Tacloban
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| Country | Philippines |
| Region | {{safesubst:#property:P131}} |
| Province | Leyte (geographically only) |
| District | [] |
| Established Provincial capital Chartered city[3] Highly urbanized city[4] | {{safesubst:#property:P571}} |
| Barangay | (see Barangays) |
| Government | |
| • Vice Mayor | Edwin Y. Chua (Aksyon) |
| • Representative | Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez (Lakas) |
| • City Council | List
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| • Electorate | voters (?) |
| Elevation | P2,044 m (Bad rounding hereFormatting error: invalid input when rounding ft) |
| Highest elevation | 574 m (1,883 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Economy | |
| • Gross domestic product | ₱45,283 million (2021)[7] $899 million (2021)[8] |
| • Income class | {{safesubst:#property:P1879}} |
| • Poverty incidence | % (?)[9] |
| • Revenue | ₱ |
| • Assets | ₱ |
| • Expenditure | ₱ |
| • Liabilities | ₱ |
| Service provider | |
| • Electricity | — |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (PST) |
| ZIP code | {{safesubst:#property:P281}} |
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| Native languages | {{safesubst:#property:P2936}} |
| Website | http://{{safesubst:#property:P856}} |
Tacloban or Tacloban City, is a highly urbanized city in the Eastern Visayas, Region 8. It is the capital city of Leyte province. Tacloban is a port city in the Philippines. It is about 360 miles (580 kilometers) southeast of Manila. It is the regional center of Eastern Visayas. The San Juanico Bridge, a famous long bridge in the Philippines, connects the city to the town of Santa Rita in Samar.
Media
Radio
AM Stations
- DYVL Aksyon Radyo 819 (DYVL-AM; MBC Media Group)
- DYTH News 990
FM Stations
- 91.1 Love Radio Tacloban (DYTM; MBC Media Group)
- Radyo Sincero 92.7 (DYLT-FM; Audiovisual Communicators, Inc./ABJ Radio Broadcasting Services)
Tacloban Media
Street performers carrying taklub on their backs (Tacloban takes its name from the taklub, a bamboo fish-catching contraption).
Aerial view of Tacloban, 1931
Madonna Maria Kanon, locally called Madonna of Japan, a peace commemoration statue in Kanhuraw Hill
Debris lines the streets of Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan hit the city.
Pope Francis blesses the crowd after the mass near the Tacloban Airport on January 17, 2015, en route to Palo, Leyte to visit families of Typhoon Yolanda victims.
Dancers during the Pintados Festival in 2008
Tacloban City Convention Center, also known as the Tacloban Astrodome
This is a photo of a cultural heritage property in the Philippines with ID
References
- ↑ "National transformation in Eastern Visayas" (in en). The Manila Times. October 17, 2014. https://www.manilatimes.net/national-transformation-eastern-visayas/134890/. Retrieved April 21, 2019. "But the most striking work of physical transformation today is to be seen in Tacloban City, which remains the gateway to Eastern Visayas.".
- ↑ Reyes, Ronald O. (April 20, 2018). "'Tacloban City: Home of the happiest people in the world' goes viral" (in en). SunStar. https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1513544. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
- ↑ Proclamation No. 394, s. 1953 (June 6, 1953). Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ↑ COMELEC Minute Resolution No. 09-0036
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- ↑ Province of Leyte Accounts for Half of the Economy of Eastern Visayas in 2021. Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ PH₱50.384 per dollar (per International Monetary Fund on Representative Exchange Rates for Selected Currencies for December 2021). IMF. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
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- ↑ 2015 Census of Population, Report No. 3 – Population, Land Area, and Population Density. Philippine Statistics Authority (August 2016). Quezon City, Philippines. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
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