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Central Visayas

Central Visayas, one of the regions of the Philippines, is designated as Region VII. It is part of the Visayas. It consists of four provinces, namely, Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor. The region demarcates the territory occupied by the native speakers of Cebuano. The regional capital is Cebu City.

The total land area of the region is 14852 km².

Provinces

The Central Visayas region is composed of 4 provinces:

Province/City	Capital	Population (2000)	Area (km²)	Pop. density (per km²)
Bohol	Tagbilaran City	1,137,268	4,117.3	276.2
Cebu	Cebu City	2,160,569	4,800.11	450.1
Negros Oriental	Dumaguete City	1,126,061	5,402.3	208.4
Siquijor	Siquijor	81,598	343.5	237.5

Cebu City¹	—	718,821	280.2	2,565.4
Lapu-Lapu City¹	—	217,019	64.22	3,379.3
Mandaue City¹	—	259,728	34.87	7,448

¹ Cebu City, Mandaue City, and more recently Lapu-Lapu City are highly urbanized cities; figures are excluded from Cebu Province.

Component cities

Bohol

Tagbilaran City, Bohol

Cebu

Negros Oriental

Languages

Cebuano is the dominant language of the region. In Bohol, Cebuano is referred to as Boholano. In the Camotes Islands, which is part of Cebu, Cebuano language is spoken in the towns of Tudela, Pilar and San Francisco. Except the town of Poro, in which, Porohanon is spoken (a variation or mixture of Cebuano, Hiligaynon (Ilonggo) and Masbateño language).

Transportation

By sea

The Port of Cebu is the region's main gateway. There are also ports in Dumaguete in Negros Oriental, Tagbilaran in Bohol and Larena in Siquijor. Inter-island shipping is served by numerous shipping lines, two of them fastcraft companies which serve all the provinces in the region.

By air

The main airport is the Mactan-Cebu International Airport, which is in Metro Cebu. There are also airports in Dumaguete (in Sibulan town), and in Tagbilaran. Tagbilaran airport is serviced by Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines which flies only to Manila. Dumaguete is served by Air Philippines and Cebu Pacific, both of them flying only to Manila.