Samar Province

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administrative territorial entity province

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.

Aliases (4)

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	administrative territorial entity → province →
capital	Catbalogan NERFINISHED →
country	Philippines →
ethnicGroup	Waray people →
formerName	Western Samar →
governmentType	provincial government →
hasCity	Calbayog NERFINISHED → Catbalogan NERFINISHED →
hasClimate	tropical rainforest climate →
hasCoastlineOn	Leyte Gulf → Philippine Sea → Samar Sea NERFINISHED →
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 NERFINISHED →
legislativeBody	Sangguniang Panlalawigan →
localLanguage	Waray → Waray-Waray →
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 →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Calbayog dialect ("Samar") → Waray language → Winaray ("Samar") → Winaray ("Western Samar") →	spokenIn
Balangiga massacre ("Balangiga, Samar") → Balangiga massacre ("Samar") →	location
Northern Samar ("Samar") →	borderedBy
Eastern Visayas ("Samar") →	containsProvince
Samar Province ("Western Samar") →	formerName
Samar Island ("Samar") →	hasProvince
Northern Samar ("Samar (undivided)") →	previouslyPartOf
Lineyte-Samarnon ("Samar") →	spokenInProvince