General Santos, officially the City of General Santos (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Heneral Santos; Filipino: Lungsod ng Heneral Santos; previously known as Dadiangás, and abbreviated G.S.C. or GenSan) is the southernmost city in the Philippines. Classified as a highly urbanized first class city, General Santos is the 15th most populous city in the country with 538,086 inhabitants as per census data of 2010. General Santos City is the regional center for commerce and industry of the SOCCSKSARGEN region, and geographically in the province of South Cotabato but administered independent of it.