well it is because an archipelago means, "small islands". Philippines has small islands. Spaniards began to call it as archipelago.
One such word is archipelago which can also refer to the surrounding area of water and the islands together.
A group of small islands
A small archipelago or group of islands.
An archipelago is a group of islands. The size of an archipelago can vary widely, from just a few small islands clustered together to vast chains of islands spread over a large area. The largest archipelago in the world is Indonesia, which consists of over 17,000 islands.
Yes, because it is a chain of small islands
An archipelago is a large group of (usually) small islands.
The words for a group of islands may be a chain or an archipelago.
The Balearic Islands is an archipelago., The four major islands are Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza. and Formentera. There are more islands but they are very small.
There are at least two: the Aleutians in Alaska, and the Keys in Florida. The Hawaiian Islands, 5Oth US state, consist entirely of an archipelago.
There is only one state of the US that is in the Pacific Ocean, and that would be Hawaii.
The total area of the islands is of around 5,000 square miles. The biggest island of this Archipelago is Isabela with an area of more than 1,700 square miles.