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The Philippines , officially the Republic of the Philippines , is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia . In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south. It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. It is the world's twelfth-most-populous country , with diverse ethnicities and cultures . Manila is the country's capital, and its most populated city is Quezon City . Both are within Metro Manila .
Negritos , the archipelago's earliest inhabitants, were followed by waves of Austronesian peoples . The adoption of Animism , Hinduism with Buddhist influence, and Islam established island-kingdoms ruled by datus , rajas , and sultans . Overseas trade with neighbors such as the late Tang or Song empire brought Sinitic -speaking Sangley / "Langlang " merchants to the archipelago, which would gradually settle in and intermix . The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan , a Portuguese explorer leading a fleet for Castile , marked the beginning of Spanish colonization . In 1543, Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas in honor of King Philip II of Castile . Spanish colonization via New Spain , beginning in 1565, led to the Philippines becoming ruled by the Crown of Castile , as part of the Spanish Empire , for more than 300 years. Catholic Christianity became the dominant religion, and Manila became the western hub of trans-Pacific trade . Hispanic immigrants from Latin America and Iberia would also selectively colonize. The Philippine Revolution began in 1896, and became entwined with the 1898 Spanish–American War . Spain ceded the territory to the United States, and Filipino revolutionaries declared the First Philippine Republic . The ensuing Philippine–American War ended with the United States controlling the territory until the Japanese invasion of the islands during World War II . After the United States retook the Philippines from the Japanese , the Philippines became independent in 1946. The country has had a tumultuous experience with democracy, which included the overthrow of a decades-long dictatorship in a nonviolent revolution .
The Philippines is an emerging market and a newly industrialized country , whose economy is transitioning from being agricultural to service- and manufacturing-centered. It is a founding member of the United Nations , the World Trade Organization , ASEAN , the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the East Asia Summit ; it is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a major non-NATO ally of the United States. Its location as an island country on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator makes it prone to earthquakes and typhoons . The Philippines has a variety of natural resources and a globally-significant level of biodiversity . (Full article... )
The Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society , later popularly known as APO Hiking Society , or simply APO , are a Filipino musical group, that comprised Danny Javier , Jim Paredes , and Boboy Garrovillo . Today, the group consists of only Paredes and Garrovillo as a duo.
APO Hiking Society are regarded as one of the pillars and icons of
Original Pilipino Music (OPM). The group was formed and had its fledgling beginnings in 1969 at the
Ateneo de Manila High School, with 12 members: Lito de Joya, Sonny Santiago, Gus Cosio, Renato Garcia, Chito Kintanar, Kenny Borton, Bruce Brown, Butch Dans, Doden Besa,
Ric Segreto Macaraeg ,
Jim Paredes ,
Boboy Garrovillo , and the 13th member,
Danny Javier , who joined in college. The group's name was created from the acronym AMHS representing their school with a witty twist having an irreverent reference to the Philippine revolutionary intellectual and hero,
Apolinario Mabini , and later shortened to "Apo", an
Ilocano term for a wise man or a
Tagalog term of grandchildren, and later re-branded to "APO" (all caps). Contrary to popular belief, the "Apo" name was not a reference to the Philippines's highest peak, the
potentially-active stratovolcano Mount Apo . The group's name and meaning was a joke for the fact that Mabini has been paralyzed by polio during the Philippine revolution and cannot use his feet for walking nor hiking, hence the name. (
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Francisco Moreno Domagoso (born October 24, 1974), also known as Isko Moreno Domagoso (Tagalog pronunciation: [isˈkɔʔ mɔˈɾɛ.nɔ dɔ.maˈɡɔ.sɔ] ) or simply Isko Moreno , is a Filipino politician, actor, host and entrepreneur who served as the 27th Mayor of Manila , the capital city of the Philippines, from 2019 to 2022. Before entering politics, Moreno first gained notability as an actor and television personality.
Moreno was born and raised in the
slums of
Tondo, Manila , and spent his childhood in poverty. After a modest career in show business, he entered politics in 1998, standing for election as a
city councilor of Manila ; he was elected for three consecutive terms. He then pursued higher education, including some non-degree
postgraduate education at
Harvard Kennedy School and
Oxford Saïd Business School . In 2007, he was elected as vice mayor of Manila for the first of three consecutive terms. In 2016, he was term-limited as vice mayor and unsuccessfully ran for senator in the
2016 senatorial elections , being placed 16th out of 50 candidates. He then served in the cabinet of President
Rodrigo Duterte as
social welfare undersecretary for a few months in 2018, before successfully standing as mayor of Manila, winning in a
landslide victory against his former allies
Joseph Estrada and
Alfredo Lim in the
2019 local elections becoming the youngest elected mayor of Manila since the
People Power Revolution . (
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The following are images from various Philippines-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 3 Dominant ethnic groups by province. (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 4 Filipino traditional dance at a festival (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 5 Kalesa , a traditional Philippine urban transportation, in front of
Manila Cathedral entrance (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 6 A grandmaster of
Arnis . (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 7 Carabao is a major symbol of Filipinos hard labor. And is known to be the "Filipino farmer's bestfriend". (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 8 Filipina in traditional attire (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 13 Parol (Christmas lanterns) being sold during the Christmas season (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 14 Tortoise -shell and silver Salakot (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 18 Villa Escudero exhibit depicting 19th century Filipino family in traditional attire (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 19 Old Senate Hall with
Estilo Tampinco style of carving and ornamentation (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 21 Pineapple fiber is used to create traditional Philippine garments. (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 22 The
University of Santo Tomas , located in
Manila , was established in 1611. (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 25 Manny Pacquiao , the only
8-division world boxing champion in history. (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 27 Mila del Sol starred in one of the earliest Filipino movies,
Giliw Ko (1939), along with
Fernando Poe Sr. (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 32 Sungka , a traditional Filipino game. (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 33 The Kutkut art from Samar (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 34 An
Itneg shaman offering pigs to
anito spirits, 1922 (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 35 Bahay na bato , a traditional Filipino house (from
Culture of the Philippines )
Image 36 A performer depicting a
babaylan (shaman) (from
Culture of the Philippines )
...that José Rizal was a polyglot who mastered 22 languages including Catalan , Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Malay , Sanskrit , Spanish, Tagalog , and other Philippine languages ?
...that Enrique of Malacca (aka Henry the Black ), the interpreter of Ferdinand Magellan , may be historically significant as the first person to circumnavigate the world?
...that Malacañang Palace comes from a Tagalog phrase May lakan diyan , which means "there is a rich man there" for it was once the home of a wealthy Spanish merchant before it hosted the nation's chief executive ?
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