Fast Facts
- The city was an awardee of the Cleanest and Greenest City in Western Mindanao consecutively, in CY 1998 and CY 1999.
- Pagadian City hosted the 13th Asia-Pacific Youth Conference (APYC) in 2007. It is a project of the Initiatives of Change (IofC).
- Pagadian is represented in the Liga Pilipinas by its own basketball team, the Pagadian Explorers.
- It is the home base of the Zamboanga del Sur - Pagadian FA, which is under the Philippine Football Federation.
- Teresa Magbanua, the Visayan Joan of Arc, died in Pagadian in 1947.
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