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Basilan

island in the Philippines and mainland of the province of Basilan
Landform island Q810053

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
island
Native label
Basilan[11]

Location

Country
Philippines[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 6.567°, 122.050°[7]
Located in or next to body of water
Sulu Sea, Celebes Sea[4][5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Basilan[2]

Population and size

Area
1265.5, 1282.0[14][15]
Elevation above sea level
377.0[13]
Length
66.0[12]
Population
259,796[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 259,796 GeoNames 556,586 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +6
Located in
Basilan
Part of
Sulu Archipelago[6]
Coextensive with
Basilan
Coordinates
🗺️ 6.567°, 122.050°
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9][10]
Width
44.0
🏷️ Also known as
en Basilan en Basilan Island ar باسيلان de Taguima es isla de Basilan ja バシラン ja バシラン島 ru Басилан uk Басілан zh 巴西兰 zh 巴西兰岛
🔖 Identifiers · 12
VIAF cluster ID
237322574
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Basilan Topography.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Basilan
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
basilan
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2412917
GeoNames ID
1726402
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1006438
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/120pglyn
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
basilan-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0008106
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Basilan
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3816072

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🔗 Connections
Located in or next to body of water 2
Celebes Sea, Sulu Sea
Country 1
Philippines
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Instance of 1
island
Part of 1
Sulu Archipelago
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Lamitan
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Summary

Basilan is an island[1].

Related Entities

Philippines

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . islands.unep.ch. islands.unep.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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