Luzon
Luzon is the largest and the most populous island of the Philippines. This article also covers a number of nearby smaller islands. The region has a variety of attractions, from the cobblestone streets of the colonial town of Vigan to the bustling metropolis of the national capital Manila to the rice terraces and pine forests of the Cordillera Region.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Manila
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Manila is the capital of the Philippines and a major attraction in terms of culture and heritage in the country.
Quezon City
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Quezon City is the largest city in the Philippines and is one of the constituent cities of Metro Manila.
Ilocos Sur
Ilocos Sur, officially the Province of Ilocos Sur, is a province in the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon.
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Metro Manila
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Metro Manila, on the island of Luzon, is the national capital region of the Philippines.
Ilocos
Ilocos, officially named Ilocos Region and administratively designated Region I, forms the northwest part of the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
Bicol
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The Bicol Region, commonly shortened to Bicol and designated as Region V, is an administrative region of the Philippines.
Marinduque
Marinduque is an island province in the Luzon island group of the Philippines, east of Mindoro, south of Quezon Province and north of Romblon.
Batanes
Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes, is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region.
Luzon
- Type: Island with 46,200,000 residents
- Description: largest island of the Philippines
- Location: Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
16° northLongitude of centre
121° eastPopulation
46,200,000Elevation
413 metres (1,355 feet)GeoNames ID
1704846Wikidata ID
Q125384Luzon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Luzon-eiland
- Afrikaans: Luzon
- Afrikaans: Luzoneiland
- Arabic: Luzon
- Arabic: لوزون
- Armenian: Լուսոն
- Asturian: Luzón
- Azerbaijani: Luson adası
- Azerbaijani: Luzon
- Banjar: Pulau Luzon
- Bashkir: Лусон
- Basque: Luzon
- Belarusian: Лусон
- Belarusian: Люсон
- Bengali: লুসোন দ্বীপ
- Bosnian: Luzon
- Breton: Luzon
- Bulgarian: Лусон
- Catalan: Illa de Luzón
- Catalan: Luzon
- Catalan: Luzón
- Cebuano: Luzon
- Cebuano: Luzón
- Central Bikol: Luzon
- Chavacano: Luzon
- Chinese: Luzon
- Chinese: 吕宋
- Chinese: 吕宋岛
- Chinese: 呂宋
- Chinese: 呂宋島
- Chinese: 小吕宋
- Croatian: Luzon
- Czech: Luzon
- Danish: Luzon
- Dutch: Luzon
- Egyptian Arabic: لوزون
- English: Luzon Island
- Esperanto: Luzon
- Esperanto: Luzono
- Estonian: Luzon
- Estonian: Luzoni saar
- Filipino: Luzon
- Finnish: Luzon
- French: Lucon
- French: Luzon
- French: Luçon
- French: Île de Luçon
- Galician: Luzón
- Georgian: ლუსონი
- German: Luzon
- German: Luzón
- Greek: Λουζόν
- Greek: Λουσόν
- Hebrew: לוזון
- Hindi: लूज़ोन
- Hungarian: Luzon
- Icelandic: Lúson
- Ido: Luzon
- Iloko: Amianan a Luzon
- Iloko: Luzon
- Iloko: Luzón
- Indonesian: Luson
- Indonesian: Luzón
- Indonesian: Lução
- Indonesian: Pulau Luzon
- Indonesian: pulau Luson
- Indonesian: pulau Luzón
- Interlingua: Insula Luzon
- Interlingua: Luzon
- Interlingue: Luzón
- Irish: Luzon
- Italian: Isola di Luson
- Italian: Isola di Luzon
- Italian: Isola di Luzón
- Italian: Kalusunan
- Italian: Luzon
- Italian: Luzón
- Japanese: ルソン
- Japanese: ルソン島
- Japanese: ルゾン
- Japanese: ルゾン島
- Japanese: 呂宋
- Javanese: Luzon
- Kazakh: Lwson
- Kazakh: Лусон
- Kazakh: لۋسون
- Khmer: កោះលូហ្ស៊ុន
- Kinaray-A: Loson
- Kinaray-A: Luson
- Kirghiz: Лусон
- Kirghiz: Лусон аралы
- Korean: 루손
- Korean: 루손 섬
- Korean: 루손섬
- Korean: 루존 섬
- Korean: 여송국
- Lao: Luzon
- Latin: Luconia
- Latin: Luzon
- Latvian: Lusona
- Literary Chinese: 呂宋島
- Lithuanian: Lusonas
- Macedonian: Лузон
- Macedonian: Лусон
- Malagasy: Luzón
- Malay: Luzon
- Malayalam: ലുസോൺ
- Marathi: लुझान
- Marathi: लुझॉन
- Marathi: लुझोन
- Min Nan Chinese: Luzon
- Min Nan Chinese: Lī-sòng-tó
- Min Nan Chinese: Lī-sòng
- Min Nan Chinese: Lū-sòng-tó
- Min Nan Chinese: Lū-sòng
- Mingrelian: ლუსონი
- Northern Frisian: Luzon
- Norwegian: Luzon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Luzon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Luzon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Luzón
- Occitan (post 1500): Luçon
- Ossetian: Лусон
- Paiwan: ljusung a qinaljan
- Pampanga: Luzon
- Pangasinan: Luzon
- Persian: جزيره لوزون
- Persian: جزیره لوزون
- Persian: جزیرهٔ لوزون
- Persian: لوزون
- Polish: Luzon
- Portuguese: Luzon
- Portuguese: Luzón
- Portuguese: Luçon
- Portuguese: Lução
- Romanian: Luzon
- Russian: Лусон
- Santali: ᱞᱩᱡᱳᱱ
- Scottish Gaelic: Luzon
- Serbian: Luzon
- Serbian: Лузон
- Serbo-Croatian: Luzon
- Slovak: Luzon
- Slovenian: Luzon
- Spanish: Isla de Luzon
- Spanish: Isla de Luzón
- Spanish: Luzon
- Spanish: Luzón
- Swahili: Luzon
- Swedish: Luzon
- Tagalog: Isla ng Luzon
- Tagalog: Islang Luzon
- Tagalog: Luson
- Tagalog: Luzon
- Tagalog: Pulong Luson
- Tagalog: Pulo ng Luzon
- Tamil: லூசோன்
- Tatar: Лусон
- Thai: เกาะลูซอน
- Tibetan: ལུ་ཟོན་
- Tibetan: ལུ་ཟོན།
- Turkish: Luzon
- Turkish: Luzon Adası
- Ukrainian: Лусон
- Urdu: لوزون
- Uzbek: Luson (orol)
- Uzbek: Luson
- Venetian: Luson
- Vietnamese: Luzon
- Vietnamese: Lữ Tống
- Vietnamese: Đảo Luzon
- Waray (Philippines): Luzon
- Welsh: Luzon
- Welsh: Ynys Luzon
- Western Frisian: Luzon
- Western Mari: Лусон
- Western Panjabi: لوزون
- Wu Chinese: 吕宋
- Yue Chinese: 呂宋
- Yue Chinese: 呂宋島
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