Mindanao
Davao Region
Davao del Sur

Davao

Davao is the largest city on the ' second-largest island, . It has a huge land area, and the inhabitants like to think of it as one of the most crime-free large cities in the Philippines.
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  • Email: cio@davaocity.gov.ph
  • Type: City with 1,780,000 residents
  • Description: city of the Philippines
  • Also known as: “Central”, “City of Davao”, “Davao City”, and “Nueva Vergara”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Davao Doctors Hospital and San Pedro Cathedral.

Hospital
is a privately owned hospital located in Davao City, . It was founded in 1969 in the Southern Philippines. It has 250 beds and a 10-storey Medical Tower Building that houses more than 130 active members of medical staff in varied specialties and sub-specialties.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Parish, also known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Pedro, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located at Barangay 2-A, Poblacion District, Davao City, .

Park
People's Park is an urban public park in central Davao City, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Poblacion and Davao Chinatown.

Suburb
is an administrative district of Davao City in the Philippines. In 2020, had a population of 173,896. It is situated in the 1st congressional district of Davao City.

Neighborhood
Photo: Shubert Ciencia, CC BY 2.0.
The , also known as Davao China Street, Davao City Chinatown, or Mindanao Chinatown, is a Chinatown located in Davao City and the only one on island in the .

Davao

Latitude
7.0648° or 7° 3′ 53″ north
Longitude
125.6081° or 125° 36′ 29″ east
Population
1,780,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Inception
June 29th, 1848
IATA airport code
DVO
United Nations Location Code
PH DVO
Open location code
6QV73J75+W6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 325091453
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1715348
Wiki­data ID
Q1473
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Davao” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Davao Stad”
  • Albanian: “Davao City”
  • Albanian: “Davao”
  • Albanian: “Qyteti i Davaos”
  • Amis: “Davao City”
  • Arabic: “دافاو”
  • Arabic: “مدينة دافاو”
  • Armenian: “Դավաո”
  • Asturian: “Davao”
  • Azerbaijani: “Davao”
  • Balinese: “Davao City”
  • Banjar: “Davao City”
  • Basque: “Davao City”
  • Basque: “Davao Hiria”
  • Basque: “Davao”
  • Batak Toba: “Davao City”
  • Belarusian: “Даваа”
  • Bengali: “ডাভাও সিটি”
  • Bengali: “দাভাও নগরী”
  • Bengali: “দাভাও শহর”
  • Bengali: “দাভাও সিটি”
  • Bosnian: “Davao City”
  • Buginese: “Davao City”
  • Bulgarian: “Давао”
  • Burmese: “ဒါဗောင်းမြို့”
  • Capiznon: “Davao City”
  • Carpathian Romani: “Dávao”
  • Catalan: “Davao City”
  • Catalan: “Davao”
  • Cebuano: “Dabaw”
  • Cebuano: “dakbayan sa Dabaw”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Dabaw”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Davao”
  • Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Davao”
  • Chamorro: “Dávao”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad de Davao”
  • Chavacano: “Dávao”
  • Chechen: “Давао”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Dávao”
  • Chinese: “Davao Chhī”
  • Chinese: “納卯市”
  • Chinese: “纳卯市”
  • Chinese: “达沃市”
  • Chinese: “達沃”
  • Chinese: “達沃市”
  • Croatian: “Davao”
  • Czech: “Davao City”
  • Czech: “Davao”
  • Dagbani: “Davao City”
  • Danish: “Davao City”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Davao”
  • Dutch: “Davao City”
  • Dutch: “Davao”
  • Esperanto: “Dabaw”
  • Esperanto: “Davao”
  • Esperanto: “Dávao”
  • Estonian: “Davao”
  • Extremaduran: “Dávao”
  • Fijian: “Davao City”
  • Finnish: “Davao”
  • French: “Dabo”
  • French: “Davao”
  • French: “Davau”
  • Galician: “Dávao”
  • Georgian: “დავაო”
  • German: “Davao City”
  • German: “Davao”
  • Gorontalo: “Davao City”
  • Greek: “Νταβάο”
  • Guarani: “Dávao”
  • Gujarati: “દવાઓ શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “દવાઓ સિટી”
  • Hausa: “Davao City”
  • Hebrew: “דאבאו”
  • Hebrew: “דבאו סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “דבו”
