Q 01/05

Palawan is the largest province of the Philippines by what measure?

A) Total area

B) Population

C) Coastline length

D) Number of cities

Answer · why

A) Total area

It covers 14,649.73 square kilometres, with the capital city administered separately on top of that.

Q 02/05

What is the capital and largest city of Palawan?

A) Brooke's Point

B) Puerto Princesa

C) San Vicente

D) Sofronio Española

Answer · why

B) Puerto Princesa

Puerto Princesa is the capital, yet it governs itself as a highly urbanised city, so provincial figures usually leave it out.

Q 03/05

Palawan belongs to which administrative region of the Philippines?

A) Calabarzon

B) Western Visayas

C) Mimaropa

D) Bicol

Answer · why

C) Mimaropa

Mimaropa is named for Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan, and a 2005 order moving Palawan to Western Visayas was shelved after protests.

Q 04/05

Palawan is nicknamed the Philippines' Last what?

A) Paradise

B) Frontier

C) Kingdom

D) Garden

Answer · why

B) Frontier

Frontier: the name reflects how wild Palawan remains, with more than half of its original forest cover still standing.

Q 05/05

Palawan lies between the Sulu Sea and which larger sea to its west?

A) Celebes Sea

B) Philippine Sea

C) South China Sea

D) Java Sea

Answer · why

C) South China Sea

South China Sea: in 2016 a tribunal in The Hague sided with the Philippines, ruling that China had no legal basis for historic rights inside its 'nine...