Which country does the Philippines belong to?

The full name of the Philippines is the Republic of the Philippines, which is a country.

Located in Southeast Asia. Bashi channel is far away from Taiwan Province Province in China in the north, facing Indonesia and Malaysia across the Sulawesi Sea and Barabak Strait in the south and southwest, facing the South China Sea in the west and the Pacific Ocean in the east.

* * * There are more than 7,000 large and small islands, including main islands such as Luzon Island, Mindanao Island and Sama Island1/,accounting for 96% of the country's total area. The coastline is about18533km long, with a total area of 299,700km2.

It belongs to monsoon tropical rain forest climate, with high temperature and rainy, high humidity and many typhoons. The annual average temperature is 27℃, and the annual precipitation is 2000-3000mm. As of July 2022, the Philippines is divided into three parts: Luzon Island, Visayas Island and Mindanao Island.

China has 18 regions, including Capital Region, Cordillera Administrative Region and Mindanao Muslim Autonomous Region, with 8/kloc-0 provinces and 1 17 cities, with Metro Manila as its capital. In 2022, the population of the Philippines is about 1. 1 100 million.

Introduction to natural resources in the Philippines:

1, biological resources

There are nearly 10,000 kinds of wild plants in the Philippines, including more than 2,500 kinds of higher plants. There are mainly conifers, bamboos, borneol, mangroves and pine trees. In the early 1990s, the forest area in the Philippines was 5.7 million hectares.

Mammals are the main wild animals in the Philippines, with as many as 200 species, most of which are Chiroptera and Insectivora. There are about 750 kinds of birds. There are mainly wild buffaloes, tarsiers, mice and deer, hedgehogs, mice and monkeys-eating eagles.

2. Mineral resources

There are more than 20 kinds of mineral deposits in the Philippines, including copper, gold, silver, iron, chromium and nickel. Copper reserves are about 4.8 billion tons, nickel 65.438+009 billion tons and gold 65.438+036 billion tons. Geothermal resources are estimated to have standard energy of 2.09 billion barrels of crude oil. There are about 350 million barrels of oil in the northwest waters of palawan island.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Philippines