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.
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Basilan
- Type: State with 557,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Basilano provincija”, “Lalawigan sa Basilan”, “Probinsiya ng Basilan”, “Probinsya ng Basilan”, “Province of Basilan”, “provincia Basilan”, “Provincia de Basilán”, “Província de Basilan”, “provincia di Basilan”, “Басилан (провинци)”, “बेसिलन”, “바실란”, and “描絲蘭省”
- Neighbors: Zamboanga City
- Categories: province of the Philippines, statistical territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.565° or 6° 33′ 54″ north
Longitude
122.0649° or 122° 3′ 54″ east
Population
557,000
Elevation
270 metres (886 feet)
Established
December 27th, 1973
Open location code
6QR4H377+XX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Central Bikol: “Basilan”
- Chavacano: “Basilan”
- Chavacano: “Provincia de 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”
- Iloko: “Basilan”
- Indonesian: “Basilan”
- Interlingua: “Provincia Basilan”
- Italian: “Provincia di Basilan”
- Japanese: “バシラン”
- Japanese: “バシラン州”
- Kannada: “ಬಸಿಲಾನ್”
- Korean: “바실란주”
- Latin: “Basilan”
- Latvian: “Basilana”
- Lithuanian: “Basilano”
- Macedonian: “Басилан”
- Malay: “Basilan”
- Marathi: “बेसिलॅन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Basilan”
- Norwegian: “Basilan”
- Ossetian: “Басилан”
- Pampanga: “Basilan”
- Pangasinan: “Basilan”
- Persian: “باسیلان”
- Polish: “Basilan”
- Portuguese: “Basilan”
- Russian: “Басилан”
- Sinhala: “බැසිලන්”
- South Azerbaijani: “باسیلان”
- Spanish: “Basilan”
- Spanish: “Basilán”
- Swedish: “Basilan”
- Tagalog: “Basilan”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Basilan”
- Tamil: “பசீலன்”
- Telugu: “బాసిలాన్”
- Tetum: “Basilan”
- 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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