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Malangas, officially known as the Municipality of Malangas (Cebuano: ''Lungsod sa Malangas''; Filipino (Tagalog): ''Bayan ng Malangas''; Zamboangueño/Chavacano: ''Municipio de Malangas'') is a third class municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of people.〔 The town is generally rolling near the shorelines and mountainous in the hinterland with some patches of flat land located within the mangroves near the shorelines. It borders Buug to the northwest; Diplahan to the northeast; Imelda to the west; Margosatubig, Zamboanga del Sur, to the east; and Alicia to the south. Malangas is the site of coal mining in Western Mindanao area, operated by the Philippine National Oil Company - Exploration Corporation. The coalmine is one of the largest in the country. Its town center nests in a harbor in Dumanquilas Bay, boasts of its twin ports, one for coal, the other for passengers. == History == Malangas is one of the oldest municipality of its former province, Zamboanga del Sur. In 1951, the barrios of Malangas, La Dicha, Diplo, Gusem, Buug, Matinaw, Gaulan, Tinungtungan, Manangon, Lindang, Luop, Silupa, Minsulao, Paruk, Lubing, Balabao, Mali, Baluran, Sampuli and Bacao, all from Margosatubig were separated to form the town of Malangas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Act Creating the Municipality of Malangas in the Province of Zamboanga )〕 The name Malangas got its name from a sitio later named Malangas Gamay, probably of Spanish origin. A booming coal town during the 1900s, and the mother town of various towns namely Buug, Diplahan, Imelda, part of Siay in Zamboanga Sibugay and the towns of Bayog and Kumalarang in Zamboanga del Sur. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malangas, Zamboanga Sibugay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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