Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Tawi-Tawi
Simunul

Simunul

Simunul is a coastal municipality in the island province of Tawi-Tawi in . It is home to some relics of what is believed to be the first mosque in the Philippines, the Sheik Karimul Makhdum Mosque, mostly built in the 1960s.
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  • Type: Town with 34,200 residents
  • Description: municipality of the Philippines in the province of Tawi-Tawi
  • Also known as: “Municipality of Simunul” and “Tubig Indangan”

Simunul

Latitude
4.89804° or 4° 53′ 53″ north
Longitude
119.82184° or 119° 49′ 19″ east
Population
34,200
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
6PPXVRXC+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198509688
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1686355
Wiki­data ID
Q155318
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Waray—“Simunul” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Lungsod sa Simunul”
  • Cebuano: “Simunul”
  • Central Bikol: “Simunul”
  • Chavacano: “Simunul”
  • Chinese: “錫穆努爾島”
  • Chinese: “锡穆努尔岛”
  • Dutch: “Simunul”
  • French: “Simunul”
  • Georgian: “სიმუნული”
  • German: “Simunul”
  • Iloko: “Simunul”
  • Indonesian: “Simunul”
  • Italian: “Simunul”
  • Japanese: “シムヌル”
  • Malay: “Simunul”
  • Pampanga: “Simunul”
  • Pangasinan: “Simunul”
  • Portuguese: “Simunul”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Simunul”
  • Swedish: “Simunul”
  • Tagalog: “Bayan ng Simunul”
  • Tagalog: “Munisipalidad ng Simunul”
  • Tagalog: “Munisipyo ng Simunul”
  • Tagalog: “Simunul”
  • Ukrainian: “Сімунуль”
  • Urdu: “سیمونول، تاوی تاوی”
  • Urdu: “سیمونول”
  • Vietnamese: “Simunul”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Simunul”
  • “Simunul”
  • “Simunul, Tawi-Tawi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Simunul”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.