What is the full name of the Philippines ?

Answer:
Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas)
What is the capital of the Philippines ?
Answer:
Manila
Where is the Philippines located ?
Answer:
Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean
What countries border the Philippines ?
Answer:
The Philippines shares no land boundaries, but Taiwan, Vietnam,
Borneo, Indonesia are all located across seas from the Philippines
What is the area of the Philippines ?
Answer:
300,000 square kilometers or 115,831 square miles
What is the population of the Philippines ?
Answer:
Around 100,000,000
How many islands make up the Philippine archipelago ?
Answer:
7,107
How is the Philippines divided ?
Answer:
There are three main geographic groups of islands: Luzon,
Visayas, Mindano
There are 17 Regions and 80 provinces in the Philippines Regions
and Regional Centers

Ilocos Region San Fernando, La Union

Cagayan Valley Tuguegaro, Cagayan

Central Luzon San Fernando, Pampanga

Calabarzon Calamba, Laguna
Mimaropa Calpan, Oriental Mindora
Bicol Region Legazpi, Albay
Western Visayas Iloilo City
Central Visayas Cebu City
Eastern Visayas Tacloban
Zamboanga Peninsula Zamboanga City
Northern Mindanao Cagayan de Oro
Davao Region Davao City
Soccsksargen Korondal, South Cotabato
Caraga Butuan
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Cotabato City
Cordillera Administrative Region Baguio
National Capital Region Manila
What is the currency of the Philippines ?
Answer;
Philippine Peso (PHP)
When did the Philippines declare independence ?
Answer:
The Philippines have declared independence from both Spain and the United States.
Independence from Spain was declared on June 12, 1898. The Philippines declared
independence from the United States on July 4, 1946.
When was the Philippines colonized by Spain ?
Answer:
The Spanish explorer, Ferdinand Magellan came across the Philippines in 1512. Spain
began developing permanent settlements in the Philippines starting with Cebu in 1565
and moving up to Manila on Luzon Island by 1571. The Spanish colonists unified the
archipelago politically and began to convert the indigenous peoples to Christianity. They
also brought schools and infrastructure. By 1896, the Philippine Revolution began
against Spain. With the help of the United States, the First Philippine Republic declared
independence from Spain.
Who were the major revolutionary figures of the Philippine Revolution ?
Answer:

A secessionist group called the Katipunan was led by Andrs Bonifacio, who organized
an attack on the capital (which failed) and Bonifacio was later executed.
Emilio Aguinaldo led a similar armed attacks soon after, eventually allying with the
United States and declaring independence from Spain. Philippine independence was not
recognized by Spain or the United States. Aguinaldo became the President of the First
Philippine Republic in 1898.
How did the Philippines fall under United States rule ?
Answer:
When the Philippines achieved independence from Spain in the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the
United States took control. At that point, Filipinos had seen the United States as an ally,
because the United States was at war with Spain in the Spanish-American War. With the
Battle of Manila in 1899, fought between the United States and the Philippines,
Aguinaldo declared the United States an enemy and declared war against them.
How long was the Philippine-American War ?
Answer:
The war between the United States and the Philippines lasted about 3 years, from June
2, 1899 to July 4, 1902. The Filipino military were not as well-equipped, so the
Americans won soon after Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader, was captured in 1901. The war
ended when the United States agreed to establish the Philippine Commission and to
extend the U.S. Bill of Rights to Filipinos. The Philippines then became a commonwealth
of the United States.
When did the Japanese occupy the Philippines ?
Answer:
Japan took control of the Philippines during World War II, from 1941 to 1945.
What is the official language of the Philippines ?
Answer:
There are 2 official languages in the Philippines : Filipino and English
Recognized regional languages :
Answer:
Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilokano, Pampango, Pangasinense, Tagalog, Waray
Recognized auxiliary languages : Arabic, Spanish
Are Filipino and Tagalog different languages ?
Anwer:

Not really. Most linguists differentiate language from a dialect by whether the two are
mutually intelligible and whether they share the same grammar structure. Filipino and
Tagalog are mutually intelligible and share grammar. Filipino was meant to be the
standardized version of Tagalog, and is the national language of the Philippines. Calling
the language Filipino was intended to disassociate the language with the Tagalog
ethnic group. Filipino was also supposed to incorporate other indigenous language in the
Philippines, but currently does not.
Colloquially, the language spoken in the Philippines is referred to as Tagalog