Caraga is composed of five provinces—Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur, and Dinagat Islands; and six cities—Butuan, Surigao, Bislig, Tandag, Cabadbaran, and Bayugan.

Its major products include seafoods, rice, abaca, oil palm, bananas, mangoes, coconut, calamansi, coffee, rubber, livestock and poultry, plantation-species lumner, arts and crafts, fashion accessories, housewares, and high-value crops. On mining, the region has 2.5-B metric tons of mineral deposits of iron, gold, silver, nickel, chromite, manganese, and copper.