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Balanga

Balanga, officially the City of Balanga, is a component city and capital of the province of , . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 109,931 people. It was included the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2015.
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  • Type: City with 104,000 residents
  • Description: city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Bataan
  • Also known as: “Balanga City”, “Balanga, Bataan”, and “City of Balanga”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Balanga Cathedral and Bataan Provincial Building.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral-Shrine of Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary, commonly known as , in Balanga, , is the seat of the Diocese of Balanga which comprises entire of the civil province of Bataan, Philippines.

Public building
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , Bataan Provincial Capitol, or The Bunker is the seat of the provincial government of in the . The first provincial building was built in 1794, and later damaged by earthquakes in the mid-1800s.

College
is a private non-sectarian, co-educational college, founded in June 1979 in Balanga, , . It is one of the four colleges and one university established by Engr.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pilar.

Photo: Ralffralff, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in , , the . It is best known as the location of Mount Samat National Shrine.

Balanga

Latitude
14.6796° or 14° 40′ 46″ north
Longitude
120.541° or 120° 32′ 28″ east
Population
104,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PH BLA
Open location code
7Q62MGHR+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198516371
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1728523
Wiki­data ID
Q1719
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In Other Languages

From Amis to Zulu—“Balanga” goes by many names.
  • Amis: “Balanga”
  • Arabic: “بالانغا (الفلبين)”
  • Arabic: “بالانغا”
  • Balinese: “Balanga”
  • Banjar: “Balanga”
  • Basque: “Balanga”
  • Batak Toba: “Balanga”
  • Bengali: “বালাঙ্গা”
  • Buginese: “Balanga”
  • Capiznon: “Balanga”
  • Catalan: “Balanga”
  • Cebuano: “Balanga, Bataan”
  • Cebuano: “Balanga”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Balanga”
  • Central Bikol: “Balanga”
  • Chavacano: “Balanga”
  • Chinese: “巴兰加”
  • Chinese: “巴朗牙”
  • Dagbani: “Balanga”
  • Danish: “Balanga”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Balanga”
  • Dutch: “Balanga”
  • Esperanto: “Balanga”
  • Fijian: “Balanga”
  • Finnish: “Balanga”
  • French: “Balanga”
  • Georgian: “ბალანგა”
  • German: “Balanga”
  • Gorontalo: “Balanga”
  • Greek: “Μπαλάνγκα”
  • Gujarati: “બલાંગા”
  • Hausa: “Balanga”
  • Hiligaynon: “Balanga”
  • Hindi: “बलंगा, बटान”
  • Hindi: “बलंगा”
  • Hiri Motu: “Balanga”
  • Hungarian: “Balanga City”
  • Hungarian: “Balanga”
  • Igbo: “Balanga”
  • Iloko: “Balanga, Bataan”
  • Iloko: “Balanga”
  • Indonesian: “Balanga”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Balanga”
  • Irish: “Balanga”
  • Italian: “Balanga”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Balanga”
  • Japanese: “バランガ”
  • Javanese: “Balanga”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಲಾಂಗ”
  • Kinaray-A: “Balanga”
  • Kongo: “Balanga”
  • Korean: “발랑가”
  • Latin: “Balanga”
  • Latvian: “Balanga”
  • Lithuanian: “Balanga”
  • Malagasy: “Balanga”
  • Malay: “Balanga City”
  • Malay: “Balanga”
  • Maori: “Balanga”
  • Marathi: “बलांगा सिटी”
  • Marathi: “बलांगा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Balanga”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “描籠牙”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “描籠牙市”
  • Minangkabau: “Balanga”
  • Nauru: “Balanga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balanga”
  • Norwegian: “Balanga”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Balanga”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Balanga”
  • Oromo: “Balanga”
  • Paiwan: “Balanga”
  • Pampanga: “Balanga”
  • Pampanga: “Syudad Balanga”
  • Pangasinan: “Balanga”
  • Polish: “Balanga”
  • Portuguese: “Balanga”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Balanga”
  • Russian: “Balanga”
  • Russian: “Баланга”
  • Sakizaya: “Balanga”
  • Samoan: “Balanga”
  • Scots: “Balanga”
  • Silesian: “Balanga (FIlipiny)”
  • Silesian: “Balanga”
  • Sinhala: “බලන්ගා”
  • Spanish: “Balanga”
  • Sundanese: “Balanga”
  • Swahili: “Balanga”
  • Swedish: “Balanga”
  • Tagalog: “Balanga, Bataan”
  • Tagalog: “Balanga”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Balanga”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Balanga”
  • Tagalog: “Sibacan”
  • Tahitian: “Balanga”
  • Tamil: “பலங்கா”
  • Tatar: “Баланга”
  • Telugu: “బలంగా”
  • Tetum: “Balanga”
  • Thai: “บาลังกา”
  • Tok Pisin: “Balanga”
  • Turkish: “Balanga”
  • Ukrainian: “Баланга”
  • Urdu: “بالانگا، باتآن”
  • Uzbek: “Balanga (Batan)”
  • Uzbek: “Balanga”
  • Vietnamese: “Balanga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Balanga, Pilipinas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Balanga”
  • Welsh: “Balanga”
  • Xhosa: “Balanga”
  • Yoruba: “Balanga”
  • Zulu: “Balanga”
  • “Balanga”
  • “Balanga, Bataan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Balanga”. Photo: SamTan, CC BY-SA 3.0.