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) Taytay town

B) Puerto Princesa

C) Brooke's Point

D) Cuyo island

Answer · why

B) Puerto Princesa

It is a highly urbanised city that governs itself independently of the province, though it is grouped with it for statistics.

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

A 2005 executive order tried to move it to Western Visayas, but local opposition left the order in abeyance.

Q 04/05

Palawan is nicknamed the Philippines' Last what?

A) Paradise

B) Frontier

C) Kingdom

D) Garden

Answer · why

B) Frontier

It is also billed as the Philippines' Best Island, a title backed by several travel-magazine polls.

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

The Underground River near the capital flows straight out into that western sea.