Cities Without A LDS Church Presence: February 2009

Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Philippines

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Here is a list of the cities in The Philippines with over 20,000 inhabitants without a branch or missionaries.

Marawi: 177,400
Jolo: 140,300
Calumpit: 98,000
Apalit: 97,300
Tagaytay*: 61,600
Pandi: 60,600
Mexico: 59,800
Porac: 58,400
Santa Ana: 49,800
Bamban: 47,400
Parang: 45,600
Cordoba: 45,100
Cardona: 44,900
Aliaga: 42,300
Sultan Kudarat: 39,700
Pavia: 39,300
Talisay: 39,100
Bongao: 38,100
San Leonardo: 37,000
Santa Rita: 36,700
Norzagaray: 36,300
Isabela: 33,300
Daanbantayan: 33,100
Madridejos: 30,700
Magalang: 30,200
Santa Fe: 26,800
Sumisip: 26,400
Baganga: 26,200
San Luis: 26,100
Samal: 25,700
Ditsaan-Ramain: 24,800
Sitangkai: 24,600
Itogon: 24,500
Shariff Aguak: 24,000
M'Lang: 23,300
Tandag: 23,300
Tugaya: 23,000
Indang: 22,500
Mendez: 21,900
Lamitan: 21,600
San Fernando: 21,500
Pantukan: 21,400
Lumbatan: 21,200
Bien Unido: 21,000
Bagumbayan: 20,800
Malay: 20,200
Tinambac: 20,200

Purpose and Introduction

Most of the people of the world do not have access to Church representatives or worship services in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Besides countries that do not have an official Church presence with millions of inhabitants, nations like India and Nigeria have vast areas not penetrated by the Gospel yet have the Church established elsewhere. I will provide lists of cities from around the world by country with over 100,000 people that do not have missionaries or at least one congregation in them. For countries where the Church has been well established, I will provide a list of the 10 largest cities which do not have the Church's presence in them. In some countries, data is not available for villages and cities below a certain population. In that case, I will not be able to generate a list of at least 10 cities. Some of the city populations might be out of date due to the difficulty of gathering data from unstable areas of the world. The majority of the data I will use to compile these lists can be found at http://www.citypopulation.de/cities.html . If you have any information about a city opening for missionary work or receiving its first branch, please leave your comment with the corresponding country.

Countries listed in capital letters do not have a current congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or missionaries from the Church in any of the cities in the country.

Cites Defined

A problem I have come across making these lists is that many cities without an organized Church unit or missionaries are not far away from cities which do have a congregation or missionaries. I have addressed this problem by considering cities in developed countries over 10 miles away from any other city with a Church unit as not having the presence of the Church in it. Granted many strong members can reside in these cities along with missionaries visiting them, but I want to articulate the opportunity for people not in the Church to attend Church meetings and learn about the Gospel. If people live over 10 miles away from a meetinghouse or where missionaries work and reside, it makes it much less likely and more difficult for them to join the Church. As for developing or undeveloped countries, I have used a buffer of five miles instead of 10 miles since many travel on foot or bicycle to attend Church meetings.

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The Philippines

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