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Balanga City is the educational center of the province of Bataan. It currently has one state-owned university and several private colleges offering Baccalauréat degrees in accountancy, business administration, entrepreneurship, computer science and information technology, teaching, engineering, architecture, and health.
Balanga may refer to: Balanga, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Gombe State; Balanga, Bataan, a city in the Philippines; Balanga, another name for tapayan, large wide-mouthed earthenware or stoneware jars in Southeast Asia
Tapayan is derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tapay-an which refers to large earthen jars originally used to ferment rice wine ().In modern Austronesian languages, derivatives include tapayan (Tagalog, Ilocano and various Visayan languages), tapj-an (), and tapáy-an in the Philippines; and tepayan and tempayan (Javanese and Malay) in Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
The Balanga LGAs residents rely heavily on agriculture for their livelihoods, with crops like tomatoes, sorghum, maize, beans, and groundnuts being farmed nearby. Bentonite, limestone, granite, and topaz are among the mineral deposits in the Balanga LGA. The crucial Balanga Dam is located within the boundaries of Balanga LGA. [3]
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The Diocese of Balanga is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, established on March 17, 1975, by Pope Paul VI. The diocese has jurisdiction over the whole province of Bataan , with 38 parishes , 5 diocesan shrines, one minor basilica , chaplaincy, quasi-parish, national shrine and chapel, and 4 vicariates.
In 2008, 15 life-size images of saints with their names were added outside the cathedral representing the patron saints from the 11 towns and 1 city of Bataan where the Diocese of Balanga has jurisdiction with and a few towns have multiple saints (with St. Gemma Galgani was later added as the 16th and latest statue four years later in 2012 ...
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