Where is Philippines?
The Philippines is an island country in South-Eastern Asia, with no land borders.
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Crazy but True
The Philippines did not know how many islands it had. A survey in 2016 using better mapping found more than 400 islands nobody had counted, pushing the official total past 7,600. Many remain unnamed and uninhabited.
Philippines facts
- Capital
- Manila
- Population
- 116,786,962 (2025)
- Area
- 342,353 km²
- Continent
- Asia
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia
- Currency
- Philippine peso (PHP)
- Languages
- English and Filipino
- Coordinates
- 13°, 122°
- Landlocked
- No
- Country code
- PH · PHL
How Philippines compares
- The Philippines is the 64th largest of the 168 countries on our map by area.
- It is smaller than Germany and larger than Congo.
- It is the 14th most populous of the 167 with population data.
- It has no land borders, one of 16 such countries on our map.
- Within Asia, it is the 18th largest of 45 countries by area.