Laoag
Laoag is the capital city of Ilocos Norte. It is the province's political, commercial, and industrial hub. The historic scenic tourist spots makes Laoag an ecotourism center.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 111,000 residents
- Description: city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Ilocos Norte
- Also known as: “City of Laoag”, “Laoag City”, “Laoag, Ilocos Norte”, “Laoang”, “Laog”, and “Loag”
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Nicolas Municipal Hall and Abolition of Tobacco Monopoly Monument.
San Nicolas Municipal Hall
Town hall
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Nicolas Municipal Hall is a town hall.
Abolition of Tobacco Monopoly Monument
Memorial
Photo: Kermit0914, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Abolition of Tobacco Monopoly Monument is a memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Nicolas and Bacarra.
San Nicolas
Town
San Nicolas, officially the Municipality of San Nicolas, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 39,116 people.
Bacarra
Town
Photo: Iloilo Wanderer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bacarra, officially the Municipality of Bacarra is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 32,734 people.
Laoag
- Categories: component city, big city, and locality
- Location: Ilocos Norte, Ilocos, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.1973° or 18° 11′ 50″ northLongitude
120.5935° or 120° 35′ 37″ eastPopulation
111,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)IATA airport code
LAOOpen location code
7QC25HWV+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 317949136OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Zulu—“Laoag” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Laoag”
- Arabic: “لاواغ”
- Balinese: “Laoag”
- Banjar: “Laoag”
- Basque: “Laoag”
- Batak Toba: “Laoag”
- Bengali: “লাওগ”
- Buginese: “Laoag”
- Capiznon: “Laoag”
- Catalan: “Laoag”
- Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Laoag”
- Cebuano: “Laoag, Ilocos Norte”
- Cebuano: “Laoag”
- Central Bikol: “Laoag”
- Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Laoag”
- Chavacano: “Laoag”
- Chinese: “Laoag”
- Chinese: “佬沃”
- Chinese: “拉瓦格”
- Czech: “Laoag”
- Dagbani: “Laoag”
- Danish: “Laoag”
- Dimli (individual language): “Laoag”
- Dutch: “Laoag”
- Esperanto: “Laoag”
- Esperanto: “Laŭago”
- Esperanto: “Lavago”
- Fijian: “Laoag”
- Filipino: “Laoag”
- French: “Laoag”
- Georgian: “ლაოაგი”
- German: “Laoag City”
- German: “Laoag”
- Gorontalo: “Laoag”
- Hausa: “Laoag”
- Hiligaynon: “Laoag”
- Hiri Motu: “Laoag”
- Hungarian: “Laoag”
- Igbo: “Laoag”
- Iloko: “Laoag”
- Indonesian: “Kota Laoag”
- Indonesian: “Laoag City”
- Indonesian: “Laoag”
- Irish: “Laoag”
- Italian: “Laoag”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Laoag”
- Japanese: “ラオアグ”
- Javanese: “Laoag”
- Kinaray-A: “Laoag”
- Kongo: “Laoag”
- Korean: “라오아그”
- Korean: “라오악”
- Latvian: “Laoaga”
- Lithuanian: “Laoagas”
- Malagasy: “Laoag”
- Malay: “Laoag”
- Maltese: “Laoag”
- Maori: “Laoag”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Laoag”
- Min Nan Chinese: “佬渥”
- Min Nan Chinese: “佬渥市”
- Minangkabau: “Laoag”
- Mingrelian: “ლაოაგი სიტი”
- Mingrelian: “ლაოაგი”
- Moksha: “Лаоаг”
- Nauru: “Laoag”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Laoag City”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Laoag”
- Norwegian: “Laoag”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Laoag”
- Oromo: “Laoag”
- Paiwan: “Laoag”
- Pampanga: “Laoag Lakanbalen”
- Pampanga: “Laoag”
- Pangasinan: “Laoag”
- Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Laoag”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਉਗ”
- Polish: “Laoag”
- Portuguese: “Laoag”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Laoag”
- Russian: “Лаоаг”
- Sakizaya: “Laoag”
- Samoan: “Laoag”
- Scots: “Laoag”
- Slovenian: “Laoag”
- Spanish: “Laoag”
- Sundanese: “Laoag”
- Swahili: “Laoag”
- Swedish: “Laoag”
- Tagalog: “Laoag, Ilocos Norte”
- Tagalog: “Laoag”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod Laoag”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Laoag”
- Tahitian: “Laoag”
- Tatar: “Лаоаг”
- Tetum: “Laoag”
- Thai: “ลาวัก”
- Tibetan: “ལའོ་ཨག”
- Tok Pisin: “Laoag”
- Ukrainian: “Лаоаг”
- Ukrainian: “Лаоаґ”
- Urdu: “لاواگ”
- Vietnamese: “Laoag”
- Waray (Philippines): “Laoag”
- Welsh: “Laoag”
- Western Panjabi: “لاؤگ”
- Xhosa: “Laoag”
- Yoruba: “Laoag”
- Zulu: “Laoag”
- “Laoag”
- “Laoag, Ilocos Norte”
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