Philippines

Interesting Facts About Philippines

• The Philippines is an archipelagic country consisting of about 7,641 islands located in the western Pacific Ocean.
• With a population of over 114 million, the Philippines is the world's thirteenth-most-populous country.
• More than 60 percent of the Philippines' population live in the coastal zone.
• Metro Manila is the country's most populous metropolitan area and the world's fifth most populous, with about 13.48 million people.
• The Philippines has substantial ethnic diversity, with Tagalog being the largest ethnic group at 26.0 percent of the population in the 2020 census.
• The country's indigenous peoples consist of 110 ethnolinguistic groups, including the Igorot, Lumad, Mangyan, and the indigenous peoples of Palawan.
• Ethnic Filipinos generally belong to several Southeast Asian ethnic groups classified linguistically as Austronesians speaking Malayo-Polynesian languages.
• The Philippines reduced its poverty rate from 49.2 percent in 1985 to 18.1 percent in 2021.

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