GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF THE PHILIPPINES

• Philippines - is located in southeast asia
• archipelago - an area of a group or chain of islands surrounded by bodies of water like our country the Philippines who's an archipelago
• the Philippines comprises about "7,641" islands
• the three main group of islands of the Philippines are Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao
• the capital of the philippines is "manila"
• the Philippine archipelago is also located along the "pacific ring of fire"
• pacific ring of fire - is where mountains and volcanoes are formed and earthquakes are generated. This explains why Philippines has a lot of volcanoes and mountains
• the luzon strait - is found in the northern part of the Philippines
• the philippine sea and the pacific sea - are located in the eastern part of the Philippines
• the west philippine sea - is found in the western part of the philippines
• the celebes sea - is located in the south part of the philippines
• the sulu sea - are found near the celebes sea which is located at the southwest of the philippines
• land masses (countries) surrounding the philippines :

  
  

  found in the northern part of the philippines

  • Japan
  • Taiwan
  • China
• found in the southern part of the philippines

  • Malaysia
  • Indonesia
• found in the western part of the philippines

  • vietnam
• the philippines total land area is "300,000 square kilometers"
• the philippines total land masses are "298,170" square meters