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Visayan Islands

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Visayan Islands
An island group of the central Philippines in and around the Visayan Sea between Luzon and Mindanao.
Visayan Islands
pl n
(Placename) a group of seven large and several hundred small islands in the central Philippines. Chief islands: Negros and Panay. Pop.: 13 041 000 (1990). Area: about 61 000 sq. km (23 535 sq. miles) Spanish name Bisayas
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Noun1.Visayan Islands - group of islands in the central PhilippinesVisayan Islands - group of islands in the central Philippines
Bisayas
Philippine Islands, Philippines - an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
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