Mactan Island
Mactan is a densely populated island located a few kilometers east of Cebu Island in the Philippines. The island is part of Cebu province and it is divided into the city of Lapu-Lapu and the municipality of Cordova.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Philippines
- Also known as: “Mactan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mactan–Cebu International Airport and Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base.
Mactan–Cebu International Airport
Airport terminal
Photo: Magalhães, Public domain.
Mactan–Cebu International Airport is the main international airport serving Metro Cebu and is the main gateway to the Central Visayas region in the Philippines. Mactan–Cebu International Airport is situated 3 km northeast of Mactan Island.
Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base
Military installation
Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base, originally known as Opon Airfield and later Mactan Air Base, is an active military airbase of the Philippine Air Force. It is located on the island of Mactan, Cebu, in the Visayas region of the Philippines. Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base is situated 2½ km north of Mactan Island.
Marcelo Fernan Bridge
Bridge
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The Marcelo Fernan Bridge, also known as the Second Cebu–Mactan Bridge and locally as the Second Bridge, is an extradosed cable-stayed bridge located in Metro Cebu in the Philippines. Marcelo Fernan Bridge is situated 4 km north of Mactan Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Basak and Lapu-Lapu.
Basak
Suburb
Basak is a barangay in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu Province, Central Visayas, Philippines. It is bounded in the northeast by Pusok and Bankal, in the east by Pajac and Agus, in the southeast by Marigondon and Subabasbas, in the west by Babag and Gun-ob, and in the northwest by Pajo.
Lapu-Lapu
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Lapu-Lapu is an island city of Cebu Province in the Philippines, part of Metro Cebu. It is home to about 498,000 people. The city has the main airport of the region, many beaches and dive sites, and quite a few resorts.
Looc
Suburb
Mandaue, officially the City of Mandaue, is a highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 364,482 people. Looc is situated 4 km northwest of Mactan Island.
Mactan Island
- Categories: barangay and landform
- Location: Central Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Mactan Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Mactan Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ماكتان”
- Armenian: “Մակտան”
- Azerbaijani: “Maktan adası”
- Belarusian: “Мактан”
- Bulgarian: “Мактан”
- Catalan: “Illa de Mactan”
- Catalan: “Mactan”
- Cebuano: “Isla sa Mactan”
- Cebuano: “Mactan”
- Cebuano: “Pulo sa Mactan”
- Central Bikol: “Mactan”
- Chinese: “Mactan”
- Chinese: “麥克坦島”
- Chinese: “麦克坦岛”
- Crimean Tatar: “Maktan”
- Czech: “Mactan”
- Danish: “Mactan”
- Dutch: “Mactan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره ماكتان”
- Esperanto: “Maktano”
- French: “Ile de Mactan”
- French: “île de Mactan”
- French: “Île de Mactan”
- French: “Kalipulako”
- Galician: “Mactan”
- German: “Mactan”
- German: “Mactán”
- Greek: “Μακτάν”
- Hebrew: “מקטאן”
- Hebrew: “מַקְטאן”
- Iloko: “Isla ti Mactan”
- Iloko: “Mactan”
- Indonesian: “Mactan”
- Irish: “Mactan”
- Italian: “Mactan”
- Japanese: “マクタン島”
- Kinaray-A: “Maktan”
- Korean: “막탄”
- Korean: “막탄섬”
- Latin: “Mactan”
- Lithuanian: “Maktanas”
- Malayalam: “മാക്ടൻ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mactan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mactan”
- Norwegian: “Mactan”
- Persian: “ماکتان”
- Polish: “Mactan”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Mactan”
- Portuguese: “Mactan”
- Portuguese: “Mactán”
- Romanian: “Mactan”
- Romanian: “Mactán”
- Russian: “Мактан”
- Slovenian: “Mactan”
- Spanish: “isla de Mactán”
- Spanish: “Mactán”
- Swedish: “Mactan”
- Tagalog: “Mactan”
- Tagalog: “Maktan”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Mactan”
- Turkish: “Maktan”
- Ukrainian: “Мактан”
- Venetian: “Mactan”
- Vietnamese: “Mactan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mactan”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Mepz 22 and Timpolac.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mactan-Cebu International Airport and Ambucuan Point.
Visayas: Must-Visit Destinations
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