Panguan Island
Panguan Island is an island in the municipality of Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi. With an area of 0.06 square kilometres. It is also known as Malamanok, coming from the Sama-Bajau dialect which means eat chicken as locals who travel to Sabah usually use this island as a stop-over to eat roasted chicken prior continuing their journey to Malaysia.- Type: Islet
- Description: islet in the Philippines
- Also known as: “Danguan Island”, “Malamanok”, “Malamanok Islet”, “Mardanas Island”, “Panguan”, and “Panguan Islet”
Panguan Island
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
4.7106° or 4° 42′ 38″ north
Longitude
119.03145° or 119° 1′ 53″ east
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
6PPXP26J+6H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Panguan Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Panguan Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Panguan Islet”
- Tagalog: “Isla Malamanok”
- Tagalog: “Isla ng Malamanok”
- Tagalog: “Isla ng Panguan”
- Tagalog: “Isla Panguan”
- Tagalog: “Malamanok”
- Tagalog: “Panguan”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Malamanok”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Panguan”
- Urdu: “پینگوان جزیرہ”
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