The City lies at the mid-section of the long strip of Palawan Island province. It is approximately 306 nautical miles from Manila, 206 nautical miles to Panay Island and about 250 nautical miles to Zambonga. It is bounded on the North by the Municipality of San Vicente and Roxas and on the South by the Municipality of Aborlan. Its Western side is a coastline of the South China Sea while to the East lies the Sulu Sea.
Total land area is 253,982.00 hectares or 2,539.8200 square kilometers stretched over 106 kilometers long with the narrowest breadth of 8.5 kilometers in Barangay Bahile.
The City has now 35 urban barangays and 31 rural or a total of 66 barangays. Before there were 24 urban and 44 rural barangays, but by virtue of the City Ordinance No. 100 adopting the Revised City Zoning Ordinance as passed by the City Council on March 19, 1998 and was approved by the City Mayor on June 4, 1998, the eleven rural barangays were reclassified as urban barangays. These are the Barangays of Bancao-Bancao, San Miguel, San Pedro, San Jose, Tagburos, Sicsican, Tiniguiban, Sta. Monica, San Manuel, Sta. Lourdes, and Irawan.
