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Ilocos Region, officially designated as Region I, is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the northwestern section of Luzon. It covers 4 provinces, namely, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, and Pangasinan. The regional center is the City of San Fernando.
Pangasinan, officially the Province of Pangasinan (Pangasinan: Luyag/Probinsia na Pangasinan, [paŋɡasiˈnan]; Ilocano: Probinsia ti Pangasinan; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Pangasinan), is a coastal province in the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region of Luzon. Its capital is Lingayen.
Pangasinan is a province in the Ilocos Region (Region I) of the Philippines. It has a population of 3,163,190 (2020 Census figures) distributed over 4 cities and 44 municipalities. The provincial capital is the Municipality of Lingayen.
The region is composed of four provinces, namely: Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union and Pangasinan. Its regional center is San Fernando City, La Union. The Ilocano speaking people compose 66% of the region, the Pangasinan speaking people compose 27%, and the Tagalogs compose 3%.
Covering approximately 536,818 hectares of land, the province constitutes roughly 41.8% of the entire land extent of Region 1 and accounts for 1.8% of the nation’s total land area. It is composed of four cities—Dagupan, Alaminos, Urdaneta, and San Carlos—and 44 municipalities.
Another major regional Philippine language spoken in the region is Pangasinan (a native language in the eponymous Pangasinan province among the ethnic group of the same name). It is the official and the indigenous language of Pangasinan and is the most spoken language in the region's highly urbanized area, Central Pangasinan.
The third-largest province in the Philippines is located roughly 160km north of Manila and is around a two- to three-hour drive away from the capital, making it a popular destination for weekend trips. Pangasinan is home to many natural wonders, including caves, waterfalls, mountains, hills, and, of course, its famous white sand beaches.
Pangasinan is a crescent-shaped province that occupies 5,368.82 square kilometers of verdant farmlands, hills, forests and rivers. To the east, it is bounded by the mighty Cordillera Mountains, the Zambales ranges to the west, the rice plains of Tarlac to the south and the Lingayen Gulf and the China Sea to the north.
Fast-forward to 1580, Pangasinan became a political entity with an “alkalde mayor” leading the province’s affairs. However, the most crucial milestone in its history was April 5, 1580, recognized as Pangasinan’s official founding day.
Pangasinan is strategically situated in the Ilocos Region and occupies the northwestern section of Luzon. Its territory covers a land area of 545,101 hectares, constituting almost one-half (41.89%) of the region’s total land area and 1.6% of the entire Philippine area.
