Samar Province
Samar, sometimes unofficially called Western Samar, is one of the three provinces in Samar Island, Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Calbayog and Catbalogan.
Calbayog
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Calbayog is a city of 183,000 in Samar Province in the Philippines. It is home to many waterfalls, so its nickname "City of Waterfalls". Calbayog is a stop along the Asian Highway 26 or the Maharlika Highway.
Catbalogan
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Catbalogan City is the provincial capital city of Samar Province, in Eastern Visayas, Philippines. It is also the commercial, trading, educational, political and financial center of Samar.
Basey
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Basey is a municipality in Samar Province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines. Basey is famous for its beautiful Sohoton Caves, whose inner chamber features stalactites, stalagmites, and an underground river.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Paranas and Calbiga.
Paranas
Paranas is a municipality in Samar Province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines. In 2020 census, it had a population of 32,000.Calbiga
Calbiga is a growing agricultural and educational municipality of Samar Province in the Philippines. It lies along the Pan-Philippine Highway and is said to be the land of beauty in the Province of Samar.Marabut
Marabut is a municipality in Samar Province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines. Its coast stretches more than 20 kilometers along the San Pedro Bay and Leyte Gulf. In 2020, it had a population of 18,000 people.
Samar Province
- Type: State with 806,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Province of Samar”, “Province of Western Samar”, “Samar”, and “Samar Occidental”
- Historically known as: “Western Samar”
- Neighbors: Masbate
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
11.8333° or 11° 50′ northLongitude of center
125° eastPopulation
806,000Elevation
291 metres (955 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 305704519OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Waray—“Samar Province” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Samar”
- Achinese: “Samar”
- Arabic: “سامار”
- Asturian: “Samar”
- Balinese: “Samar”
- Banjar: “Samar”
- Bengali: “সামার”
- Bulgarian: “Самар”
- Capiznon: “Samar”
- Catalan: “Província de Samar”
- Catalan: “Samar”
- Cebuano: “Lalawigan sa Samar”
- Cebuano: “Samar”
- Central Bikol: “Samar”
- Chavacano: “Samar”
- Chinese: “Samar”
- Chinese: “萨马”
- Chinese: “萨马省”
- Chinese: “薩馬”
- Chinese: “薩馬省”
- Czech: “Samar”
- Danish: “Samar”
- Dutch: “Samar”
- Esperanto: “Samara provinco”
- Esperanto: “Samara”
- Finnish: “Samar”
- French: “Samar”
- Georgian: “სამარი (პროვინცია)”
- Georgian: “სამარის პროვინცია”
- German: “Provinz Samar”
- German: “Samar”
- Gorontalo: “Samar”
- Greek: “Σαμάρ”
- Gujarati: “સમર”
- Hiligaynon: “Samar”
- Hindi: “समर प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “समर”
- Hindi: “सामार प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “सामार”
- Iloko: “Samar”
- Indonesian: “provinsi Samar”
- Indonesian: “Samar”
- Italian: “provincia di Samar”
- Italian: “Provincia di Samar”
- Italian: “Samar”
- Japanese: “サマル”
- Japanese: “サマル州”
- Javanese: “Samar”
- Kannada: “ಸಮರ್”
- Kinaray-A: “Samar”
- Korean: “사마르주”
- Latin: “Samar”
- Latvian: “Samara”
- Lithuanian: “Samaras”
- Macedonian: “Самар”
- Malay: “Samar”
- Marathi: “समर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Samar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “三描省”
- Minangkabau: “Samar”
- Northern Luri: “سامار افتوزنون”
- Northern Luri: “سامار”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samar”
- Norwegian: “Samar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Samar”
- Ossetian: “Самар (провинци)”
- Ossetian: “Самар”
- Pampanga: “Samar”
- Pangasinan: “Samar”
- Persian: “سامار”
- Polish: “Samar”
- Portuguese: “Samar”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Samar”
- Russian: “Самар”
- Sinhala: “සමාර්”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Samar”
- Slovenian: “Samar”
- Slovenian: “Zahodni Samar”
- South Azerbaijani: “سامار”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Samar”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Sámar”
- Spanish: “Samar”
- Spanish: “Sámar”
- Sundanese: “Samar”
- Swedish: “Samar”
- Tagalog: “Kanlurang Samar”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kanlurang Samar”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Samar”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Kanlurang Samar”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Samar”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Kanlurang Samar”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Samar”
- Tagalog: “Samar”
- Tamil: “சாமர்”
- Telugu: “సమర్”
- Tetum: “Samar”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซามาร์”
- Thai: “ซามาร์”
- Turkish: “Samar”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Самар”
- Ukrainian: “Самар”
- Urdu: “سامار (صوبہ)”
- Urdu: “سامار”
- Venetian: “Sàmar Osidentale”
- Venetian: “Sàmar”
- Vietnamese: “Samar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samar”
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