Porac
Porac is a town in southwestern Pampanga, Philippines. Situated at the foot of the Mount Pinatubo massif and the Central Luzon plains, it combines cultural heritage and natural wonders within its territory, despite challenges brought by the Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991 and encroaching urbanization from nearby Angeles.- Type: Town with 148,000 residents
- Description: municipality of the Philippines in the province of Pampanga
- Neighbors: Floridablanca
Porac
- Categories: municipality of the Philippines, military town, and locality
- Location: Southwest Pampanga, Pampanga, Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
15.0726° or 15° 4′ 22″ northLongitude
120.543° or 120° 32′ 35″ eastPopulation
148,000Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
7Q723GFV+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 198492694OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1692376Wikidata ID
Q55721
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Zulu—“Porac” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Porac”
- Asturian: “Porac”
- Balinese: “Porac”
- Banjar: “Porac”
- Basque: “Porac”
- Batak Toba: “Porac”
- Buginese: “Porac”
- Capiznon: “Porac”
- Catalan: “Porac”
- Cebuano: “Porac”
- Central Bikol: “Porac”
- Chavacano: “Porac”
- Chavacano: “Pórac”
- Chinese: “波拉克”
- Chinese: “蒲辣”
- Dagbani: “Porac”
- Danish: “Porac”
- Dutch: “Porac”
- Esperanto: “Porac”
- Fijian: “Porac”
- Filipino: “Purac”
- French: “Porac”
- Georgian: “პორაკი”
- German: “Porac”
- Gorontalo: “Porac”
- Hausa: “Porac”
- Hiligaynon: “Porac”
- Hiri Motu: “Porac”
- Igbo: “Porac”
- Iloko: “Porac”
- Indonesian: “Porac”
- Irish: “Porac”
- Italian: “Porac”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Porac”
- Japanese: “ポラック”
- Javanese: “Porac”
- Kinaray-A: “Porac”
- Kongo: “Porac”
- Malagasy: “Porac”
- Malay: “Porac”
- Maori: “Porac”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Porac”
- Min Nan Chinese: “波轆”
- Minangkabau: “Porac”
- Nauru: “Porac”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Porac”
- Norwegian: “Porac”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Porac”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Porac”
- Oromo: “Porac”
- Paiwan: “Porac”
- Pampanga: “Porac”
- Pangasinan: “Porac”
- Portuguese: “Porac”
- Portuguese: “Pôrac”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Porac”
- Russian: “Порач”
- Sakizaya: “Porac”
- Samoan: “Porac”
- Scots: “Porac”
- Spanish: “Pórac”
- Sundanese: “Porac”
- Swahili: “Porac”
- Swedish: “Porac”
- Tagalog: “Porac”
- Tahitian: “Porac”
- Tok Pisin: “Porac”
- Urdu: “پوراک”
- Vietnamese: “Porac”
- Waray (Philippines): “Porac, Pampanga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Porac”
- Welsh: “Porac”
- Xhosa: “Porac”
- Yoruba: “Porac”
- Zulu: “Porac”
- “Porac”
- “Porac, Pampanga”
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