Silay
Silay City is dubbed as the Paris of Negros because of its European-inspired houses which have been declared historical landmarks, and it is the second museum city in the Philippines next to Vigan.
- Type: City with 137,000 residents
- Description: city of the Philippines in the province of Negros Occidental
- Also known as: “City of Silay”, “Lungsod Silay”, “Silay, Negros Occidental”, “Syudad han Silay”, “詩萊”, and “詩萊市”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hofileña Ancestral House and Balay Negrense.
Silay
- Categories: component city, big city, and locality
- Location: Negros Occidental, Western Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.7994° or 10° 47′ 58″ north
Longitude
122.9756° or 122° 58′ 32″ east
Population
137,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
7Q24QXXG+Q6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Zulu—“Silay” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Silay”
- Arabic: “سيالي”
- Balinese: “Silay”
- Banjar: “Silay”
- Basque: “Silay”
- Batak Toba: “Silay”
- Bengali: “সিলে”
- Buginese: “Silay”
- Capiznon: “Silay”
- Catalan: “Silay”
- Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Silay”
- Cebuano: “Silay”
- Central Bikol: “Silay”
- Chavacano: “Silay”
- Chinese: “錫萊市”
- Chinese: “锡莱市”
- Dagbani: “Silay”
- Danish: “Silay”
- Dimli (individual language): “Silay”
- Dutch: “Silay”
- Esperanto: “Silay”
- Fijian: “Silay”
- Filipino: “Silay”
- Finnish: “Silay”
- French: “Silay”
- German: “Silay City”
- Gorontalo: “Silay”
- Greek: “Σιλάι”
- Gujarati: “સિલે”
- Hausa: “Silay”
- Hiligaynon: “Silay”
- Hindi: “सिले”
- Hiri Motu: “Silay”
- Hungarian: “Silay”
- Igbo: “Silay”
- Iloko: “Silay”
- Indonesian: “Kota Silay”
- Indonesian: “Silay”
- Irish: “Silay”
- Italian: “Silay”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Silay”
- Japanese: “シライ”
- Japanese: “シレイ”
- Javanese: “Silay”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಲೆ”
- Kinaray-A: “Silay”
- Kongo: “Silay”
- Korean: “실라이”
- Latvian: “Silaja”
- Latvian: “Silaju”
- Lithuanian: “Silajus”
- Malagasy: “Silay”
- Malay: “Silay”
- Maori: “Silay”
- Marathi: “सिलाय”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Silay”
- Minangkabau: “Silay”
- Nauru: “Silay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silay”
- Norwegian: “Silay City”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Silay”
- Oromo: “Silay”
- Paiwan: “Silay”
- Pampanga: “Silay Lakanbalen”
- Pampanga: “Silay”
- Pangasinan: “Silay”
- Polish: “Silay”
- Portuguese: “Silay”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Silay”
- Russian: “Силай”
- Sakizaya: “Silay”
- Samoan: “Silay”
- Scots: “Silay”
- Sinhala: “සිලේ”
- Spanish: “Silay”
- Sundanese: “Silay”
- Swahili: “Silay”
- Swedish: “Silay City”
- Swedish: “Silay”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Silay”
- Tagalog: “Silay”
- Tahitian: “Silay”
- Tamil: “சிலாய்”
- Tatar: “Силай (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Силай”
- Telugu: “సిలే”
- Thai: “สิเลย์ ซิตี้”
- Tok Pisin: “Silay”
- Turkish: “Silay”
- Ukrainian: “Сілай”
- Urdu: “سیلائے”
- Vietnamese: “Silay”
- Waray (Philippines): “Silay”
- Welsh: “Silay”
- Xhosa: “Silay”
- Yoruba: “Silay”
- Zulu: “Silay”
- “Silay”
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