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Cotabato

Cotabato, formerly known as North Cotabato (; ; Maguindanaoan: Kuta Wato Nort; ), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the SOCCSKSARGEN region in Mindanao. Its capital is Kidapawan City.

Cotabato (disambiguation)

Cotabato may refer to three distinct places in the SOCCSKSARGEN region in Mindanao, Philippines :

  • Cotabato province, formerly known as North Cotabato
  • South Cotabato province
  • Cotabato City, an independent city geographically located in Maguindanao but statistically grouped under the Cotabato province

Other

  • Cotabato Province (1914-1973), also known as Empire Province of Cotabato, a former province in the Philippines comprising what are now the provinces of Maguindanao, (North) Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sarangani and Sultan Kudarat in the island of Mindanao
  • the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotabato, an ecclesiastical territory or diocese which currently covers (North) Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao and Cotabato City
Cotabato (historical province)

Cotabato, also known as the Empire Province of Cotabato, was a historical province of the Philippines established in 1914 that existed until its dissolution in 1973. The province's capital from 1920-1967 was Cotabato City while Pagalungan became its capital from 1967-1973.

Originally a district of the former Moro Province, on September 1, 1914, the defunct Department of Mindanao and Sulu provided with autonomous government through Act No. 2408 enacted on July 23, 1914, converted the district into a province along with other former Moro Province districts: Davao, Lanao, Sulu, Zamboanga, and its former sub-province Bukidnon. Davao, Lanao and Zamboanga were then later split and partitioned into different current provinces while Sulu and Bukidnon remain what it is today.

The empire province was one of the largest provinces of the Philippines, with an area of . It was dissolved on 1973, comprising what are now the provinces of Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao.