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Tenth Military District — the numeral styling · The Mindanao guerrillas — the usage of the campaign records
The 10th Military District was the Mindanao guerrilla command of World War II — the organization built from September 1942…
The 1645 Luzon earthquake struck the island of Luzon in the Philippines on 30 November 1645, devastating Manila and surrounding…
1863 Manila earthquake · Manila earthquake of 1863
The 1863 Luzon earthquake — the great earthquake of June 3, 1863 — struck Manila and surrounding provinces of Spanish-era…
1863 Luzon earthquake · Terremoto de 1863 (Spanish-era records)
The 1863 Manila earthquake struck the city of Manila on the evening of 3 June 1863 during the Spanish colonial…
The 1872 Cavite Mutiny was a brief uprising on 20 January 1872 of Filipino soldiers and arsenal workers at Fort…
The 1880 Southern Luzon earthquakes were a destructive sequence of strong earthquakes that struck Luzon, Philippines, in July 1880, with…
Philippine Assembly elections of 1907 · First Philippine Assembly elections
The 1907 Philippine Assembly elections, held on July 30, 1907, were the first nationwide elections in Philippine history and the…
1934 ConCon delegate election · Philippine Constitutional Convention election, 1934 — the alias recorded in its authority data
The 1934 Constitutional Convention election, held on July 10, 1934, was the special election that chose the 202 delegates to…
Commonwealth Constitution · 1935 Constitution
The 1935 Constitution of the Philippines is the charter that established the Commonwealth of the Philippines and went on to…
September 16, 1935 election — the date-based short form used in Philippine historiography · The 1935 national elections — the presidential, vice-presidential, and Assembly contests held together
The 1935 Philippine presidential election was the national election held on September 16, 1935 — dated September 17 in a…
November 11, 1941 election — the date-based short form used in Philippine historiography · The 1941 general election — the presidential, vice-presidential, Senate, House, and local contests held together
The 1941 Philippine presidential election was the national election held on November 11, 1941 — twenty-seven days before the Japanese…
1943 Constitution of the Philippines — the formal styling used by reference works and this wiki's sister entries · Constitution of the Second Philippine Republic — the descriptive designation in constitutional historiography
The 1943 Constitution was the charter of the Japanese-sponsored Second Philippine Republic — the second constitution in Philippine history, drafted…
The 1943 National Assembly selection — the descriptive styling that avoids the word "election" · The KALIBAPI election of 1943 — the styling after its sole franchised organization
The 1943 Philippine Legislative Election — the selection of September 20, 1943, by which the Japanese occupation's sole legal organization,…
April 23, 1946 election — the date-based short form used in Philippine historiography · 1946 national elections — the presidential contest was held together with the vice-presidential and legislative elections
The 1946 Philippine presidential election was the national election held on April 23, 1946, in which Manuel Roxas, candidate of…
April 23, 1946 senatorial election — the date-based designation · The 1946 at-large Senate race — the descriptive form for its sixteen-seat, nationwide mechanics
The 1946 Philippine Senate election was the senatorial contest held on April 23, 1946 — the same day as the…
1949 Philippine general election · The 1949 "dirty election"
The 1949 Philippine presidential election was held on November 8, 1949, to elect the President and Vice President of the…
1951 Philippine senatorial election · 1951 midterm Senate election
The 1951 Philippine Senate Election — held on November 13, 1951, at the midpoint of President Elpidio Quirino's term —…
1953 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections — the combined official framing of the November 10, 1953 exercise · 1953 Philippine national elections — the simultaneous presidential, vice-presidential, Senate, and House contests
The 1953 Philippine Presidential Election — held on November 10, 1953, simultaneously with the vice-presidential, Senate, and House of Representatives…
1953 Philippine senatorial election · The November 10, 1953 Senate contest — the Senate leg of the 1953 national elections
The 1953 Philippine Senate election was held on November 10, 1953, on the same day as the presidential, vice-presidential, and…
1957 national elections — the presidential, vice-presidential, Senate, and House balloting of November 12, 1957 · The 1957 plurality election — the retrospective styling after its first-in-kind result
The 1957 Philippine Presidential Election was the quadrennial national election held on November 12, 1957 — the sixth presidential election…
1957 senatorial election · November 1957 Senate election
The 1957 Philippine Senate election was held on November 12, 1957, in tandem with the presidential, vice-presidential, and local elections…
1961 national elections — the presidential, vice-presidential, and Senate balloting of November 14, 1961 · The Macapagal victory of 1961 — the popular shorthand for the 55.05 percent verdict
The 1961 Philippine Presidential Election — held on November 14, 1961, simultaneously with the vice-presidential and Senate elections — was…
The 1961 Senate elections — the plural styling of the eight-seat contest · The Senate race of the 1961 national elections — its place in the November 14, 1961 presidential, vice-presidential, and senatorial balloting
The 1961 Philippine Senate election was held on November 14, 1961, the same day as the presidential election that carried…
November 9, 1965 election — the date-based short form · The 1965 national elections — the presidential, vice-presidential, Senate, and House contests held together
The 1965 Philippine presidential election was the national election held on November 9, 1965 — the eighth election of a…
Ruby Tower Earthquake (popular usage)
The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck shortly after midnight on August 2, 1968, with its…
9th Philippine presidential election · November 11, 1969 national elections (presidential and vice-presidential contests)
The 1969 Philippine presidential election was held on November 11, 1969 — the ninth presidential election of the Philippines —…
The January 30, 1970 Mendiola protest · The Battle of Mendiola Street
The 1970 Battle of Mendiola was the confrontation of January 30, 1970, between student demonstrators marching on Malacañang Palace and…
ConCon 1971 — the common Philippine shorthand · The 1971 ConCon — the dated styling of the martial-law literature
The 1971 Constitutional Convention (formally the Constitutional Convention of 1971) was the constituent assembly elected to replace the 1935 Constitution…
The November 8, 1971 senatorial election — the dated styling · The 1971 midterm election — the mid-term designation in Marcos's second term
The 1971 Philippine Senate election was the midterm senatorial election held on November 8, 1971 — the midterm of President…
The 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing was a grenade attack on 21 August 1971 against the Liberal Party's election rally at…
1973 Philippine Constitution · Marcos Constitution
The 1973 Constitution was the charter of the Philippines in force from January 17, 1973 to March 25, 1986 —…
