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Kawit

Kawit, officially the Municipality of Kawit, is an urban municipality in the province of , . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 123,631 people.
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  • Type: Town with 108,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of the Philippines in the province of Cavite
  • Also known as: “Bayan ng Kawit” and “Cavite el Viejo”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aguinaldo Shrine and The House of Aguinaldo.

Museum
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Emilio is a national shrine located in Kawit, in the , where the Philippine Declaration of Independence from was declared on June 12, 1898, or Independence Day.

Memorial
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is a memorial.

Memorial
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is a memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Noveleta and Imus.

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is a town in the western coast of . It lies to the west of Kawit and has the junction to to the north.

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is a city in , and the de jure capital of the province. The city is the site of Battle of Alapan, a major encounter during the Philippine Revolution on 1898.

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, officially the City of Cavite is a component city in the . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 98,673 people. The city was the capital of from its establishment in 1614 until the title was transferred to the newly created, more accessible city of in 1954.

Kawit

Latitude
14.4443° or 14° 26′ 39″ north
Longitude
120.9035° or 120° 54′ 13″ east
Population
108,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PH KWT
Open location code
7Q62CWV3+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198505648
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1709003
Wiki­data ID
Q62755
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In Other Languages

From Amis to Zulu—“Kawit” goes by many names.
  • Amis: “Kawit”
  • Arabic: “كاويت”
  • Armenian: “Քավիթ”
  • Asturian: “Kawit”
  • Balinese: “Kawit”
  • Banjar: “Kawit”
  • Basque: “Kawit”
  • Batak Toba: “Kawit”
  • Belarusian: “Кавіт”
  • Buginese: “Kawit”
  • Capiznon: “Kawit”
  • Catalan: “Kawit”
  • Cebuano: “Kawit, Cavite”
  • Cebuano: “Kawit”
  • Central Bikol: “Kawit”
  • Chavacano: “Kawit”
  • Chinese: “卡維特”
  • Chinese: “卡維特市”
  • Chinese: “卡维特”
  • Chinese: “卡维特市”
  • Chinese: “旧甲米地”
  • Chinese: “舊甲米地”
  • Czech: “Kawit”
  • Dagbani: “Kawit”
  • Danish: “Kawit”
  • Dutch: “Kawit”
  • Esperanto: “Kawit”
  • Fijian: “Kawit”
  • French: “Kawit”
  • Georgian: “კავიტი”
  • German: “Kawit”
  • Gorontalo: “Kawit”
  • Hausa: “Kawit”
  • Hebrew: “קאוויט”
  • Hebrew: “קוויט”
  • Hiligaynon: “Kawit”
  • Hindi: “कवाईत”
  • Hiri Motu: “Kawit”
  • Igbo: “Kawit”
  • Iloko: “Kawit”
  • Indonesian: “Kawit, Cavite”
  • Indonesian: “Kawit”
  • Indonesian: “kota Kawit”
  • Irish: “Kawit”
  • Italian: “Kawit”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kawit”
  • Japanese: “カウィット”
  • Japanese: “カウィトゥ”
  • Javanese: “Kawit”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kawit”
  • Kongo: “Kawit”
  • Korean: “카위트”
  • Malagasy: “Kawit”
  • Malay: “Kawit”
  • Maori: “Kawit”
  • Minangkabau: “Kawit”
  • Nauru: “Kawit”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kawit”
  • Norwegian: “Kawit”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kawit”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kawit”
  • Oromo: “Kawit”
  • Paiwan: “Kawit”
  • Pampanga: “Kawit”
  • Pangasinan: “Kawit”
  • Persian: “کاویت”
  • Polish: “Kawit”
  • Portuguese: “Cavite”
  • Portuguese: “Kawit”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Kawit”
  • Russian: “Кавит”
  • Sakizaya: “Kawit”
  • Samoan: “Kawit”
  • Scots: “Kawit”
  • Spanish: “Cavite el Viejo”
  • Spanish: “Kawit”
  • Sundanese: “Kawit”
  • Swahili: “Kawit”
  • Swedish: “Kawit”
  • Tagalog: “Kawit”
  • Tahitian: “Kawit”
  • Tetum: “Kawit”
  • Thai: “คาวิต”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kawit”
  • Ukrainian: “Кавіт”
  • Venetian: “Cavite El Vècio”
  • Vietnamese: “Kawit”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kawit, Cavite”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kawit”
  • Welsh: “Kawit”
  • Xhosa: “Kawit”
  • Yoruba: “Kawit”
  • Zulu: “Kawit”
  • “Kawit”
  • “Kawit, Cavite”

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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 Wikipedia page “Kawit”. Photo: Mardonie Cruz, CC BY-SA 3.0.