Bataan
Bataan is a province at the Central Luzon region of Luzon. A peninsula surrounded by Manila Bay to the east and the West Philippine Sea to the west, it is known in history as the last stronghold of the Americans in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded it during World War II.
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Bataan
- Type: State with 891,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Lalawigan ng Bataan”, “Lalawigan sa Bataan”, “Probinsiya ng Bataan”, “Probinsya ng Bataan”, “Provinca Bataan”, “Province of Bataan”, “Provinz Bataan”, “ბატაანის პროვინცია”, and “描沓安省”
- Neighbors: Bulacan, Cavite, Metro Manila, Pampanga, and Zambales
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
14.6436° or 14° 38′ 37″ north
Longitude of center
120.4658° or 120° 27′ 57″ east
Population
891,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Waray—“Bataan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Bataan”
- Arabic: “باتان”
- Armenian: “Բատտան”
- Asturian: “Bataan”
- Balinese: “Bataan”
- Banjar: “Bataan”
- Basque: “Bataan”
- Bengali: “বাতান”
- Capiznon: “Bataan”
- Catalan: “Península de Bataan”
- Cebuano: “Bataan”
- Central Bikol: “Bataan”
- Chavacano: “Bataan”
- Chinese: “巴丹省”
- Danish: “Bataan”
- Dutch: “Bataan”
- Esperanto: “Bataano”
- Filipino: “Saysain”
- Finnish: “Bataan”
- French: “Bataan”
- Georgian: “ბატაანი”
- German: “Bataan”
- Gorontalo: “Bataan”
- Greek: “Μπαταάν”
- Gujarati: “બટાન”
- Hebrew: “בטאן”
- Hiligaynon: “Bataan”
- Hindi: “बाताआन प्रान्त”
- Iloko: “Bataan”
- Indonesian: “Bataan”
- Italian: “provincia di Bataan”
- Italian: “Provincia di Bataan”
- Japanese: “バターン”
- Japanese: “バターン州”
- Javanese: “Bataan”
- Kannada: “ಬಟಾನ್”
- Kinaray-A: “Bataan”
- Korean: “바타안주”
- Korean: “바탄주”
- Latin: “Bataan”
- Latvian: “Bataana”
- Lithuanian: “Bataanas”
- Lithuanian: “Bataano provincija”
- Macedonian: “Батаан”
- Malay: “Bataan”
- Marathi: “बातन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bataan”
- Minangkabau: “Bataan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bataan”
- Norwegian: “Bataan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bataan”
- Pampanga: “Bataan”
- Pangasinan: “Bataan”
- Persian: “باتاآن”
- Polish: “Bataan”
- Portuguese: “Bataan”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Bataan”
- Romanian: “Bataan”
- Russian: “Батаан”
- Serbian: “Батан”
- Sinhala: “බටාන්”
- Slovenian: “Bataan”
- South Azerbaijani: “باتاآن”
- Spanish: “Bataan”
- Spanish: “Bataán”
- Sundanese: “Bataan”
- Swedish: “Bataan”
- Tagalog: “Bataan”
- Tamil: “பட்டான்”
- Telugu: “బటాన్”
- Tetum: “Bataan”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบาตาอัน”
- Thai: “บาตาอัน”
- Turkish: “Bataan”
- Ukrainian: “Батаан”
- Urdu: “باتآن”
- Urdu: “باتان”
- Vietnamese: “Bataan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bataan”
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