Ormoc (English spelling)

Japanese: オルモック（英語表記）Ormoc

A port and commercial city located at the head of Ormoc Bay on the west coast of Leyte Island in the Philippines. Population 142,000 (1994). Until the beginning of the 20th century, it was merely one port town in Western Leyte, with the Ormoc Plains as its hinterland, but with the start of operations at the Ormoc Sugar Factory in 1929, it grew into the largest city on the island with a population of 80,000 by 1939. It has stagnated somewhat since the war, but its population is still on par with that of the provincial capital, Tacloban. [Umehara Hiromitsu]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

フィリピン，レイテ島西岸，オルモック湾奥に位置する港湾･商業都市。人口14万2000(1994)。20世紀初めまではオルモック平野を後背地とする西部レイテの一港町にすぎなかったが，1929年のオルモック製糖工場の操業開始により，39年までに人口8万の島内最大都市に成長。戦後はやや停滞気味であるが，それでも人口は州都タクロバンと肩を並べる。【梅原弘光】

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