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Iloilo City, chartered city, on the southeastern coast of Panay, Philippines. At the mouth of the Jaro River on the Iloilo Strait and sheltered by the offshore Guimaras Island, it is the commercial centre of Panay and a regional centre for sugar exports.

Pre-Spanish settlement was extensive, but the seaport remained small until 1855, when it was opened to foreign trade. The huge sugar exports of the nearby island of Negros were an additional spur to its growth, and for a time Iloilo City rivaled Cebu City as the main port of the Visayas island group. Although freight traffic dropped with the construction of artificial ports on Negros, passenger traffic has remained high. Thousands of migrant labourers annually journey through Iloilo City, which is linked by rail with Roxas, on the northern coast, to Negros’s sugar plantations. Iloilo City is also a major fishing port, and it has a large airport.

The city has a compact urban core and several plaza and market centres. It did not include a large rural area upon chartering and is thus more urbanized than most Philippine cities. Buildings constructed after a fire in 1899 show marked Spanish influence. Iloilo City is known for its old churches and for jusi (raw silk) and piña (pineapple fibre) fabrics. It is the seat of Central Philippine University (1905), the University of San Agustín (1904), and West Visayas State College (1924). Inc. city, 1936. Pop. (2000) 365,820; (2010) 424,619.