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Basey

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  • Type: Town with 56,700 residents
  • Description: municipality of the Philippines in the province of Samar
  • Also known as: “Municipality of Basey”

Basey

Latitude
11.28° or 11° 16′ 48″ north
Longitude
125.0692° or 125° 4′ 9″ east
Population
56,700
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
7Q3773H9+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278506197
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1726436
Wiki­data ID
Q809957
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Waray—“Basey” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Basay, Samar”
  • Cebuano: “Lungsod sa Basey”
  • Central Bikol: “Basey”
  • Chavacano: “Basey”
  • Dutch: “Basey”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باسى”
  • Filipino: “Basey”
  • French: “Basey”
  • Georgian: “ბასეი”
  • German: “Basey”
  • Iloko: “Basey”
  • Indonesian: “Basey, Samar”
  • Italian: “Basey”
  • Japanese: “バセイ”
  • Malay: “Basey”
  • Pampanga: “Basey”
  • Pangasinan: “Basey”
  • Portuguese: “Basey”
  • Spanish: “Basey”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Basey”
  • Swedish: “Basey”
  • Tagalog: “Basey”
  • Tagalog: “Bayan ng Basey”
  • Tagalog: “Munisipalidad ng Basey”
  • Tagalog: “Munisipyo ng Basey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Basay”
  • “Basey”
  • “Basey, Samar”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Basey”. Photo: Magalhães, Public domain.