Dagupan

Dagupan is an independent component city on Lingayen Gulf in the northwest central part of Luzon in the Philippines, officially the City of Dagupan. It is the primary commercial and financial centre of Pangasinan and one of the centres of modern medical services, education, media and communication in North-Central Luzon, and the NEDA Regional Development Council officially recognised it as a regional centre. The city lies in the fertile Agno River Valley, part of the larger Central Luzon plain. Dagupan is the bangus capital of the country, and between 2001 and 2003 its milkfish production totalled 35,560.1 metric tons, which was 16.8 percent of the provincial production. The 2024 census counted 174,777 residents. As an independent component city it is administratively and politically independent of the provincial government of Pangasinan and is represented only through the legislative district of the province.