Yes, "Philippine archipelago" refers to all the 7,107 islands of the country.
The Reign of Terror is often used to refer to the Philippines' struggles against Spanish colonial powers. This included the colonial government's elimination of subversive political and religious figures.
The state religion of the Byzantine Empire, during the entire time we refer to it by that name, was Christianity.
Saipan, Tinian, Rota and other islands part of the Mariana Archipelago. Guam is the largest island of the archipelago and the region known as Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean. We are surrounded by our neighbors that we refer to as "Micronesians," although we all are. They from islands that form the Federated States of Micronesia that has a compact of free association with the US. Our other neighbors are the Republic of Palau. Japan is about 1,500 miles to the west of Guam and Hawaii is about 3,800 miles to the east of Guam.
A roda is a Portuguese circle dance. It can refer to the entire evening of dance or just to a few specific dances. A few dances that are included in a traditional roda are capoeira, maculele and samba de roda.
The term "total war" has two closely-related meanings in the context of wartime economies.It can refer to the focus of the entire country's production and manpower to the support of the military (e.g. Nazi Germany stopped producing many consumer goods to concentrate on armaments).It can also refer to military attacks on civilian populations and production centers, in order to disrupt the resupply of weapons and other materials to the military forces (e.g. the firebombing of Japanese factory cities).
The name "Philippines" was given by Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos in 1543 to honor King Philip II of Spain. It was originally used to refer to just the islands of Leyte and Samar before eventually being adopted as the name for the entire archipelago.
A cult in the Philippines named after the Philippine National hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal..
An archipelago is a group or chain of islands. It can be found in any ocean or sea around the world. Examples include the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean and the Philippines in the western Pacific Ocean.
An archipelago is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a large body of water. It can also refer to a sea that has a large number of scattered islands. The term is often used to describe regions like the Caribbean or the Philippines.
One such word is archipelago which can also refer to the surrounding area of water and the islands together.
Archipelago is understood to mean a collection of islands, so yes the "of islands" part is redundant.
NAMES OF THE PHILIPPINESThe following names refer to the Philippines:* Pearl of the Orient Seas * Ma-i or Mayi (from Chinese records. It means Land of the Barbarians) * Chin-San (also from Chinese records. It means Mountain of Gold) * Liu-Sung (also from Chinese records. It means Land Adjacent to the Mainland) * San Tao (also from Chinese records. It means Three Islands). * Maniolas (by Claudius Ptolemy, the Greek mapmaker in 90-168 AD) * Archipelago of St. Lazarus (by Magellan) * Filipinas (by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos in honor of King Philip II of Spain) * Philippine Islands (by the Americans) * Republic of the Philippines (after its independence from American occupation)
"Rizal" could refer to José Rizal, a Philippine national hero known for his writings and activism against Spanish colonial rule in the 19th century. Additionally, "Rizal" can also refer to the city of Rizal in the Philippines, or to the Rizal province in the Calabarzon region of Luzon.
The Philippines does not have an embassy in Manila because Manila is part of the Philippines and embassies represent a nation in foreign countries. Every country that has diplomatic relations with the Philippines will have its own embassy in Manila. The citizens of that country might refer to their embassy as the Philippine Embassy if they are talking to their own government or in their own country, but usually they would talk about their Embassy in the Philippines. So you must specify a country before the phone number of that country's embassy in the Philippines can be provided. For example: +63 2 301 2000 is the telephone number of the US embassy in Manila. It is located at 1201 Roxas Blvd, Manila 1000, Philippines.
Geographers refer to a long chain of islands like Japan as an archipelago.
plural form of Filipina that means Philippine lady, woman or girl
Please refer to the Philippine General Hospital website in the Related Link below.