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Encyclopedia > Jolo, Sulu

Jolo is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Sulu, Philippines. It is the capital municipality of Sulu. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 87,998 people in 12,814 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_sulu_jolo. ... 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. ... Sulu is an island province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...


Jolo was the center of the government of the Sultanate of Sulu. While Manila was just a small settlement, Jolo was already a city, called the City of Jolo.


It is located on Jolo Island. Jolo is an island in the southwest Philippines. ...


Barangays

Jolo is politically subdivided into 8 barangays. A barangay (Tagalog: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy), also known by its former name, the barrio, is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. ...

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External links

  • Philippine Standard Geographic Code
  • 2000 Philippine Census Information

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The Apostolic Vicariate of Jolo (556 words)
Sulu is an archipelago of over 457 islands located on the southernmost part of the Philippines.
The Apostolic Prefecture of Jolo was established on December 28, 1953.
It was raised to an apostolic vicariate on July 12, 1958 and remains a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Zamboanga.
Jolo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (150 words)
Jolo is an island in the southwest Philippines.
It is located in the Sulu Archipelago, between Mindanao and Borneo, and has a population of approximately 300,000 people.
Jolo is also the name of the city on the island which serves as the capital of the Sulu province.
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