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History Of Philippines
The Philippine archipelago was settled at least 30,000 years ago, when migrations from the Indonesian archipelago and elsewhere are believed to have occurred.
Additional migrations took place over the next millennia. Over time, social and political organization developed and evolved in the widely scattered islands. Ferdinand Magellan was the first European recorded to have landed in thePhilippines. He arrived in March 1521 during his circumnavigation of the globe. He claimed land for the king of Spain but was killed by a local chief. Following several more Spanish expeditions, the first permanent settlement was established in Cebu in 1565.
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GEOGRAPHY
The Philippines comprises an archipelago of some 7,107 islands located off Southeast Asia, between the South
China Sea on the west and the Philippine Sea on the east.
The major islands are Luzon in the north, the Visayan Islands in the middle, and Mindanao in the south.
The total area is about 300,000 square kilometers, including about 298,000 square kilometers of land and about 2,000 square kilometers of water. The Philippines stretches about 1,850 kilometers from Y’Ami Island in the north to Sibutu Island in the south and is about 1,000 kilometers at its widest point east to west. The bulk of the population lives on 11 of the 7,107 islands. The Philippines has no land boundaries. Nearby neighbors are Taiwan to the north, Malaysia and Indonesia to the south, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest.
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Topography & Climate
The Philippines consists of volcanic islands, including active volcanoes, with mostly mountainous interiors surrounded by flat lowlands and alluvial plains of varying widths
along the coasts. The elevation ranges from sea level to the highest point of Mount Apo on Mindanao Island, at 2,954 meters above sea level. The longest river is the Cagayan (Río Grande de Cagayan) on Luzon, about
350 kilometers in length. Other principal rivers on Luzon include the Abra, Bicol, Chico, and Pampanga. he Philippines has a tropical marine climate, with the northeast monsoon, which produces a cool, dry season from December to February, and the southwest monsoon, which brings rain and high temperatures from May to October. Between March and May, hot, dry
weather prevails.
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Culture
Christian Malays constitute 91.5 percent of the total population, Muslim Malays 4 percent, Chinese 1.5 percent, and others 3 percent. The Philippines has two official languages, Filipino (or Pilipino) and English. Filipino has eight major dialects, in order of use: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinense. About 83 percent of the population is Roman Catholic; 9 percent Protestant, including Presbyterian, Methodist, Philippine Independent Church, and Philippine Church of Christ; 5 percent Muslim; and 3 percent Buddhist and other.
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Economy
The economy of the Philippines is an anomaly in the Asia-Pacific region in that it has lagged behind other economies, such as those of Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. From a position as one of the wealthiest countries in Asia after World War II, the Philippines is now one
of the poorest. Since the 1970s, which were a relatively prosperous decade, the Philippines has
failed to achieve a sustained period of rapid economic growth and has suffered from recurring
economic crises. This persistent under performance has occurred in spite of the Philippines’ rich natural and human resources. In 2004 the gross domestic product (GDP) was US$84.6 billion, or US$1,150 on a per capita basis. In 2005 consumer price inflation was 7.6 percent, up from 5.5 percent in 2004 and 3.0 percent in 2003.
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