City Classification

Highly Urbanized Cities - Cities with a minimum population of two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants, as certified by the National Statistics Office, and with the latest annual income of at least Fifty Million Pesos (P50,000,000.00) based on 1991 constant prices, as certified by the city treasurer.
Independent Component Cities - Cities whose charters prohibit their voters from voting for provincial elective officials. Independent component cities shall be independent of the province.
Component Cities - Cities which do not meet the above requirements shall be considered component cities of the province in which they are geographically located. If a component city is located within the boundaries of two (2) or more provinces, such city shall be considered a component of the province of which it used to be a municipality.

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Aside from the additional income and services that will be provided as a result of cityhood, the following reasons are worth mentioning why we wanted to become a HUC, they are;

1. A highly urbanized city enjoys greater local autonomy compared to a municipality with lesser supervision from the national government.
2. A highly urbanized city is entitled to one legislative district in Congress.
3. Prestige is enhanced, both locally and internationally because of our Status as highly urnbanized city. There are only 21 highly urbanized cities in the Philippines, all very progressive and in the forefront of prosperity and Development.
4. A highly urbanized city will certainly attract more investors both locally and internationally. With more investments, more job opportunities will be create, more economic activities will be generated. As a consequence, the annual income will further increase which further improve services to the people.