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Physical geography. The Philippine archipelago lies in Southeast Asia, and numbers some 7,641 islands. [7] [10] The Philippines occupies an area that stretches for 1,850 kilometers (1,150 mi) from about the fifth to the twentieth parallels north latitude. The total land area is 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), [1] [11] [12] [2] [3 ...
A division of an ocean, delineated by landforms, [6] currents (e.g., Sargasso Sea ), or specific latitude or longitude boundaries. This includes but is not limited to marginal seas, and this is the definition used for inclusion in this list.
Uruguay is a country in the southeastern region of South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, between Argentina and Brazil. It is located in the Southern Hemisphere on the Atlantic seaboard of South America between 53 and 58 west longitude and 30 and 35 south latitude. [1] It is bordered to the west by Argentina, on the north and northeast by ...
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category Am. Tropical monsoon climates have monthly mean temperatures above 18 °C (64 °F) in every month of the year and a dry season. [1] : 200–1 The ...
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. Geography of the Philippines by location (3 C) Philippines geography-related lists (6 C, 15 P)
The middle latitudes (also called the mid-latitudes, sometimes midlatitudes, or moderate latitudes) are a spatial region on Earth located between the Tropic of Cancer ( latitudes 23°26′10.0″) to the Arctic Circle (66°33′50.0″), and Tropic of Capricorn (-23°26′10.0″) to the Antarctic Circle (-66°33′50.0″).
Maritime Southeast Asia comprises the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and East Timor. [3] The terms Island Southeast Asia and Insular Southeast Asia are sometimes given the same meaning as Maritime Southeast Asia. [a] Other definitions restrict Island Southeast Asia to just the islands between mainland ...
The history of longitude describes the centuries-long effort by astronomers, cartographers and navigators to discover a means of determining the longitude of any given place on Earth. The measurement of longitude is important to both cartography and navigation. In particular, for safe ocean navigation, knowledge of both latitude and longitude ...