Olongapo City is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the province of Zambales, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 194,260 people in 43,107 households. A city (lungsod, sometimes siyudad, in Filipino) is a tier of local government in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Zambales is a [[fun place fullof the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Olongapo administers itself autonomously from Zambales province. Adjacent to the city is the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, which until 1992 was a United States naval base. The naval presence in Olongapo City and Subic Bay was the subject of a controversial book published by Robert Clark Young in 1999. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Subic Bay is a bay on the west coast of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, about 100km northwest of Manila Bay. ... Robert Clark Young (born 1960) is an American author of novels, essays, and short stories. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Barangays
Olongapo City is politically subdivided into 17 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
In 1884, Olongapo was occupied buy the Spaniards who made it a settlement of the Spanish navy.
On December 7, 1959, after a protracted agitation by its citizens, Olongapo was relinquished by the United States to the Philippine government and converted into a municipality.
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