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Victoria, Tarlac

Victoria, officially the Municipality of Victoria (Ilocano: Ili ti Victoria; Kapampangan: Balen ning Victoria, Tagalog: Bayan ng Victoria), is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 71,495 people.

The establishment of Victoria as a community may be traced back in the mid-1800s when the Spanish regime started to expand north from Manila. It almost happened at the same time when Porac and Floridablanca (now part of Pampanga) and Tarlac (now Tarlac City) were formed. In the mid-1800s people started to settle around the swamp or wetland in search for a place where food is abundant. By 1849, houses and pockets of communities were deriving subsistence from the wetland. The biggest sitio was Namitinan, which became part of the earliest barrio, called San Vicente de Canarum, which was formed in 1852.

Not until the signing of the decree by the Spanish Governor General Manuel Crespo on March 28, 1855, that barrio San Vicente de Canarum was separated from Tarlac to form an independent pueblo named Victoria. The name was used to highlight the victorious battle of the faithful followers of Queen Isabela II of Spain over their European enemies.

Traces of its Spanish history may still be seen in the well preserved municipal building, several old houses depicting Spanish architecture and various edifices that were built more than a hundred years ago.

In January 2026, the body of eight-year-old John Ysmael Mollenido was discovered in a calamansi farm in Barangay Maluid, a key development in the Killings of Diane Marie and John Ysmael Mollenido.

Victoria lies between 1"42’ north latitude and 120º35’ and 120"45 east longitude. It is bounded by Tarlac City to the southwest; the municipalities of Pura, Gerona, and La Paz to the northwest; and, the province of Nueva Ecija to the east. The municipality has a total land area of 11,150 hectares, of which a large portion is used for agricultural activities.

Victoria is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Tarlac City and 139 kilometres (86 mi) from Manila.

Victoria is politically subdivided into 26 barangays, as shown below.

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