Basilan
Basilan is an island province of the Philippines in Mindanao, just off the southern coast of the Zamboanga Peninsula. Basilan is the biggest and northernmost among the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Isabela
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Isabela, officially the City of Isabela, is a component city and de facto capital of the province of Basilan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 130,379 people making it the most populous city in the province.
Basilan
- Type: State with 557,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Province of Basilan”
- Neighbors: Zamboanga City
- Categories: province of the Philippines, statistical territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.565° or 6° 33′ 54″ northLongitude
122.0649° or 122° 3′ 54″ eastPopulation
557,000Elevation
270 metres (886 feet)Inception
December 27th, 1973Open location code
6QR4H377+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 305704492OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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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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