Mountain Province
Mountain Province is a landlocked
province of the
Philippines in the
Cordillera Administrative Region in
Luzon. Its capital is
Bontoc and borders, clockwise from the south,
Ifugao,
Benguet,
Ilocos Sur,
Abra,
Kalinga, and
Isabela.
Mountain Province is the full name of the province and is sometimes incorrectly named just
Mountain in some foreign references. The name is also incorrectly shortened by locals to
Mt. Province, which in turn is read by native Anglophones as "Mount Province". The province is named that way because it is found in the
Cordilleras mountain range of north central Luzon.
Mountain Province was also the name of the historical province that included most of the current Cordillera provinces. This old province was established by the Americans in
1908 and was later split in
1966 into Mountain Province, Benguet,
Kalinga-Apayao and Ifugao.
See
IgorotPolitical
Mountain Province is subdivided into 10
municipalities.
Municipalities
Physical
