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More Philippines Fun Facts

December 23, 2014 by John Grant 1 Comment

More Philippine Fun Facts

More Philippine Fun Facts

Here is another batch of facts to use at a party. The Philippines is a country full of contradictions and chaos. Yet with all this it seems to work and produce the biggest smiles in the world.

Pope John Paul II offered a mass to about five million Filipinos on Jan. 18, 1995, at Luneta Park in Manila. The event went into the Guinness Book of World Records as the Biggest Papal Crowd at the time.

 In 2009, about 1.39 billion SMS messages were being sent in the Philippines daily. The country was one of the earliest adopters of text messaging, earning the moniker “text capital of the world” from the mid ’90s to the early 2000s.

The English word ‘boondocks’ is actually a Filipino loanword: the Tagalog word for ‘mountain’ is ‘bundok.’

The word entered the North American vernacular in the 1940s, just as the Philippines became involved in the Second World War.

  • Mount Apo, at an altitude of 2,954 m, in the island of Mindanao is the highest point in the Philippines.
  • The people of the Philippines are from different ethnic origins such as Malay, Chinese, Spanish, American, etc.
  • The Philippines remain the colony of Spain from 1521 to 1898. Subsequently, it went into the hands of the USA.
  • There are 132 main rivers, 59 lakes and 7 major mountain ranges in the Philippines.
  • Taal Volcano in Batangas is the world’s smallest volcano.
  • It was the first Southeast Asian country to gain independence in 1946, following World War II.
  • With more than 11 million Filipinos overseas, the Philippines has the largest diaspora networks in the world.
  • World’s deepest spot, The Philippine Trench, runs down at the Pacific side of the islands to depths of over 10,000 meters, exceeding the altitude of Mt. Everest.

 

  • NOT SO FUN

According to the International Human Development Index, Philippines’s health index value of 0.773 indicates low human development.

Depth of the Food Deficit
106 kilocalories per person per day
Obesity Adult Prevalency
6.30%
Survival to Age 65, Female (% of cohort)
83.87%
Survival to Age 65, Male (% of cohort)
75.15%
  • John Grant (144 Posts)

    John is a very young 57 who has lived in the Philippines for over ten years and makes his living online as an SEO consultant and copy writer along with other online resources. John has lived in Davao, Manila and in Puerto Galera and has become an honoury Filipino. His hobbies include traveling and 1970s culture. For any articles or online work please feel free to contact John on [email protected]


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