Balangiga
Sign in to saveBalangiga (IPA: [ˌbalaŋˈhɪga]), officially the Municipality of Balangiga (; ), is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 14,473 people.
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- Balangiga Church
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- Philippines
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- right
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- (see Barangays)
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- Mayor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Philippines
- Official name
- Municipality of Balangiga
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Eastern Samar
- Population
- 14473
- Area
- 190.05
- Elevation
- 260
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Lawaan
- Official website
- www.balangiga-esamar.gov.ph
- Image
- Balangiga Church.jpg
- Households
- 3584
- Dialing code
- 55
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- Commons category
- Balangiga
- postal code
- 6812
- Köppen climate classification
- tropical rainforest climate
- language used
- Tagalog
- poverty incidence
- 35.94
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 152985210.10
- total assets
- 448258727.53
- total expenditure
- 109339892.15
- total liabilities
- 159749013.87
- electorate
- 10783
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Balangiga Encounter and Bells
- Geography
- Barangays
- Climate
- Demographics
- Economy
- Transportation
- Education
- Daughter Towns
- See also
- References
- External links
Balangiga (IPA: [ˌbalaŋˈhɪga]), officially the Municipality of Balangiga (; ), is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 14,473 people.
Balangiga is the site of the Balangiga Encounter in 1901, which remains one of the longest-running and most controversial issues of the Philippine–American War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balangiga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.