Palawan
Palawan is the largest island of the province of Palawan in the Philippines and fifth-largest by area and tenth-most populous island of the country, with a total population of 1,023,849 as of 2024 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Philippines
- Also known as: “Palawan Island” and “Paragua”
Palawan
- Category: landform
- Location: Aborlan, Palawan, Mimaropa, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Western Mari—“Palawan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Palawan”
- Arabic: “بالاوان”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بالاوان”
- Azerbaijani: “Palavan”
- Basque: “Palawan”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Палаван”
- Belarusian: “Палаван”
- Breton: “Palawan”
- Bulgarian: “Палаван”
- Burmese: “ပလဝမ်ကျွန်း”
- Catalan: “Palawan”
- Cebuano: “Palawan Island”
- Cebuano: “Palawan”
- Cebuano: “Pulo sa Palawan”
- Central Bikol: “Palawan”
- Chinese: “Palawan”
- Chinese: “巴拉望”
- Chinese: “巴拉望島”
- Croatian: “Palawan”
- Czech: “Palawan”
- Dutch: “Palawan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالاوان”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره بالاوان”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Palavano”
- Esperanto: “Palavano”
- Estonian: “Palawan”
- Finnish: “Palawan”
- French: “Île de Palawan”
- French: “Île Palawan”
- French: “Palawan”
- Galician: “Palawan”
- Georgian: “პალავანი”
- German: “Palawan-Insel”
- German: “Palawan”
- Greek: “Παλαουάν”
- Iloko: “Palawan”
- Indonesian: “Palawan”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Palawan”
- Japanese: “パラワン”
- Japanese: “パラワン島”
- Kirghiz: “Палаван”
- Korean: “팔라완”
- Korean: “팔라완섬”
- Latvian: “Palavana”
- Latvian: “Palawan”
- Lithuanian: “Palavanas”
- Malagasy: “Palawan (tangoro-nosy)”
- Malagasy: “Palawan”
- Malayalam: “പലാവാൻ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palawan (tó)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palawan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palawan”
- Ossetian: “Палаван”
- Papiamento: “Palawan”
- Persian: “پالاوان (جزیره)”
- Persian: “پالاوان”
- Polish: “Palawan”
- Portuguese: “Palauã”
- Portuguese: “Palawan”
- Russian: “Палаван”
- Serbian: “Palavan”
- Serbian: “Палаван”
- Slovenian: “Palawan”
- Spanish: “isla de La Paragua”
- Spanish: “isla de Palawan”
- Spanish: “Isla de Palawan”
- Spanish: “Palawan”
- Tagalog: “Isla ng Palawan”
- Tagalog: “Isla Palawan”
- Tagalog: “Palawan”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Palawan”
- Tamil: “பலவான் (தீவு)”
- Tamil: “பலவான்”
- Tatar: “Палаван (утрау)”
- Tatar: “Палаван”
- Tok Pisin: “Palawan”
- Turkish: “Palawan Adası”
- Turkish: “Palawan”
- Ukrainian: “Палаван”
- Vietnamese: “Palawan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Palawan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Palawan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Palawan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Palawan”
- Western Mari: “Палаван”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Aborlan and Anepahan Peaks.
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