Visayas
The Visayas are a major island and cultural grouping in the midsection of the Philippines. Nearly every part of the region has some fine beaches along its coasts, some fine diving areas including many coral reefs teeming with life, and some interesting historic buildings, mostly from the Spanish colonial period, in the cities and some towns.
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Western Visayas
Western Visayas is an administrative region in the Visayas island group in the Philippines.
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Visayas
- Island with 14,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 43 metres (141 feet)
- Description: one of the three island groups of the Philippines
- Also known as“Visayan Islands”“Visayas island group”
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Latitude of center
11° north
Longitude of center
123.5° or 123° 30′ east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Visayas” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Visayas”
- Arabic: “بيسايا”
- Armenian: “Վիսարյան կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Visayas”
- Azerbaijani: “Visay adaları”
- Basque: “Bisayak”
- Belarusian: “Вісайскія астравы”
- Breton: “Visayas”
- Catalan: “Visayas”
- Cebuano: “Kabisay-an”
- Cebuano: “Kabisayʼan”
- Central Bikol: “Visayas”
- Chavacano: “Arcipiélago Bisayo”
- Chavacano: “Bisayas”
- Chavacano: “Visayas”
- Chinese: “未獅耶群島”
- Chinese: “米沙鄢群岛”
- Chinese: “米沙鄢群島”
- Chinese: “維薩亞斯群島”
- Chinese: “维萨亚群岛”
- Croatian: “Visayas”
- Czech: “Visayské ostrovy”
- Danish: “Visayas”
- Dutch: “Visayas”
- Esperanto: “Bisajoj”
- Estonian: “Visayani saared”
- Filipino: “New Visayas”
- Finnish: “Visayas”
- French: “Visayas”
- Galician: “Visayas”
- Georgian: “ვისაიასი”
- German: “Inselgruppe Visayas”
- German: “Visayas-Inselgruppe”
- German: “Visayas”
- Greek: “Βισάγιας”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mí-sâ-yên Khiùn-tó”
- Hakka Chinese: “Visayas Khiùn-tó”
- Hebrew: “ויסאיאס”
- Hindi: “विसाया”
- Hungarian: “Visayan-szigetek”
- Hungarian: “Viszajan-szigetek”
- Iloko: “Visayas”
- Indonesian: “Bisayak”
- Indonesian: “kelompok pulau Visayas”
- Indonesian: “kepulauan Visayas”
- Indonesian: “Visayas”
- Interlingua: “Visayas”
- Italian: “arcipelago bisaio”
- Italian: “Isole Bisaie”
- Italian: “Visayan”
- Italian: “Visayas”
- Japanese: “ヴィサヤ”
- Japanese: “ヴィサヤ諸島”
- Japanese: “ビサヤ諸島”
- Kinaray-A: “Kabisay-an”
- Kinaray-A: “Kabisay·an”
- Korean: “비사야 제도”
- Korean: “비사야”
- Korean: “비사야스 제도”
- Korean: “비사야스”
- Latin: “Bisaiana”
- Latin: “Bisaianae insulae”
- Latin: “Bisajana”
- Latin: “Bisajanae insulae”
- Latin: “insulae Bisaianae”
- Latin: “insulae Bisajanae”
- Latvian: “Visaju salas”
- Lithuanian: “Visajų salynas”
- Macedonian: “Висајски Острови”
- Malagasy: “Bisayas”
- Malay: “Visaya”
- Marathi: “विसायस”
- Northern Frisian: “Visayas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Visayas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Visayaøyane”
- Norwegian: “Visayas”
- Ossetian: “Висайтæ”
- Pampanga: “Kabisayan”
- Pampanga: “Kabisáyan”
- Persian: “ویسایا”
- Polish: “Visayas”
- Portuguese: “Visayas”
- Portuguese: “Vissaias”
- Romanian: “Visayas”
- Russian: “Висайские острова”
- Serbian: “Висајска острва”
- Slovak: “Visayské ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Visaje”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago Bisayo”
- Spanish: “Bisayas”
- Spanish: “Islas Bisayas”
- Swedish: “Visayaöarna”
- Swedish: “Visayas”
- Tagalog: “Bisayas”
- Tagalog: “Kabisayaan”
- Tagalog: “kapuluan ng Bisayas”
- Tagalog: “kapuluan ng Visayas”
- Tagalog: “Visayas”
- Tamil: “விசயன் தீவுகள்”
- Tatar: “Висай утраулары”
- Thai: “วิซายัส”
- Turkish: “Visayalar”
- Turkish: “Visayas”
- Ukrainian: “Вісайські острови”
- Urdu: “ویسایا”
- Venetian: “Bisaje”
- Vietnamese: “Visayas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kabisay-an”
- Wu Chinese: “米沙鄢群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “維薩亞斯群島”
- “ma Pisaja”
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