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Vietnam. Second Thomas Shoal, also known as Ayungin Shoal ( Filipino: Buhanginan ng Ayungin, lit. 'sandbank of silver perch'), Bãi Cỏ Mây ( Vietnamese) and Rén'ài Jiāo ( Chinese: 仁爱礁/仁愛礁 ), [ 1] is a submerged reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles (194 km; 121 mi) west of Palawan, Philippines ...
Pag-asa Island, also known as Thitu Island ( Filipino: Pulo ng Pag-asa, lit. 'Island of Hope'), Đảo Thị Tứ ( Vietnamese: Đảo Thị Tứ) and Zhongye Dao ( Chinese: 中业岛/中業島; pinyin: Zhōngyè Dǎo ), having an area of 37.2 hectares (92 acres), it is the second largest of the naturally occurring [ 4] island in Spratly Islands.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] 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 also claims that as early as the Spanish colonisation of the Philippines, Filipino fishermen were already using the area as a traditional fishing ground and shelter during bad weather. [109] Several official Philippine maps published by Spain and United States in 18th and 20th centuries show Scarborough Shoal as Philippine ...
The Philippines has 7,641 islands comprising the Philippine archipelago. [2] The zone's coordinates are between 116° 40', and 126° 34' E longitude and 4° 40' and 21° 10' N latitude . It is bordered by the Philippine Sea [ 3 ] to the east and north, the South China Sea [ 4 ] to the west, and the Celebes Sea [ 5 ] to the south.
The Philippine highway network is a network of national roads owned and maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and organized into three classifications according to their function or purpose: national primary, secondary, and tertiary roads. The national roads connecting major cities are numbered from N1 to N83.
Philippine Sea. / 20°N 130°E / 20; 130. The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world, occupying an estimated surface area of 5 million square kilometers (2 × 106 sq mi). [ 1] The Philippine Sea Plate forms the floor of the sea. [ 2]
A map of Cebu Island in 1521, with the historical polity of Cebu colored in blue. The Rajahnate of Cebu was a native kingdom that existed in Cebu prior to the arrival of the Spaniards. It was founded by Sri Lumay otherwise known as Rajamuda Lumaya , [ 9 ] a half-Malay, half-Tamil prince of the Chola dynasty [ 9 ] who invaded Sumatra in Indonesia .