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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Eastern Samar and Borongan.
Eastern Samar
Eastern Samar is a province forming the eastern part of Samar Island in the Philippines.
Borongan
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Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Samar Province and Northern Samar.
Samar Province
Samar, sometimes unofficially called Western Samar…
Samar Island
- Type: Town hall with 1,750,000 residents
- Description: island in the Philippines
- Also known as: “Đảo Samar”, “Insula Samar”, “Isla de Samar”, “Isla han Samar”, “Isla ng Samar”, “isola di Samar”, “Pulo ng Samar”, “Pulo sa Samar”, “Samar”, “Samar Adası”, “Samar Capitol Building”, “Samar Eiland”, “Samar Provincial Capitol”, “Samar-Insel”, “Western Samar Capitol Building”, “Western Samar Provincial Capitol”, “Востраў Самар”, “Самар (утрау)”, “جزيرة سامار”, “سامار (جزیره)”, “سمار”, and “سمر”
- 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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
11.7754° or 11° 46′ 31″ north
Longitude of center
124.8859° or 124° 53′ 9″ east
Population
1,750,000
Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)
Established
1930
Operator
Philippine_Government
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=townhall
OpenStreetMap feature
building=civic
OpenStreetMap feature
office=government
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Samar Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Samar”
- Afrikaans: “Samar”
- Arabic: “سامار”
- Armenian: “Սամար”
- Azerbaijani: “Samar”
- Basque: “Samar”
- Belarusian: “Самар”
- Breton: “Samar”
- Bulgarian: “Самар”
- Catalan: “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”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سامار”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Samaro”
- Esperanto: “Samaro”
- Estonian: “Samar”
- Filipino: “Samar”
- Finnish: “Samar”
- French: “Samar”
- Galician: “Illa Samar”
- Galician: “Samar”
- Georgian: “სამარი”
- German: “Samar”
- Greek: “Σαμάρ”
- Hebrew: “סאמאר”
- Hindi: “सामार”
- Hungarian: “Samar”
- Iloko: “Samar”
- Indonesian: “pulau Samar”
- Indonesian: “Pulau 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”
- Polish: “Samar”
- Portuguese: “Samar”
- Romanian: “Samar”
- Russian: “Самар”
- Scots: “Samar”
- Serbian: “Samar”
- Serbian: “Самар”
- Slovenian: “Samar”
- Spanish: “Isla de Sámar”
- Spanish: “Sámar”
- Swedish: “Samar”
- Tagalog: “Samar”
- Tamil: “சமர், பிலிப்பீன்சு”
- Tatar: “Самар”
- Turkish: “Samar”
- Ukrainian: “Самар”
- Urdu: “سامار”
- Venetian: “Sàmar”
- Vietnamese: “Samar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samar”
- Welsh: “Samar”
- Western Mari: “Самар”
- Wu Chinese: “萨马”
- Wu Chinese: “萨马岛”
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