Is Cebu the same as the Philippines?

It's different. According to the query, the study abroad network shows that.

1. Scope of application: Filipino is mainly used in the Philippines, but it is also widely used in Sabah, Malaysia, northern Indonesia and Singapore. Cebu is a language distributed in Visayan in the central Philippines and northern Mindanao in the south.

2. Filipino, also known as Galu, Cebu, also known as Visayan, is a language derived from Tagalog, and they are not the same.