Vigan
Vigan is a city in Ilocos Sur, Northern Luzon. Its Spanish colonial influence in local architecture and old-world charm make it a unique city in the Philippines.
- Type: City with 53,900 residents
- Description: city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Ilocos Sur
- Also known as: “City of Vigan”, “Dakbayan sa Vigan”, and “Vigan Heritage Village”
- Historically known as: “Ciudad Fernandina”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vigan Cathedral and Immaculate Conception School of Theology.
Vigan Cathedral
Church
Immaculate Conception School of Theology
College
Plaza Salcedo
Park
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bantay and Caoayan.
Bantay
Town
Caoayan
Town
Santa Catalina
Town
Vigan
- Categories: component city and locality
- Location: Ilocos Sur, Ilocos, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.5754° or 17° 34′ 31″ north
Longitude
120.3875° or 120° 23′ 15″ east
Population
53,900
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
VGN
United Nations Location Code
PH VIG
Open location code
7Q92H9GQ+42
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Vigan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Vigan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيغان”
- Armenian: “Վիգան”
- Asturian: “Vigan”
- Azerbaijani: “Viqan”
- Basque: “Vigan”
- Belarusian: “Віган”
- Bengali: “ভিগান”
- Burmese: “ဗီဂန်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Vigan”
- Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Vigan”
- Cebuano: “Vigan”
- Central Bikol: “Vigan”
- Chavacano: “Vigan”
- Chinese: “Vigan”
- Chinese: “維甘”
- Chinese: “维甘”
- Chinese: “美岸”
- Chinese: “美岸市”
- Croatian: “Vigan”
- Czech: “Vigan”
- Dutch: “Vigan”
- Esperanto: “Bigano”
- Esperanto: “Vigan”
- Finnish: “Vigan”
- French: “Vigan”
- Galician: “Vigán”
- Georgian: “ვიგანი”
- German: “Vigan City”
- German: “Vigan-Stadt”
- Greek: “Βιγκάν”
- Greek: “Μπίγαν”
- Gujarati: “વિગાન”
- Hebrew: “ויגאן”
- Hindi: “विगन”
- Hindi: “विगान”
- Iloko: “Ciudad ti Vigan”
- Iloko: “Vigan”
- Indonesian: “Kota Vigan”
- Italian: “Vigan”
- Japanese: “ヴィガン”
- Japanese: “ビガン”
- Kannada: “ವಿಗಾನ್”
- Kirghiz: “Виган шаары”
- Korean: “비간”
- Korean: “비간시”
- Latvian: “Vigana”
- Latvian: “Vigano”
- Lithuanian: “Viganas”
- Maithili: “भिगन”
- Malay: “Vigan”
- Malayalam: “വിഗൻ”
- Maltese: “Vigan”
- Marathi: “विगन”
- Marathi: “विगान”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bí-gān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “美岸”
- Min Nan Chinese: “美岸市”
- Moksha: “Виган”
- Nepali: “भिगन”
- Norwegian: “Vigan City”
- Pampanga: “Vigan Lakanbalen”
- Pampanga: “Vigan”
- Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Vigan”
- Pangasinan: “Vigan”
- Persian: “شهر تاریخی ویگان”
- Persian: “ویگان”
- Polish: “Vigan”
- Portuguese: “Cidade Histórica de Vigan”
- Portuguese: “Vigan”
- Romanian: “Vigan”
- Russian: “Виган”
- Serbian: “Виган”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vigan”
- Sinhala: “විගන්”
- Slovak: “Vigan”
- Slovenian: “Vigan”
- Spanish: “Bigan”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Vigan”
- Spanish: “Nueva Segovia”
- Spanish: “Vigán”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵉⴳⴰⵏ”
- Swedish: “Vigan”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Vigan”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod Vigan”
- Tagalog: “Vigan”
- Tamil: “விகான்”
- Telugu: “విగాన్”
- Thai: “บีกัน”
- Thai: “วีกัน”
- Turkish: “Vigan”
- Ukrainian: “Віган”
- Urdu: “ویگان”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Vigan”
- Vietnamese: “Vigan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Vigan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vigan”
- Yue Chinese: “維甘”
- “Vigan”
- “Vigan City”
- “Vigan, Ilocos Sur”
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