Facts About the Philippines

If you’re travelling to the Philippines, you should know these 10 amazing facts about the country.

1. 11% of the Philippines population or more than 11 million Filipino people - work overseas. With that, the Philippines is the top supplier of the world for nurses with about 25% of all overseas nurses coming from the country. In the US, Filipinos are the second largest Asian American group besides Chinese people. 
2. Most of the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia is practicing Buddhism but Philippines is the only Asian nation that are mainly Christian with a 90% practicing the religion and about 80% of its population are Roman Catholic because the Philippines was colonized by the Spaniards and they introduced Catholicism to the first citizen of the country. 
3. The entire landmass of the Philippine is made up of separated islands, making it the second largest archipelago in the world.
4. In fact, the Philippines has a total of 7.500 islands (or more) with only 2,000 of it 
5. inhabited by Filipinos and nearly 5,000 still unnamed on global maps. 
6. Filipinos are very much into the social world spending as much time as possible with family and friends but they also stay in touch these days by exchanging a lot of text messages. It’s estimated that the Filipinos send about 400 million text messages every day, adding up to about 142 billion text messages per year, earning the title “the texting capital of the world”. That is more than the total number of daily text messages sent in the United States and Europe combined. 
7. There are roughly estimated of 145 language spoken in the Philippines, with 171 of them considered “active” while some tribal dialects have no known living speakers. The country’s official languages are Filipino that is based on Tagalog and English, with Ilocano and Cebuano that are also getting used in some regions. 
8. But when Filipinos interact with different tourist or foreigners, it’s very easy for them to speak fluent English since it’s the fifth largest English-speaking nation behind the United States, Pakistan, India and the United Kingdom. 
9. The weather in the Philippines is considered as a tropical land with a tropical rainforest climate because of its geographical position, the Philippines has three pronounced seasons, hot or summer season, the rainy season and cold season. If you’re planning to head to the Philippines in the near future, you should opt to check the Manila weather first especially if you’re going to visit different archipelagos there and you can also check the overall daily weather forecast in the Philippines for future references. 
10. Filipinos are very warm and happy persons. In fact, the Philippines is considered as one of the happiest countries in the world ranking near the top of Gallup's index considering that the huge percentage of the population here are earning below minimum wage. Filipinos are also known for being resilient whether the country is experiencing a terrible natural calamity like storms or experiencing poor governance from the administration Filipinos will still be able to smile and treat this as nothing new because the Filipino people will always want to stay the same whatever happens.