Maimbung is a 5th class municipality in the province of Sulu, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 24,982 people in 3,920 households. A municipality (bayan 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. ...
Barangays
Maimbung is politically subdivided into 27 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
In 1903, Sulu became a district of the Moro Province and in 1914 became a province of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu.
Sulu became part of an autonomous regional government in Western Mindanao in 1979 and in 1989, became one of four provinces which constituted the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Sulu’s terrain is a combination of mountains punctuated by valleys and stretches of undulating to rolling plains.