Concepcion is a 1st class municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 115,171 people in 20,851 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_tarlac_concepcion. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Tarlac is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Concepcion is politically subdivided into 45 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
The province of Tarlac is situated in the heartland of Luzon, in an area also known as the Central Plain and which comprises the provinces of Region III in the Philippines.
The provinces of Pangasinan bound Tarlac on the north, Nueva Ecija on the east, Zambales on the west and Pampanga in the south.
Tarlac was first mentioned in written history as a praesidio or military port that points to the need of defending communities from the frequent lowland raids by the Negritos and balugas.