Naga

Naga , officially the City of Naga ( Central Bikol : Ciudad nin Naga ; Rinconada Bikol : Syudad ka Naga ; Filipino : Lungsod ng Naga ; Spanish : Ciudad de Naga ), or known simply as Naga City , is a 2nd class independent component city in the Bicol Region , Philippines . According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 196,003 people. [9] Majority of Naga's population are 15 years and below. The town was established in 1575 on order of Spanish Governor-General Francisco de Sande , the city, then named Ciudad de Nueva Cáceres (New Cáceres City), earned its status as the third Spanish Royal City in the Spanish East Indies after Iloilo and Manila . Geographically and statistically classified under Camarines Sur but administratively independent, Naga is the Bicol Region 's trade, [12] [13] business, [13] religious, cultural, industrial, commercial, [14] medical, [15] [16] educational [14] and [17] financial center. [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] It was awarded as the "Most Competitive Component City in the Philippines" [26] [27] also being "the Center of Good Governance in the Philippines". [28] Naga is known as the " Queen City of Bicol ", [29] [30] and as the Heart of Bicol [31] [32] due to its central location in the Bicol Peninsula ; and as the Pilgrim City because Naga is also home to the largest Marian pilgrimage in Asia, the Our Lady of Peñafrancia . Naga is also known as One of the Seven Golden Cities of the Sun as stated by Nick Joaquin . [33] [34] The city is the seat of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres , which makes the city Bicol's religious center, whose jurisdiction includes all the suffragan sees of Bicol, the Dioceses of Daet , Legazpi , Libmanan , Masbate , Sorsogon , and Virac . [35] Moreover, the city is also the seat of the widely venerated Our Lady of Peñafrancia , the Patroness of Bicol. The image is one of the most popular objects of devotion in the country. [35] The other important catholic symbol which is venerated in the region is the Santo Rostro , Veil of Veronica, introduced around 1880 in the region by Pedro de la Torre del Pozo, a priest from Osa de la Vega , Spain. Naga is the core of Metro Naga , an official designation given the city and 14 municipalities in the area administered by the Metro Naga Development Council . When someone speaks about Naga, it immediately refers to the Bicolandia , and this has always been, since from the time Naga became a full-fledged city. However, this connotation has changed since 2007, when another Naga, became a city, which is located in Cebu . This confusion is prevalent among Cebuanos , Boholanos and people coming from other Visayan-Speaking areas that had lived or visited Cebu , as they would always mistaken Naga as the city located in Cebu , and not in Bicolandia, although modern media and information in the internet had lessened this occurrences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga,_Camarines_Sur