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| Location | |
| Government | |
| Region | Eastern Visayas (Region VIII) |
| Province | Samar |
| District | 2nd district of Samar |
| Barangays | 51 |
| Income Class: | 3rd class; partially urban |
| Founded | 1591 |
| Mayor | Atty. In the Philippines, regions ( Filpino: rehiyon, ISO 3166-2PH) are administrative division that serve primarily to organize the 81 Eastern Visayas is one of the two regions of the Philippines having no land border with another region MIMAROPA being the other and is designated The provinces of the Philippines are the primary administrative divisions of the Philippines. For other uses please see Samar (disambiguation. Samar, formerly Western Samar, is a province in the Philippines The House of Representatives of the Philippines ( Filipino: Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ng Pilipinas) is the lower chamber of the Congress of the Philippines This article refers to a political administrative division See Barangay Ginebra Kings for other uses A municipality ( bayan, sometimes munisipyo in Cebuano or used infrequently in Tagalog) is a local government unit in the Philippines A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Wilfredo "Didi" Estorninos |
| Official Website | elgu.ncc.gov.ph |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Area | 532. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 7 km² |
| Population | 43,809 82. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 2/km² |
| Coordinates | 11° 16' 58. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. 8" N, 125° 4' 1. 2" E |
Basey is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. A municipality ( bayan, sometimes munisipyo in Cebuano or used infrequently in Tagalog) is a local government unit in the Philippines The provinces of the Philippines are the primary administrative divisions of the Philippines. For other uses please see Samar (disambiguation. Samar, formerly Western Samar, is a province in the Philippines The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 43,809 people in 9,013 households. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
The town's name is pronounced "bAsay", not "basEY. This mispronunciation was propagated by American soldiers in the early days of the American colonial period. There is no "ey" sound in Waray. Wáray-Wáray or Waráy (commonly spelled as Waray; also referred to as Winaray or L(ineyte-Samarnon) is a language spoken in the provinces Basay is from the Waray word "mabaysay," meaning beautiful. Basay is said to be the Leyte's capital during the American period. It is the current record holder of the world's longest mat ("banig"), which is presented in the Guinness Book of World Records. Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U
Basey is politically subdivided into 51 barangays. This article refers to a political administrative division See Barangay Ginebra Kings for other uses
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