The City lights in Cebu City
Above: Cebu City Night View
When people say that a lot of people leave their provinces to go to manila and find a life there, with Cebu City it’s the other way around. It seems that more and more people want to find their way in going to the City where a better life awaits. It is also known as a place where the beautiful people live.
They say that Cebu is just like a replica of Manila, but on Manila’s good side meaning, it’s cleaner, safer and the cost of living is lower. Like a fusion of modern day living with the cost of a provincial life.
Above: Cebu City, shipping area
The area of Cebu City is around 291.2 kilometers with a population of around 718,821 people. With the natives of Cebu, they call this “Dakbayan sa Sugbo” in tagalong “Lungsod ng Cebu, in English would be “City of Cebu”. Lying on the eastern shore, Cebu is he first destination of the Spaniards. It is the biggest and the main domestic shipping hub, a home to 80% of the shipping companies. It also caters to international flights. It is the center of commerce and trade in the industry of Visayas and Mindanao that it was called the Queen City of the South.
Cebu City is at the Center of Metro Cebu that includes the City of Mandaue, Lapu Lapu, Talisay and Naga. Metro Cebu has the population of around 2 million people.
Cebu City is the country’s important cultural center where they bare the mark of Magellan’s Cross housed in a chapel.