La Tondena strike · La Tondeña strike
The 1975 La Tondeña Distillery strike was a walkout at the Manila distillery of La Tondeña, then described as the…
1976 Moro Gulf Earthquake and Tsunami · Mindanao Earthquake of 1976
The 1976 Moro Gulf Earthquake was a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck just after midnight on August 17, 1976, with…
The 1976 Tripoli Agreement is a peace accord signed on 23 December 1976 in Tripoli, Libya, between the Philippine government…
1978 Philippine parliamentary election — the standard reference styling · 1978 Interim Batasang Pambansa election — the designation tying the vote to the transitional body
The 1978 Batasang Pambansa Election, the balloting of April 7, 1978 (with the sectoral election of April 27, 1978), was…
1981 presidential election — the common short form · The June 16, 1981 election — the date styling of contemporary reporting
The 1981 Philippine Presidential Election, held on June 16, 1981, was the first presidential election in twelve years — the…
11th SEA Games · SEA Games 1981
The 1981 Southeast Asian Games, officially the 11th SEA Games, were hosted by the Philippines in Manila from 6 to…
1984 Batasang Pambansa election — the common Philippine styling · May 14, 1984 elections — the date styling used in contemporary reporting
The 1984 Philippine Parliamentary Election, held on May 14, 1984, was the second and last parliamentary election of the martial-law…
1986 Philippine presidential election · 1986 snap election
The 1986 snap presidential election was the special election for President and Vice President of the Philippines held on February…
Constitution of the Philippines — the formal title under which the charter is published and cited · 1987 Philippine Constitution — the date-tagged styling in legal literature
The 1987 Constitution (Filipino: Saligang Batas ng 1987) is the supreme law of the Philippines — the charter drafted by…
Article XI · The Accountability Article — the standard styling
Article XI (Accountability of Public Officers) of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines is the constitutional charter against official corruption…
February 2, 1987 plebiscite · Plebiscite on the 1987 Constitution
The 1987 Constitutional Plebiscite was the national referendum held on February 2, 1987, in which Filipino voters ratified the 1987…
May 11, 1987 elections — the simultaneous congressional polls · 1987 Philippine House of Representatives elections — the House half of the contest
The 1987 Philippine legislative elections were held on May 11, 1987 — the first legislative elections since the 1984 Batasang…
1987 Philippine senatorial election · May 1987 Senate election
The 1987 Philippine Senate election was the nationwide at-large election of all twenty-four senators held on Monday, May 11, 1987…
December 1989 coup attempt · 1989 coup d'état attempt
The 1989 Philippine coup attempt (December 1–9, 1989) was the bloodiest and most serious of the coup attempts mounted against…
July 16, 1990 Luzon earthquake · Ms 7.8 Luzon Earthquake (PHIVOLCS usage)
The 1990 Luzon Earthquake struck the island of Luzon, Philippines, at about 4:26 p.m. on July 16, 1990, and was…
June 1991 Pinatubo eruption · Pinatubo eruption of 1991
The 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo was the cataclysmic eruption of the stratovolcano straddling Zambales, Tarlac, and Pampanga that began…
Typhoon Uring disaster · Ormoc tragedy of 1991
The 1991 Ormoc flash flood struck Ormoc City in Leyte, Philippines on 5 November 1991, when Tropical Storm Thelma (Philippine…
16th SEA Games · SEA Games 1991
The 1991 Southeast Asian Games, officially the 16th SEA Games, were hosted by the Philippines in Manila from 24 November…
1992 national and local elections · 1992 synchronized elections
The 1992 Philippine presidential election was held on May 11, 1992 as part of the first synchronized national and local…
1994 Oriental Mindoro earthquake · November 1994 Mindoro earthquake
The 1994 Mindoro earthquake struck the island of Mindoro in the Philippines on 15 November 1994 with a magnitude of…
First Team — the standing nickname · "America's First Team!" — the motto styling
1st Cavalry Division is a division of the United States Army — constituted in the Regular Army on August 20,…
2004 Philippine general election · 2004 national and local elections
The 2004 Philippine Presidential Election — held on May 10, 2004, simultaneously with the vice-presidential, legislative, and local elections —…
23rd SEA Games · SEA Games 2005
The 2005 Southeast Asian Games, officially the 23rd SEA Games, were a multi-sport event hosted by the Philippines from 27…
Guinsaugon landslide · Saint Bernard landslide disaster
The 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide buried the mountain village of Guinsaugon in the town of Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte, Philippines…
Batasan bombing · Batasang Pambansa bombing
The 2007 Batasang Pambansa bombing was the detonation, at 8:15 p.m. on November 13, 2007, of a bomb concealed in…
2010 national and local elections · May 2010 elections
The 2010 Philippine presidential election was the 15th presidential election of the Philippines, held on May 10, 2010 as part…
Bohol earthquake of 2013 · October 2013 Bohol earthquake
The 2013 Bohol Earthquake was a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the island province of Bohol and the surrounding Central…
2016 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections — the combined framing of the two national contests on one ballot · 2016 national and local elections — the synchronized exercise covering president, vice president, 12 senators, the House, and local posts
The 2016 Philippine Presidential Election — held on May 9, 2016, simultaneously with the vice-presidential, Senate, House, and local elections…
2019 Mindanao earthquakes · Tulunan earthquake sequence (after the epicentral town)
The 2019 Cotabato earthquakes were a damaging sequence of strong earthquakes that struck the province of Cotabato and neighboring areas…
2019 Philippine general election · 2019 National and Local Elections
The 2019 Philippine midterm elections — held on Monday, May 13, 2019 — were the synchronized national and local elections…
30th SEA Games · SEA Games 2019
The 2019 Southeast Asian Games, officially the 30th SEA Games, were a multi-sport event hosted by the Philippines from 30…
2019–2021 polio outbreak in the Philippines · 2019 polio outbreak in the Philippines
The 2019–2021 polio outbreak in the Philippines was an outbreak of poliomyelitis caused by circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV), declared by…
2020 Taal eruption · January 2020 Taal eruption
The 2020 Taal Volcano eruption was a phreatomagmatic eruption of Taal Volcano in Batangas that began on 12 January 2020.…
The 2022 Luzon Earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 tremor that struck the province of Abra in northwestern Luzon on 27…
2022 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections — the combined framing of the two national contests on one ballot · 2022 national and local elections — the synchronized exercise covering president, vice president, 12 senators, the House, and local posts
The 2022 Philippine Presidential Election — held on May 9, 2022, simultaneously with the vice-presidential, Senate, House, and local elections…
Jeepney strikes of 2023–2024 · PUVMP strike wave
