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Kalinga.

A province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tabuk. The province was created from the partitioning of Kalinga-Apayao

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name/kɐ.lɪˈŋa/Philippines, place/kɐ.lɪŋˈɡa/Philippines
  1. A province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tabuk. The province was created from the partitioning of Kalinga-Apayao

  2. A former Spanish commandancy in the Philippines.

    historical
  3. A former subprovince of the former province of Lepanto-Bontoc in northern Philippines, created from the commandancy.

    historical
  4. A dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Kalinga people.

noun/kɐ.lɪˈŋa/Philippines, place/kɐ.lɪŋˈɡa/Philippines
  1. An indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.

    plural · plural-only
name
  1. A historical region in modern Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, in eastern India.

  2. A mythological kingdom in eastern South Asia, described in the Mahabharata.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit कलिङ्ग (kaliṅga).

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