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The Philippines is the world's second-biggest geothermal energy producer behind the United States, with 18% of the country's electricity needs being met by geothermal power. [41] Mount Pinatubo is notorious for its destructive VEI-6 eruption on June 15, 1991. Taal Volcano, one of the Decade Volcanoes, had a VEI-3.7 eruption on January 12, 2020.
An enlargeable basic map of the Philippines. Pronunciation: / ˈ f ɪ l ə p iː n z / ⓘ Abbreviations: PH or PHL; Common English country name: Philippines, the Philippines; Official English country name: Republic of the Philippines; Common endonyms: Philippines, Pilipinas, Pinas (informal) Official endonym: Republic of the Philippines ...
The Philippines is a megadiverse country, [236] [237] with some of the world's highest rates of discovery and endemism (67 percent). [ 238 ] [ 239 ] With an estimated 13,500 plant species in the country (3,500 of which are endemic), [ 240 ] Philippine rain forests have an array of flora: [ 241 ] [ 242 ] about 3,500 species of trees, [ 243 ...
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This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 103 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 21.2° N; S: 4.3° N; W: 114.1° E; E: 127.3° E; Date: 25 May 2009: Source: own work, using United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data; World Data Base II data; Author: NordNordWest: Other versions
Malaysia, the Philippines & Indonesia protest - directly & indirectly - the newly published CN "standard map”, which includes the 10-dash line (9-dash line plus another near Taiwan) around the #SCS.
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]