The 2023–2024 transport strikes in the Philippines were the wave of nationwide jeepney tigil-pasada (service stoppages) mounted from March 6,…
2025 Philippine midterm election · 2025 national and local elections
The 2025 Philippine general election, held on May 12, 2025, was the midterm national and local election of the Fifth…
SONA 2025 · Fourth State of the Nation Address of President Bongbong Marcos
The 2025 State of the Nation Address was the fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand "Bongbong"…
Twentieth Congress of the Philippines · 20th Congress
The 20th Congress of the Philippines is the current legislature of the Philippines — the bicameral Congress of the Fifth…
Bente Kwatro Oras · 24 Oras Weekend (weekend edition)
24 Oras (Filipino for "24 Hours") is the flagship Filipino-language evening television newscast of GMA Network, the broadcast company profiled…
24th Infantry Division — the short standard styling · 24th Division — the campaign-history shorthand
The 24th Infantry Division is a formation of the United States Army — the "Taro" or "Victory" Division, motto "First…
2GO Group, Inc. (full corporate name) · 2GO (brand and former PSE trading symbol)
2GO Group, Inc. (brand 2GO) is a Philippine supply-chain company — the country's largest integrated provider of sea freight, logistics,…
Dixie Division — the nickname of its Southern National Guard composition · 31st Division — the campaign-history shorthand
The 31st Infantry Division is a formation of the United States Army — the "Dixie Division," motto "It shall be…
3M Philippines, Inc. · 3M PH
3M Philippines (3M Philippines, Inc.) is the Philippine subsidiary of 3M Company, the American diversified technology and manufacturing conglomerate originally…
Third Congress of the Philippines · Third Congress
The 3rd Congress of the Philippines (also the Third Congress of the Philippines) was the third peacetime legislature of the…
4-H Club — the generic styling in Department of Agriculture and ATI usage · 4W Program / 4W Club — the founding name before the United States approved the 4-H name
The 4-H Club of the Philippines is the country's rural-youth development organization in agriculture — the Philippine body of the…
40th Infantry Division — the short standard styling · 40th Division — the campaign-history shorthand
The 40th Infantry Division is a formation of the United States Army National Guard — the "Sunburst Division," its official…
Jungleers — the nickname the record says was earned at Biak in 1944 · Sunset Division — the interwar styling of its northwestern guard composition
The 41st Infantry Division is a formation of the United States Army — the "Jungleers," the nickname its record says…
Republic Act No. 11310 · RA 11310
The 4Ps Act is the short-title convenience for Republic Act No. 11310, officially "An Act Institutionalizing the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino…
5-Hydroxytryptophan · Oxitriptan
5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), also known as oxitriptan, is a naturally occurring amino acid and chemical precursor in the biosynthesis of the…
6th Infantry Division, Philippine Army — the disambiguating form the linked-data record carries · Philippine 6th Infantry Division — the disambiguating form against the U.S. formation
The 6th Infantry Division is the infantry division of the Philippine Army popularly known as the Kampilan Division — from…
A Child of Sorrow is a 1921 novel by Filipino author Zoilo Galang, considered the first Philippine novel written in…
La Coruña · A Coruna
A Coruña is a port city on an Atlantic promontory in Galicia, northwestern Spain — the capital of the province…
A2Z Channel 11 · A2Z channel 11
A2Z, branded on air as A2Z Channel 11, is a Philippine free-to-air television channel — the flagship property of ZOE…
Catanduanes Abaca Festival · Abaca Festival of Catanduanes
The Abaca Festival is an annual festival held every May in the province of Catanduanes celebrating abaca, the island's flagship…
Abaga Falls is a tall, slender waterfall in Linamon, Lanao del Norte, on the northern outskirts of Iligan City. Though…
Abakada alphabet · Santos alphabet
Abakada is the twenty-letter spelling alphabet devised for Tagalog in the 1930s by the grammarian Lope K. Santos and adopted…
The abaniko is the Philippine folding or flat hand fan, traditionally plaited from buri palm leaves, bamboo slats, nito vine,…
AEV · Cebu Pan Asian Holdings — incorporation name, 1989–1993
Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV; PSE: AEV) is the publicly listed holding company of the Aboitiz group, a family-controlled Philippine…
Aboitiz Power Corporation (full corporate name) · AP (PSE trading symbol)
Aboitiz Power Corporation (AboitizPower; PSE: AP) is the listed electricity generation and distribution arm of the Aboitiz group — a…
Municipality of Aborlan · Aborlan Palawan
Aborlan, officially the Municipality of Aborlan, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Municipality of Abra de Ilog · Abra de Ilog Occidental Mindoro
Abra de Ilog, officially the Municipality of Abra de Ilog, is a municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, located…
Province of Abra · Abra
Abra, officially the Province of Abra, is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of Luzon, Philippines. Its…
ABS-CBN · ABS-CBN Corporation
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation (later ABS-CBN Corporation, PSE: ABS) was the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate prior to the May…
Shutdown of ABS-CBN broadcasting · Shutdown of ABS-CBN broadcasting (Wikipedia article title and Wikidata label for Q93467772)
ABS-CBN Franchise Renewal Controversy is the term for the 2019–2020 dispute over renewal of the 25-year congressional broadcast franchise of…
ABS-CBN News · ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs
ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs was the news-and-current-affairs division of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation (later ABS-CBN Corporation), the Philippines' largest broadcast…
Abu Sayyaf Group · ASG
The Abu Sayyaf Group (Abu Sayyaf, commonly ASG) is the Islamist militant organization of the southern Philippines — Basilan, Sulu,…
Municipality of Abucay · Abucay Bataan
Abucay, officially the Municipality of Abucay, is a municipality in the province of Bataan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
The Abulog River, also spelled Abulug River, is the ninth-largest river system in the Philippines by watershed size, with an…
Municipality of Abulug · Abulug Cagayan
Abulug, officially the Municipality of Abulug, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Abuyog · Abuyog Leyte
Abuyog, officially the Municipality of Abuyog, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
AC Industrial Technology Holdings Inc. · AC Industrial Technology Holdings
AC Industrials — formally AC Industrial Technology Holdings, Inc. — is Ayala Corporation's holding company for its "current and future…
AC Mobility · AC Automotive
AC Motors was the automotive distribution and retail business of the Ayala group — the multi-brand operation built within AC…
Acapulco de Juárez · Acapulco de Juárez Municipality (the surrounding municipality's seat)
Acapulco (officially Acapulco de Juárez) is a port city on the Pacific coast of the state of Guerrero, Mexico —…
BP 344 · Batas Pambansa Bilang 344
The Accessibility Law, officially enacted as Batas Pambansa Bilang 344 (BP 344), is a landmark Philippine statute passed on February…
