Bantayan
Bantayan Island is an island located in the Visayan Sea, Philippines. It is situated to the west of the northern end of Cebu, across the Tañon Strait. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 145,436.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Philippines
- Also known as: “Bantayan Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bantayan.
Bantayan
Town
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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.
Bantayan
- Category: landform
- Location: Cebu Province, Central Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Mari—“Bantayan” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bantayan”
- Cebuano: “Pulo sa Bantayan”
- Central Bikol: “Isla nin Bantayan”
- Chinese: “班塔延”
- Chinese: “班塔延島”
- Dutch: “Bantayan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بانتايان”
- French: “Bantayan”
- French: “île Bantayan”
- French: “Île Bantayan”
- German: “Bantayan”
- Iloko: “Bantayan”
- Iloko: “Isla Bantayan”
- Japanese: “バンタヤン”
- Japanese: “バンタヤン島”
- Korean: “반타얀섬”
- Latvian: “Bantajana”
- Persian: “جزیره بانتایان”
- Spanish: “Bantayan”
- Spanish: “Isla Bantayan”
- Spanish: “Isla de Bantayan”
- Swedish: “Bantayan”
- Tagalog: “Bantayan”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Bantayan”
- Turkish: “Bantayan Adası”
- Turkish: “Bantayan”
- Western Mari: “Бантайан”
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