GUNITA'T HABILIN: RECOLLECTION OF HERITAGE
PHILIPPINES Known as the Pearl of The Orient, the Philippines is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia, situated by the Pacific Ocean. Officially, it is called the Republic of the Philippines and its inhabitants arre called Filipinos. Composed of 7,641 islands, it is divided into three mainlands: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao STATISTICS The Philippines have been a home to an estimated 117,337,368 Filipinos last 2023. As a pre-dominantly Catholic country due to the Spanish colonization, about 78.8% population were estimated to be Roman Catholic last 2020. Last 2023, 49.2 percent of the Philipp ines's population is female, while 50.8 percent of the population is male BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Philippines is a country of diverse culture– a product of the different countries that colonized the motherland years ago. Spanish, American, and Japanese culture continue to influence our everyday lives, despite the initial horror and atrocities that took place during past wars. Up til...