Nueva Ecija is a province in the Philippines situated in the Central Luzon region occupying the central section of Luzon. Its capital is the City of Palayan.

The province has a land area of 5,689.69 square kilometers or 2,196.80 square miles. Its population as determined by the 2020 Census was 2,310,134. This represented 18.60% of the total population of the Central Luzon region, 3.71% of the overall population of the Luzon island group, or 2.12% of the entire population of the Philippines. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 406 inhabitants per square kilometer or 1,052 inhabitants per square mile.

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