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Panay
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Panay (pänī`), island (1990 pop. 3,136,425), 4,446 sq mi (11,515 sq km), one of the Visayan Islands, 6th largest of the Philippines, NW of Negros. Primarily agricultural with extensive lowlands, it is a major rice and sugarcane producing area. Industries include sugar-processing, lumbering, and fishing. The island comprises the provinces of Aklan, Antique, Capiz, and Iloilo.

Panay

Island (pop., 2000: 3,643,016), westernmost of the Visayan group, central Philippines. It is surrounded by the Sibuyan, Visayan, and Sulu seas, and the Guimaras Strait separates it from Negros island. Roughly triangular in shape, it has an area of 4,446 sq mi (11,515 sq km). A rugged, almost unpopulated mountain range parallels its western coastline. Between the range and a hilly eastern portion, a densely populated, intensely farmed fertile plain extends north to south. The island's chief city is Iloilo.
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1) Manikan and Eric Lund, a Swedish Baptist missionary supported by the American Baptist Missionary Union (which became American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1910), started the first Baptist mission station in the Philippines in 1900 in Jaro, Panay Island.
One mission, different voices: overseas missions of the convention of ... by Romarate-Knipel, Carla Gay A. / Baptist History and Heritage
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