Palawan
Palawan is the westernmost province of the Philippines, with probably the most pristine natural environment away from its settlements. It is regularly voted among the most beautiful islands on Earth.Photo: Alex.vonbun, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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Puerto Princesa
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Puerto Princesa is the capital of the island province of Palawan.
Coron
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Coron is a town in the province of Palawan on Busuanga Island.
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
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Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park is a Philippines national park, administratively in Palawan province, but geographically out in the middle of the Sulu Sea.
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El Nido
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El Nido is a coastal town in Palawan. El Nido comprises 45 islands and islets; limestone cliffs are also found here, which form a Karst backdrop similar to those found in Ha Long Bay, Krabi and Guilin.
Narra
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Narra, officially the Municipality of Narra, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines.
Taytay
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Taytay is a municipality on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.
Quezon
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Quezon is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines.
San Vicente
San Vicente is a small town in Palawan. It has a very fine beach 14 km long and, as of early 2015, is undergoing fairly extensive infrastructure development.Roxas
Roxas, officially the Municipality of Roxas, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines.Cagayancillo
Cagayancillo is a municipality in Palawan Province, a group of 31 islands in the middle of the Sulu Sea.Brooke's Point
Brooke's Point is a 1st class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines.Sabang
Sabang is a small village in Palawan, Philippines. It is used as an entry point to the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River.Palawan
- Type: State with 940,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Neighbors: Antique and Sabah
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Mimaropa, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
10° northLongitude of centre
118.75° or 118° 45' eastPopulation
940,000Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 305704371OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
1695736Wikidata ID
Q13869Palawan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Propinsi Palawan
- Afrikaans: Palawan
- Arabic: Palawan
- Arabic: بالاوان
- Asturian: Palawan
- Balinese: Palawan
- Banjar: Palawan
- Belarusian: Правінцыя Палаван
- Bengali: পালাওয়ান
- Bulgarian: Палаван
- Capiznon: Palawan
- Catalan: Palawan
- Cebuano: Lalawigan sa Palawan
- Cebuano: Palawan
- Central Bikol: Palawan
- Chavacano: Palawan
- Chinese: Palawan
- Chinese: 巴拉望省
- Croatian: Palawan
- Czech: Palawan
- Danish: Palawan
- Dutch: Palawan
- English: Province of Palawan
- Esperanto: Palavano
- Esperanto: Palaŭano
- Esperanto: Provinco Palavano
- Estonian: Palawan
- Filipino: Panalingaan
- Finnish: Palawan
- French: Palawan
- French: Province de Palawan
- French: province de Palawan
- Georgian: პალავანი (პროვინცია)
- German: Palawan
- German: Provinz Palawan
- Gorontalo: Palawan
- Greek: Παλάουαν
- Gujarati: પાલાવાન
- Hebrew: פאלאוואן
- Hebrew: פאלאוון
- Hebrew: פלאוואן
- Hebrew: פלאוון
- Hiligaynon: Palawan
- Hindi: पलावन
- Hindi: पालावान
- Hungarian: Palawan
- Iloko: Palawan
- Indonesian: Palawan
- Interlingua: Palawan
- Italian: provincia di Palawan
- Japanese: Palawan
- Japanese: パラワン
- Japanese: パラワン州
- Javanese: Palawan
- Kannada: ಪಾಲವಾನ್
- Kinaray-A: Palawan
- Korean: 팔라완주
- Lao: Palawan
- Latin: Paragoia
- Latvian: Palavana (province)
- Latvian: Palavana
- Macedonian: Палаван
- Malay: Palawan
- Malayalam: പലാവൻ
- Marathi: पालावान
- Min Nan Chinese: Palawan
- Min Nan Chinese: 巴拉灣省
- Minangkabau: Palawan
- Norwegian: Palawan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Palawan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Palawan
- Occitan (post 1500): Palawan
- Pampanga: Palawan
- Pangasinan: Palawan
- Persian: پالاوان
- Polish: Palawan
- Portuguese: Palauã
- Portuguese: Palawan
- Rinconada Bikol: Palawan
- Russian: Палаван
- Scots: Palawan
- Serbian: Палаван
- Serbo-Croatian: Palawan
- Sinhala: පලවන්
- Slovenian: Palawan
- South Azerbaijani: پالاوان
- Spanish: La Paragua
- Spanish: Palawan
- Spanish: Provincia de La Paragua
- Spanish: Provincia de Palawan
- Sundanese: Palawan
- Swedish: Palawan
- Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Palawan
- Tagalog: Palawan
- Tagalog: Probinsiya ng Palawan
- Tagalog: Probinsya ng Palawan
- Tamil: பலவான்
- Telugu: పాలావాన్
- Tetum: Palawan
- Thai: จังหวัดปาลาวัน
- Thai: ปาลาวัน
- Turkish: Palawan
- Ukrainian: Палаван
- Urdu: پالاوان
- Vietnamese: Palawan
- Waray (Philippines): Palawan
- Welsh: Palawan
- Provincia di Palawan
- პალავანის პროვინცია
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