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3 days ago · As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named. [2] The following list breaks the islands down by region and smaller island group for easier reference.
2 days ago · Luzon, largest and most important island of the Philippines. It is the site of Manila, the nation’s capital and major metropolis, and of Quezon City. Located on the northern part of the Philippine archipelago, it is bounded by the Philippine Sea (east), Sibuyan Sea (south), and the South China Sea (west).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines at 97,530 square kilometres (37,660 sq mi), and is the seventh-most populous island in the world. The island is mountainous, and is home to Mount Apo, the highest mountain in the country.
2 days ago · The province is composed of the long and narrow Palawan Island, plus a number of other smaller islands surrounding it, totalling roughly 1,780 islands and islets. The Calamianes Group of Islands to the northeast consists of Busuanga , Coron , Culion , and Linapacan islands.
2 days ago · The Philippines takes its name from Philip II, who was king of Spain during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16th century. Because it was under Spanish rule for 333 years and under U.S. tutelage for a further 48 years, the Philippines has many cultural affinities with the West. The country was wracked by political turmoil in the ...
5 days ago · The Philippine archipelago is made up of 7,641 islands. 3. The Philippines is the world’s second-largest archipelagic state by population after Indonesia, and the third-largest by area after Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Several interesting facts about the Philippines stem from its geography (Shutterstock) 4.
3 days ago · Area 2,785 square miles (7,214 square km). Pop. (2010) including smaller adjacent islands, 2,183,295; (2020) including smaller adjacent islands, 2,458,301. This article was most recently revised and updated by Michael Ray. Leyte, island, one of the Visayan group in the central Philippines, lying east of Cebu and Bohol across the Camotes Sea.