ACh (standard abbreviation) · Acetylneurin (Adolf von Baeyer's original name for the synthetic compound)
Acetylcholine (ACh) is an organic chemical that functions in the brain and body of many animals, including humans, as a…
Torn Achilles tendon · Achilles tear
An Achilles Tendon Rupture is a complete or partial tear of the Achilles tendon, the thick fibrous cord that connects…
Achuete (Bixa orellana), also spelled atsuete and known internationally as annatto or achiote, is a shrub or small tree grown…
1. Definition ACL Reconstruction is a surgical tissue graft replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), a key stabilizing ligament…
ACMobility · Ayala Mobility
ACMobility (formerly known as AC Industrial Technology Holdings Inc.) is the integrated mobility business unit of Ayala Corporation, one of…
Acne Scars · Atrophic Acne Scars
Acne scarring refers to the permanent changes in skin texture and contour that remain after inflammatory acne lesions destroy collagen…
Acne · Pimples
Acne Vulgaris is a chronic inflammatory skin disease of the pilosebaceous unit, which comprises the hair follicle and its associated…
Act No. 3344 — the statute-book styling · The 1926 unregistered-lands recording act — the descriptive styling
Act No. 3344 is the act of the Philippine Legislature approved December 8, 1926, styled "AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION…
The Forest Act of 1904 · The Forest Act
Act No. 1148, cited as The Forest Act, is a statute of the Philippine Commission long-titled "AN ACT TO REGULATE…
The Judiciary Act of 1901 — the customary short name in Philippine legal history · An Act Providing for the Organization of Courts in the Philippine Islands — the formal long title
Act No. 136 — formally "An Act Providing for the Organization of Courts in the Philippine Islands," enacted by the…
An Act Creating a Bureau of Agriculture — the statute's own long title · The Bureau of Agriculture creating act — the genealogical shorthand of this wiki's Bureau of Agriculture entry
Act No. 261 is a statute of the Philippine Commission long-titled "AN ACT CREATING A BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE," approved October…
An Act to Reorganize the Executive Departments of the Government of the Philippine Islands — the statute's own long title · Reorganization Act No. 2666 — the styling used in Wikipedia's account of the Department of Finance's 1916 founding
Act No. 2666 is a statute of the Philippine Legislature long-titled "AN ACT TO REORGANIZE THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF THE…
The Bureau of Animal Industry creating act · The 1929 agriculture split — the genealogical shorthand of this wiki's Bureau of Agriculture entry
Act No. 3639 is the statute of the Philippine Legislature long-titled "AN ACT CREATING THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY; DEFINING…
Act of Capitulation — the English rendering in Negrense commemoration · The Bacolod capitulation of 1898 — descriptive styling
The Acta de Capitulación is the surrender instrument of the Negros Revolution: the act signed at Bacolod on November 6,…
Acta de Tejeros declaration · The Tejeros Act
The Acta de Tejeros is the declaration by which Andrés Bonifacio and his followers repudiated the elections of the Tejeros…
Municipality of Adams · Adams Ilocos Norte
Adams, officially the Municipality of Adams, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
AdU (official acronym) · Adamson (colloquial)
Adamson University is a private Catholic university in Manila, Philippines, administered by the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians). Founded in…
1. Definition ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent patterns of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity…
Fat Cells · Lipocytes
Adipocytes, also known as fat cells or lipocytes, are the cells that primarily compose adipose tissue, specialized for storing energy…
Adiponectin is a protein hormone secreted almost exclusively by adipocytes that enhances insulin sensitivity and fatty-acid oxidation while exerting anti-inflammatory…
Adivay · Benguet Founding Anniversary Celebration
Adivay Festival is the annual founding-anniversary festival of the province of Benguet in the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon, Philippines.…
Revised Administrative Code of 1987 · Executive Order No. 292
The Administrative Code of 1987 is Executive Order No. 292, promulgated on July 25, 1987 and captioned "Instituting the 'Administrative…
Squid adobo · Adobong pusit sa tinta (ink-on version)
Adobong pusit is a Filipino dish of squid braised adobo-style in soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, onions, and peppercorns, distinguished by…
Adriano Hernández y Dayot — the full Spanish-style record name · General Adriano Hernandez — the styling of his American-era offices and commemorations
Adriano Hernandez — in full Adriano Hernández y Dayot (September 8, 1870, Dingle, Iloilo – February 16, 1925, Manila) —…
The Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) is a research and development institute of the Department of Science and Technology…
Cosmetic medicine · Medical aesthetics
Aesthetic Medicine is a branch of clinical medicine focused on improving cosmetic appearance through non-surgical and minimally invasive procedures, including…
Ayta (alternate spelling) · Agta and Dumagat (collective terms applied, with Aeta, to the related Luzon Negrito peoples — Agta for southeastern Luzon, Dumagat for eastern Luzon)
The Aeta (also spelled Ayta; with Agta and Dumagat, one of three collective terms for several indigenous peoples of Luzon)…
Ayta · Agta
The Aeta (also Ayta or Agta) are indigenous Negrito peoples of Luzon, historically hunter-gatherers and shifting cultivators of the island's…
Republic Act No. 7898 · RA 7898
The AFP Modernization Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 7898, "An Act Providing for the Modernization of…
Afritada is a Filipino tomato-based stew in which chicken (most commonly) or pork is sautéed with garlic, onion, and tomatoes,…
Tindalo (Philippine trade name) · Tindalu
Afzelia rhomboidea, known in the Philippines as tindalo or tindalu, is a large hardwood tree species of the pea family…
Almaciga (Philippine trade name) · Manila copal or Philippine copal (resin trade names)
Agathis dammara, called almaciga in the Philippines and dammar or kauri pine elsewhere, is a large conifer of the family…
Almaciga (Philippine common name) · Manila copal tree (resin trade name origin)
Agathis philippinensis, commonly called almaciga, is a large coniferous tree of the family Araucariaceae native to the Philippines (with related…
The Agawan Festival is the thanksgiving fiesta of Sariaya, Quezon, held around May 15 in honor of San Isidro Labrador,…
AGB Nielsen ratings scandal · 2007 Philippine TV ratings war
The AGB Nielsen Philippine TV Ratings Controversy was a legal and ratings dispute fought from December 2007 into 2008 among…
Agdangan is a fifth-income-class coastal municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, facing Tayabas Bay. Created on April 1, 1939 when President…
1. Definition Aging in Place is the ability of an individual to live in their own home and community safely,…
Municipality of Aglipay · Aglipay Quirino
Aglipay, officially the Municipality of Aglipay, is a municipality in the province of Quirino, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Agno · Agno Pangasinan
