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The Philippines' National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (Filipino: Pambansang Pangasiwaan sa Pagmamapa at Dulugang Kaalaman), abbreviated as NAMRIA, is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources responsible for providing the public with mapmaking services and acting as the central mapping agency, depository, and distribution ...
Unofficial NAMRIA map showing features in the West Philippine Sea. Features names are those recognized by Philippine government. Under the Administrative Order No. 29, the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) is mandated to use the designation West Philippine Sea in maps produced and published by the government agency ...
Maps The exclusive economic zone of the Philippines shown in blue lines, [12] eleven dash-line claim by China shown in red lines, treaty line of the Treaty of Paris (1898) shown in green line. Map prepared by the NAMRIA, with the green line showing the maximum extent of the EEZ (ignoring landmass of neighboring countries) and the theoretical ...
The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands, [8] and with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), it is the world's fifth largest island country. [2] [3] [9] The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about 105,000 square kilometers (40,541 ...
The Philippines, along with Vietnam, the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Republic of China (ROC), Malaysia and Brunei, is a claimant country in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea . As of 2020, the Philippines are occupying and/or controlling eleven features (eight islands, three reefs), as detailed in the following table:
A map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named.
Indonesia–Philippines border. The border between Indonesia and the Philippines consists of a maritime boundary mainly on the Celebes Sea that separates the two Southeast Asian countries as defined through a pact that was signed by both parties in 2014. [1] The border is also the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundary between Indonesia and the ...
Kalayaan, officially the Municipality of Kalayaan ( Tagalog: Bayan ng Kalayaan ), is a 5th class municipality in the South China Sea under the jurisdiction of the province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 193 people making it the least populated town in the Philippines.