Philippines
AsiaDid you know?
- •The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands; the official count was revised upward to 7,641 in 2016.
- •It is the 12th most populous country in the world.
- •Luzon and Mindanao are its two largest islands, while thousands of smaller islands fill the seas between them.
Key Information
Capital
Manila
Population
114,1 million
Area
342,353 km²
GDP
533,9 billion $
Currency
PHP
Difficulty on MapGuesser
Medium
Subregion
South-Eastern Asia
Calling code
+63
MapGuesser Tip
The Philippines is the big island chain east of Vietnam and south of Taiwan in the western Pacific.
Official Languages
FilipinoEnglish
Flag Colors
blancbleujaunerougeornoir
Flag History
The national flag of the Philippines is a horizontal bicolor flag with equal bands of royal blue and crimson red, with a white, equilateral chevron at the hoist. In the center of the triangle is a golden-yellow sun with eight primary rays, to represent the original eight provinces that rebelled against the Spanish during the 1896 Philippine Revolution. At each vertex of the triangle is a five-pointed, golden-yellow star, each of which representing one of the country's three main island groups—Lu...
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Philippines is an island nation with no land borders.
