Ormoc, Province of Leyte, Eastern Visayas Region, Philippines
🇵🇭 Ormoc, officially the City of Ormoc, is a 1st class independent component city in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. It is the second most-populous city in the province after the provincial capital of Tacloban. Ormoc is the economic, cultural, commercial and transportation hub of western Leyte.
Ormoc is an independent component city, not subject to regulation from the Provincial Government of Leyte. However, the city is part of the 4th Congressional District of Leyte together with Albuera, Kananga, Merida, Palompon and Isabel, and statistically grouped under the province by the Philippine Statistics Authority. On November 8, 2013, the city was extensively damaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), having previously suffered severe destruction and loss of life in 1991 from torrential flooding during Tropical Storm Thelma (Uring).
The city's name is derived from ogmok, an archaic Visayan term for "lowland" or "depressed plain". The city also celebrates an annual thanksgiving festival called the Piña Festival in honor of the saints Peter and Paul in thanks for the bountiful pineapple harvest.
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Ormoc has a population of over 230,998 people. Ormoc also forms part of the wider Leyte Province which has a population of over 1,776,847 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Ormoc has links with:
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🇻🇪 La Asunción 11.033
🇮🇳 Malappuram 11.042
🇮🇳 Mayiladuthurai 11.102
🇳🇮 San Carlos 11.124
🇻🇳 Bình Dương 11.167
🇮🇳 Singānallūr 11.004
🇨🇴 Barranquilla 10.99
🇻🇪 Margarita Island 10.985
🇻🇳 Thủ Dầu Một 10.967
🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 10.924
🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 124.65
🇵🇭 Catbalogan 124.885
Locations Near: Ormoc 124.613,11.007
🇵🇭 Baybay 124.811,10.683 d: 42
🇵🇭 Tacloban 125.003,11.248 d: 50.3
🇧🇷 Santa Rita 125.016,11.462 d: 67
🇵🇭 Bogo 124.003,11.051 d: 66.8
🇵🇭 Danao 124.029,10.521 d: 83.6
🇵🇭 Catbalogan 124.885,11.777 d: 90.6
🇵🇭 Compostela 123.97,10.47 d: 92.2
Antipodal to: Ormoc -55.387,-11.007
🇧🇷 Sinop -55.633,-11.833 d: 19919.4
🇧🇷 Sorriso -55.7,-12.533 d: 19842
🇧🇷 Lucas do Rio Verde -55.917,-13.067 d: 19778.9
🇧🇷 Tangará da Serra -57.491,-14.621 d: 19553
🇧🇷 Primavera do Leste -54.333,-15.517 d: 19500.8
🇧🇷 Cuiabá -56.096,-15.596 d: 19499
🇧🇷 Várzea Grande -56.139,-15.652 d: 19492.2
🇧🇷 Vilhena -60.11,-12.708 d: 19467.5
🇧🇷 Rondonópolis -54.622,-16.466 d: 19402.5
🇧🇷 São Félix do Xingu -51.983,-6.633 d: 19401.6