Cordillera Administrative Region, officially designated as CAR, is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the northern-central section of Luzon. It covers 6 provinces, namely, Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Mountain Province, as well as 1 highly urbanized city. The regional center is the City of Baguio.

Its population as determined by the 2020 Census was 1,797,660. This represented 2.89% of the overall population of the Luzon island group, or 1.65% of the entire population of the Philippines. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 91 inhabitants per square kilometer or 235 inhabitants per square mile.