Luzon
Luzon is the largest and the most populous island of the Philippines. This article also covers a number of nearby smaller islands. The island has a variety of attractions, from the cobblestone streets of the colonial town of Vigan to the bustling metropolis of the national capital Manila to the rice terraces and pine forests of the Cordillera Region.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Manila and Quezon City.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Calabarzon and Central Luzon.
Calabarzon
Calabarzon is a region of southwestern Luzon, the main island in the Philippines.
Central Luzon
Central Luzon is one of the 18 regions of the Philippines.
Metro Manila
Cagayan Valley
Cagayan Valley is a region at the northeastern corner of Luzon.
Luzon Cordilleras
The Cordilleras is a highland region in the northern part of Luzon.
Marinduque
Marinduque is an island province in the Luzon island…
Luzon
- Island with 46,200,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 413 metres (1,355 feet)
- …is also known as “Luzon Island”
- Description: largest island of the Philippines
- Location
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Luzon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Luzon-eiland”
- Afrikaans: “Luzon”
- Afrikaans: “Luzoneiland”
- Arabic: “لوزون”
- Armenian: “Լուսոն”
- Asturian: “Luzón”
- Azerbaijani: “Luson adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Luzon”
- Banjar: “Pulau Luzon”
- Bashkir: “Лусон”
- Basque: “Luzon”
- Belarusian: “Лусон”
- Belarusian: “Люсон”
- Bengali: “লুজন”
- Bengali: “লুসোন দ্বীপ”
- Bosnian: “Luzon”
- Breton: “Luzon”
- Bulgarian: “Лусон”
- Catalan: “Illa de Luzón”
- Catalan: “Luzon”
- Catalan: “Luzón”
- Cebuano: “Luzon”
- Cebuano: “Luzón”
- Central Bikol: “Luzon”
- Chavacano: “Luzon”
- Chinese: “吕宋”
- Chinese: “吕宋岛”
- Chinese: “呂宋”
- Chinese: “呂宋島”
- Chinese: “小吕宋”
- Croatian: “Luzon”
- Czech: “Luzon”
- Danish: “Luzon”
- Dutch: “Luzon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوزون”
- Esperanto: “Luzon”
- Esperanto: “Luzono”
- Estonian: “Luzon”
- Estonian: “Luzoni saar”
- Fiji Hindi: “Luzon”
- Filipino: “Luzon”
- Finnish: “Luzon”
- French: “Île de Luçon”
- French: “Lucon”
- French: “Luçon”
- French: “Luzon”
- Galician: “Luzón”
- Georgian: “ლუსონი”
- German: “Luzon”
- German: “Luzón”
- Greek: “Λουζόν”
- Greek: “Λουσόν”
- Hebrew: “לוזון”
- Hindi: “लूज़ोन”
- Hungarian: “Luzon”
- Iban: “Luzon”
- Icelandic: “Lúson”
- Ido: “Luzon”
- Iloko: “Amianan a Luzon”
- Iloko: “Luzon”
- Iloko: “Luzón”
- Indonesian: “Luson”
- Indonesian: “Luzon”
- Indonesian: “pulau Lesung”
- Indonesian: “pulau Luson”
- Interlingua: “Luzon”
- Interlingue: “Luzón”
- Irish: “Luzon”
- Italian: “Isola di Luson”
- Italian: “Isola di Luzon”
- Italian: “Isola di Luzón”
- Italian: “Kalusunan”
- Italian: “Luzon”
- Japanese: “ルソン”
- Japanese: “ルゾン”
- Japanese: “ルソン島”
- Japanese: “ルゾン島”
- Japanese: “呂宋”
- Javanese: “Luzon”
- Kazakh: “Lwson”
- Kazakh: “Лусон”
- Kazakh: “لۋسون”
- Khmer: “កោះលូហ្ស៊ុន”
- Kinaray-A: “Loson”
- Kinaray-A: “Luson”
- Kirghiz: “Лусон аралы”
- Kirghiz: “Лусон”
- Korean: “루손”
- Korean: “루손섬”
- Korean: “루쏜섬”
- Korean: “루존 섬”
- Korean: “여송국”
- Lao: “ລູຊອນ”
- Latin: “Luconia”
- Latin: “Luzon”
- Latvian: “Lusona”
- Literary Chinese: “呂宋島”
- Lithuanian: “Lusonas”
- Macedonian: “Лусон”
- Malagasy: “Luzón”
- Malay: “Luzon”
- Malayalam: “ലുസോൺ”
- Marathi: “लुझान”
- Marathi: “लुझॉन”
- Marathi: “लुझोन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lī-sòng-tó”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lī-sòng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lū-sòng-tó”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lū-sòng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Luzon”
- Mingrelian: “ლუსონი”
- Northern Frisian: “Luzon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luzon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luzon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luzón”
- Norwegian: “Luzon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Luçon”
- Ossetian: “Лусон”
- Paiwan: “ljusung a qinaljan”
- Pampanga: “Luzon”
- Pangasinan: “Luzon”
- Persian: “جزيره لوزون”
- Persian: “جزیره لوزون”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ لوزون”
- Persian: “لوزون”
- Polish: “Luzon”
- Portuguese: “Lução”
- Portuguese: “Luçon”
- Portuguese: “Luzon”
- Portuguese: “Luzón”
- Romanian: “Luzon”
- Russian: “Лусон”
- Russian: “островъ луконъ.”
- Santali: “ᱞᱩᱡᱳᱱ”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Luzon”
- Serbian: “Luzon”
- Serbian: “Лузон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Luzon”
- Slovak: “Luzon”
- Slovenian: “Luzon”
- Spanish: “Isla de Luzon”
- Spanish: “Isla de Luzón”
- Spanish: “Luzon”
- Spanish: “Luzón”
- Swahili: “Luzon”
- Swedish: “Luzon”
- Tagalog: “Isla ng Luzon”
- Tagalog: “Islang Luzon”
- Tagalog: “Luson”
- Tagalog: “Luzon”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Luzon”
- Tagalog: “Pulong Luson”
- Tamil: “லூசோன்”
- Tatar: “Лусон”
- Thai: “เกาะลูซอน”
- Tibetan: “ལུ་ཟོན་”
- Tibetan: “ལུ་ཟོན།”
- Turkish: “Luzon Adası”
- Turkish: “Luzon”
- Ukrainian: “Лусон”
- Urdu: “لوزون”
- Uzbek: “Luson (orol)”
- Uzbek: “Luson”
- Venetian: “Luson”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Luzon”
- Vietnamese: “Lữ Tống”
- Vietnamese: “Luzon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Luzon”
- Welsh: “Luzon”
- Welsh: “Ynys Luzon”
- Western Frisian: “Luzon”
- Western Mari: “Лусон”
- Western Panjabi: “لوزون”
- Wu Chinese: “吕宋”
- Yakut: “Лусон”
- Yue Chinese: “呂宋”
- Yue Chinese: “呂宋島”
- “ma Luson”
Philippines: Highlights
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