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Loon is a 2nd municipal income class municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines.

[2] According
to the 2015 census, it has a population of 43,034.[3] In the 2016 electoral roll, it had 27,676 registered
voters.[4]

Loon lies halfway between Tagbilaran and Tubigon, Bohol's major ports of entry, each of which is
only 40 minutes away by public utility buses, jeepneys and vans-for-hire that frequently ply the
northsouth route. Loon has one provincial secondary port and six fishing ports. The secondary
port is being converted into the Loon Bohol International Cruise Ship Port. Currently it serves the
LoonArgao (Cebu) route.[5]

Loon was among the hardest hit towns in the 2013 Bohol earthquake. About a third of all casualties
occurred in this town, and itschurch, dating from the 1850s, completely razed to the ground.[6]

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