Eastern Visayas or Region VIII is one of
the two regions of the Philippines having
no land border with another region, MIMAROPA being the other. It is composed of two
main islands, Leyte and Samar, connected by the famous San Juanico Bridge. It consists of six provinces and seven cities,[2] namely, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar, Southern Leyte, the cities of Ormoc City, Baybay City, Maasin City,Calbayog City, Catbalogan City, Borongan City and
the highly-urbanized city of Tacloban,
the regional center. These provinces and cities occupy the easternmost islands
of Visayas: Samar, Leyte and Biliran.
Eastern Visayas directly
faces the Pacific Ocean. The land area of the region is
2,156,285 hectares. As of 2010, it has a population of 3,912,936.
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