Agno, officially the Municipality of Agno, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Pangasinan River · Rio Grande de Pangasinan
The Agno River is the principal river of the Pangasinan lowlands, rising on the slopes of Mount Data in the…
Municipality of Agoncillo · Agoncillo Batangas
Agoncillo, officially the Municipality of Agoncillo, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Agoo · Agoo La Union
Agoo, officially the Municipality of Agoo, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Office of the Agrarian Counsel — the statutory styling of Sections 160–165 · The Agrarian Counsel's office — the heading-free styling used in the Code's cross-references
The Agrarian Counsel is the statutory office created by Chapter X ("Office of Agrarian Counsel," Sections 160–165) of Republic Act…
CARP (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program) · CARPER (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms)
Agrarian Reform (specifically the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program or CARP) is a national social justice program in the Philippines designed…
Land reform in the Philippines · Land-to-the-tiller program (the 1963 Code's popular slogan)
Agrarian reform in the Philippines is the century-long body of law and policy by which the Philippine state has tried…
ACA — the statutory abbreviation · The Administration — the Code's internal name for the corporate body inherited from RA 821
The Agricultural Credit Administration (ACA) was the Philippine government's farm-credit agency from 1963 to 1982 — the statutory successor, not…
ACCFA — the statutory abbreviation carried in Republic Act No. 821 · Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing Administration — the full statutory name, 1952–1963
The Agricultural Credit and Cooperatives Administration is the title under which this wiki files the Philippines' first great farm-credit agency…
Agri-drone · Agricultural UAV
An agricultural drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applied to farming, "mostly in yield optimization by monitoring crop growth,…
Agricultural extension service (Philippines) · The Philippine extension system
Agricultural extension in the Philippines is the state's farm-advisory system — the public service carrying "useful and practical information on…
1. Definition Agricultural Land is a land classification designated for farming, livestock production, forestry, and aquaculture. In the Philippines, agricultural…
Farmland · Agricultural lot
Agricultural land in the Philippines refers to land devoted to or suitable for agricultural production — including cultivation, planting, livestock…
The Agricultural Land Reform Code (Republic Act No. 3844, signed August 8, 1963) is the landmark Philippine statute that abolished…
APC · The Commission — the Code's own shorthand throughout Chapter VI
The Agricultural Productivity Commission (APC) was the Philippine agricultural-extension body created by Chapter VI of the Agricultural Land Reform Code,…
1. Definition The Agricultural Tenancy Law (primarily governed by Republic Act No. 1199 and Republic Act No. 3844) regulates the…
ATI · ATI-DA — the departmental styling
The Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) is the Department of Agriculture's training and extension bureau — the government's central office for…
AFMA · RA 8435
The Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA), Republic Act No. 8435, approved on December 22, 1997, is the framework statute…
The agricultural sector — the national-accounts styling · Agriculture, hunting, forestry, and fishing — the statistical classification that includes the fisheries the census counts with it
Agriculture in the Philippines is the farming, fishing, and forestry sector of the Philippine economy — crops, livestock, poultry, and…
Agueda Esteban y de la Cruz (full baptismal-style name) · Agueda Barroga (name during her first marriage)
Agueda Esteban (full name Agueda Esteban y de la Cruz, February 5, 1868 – September 1944) was a Filipina revolutionary…
Henerala Agueda · Generala
Agueda Kahabagan y Iniquinto was a Filipino revolutionary general of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine–American War, a member of…
Municipality of Aguilar · Aguilar Pangasinan
Aguilar, officially the Municipality of Aguilar, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Municipality of Aguinaldo · Aguinaldo Ifugao
Aguinaldo, officially the Municipality of Aguinaldo, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Emilio Aguinaldo Shrine · Cavite El Viejo Shrine
The Aguinaldo Shrine is a national shrine and museum in Kawit, Cavite — the ancestral house of General Emilio Aguinaldo,…
Aguinid Falls is a multi-tiered waterfall in Barangay Tangbo, Samboan, Cebu, in the Philippines. Rather than a single plunge, it…
AMT · Ágúman ding Maldang Talapagobra
The Aguman ding Maldang Talapagobra (AMT) — Kapampangan for "League of Poor Laborers," also rendered "League of Poor Workers" —…
Agong (variant spelling) · Pair of agung (lead and supporting gong)
The agung is a large, deeply-rimmed hanging bossed gong of the southern Philippines, a core instrument of the Maguindanao and…
Agus River System (when including its tributary channels) · Lifeline of the Mindanao grid (descriptive usage)
The Agus River is a short but powerful river in northern Mindanao, Philippines, that drains Lake Lanao into Iligan Bay.…
Province of Agusan del Norte · Agusan del Norte
Agusan del Norte, officially the Province of Agusan del Norte, is a province in the Caraga region of Mindanao, Philippines.…
Province of Agusan del Norte · Agusan del Norte
Agusan del Norte, officially the Province of Agusan del Norte, is a province of the Philippines located within the Caraga…
Province of Agusan del Sur · Agusan del Sur
Agusan del Sur, officially the Province of Agusan del Sur, is a landlocked province in the Caraga region of Mindanao,…
Province of Agusan del Sur · Agusan del Sur
Agusan del Sur, officially the Province of Agusan del Sur, is a province of the Philippines located within the Caraga…
Golden Tara · Agusan gold statuette
The Agusan image, popularly called the Golden Tara, is a 21-karat gold statuette of a seated female Hindu or Buddhist…
Agusan Marsh · Agusan peat swamp
The Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary is the largest wetland and most extensive freshwater marsh in the Philippines, in the Agusan…
Ilog Agusan (Filipino) · Agusan Grande
The Agusan River is the third-longest river in the Philippines, flowing roughly 390 kilometres (240 mi) through the Agusan Valley…
Municipality of Agutaya · Agutaya Palawan
Agutaya, officially the Municipality of Agutaya, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Agyu is the culture hero of the Ilianon Manobo epic tradition of Mindanao, a leader who guides his people through…
air shed · air basin
An airshed is a geographic area in which local topography and meteorology limit the dispersion of pollutants away from the…
Aivee Aguilar-Teo · Dr. Aivee Teo
Dr. Aivee Aguilar-Teo is a prominent Philippine dermatologist, medical director, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and chief executive officer…
Municipality of Ajuy · Ajuy Iloilo
Ajuy, officially the Municipality of Ajuy, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Ringworm bush · Candle bush
Akapulko (Senna alata L., also known as Cassia alata), commonly referred to as the ringworm bush, is a tropical shrub…
Municipality of Akbar · Akbar Basilan
Akbar, officially the Municipality of Akbar, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Aklan Provincial Government · Province of Aklan LGU
