Basilan

Basilan is an island province of the in , just off the southern coast of the . Basilan is the biggest and northernmost among the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago.
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, officially the City of , is a component city and de facto capital of the province of Basilan, . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 130,379 people making it the most populous city in the province.

Basilan

Latitude
6.565° or 6° 33′ 54″ north
Longitude
122.0649° or 122° 3′ 54″ east
Population
557,000
Elevation
270 metres (886 feet)
Inception
December 27th, 1973
Open location code
6QR4H377+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305704492
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1726404
Wiki­data ID
Q13737
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yakan—“Basilan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Propinsi Basilan
  • Arabic: باسيلان
  • Bengali: বাসিলান
  • Cebuano: Basilan
  • Cebuano: Lalawigan sa Basilan
  • Central Bikol: Basilan
  • Chavacano: Basilan
  • Chavacano: Provincia de Basilan
  • Chinese: Basilan
  • Chinese: 巴西兰省
  • Chinese: 巴西蘭德省
  • Czech: Basilan
  • Dutch: Basilan
  • Esperanto: Basilano
  • Finnish: Basilan
  • French: Basilan
  • Galician: Basilán
  • Georgian: ბასილანი
  • German: Basilan
  • German: Provinz Basilan
  • Greek: Μπασιλάν
  • Gujarati: બેસિલન
  • Hindi: बसीलन
  • Hindi: बेसिलन
  • Iloko: Basilan
  • Indonesian: Basilan
  • Interlingua: provincia Basilan
  • Interlingua: Provincia Basilan
  • Italian: provincia di Basilan
  • Italian: Provincia di Basilan
  • Japanese: バシラン
  • Japanese: バシラン州
  • Kannada: ಬಸಿಲಾನ್
  • Korean: 바실란
  • Korean: 바실란주
  • Latin: Basilan
  • Latvian: Basilana
  • Lithuanian: Basilano provincija
  • Lithuanian: Basilano
  • Macedonian: Басилан
  • Malay: Basilan
  • Marathi: बेसिलॅन
  • Min Nan Chinese: 描絲蘭省
  • Norwegian: Basilan
  • Ossetian: Басилан (провинци)
  • Ossetian: Басилан
  • Pampanga: Basilan
  • Pangasinan: Basilan
  • Persian: باسیلان
  • Polish: Basilan
  • Portuguese: Basilan
  • Portuguese: Província de Basilan
  • Russian: Басилан
  • Sinhala: බැසිලන්
  • South Azerbaijani: باسیلان
  • Spanish: Basilan
  • Spanish: Basilán
  • Spanish: Provincia de Basilan
  • Spanish: Provincia de Basilán
  • Swedish: Basilan
  • Tagalog: Basilan
  • Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Basilan
  • Tagalog: Probinsiya ng Basilan
  • Tagalog: Probinsya ng Basilan
  • Tamil: பசீலன்
  • Telugu: బాసిలాన్
  • Thai: จังหวัดบาซีลัน
  • Thai: บาซีลัน
  • Turkish: Basilan
  • Ukrainian: Басілан
  • Urdu: باسیلان
  • Vietnamese: Basilan
  • Waray (Philippines): Basilan
  • Western Mari: Басилан
  • Wu Chinese: 巴西兰
  • Wu Chinese: 巴西兰省
  • Yakan: Wilayah Basilanin
  • Basilan

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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 “Basilan”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.