Benguet
Benguet is a province in the Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines. Benguet is home to the Ibaloy, Kankana-ey, and Kalanguya peoples. Benguet became a full province in 1968, being carved out of the larger Mountain Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Baguio and La Trinidad.
Baguio
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Baguio is a highland city of 366,358 people in the province of Benguet, Philippines. Due to its cool mountain weather relative to the rest of the country, it is considered the "Summer Capital of the Philippines." The city is abundant in pine trees, so it is nicknamed the City of Pines.
La Trinidad
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La Trinidad is a small town which serves as the capital of the province of Benguet which is part of the Cordillera Administrative Region of the Philippines. Tourists to the town mostly come from the neighboring city of Baguio.
Atok
Atok, officially the Municipality of Atok, is a 3rd-class municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 19,218 people.
Benguet
- Type: State with 473,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Province of Benguet” and “Subprovince of Benguet”
- Neighbors: Ilocos Sur, La Union, Nueva Vizcaya, and Pangasinan
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Luzon Cordilleras, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
16.52° or 16° 31′ 12″ northLongitude of center
120.69° or 120° 41′ 24″ eastPopulation
473,000Elevation
1,695 metres (5,561 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 305704499OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Waray—“Benguet” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Benguet”
- Achinese: “Propinsi Benguet”
- Arabic: “بينغويت”
- Asturian: “Benguet”
- Balinese: “Benguet”
- Banjar: “Benguet”
- Bengali: “বেনকুয়েট”
- Capiznon: “Benguet”
- Catalan: “Benguet”
- Cebuano: “Benguet”
- Cebuano: “Lalawigan sa Benguet”
- Central Bikol: “Benguet”
- Chavacano: “Benguet”
- Chinese: “Benguet”
- Chinese: “本格特省”
- Danish: “Benguet”
- Dutch: “Benguet”
- Filipino: “Lalawigan ng Benguet”
- Finnish: “Benguet”
- French: “Benguet”
- French: “province de Benguet”
- Georgian: “ბენგეტი”
- German: “Benguet”
- German: “Provinz Benguet”
- Gorontalo: “Benguet”
- Greek: “Μπενγκέτ”
- Gujarati: “બેન્ક્વેટ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז בנגוט”
- Hiligaynon: “Benguet”
- Hindi: “बेंगेत प्रान्त”
- Iloko: “Benguet”
- Iloko: “Probinsia ti Benguet”
- Indonesian: “Benguet”
- Italian: “Benguet”
- Italian: “provincia di Benguet”
- Italian: “Provincia di Benguet”
- Japanese: “ベンゲット”
- Japanese: “ベンゲット州”
- Javanese: “Benguet”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಂಗ್ವೆಟ್”
- Kinaray-A: “Benguet”
- Korean: “벵게트주”
- Latin: “Benguet”
- Latvian: “Bengeta”
- Latvian: “Bengveta”
- Lithuanian: “Bengetas”
- Macedonian: “Бенгет”
- Malay: “Benguet”
- Marathi: “बेनक्वेट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Benguet”
- Min Nan Chinese: “敏讫省”
- Minangkabau: “Benguet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benguet”
- Norwegian: “Benguet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Benguet”
- Pampanga: “Benguet”
- Pangasinan: “Benguet”
- Persian: “بنگوئه”
- Polish: “Benguet”
- Portuguese: “Benguet”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Benguet”
- Russian: “Бенгет”
- Sinhala: “බෙන්ගුවට්”
- Slovenian: “Benguet”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Benguet”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنقوئه”
- Spanish: “Benguet”
- Sundanese: “Benguet”
- Swedish: “Benguet”
- Tagalog: “Benguet”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Benguet”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Benguet”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Benguet”
- Tamil: “பென்குட்”
- Telugu: “బెంగ్వెట్”
- Tetum: “Benguet”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเบงเก็ต”
- Thai: “เบงเก็ต”
- Turkish: “Benguet”
- Ukrainian: “Бенгет”
- Ukrainian: “Бенґет”
- Urdu: “بینگیت”
- Venetian: “Benguet”
- Vietnamese: “Benguet”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benguet”
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