The Philippines, formally the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Masterminded in the western Pacific Ocean, it includes around 7,641 islands that are requested broadly under three guideline geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most packed city is Quezon City, both bit of Metro Manila. Constrained by the South China Sea on the west, the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest, the Philippines bestows maritime edges to Taiwan toward the north, Vietnam toward the west, Palau toward the east, and Malaysia and Indonesia toward the south. The Philippines' zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator makes the Philippines slanted to seismic tremors and tempests, yet furthermore supplies it with limitless ordinary resources and a segment of the world's most imperative biodiversity. The Philippines has a locale of 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi). Various ethnicities and social orders are discovered all through the islands. In old events, Negritos were a bit of the archipelago's most prompt tenants. They were trailed by dynamic floods of Austronesian society. The section of Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese pioneer driving a fleet for the Spanish, in Homonhon, Eastern Samar in 1521 indicated the beginning of Hispanic colonization. In 1543, Spanish voyager Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas to pay tribute to Philip II of Spain. With the passage of Miguel López de Legazpi from Mexico City, in 1565, the essential Hispanic settlement in the archipelago was set up. The Philippines ended up being a bit of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years. This realized Catholicism transforming into the predominant religion. In the midst of this time, Manila transformed into the western focus purpose of the trans-Pacific trade interfacing Asia with Acapulco in the Americas using Manila vessels. As the nineteenth century offered way to the twentieth, the Philippine Revolution promptly sought after, which by then delivered the brief First Philippine Republic, trailed by the draining Philippine– American War. The war, similarly as the accompanying cholera disease, achieved the passings of thousands of officers similarly as countless people. Next to the season of Japanese occupation, the United States held control over the islands until after World War II, when the Philippines was seen as a self-ruling nation. Starting now and into the foreseeable future, the unitary sovereign state has as often as possible had a wild inclusion with dominant part controls framework, which joined the topple of a one party rule by a serene agitation.

Manila, formally the City of Manila, is the capital of the Philippines. It is the most thickly populated city appropriate on the planet. The Spanish city of Manila was established on June 24, 1571, by Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi. The date is viewed as the city's authentic establishing date. Manila was likewise the seat of intensity for a large portion of the nation's pioneer rulers. It is home to numerous noteworthy locales, some of which were worked amid the sixteenth century. The expression "Manila" is usually used to allude to the entire metropolitan zone, the more prominent metropolitan region or the city appropriate. The authoritatively characterized metropolitan region called Metro Manila, the capital area of the Philippines, incorporates the a lot bigger Quezon City and the Makati Central Business District. It is the most crowded locale of the nation, a standout amongst the most crowded urban zones on the planet. The city is situated on the eastern shores of Manila Bay. The Pasig River courses through the center of the city, separating it into the north and south segments. Manila is comprised of 16 managerial locale.

Jasminum sambac (Arabian jasmine or Sambac jasmine) is a types of jasmine local to a little area in the eastern Himalayas in Bhutan and neighboring Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It is developed in numerous spots, particularly crosswise over a lot of South and Southeast Asia. It is naturalized in many dispersed districts: Mauritius, Madagascar, the Maldives, Cambodia, Indonesia, Christmas Island, Chiapas, Central America, southern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles. Jasminum sambac is a little bush or vine growing up to 0.5 to 3 m (1.6 to 9.8 ft) in stature. It is broadly developed for its alluring and sweetly fragrant blooms. The blossoms might be utilized as a fragrant fixing in aromas and jasmine tea.

The Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi), otherwise called the monkey-eating eagle or extraordinary Philippine eagle, is an eagle of the family Accipitridae endemic to backwoods in the Philippines. It has dark colored and white-hued plumage, and a shaggy peak, and by and large estimates 86 to 102 cm (2.82 to 3.35 ft) long and gauges 4.04 to 8.0 kg (8.9 to 17.6 lb). It is considered the biggest of the surviving eagles on the planet as far as length and wing surface, with Steller's ocean eagle and the nag eagle being bigger as far as weight and mass. Among the rarest and most dominant fowls on the planet, it has been pronounced the Philippine national flying creature. It is basically imperiled, for the most part because of huge loss of environment coming about because of deforestation in a large portion of its range. Slaughtering a Philippine eagle is culpable under Philippine law as long as 12 years in jail and overwhelming fines.

The carabao is a household swamp-type water bison (Bubalus bubalis) local to the Philippines. Carabaos have the low, wide, and substantial form of draft creatures. They differ in shading from light dark to slate dim. The horns are sickle-formed or bend in reverse toward the neck. Chevrons are normal. Albinoids are available in the extent of about 3% of the wild ox populace. Develop male carabaos weigh 420– 500 kg (930– 1,100 lb), and females 400– 425 kg (882– 937 lb). Tallness at shrinks of the male reaches from 127– 137 cm (50– 54 in), and of the female from 124– 129 cm (49– 51 in). Water bison imported to the Philippines from Cambodia in the mid twentieth century are designated "Cambodian carabaos". They have white or yellowish hair on a pinkish skin, yet the eyes, hooves, and mouth are dull, and the skin might be spotted. They are marginally greater and have bigger horns. Guys burden normal 673 kg (1,484 lb) and measure 141 cm (56 in) at the shrivels.