Country Chooser Country InformationPhilippines Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:220V
Frequency:60 Hz
Plug types:A, B, C,
TV Systems:
System:NTSC M
DVD-Region: 3
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam
Area:
total: 300,000 sq km
land: 298,170 sq km
water: 1,830 sq km
Climate:
tropical marine; northeast monsoon (November to April); southwest monsoon (May to October)
Terrain:
mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands
Economy
GDP: $451.3 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 5.1% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $5,100 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 7.6% (2005 est.)
Currency: Philippine peso (PHP)
Exchange rates:
Philippine pesos per US dollar - 55.086 (2005), 56.04 (2004), 54.203 (2003), 51.604 (2002), 50.993 (2001)
People
Population: 89,468,677 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 1.8% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 80.9%, Evangelical 2.8%, Iglesia ni Kristo 2.3%, Aglipayan 2%, other Christian 4.5%, Muslim 5%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.6%, none 0.1% (2000 census)
Languages:
two official languages - Filipino (based on Tagalog) and English; eight major dialects - Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinan
Government
Capital:
name: Manila
time difference: UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Independence:
12 June 1898 (from Spain)
Note: Information on Philippines was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Philippines, please visit one of the links below.
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