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The Philippines is a priority hotspot for biodiversity conservation; [263] [237] it has more than 200 protected areas, [264] which was expanded to 7,790,000 hectares (30,100 sq mi) as of 2023. [265] Three sites in the Philippines have been included on the UNESCO World Heritage List: the Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea, [ 266 ] the Puerto ...
The Philippines is broken up into many islands by the sea. This gives it the fifth longest coastline of 36,289 kilometers (22,549 mi) in the world. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The Exclusive economic zone of the Philippines covers 2,263,816 km 2 (874,064 sq mi), 200 nautical miles (370 km) from its shores. [ 16 ]
As of 2020, there are 244 protected areas in the Philippines, covering a total area of about 7,760,000 hectares (19,200,000 acres) – 15.4% of the Philippines' total area. [ 1 ] History
Bonifacio Global City (also known as BGC, Global City, or The Fort) is a central business district and major financial hub located in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines.It is located 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) southeast of the capital city of Manila.
The 50 largest islands have a combined area of around 321,000 square kilometers (124,000 sq mi) and a combined population of about 100.9 million (2015); thus they contain about 99% of the Philippines' total land area and total population (2015). Combined population of Luzon and Mindanao accounts for 80% of total population of the Philippines.
Numbers are given in global hectares per capita. The world-average ecological footprint in 2016 was 2.75 global hectares per person (22.6 billion in total). With a world-average biocapacity of 1.63 global hectares (gha) per person (12.2 billion in total), this leads to a global ecological deficit of 1.1 global hectares per person (10.4 billion ...
Palawan had 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres) of forests as of 2010 [81] and has been called the Philippines' "last biodiversity frontier." [82] Among the many endemic species are the Palawan peacock-pheasant, Philippine mouse-deer, Philippine pangolin, Palawan bearded pig, and Palawan birdwing. In the forests and grasslands, the air resonates ...
A 2010 land cover mapping by the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) revealed that the total forest cover of the Philippines is 6,839,718 hectares (68,397.18 km 2) or 23% of the country's total area of 30,000,000 hectares (300,000 km 2). [2]