Basey is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 43,809 people in 9,013 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_samar_basey. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Samar, formerly Western Samar, is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
The town's name is pronounced "bAsay", not "basEY. This mispronunciation was propagated by American soldiers in the early days of the American colonial period. There is no "ey" sound in Waray. Basay is from the Waray word "mabaysay," meaning beautiful. Basay is said to be the Leyte's capital during the American period.It is a current holder of Worlds Longest mats ("banig") which is presented to Guiness Book of World Records.
Barangays
Basey is politically subdivided into 51 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
It is composed of six provinces namely: Samar (25 towns with Catbalogan as capital), Northern Samar (24 towns with Catarman as capital), Leyte (41 towns with Tacloban as the capital), Southern Leyte (18 towns with Maasin as the capital) and Biliran (8 towns with Naval as the capital).
Third is Northern Samar with 454,195 with a population density of 129.8 p/sq.km.
Fourth is Eastern Samar with a population of 362,324 and a density of 83.5 p/sq.km.
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