Maasin City is a 5th class city in the province of Southern Leyte, Philippines. It is the capital city of Southern Leyte.According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 71,163 people in 14,597 households. A city (lungsod, sometimes siyudad, in Filipino) is a tier of local government in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Southern Leyte is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Maasin City is politically subdivided into 70 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
Its capital is MaasinCity[?] and occupies the southern one-fourth of the island of Leyte.
Leyte is bounded by the province of Leyte to the north, by Surigao Strait[?] to the east, Bohol Sea to the south, and Canigao Channel, across from Bohol, to the west.
Limasawa[?], an island municipality to the south is believed to be the site of the first Christian mass in the far east, when Ferdinand Magellan landed there in 1521.
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