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Guiuan

Guiuan is a municipality in , . It was the first place in the Philippines where Europeans landed; Magellan's expedition reached here in March 1521.
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  • Type: Town with 53,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of the Philippines in the province of Eastern Samar
  • Also known as: “Guian”, “Guinan”, “Guiuan, Eastern Samar”, and “Municipality of Guiuan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guiuan Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an airport located in the municipality of Guiuan, in the province of in the . It is classified as a feeder airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, an attached agency of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations all airports in the Philippines, except the major international airports.

Guiuan

Latitude
11.0307° or 11° 1′ 50″ north
Longitude
125.7237° or 125° 43′ 25″ east
Population
53,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PH GUN
Open location code
7Q372PJF+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5012993496
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1712206
Wiki­data ID
Q313984
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In Other Languages

From Amis to Zulu—“Guiuan” goes by many names.
  • Amis: “Guiuan”
  • Arabic: “غويوان”
  • Asturian: “Guiuan”
  • Balinese: “Guiuan”
  • Banjar: “Guiuan”
  • Basque: “Guiuan”
  • Batak Toba: “Guiuan”
  • Buginese: “Guiuan”
  • Capiznon: “Guiuan”
  • Catalan: “Guiuan”
  • Cebuano: “Guiuan, Sidlakang Samar”
  • Cebuano: “Guiuan”
  • Cebuano: “Lungsod sa Guiuan”
  • Central Bikol: “Guiuan”
  • Chavacano: “Guiuan”
  • Chinese: “吉万”
  • Chinese: “吉萬”
  • Chinese: “圭安”
  • Dagbani: “Guiuan”
  • Danish: “Guiuan”
  • Dutch: “Guiuan”
  • Esperanto: “Guiuan”
  • Fijian: “Guiuan”
  • French: “Guiuan”
  • Georgian: “გიუანი”
  • German: “Guiuan”
  • Gorontalo: “Guiuan”
  • Hausa: “Guiuan”
  • Hiligaynon: “Guiuan”
  • Hiri Motu: “Guiuan”
  • Igbo: “Guiuan”
  • Iloko: “Guiuan”
  • Indonesian: “Guiuan, Samar Timur”
  • Indonesian: “Guiuan”
  • Irish: “Guiuan”
  • Italian: “Guiuan”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Guiuan”
  • Japanese: “ギウアン (東サマル州)”
  • Japanese: “ギウアン”
  • Japanese: “ギュイアン”
  • Japanese: “ギワン (東サマール州)”
  • Javanese: “Guiuan”
  • Kinaray-A: “Guiuan”
  • Kongo: “Guiuan”
  • Korean: “기완”
  • Malagasy: “Guiuan”
  • Malay: “Guiuan”
  • Maori: “Guiuan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guiuan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “藝苑”
  • Minangkabau: “Guiuan”
  • Nauru: “Guiuan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guiuan”
  • Norwegian: “Guiuan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guiuan”
  • Oromo: “Guiuan”
  • Paiwan: “Guiuan”
  • Pampanga: “Guiuan”
  • Pangasinan: “Guiuan”
  • Portuguese: “Guiuan”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Guiuan”
  • Sakizaya: “Guiuan”
  • Samoan: “Guiuan”
  • Scots: “Guiuan”
  • Spanish: “Guiguan”
  • Spanish: “Guiuan”
  • Sundanese: “Guiuan”
  • Swahili: “Guiuan”
  • Swedish: “Guiuan”
  • Tagalog: “Bayan ng Guiuan”
  • Tagalog: “Guiuan, Silangang Samar”
  • Tagalog: “Guiuan”
  • Tahitian: “Guiuan”
  • Tetum: “Guiuan”
  • Tok Pisin: “Guiuan”
  • Vietnamese: “Guiuan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bungto han Guiuan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guiuan, Sinirangan Samar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guiuan”
  • Welsh: “Guiuan”
  • Xhosa: “Guiuan”
  • Yoruba: “Guiuan”
  • Zulu: “Guiuan”
  • “Guiuan”
  • “Guiuan, Eastern Samar”

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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 “Guiuan”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.