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Key facts
- Country
- Philippines
- Region
- Eastern Visayas
- Founded
- June 11, 1965
- Ratified
- November 14, 1967
- Capital and largest city
- Borongan
- Governor
- Ralph Vincent M. Evardone ( PFP )
- Vice governor
- Maria Caridad S. Goteesan ( PFP )
- Legislature
- Eastern Samar Provincial Board
- Total
- 4,660.47 km (1,799.42 sq mi)
- Rank
- 24th out of 82
- Highest elevation mount mactaon
- 673 m (2,208 ft)
- Density
- 101.424/km (262.687/sq mi)
- Component cities
- 1 Borongan
- Municipalities
- 22 Arteche Balangiga Balangkayan Can-avid Dolores General MacArthur Giporlos Guiuan Hernani Jipapad Lawaan Llorente Maslog Maydolong Mercedes Oras Quinapondan Salcedo San Julian San Policarpo Sulat Taft
- Districts
- Legislative districts of Eastern Samar
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( PHT )
- Idd area code
- +63 (0)55
- Iso 3166 code
- PH-EAS
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Encyclopedic overview
Eastern Samar (Waray-Waray: Sinirangan Samar; Tagalog: Silangang Samar), 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. Eastern Samar occupies the eastern portion of the island of Samar. Bordering the province to the north is the province of Northern Samar and to the west is Samar province. To the east lies the Philippine Sea, part of the vast Pacific Ocean, while to the south lies Leyte Gulf.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eastern Samar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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