Kiangan
Kiangan is a town in Ifugao, a province in the Cordillera mountain range in the north of the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. One of the province's cultural capitals, it is famous for its rice terraces and for being the site of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita's surrender at the end of World War II.Photo: Shubert Ciencia, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 17,800 residents
- Description: municipality of the Philippines in the province of Ifugao
- Also known as: “Municipality of Kiangan” and “Quiangan”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lagawe and Asipulo.
Lagawe
Town
Lagawe, officially the Municipality of Lagawe, is a municipality and capital of the province of Ifugao, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 19,124 people. Lagawe is situated 4½ km northeast of Kiangan.
Asipulo
Town
Asipulo, officially the Municipality of Asipulo is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 16,088 people. Asipulo is situated 6 km south of Kiangan.
Kiangan
- Categories: municipality of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Ifugao, Luzon Cordilleras, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.7764° or 16° 46′ 35″ northLongitude
121.0868° or 121° 5′ 13″ eastPopulation
17,800Elevation
796 metres (2,612 feet)Open location code
7Q83Q3GP+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 198495156OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1708897Wikidata ID
Q30416
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Zulu—“Kiangan” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Kiangan”
- Asturian: “Kiangan”
- Balinese: “Kiangan”
- Banjar: “Kiangan”
- Basque: “Kiangan”
- Batak Toba: “Kiangan”
- Buginese: “Kiangan”
- Capiznon: “Kiangan”
- Catalan: “Kiangan”
- Cebuano: “Kiangan”
- Central Bikol: “Kiangan”
- Chavacano: “Kiangan”
- Dagbani: “Kiangan”
- Danish: “Kiangan”
- Dutch: “Kiangan”
- Esperanto: “Kiangan”
- Fijian: “Kiangan”
- Filipino: “Kiangan”
- French: “Kiangan”
- Georgian: “კიანგანი”
- German: “Kiangan”
- Gorontalo: “Kiangan”
- Hausa: “Kiangan”
- Hiligaynon: “Kiangan”
- Hiri Motu: “Kiangan”
- Igbo: “Kiangan”
- Iloko: “Kiangan”
- Indonesian: “Kiangan”
- Irish: “Kiangan”
- Italian: “Kiangan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Kiangan”
- Japanese: “キアンガン”
- Javanese: “Kiangan”
- Kinaray-A: “Kiangan”
- Kongo: “Kiangan”
- Malagasy: “Kiangan”
- Malay: “Kiangan”
- Maori: “Kiangan”
- Minangkabau: “Kiangan”
- Nauru: “Kiangan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kiangan”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kiangan”
- Oromo: “Kiangan”
- Paiwan: “Kiangan”
- Pampanga: “Kiangan”
- Pangasinan: “Kiangan”
- Portuguese: “Kiangan”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Kiangan”
- Sakizaya: “Kiangan”
- Samoan: “Kiangan”
- Scots: “Kiangan”
- Spanish: “Kiangan”
- Spanish: “Quiangan”
- Sundanese: “Kiangan”
- Swahili: “Kiangan”
- Swedish: “Kiangan”
- Tagalog: “Kiangan”
- Tahitian: “Kiangan”
- Tok Pisin: “Kiangan”
- Urdu: “کیانگان”
- Vietnamese: “Kiangan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kiangan”
- Welsh: “Kiangan”
- Xhosa: “Kiangan”
- Yoruba: “Kiangan”
- Zulu: “Kiangan”
- “Kiangan”
- “Kiangan, Ifugao”
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