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Visayan Islands

An island group of the central Philippines in and around the Visayan Sea between Luzon and Mindanao.
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Visayan Islands

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(Placename) a group of seven large and several hundred small islands in the central Philippines. Chief islands: Negros and Panay. Pop: 15 528 346 (2000). Area: about 61 000 sq km (23 535 sq miles). Spanish name: Bisayas
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Visa′yan Is′lands


n.pl.
a group of islands in the central Philippines, including Panay, Negros, Cebú, Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Masbate, and smaller islands. Spanish, Bisayas.
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Noun1.Visayan Islands - group of islands in the central Philippines
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Philippine Islands, Philippines - an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
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