Negros Oriental
Negros Oriental is a province occupying the south-eastern part of Negros, and also includes Apo Island. The other part of Negros is the province of Negros Occidental.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Dumaguete and Bayawan.
Dumaguete
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Dumaguete is the capital city and main port of Negros Oriental, the province that occupies the south-eastern part of Negros Island, in the Philippines.
Bayawan
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Bayawan is on the southwest coast of Negros Oriental. It is a moderately large town, 118,000 in the 2015 census, and has good beaches but tourism is not highly developed.
Bais
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Bais City is one of the cleanest and safest cities of the Philippines in Negros Oriental province. The main tourist draw is whale and dolphin watching in the Tañon Strait between Bais and the neighbouring island of Cebu.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Guihulngan and Mabinay.
Guihulngan
Guihulngan is a coastal town in the north of Negros Oriental. It is the province's third largest city with 103,000 residents in 2020.Mabinay
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Mabinay is a municipality covering a large area of hills and valleys near the center of Negros Island. There are many caves in the region and the town's small tourist industry revolves around organizing trips to them and kayaking in the Ilog river and its tributaries.
Zamboanguita
Siaton
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Siaton is a municipality at the southern tip of Negros Island, in Negros Oriental Province, Philippines. Population was about 83,000 in the 2020 census.
Dauin
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Dauin is a small seaside municipality south of Dumaguete in Negros Oriental. It is bordered on the east by the seashore, one the north by Bacong, on the south by Zamboanguita, and on the west by Santa Catalina.
Basay
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Basay is the westernmost town on the south coast of Negros Oriental, right at the border with Negros Occidental. Population was about 25,000 as of the 2010 census.
Apo Island
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Apo Island is in the province of Negros Oriental, in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines, about 30 km south of the provincial capital of Dumaguete.
Negros Oriental
- Type: State with 1,490,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Oriental Negros” and “Province of Negros Oriental”
- Neighbors: Negros Occidental and Siquijor
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Central Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
9.75° or 9° 45′ northLongitude of center
123° eastPopulation
1,490,000Elevation
780 metres (2,559 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 305704401OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Waray—“Negros Oriental” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Negros Oriental”
- Arabic: “أورينتال نيغروس”
- Asturian: “Negros Oriental”
- Balinese: “Negros Oriental”
- Banjar: “Negros Oriental”
- Bengali: “পূর্ব নেগ্রোস”
- Capiznon: “Negros Oriental”
- Catalan: “Negros Oriental”
- Cebuano: “Lalawigan sa Negros Oriental”
- Cebuano: “Negros Oriental”
- Cebuano: “Sidlakang Negros”
- Central Bikol: “Negros Oriental”
- Chavacano: “Negros Oriental”
- Chinese: “Negros Oriental”
- Chinese: “东内格罗省”
- Chinese: “東內格羅省”
- Danish: “Negros Oriental”
- Dutch: “Negros Oriental”
- Esperanto: “Orienta Negroso”
- Esperanto: “Orientaj Negroj”
- Esperanto: “Orientnegroj”
- Finnish: “Negros Oriental”
- French: “Negros oriental”
- Georgian: “აღმოსავლეთი ნეგროსი”
- German: “Negros Oriental”
- German: “Ost-Negros”
- German: “Provinz Negros Oriental”
- Gorontalo: “Negros Oriental”
- Greek: “Νέγκρος Οριένταλ”
- Gujarati: “નેગ્રોસ ઓરિએન્ટલ”
- Hebrew: “נגרוס אוריינטל”
- Hiligaynon: “Negros Oriental”
- Hindi: “नेग्रोस ओरिएंटल”
- Hindi: “नेग्रोस ओरिएन्ताल”
- Iloko: “Negros Oriental”
- Indonesian: “Buglas Timur”
- Indonesian: “Negros Timur”
- Italian: “provincia di Negros Oriental”
- Italian: “Provincia di Negros Oriental”
- Japanese: “東ネグロス”
- Japanese: “東ネグロス州”
- Javanese: “Negros Oriental”
- Kannada: “ನೆಗ್ರೋಸ್ ಒರಿಯಂಟಲ್”
- Kinaray-A: “Morod·an nga Kanigrosan”
- Kinaray-A: “Murud·an nga Kanegrusan”
- Kinaray-A: “Murud·ang Kanegrusan”
- Korean: “동네그로스주”
- Latvian: “Austrumnegrosa”
- Latvian: “Austrumu Negrosa”
- Lithuanian: “Rytinis Negrosas”
- Macedonian: “Источен Негрос”
- Malay: “Negros Timur”
- Marathi: “नेग्रोस ओरिएंटल”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Negros Oriental”
- Min Nan Chinese: “東黑人省”
- Minangkabau: “Negros Oriental”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Negros Oriental”
- Norwegian: “Negros Oriental”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Negros Oriental”
- Pampanga: “Negros Oriental”
- Pangasinan: “Negros Oriental”
- Persian: “نگرو شرقی”
- Polish: “Negros Oriental”
- Portuguese: “Negros Oriental”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Negros Oriental”
- Russian: “Восточный Негрос”
- Scots: “Negros Oriental”
- Sinhala: “නෙග්රෝස් ඔරියන්ටල්”
- Slovenian: “Negros Oriental”
- South Azerbaijani: “دوغو نقرو”
- Spanish: “Negros Oriental”
- Sundanese: “Negros Oriental”
- Swedish: “Negros Oriental”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Negros Oriental”
- Tagalog: “Negros Oriental”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Negros Oriental”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Negros Oriental”
- Tagalog: “Silangang Negros”
- Tamil: “நெகிறோஸ் ஒரிஎண்டல்”
- Tamil: “நெக்ரோஸ் ஒரியென்டல்”
- Telugu: “నెగ్రోస్ ఓరియంటల్”
- Tetum: “Negros Oriental”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซีลางังเนโกรส”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเนโกรสโอเรียนตัล”
- Turkish: “Negros Oriental”
- Ukrainian: “Східний Негрос”
- Urdu: “نیگروس شرقی”
- Venetian: “Negros Oriental”
- Venetian: “Négros Orientale”
- Vietnamese: “Negros Oriental”
- Waray (Philippines): “Negros Oriental”
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