Samar Island
Samar is the third largest island in the Philippines, after Mindanao and Luzon islands. It is located next to Leyte Island and the two are joined by a bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Eastern Samar and Borongan.
Eastern Samar
Eastern Samar is a province forming the eastern part of Samar Island in the Philippines. Being on the east coast, the province boasts spectacular high waves from the Pacific Ocean making it ideal for surfing.
Borongan
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Borongan is the capital of Eastern Samar, in the Eastern Visayas region of Philippines. The city is a surfer's paradise, mostly frequented during the cool, rainy months.
Catarman
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Catarman is the capital of Northern Samar, in the Eastern Visayas, Philippines. It is on the northern coast of Samar Island. It is the commercial, educational, financial, political and government center of the province.
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Samar Province
Samar, sometimes unofficially called Western Samar, is one of the three provinces in Samar Island, Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines.
Northern Samar
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Northern Samar is one of the three provinces of Samar Island in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines.
Samar Island
- Type: Town hall with 1,750,000 residents
- Description: island in the Philippines
- Also known as: “Samar”, “Samar Capitol Building”, “Samar Provincial Capitol”, “Western Samar Capitol Building”, and “Western Samar Provincial Capitol”
- Neighbors: Eastern Samar
- Categories: island, government office, building, office, and public building
- Location: Samar Province, Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
11.7754° or 11° 46′ 31″ northLongitude of center
124.8859° or 124° 53′ 9″ eastPopulation
1,750,000Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)Inception
1930Operator
Philippine_GovernmentOpenStreetMap ID
way 216243435OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=townhallOpenStreetMap feature
building=civicOpenStreetMap feature
office=government
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Samar Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Samar”
- Afrikaans: “Samar”
- Arabic: “جزيرة سامار”
- Arabic: “سامار”
- Arabic: “سمار”
- Arabic: “سمر”
- Armenian: “Սամար”
- Azerbaijani: “Samar”
- Basque: “Samar”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Самар”
- Belarusian: “Самар”
- Breton: “Samar”
- Bulgarian: “Самар”
- Catalan: “Samar”
- Cebuano: “Pulo sa Samar”
- Cebuano: “Samar”
- Central Bikol: “Samar”
- Chinese: “萨马”
- Chinese: “萨马岛”
- Chinese: “薩馬”
- Chinese: “薩馬島”
- Chuvash: “Самар”
- Croatian: “Samar”
- Czech: “Samar”
- Danish: “Samar”
- Dutch: “Samar Eiland”
- Dutch: “Samar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سامار”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Samaro”
- Esperanto: “Samar”
- Esperanto: “Samaro”
- Estonian: “Samar”
- Filipino: “Samar”
- Finnish: “Samar”
- French: “Samar”
- Galician: “Illa Samar”
- Galician: “Samar”
- Georgian: “სამარი”
- German: “Samar-Insel”
- German: “Samar”
- Greek: “Σαμάρ”
- Hebrew: “סאמאר”
- Hindi: “सामार”
- Hungarian: “Samar”
- Iloko: “Samar”
- Indonesian: “pulau Samar”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Samar”
- Italian: “isola di Samar”
- Italian: “Isola di Samar”
- Italian: “Samar”
- Japanese: “サマール”
- Japanese: “サマール島”
- Kazakh: “Самар”
- Korean: “사마르섬”
- Latvian: “Samara (sala)”
- Latvian: “Samara”
- Lithuanian: “Samaras”
- Macedonian: “Самар”
- Malagasy: “Samar (nosy)”
- Malagasy: “Samar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Samar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samar”
- Norwegian: “Samar”
- Ossetian: “Самар”
- Persian: “سامار (جزیره)”
- Persian: “سامار”
- Polish: “Samar”
- Portuguese: “Samar”
- Romanian: “Insula Samar”
- Romanian: “Samar”
- Russian: “Самар”
- Scots: “Samar”
- Serbian: “Samar”
- Serbian: “Самар”
- Slovenian: “Samar”
- Spanish: “Isla de Samar”
- Spanish: “Isla de Sámar”
- Spanish: “Samar”
- Spanish: “Sámar”
- Swedish: “Samar”
- Tagalog: “Isla ng Samar”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Samar”
- Tagalog: “Samar”
- Tamil: “சமர், பிலிப்பீன்சு”
- Tatar: “Самар (утрау)”
- Tatar: “Самар”
- Turkish: “Samar Adası”
- Turkish: “Samar”
- Ukrainian: “Самар”
- Urdu: “سامار”
- Venetian: “Sàmar”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Samar”
- Vietnamese: “Samar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Samar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samar”
- Welsh: “Samar”
- Western Mari: “Самар”
- Wu Chinese: “萨马”
- Wu Chinese: “萨马岛”
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