Do the Philippine Islands belong to the Malay Archipelago?

The Philippines belongs to the Malay archipelago. Malay archipelago. MalayArchipelago, also known as Nanyang Islands, is the largest archipelago in the world. It is located in the old hemisphere, near the equator, between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean in Southeast Asia. The Malay Archipelago is a major part of Southeast Asia, consisting of more than 20,000 islands including Sumatra, kalimantan island, Java and Philippine Islands, with an island area of more than 2.5 million square kilometers, accounting for about the world's island area.

Located in the western Pacific Ocean, the RepublicofthePhilippines is a multi-ethnic archipelago country in Southeast Asia, facing Taiwan Province Province of China in the north, bordering Indonesia and Malaysia across the Sulawesi Sea and Barabak Strait in the south and southwest, bordering the South China Sea in the west and the Pacific Ocean in the east. The coastline is about 18533 km long. It belongs to monsoon tropical rain forest climate.

The ancestors of Filipinos were immigrants from the Asian continent, and Sulu was founded around14th century. 1565 became a Spanish colony. 1898 June 12 declared independence. In the same year, after the Spanish-American War, it became the territory of the United States. From 1942 to 1945, it was occupied by Japan. After World War II, it became an American colony again. 1On July 4th, 946, the Philippines gained its independence.