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PHILIPPINES

The Philippines (/ˈfɪlɪpiːnz/ (About this soundlisten); Filipino: Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas),[c] is an archipelagic state in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean, together with consists of about 7,640 islands, that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, together with Mindanao. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, together with the Celebes Sea to the southwest, together with shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east together with southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia together with Brunei to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, together with China to the northwest. The Philippines covers an area of 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi) together with, as of 2020, had a population of around 109 million people, making it the world’s twelfth-most populous state. The Philippines is a multinational state, with diverse ethnicities together with cultures throughout its islands. Manila is the nation’s capital, while the largest city is Quezon City, both lying within the urban area of Metro Manila

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