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Ormoc is a city on the west side of Leyte Island, in Leyte Province. Ormoc, officially the City of Ormoc (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Ormoc, Waray: Syudad han Ormoc, Tagalog: Lungsod ng Ormoc), is a 1st class independent component city in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 230,998 inhabitants, making it the second-most-populous city in the province after the provincial capital of Tacloban. Ormoc is the economic, cultural, commercial, and transportation hub of western Leyte.
Ormoc is an independent component city, not subject to regulation from the Provincial Government of Leyte. However, the city is part of the 4th Congressional District of Leyte together with Albuera, Kananga, Merida, Palompon, and Isabel, and is statistically grouped under the province by the Philippine Statistics Authority. On November 8, 2013, the city was extensively damaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), having previously suffered severe destruction and loss of life in 1991 from torrential flooding during Tropical Storm Thelma (Uring). The city's name is derived from ogmok, an archaic Visayan term for "lowland" or "depressed plain". The city also celebrates an annual thanksgiving festival called the Piña Festival in honor of the saint's Peter and Paul in thanks for the bountiful pineapple harvest.