Zamboanga del Norte (ZaNorte)

Zamboanga del Norte is a 720,594-hectare province, composed of 25 municipalities and 2 component cities -- Dipolog City, the trading and commercial center, and Dapitan City, the tourists haven. It is situated in the western border of Mindanao and lies in the northwestern edge of the Zamboanga Peninsula. With more or less 400 kilometers of irregular coastline facing Sulu Sea, it is bounded by the province of Misamis Occidental in the north, the provinces of Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay in the east, and Zamboanga City in the south. It is strategically situated relative to the rest of the Philippine Archipelago.