Mardanas Island is an island in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Sitangkai Sitangkai, officially the Municipality of Sitangkai, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 37,319 people. It is the southernmost place in the Philippines and ...

Tawi-Tawi Tawi-Tawi, officially the Province of Tawi-Tawi ( tl, Lalawigan ng Tawi-Tawi; Tausug: ''Wilaya' sin Tawi-Tawi''; Sinama: ''Jawi Jawi/Jauih Jauih''), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim M ...

. With an area of . It is officially known as Siluag in the ''1939 Census Atlas of the Philippines'', however locals and the

Philippine Navy The Philippine Navy (PN) ( tgl, Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas, , Sea Army of the Philippines) ( es, Armada de Filipinas, , Ejército del Mar de las Filipinas) is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It has an e ...

disputes this name. It is one of the last islands of the Sulu Archipelago nearest the Philippine-Malaysian border and is next to

Panguan Island Panguan Island is an island in the Philippine municipality, municipality of Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi. With an area of . It is also known as Malamanok, coming from the Sama–Bajaw languages, Sama-Bajau dialect which means ''eat c ...

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Islands of Tawi-Tawi

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