Leyte is a province in the Philippines situated in the Eastern Visayas region occupying the eastern section of the Visayas.

The province has a land area of 6,335.44 square kilometers or 2,446.13 square miles. Its population as determined by the 2020 Census was 1,776,847. This represented 39.08% of the total population of the Eastern Visayas region, 8.63% of the overall population of the Visayas island group, or 1.63% of the entire population of the Philippines. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 280 inhabitants per square kilometer or 726 inhabitants per square mile.

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