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Eastern Visayas
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region of the Philippines
Key facts
- Country
- Philippines
- Island group
- Visayas
- Regional center and largest city
- Tacloban City
- Total
- 23,251.10 km (8,977.30 sq mi)
- Highest elevation alto peak
- 1,325 m (4,347 ft)
- Density
- 198.9553/km (515.2918/sq mi)
- Per capita
- US$2,330
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( PST )
- Iso 3166 code
- PH-08
- Provinces
- 6 Biliran Eastern Samar Leyte Northern Samar Samar Southern Leyte
- Independent cities
- 2 Ormoc City Tacloban
- Component cities
- 5 Baybay Borongan Calbayog Catbalogan Maasin
- Barangays
- 4,390
- Languages
- Waray-Waray (Lineyte-Samarnon) Cebuano Abaknon Baybayanon Kinabalian Tagalog English
- Hdi
- 0.697 ( Medium )
- Hdi rank
- 11th in the Philippines (2019)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 4625929
- Area
- 23251.10
- Households
- 1082106
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- Commons category
- Eastern Visayas
- electorate
- 3259554
- poverty incidence
- 22.20
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Eastern Visayas (Waray: Sinirangan Kabisay-an; Cebuano: Sidlakang Kabisay-an; Tagalog: Silangang Kabisayaan; Filipino: Silangang Visayas), designated as Region VIII, is an administrative region in the Philippines. It consists of three main islands: Samar, Leyte, and Biliran. The region has six provinces: Biliran, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar, Eastern Samar, Southern Leyte, one independent city, Ormoc, and one highly urbanized city, Tacloban (its regional center and largest city). The highly urbanized city of Tacloban is the sole regional center. These provinces and cities occupy the easternmost islands of the Visayas group of islands, hence the region's name.
Eastern Visayas faces the Philippine Sea to the east. The region's most famous landmark is the San Juanico Bridge, which links the islands of Samar and Leyte. As of 2024, the Eastern Visayas region has a population of 4,625,929 inhabitants, making it the least populous region in the Visayas.