Panay
Sign in to savePanay is the sixth-largest and fourth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of and a total population of 4,669,037 as of 2024 census. Panay comprises 4.4 percent of the entire population of the country. The City of Iloilo is its largest settlement, with a total population of 473,728 inhabitants as of the 2024 census.
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Panay is the sixth-largest island in the Philippines and home to nearly 4.7 million people, representing about 4.4 percent of the country's total population. The island's largest city is Iloilo, which serves as a major urban and economic center in the region.
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- Panay island satellite image captured by Sentinel-2 in 2016
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- Location within the Philippines
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- Southeast Asia
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- Visayas
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- 12,011
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- 65th
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- Mount Madja-as
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- 2117
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- Etymology
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- Precolonial era
- The account of early Spanish explorers
- Colonial rule (1565–1898)
- World War II
- Modern period
- Geography
- Topography
- Rivers
- Demographics
- Economy
- Administrative divisions
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Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of and a total population of 4,669,037 as of 2024 census. Panay comprises 4.4 percent of the entire population of the country. The City of Iloilo is its largest settlement, with a total population of 473,728 inhabitants as of the 2024 census.
Panay is a triangular island, located in the western part of the Visayas. It is about across. It is divided into four provinces: Aklan, Antique, Capiz, and Iloilo, all in the Western Visayas Region. Just off the mid-southeastern coast lies the island-province of Guimaras. It is located southeast of the island of Mindoro and northwest of Negros across the Guimaras Strait. To the north and northeast is the Sibuyan Sea, Jintotolo Channel and the island-provinces of Romblon and Masbate; to the west and southwest is the Sulu Sea and the Palawan archipelago and to the south is Panay Gulf. Panay is the only main island in the Visayas whose provinces does not bear the name of their island.