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Tacloban

Tacloban is a city in and the capital of the province of Leyte. It's the home of the Pintados Festival, a cultural event in Leyte commemorating the life and culture of the early settlers of Tacloban.
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  • Type: City with 259,000 residents
  • Description: city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Leyte
  • Also known as: “City of Tacloban”, “Dakuban”, “Taclaban”, “Tacloban City”, “Tacloban, Leyte”, and “Tocloban”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport and Yolanda Shipwreck Memorial Park.

Aerodrome
Photo: mtoz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, also known as Tacloban City Airport, is an serving the general area of Tacloban, a highly urbanized city in the island of the .

Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or the Anibong Memorial Park, colloquially known as the Yolanda Shrine, is a memorial created from portions of MV Eva Jocelyn, a cargo ship which was beached at Barangay Anibong, Tacloban, in .

Tacloban

Latitude
11.2436° or 11° 14′ 37″ north
Longitude
125.008° or 125° 0′ 29″ east
Population
259,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
TAC
United Nations Location Code
PH TAC
Open location code
7Q3762V5+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278507994
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1684712
Wiki­data ID
Q40626
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tacloban” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Takloban”
  • Albanian: “Tacloban”
  • Albanian: “Taklobani”
  • Amharic: “ታክሎባን”
  • Amis: “Tacloban”
  • Arabic: “تاكلوبان”
  • Arabic: “مدينة تاكلوبان”
  • Aragonese: “Tacloban”
  • Balinese: “Tacloban”
  • Banjar: “Tacloban”
  • Basque: “Tacloban”
  • Batak Toba: “Tacloban”
  • Bengali: “টাকলোবান”
  • Bengali: “টেকলুবান”
  • Buginese: “Tacloban”
  • Bulgarian: “Таклобан”
  • Capiznon: “Tacloban”
  • Catalan: “Tacloban”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Tacloban”
  • Cebuano: “Tacloban, Leyte”
  • Cebuano: “Tacloban”
  • Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Tacloban”
  • Central Bikol: “Tacloban”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad de Tacloban”
  • Chavacano: “Tacloban”
  • Chinese: “塔克洛班”
  • Chinese: “塔克洛班市”
  • Chinese: “独鲁万”
  • Chinese: “独鲁万市”
  • Chinese: “獨魯萬”
  • Chinese: “獨魯萬市”
  • Chuvash: “Таклапан”
  • Chuvash: “Таклопан”
  • Croatian: “Tacloban”
  • Czech: “Tacloban”
  • Dagbani: “Tacloban”
  • Danish: “Tacloban”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tacloban”
  • Dutch: “Tacloban City”
  • Dutch: “Tacloban”
  • Esperanto: “Tacloban”
  • Esperanto: “Taklobano”
  • Estonian: “Tacloban”
  • Faroese: “Tacloban”
  • Fijian: “Tacloban”
  • Finnish: “Tacloban”
  • French: “Tacloban”
  • Galician: “Tacloban”
  • Georgian: “ტაკლობანი”
  • German: “Tacloban”
  • Gorontalo: “Tacloban”
  • Greek: “Τακλομπάν”
  • Gujarati: “ટેક્લોબેન”
  • Hausa: “Tacloban”
  • Hebrew: “העיר של טקלובן”
  • Hebrew: “טקלובן סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “טקלובן”
  • Hiligaynon: “Tacloban”
  • Hindi: “टैक्लोबैन”
  • Hindi: “ताकलोबान”
  • Hiri Motu: “Tacloban”
  • Hungarian: “Tacloban”
  • Ido: “Tacloban”
  • Igbo: “Tacloban”
  • Iloko: “Ciudad ti Tacloban”
  • Iloko: “Tacloban”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Tacloban”
  • Indonesian: “Tacloban”
  • Interlingua: “Tacloban”
  • Irish: “Tacloban”
  • Italian: “Tacloban”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tacloban”
  • Japanese: “タクロバン”
  • Japanese: “タクロバン市”
  • Javanese: “Tacloban”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾಕ್ಲೋಬನ್”
  • Kinaray-A: “Tacloban”
  • Kongo: “Tacloban”
  • Korean: “타클로반”
  • Latin: “Taclobana”
  • Latin: “Urbs Taclobana”
  • Latin: “Urbs Taculobana”
  • Latvian: “Tacloban”
  • Latvian: “Taklobana”
  • Lithuanian: “Tacloban”
  • Lithuanian: “Taklobanas”
  • Lombard: “Tacloban”
  • Low German: “Tacloban”
  • Macedonian: “Таклобан”
  • Malagasy: “Tacloban”
  • Malay: “Bandaraya Tacloban”
  • Malay: “Kota Tacloban”
  • Malay: “Tacloban”
  • Maori: “Tacloban”
  • Marathi: “टॅक्लोबन”
  • Marathi: “त्याकलोबान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tacloban”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “獨魯萬”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “獨魯萬市”
  • Minangkabau: “Tacloban”
  • Nauru: “Tacloban”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tacloban”
  • Norwegian: “Tacloban”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tacloban”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tacloban”
  • Oromo: “Tacloban”
  • Ossetian: “Таклобан”
  • Paiwan: “Tacloban”
  • Pampanga: “Tacloban Lakanbalen”
  • Pampanga: “Tacloban”
  • Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Tacloban”
  • Pangasinan: “Tacloban”
  • Persian: “تاکلوبان”
  • Piemontese: “Tacloban”
  • Polish: “Tacloban”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Tacloban”
  • Portuguese: “Tacloban”
  • Portuguese: “Taclôban”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Tacloban”
  • Romanian: “Tacloban”
  • Russian: “Канкабаток”
  • Russian: “Таклобан”
  • Sakizaya: “Tacloban”
  • Samoan: “Tacloban”
  • Scots: “Tacloban”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tacloban”
  • Serbian: “Tacloban”
  • Serbian: “Таклобан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tacloban”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Takloban”
  • Sinhala: “ටක්ලොබාන්”
  • Sinhala: “ටැක්ලෝබන්”
  • Slovenian: “Takloban”
  • Spanish: “Tacloban”
  • Sundanese: “Dayeuh Tacloban”
  • Sundanese: “Tacloban”
  • Swahili: “Tacloban”
  • Swedish: “Tacloban”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Tacloban”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Tacloban”
  • Tagalog: “Tacloban, Leyte”
  • Tagalog: “Tacloban”
  • Tahitian: “Tacloban”
  • Tamil: “டகிலோபைன்”
  • Tamil: “டாக்லோபான்”
  • Tatar: “Таклобан”
  • Telugu: “టాక్లోబన్”
  • Tetum: “Tacloban”
  • Thai: “Tacloban”
  • Thai: “ตักโลบัน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tacloban”
  • Turkish: “Tacloban”
  • Turkmen: “Tacloban”
  • Ukrainian: “Таклобан”
  • Urdu: “تاکلوبان”
  • Urdu: “ٹیکلوبان”
  • Vietnamese: “Tacloban”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Tacloban”
  • Volapük: “Tacloban”
  • Walloon: “Tacloban”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Tacloban”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tacloban”
  • Welsh: “Tacloban”
  • Wu Chinese: “独鲁万市”
  • Xhosa: “Tacloban”
  • Yiddish: “טאקלאבאן”
  • Yoruba: “Tacloban”
  • Yue Chinese: “獨魯萬”
  • Zulu: “Tacloban”
  • “Tacloban”
  • “Tacloban, Leyte”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tacloban”. Photo: JinJian, CC BY-SA 3.0.