The name Kabayan has been used in the
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
by
PAGASA
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (, abbreviated as PAGASA , which means "hope" as in the Tagalog language, Tagalog word ''pag-asa'') is the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS ...
in the Western Pacific. Kabayan means “countrymen” in
Filipino language
Filipino ( ; , ) is the national language of the Philippines, the main lingua franca, and one of the two official languages of the country, along with Philippine English, English. It is only a ''de facto'' and not a ''de jure'' standard langu ...
and is also the nickname of the former Vice President
Noli de Castro
Manuel "Noli" Eleuterio de Castro Jr. (; born July 6, 1949) is a Filipino broadcaster, journalist politician and singer. who served as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 2004 until 2010, under the second full term of President ...
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Typhoon Etau (2003) (T0310, 11W, Kabayan) – struck Japan
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Typhoon Peipah (2007)
The 2007 Pacific typhoon season was a near average season which featured 24 named storms, fourteen typhoons, and five super typhoons. It was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropical cyclones form in the weste ...
(T0721, 21W, Kabayan) – struck the Philippines
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Typhoon Muifa (2011)
Typhoon Muifa, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Kabayan, was a large, powerful and persistent typhoon which affected a number of countries in the Pacific in early-August 2011, killing 22 and causing widespread damage worth US$480 mi ...
(T1109, 11W, Kabayan) – approached Japan, China and Korea
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Typhoon Mujigae (2015) (T1522, 22W, Kabayan) – a destructive Category 4 typhoon that formed just east of the Philippines and made landfall in Guangdong, China
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Tropical Storm Kajiki (2019) (T1914, 16W, Kabayan) – formed after 3 storms devastated the Philippines with heavy rains.
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Tropical Storm Jelawat (2023) (T2317, 18W, Kabayan) – a weak tropical storm which caused heavy rainfall throughout Mindanao and Visayas.
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