  • Hiligaynon: “Dabaw”
  • Hiligaynon: “dakbanwa sang Dabaw”
  • Hindi: “डेवाओ शहर”
  • Hiri Motu: “Davao City”
  • Hungarian: “Davao City”
  • Hungarian: “Davao”
  • Icelandic: “Davaó”
  • Igbo: “Davao City”
  • Iloko: “Ciudad ti Davao”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Davao”
  • Indonesian: “Dabau”
  • Indonesian: “kota Dabau”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Davao”
  • Indonesian: “kota Dávao”
  • Interlingue: “Davao”
  • Irish: “Davao City”
  • Italian: “città Dàvao”
  • Italian: “città di Dàvao”
  • Italian: “Davao”
  • Italian: “Dàvao”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Davao City”
  • Japanese: “ダバオ”
  • Javanese: “Davao City”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾವೊ ನಗರ”
  • Kannada: “ದಾಬವ್”
  • Kazakh: “Давао”
  • Kinaray-A: “Dabaw”
  • Kinaray-A: “hangbanwa ka Dabaw”
  • Kirghiz: “Давао”
  • Kongo: “Davao City”
  • Korean: “다바오”
  • Korean: “다바오시”
  • Ladino: “דאבאאו”
  • Lao: “ດາເບົາ”
  • Latin: “Dabaum”
  • Latin: “Davaum”
  • Latin: “Urbs Dabaēnsis”
  • Latin: “Urbs Davaensis”
  • Latin: “Urbs Davaēnsis”
  • Latvian: “Davao”
  • Lithuanian: “Davao”
  • Macedonian: “Давао Сити”
  • Malagasy: “Davao City”
  • Malay: “Bandar Davao”
  • Malay: “Dabau”
  • Maori: “Davao City”
  • Marathi: “दवओ शहर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Davao Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “納卯市”
  • Minangkabau: “Davao City”
  • Mingrelian: “დავაო-სიტი”
  • Mingrelian: “დავაო”
  • Mirandese: “Dávao”
  • Mongolian: “Давао Хот”
  • Mongolian: “Давао”
  • Nauru: “Davao City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Davao”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Davao”
  • Norwegian: “Davao”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Davao”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Davao City”
  • Oromo: “Davao City”
  • Ossetian: “Давао”
  • Paiwan: “Davao City”
  • Pali: “𑀤𑀸𑀩”
  • Pampanga: “Dábo”
  • Pampanga: “Davao Lakanbalen”
  • Pampanga: “lakanbalen ning Dábo”
  • Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Davao”
  • Persian: “داوائو سیتی”
  • Polish: “Davao”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Davao”
  • Portuguese: “cidade de Dábau”
  • Portuguese: “cidade de Dávau”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Dábau”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Dávau”
  • Portuguese: “Dábau”
  • Portuguese: “Dávau”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Davao City”
  • Romanian: “Davao”
  • Russian: “Давао”
  • Sakizaya: “Davao City”
  • Samoan: “Davao City”
  • Sanskrit: “Dāba”
  • Sanskrit: “दाब”
  • Scots: “Davao City”
  • Serbian: “Давао”
  • Silesian: “Davao”
  • Sinhala: “දාබවු”
  • Slovenian: “Davao”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de Dávao”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Dávao”
  • Spanish: “Dávao”
  • Sundanese: “Davao City”
  • Swahili: “Davao City”
  • Swedish: “Davao”
  • Tagalog: “Dabaw”
  • Tagalog: “Davao City”
  • Tagalog: “Dávao”
  • Tagalog: “lungsod ng Dabaw”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Dabaw”
  • Tahitian: “Davao City”
  • Tajik: “Шаҳри Давао”
  • Tamil: “டவாவோ நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “டாவோ சிட்டி”
  • Tatar: “Давао-Сити”
  • Telugu: “దవావో నగరం”
  • Telugu: “దవావో”
  • Tetum: “Dávao”
  • Thai: “ดาเบา”
  • Tok Pisin: “Davao City”
  • Turkish: “Davao City”
  • Turkmen: “Dawao şäheri”
  • Ukrainian: “Давао”
  • Urdu: “داوائو شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Davao shahri”
  • Uzbek: “Davao”
  • Venetian: “Dabau”
  • Venetian: “Dàbau”
  • Venetian: “Davao”
  • Vietnamese: “Davao (thành phố)”
  • Vietnamese: “Davao”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Davao”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad Dabaw”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Davao”
  • Welsh: “Davao City”
  • Wu Chinese: “达沃市”
  • Xhosa: “Davao City”
  • Yakut: “Давао”
  • Yiddish: “דאַבאַאָ”
  • Yiddish: “דאַבעװ”
  • Yiddish: “דאַװאַאָ”
  • Yoruba: “Davao City”
  • Yue Chinese: “達沃”
  • Zulu: “Davao City”
  • “Dabaw”
  • “Dávao”
  • “Davao City”

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