Bacolod

Bacolod is the capital of the province of in the and the most populous city on . It is known for its MassKara Festival, a Mardi Gras-like parade and spectacular mix of dancing, colour and music held every October, as well as for its culinary heritage that includes inasal and sweet dessert treats.
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  • Type: City with 625,000 residents
  • Description: city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Negros Occidental
  • Also known as: “Baclod City”, “Bacolod City”, “Bacoloo City”, and “City of Bacolod”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include University of St. La Salle and The Negros Museum.

University
The is a Catholic private research university run by the De La Salle Brothers, located in La Salle Avenue, Bacolod, Negros Occidental, .

Museum
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Negros Museum is a privately owned provincial museum situated in the in Bacolod, Philippines. The structure was built in 1925 as the Provincial Agriculture Building.

Church
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is a late 19th-century Roman Catholic church in Bacolod, in the . It is the seat of the Diocese of Bacolod.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Upper East.

Neighborhood
, formerly the Bacolod-Murcia Milling Company Complex, is Megaworld's township and industrial estate development in Bacolod city, situated in the 34-hectare land owned by the Araneta Group.

Bacolod

Latitude
10.6763° or 10° 40′ 35″ north
Longitude
122.9514° or 122° 57′ 5″ east
Population
625,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
BCD
United Nations Location Code
PH BCD
Open location code
7Q24MXG2+GH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 657059412
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1729564
Wiki­data ID
Q5217
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bacolod” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باكولود”
  • Bengali: “ব্যাকোলোদ”
  • Bulgarian: “Баколод”
  • Catalan: “Bacolod”
  • Cebuano: “Bacolod”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Bacolod”
  • Central Bikol: “Bacolod”
  • Chavacano: “Bacolod”
  • Chinese: “Bacolod”
  • Chinese: “巴科洛德”
  • Chinese: “描戈律”
  • Croatian: “Bacolod”
  • Czech: “Bacolod”
  • Dutch: “Bacolod City”
  • Dutch: “Bacolod”
  • Esperanto: “Bacolod”
  • Esperanto: “Bakolo”
  • Esperanto: “Bakulo”
  • Finnish: “Bacolod”
  • French: “Bacolod”
  • Georgian: “ბაკოლოდი”
  • German: “Bacolod City”
  • German: “Bacolod”
  • Greek: “Μπακολόντ”
  • Greek: “Μπάκολοντ”
  • Gujarati: “બૅકોલોડ”
  • Hebrew: “בקולוד”
  • Hiligaynon: “Dakbanwa sang Bacolod”
  • Hiligaynon: “Syudad sang Bacolod”
  • Hindi: “बकलोड”
  • Hindi: “बैकोलोड”
  • Iloko: “Bacolod”
  • Iloko: “Ciudad ti Bacolod”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Bacolod”
  • Italian: “Bacolod”
  • Italian: “Bacólod”
  • Japanese: “バコロド”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಕೊಲೊಡ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಕೊಲೊಡ್”
  • Korean: “바콜로드”
  • Latin: “Bacolodum”
  • Latin: “Urbs Bacolodensis”
  • Latvian: “Bakoloda”
  • Lithuanian: “Bakolodas”
  • Malay: “Bandar Bacolod”
  • Marathi: “बॅकोलोड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “描戈律”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “描戈律市”
  • Norwegian: “Bacolod”
  • Pampanga: “Bacolod Lakanbalen”
  • Pampanga: “Bacolod”
  • Pangasinan: “Bacolod”
  • Persian: “باکلود”
  • Polish: “Bacolod”
  • Portuguese: “Bacolod”
  • Portuguese: “Bacólod”
  • Portuguese: “Bacôlod”
  • Russian: “Баколод”
  • Silesian: “Bacolod”
  • Sinhala: “බකොලෝඩ්”
  • Slovenian: “Bakolod”
  • Spanish: “Bacólod”
  • Spanish: “Magsungay”
  • Spanish: “San Sebastián de Magsungay”
  • Swedish: “Bacolod City”
  • Swedish: “Bacolod”
  • Tagalog: “Bacolod”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Bacolod”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Bacolod”
  • Tajik: “Баколод”
  • Tamil: “பகோலோட்”
  • Tatar: “Баколод”
  • Telugu: “బాకోలోడ్”
  • Thai: “บาโกลอด”
  • Thai: “บาโคลอด”
  • Thai: “บาโคโลด”
  • Turkish: “Bacolod”
  • Ukrainian: “Баколод”
  • Urdu: “باکولود”
  • Uzbek: “Bakolod”
  • Venetian: “Bacólod”
  • Vietnamese: “Bacolod”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bacolod”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Bacolod”
  • Yue Chinese: “描戈律”
  • “Bacolod”
  • “Bacolod, Negros Occidental”

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