Jabonga
municipality of the Philippines in the province of Agusan del Norte
Jabonga, officially the Municipality of Jabonga (Cebuano: Lungsod sa Jabonga; Tagalog: Bayan ng Jabonga), is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 25,937 people.
Geography
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the municipality has a land area of 293 square kilometres (113 sq mi) constituting 10.73% of the 2,730.24-square-kilometre- (1,054.15 sq mi) total area of Agusan del Norte.
Jabonga is bounded by Kitcharao and Surigao del Norte to the north; Butuan Bay to the west; Tubay and Santiago to the south; Surigao del Sur to the east. It is 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Butuan City.
The topography of the land features plain to rolling and hills. Among the municipalities, Jabonga ranks first in total area and number of farms (464) mostly owned by individuals. It has one of the 36 crop storage facilities of the province. Its major crops are coconut, rice, corn, timber and both fresh and sea-water fish.
Climate
Barangays
Jabonga is politically subdivided into 15 barangays.
“Jabonga” enters the record as municipality of the Philippines in the province of Agusan del Norte. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jabonga, municipality and Philippines can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q627461. Authority coordinates are 9.343, 125.516. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jabonga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.