Laguna de Bay, lake, the largest inland body of water in the Philippines, on Luzon just southeast of Manila. Probably a former arm or extension of Manila Bay cut off by volcanism, Laguna de Bay (Spanish: “Lake Bay”) has a normal area of about 356 square miles (922 square km) and is about 32 miles (51 km) long.

The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi). It is the world’s 5th largest island country. The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area.

Luzon

Lake Mainit

The Philippines is called an archipelago because it consists of thousands of islands. The definition of an archipelago is a large group of islands….

Three prominent bodies of water surround the archipelago: the Pacific Ocean on the east, the South China Sea on the west and north, and the Celebes Sea on the south.

Land. The Philippine archipelago is bounded by the Philippine Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the south, the Sulu Sea to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the west and north.

The Environmental Management Bureau projected a classification of one thousand nineteen (1,019) water bodies in the country according to beneficial use by CY 2019.

There are no landmasses surrounding the Philippines because it was located in the western Pacific Ocean. However the Philippines is composed of islands with a total of 7,107 and have many land forms like mountain, hills, valleys and fields. This country is also composed of three large islands.

There are no landmasses surrounding the Philippines but there are plenty of bodies of water as the Philippines is an archipelago. The Philippine archipelago is bounded by the Philippine Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the south, the Sulu Sea to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the west and north. 3.

They are, in descending order by size, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern (or Antarctic), and Arctic.

The two largest islands, Luzon in the north and Mindanao in the south, comprise about 65 percent of the total land area of the archipelago. The largest of the Philippine islands, Luzon, has an area of 104,687 square kilometers (40,420 square miles).

If the US chose to keep the Philippine Islands, it could have gone 2 ways: it could have gone the route of Hawaii and made the nation a State, or the Puerto Rican route and made the Philippines a non-voting territory with semi autonomy (and massive debt).