The Aklan LGU (Local Government Unit) refers to the provincial government administration responsible for public administration, infrastructure development, and environmental…
Province of Aklan · Aklan
Aklan, officially the Province of Aklan, is a province in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, located in the…
The Aklan River is the longest river in the province of Aklan, Philippines, and the third-longest river on Panay island,…
Aklan State University (ASU) is a state university in Banga, Aklan, tracing its origins to a farm school founded in…
Akeanon · Aklan-on
Aklanon refers to the ethnolinguistic group native to Aklan province on the island of Panay, Philippines, and to their language,…
Aklanon is a Bisayan language spoken in the province of Aklan in the Western Visayas, particularly around Kalibo and the…
Acle · East Indian walnut
Akle is the Philippine name for Albizia acle, a medium-sized flowering tree of the legume family Fabaceae, also called East…
Municipality of Al-Barka · Al-Barka Basilan
Al-Barka, officially the Municipality of Al-Barka, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Alabang–Zapote Road · Alabang-Zapote
Alabang-Zapote Road is a major four-to-eight-lane national road located in the southern part of Metro Manila, Philippines. Spanning approximately 10.2…
Alabat Island is an island of the Philippine archipelago, situated just off the east coast of southern Luzon in Quezon…
Alabat is a fifth-income-class island municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, located centrally on the eponymous Alabat Island between Lamon Bay…
Municipality of Alabel · Alabel Sarangani
Alabel, officially the Municipality of Alabel, is a municipality in the province of Sarangani, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Municipality of Alamada · Alamada Cotabato
Alamada, officially the Municipality of Alamada, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Alaminos City, Pangasinan · Alaminos, Pangasinan
Alaminos, officially the City of Alaminos, is a component city in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. It is globally famous…
Municipality of Alaminos · Alaminos Laguna
Alaminos, officially the Municipality of Alaminos, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano · Alan Cayetano
Alan Peter Cayetano (born October 28, 1970, in Mandaluyong; full name Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano) is a Filipino politician serving…
Alangalang is a first-class landlocked municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines. Founded in 1748, it comprises 54 barangays and…
Nostril Reduction Surgery · Alar Base Reduction
Alarplasty is a specialized cosmetic surgical procedure designed to reshape, resize, and reduce the width of the nostrils (the nasal…
Alaska Milkmen (1986, 1988–1989, 1991–2000 — the 1990s dynasty name) · Hills Bros. Coffee Kings (1987 identity)
The Alaska Aces were the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) franchise owned by the Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC) under Filipino-American businessman…
Province of Albay · Albay
Albay, officially the Province of Albay, is a province in the Bicol Region of the Philippines, situated in the southern…
Albino Sycip — co-founder and long-time chairman, a distinct entry in this wiki · Albino Z. SyCip — the full styling, with the firm's camelcase surname
Albino Sycip — in full Albino Z. SyCip (December 17, 1887, Binondo, Manila – May 2, 1978), Chinese name Xue…
Municipality of Albuera · Albuera Leyte
Albuera, officially the Municipality of Albuera, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Folk healer · Traditional generalist healer
An Albularyo is a traditional generalist folk healer in the Philippines who utilizes a combination of herbal medicine, prayers, spiritual…
Municipality of Alburquerque · Alburquerque Bohol
Alburquerque, officially the Municipality of Alburquerque, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Alcala · Alcala Cagayan
Alcala, officially the Municipality of Alcala, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Alcala · Dangla (historical barrio name under Bayambang)
Alcala, officially the Municipality of Alcala, is a first-income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan within the Philippines' Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Alcantara · Alcantara Cebu
Alcantara, officially the Municipality of Alcantara, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Alcoy · Alcoy Cebu
Alcoy, officially the Municipality of Alcoy, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Alegria is a fifth-income class municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 65.28 square kilometers, it has 12…
Alejandro G. Abadilla (1904 or 1906–1970), known as "A.G.A.", was a Filipino poet, editor, and essayist acclaimed as the father…
Anding Roces (familiar name) · Alejandro R. Roces Sr.
Alejandro Roces (1924–2007) was a Filipino writer, journalist, and educator who was named National Artist of the Philippines for Literature…
General Alejo S. Santos — the styling carried from the guerrilla rank into politics and the memorials · Alejo de los Santos de los Santos — birth name, as recorded in his biography
Alejo Santos (July 17, 1911 – February 18, 1984) — born Alejo de los Santos de los Santos in Barangay…
Municipality of Aleosan · Aleosan Cotabato
Aleosan, officially the Municipality of Aleosan, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Municipality of Alfonso Castaneda · Alfonso Castaneda Nueva Vizcaya
Alfonso Castaneda, officially the Municipality of Alfonso Castaneda, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the…
Municipality of Alfonso Lista · Alfonso Lista Ifugao
Alfonso Lista, officially the Municipality of Alfonso Lista, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera…
Alfonso · The Flower Town of Cavite (informal)
Alfonso is a third-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, on the elevated Tagaytay ridge adjacent to Tagaytay City and Indang. A…
Alfredo S. Lim · Alfredo Siojo Lim
Alfredo Siojo Lim (December 21, 1929 – August 8, 2020) was a Filipino police officer, lawyer, and politician whose public…
Municipality of Aliaga · Aliaga Nueva Ecija
Aliaga, officially the Municipality of Aliaga, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Alibijaban Island is a small island barangay off the coast of San Andres, Quezon province, Philippines, fringed with mangrove forests,…
Founder of Ballet Philippines · Alice Reyes-Delos Santos (in formal citations)
Alice Reyes (born 1942) is a Filipino dancer, choreographer, and company director who was named National Artist of the Philippines…
Alicia is a first-class agricultural municipality in southern Isabela province, Philippines. Formerly known as Angadanan, it sits in the Cagayan…
Municipality of Alicia · Alicia Zamboanga Sibugay
Alicia, officially the Municipality of Alicia, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Municipality of Alilem · Alilem Ilocos Sur
Alilem, officially the Municipality of Alilem, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Blue swimming crab · Flower crab
Alimasag is the Filipino term most often applied to the blue swimming crab, a paddle-legged marine crab harvested in one…
Municipality of Alimodian · Alimodian Iloilo
Alimodian, officially the Municipality of Alimodian, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
