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Philippines
| Location |
between S China Sea, Philippine Sea |
| Latitude and longitude |
13 00 N, 122 00 E |
| Sovereignty |
Independent |
| United Nations member? |
Yes |
| Political status notes |
Officially, "Republic of the Philippines";
includes principal islands of Mindanao
and Luzon, among many others |
| Population |
82,841,518 |
| Census notes |
est. July 2001 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
298,170 |
| Capital |
Manila |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Constitution
of the Republic of the Philippines, from the Chan Robles
Virtual Law Library |
Other legal documents online
|
|
Treaty
of Peace Between the United States and Spain, December 10, 1898
(the Treaty of Paris), from
the Avalon Project at
Yale
Law
School |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Chan
Robles Virtual Law Library |
| Country
profile: The Philippines, from the BBC News |
| Fishery
Country Profile--the Republic of the Philippines, from the Food
and Agriculture Organization |
| Government of the
Philippines |
| Independent
States in the World, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State,
Washington, D.C. |
| Legal
Profiles: Philippines, from the Islamic family law study by the
Emory University School of Law |
| National
Statistics Office, Republic of the Philippines (slow loading) |
| Philippine
Culture and Information, from the Philippine Department of
Tourism |
| Philippines,
Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State (2003) |
| Philippines,
from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Philippines,
U.S. Library of Congress Country Study (1991) |
| Philippines,
from the World Bank Group |
| Republic
of the Philippines, from the Australian Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Country
Profile: Philippines |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
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