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Facts about the Philippines Part 3

December 12, 2014 by BFiskilis Leave a Comment

Facts about the Philippines Part 3Christian Predominatly.

As a result of the Sapnish Influence 90% of the population is Predominatly Christiian, with some mode of Christianity and the vast being Roman Catholic.

Beauty Pageants.

The Philippines has won t least 8 major international beauty pageants titles, 2 Miss Universe, 5 Miss International, and at least 1 Miss World.

Fifth longest Coastline.

The Philippines has the Fifths longest discontinued coastline in the world at 36,289 kilometres.

Hundred Million Citizens.

The Philippines hit the 100th million citizens on July of 2014, making the country the 7th most populated country in Asia and 12 th in the World.

Rice Terraces.

The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The terraces were built about 2,000 years ago.

Weddings.

The most popular month for weddings in the Philippines – is December (until early January), and not June

Languages.

Depending on the method of classification, there are 120 to 170 languages in use in the Philippines, such as Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocanos, Waray, Bicolano and Kampampangan.

Jeepney.

The Philippine Jeepney was born out of the G.I Jeeps America after the Second World War, that soldiers had brought out in the 1940’s.

Medical.

Filipino doctor Abelardo Aguilar discovered the antibiotic “erythromycin“.

Yo Yo.

The modern Yo-Yo takes its name from a word in the Philippine language IIocano, yoyo.

Fluorescent Lamp.

The fluorescent lamp was invented by Agapito Flores Filipino scientists from the island of Cebu.

English Speaking.

According to the 2000 Census, 52 million Filipinos speak English, making it the 5th largest English Speaking nation Bihinf the U.S., India, Pakistan and the U.K.

First Dictionary.

The Tagala was the First Filipino-Spanish dictionary printed in 1613, 25 years before the first book was printed in the United States.

BFiskilis (17 Posts)

Hi My name is Bill Fiskilis im a devoted father of 5 children, 3 from a previous relationship, now happily married for 2 years to Michelle Malaran/Fiskilis with twins Zak and Zoey. My wife is a filipina from Misamis Oriental. We reside just outside of Shepparton on a farm where I am a Farm Manager in a intensive pig production agricultural enterprise overseeing 8 people and running the day to day operation of the site. I am Greek by blood but was born in Melbourne and have spent my early childhood years travelling back and forward to Greece with me parents. Having Lived in Greece for 4 years before returning to Australia in the 80′s. Other places I have visited are Singapore, Germany, Dubai and have been to Philippines several times. I can speak English, Greek fluently and Tagalog and French a little always striving to learn and better myself in other languages. I enjoy traveling and experiencing different cultures I see this as a gateway to learning and seeing whats beyond our shores as there is a wealth of information to learn by others,to better ourselves and to pass on our experiences. I have many hobbies my most is blogging, web design and development. I have worked with various types of tools on portal frameworks and dynamic websites, familiar with building themes for open source CMS such as wordpress, joomla and Drupal to deliver great websites.


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