The alipin was the dependent labouring class of precolonial Tagalog society, occupying the lowest rung of the social ladder below…
Municipality of Alitagtag · Alitagtag Batangas
Alitagtag, officially the Municipality of Alitagtag, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Aliw Broadcasting Corporation is a Philippine radio company known for its AM flagship DWIZ 882 kHz in Metro Manila and…
Aliwagwag Cascades · The Stairway to Heaven Falls
Aliwagwag Falls is a stair-step cascade of dozens of small waterfalls in Cateel, Davao Oriental, with a combined drop of…
Aliwan Fiesta is an annual cultural competition held in Metro Manila since 2003, gathering festival contingents from across the Philippines…
Alkaline Ash Diet · Acid-Alkaline Diet
The Alkaline Diet (also known as the alkaline ash diet, acid-alkaline diet, or pH diet) is a dietary protocol based…
Municipality of Allacapan · Allacapan Cagayan
Allacapan, officially the Municipality of Allacapan, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Allan Caidic (born 1963) is a retired Filipino basketball player regarded as the greatest shooter in Philippine Basketball Association history.…
Municipality of Allen · Allen Northern Samar
Allen, officially the Municipality of Allen, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Almaciga (Agathis philippinensis, generally included in the Agathis dammara complex) is one of the tallest conifer species native to the…
Municipality of Almagro · Almagro Samar
Almagro, officially the Municipality of Almagro, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Almazora · AMC
Almazora Motors Corporation (AMC) is a Filipino truck and bus body manufacturer headquartered in Carmona, Cavite, established in 1925 and…
Municipality of Almeria · Almeria Biliran
Almeria, officially the Municipality of Almeria, is a municipality in the province of Biliran, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
G.R. No. 95367 — the docket styling · Almonte v. Office of the Ombudsman — descriptive variant
Almonte v. Vasquez, G.R. No. 95367, decided by the Supreme Court of the Philippines on May 23, 1995, is the…
Alocasia sanderiana, popularly called the kris plant, is a tropical aroid endemic to rainforests on the island of Mindanao in…
Alocasia zebrina is a tropical aroid endemic to the Philippines, prized for its most unusual feature: leaf stalks striped in…
Municipality of Aloguinsan · Aloguinsan Cebu
Aloguinsan, officially the Municipality of Aloguinsan, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Alonzo Saclag is a Kalinga master of traditional performing arts from Lubuagan, Kalinga, awarded the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan…
Municipality of Aloran · Aloran Misamis Occidental
Aloran, officially the Municipality of Aloran, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
4-Hydroxyphenyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside · α-Arbutin
Alpha Arbutin is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its…
Alpha-Mangostin · α-Mangostin
Alpha-mangostin (also written as α-Mangostin) is a natural xanthone compound isolated from the pericarp of the mangosteen fruit (Garcinia mangostana).…
Dita (Philippine name) · Blackboard tree, devil tree (English common names)
Alstonia scholaris, known in the Philippines as dita and elsewhere as blackboard tree, devil tree, or white cheesewood, is a…
Municipality of Altavas · Altavas Aklan
Altavas, officially the Municipality of Altavas, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
1. Definition Alternative Education refers to non-traditional educational pathways, teaching philosophies, and instructional models that operate outside conventional public or…
Traditional and Complementary Medicine · Alternative Medicine
Alternative Health Care in the Philippines refers to a diverse range of healthcare systems, modalities, treatments, and wellness practices that…
The Alternative Learning System (ALS) is the Department of Education's non-formal pathway to basic education for out-of-school youth and adults,…
Republic Act No. 11510 · RA 11510
The Alternative Learning System Act (Republic Act No. 11510) is a Philippine statute that institutionalizes the Alternative Learning System (ALS)…
Alternative Learning System · ALS
Alternative Learning System Philippines (ALS) is a parallel learning system in the Philippines that provides a viable alternative to the…
Municipality of Alubijid · Alubijid Misamis Oriental
Alubijid, officially the Municipality of Alubijid, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Alugbati is the Filipino name for Basella alba, a fast-growing tropical leafy vine known in English as Malabar spinach, widely…
Alveo Land Corp. · Alveo
Alveo Land Corp. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ayala Land, Inc. (ALI), specializing in upscale residential, commercial, and office real…
Alyansa · Alliance for a New Philippines
The Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas ("Alliance for a New Philippines"), commonly shortened to Alyansa, was the administration electoral coalition…
Coffee Capital of the Philippines · Pahimis Town
Amadeo is a fifth-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, recognized as the "Coffee Capital of the Philippines." It is a small…
Amado Vera Hernandez — full name (Vera the maternal surname) · The CLO president — his organizational designation in the postwar labor record
Amado V. Hernandez — in full Amado Vera Hernandez (September 13, 1903, Tondo, Manila – March 24, 1970, Manila) —…
Amai Pakpak (died 1895) was a Maranao datu remembered as the foremost defender of the Lanao lake country against Spanish…
Amaia Land Corp. · Amaia
Amaia Land Corp. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ayala Land, Inc. (ALI), specializing in economic and affordable housing developments in…
AMAX Engineering · AMAX
AMAX Engineering is an American technology company headquartered in Fremont, California (Silicon Valley), specializing in the design, customization, and manufacture…
Municipality of Ambaguio · Ambaguio Nueva Vizcaya
Ambaguio, officially the Municipality of Ambaguio, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
Hanunó'o Mangyan poetry — its generic description in the literature · The seven-syllable chant — its metrical signature
The ambahan is the traditional poetic chant of the Hanunó'o Mangyan people of Mindoro, Philippines — a rhythmic expression composed…
Don Bosyong — the nickname by which contemporaries knew him · Ambrosio R. Bautista — the short formal styling
Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista (Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista y Altamira; December 7, 1830, Biñan, Laguna – December 4, 1903) was a Filipino…
Ambuklao hydroelectric plant
Ambuklao Dam is a hydroelectric rockfill dam on the upper Agno River in Bokod, Benguet, Philippines. Completed in the 1950s…
The American period — the common Philippine styling · American colonization of the Philippines — an alias carried by the standard reference item
The American Colonial Period is the standard name for the era of American rule in the Philippines — the half-century…
The amethyst brown dove (Phapitreron amethystinus) is a medium-sized fruit dove endemic to the Philippines, found in forest on Luzon,…
Northeast monsoon · Amihan season (colloquial)
Amihan is the Filipino term for the northeast monsoon, the cool, relatively dry wind that flows from Siberia and China…
Municipality of Amlan · Amlan Negros Oriental
