Western Visayas
Western Visayas is an administrative region in the Visayas island group in the Philippines. It includes the island of Panay and some smaller islands near it and also the small island province of Guimaras.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Guimaras.
Guimaras
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Guimaras is a small island province in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It is in the strait between two larger islands, Panay and Negros.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Calinog.
Calinog
Town
Calinog, officially known as the Municipality of Calinog, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 63,896 people.
Western Visayas
- Type: region of the Philippines with 4,730,000 residents
- Description: region of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Panay-Guimaras Region”, “Region 6”, “Region VI”, “West Visayas”, and “Western Visayas Region”
- Location: Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Western Visayas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيسايا الغربية”
- Asturian: “Visayas Occidentales”
- Asturian: “Western Visayas”
- Balinese: “Western Visayas”
- Banjar: “Western Visayas”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Bisayak”
- Capiznon: “Western Visayas”
- Catalan: “Visayas Occidentals”
- Cebuano: “Kasadpang Kabisay-an”
- Central Bikol: “Rehiyon Sulnopan na Visayas”
- Central Bikol: “Solnopan na Kabisayaan”
- Chavacano: “Visayas Occidental”
- Chinese: “Sai Visayas”
- Chinese: “西米沙鄢”
- Chinese: “西維薩亞斯”
- Croatian: “Zapadni Visayas”
- Dutch: “Western Visayas”
- Esperanto: “Okcidentaj Bisajoj”
- Esperanto: “Okcidentbisajoj”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Visayas”
- French: “Visayas occidentales”
- Galician: “Visayas Occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი ვისაიასი”
- German: “Region VI”
- German: “Western Visayas”
- Gorontalo: “Western Visayas”
- Greek: “Δυτικά Βισάϊας”
- Greek: “Περιοχή 6”
- Greek: “Περιοχή ΣΤ‘”
- Hebrew: “מערב ויסאיאס”
- Hiligaynon: “Western Visayas”
- Hindi: “पश्चिमी विसाया”
- Iloko: “Lumaud a Visayas”
- Iloko: “Rehion VI”
- Indonesian: “Bisayak Barat”
- Indonesian: “Visayas Barat”
- Italian: “Visayas Occidentale”
- Japanese: “西ヴィサヤ地方”
- Japanese: “西ビサヤ地方”
- Javanese: “Western Visayas”
- Kinaray-A: “Kabisay·an Nakatëndan”
- Korean: “서비사야스 지방”
- Latin: “Visayas Occidentalis”
- Latvian: “Rietumu Visajas”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Visajai”
- Macedonian: “Западни Висаи”
- Macedonian: “Регион VI”
- Malay: “Bisayak Barat”
- Malay: “Daerah VI”
- Malay: “Visayas Barat”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kanlurang Visayas”
- Minangkabau: “Western Visayas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Western Visayas”
- Norwegian: “Western Visayas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Visayas de l’oèst”
- Pampanga: “Albugan Visayas”
- Pangasinan: “Western Visayas”
- Persian: “وسترن ویسایاز”
- Persian: “ویسایای غربی”
- Polish: “Western Visayas”
- Polish: “Zachodnie Visayas”
- Portuguese: “Visayas Ocidentais”
- Portuguese: “Vissaias Ocidentais”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Western Visayas”
- Russian: “Западные Висайи”
- Slovenian: “Zahodne Višaje”
- Spanish: “Bisayas Occidentales”
- Sundanese: “Western Visayas”
- Swedish: “Västra Visayas”
- Tagalog: “Kanlurang Bisayas”
- Tagalog: “Kanlurang Kabisayaan”
- Tagalog: “Kanlurang Visayas”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon 6”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Panay-Guimaras”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon VI”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு விசயாசு”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Висайлар”
- Tetum: “Western Visayas”
- Thai: “เขตคันลูรังคาบีซายาอัน”
- Turkish: “Batı Visayas”
- Turkish: “Bölge 6”
- Turkish: “Bölge VI”
- Ukrainian: “Західні Вісаї”
- Urdu: “مغربی ویسایا”
- Venetian: “Bisaje Osidentali”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Visayas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katundan nga Kabisay-an”
- Yue Chinese: “西維薩亞斯”
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