An archipelago of 7,641 islands, sitting in the typhoon belt and on the Ring of Fire.
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Philippines
Republic of the Philippines
Asia
ยท South-Eastern Asia
0Population
342.35Kkmยฒ of land
$3.49KGDP / person
ManilaCapital
- ISO codes
- PH ยท PHL
- Density
- 316 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Filipino
- Currency
- Philippine peso (PHP)
- Dial code
- +63
- Internet domain
- .ph
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 11.1980ยฐ N, 122.4650ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Filipino
- UN region
- South-Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $376.8B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Philippines stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
13th
of 242 ยท 1.41% of world population
Land area
65th
of 242 ยท 0.23% of world land
GDP per person
167th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
39th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Philippines
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 108,116,615 people, the 13th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.41 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 342,353 kmยฒ, making it the 65th largest country here - about 11.2 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 316 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Manila, at 14.61ยฐ N, 120.98ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 11,100,000.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Manila.
The currency is the Philippine peso (PHP, symbol โฑ).
Has 2 official languages: English and Filipino.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Manila
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UTC+08:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Manila
Metropolitan Manila
14.6061ยฐ N, 120.9803ยฐ E
11.1M
2
Davao
Davao Del Sur
7.1120ยฐ N, 125.6281ยฐ E
1.4M
3
General Santos
South Cotabato
6.1108ยฐ N, 125.1747ยฐ E
950.53K
4
Cebu
Cebu
10.3219ยฐ N, 123.8981ยฐ E
815K
5
Zamboanga
Zamboanga del Sur
6.9219ยฐ N, 122.0781ยฐ E
773K
6
Baguio
Benguet
16.4300ยฐ N, 120.5699ยฐ E
447.82K
7
Iloilo
Iloilo
10.7050ยฐ N, 122.5450ยฐ E
387.68K
8
Laoag
Ilocos Norte
18.1988ยฐ N, 120.5936ยฐ E
207.05K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Palawan & El Nido
Beach
Limestone cliffs, hidden lagoons reached only at low tide, and an 8 km navigable underground river.