Quezon, officially the Municipality of Quezon ( tgl, Bayan ng Quezon), is a 5th class

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in the

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Quezon Quezon, officially the Province of Quezon ( tl, Lalawigan ng Quezon), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon Regions of the Philippines, region on Luzon. Kalilayan was the first known name of th ...

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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 15,886 people. The municipality was named after

Manuel L. Quezon Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, (; 19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier and politician who served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his dea ...

, the second

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, first President of the

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, and the former governor. It is home to the recently started Yubakan Festival and a few speakers of the critically endangered

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, one of the most endangered languages in the world as listed by

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Geography

Barangays

Quezon is politically subdivided into 24 barangays, 6 urban and 18 rural.

Climate

Demographics

Economy

References

External links

Quezon Profile at PhilAtlas.com
* Philippine Standard Geographic Codebr>Philippine Census InformationLocal Governance Performance Management System
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