Balangiga, Eastern Samar
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Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 10,662 people in 2,113 households.
Balangiga is the site of the Balangiga massacre
Balangiga massacre
The Balangiga massacre, as it is known in the Philippines, or the Balangiga affair, as it is known in the United States, was an incident in 1901 during the Philippine-American War where more than forty American soldiers were killed in a surprise guerrilla attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar...
in 1901, which remains one of the longest-running and most controversial issues of the Philippine-American War
Philippine-American War
The Philippine–American War, also known as the Philippine War of Independence or the Philippine Insurrection , was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the United States which arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to gain independence following...
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Barangays
Balangiga is politically subdivided into 13 barangayBarangay
A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...
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- Bacjao
- Cag-olango
- Cansumangcay
- Guinmaayohan
- Barangay Poblacion I
- Barangay Poblacion II
- Barangay Poblacion III
- Barangay Poblacion IV
- Barangay Poblacion V
- Barangay Poblacion VI
- San Miguel
- Sta. Rosa
- Maybunga