Baguio

Baguio is a highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region of northern Luzon in the Philippines, officially the City of Baguio, and it is known as the Summer Capital of the Philippines. Standing at an elevation of about 1,500 metres in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion, it has a cool climate compared with the lowlands and is nicknamed the City of Pines. The United States established it as a hill station in 1900 on the site of an Ibaloi village called Kafagway, and it was the only American hill station in Asia. Baguio served as the capital of Benguet from 1901 to 1916 but has been administered independently of the province since it became a chartered city, although the Philippine Statistics Authority still places it in Benguet for statistical purposes. It is the centre of business, commerce and education in northern Luzon and the seat of government of the region. The 2024 census counted 368,426 residents.