Samar Province
Samar, sometimes unofficially called Western Samar, is one of the three provinces in Samar Island, Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines.
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Samar Province
- Type: State with 806,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Kanlurang Samar”, “Lalawigan ng Kanlurang Samar”, “Lalawigan sa Samar”, “Probinsiya ng Kanlurang Samar”, “Probinsiya ng Samar”, “Probinsya ng Kanlurang Samar”, “Probinsya ng Samar”, “Provinca Samar”, “Province of Samar”, “Province of Western Samar”, “Provincia de Samar”, “Provincia de Sámar”, “provincia di Samar”, “provinsi Samar”, “Samar”, “Samar Occidental”, “Sàmar Osidentale”, “Zahodni Samar”, “Провінція Самар”, “سامار (صوبہ)”, “سامار افتوزنون”, “समर प्रान्त”, “三描省”, and “薩馬”
- 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′ north
Longitude of center
125° east
Population
806,000
Elevation
291 metres (955 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Belarusian: “Самар”
- Bengali: “সামার”
- Bulgarian: “Самар”
- Capiznon: “Samar”
- Catalan: “Província de Samar”
- Catalan: “Samar”
- Cebuano: “Samar”
- Central Bikol: “Samar”
- Chavacano: “Samar”
- Chinese: “萨马省”
- 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: “सामार प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “सामार”
- Iloko: “Samar”
- Indonesian: “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”
- Minangkabau: “Samar”
- 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: “Samar”
- South Azerbaijani: “سامار”
- Spanish: “Samar”
- Spanish: “Sámar”
- Sundanese: “Samar”
- Swedish: “Samar”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Samar”
- Tagalog: “Samar”
- Tamil: “சாமர்”
- Telugu: “సమర్”
- Tetum: “Samar”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซามาร์”
- Thai: “ซามาร์”
- Turkish: “Samar”
- Ukrainian: “Самар”
- Urdu: “سامار”
- Venetian: “Sàmar”
- Vietnamese: “Samar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samar”
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