Zamboanga City

Zamboanga City , officially the City of Zamboanga , ( Chavacano : Ciudad de Zamboanga , Filipino : Lungsod ng Zamboanga ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Zamboanga Peninsula , Philippines . According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 861,799 people. [3] It is the 6th most populous and 3rd largest city by land area in the Philippines. [3] [4] It is the commercial and industrial center of the Zamboanga Peninsula Region. [5] On October 12, 1936, Zamboanga became a chartered city under Commonwealth Act No. 39. [6] [7] It was inaugurated on February 26, 1937. [8] Zamboanga City is an independent, chartered city and was designated highly urbanized on November 22, 1983. [9] Although geographically separated, Zamboanga City is grouped with the province of Zamboanga del Sur for statistical purposes, yet governed independently from it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamboanga_City