
This population size is less than one fifth of the population of the city in the 2010 CPH.Īmong the 27 barangays comprising Mandaue City, barangay Pakna-an was the most populous with a population size making up 6.9 percent of the total population of the city. If the average annual PGR recorded at 2.46 percent during the period 2000 to 2010 continues, the population of Mandaue City would double in 28 years.įorty years ago, the population of Mandaue City was only 58,579 persons. This is lower than the 4.06 percent annual PGR of the city between the census years 19. The increase in the population count from 2000 to 2010 translated to an average annual population growth rate (PGR) of 2.46 percent. This is larger by 71,592 persons compared to its total population of 259,728 persons counted in the 2000 CPH. Of the 180 hectares, about 36 ha (89 acres) belong to the city.Population of Mandaue City increased at the rate of 2.46 percent annuallyīased on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH), Mandaue City, a highly urbanized city in the province of Cebu, posted a total population of 331,320 persons as of May 1, 2010. The city's land area is only 4.5% of the total land area of Metro Cebu and less than 1% of the total land of the province of Cebu.The ongoing North Project, now known as the North Special Administrative Zone, currently has about 180 ha (440 acres) reclaimed land. The city is the 6th smallest government unit in terms of land area among the Metro Cebu local government units the city is the second smallest next to the municipality of Cordova in the island of Mactan. The city was recognized as a HUC (Highly Urbanized City) in 1991.

Mandaue became a chartered city on June 21, 1969.

The short-lived revolution was overthrown by the American Troops and a battle nearly destroyed the town in 1901, killing Benito Ceniza.Mandaue became independent from being an American Commonwealth and a Japanese garrison on Jalong with the entire nation. This may have started off as a mission village (which included present day, and ) serving as a bulwark for the church in the northern Cebu and was managed by the Jesuit in 1638 then a century later by the Recollects.The in 1898 gave the town a new form of administration in accordance with the organic decree of the Central Revolutionary Government.
