Visayas | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Visayas


00:01:15 1 Etymology
00:01:53 2 History
00:06:56 2.1 Mythical allusions and hypotheses
00:08:53 3 Administrative divisions
00:09:30 3.1 Western Visayas (Region VI)
00:10:00 3.2 Central Visayas (Region VII)
00:10:27 3.3 Eastern Visayas (Region VIII)
00:11:09 4 Major cities and municipalities
00:11:25 5 Language
00:12:16 6 See also



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The Visayas ( vi-SY-əz), or the Visayan Islands (Visayan: Kabisay-an, locally [kabiˈsajʔan]; Tagalog: Kabisayaan [kabiˈsɐjaʔan]), is one of the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Luzon and Mindanao. Located in the central part of the archipelago, it consists of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visayan Sea, although the Visayas are also considered the northeast extremity of the entire Sulu Sea. Its inhabitants are predominantly the Visayan peoples.
The major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Samar. The region may also include the provinces of Masbate, Romblon and Palawan, whose populations identify as Visayan and whose languages are more closely related to other Visayan languages than to the major languages of Luzon.
There are three administrative regions in the Visayas: Western Visayas (pop. 7.1 million), Central Visayas (6.8 million) and Eastern Visayas (4.1 million). The Negros Island Region existed from 2015 to 2017, separating Negros Occidental and its capital Bacolod from Western Visayas and Negros Oriental from Central Visayas. The region has been dissolved since.