Mindanao
Mindanao is an island in the Philippines, the southernmost major island in the country and the second largest, after Luzon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Davao and Basilan.
Davao
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Davao is the largest city on the Philippines' second-largest island, Mindanao. It has a huge land area, and the inhabitants like to think of it as one of the most crime-free large cities in the Philippines.
Basilan
Basilan is an island province of the Philippines in Mindanao, just off the southern coast of the Zamboanga Peninsula. Basilan is the biggest and northernmost among the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago.
Cagayan de Oro
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Cagayan de Oro, often abbreviated CDO and sometimes just called "Cagayan", is known as the "City of Golden Friendship." It is the capital of the Province of Misamis Oriental and the "Gateway of Northern Mindanao."…
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Northern Mindanao and Bangsamoro.
Northern Mindanao
Northern Mindanao, designated as Region X, is an administrative region in the Philippines. It comprises five provinces: Bukidnon, Camiguin, Misamis Occidental, Misamis Oriental, and Lanao del Norte, as well as two highly urbanized cities: Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, all occupying the northern-central part of Mindanao, including the island of Camiguin.
Bangsamoro
Bangsamoro, or Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in full, is a Muslim-dominant region of Mindanao. The region once formed the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, renamed after a plebiscite in January 2019.
Davao Region
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Davao Region is on the island of Mindanao, Philippines. It used to be one province, but it has since been divided into five.
Zamboanga Peninsula
Zamboanga Peninsula, designated as Region IX, is an administrative region in Mindanao, Philippines. It consists of the provinces of Sulu, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga del Sur, and the cities of Isabela and Zamboanga City.
Caraga
Caraga, officially the Caraga Administrative Region and designated as Region XIII, is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the northeastern section of Mindanao.
Soccsksargen
SOCCSKSARGEN, also officially known as Region XII, is a region in central Mindanao. It is also known as Central Mindanao. The regional center is in Koronadal at the province of South Cotabato.
Mindanao
- Type: Island with 25,500,000 residents
- Description: second largest island of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Magindanao”, “Mindanao Island”, and “Mindinao”
- Location: Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mindanao” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mindanao”
- Arabic: “منداناو”
- Arabic: “مندناو”
- Arabic: “مينداناو”
- Armenian: “Մինդանաո”
- Asturian: “Mindanao”
- Azerbaijani: “Mindanao adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Mindanao”
- Banjar: “Mindanao”
- Bashkir: “Минданао (утрау)”
- Bashkir: “Минданао”
- Basque: “Mindanao”
- Belarusian: “Мінданаа”
- Belarusian: “Мінданао”
- Bengali: “মিন্দানাও”
- Bosnian: “Mindanao”
- Breton: “Mindanao”
- Bulgarian: “Минданао”
- Catalan: “Mindanao”
- Cebuano: “Mindanao”
- Cebuano: “Mindanaw”
- Central Bikol: “Mindanao”
- Chavacano: “Mindanao”
- Chinese: “Mindanao”
- Chinese: “棉兰老”
- Chinese: “棉兰老岛”
- Chinese: “棉蘭老”
- Chinese: “棉蘭老島”
- Chinese: “民答那峨”
- Chinese: “民答那峨岛”
- Chinese: “沙瑤”
- Chuvash: “Минданао утравĕ”
- Chuvash: “Минданао”
- Croatian: “Mindanao”
- Czech: “Mindanao”
- Danish: “Mindanao”
- Dutch: “Mindanao”
- Esperanto: “Mindanao”
- Estonian: “Mindanao”
- Fiji Hindi: “Mindanao”
- Finnish: “Mindanao”
- French: “Mindanao”
- Galician: “Mindanao”
- Georgian: “მინდანაო”
- German: “Mindanao-Insel”
- German: “Mindanao”
- Greek: “Μιντανάο”
- Hebrew: “מינדנאו”
- Hindi: “मिन्दनाओ”
- Hungarian: “Mindanao”
- Icelandic: “Mindanao”
- Ido: “Mindanao”
- Iloko: “Mindanao”
- Indonesian: “Maluku Raya”
- Indonesian: “Mindanao”
- Indonesian: “Mindanau”
- Indonesian: “pulau Mindanao”
- Indonesian: “pulau Mindanau”
- Interlingua: “Mindanao”
- Irish: “Mindanao”
- Italian: “Mindanao”
- Japanese: “ミンダナオ”
- Japanese: “ミンダナオ島”
- Javanese: “Mindanao”
- Kazakh: “Mïndanao”
- Kazakh: “Минданао”
- Kazakh: “مىينداناو”
- Khmer: “កោះមីនដាណាវ”
- Kinaray-A: “Mindanaw”
- Kirghiz: “Минданао”
- Korean: “민다나오”
- Korean: “민다나오섬”
- Latin: “Mindanao”
- Latin: “Mindanaum”
- Latvian: “Mindanao”
- Lithuanian: “Mindanao”
- Macedonian: “Минданао”
- Malagasy: “Mindanao”
- Malay: “Mindanao”
- Malayalam: “മിന്ദനാവോ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mindanao”
- Mingrelian: “მინდანაო”
- Northern Frisian: “Mindanao”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mindanao”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mindanao”
- Norwegian: “Mindanao”
- Ossetian: “Минданао”
- Pampanga: “Mindanao”
- Pampanga: “Mindano”
- Persian: “جزيره ميندانائو”
- Persian: “جزیره میندانائو”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ میندانائو”
- Persian: “ميندانائو”
- Persian: “میندانائو”
- Polish: “Mindanao”
- Portuguese: “Mindanao”
- Portuguese: “Mindanau”
- Romanian: “Mindanao”
- Russian: “Минданао (остров)”
- Russian: “Минданао”
- Russian: “остров Минданао”
- Santali: “ᱢᱤᱱᱫᱟᱱᱟᱣ”
- Scots: “Mindanao”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mindanao”
- Serbian: “Mindanao”
- Serbian: “Минданао”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mindanao”
- Slovenian: “Mindanao”
- Spanish: “Gran Moluca”
- Spanish: “isla de Mindanao”
- Spanish: “Mindanao”
- Swahili: “Mindanao”
- Swedish: “Mindanao”
- Tagalog: “Isla ng Mindanao”
- Tagalog: “Mindanao”
- Tagalog: “Mindanaw”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Mindanao”
- Tamil: “மிண்டனாவோ”
- Tatar: “Минданао”
- Thai: “Mindanao”
- Thai: “เกาะมินดาเนา”
- Thai: “มินดาเนา”
- Turkish: “Mindanao”
- Ukrainian: “Мінданао”
- Urdu: “مینداناؤ”
- Uzbek: “Mindanao”
- Venetian: “Mindanau”
- Venetian: “Mindanàu”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Mindanao”
- Vietnamese: “Mindanao”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mindanao”
- Welsh: “Mindanao”
- Western Mari: “Минданао”
- Western Panjabi: “مینڈاناؤ”
- Wu Chinese: “棉兰老岛”
- Yakut: “Минданао”
- Yiddish: “מינדאַנאַאָ”
- Yiddish: “מינדאַנאַװ”
- Yue Chinese: “棉蘭老島”
- “ma Mintano”
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