If you have a question about the Philippines that you want to know the answer
to, just check the Table of Contents to see if your question is there and click
on the link. If it is not, send us an
e-mail,
and we will be glad to give you the facts about our Filipino friends!
- How big is the Philippines?
- How many people live there?
- How many islands are there?
- How many languages are there?
- Do they have bananas?
- What kind of weather do you have at
Christmas?
The Philippine Islands is a small country in comparison to the United States.
In fact, if you compare the Philippines with the state of Texas, Texas is about
two times as big as the Philippines.
Even though the Philippines is a relatively small country, there are a whole
bunch of people that live here. There are about 80 million people who live
in the Philippines! That means there are four people living here for every
one person who lives in the state of Texas.
There are 7,107 islands that make up the country of the Philippines.
Amazingly though, there are only a few hundred of these islands that have people
living on them. Some people say that the number of islands in the
Philippines depends-- it depends on if you count at high tide or low tide!
There are over 70 different languages spoken in the Philippines with over 450
distinct dialects coming from those languages!
Do we have bananas? O yeah! We've got bananas, bananas, and more
bananas! We have bananas like you eat. We have bananas that we cook
like potatoes. We've got bananas that taste like apples. We have
short bananas, long bananas, and fat bananas. We have yellow bananas,
green bananas, brown bananas, and red bananas. In fact, we have over
seventy different kinds of bananas!
December is one of the nicest and coolest months of the year in the
Philippines. The average temperature in the capital of Manila, during the
month of December is about 26 degrees Celsius. For those of you not
familiar with the metric system that is about 79 degrees in the US!
Send mail to
webmaster@filipinomissions.org or
wade@filipinomissions.org with
questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2002 BMAA Missions in the Philippines
This site was last updated
11/29/03
