has the city taken out of it so the two are not counted twice. Province land area is the province’s own published figure, never a sum of its municipalities: Philippine municipal areas are self-reported and overlap, so they do not add up to the province they sit in. A blank is a fact about the record, not a zero.
A dash means the record has no figure — not a zero. Boundaries and office-holders change; where this differs from an official page, the official page is right.