City
Maasin, Southern Leyte
South-eastern Asia
Maasin is a component city and the capital of Southern Leyte province, in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. Established as a parish in the 1700s and chartered as a city on August 10, 2000, it had a 2024 census population of 85,486 across roughly 211.71 square kilometers. Known as the City of Faith and seat of the Diocese of Maasin since 1968, the city is the largest commercial and religious center of Southern Leyte and the birthplace of Rodrigo Duterte, the sixteenth president of the Philippines.
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1. Wikidata: Maasin, Southern Leyte
- Wikidata Q1025387, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata P1082 (population), preferred/latest rank
- In Group: Cities of South-eastern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. Maasin (Wikipedia)
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