TOTAL LAND AREA OF THE CITY AND MUNICIPALITIES OF SOUTHERN LEYTE
Southern Leyte is situated at the lower part of Eastern Visayas, Philippines. Its total land area
consists of 1,806.46 square kilometres or 695.55 square miles. Southern Leyte has a total of 1
city, 18 municipalities, and 500 different barangays. The table below is the breakdown of the
total land area of the municiaplities;
Name of
Percentage of
Area in km²
Square Miles
Anahawan
58.09
22.43
3.22%
Bontoc
102.10
39.42
5.67%
Hinunangan
170.58
65.86
9.47%
Hinundayan
59.90
23.13
3.33%
Libagon
98.62
38.08
5.47%
Liloan
50.30
19.42
2.79%
Limasawa
6.98
2.69
0.39%
Maasin
211.71
81.74
11.75%
Macrohon
126.39
48.80
7.02%
Malitbog
77.82
30.05
4.32%
Padre Burgos
25.65
9.90
1.42%
Pintuyan
36.98
14.28
2.05%
Saint Bernard
100.20
38.69
5.56%
San Francisco
68.60
26.49
3.81%
San Juan
96.12
37.11
5.34%
San Ricardo
47.56
18.36
2.64%
Silago
215.05
83.03
11.94%
Sogod
192.70
74.40
10.70%
Tomas Oppus
56.11
21.66
3.11%
1,801.46 km²
695.55 sq mi
100%
City/Municipality
Southern Leyte Total:
Source:
https://www.philatlas.com/visayas/r08/southern-leyte.html
Total Land Area
Percentage of Total Land Area
12,00%
10,00%
8,00%
6,00%
4,00%
2,00%
0,00%
Based on the graph above, there is not much of a difference between the sizes of Maasin
City and Silago Province, however, the latter is bigger for about 0.19%. For the smallest
province, the first one on the list is the Limasawa which only consists of 0.39% of the total land
area.