{"id":65998,"date":"2026-05-05T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=65998"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:30:58","slug":"key-facts-about-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Philippines Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Samar.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Philippines<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is an island country of Southeast Asia <\/span><b>in the western <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pacific-ocean\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Ocean<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Water Bodies:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is surrounded by the South China (north and west); Philippine Sea (east); Celebes Sea (south); and by the Sulu Sea to the (southwest).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital city:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Manila<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Philippines<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It majorly consists of tropical and monsoonal types of climate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Point:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mount Apo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cagayan River (Philippines\u2019 longest river), Mindanao, Agusan etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Lake:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Laguna de Bay<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Volcano:<\/b> <b>Mayon Volcano,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of the most active in the country. Other volcanoes are Bulusan and Kanlaon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural resources:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, copper<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Philippines is the <\/span><b>third-largest producer of geothermal energy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> globally, after the United States and Indonesia.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/magnitude-6-earthquake-strikes-philippines-samar-region\/article70937676.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about Philippines location, capital, climate, rivers, volcanoes, resources, and recent Samar earthquake, with a quick summary of geography and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":101901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3010,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-65998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-philippines","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102003,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65998\/revisions\/102003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}