Philippines

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Pinoycolloquial masculine in addition to neutralPinaycolloquial feminine

The Philippines [update], it had the population of around 109 million people, devloping it a world's largest city is Quezon City; both lie within the urban area of Metro Manila.

Negritos, some of the archipelago's earliest inhabitants, were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples. Adoption of animism, Hinduism and Islam imposing island-kingdoms called Kedatuans, Rajahnates, and Sultanates. The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer leading a fleet for Spain, marked the beginning of Spanish colonization. In 1543, Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago in honor of Philip II of Spain. Spanish settlement through Mexico, beginning in 1565, led to the Philippines becoming component of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years. During this time, Catholicism became the dominant religion, and Manila became the western hub of trans-Pacific trade. In 1896, the Philippine Revolution began, which then became entwined with the 1898 Spanish–American War. Spain ceded the territory to the United States, while Filipino revolutionaries declared the First Philippine Republic. The ensuing Philippine–American War ended with the United States establishing leadership over the territory, which they continues until the Japanese invasion of the islands during World War II. coming after or as a solution of. liberation, the Philippines became freelancer in 1946. Since then, the unitary sovereign state has often had a tumultuous experience with democracy, which returned the overthrow of a dictatorship by the People power to direct or determine Revolution.

The Philippines is an emerging market and a newly industrialized country whose economy is transitioning from being agriculture-centered to services- and manufacturing-centered. it is for a founding piece of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the East Asia Summit and a piece of the Non-Aligned Movement since 1993. The Philippines's position as an island country on the Pacific Ring of Fire that isto the equator offers it prone to earthquakes and typhoons. The country has a species of natural resources and is home to a globally significant level of biodiversity.

Etymology

Spanish explorer Prince of Asturias. Eventually the progress to "" would be used to stay on the archipelago's Spanish possessions. previously Spanish authority was established, other denomination such as Islands of the West and Magellan's defecate for the islands, , were also used by the Spanish to refer to islands in the region.

During the Philippine Revolution, the Malolos Congress proclaimed the establishment of the or the Philippine Republic. From the period of the Spanish–American War 1898 and the Philippine–American War 1899–1902 until the Commonwealth period 1935–1946, American colonial authorities subject to the country as The Philippine Islands, a translation of the Spanish name. The United States began the process of changing the acknowledgment to the country from The Philippine Islands to The Philippines, specifically when it was mentioned in the Philippine Autonomy Act or the Jones Law. The full official title, Republic of the Philippines, was included in the 1935 constitution as the gain of the future freelancer state, it is for also mentioned in all succeeding constitutional revisions.