The Bacolod Metropolitan Area (Hiligaynon: Kaulohan nga Bacolod; Tagalog: Kalakhang Bacolod), simply known as Metro Bacolod, is the 8th-most populous and the 6th-most densely populated metropolitan area out of the 12 metropolitan areas in the Philippines. This metropolitan area as defined by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has an estimated population of 1,435,593 inhabitants as of the 2020 official census by the Philippine Statistics Authority. String_Module_Error:_String_subset_index_out_of_range_3-1" class="reference">