Bantayan
Bantayan, officially the Municipality of Bantayan, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 87,394 people, making it the island's most populous town as well as the largest.
- Type: Town with 86,200 residents
- Description: municipality of the Philippines in the province of Cebu
- Also known as: “Banatayan”, “Bantayan, Cebu”, “Bayan ng Bantayan”, “Municipality of Bantayan”, “萬膽衍”, and “萬達鄢”
Bantayan
- Categories: municipality of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Bantayan, Cebu Province, Central Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
11.1667° or 11° 10′ 0″ north
Longitude
123.7189° or 123° 43′ 8″ east
Population
86,200
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
7Q355P89+MH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Zulu—“Bantayan” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Bantayan”
- Asturian: “Bantayan”
- Balinese: “Bantayan”
- Banjar: “Bantayan”
- Basque: “Bantayan”
- Batak Toba: “Bantayan”
- Buginese: “Bantayan”
- Capiznon: “Bantayan”
- Catalan: “Bantayan”
- Cebuano: “Bantayan”
- Central Bikol: “Bantayan”
- Chavacano: “Bantayan”
- Chinese: “班塔延”
- Dagbani: “Bantayan”
- Danish: “Bantayan”
- Dutch: “Bantayan”
- Esperanto: “Bantayan”
- Fijian: “Bantayan”
- Filipino: “Bantayan”
- French: “Bantayan”
- Georgian: “ბანტაიანი”
- German: “Bantayan”
- Gorontalo: “Bantayan”
- Hausa: “Bantayan”
- Hiligaynon: “Bantayan”
- Hiri Motu: “Bantayan”
- Igbo: “Bantayan”
- Iloko: “Bantayan, Cebu”
- Iloko: “Bantayan”
- Indonesian: “Bantayan, Cebu”
- Indonesian: “Bantayan”
- Irish: “Bantayan”
- Italian: “Bantayan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Bantayan”
- Japanese: “バンタヤン”
- Javanese: “Bantayan”
- Kinaray-A: “Bantayan”
- Kongo: “Bantayan”
- Korean: “반타얀”
- Malagasy: “Bantayan”
- Malay: “Bantayan”
- Maori: “Bantayan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bantayan”
- Minangkabau: “Bantayan”
- Nauru: “Bantayan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bantayan”
- Norwegian: “Bantayan”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bantayan”
- Oromo: “Bantayan”
- Paiwan: “Bantayan”
- Pampanga: “Bantayan”
- Pangasinan: “Bantayan”
- Portuguese: “Bantayan”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Bantayan”
- Sakizaya: “Bantayan”
- Samoan: “Bantayan”
- Scots: “Bantayan”
- Silesian: “Bantayan”
- Spanish: “Bantayan”
- Sundanese: “Bantayan”
- Swahili: “Bantayan”
- Swedish: “Bantayan”
- Tagalog: “Bantayan, Cebu”
- Tagalog: “Bantayan”
- Tahitian: “Bantayan”
- Tetum: “Bantayan”
- Tok Pisin: “Bantayan”
- Urdu: “بانٹایان، سیبو”
- Vietnamese: “Bantayan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bantayan, Sugbo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bantayan”
- Welsh: “Bantayan”
- Xhosa: “Bantayan”
- Yoruba: “Bantayan”
- Zulu: “Bantayan”
- “Bantayan”
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Places to explore: Suba and Binaobao.
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Highlights: Lover’s Lane and Bantayan Munical Town Plaza.
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