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Vigan

Vigan is a city in , Northern . Its Spanish colonial influence in local architecture and old-world charm make it a unique city in the .
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  • Type: City with 53,900 residents
  • Description: city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Ilocos Sur
  • Also known as: “City of Vigan”, “Dakbayan sa Vigan”, “Vigan City”, and “Vigan Heritage Village”
  • Historically known as: “Ciudad Fernandina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Quirino Stadium.

Sports venue
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The President Elpidio , simply known as the , is a sports facility in the town of , , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bantay and San Vicente.

Town
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, officially the Municipality of , is a municipality in the province of , . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 37,118 people.

Town
Photo: Joelaldor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, officially the Municipality of , is a municipality in the province of , . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 13,118 people.

Town
Photo: Lawrence ruiz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, officially the Municipality of , is a municipality in the province of , . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 19,574 people.

Vigan

Latitude
17.5755° or 17° 34′ 32″ north
Longitude
120.3873° or 120° 23′ 14″ east
Population
53,900
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
VGN
United Nations Location Code
PH VIG
Open location code
7Q92H9GP+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198492634
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1679980
Wiki­data ID
Q235004
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Vigan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيغان”
  • Armenian: “Վիգան”
  • Asturian: “Vigan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Viqan”
  • Basque: “Vigan”
  • Belarusian: “Віган”
  • Bengali: “ভিগান”
  • Burmese: “ဗီဂန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Vigan”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Vigan”
  • Cebuano: “Vigan”
  • Central Bikol: “Vigan”
  • Chavacano: “Vigan”
  • Chinese: “Vigan”
  • Chinese: “維甘”
  • Chinese: “维甘”
  • Chinese: “美岸”
  • Chinese: “美岸市”
  • Croatian: “Vigan”
  • Czech: “Vigan”
  • Dutch: “Vigan City”
  • Dutch: “Vigan”
  • Esperanto: “Bigano”
  • Esperanto: “Vigan”
  • Finnish: “Vigan”
  • French: “Vigan”
  • Galician: “Vigán”
  • Georgian: “ვიგანი”
  • German: “Vigan City”
  • German: “Vigan-Stadt”
  • Greek: “Βιγκάν”
  • Greek: “Μπίγαν”
  • Gujarati: “વિગાન”
  • Hebrew: “ויגאן”
  • Hindi: “विगन”
  • Hindi: “विगान”
  • Hungarian: “Vigan City”
  • Iloko: “Ciudad ti Vigan”
  • Iloko: “Vigan City”
  • Iloko: “Vigan”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Vigan”
  • Italian: “Vigan”
  • Japanese: “ヴィガン”
  • Japanese: “ビガン”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಗಾನ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Виган шаары”
  • Korean: “비간”
  • Korean: “비간시”
  • Latvian: “Vigana”
  • Latvian: “Vigano”
  • Lithuanian: “Viganas”
  • Maithili: “भिगन”
  • Malay: “Vigan”
  • Malayalam: “വിഗൻ”
  • Maltese: “Vigan”
  • Marathi: “विगन”
  • Marathi: “विगान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bí-gān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “美岸”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “美岸市”
  • Moksha: “Виган”
  • Nepali: “भिगन”
  • Norwegian: “Vigan City”
  • Pampanga: “Vigan Lakanbalen”
  • Pampanga: “Vigan”
  • Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Vigan”
  • Pangasinan: “Vigan City”
  • Pangasinan: “Vigan”
  • Persian: “شهر تاریخی ویگان”
  • Persian: “ویگان”
  • Polish: “Vigan City”
  • Polish: “Vigan”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Histórica de Vigan”
  • Portuguese: “Vigan”
  • Romanian: “Vigan”
  • Russian: “Виган”
  • Serbian: “Виган”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vigan”
  • Sinhala: “විගන්”
  • Slovak: “Vigan”
  • Spanish: “Bigan”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Vigan”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Segovia”
  • Spanish: “Vigán”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵉⴳⴰⵏ”
  • Swedish: “Vigan City”
  • Swedish: “Vigan”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Vigan”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Vigan”
  • Tagalog: “Vigan”
  • Tamil: “விகான்”
  • Telugu: “విగాన్”
  • Thai: “บีกัน”
  • Thai: “วีกัน”
  • Turkish: “Vigan”
  • Ukrainian: “Віган”
  • Urdu: “ویگان”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Vigan”
  • Vietnamese: “Vigan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Vigan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vigan City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vigan”
  • Yue Chinese: “維甘”
  • “Vigan”
  • “Vigan, Ilocos Sur”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Vigan”. Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0.