Cotabato is a province in the Philippines situated in the SOCCSKSARGEN region occupying the southern-central section of Mindanao. Its capital is the City of Kidapawan.

The province has a land area of 9,317.30 square kilometers or 3,597.43 square miles. Its population as determined by the 2020 Census was 1,490,618. This represented 30.41% of the total population of the SOCCSKSARGEN region, 5.68% of the overall population of the Mindanao island group, or 1.37% of the entire population of the Philippines. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 160 inhabitants per square kilometer or 414 inhabitants per square mile.

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