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Poblacion
Central or downtown area of a Philippine city or municipality / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For individual places called Poblacion, see Poblacion (disambiguation).
Poblacion (literally "town" or "settlement" in Spanish; locally [pobläˈʃo̞n]) is the common term used for the administrative center, central, downtown, old town or central business district area of a Philippine city or municipality, which may take up the area of a single barangay or multiple barangays. It is sometimes shortened to Pob.
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