Samar Province

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Samar Province is a largely rural island province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, known for its rugged landscapes, caves, and strong Waray-speaking cultural heritage.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Samar 19
Western Samar 5
Samar Province canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative territorial entity
province
capital Catbalogan
country Philippines
ethnicGroup Waray people
formerName Western Samar
linked to: Samar Province
governmentType provincial government
hasCity Calbayog
Catbalogan
hasClimate tropical rainforest climate
hasCoastlineOn Leyte Gulf
Philippine Sea
Samar Sea
hasCulturalHeritage Waray-speaking culture
hasMajorEconomicActivity agriculture
fishing
forestry
hasMunicipalityType municipalities
hasProtectedArea Samar Island Natural Park
hasReligion Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
hasTerrainFeature caves
karst formations
mountainous areas
rugged landscapes
island Samar Island
ISO3166-2Code PH-WSA
isRuralArea true
largestCity Calbayog
legislativeBody Sangguniang Panlalawigan
localLanguage Waray
linked to: Waray language

Waray-Waray
linked to: Waray language
locatedIn Luzon-Visayas-Mindanao island group
Philippine archipelago
Visayas
locatedInCountrySubdivision Region VIII
locatedInGeographicRegion Eastern Philippines
locatedInTimeZone Philippine Standard Time
locatedOn eastern part of Samar Island
officialLanguage English
Filipino
partOf Eastern Visayas
region Eastern Visayas
sharesIslandWith Eastern Samar
Northern Samar
usesCurrency Philippine peso
UTCOffset +8

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Waray language spokenIn Samar Province
Eastern Visayas containsProvince Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Winaray spokenIn Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Winaray spokenIn Western Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Lineyte-Samarnon spokenInProvince Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Samar Island hasProvince Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Calbayog dialect spokenIn Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Northern Samar previouslyPartOf Samar (undivided)
linked to: Samar Province
Northern Samar borderedBy Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Samar Province formerName Western Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Balangiga massacre location Balangiga, Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Balangiga massacre location Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Samar Sea adjacentTo Western Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Region VIII isComposedOf Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Region VIII hasProvince Samar
linked to: Samar Province
San Juanico Bridge connects Samar
linked to: Samar Province
San Juanico Bridge connectsProvince Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Sinirangan Kabisay-an containsProvince Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Typhoon Haiyan hardestHitProvince Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Republic Act No. 4221 createdProvince Western Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Republic Act No. 4221 formerProvince Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Republic Act No. 4221 appliesTo Western Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Maslog locatedOnIsland Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Eastern Philippines hasPart Samar Province
Waray of Samar spokenIn Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Maharlika Highway passesThrough Samar
linked to: Samar Province
"howling wilderness" campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith location Samar
linked to: Samar Province
Vicente Lukbán placeOfActivity Samar
linked to: Samar Province