12 Facts About The Philippines

We like to educate people about cultures and people from around the world so today

We are visiting a new country for us and that country is not only beautiful, but has an extensive history

And a vast amount of wildlife, and that is the country and collection of Islands known as the philippines

Hey guys, what's going on? Dave waffle back at it once again to talk about another great country today?

We are talking about the philippines.

We're going to do it now parsley where does the philippines get its name from well this all comes from King Philip II of Spain

your Spanish Explorer Rua Lopez de Villalobos [vane] to the collection of Islands in the

1540s at lot [it's] a Filipina now

Let's not get this confused with Brandon Magellan who first really discovered the philippines for Spain this is when he landed on Hamona

on March 16th of

1521 and at that point he claimed or founded the Islands as part of Spain and it wasn't until later that the

Archipelago got the whole name the Philippines [now] speaking of the archipelago of the philippines it comprises of

7,107 - approximately 7,000

600 Islands the reason for this

inconsistency is sometimes there's high tides and small islands get swallowed up by the water and surprisingly enough this country has a

landmass of about

[300,000] kilometers [Square] here the population of over

102 Million Five hundred

Thousand and because [of] that it sits at the 12th most populous country with a growth rate of two percent

Meaning it is one fast growing country now the philippines was the first south Asian country to gain Independence after the second world war

In the late 1800s the philippines got caught between a quarrel with the united states and spain and after the Spanish-American war which ended in

1898 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris the Philippines had a problem being under the rule of the United States and this

resulted in a three-year war [Jutland] from 1899 to 1902 now strives for Independence began in the

1900s [what] in 1934 they introduced the philippine Independence act

which gave the philippines the limited Independence until the United States granted full Independence however because of World [War] 2 the

philippine independence was postponed until it became a free nation on july 4Th of

1946 and this was all due to the treaty of

Manila now during the second world war this [was] not just a dark time [for] other countries

But a dark time for the philippines as well as during this time most of the islands were occupied by the Japanese

Now we all know of the terrible attack on Pearl Harbor which happened on December 7tH 1941?

December 8th about [10] hours later

Manila was also surprised attacked by a japanese land and Air Force the large-scale attack on Manila and the ton

Resulted in general macarthur being ordered to retreat [from] the philippines which made resupplying and [counter-attacking] the philippines

Impossible until he returned on October 20th

1944 and

Unfortunately by the time the war ended the conflict had taken the lives of five hundred and [twenty-seven] thousand people now

let's jump out [of] the dark moments in the philippine history and talk about some of the lighter and greater moments of the philippines the

Philippines is a

country that is rich with

all Sorts of different types of lights as a matter of fact they say there is a large portion of life that they've never even

Discovered yet, [so] what makes the philippines great?

is that it is the country with the highest rate of discovery for a new life for example [in] july of

2006 they found

23 new species of Mammal and that was discovered on the island of

Lucia now the interesting thing about the philippines is that 90% of its population is

Christian and 80% of them are identified as Roman catholic what I mind also weird about that

Is that it is the only South Asian country to have a catholic?

Majority [and] because of that the philippines holds the world's longest Christmas

Celebration now the reason for this is [because] it is very common to [see] people in september putting up decorations

At their houses or in Malls

Actually up here in North America

We love the Christmas tree

But down there they prefer their Christmas parole which are lights created from Bamboo and paper and the holiday itself usually

Continues into January with the feast of the three kings now speaking of balls

Do you guys know that the philippines has four of the world's top largest malls those walls are Sm megamall

Sm

Seaside City Cebu

Sm the Mall of Asia and the biggest one coming at third in the entire world the Sm

North EdSa Mall with over five million one hundred

thousand square feet now one thing that's really interesting about the philippines it is the world's top supplier of

Nurses, that's right

25% of all the nurses worldwide actually come from this country and not only that but

11% of its population are

Generally working all abroad which equals to almost 11 million people now another [thing] that makes the philippines

Amazing is its amount of un e [ezio] [world] [heritage] [sites] one of the most famous is [the] rice terraces of the cordillera

Which date [back] to over [2000] [years] ago now they were inducted into the une seo in

1995 and it was the first ever property in the heritage list as a

cultural landscape and speaking of [heritage] sites you might be shocked to know that the philippines have nine of them right that range from

Churches to mountains and let's not even consider the other 19 that are on the list for consideration

But one [of] the most special heritage sites is this about a reef

Yes, battery is located in the sulu sea

And this was a site that was inscribed in 1993 it is home to no less than six hundred species of fish

350 Coral 11 Shark Species

13 Dolphin and whale species and over a hundred species of bird and because [it's] diversity in life it is one of the most protected

Sites in the entire world that's it guys my name's dave waffle head. It's been awesome talking about the philippines

This is one that I've been looking forward to for [a] while

I know you guys have but you know I've always wanted to go to the philippines because it looks really beautiful

But for all you guys out there be sure [to] leave comments for future places for us to talk about because for me

It's been awesome talking about the philippines and learning something new about a country that has a vast and amazing landscape.
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