Bohol
Bohol is the main island of Bohol Province, which also includes 75 smaller islands. The island lies southeast from Cebu Island and southwest of Leyte Island in the Central Visayas region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tagbilaran and Anda.
Tagbilaran
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Tagbilaran is the capital city of the island province of Bohol in the Philippines. With about 105,000 residents as of 2020, it is the main point of entry to Bohol and serves as the province's political, social and economic center.
Anda
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Anda is a town on the east side of Bohol with one of the nicest beaches in all of the Philippine islands with access to a toilet and a decent cup of coffee.
Panglao Town
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Panglao, officially the Municipality of Panglao, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 39,839 people.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Panglao Island and Tubigon.
Panglao Island
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Panglao is an island in Bohol Province in the Philippines with world-class diving and many tourist resorts. The resorts and other tourist facilities are concentrated in the Alona Beach area, but there are some other tourist areas and beaches scattered around the rest of the island.
Tubigon
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Tubigon, officially the Municipality of Tubigon, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 49,275 people.
Loboc
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Loboc, officially the Municipality of Loboc, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,418 people.
Ubay
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Ubay, officially the Municipality of Ubay, is a fast growing municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 82,179 people.
Getafe
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Getafe, officially the Municipality of Getafe and also spelled as Jetafe, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 33,422 people.
Baclayon
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The historic town of Baclayon lies 6 km east along the seashore from Tagbilaran city on the Visayan island of Bohol in the Philippines. It was the first town established in Bohol by the Spaniards.
Jagna
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Jagna is a small port town of 34,000 people on the south coast of Bohol. It is to the east of Tagbilaran, which is the provincial capital and has the main seaport and only airport of the province.
Carmen
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Carmen is the most common area to stay overnight if you would like to visit the Chocolate Hills in Bohol.
Bohol
- Type: State with 1,410,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Province of Bohol”
- Neighbors: Camiguin, Cebu Province, and Siquijor
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Central Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
9.8333° or 9° 50′ northLongitude of center
124.1616° or 124° 9′ 42″ eastPopulation
1,410,000Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 305704582OpenStreetMap feature
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Bohol” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Bohol”
- Arabic: “بوهول”
- Asturian: “Bohol”
- Azerbaijani: “Bohol”
- Balinese: “Bohol”
- Banjar: “Bohol”
- Basque: “Bohol”
- Bengali: “বোহোল”
- Capiznon: “Bohol”
- Catalan: “Bohol”
- Cebuano: “Bohol”
- Cebuano: “Lalawigan sa Bohol”
- Central Bikol: “Bohol”
- Chavacano: “Bohol”
- Chinese: “Bohol”
- Chinese: “保和省”
- Chinese: “薄荷省”
- Czech: “Bohol”
- Danish: “Bohol”
- Dutch: “Bohol”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوهول”
- Esperanto: “Boholo”
- Esperanto: “Buolo”
- Estonian: “Bohol”
- Filipino: “New Bohol”
- Finnish: “Bohol”
- French: “Bohol”
- Galician: “Bohol”
- Georgian: “ბოჰოლი (პროვინცია)”
- Georgian: “ბოჰოლის პროვინცია”
- German: “Bohol”
- German: “Provinz Bohol”
- Gorontalo: “Bohol”
- Greek: “Μποχόλ”
- Gujarati: “બોહોલ”
- Hebrew: “בוהול”
- Hiligaynon: “Bohol”
- Hindi: “बोहोल”
- Hungarian: “Bohol”
- Icelandic: “Bóhol”
- Iloko: “Bohol”
- Indonesian: “Bohol”
- Indonesian: “Buul”
- Italian: “provincia di Bohol”
- Italian: “Provincia di Bohol”
- Japanese: “ボホール”
- Japanese: “ボホール州”
- Javanese: “Bohol”
- Kannada: “ಬೊಹೋಲ್”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តបូហុល”
- Khmer: “បូហុល”
- Kinaray-A: “Bohol”
- Korean: “보홀주”
- Latin: “Bohol”
- Latvian: “Bohola”
- Lithuanian: “Boholis”
- Macedonian: “Бохол”
- Malagasy: “Bohol (nosy)”
- Malagasy: “Bohol”
- Malay: “Bohol”
- Malayalam: “ബൊഹോൾ”
- Marathi: “बोहोल”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bohol”
- Min Nan Chinese: “武忽省”
- Min Nan Chinese: “武核省”
- Min Nan Chinese: “武運省”
- Minangkabau: “Bohol”
- Nepali: “बोहोल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bohol”
- Norwegian: “Bohol”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bohol”
- Pampanga: “Bohol”
- Pangasinan: “Bohol”
- Persian: “بهل”
- Persian: “بوهول”
- Polish: “Bohol”
- Portuguese: “Bohol”
- Portuguese: “Bojol”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Bohol”
- Russian: “Бохоль”
- Russian: “провинция Бохоль”
- Scots: “Bohol”
- Serbian: “Бохол”
- Sinhala: “බොහොල්”
- Slovenian: “Bohol”
- South Azerbaijani: “بهل”
- Spanish: “Bohol”
- Sundanese: “Bohol”
- Swedish: “Bohol”
- Tagalog: “Bohol”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Bohol”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Bohol”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Bohol”
- Tamil: “போகொல்”
- Tamil: “போஹோல்”
- Tatar: “Боһоль”
- Telugu: “బోహోల్”
- Tetum: “Bohol”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโบโฮล”
- Thai: “โบโฮล”
- Turkish: “Bohol”
- Ukrainian: “Бохол, Бохоль”
- Ukrainian: “Бохоль”
- Urdu: “بوہول”
- Vietnamese: “Bohol”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bohol”
- Western Mari: “Бохоль”
- Wu Chinese: “保和省”
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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 “Bohol”. Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.