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Samar, officially the Province of Samar (Waray: Probinsya han Samar; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Samar), or also known as Western Samar, is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Catbalogan while Calbayog is the most populous city in the province.
Samar (/ ˈ s ɑː m ɑːr / SAH-mar) is the third-largest and seventh-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 1,909,537 as of the 2020 census.It is located in the eastern Visayas, which are in the central Philippines.
Eastern Samar (Waray-Waray: Sinirangan Samar; Tagalog: Silangang Samar [3]), officially the Province of Eastern Samar, is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Borongan , which is the most populous.
Samar was a province in the Philippines which is coterminous with the island of Samar and its outlying islands. It existed from the Spanish colonization era until its division into three provinces—Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, and Western Samar (now simply called as Samar)—in 1965.
Catbalogan, officially the City of Catbalogan (Waray: Siyudad han Catbalogan; Filipino: Lungsod ng Catbalogan), is a component city and capital city of the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 106,440 people. [4] It is Samar's main commercial, trading, educational, financial and political center.
A further 18,000 were preemptively evacuated from the Eastern Samar and Samar provinces, PNA reported, with patients and staff members of Eastern Samar’s Arteche District Hospital being ...
The governor of Samar is the local chief executive of the Philippine province of Samar, which was previously known as Western Samar from 1965 to 1969.Prior to 1965, the governor also served as the chief executive of the old province of Samar, which was divided into three separate provinces that year.
The Samar Island Natural Park, in Samar, is the largest contiguous tract of old-growth forest in the Philippines. It is the country's largest terrestrial protected area , with an area of 333,300 hectares (824,000 acres).