Pilar
Pilar is a town in Bataan, Central Luzon, the Philippines. It is best known as the location of Mount Samat National Shrine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Balanga Cathedral and Bataan Provincial Building.
Balanga Cathedral
Church
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The Cathedral-Shrine of Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary, commonly known as Balanga Cathedral, in Balanga, Bataan, is the seat of the Diocese of Balanga which comprises entire of the civil province of Bataan, Philippines.
Bataan Provincial Building
Public building
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bataan Provincial Building, Bataan Provincial Capitol, or The Bunker is the seat of the provincial government of Bataan in the Philippines. The first provincial building was built in 1794, and later damaged by earthquakes in the mid-1800s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balanga.
Balanga
Balanga, officially the City of Balanga, is a component city and capital of the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 109,931 people. It was included the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2015.Pilar
- Categories: municipality of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Bataan, Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
14.6669° or 14° 40′ 1″ northLongitude
120.5528° or 120° 33′ 10″ eastPopulation
41,800Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
7Q62MH83+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 198497378OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1693839Wikidata ID
Q54464
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Zulu—“Pilar” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Pilar”
- Asturian: “Pilar”
- Balinese: “Pilar”
- Banjar: “Pilar”
- Basque: “Pilar”
- Batak Toba: “Pilar”
- Buginese: “Pilar”
- Capiznon: “Pilar”
- Catalan: “Pilar”
- Cebuano: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Cebuano: “Pilar”
- Central Bikol: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Central Bikol: “Pilar”
- Chavacano: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Chavacano: “Pilar”
- Chinese: “皮拉爾”
- Dagbani: “Pilar”
- Danish: “Pilar”
- Dutch: “Pilar”
- Esperanto: “Pilar”
- Fijian: “Pilar”
- French: “Pilar”
- Georgian: “პილარი”
- German: “Pilar”
- Gorontalo: “Pilar”
- Hausa: “Pilar”
- Hiligaynon: “Pilar”
- Hiri Motu: “Pilar”
- Igbo: “Pilar”
- Iloko: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Iloko: “Pilar”
- Indonesian: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Indonesian: “Pilar”
- Irish: “Pilar”
- Italian: “Pilar”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Pilar”
- Javanese: “Pilar”
- Kinaray-A: “Pilar”
- Kongo: “Pilar”
- Latin: “Pilar”
- Malagasy: “Pilar”
- Malay: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Malay: “Pilar”
- Maori: “Pilar”
- Minangkabau: “Pilar”
- Nauru: “Pilar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pilar”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pilar”
- Oromo: “Pilar”
- Paiwan: “Pilar”
- Pampanga: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Pampanga: “Pilar”
- Pangasinan: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Pangasinan: “Pilar”
- Persian: “پیلار، باتان”
- Portuguese: “Pilar”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Pilar”
- Russian: “Пилар”
- Sakizaya: “Pilar”
- Samoan: “Pilar”
- Scots: “Pilar”
- Spanish: “Pilar”
- Sundanese: “Pilar”
- Swahili: “Pilar”
- Swedish: “Pilar”
- Tagalog: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Tagalog: “Pilar”
- Tahitian: “Pilar”
- Tetum: “Pilar”
- Tok Pisin: “Pilar”
- Urdu: “پیلار، باتآن”
- Vietnamese: “Pilar, Bataan”
- Vietnamese: “Pilar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pilar, Bataan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pilar”
- Welsh: “Pilar”
- Xhosa: “Pilar”
- Yoruba: “Pilar”
- Zulu: “Pilar”
- “Pilar”
- “Pilar, Bataan”
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