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Philippines

Flag of Philippines
Location marker · geographic overview
13° N / 122° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
Capital
Manila
Population
115,843,670 2024
Area
342,353 km² (year unavailable)
Languages source-listed
English, Filipino
Currency
Philippine peso (PHP)
Geography
Island country

Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.

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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Philippines

The Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is an archipelago […] in Southeast Asia.
Landscape & landmarks
The Philippines can give you the tropical island experience of your life. Its beautiful sandy beaches, warm climate, century old churches, magnificent mountain ranges, dense rain forests, rich culture and smiling people are some of the attractions that you can see and experience on this archipelago composed of 7,107 islands.
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Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-24. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.

A few more connections

Highest point source-listed
Mount Apo Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗
National anthem source-listed
Lupang Hinirang Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗

Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Source-matched, not independently certified. Observation year unavailable; retrieved 2026-09-27.

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National flower
Not yet verified
Official national dish
Not yet verified
Representative food
Not yet verified
Subregion
South-Eastern Asia
Calling code
+63
Internet domain
.ph
Land border codes
None listed

Quick facts

  • Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
  • The country-code web domain is .ph. Source ↗
  • The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗

Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.

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Philippines in context

Population in 2024

#14 of 194

Among the atlas countries with a 2024 World Bank observation. Population source ↗

Area in the atlas

#64 of 195

By source-listed total area, largest first. This is separate from the population ranking. Geography source ↗

Size compared with nearby values

These named countries are in the same source continent and have the closest total areas. They are comparison points, not necessarily neighbours.

Area compared with Philippines
CountryArea (km²)Ratio
Philippines342,3531.00×
Vietnam331,2120.97×
Malaysia330,8030.97×
Oman309,5000.90×

Ratio = comparison country's source area ÷ Philippines's source area; rounded to two decimals. Rankings use competition ranks (ties share a rank). Area values use the pinned geographic snapshot, not a population observation year.

Land neighbours

Land neighbours in this atlas: none. This follows the source-listed borders.

Source-listed time zones

UTC+08:00

Static source offsets, not a live clock or daylight-saving calculation. Source ↗

Computed from the atlas snapshot retrieved September 26, 2026. Population rank excludes the one country without 2024 data; no claim of an all-territory global ranking.

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