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: “Cidade de Tacloban”, “City of Tacloban”, “Ciudad de Tacloban”, “Dakuban”, “Lungsod Tacloban”, “Siyudad na Tacloban”, “Taclaban”, “Tacloban City”, “Tacloban, Leyte”, “Thành phố Tacloban”, “Tocloban”, “Urbs Taculobana”, “Канкабаток”, “Таклапан”, “העיר של טקלובן”, “טקלובן סיטי”, “مدينة تاكلوبان”, “टॅक्लोबन”, “टैक्लोबैन”, “টাকলোবান”, “டகிலோபைன்”, “ටැක්ලෝබන්”, “タクロバン市”, and “獨魯萬市”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport and Tacloban City Convention Center.

Aerodrome
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Stadium
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Memorial
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Tacloban

Latitude
11.2432° or 11° 14′ 35″ north
Longitude
125.0083° or 125° 0′ 30″ east
Population
259,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
TAC
UN/LOCODE
PH TAC
Open location code
7Q3762V5+78
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”
  • Aragonese: “Tacloban”
  • Balinese: “Tacloban”
  • Banjar: “Tacloban”
  • Basque: “Tacloban”
  • Batak Toba: “Tacloban”
  • Belarusian: “Таклабан”
  • Bengali: “টেকলুবান”
  • Buginese: “Tacloban”
  • Bulgarian: “Таклобан”
  • Capiznon: “Tacloban”
  • Catalan: “Tacloban”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Tacloban”
  • Cebuano: “Tacloban”
  • Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Tacloban”
  • Central Bikol: “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”
  • 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: “טקלובן”
  • Hiligaynon: “Tacloban”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Tacloban”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾಕ್ಲೋಬನ್”
  • Kinaray-A: “Tacloban”
  • Kongo: “Tacloban”
  • Korean: “타클로반”
  • Latin: “Taclobana”
  • Latin: “Urbs Taclobana”
  • Latvian: “Taklobana”
  • Lithuanian: “Taklobanas”
  • Lombard: “Tacloban”
  • Low German: “Tacloban”
  • Macedonian: “Таклобан”
  • Malagasy: “Tacloban”
  • Malay: “Bandaraya Tacloban”
  • Malay: “Tacloban”
  • Maori: “Tacloban”
  • Marathi: “त्याकलोबान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tacloban”
  • 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: “Tacloban”
  • Persian: “تاکلوبان”
  • Piemontese: “Tacloban”
  • Polish: “Tacloban”
  • Portuguese: “Tacloban”
  • Portuguese: “Taclôban”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Tacloban”
  • Romanian: “Tacloban”
  • Russian: “Таклобан”
  • Sakizaya: “Tacloban”
  • Samoan: “Tacloban”
  • Scots: “Tacloban”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tacloban”
  • Serbian: “Таклобан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tacloban”
  • Sinhala: “ටක්ලොබාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Takloban”
  • Spanish: “Tacloban”
  • Sundanese: “Dayeuh Tacloban”
  • Sundanese: “Tacloban”
  • Swahili: “Tacloban”
  • Swedish: “Tacloban”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Tacloban”
  • Tagalog: “Tacloban”
  • Tahitian: “Tacloban”
  • Tamil: “டாக்லோபான்”
  • Tatar: “Таклобан”
  • Telugu: “టాక్లోబన్”
  • Thai: “ตักโลบัน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tacloban”
  • Turkish: “Tacloban”
  • Turkmen: “Tacloban”
  • Ukrainian: “Таклобан”
  • Urdu: “تاکلوبان”
  • Urdu: “ٹیکلوبان”
  • Vietnamese: “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”

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