Borongan
Borongan is the capital of Eastern Samar, in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. The city is a surfer's paradise, mostly frequented during the cool, rainy months.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 69,300 residents
- Description: city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Eastern Samar
- Also known as: “Borongan City”, “Borongan, Eastern Samar”, and “City of Borongan”
Borongan
- Categories: component city and locality
- Location: Eastern Samar, Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
11.608° or 11° 36′ 29″ north
Longitude
125.4322° or 125° 25′ 56″ east
Population
69,300
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
BPA
United Nations Location Code
PH BGV
Open location code
7Q37JC5J+5V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Zulu—“Borongan” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Borongan”
- Arabic: “بورونغان”
- Balinese: “Borongan”
- Banjar: “Borongan”
- Basque: “Borongan”
- Batak Toba: “Borongan”
- Belarusian: “Баранган”
- Bengali: “বরংগান”
- Buginese: “Borongan”
- Capiznon: “Borongan”
- Catalan: “Borongan”
- Cebuano: “Borongan”
- Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Borongan”
- Central Bikol: “Borongan”
- Chavacano: “Borongan”
- Chinese: “博龍岸”
- Chinese: “博龙岸”
- Dagbani: “Borongan”
- Danish: “Borongan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Borongan”
- Dutch: “Borongan City”
- Dutch: “Borongan”
- Esperanto: “Borongan”
- Fijian: “Borongan”
- Finnish: “Borongan”
- French: “Borongan”
- Georgian: “ბორონგანი”
- German: “Borongan City”
- German: “Borongan”
- Gorontalo: “Borongan”
- Greek: “Μπορόνγκαν”
- Gujarati: “બોરોંગન”
- Hausa: “Borongan”
- Hiligaynon: “Borongan”
- Hindi: “बोरोनगण”
- Hiri Motu: “Borongan”
- Hungarian: “Borongan City”
- Hungarian: “Borongan”
- Igbo: “Borongan”
- Iloko: “Borongan, Daya a Samar”
- Iloko: “Borongan”
- Indonesian: “Borongan city”
- Indonesian: “Borongan, samar timur”
- Indonesian: “Borongan, Samar Timur”
- Indonesian: “Borongan”
- Indonesian: “Kota Borongan”
- Irish: “Borongan”
- Italian: “Borongan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Borongan”
- Japanese: “ボロンガン”
- Javanese: “Borongan”
- Kannada: “ಬೊರೊಂಗನ್”
- Kinaray-A: “Borongan”
- Kongo: “Borongan”
- Korean: “보롱간”
- Korean: “브로간”
- Latvian: “Borongana”
- Lithuanian: “Boronganas”
- Malagasy: “Borongan”
- Malay: “Borongan”
- Maori: “Borongan”
- Marathi: “बोरोँगन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Borongan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “武朗岸”
- Min Nan Chinese: “武朗岸市”
- Minangkabau: “Borongan”
- Nauru: “Borongan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borongan City”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borongan”
- Norwegian: “Borongan City”
- Norwegian: “Borongan”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Borongan”
- Oromo: “Borongan”
- Paiwan: “Borongan”
- Pampanga: “Borongan”
- Pangasinan: “Borongan”
- Polish: “Borongan”
- Portuguese: “Borongan”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Borongan”
- Russian: “Боронган”
- Sakizaya: “Borongan”
- Samoan: “Borongan”
- Scots: “Borongan”
- Sinhala: “බෝරෝන්ගන්”
- Spanish: “Borongan”
- Sundanese: “Borongan”
- Swahili: “Borongan”
- Swedish: “Borongan City”
- Swedish: “Borongan”
- Tagalog: “Borongan, Silangang Samar”
- Tagalog: “Borongan”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod Borongan”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Borongan”
- Tahitian: “Borongan”
- Tamil: “போரோன்கண்”
- Telugu: “బొరొంగన్”
- Tetum: “Borongan”
- Thai: “โบรองกัน”
- Thai: “โบโรงกัน”
- Tok Pisin: “Borongan”
- Turkish: “Borongan”
- Ukrainian: “Боронган”
- Urdu: “بورونگان”
- Vietnamese: “Borongan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Borongan, Eastern Samar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Borongan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Borongan”
- Welsh: “Borongan”
- Xhosa: “Borongan”
- Yoruba: “Borongan”
- Zulu: “Borongan”
- “Borongan”
- “Borongan, Eastern Samar”
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