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Sogod (pronounced (:ˈsuɡud)), officially the Municipality of Sogod, is a second class municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, Philippines.〔 Founded in the early 1600s, Sogod became a regular municipality on June 10, 1853. The name of the municipality originated from the Cebuano word, ''sogod'', meaning "to start". Sogod was one of the few indigenous settlements on Leyte Island during the pre-Hispanic era. Having a total land area of 192.7 square kilometers, Sogod is the second largest municipality in the province. According to the 2010 National Statistics Office (NSO) census, it has a population of 41,411 inhabitants.〔 It is located along the Southern Leyte section of the Pan-Philippine Highway, south of Tacloban City, the regional center of Eastern Visayas. Sogod is mostly mountainous with flat fertile plains in the central and southern area. Numerous river systems feed the terrain with alluvial soil, sustaining the production of rice, corn, copra, tobacco, abaca and root crops. Mining and quarrying is one of the main assets of the municipality. The municipality is home to the Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) Main Campus, the only state university in Southern Leyte province, and the Saint Thomas Aquinas College (STAC), one of the oldest Catholic educational institutions in the province, established since 1946. Lying within Sogod Bay, the town is the center of trade, commerce and industry. == History == A view of Sogod’s history before the coming of the Spaniards may be termed as a “Lost Horizon”. This is due to the dearth of materials on the subject, and the little information we have at present comes from the testimonies of the early Spanish missionaries and chronicles whose works cannot be verified properly. Hence, the difficulty of making the exact chronological order of the town’s past an exhaustive survey. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sogod, Southern Leyte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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