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A map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named. [2]
This is a list of cities and municipalities in the Philippines that are located on islands with no land borders with other local government units.. Agutaya; Almagro, Samar; Anda, Pangasinan (Cabarruyan Island)
Christmas Island: Flying Fish Cove: English: Cocos Islands [6] West Island: Cocos Islands: West Island: English: Colombia: Bogotá: Colombia: Bogotá: Spanish: Comoros: Moroni: Komori Juzur al-Qumur جزر القمر Comores: Moroni Moroni موروني Moroni: Shikomor Arabic (Arabic script) French: Republic of the Congo: Brazzaville ...
This is a list of island countries. An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. [1] Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines—these countries consist of thousands of islands.
The Philippines is divided into three island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. The Philippines is divided into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Luzon and Mindanao archipelagoes are both named after the largest island in their respective groups, while the Visayas (also referred to as the Visayan Islands) is an ...
The plaque in Málaga, Spain, commemorating López de Villalobos for naming the Philippines. Some sources credit his captain Bernardo de la Torre for the name instead. A 1561 map of Southeast Asia by the Italian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi, using the name Philippine Island (Latin: Philippina) for Leyte but not the entire archipelago
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Located in the central part of the archipelago, it consists of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visayan Sea, although the Visayas are also considered the northeast extremity of the entire Sulu Sea. [3] Its inhabitants are predominantly the Visayan peoples. The major islands of the Visayas are Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and ...