Philippines

Philippines

Philippines ranks 78th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Lebanon, North Macedonia, and Cameroon. Memorable people born in present day Philippines include Rodrigo Duterte, Ferdinand Marcos, and Emilio Aguinaldo. Memorable people who died in Philippines include Ferdinand Magellan, Tomoyuki Yamashita, and Emilio Aguinaldo. Philippines has been the birth place of many politicians and actors and the death place of many politicians and religious figures.

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south. It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. It is the world's twelfth-most-populous country, with diverse ethnicities and cultures. Manila is the country's capital, and its most populated city is Quezon City. Both are within Metro Manila. Read more on Wikipedia