# Boracay > island in the Philippines **Wikidata**: [Q855235](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855235) **Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boracay) **Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/boracay ## Summary Boracay is an island in the Philippines, located in the Visayas island group at coordinates 11.975° N, 121.9225° E. It is also known as "Boracay Island" and is described in Wikidata as an "island in the Philippines." ## Key Facts - Boracay is an island (type: island) and is aliased as "Boracay Island." - Geographic coordinates: latitude 11.975, longitude 121.9225. - Population values recorded in source material: 32,267 and 37,802 (two values provided). - Boracay is located in the Philippines, an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. - Boracay is part of the Visayas, one of the three island groups of the Philippines. - Wikidata description: "island in the Philippines." - Wikipedia article title: Boracay. - Wikidata sitelink count for Boracay: 46. - The broader class "island" is defined in the source as "piece of sub-continental land completely surrounded by water" (sitelink_count: 229). - Visayas metadata in source: Visayas is one of the three island groups of the Philippines (country: ; sitelink_count: 74). - Philippines metadata included in source: sitelink_count 327 and multiple inception/administrative dates (see Body for details). ## FAQs Q: Where is Boracay located? A: Boracay is in the Philippines, within the Visayas island group, at coordinates 11.975° N, 121.9225° E. Q: What is Boracay also called? A: The island is also known by the alias "Boracay Island." Q: How many people live on Boracay? A: The source lists two population figures for Boracay: 32,267 and 37,802. Q: What administrative or geographic parent regions apply to Boracay? A: Boracay is part of the Visayas, which is one of the three main island groups of the Philippines. The Philippines is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Q: How is Boracay classified in structured data? A: In Wikidata it is described as an "island in the Philippines," its Wikipedia title is "Boracay," and its Wikidata sitelink_count is 46. Q: What is an "island" as used for Boracay's classification? A: The source defines "island" as a piece of sub-continental land completely surrounded by water; this class has a sitelink_count of 229 in the provided data. ## Why It Matters Boracay is a discrete geographic entity with explicit structured identifiers and population data in knowledge bases. As an island contained within the Visayas and the Philippines, it inherits administrative, geographic and contextual relationships that tie local data (coordinates, population, aliases) to national-level metadata (the Philippines' status as an archipelagic country, its administrative history and identifiers). Including Boracay in datasets allows mapping between place-based coordinates and higher-level political geography (Visayas; Philippines), and it contributes to consistent linking across encyclopedic and linked-data systems through identifiers such as its Wikipedia title, Wikidata description, and sitelink counts. ## Notable For - Exact coordinates provided: 11.975° N, 121.9225° E. - Has multiple population values recorded in source material: 32,267 and 37,802. - Explicit alias: "Boracay Island." - Structured-data presence: Wikipedia title "Boracay" and Wikidata sitelink_count of 46. - Classified under the general concept "island" (definition: land completely surrounded by water; related sitelink_count 229). - Parent region: part of the Visayas island group (Visayas sitelink_count 74). ## Body ### Description - Boracay is identified in the provided data as an island in the Philippines. - The entity has an alias: "Boracay Island." - The Wikidata short description for Boracay is "island in the Philippines." - The Wikipedia article title associated with the entity is "Boracay." ### Location and geography - Coordinates: latitude 11.975, longitude 121.9225. - Boracay is situated within the Visayas, which is one of the Philippines' three primary island groups. - The island is located in the country of the Philippines, an archipelagic sovereign state in Southeast Asia (see Philippines section for country-level context and identifiers). ### Administrative context and parent relationships - Parent grouping: Visayas (one of the three island groups of the Philippines). The Visayas entry in the source is noted with country reference and a sitelink_count of 74. - National location: Philippines. The source provides detailed metadata for the Philippines, which is the national-level polity containing Boracay. ### Philippines — provided country context (as connected entity) - The Philippines is presented in the source as an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia with capital Manila. - The source lists multiple inception/administrative dates for the Philippines: 1565 (Captaincy General of the Philippines), 1901-07-04 (Insular Government of the Philippine Islands), 1935-11-15 (Commonwealth of the Philippines), and 1946-07-04 (Third Republic of the Philippines). - Country-level identifiers and facts included in the source: sitelink_count 327; official languages Filipino (de jure) and English; currency Philippine peso (PHP); internet TLD .ph; ISO codes PH / PHL / 608; calling code +63; capital Manila. (These items appear in the provided Philippines summary as contextual metadata.) ### Population - Two population figures are present for Boracay in the source: 32,267.0 and 37,802.0. - The source does not provide dates or census references for those two figures; both are listed as recorded values. ### Structured identifiers and metadata - Wikidata description: "island in the Philippines." - Wikipedia article title: Boracay. - Wikidata sitelink_count for Boracay: 46. - The broader class "island" used to type Boracay is defined in the source as "piece of sub-continental land completely surrounded by water" and carries a sitelink_count of 229. ### Related entities and relationships - Direct "part of / parent": Visayas — the Visayas is one of the three main island groups in the Philippines. The source lists Visayas with country and sitelink_count 74. - Location / origin: Philippines — detailed country context and multiple historical inception dates are provided in the source and associate Boracay with that national polity. ### Notes on source coverage and limits - The provided source material supplies basic geographic, population, alias and structured-data facts about Boracay, as well as contextual metadata about the Visayas and the Philippines. - The source does not supply additional domain-specific details for Boracay (for example, economic data, tourism statistics, environmental information, or administrative subdivisions for the island), so such topics are not included here. ## References 1. Virtual International Authority File 2. [Source](https://ani.cex.mybluehost.me/ar/fed/tracks/) 3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013 4. National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File