Sorsogon City (Bikol: Ciudad nin Sorsogon, Filipino: Lungsod ng Sorsogon), is a third class city in and the provincial seat of Sorsogon, Philippines. It is the capital city of the province of Sorsogon, located on the Bicol Peninsula at southern tip of Luzon. This city was formed by merging the Bacon and Sorsogon towns. The 2010 census put the city's population at 155,144 people, spread across 64 barangays. It is the third most populous city in the Bicol Region behind Legazpi City (182,201) and Naga City (174,931). Sorsogon City covers a land area of 31,292 hectares (120.82 sq mi) making it Bicol's largest city in terms of land area. The city is bounded by the municipality of Casiguran and Sorsogon Bay, on the west by the municipality of Castilla, on the north-east by the municipality of Manito in Albay, and on the north by Albay Gulf. The city serves a trans-shipment point from the Visayas and Mindanao provinces. It is also dubbed as "Gateway to Southern Philippines". Sorsogon City is one of the region’s leading cities in urbanization.
Sorsogon (Bikol: Probinsya nin Sorsogon), (Tagalog:Lalawigan ng Sorsogon), is a province in the Philippines located in the BicolRegion. It is the southernmost province in Luzon and is subdivided into fourteen municipalities (towns) and one city. Its capital is Sorsogon City (formerly the towns of Sorsogon and Bacon) and borders the province of Albay to the north. Sorsogon is at the tip of the Bicol Peninsula and faces the island of Samar to the southeast across the San Bernardino Strait and Ticao Island to the southwest. Sorsogueños is how the people of Sorsogon call themselves.
History
In 1570 two Augustinian friars, Alonzon Jiménez and Juan Orta, accompanied by a certain captain, Enrique de Guzmán, reached Hibalong, a small fishing village near the mouth of Ginangra River, and planted the cross and erected the first chapel in Luzon. It was from this village that Ibalong, referring to the whole region, came to be. Moving inland with a northwesterly direction they passed by the territory now known as Pilar, before they reached Camalig, Albay. The establishment of the Abucay-Catamlangan Mission later was ample proof of this. The early towns established here were: Gibalon in 1570 (now sitio of Magallanes); Casiguran - 1600; Bulusan – 1631; Pilar – 1635; Donsol – 1668; Bacon – 1764; Juban and Matnog - 1800; Bulan - 1801; Castilla – 1827; Magallanes – 1860; Sorsogon – 1866 and Irosin – 1880. The province was eventually separated from Albay on October 17, 1894 and adopted the name Sorsogon. The town of Sorsogon was also selected as its capital.
Sorsogon (also called Balikmaya), is one of the barrios or barangays of the municipality of Malabuyoc, province of Cebu, Philippines. Sorsogon is located at center of all the barangays in Malabuyoc.