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total land area 300,000 square
kilometers (115,830 sq. miles)
15,854,922 hectares or 53
percent of the country's total
land area were forestlands while
the remaining 14,145,078
hectares or 47 percent were
alienable and disposable lands
as of December 2000. Luzon (7
regions, 38 provinces), Visayas
(3 regions, 16 provinces), and
Mindanao (6 regions, 25
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Luzon, with a total land area of 104,688 square kilometers is the world's
17th largest island (excluding continental masses of lands). Listed as the
19th largest island is Mindanao, with a land area of 94,631 square
kilometers. The world's largest islands are Greenland (a Danish territory),
with a total land area of 2.18 million square kilometers; New Guinea,
820,033 square kilometers; and Borneo, 743,107 square kilometers.

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The coastal zones of the Philippines are composed of 11,000 square
kilometers of land and 267,000 square kilometers of coastal waters.







The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported that as of
December 2001, the Philippines had 16 regions, 79 provinces, 114 cities,
1,496 municipalities and 41,960 barangays or villages. The newest province
was Zamboanga Sibugay in western Mindanao while the newest city was
Gapan in Nueva Ecija province. The most populated province as this was
being written remained Cebu, with over 3 million residents while the least
populated was Batanes, with less than 20,000 inhabitants. The largest
province in terms of land area was Palawan, with 14,896 square kilometers
while the smallest province was Batanes, with 209 square kilometers.
 


There are 200 volcanoes in the Philippines, 22 of them are said to be active.
The archipelago also sits on the Philippine fault zone, a 1,300-kilometer
active left-lateral strike-fault from Luzon to Mindanao. This is why
earthquakes occur in the country.
Nearly Perfect Cone
Mayon Volcano in Albay province has the distinction of having a nearly perfect cone. Towering at a
height of 2,462 meters above the sea level, Mount Mayon overlooks Legaspi City. Its name, derived
from the Bicolano term Magayon, means beautiful and is associated with a folk legend. The volcano
has a base circumference of 62.8 kilometers. Geologists claimed that the stratovolcano developed
its cone shape from a pile around the vent of volcanic materials composed of lava, rock and ash. Its
first eruption was recorded in 1616, and there were at least 47 more eruptions since then, the last
one in February, 2000. In 1911, its eruption killed 1,300 people and buried the town of Cagsawa.
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Situated between latitude 21A25'N
and 4A23'N and longitude 116AE and
127AE, the Philippines is a tropical
country with an average year-round
temperature of 27AC (82AF). The
Philippine time is Greenwich Mean
Time (GMT) plus eight
hours. According to the Philippine
Atmospheric, Geophysical and
Astronomical Services Administration
(PAGASA), about 20 typhoons visit
the Philippines between June and
October each year. In 1993, the
Philippines had 32 typhoons, the
highest in many years.

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According to the National Commission
for Culture and the Arts (NCCA),
there are 78 language groupings and
over 500 dialects in the Philippines.
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(NSO) 88.5 2007. to grow by 1.6 million or over 2 percent annually to
93.2 million by the end of 2010. 14th most populous country in the
world In 1799, Spanish historians said there were only 1,502,574
people living in the Philippines.

 
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that nearly 53 percent of the 25 million single people in the Philippines
were males while only 47 percent were females. However, around 76
percent of the 2.6 million widowed persons were females and only 24
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In particular, 9.788 million were employed in agriculture, hunting and forestry; 1.237
million in fishing; 136,000 in mining and quarrying; 2.904 million in manufacturing;
114,000 in electricity, gas and water sector; and 1.67 million in construction.

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and repair; 2.104 million in transportation, storage and communication; 680,000 in
hotels and restaurants; 913,000 in education; 301,000 in banks and financial
institutions, 355,000 in hospitals and social institutions; 552,000 in real estate, renting
and business activities; 877,000 in personal services; and 1.339 million in household
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As of 2002, the Philippine National Police had an authorized strength of 113,743
members, including 69 chief superintendents (one-star general); 11 police directors
(two-star), 3 police deputy director-generals (three-star), and 1 police director-general
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As of 1998, 2,067,965 students were enrolled in Philippine colleges and
universities. These included 620,681 students who were enrolled in Business
and related courses; 299,226 in Engineering; 316,293 in Education; and
166,329 in Mathematics and Computer Science. Students who were enrolled
in two- or three-year technical or vocational courses were not included in the
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private schools. Some 5.4 million students were enrolled in high schools; 4.2
million of them in public schools and 1.2 million in private schools.

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Remittances $7.3B ´.S.
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171,000 Tourists to the ´S
3 Million Filipino Immigrants
19 Percent of Filipinos Want
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18,000 Nurses in the ´K
175,000 Entertainers in
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100,000 Household Maids in
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combined coastlines in the planet. The total length of the country's coastlines is 36,289
kilometers or almost twice that of the ´nited States. It is said to be the third country
with the longest combined coastlines, after Canada and Indonesia. With 7,107 islands,
the Philippines lies between two great bodies of water, namely: on the east by Pacific
Ocean, the world's largest ocean and on the west by South China Sea, the world's
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