Samar Province

Philippine Information

	Infoboxtitle	Province of Samar
	Sealfile
	Region	Eastern Visayas (Region VIII)
	Capital	Catbalogan
	Founded	1543 , separated from Leyte on 1768 <br>became Western Samar province on June 19 , 1965 upon creation of the provinces of Eastern Samar and Northern Samar <br>Renamed Samar Province on 1969
	Pop2000	641,124
	Pop2000rank	38th largest
	Popden2000	115
	Popden2000rank	17th lowest
	Areakm2	5,5910
	Arearank	13th largest
	Hucities	0
	Componentcities	1
	Municipalities	25
	Barangays	951
	Districts	2
	Languages	Waray , Cebuano
	Governor	Milagrosa T Tan

PEOPLE AND CULTURE

The native language of the majority in Samar province is Waray-Waray (also known as Waray, L(in)eyte-Samarnon, or Samar-Leyte Visayan). However, in the island municipalities of Almagro and Santo Niño , Cebuano is the native tongue.

ECONOMY

GEOGRAPHY

Political

Samar is subdivided into 25 Municipalities and 1 City .

City