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This is the term used for a chain of islands.
What is an archipelago?
The official language of the Philippines is Filipino, a variation of this language, which is also the name of the Philippines’ largest ethnic group.
What is Tagalog?
This is the currency of the Philippines.
What is the Filipino peso (or peso)?
This is the capital city of the Philippines and part of one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas.
What is Manila?
Roughly 80% of Filipinos belong to this religious denomination.
What is Roman Catholicism (or Catholicism)?
Similar to hurricanes in the Atlantic, this is the term used in the northwest Pacific for a swirling storm system that begins in warm tropical waters.
What is a typhoon?
The Philippines were a colony of this country for more than 300 years.
What is Spain?
This is considered the most popular sport in the Philippines.
What is basketball?
This is the northernmost, and largest and most populous, island in the Philippines.
What is Luzon?
On July 4, 1946, the Philippines became independent of this country.
What is the United States?
This body of water separates the Philippines from Vietnam, to the west, and is the site of the disputed Spratly Islands.
What is the South China Sea?
This man, a former mayor of Davao City, is the current president of the Philippines.
Who is Rodrigo Duterte?
This industry accounts for most of the Philippines’ exports by dollar value.
What is electronics (or semiconductors)?
Home to most of the Philippines’ mineral deposits as well as both a Maoist and an Islamist insurgency, this is the southernmost, and second-largest, island in the Philippines.
What is Mindanao?
Near Manila, this planned city (named for the country’s second president) was the capital of the Philippines for 28 years and remains the country’s largest city.
What is Quezon City?
Containing the Philippine Trench, the third-lowest point on earth, this body of water borders the Philippines to the east.
What is the Philippine Sea?
Spoken throughout the central Visayas and much of Mindanao, this is the second most common language of the Philippines.
What is Cebuano?
Accounting for nearly 10% of the Philippines’ GDP, this is the term for money earned abroad and sent back to relatives in the home country.
What are remittances?
This is the term for the renewable energy source that the Philippines uses to generate 17% of its electricity by taking advantage of the country’s geologically active position on the earth’s surface.
What is geothermal (or geothermal energy)?
This body of water separates the Philippines from Taiwan, to the north.
What is the Luzon Strait?
The Pasig River bisects the city of Manila and drains Laguna de Bay (the largest lake in southeast Asia) into this body of water.
What is Manila Bay?
These indigenous people, who are primarily Muslim, have led several armed secession movements in the southern Philippines.
Who are the Moro?
The Sinalog festival, which celebrates the beginning of the Philippines’ conversion to Christianity, is celebrated here, the second-most important urban region in the Philippines.
What is Cebu City (or Cebu)?
This large mountain chain in northern Luzon is the source of the Cagayan River, the Philippines’ longest, and is home to much of the country’s agricultural production.
What is Cordillera Central (or Cordillera)?
This is the name of the central group of islands in the Philippines.
What are the Visayas (or Visayan Islands)?