Eastern Visayas, officially designated as Region VIII, is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the eastern section of the Visayas. It covers 6 provinces, namely, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar, and Southern Leyte, as well as 1 highly urbanized city. The regional center is the City of Tacloban.

Its population as determined by the 2020 Census was 4,547,150. This represented 22.09% of the overall population of the Visayas island group, or 4.17% of the entire population of the Philippines. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 196 inhabitants per square kilometer or 507 inhabitants per square mile.