Eastern Samar is one of six provinces that comprise the Eastern Visayas ( Region VIII ).

The province is subdivided into twenty-two (22) municipalities and one city, with a total of 597 barangays represented as a lone congressional district. The seat of the provincial government is at the capital city of Borongan.

Eastern Samar had been a significant backdrop of the country’s rich colonial history through the island of Homonhon, where Ferdinand Magellan first set foot on Philippine soil in 1521 on his way to conquer the Philippines for the western world.

Its tiny island of Suluan Guiuan was likewise where the U.S. Army rangers had their first encounter of the Philippine territory in 1944, three days before General Douglas MacArthur made his historic landing in Leyte.