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 as Region VIII. It consists of six provinces and one city, namely, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar, Southern Leyte and the City of Tacloban. These provinces and city occupy the easternmost islands of Visayas: Samar, Leyte and Biliran. The regional center is Tacloban City. Eastern Visayas directly faces the Pacific ocean. There is also an idea of separating Biliran-Leyte and Samar as a region and creating a new region - the Samar Region (Region VIII-A) consisting the provinces of Samar, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar and South Samar (official name: Timog Samar) and the City of Catbalogan as its regional capital. But today the said idea has not been realized. Eastern Visayas, particularly the island of Samar, because of its geographical location is always hit by typhoons.

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