Municipality of Banguingui (Sinama: ''Lahat Banguingui.'' Tausūg: ''Kawman sin Banguingui.'' ), is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

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Sulu Sulu (), officially the Province of Sulu (Tausug language, Tausūg: ''Wilaya' sin Lupa' Sūg''; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province of the Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago. It was part of the Bangsamoro, Bangsamoro Autonomous R ...

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,616 people. From its original name Tongkil, it was renamed ''Banguingui'' on January 29, 1999, by virtue of ''Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 71'' of the

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (; ''Al-ḥukm adh-dhātī al-'iqlīmī li-muslimī Mindanāu''; ARMM) was an Autonomous regions of the Philippines, autonomous region of the Philippines, located in the Mindanao Island groups of the P ...

in honor of the dominant

Banguingui Banguingui is a distinct ethnolinguistic group native to Balanguingui Island but also dispersed throughout the Sulu Archipelago and southern and western coastal regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in Mindanao, Philippines. Overview The Ban ...

tribe of the municipality. It was inaugurated only on January 29, 2006.Banguingui municipality celebrates 10th anniversary
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Geography

Barangays

Tongkil is politically subdivided into 14

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s. Each barangay consists of

purok A ''purok'' () is an informal division within a barangay in the Philippines. While not officially considered a local government unit (LGU), a ''purok'' often serves as a unit for delivering services and administration within a barangay. ''Pur ...

s while some have

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. *Bakkaan *Bangalaw *Danao *Dungon *Kahikukuk *Luuk (''

Poblacion ''Poblacion'' (from Spanish '' población'', meaning "population"), sometimes abbreviated as Pob., is a term used in the Philippines to refer to the administrative center, downtown, old town, or commercial area of a city or municipality. It ...

'') *North Paarol *Sigumbal *South Paarol *Tabialan *Tainga-Bakkao *Tambun-bun *Tattalan *Tinutungan

Climate

Demographics

Economy

Poverty Incidence of

References

External links

Banguingui Profile at PhilAtlas.com
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