Amlan, officially the Municipality of Amlan, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Panag-ammungan Festival · Nueva Ecija foundation day festival
The Ammungan Festival is the annual founding-anniversary festival of the province of Nueva Ecija, celebrated to mark the province's founding…
presidential amnesty · general amnesty
Amnesties in the Philippines are the exercises of the presidential amnesty power under Article VII, Section 19 of the 1987…
Bitter melon · Bitter gourd
Ampalaya (Momordica charantia L.), also known as bitter melon or bitter gourd, is a tropical and subtropical vine native to…
Municipality of Ampatuan · Ampatuan Maguindanao
Ampatuan, officially the Municipality of Ampatuan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Koordersiodendron pinnatum (scientific name) · Amugis hardwood
Amugis (Koordersiodendron pinnatum) is a large timber tree of the cashew and mango family (Anacardiaceae) native to the Philippines and…
Amulung is a municipality in Cagayan, Philippines, spread across the floodplain of the lower Cagayan River between Tuguegarao City and…
Municipality of Amulung · Amulung Cagayan
Amulung, officially the Municipality of Amulung, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Round-leaf fountain palm · Footstool palm
Anahaw (Saribus rotundifolius, formerly Livistona rotundifolia) is a tall fan palm native to the Philippines and neighboring parts of Southeast…
Municipality of Anahawan · Anahawan Southern Leyte
Anahawan, officially the Municipality of Anahawan, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
"Anak" ("Child") is a song written and first recorded by Filipino singer-songwriter Freddie Aguilar, released in 1978, whose Tagalog verses…
Municipality of Anao · Anao Tarlac
Anao, officially the Municipality of Anao, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Anastacio T. Caedo — name form recorded by DBpedia · The model of the Oblation — the designation his students and successors attached to him
Anastacio T. Caedo (August 14, 1907 – May 12, 1990) was a Filipino sculptor from Batangas who served as Guillermo…
Anawangin Beach · Anawangin (the cove's shorthand among Zambales travelers)
Anawangin Cove is a beach cove in the municipality of San Antonio, Zambales, noted for its unusual grove of agoho…
ancestral domains
An ancestral domain is, in Philippine law, the area that Section 3(a) of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (Republic Act…
Anchor Land Holdings, Inc. · Anchor Land
Anchor Land Holdings, Inc. is a prominent luxury real estate developer in the Philippines. Headquartered in Makati City, the company…
Municipality of Anda · Anda Bohol
Anda, officially the Municipality of Anda, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Professor Andrea O. Veneracion · Founder of the UP Madrigal Singers ("Madz")
Andrea Veneracion (1928–2013) was a Filipino choral conductor who founded the University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers in 1963 and…
Supremo (short form of his title) · Kataastaasang Pangulo / Presidente Supremo (Supreme President)
Andrés Bonifacio (November 30, 1863, Tondo, Manila – May 10, 1897, Maragondon, Cavite) was a Filipino revolutionary leader, co-founder of…
Fray Andrés de Urdaneta, O.S.A. — the styled form of his religious profession · The navigator of the tornaviaje — his standard descriptive designation
Andrés de Urdaneta (born November 30, 1508, at Ordizia — then styled Villafranca — in Gipuzkoa, Basque country, Crown of…
Andrés Novales was a Filipino captain in the Spanish Army in the Philippines who proclaimed himself "Emperor of the Philippines"…
Andrés Soriano (February 8, 1898 – December 30, 1964) was a Filipino-Spanish industrialist who built San Miguel Brewery from a…
Ang Babae sa Septic Tank (English title The Woman in the Septic Tank) is a 2011 Filipino satirical black comedy…
Municipality of Angadanan · Angadanan Isabela
Angadanan, officially the Municipality of Angadanan, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Angara v. Electoral Commission, G.R. No. L-45081 — the docket styling with the L- prefix used in the reports · The Angara case — the classroom short form
Angara v. Electoral Commission (G.R. No. 45081, promulgated July 15, 1936, En Banc) is the Supreme Court of the Philippines…
Municipality of Angat · Angat Bulacan
Angat, officially the Municipality of Angat, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Angat Hydroelectric Dam · Angat Reservoir
Angat Dam is a concrete embankment dam on the Angat River at Barangay San Lorenzo (Hilltop) in Norzagaray, Bulacan, within…
Angeles, Pampanga · "Entertainment Capital of Central Luzon"
Angeles City is a highly urbanized city in Pampanga, Philippines, within the Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone corridor in…
Angelito (2017) · Angelito (2017 film)
Angelito is a 2017 Philippine historical short film, roughly twenty minutes long, directed by Jerrold Tarog for TBA Studios —…
Angelo Ylagan Castro Jr. — his full birth name ([Wikipedia — Angelo Castro Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Castro_Jr. "Angelo Castro Jr. — Wikipedia")) · Angelo Castro, Jr. — the punctuation styling carried in the linked-data record ([Wikidata — Angelo Castro Jr.](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q617399 "Angelo Castro Jr. (Q617399) — Wikidata"))
Angelo Castro Jr. (born Angelo Ylagan Castro Jr., March 6, 1945 – April 5, 2012) was a Filipino broadcast journalist…
Philippine female centaur · Unicorn woman of Philippine lore
The anggitay is a female creature in Philippine mythology resembling a woman from the waist up and a horse from…
Angkas · DBDOYC Inc. (corporate name)
Angkas is a Philippine motorcycle ride-hailing and delivery platform operated by DBDOYC Inc., founded in 2016 by Singaporean entrepreneur Angeline…
"Art Capital of the Philippines" · Home of the Higantes Festival
Angono is a first-income-class urban municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, along the shores of Laguna de Bay. Officially recognized as…
Municipality of Angono · Angono Rizal
Angono, officially the Municipality of Angono, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
The Angono Petroglyphs are the oldest known work of art in the Philippines: 127 engraved figures—mostly humanoids in varied postures…
Aniceto Lacson — his uncle, president of the Republic of Negros; a distinct entry · Aniceto L. Lacson
Aniceto Lacson (April 15, 1857 – February 3, 1931) was a Filipino sugar planter and revolutionary of Negros — the…
Municipality of Anilao · Anilao Iloilo
Anilao, officially the Municipality of Anilao, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
ABTC · Animal Bite Center
An Animal Bite Treatment Center (ABTC) is a Department of Health (DOH) certified medical facility in the Philippines dedicated to…
The Animal Welfare Act of 1998 (Republic Act No. 8485, strengthened by Republic Act No. 10631 of 2013) is the…
Municipality of Anini-y · Anini-y Antique
Anini-y, officially the Municipality of Anini-y, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Palosapis (Philippine common name) · Mersawa (regional trade name for the genus in parts of Southeast Asia)
Anisoptera thurifera is a large rainforest tree of the dipterocarp family, known in the Philippines as palosapis, producing straight, buttressed…
Anita Magsaysay-Ho (1914-2012) was a Filipina modernist painter celebrated for lyrical works depicting Filipina women at market, in harvests, and…
anitu — alternate spelling recorded in the standard account ([Wikipedia — Anito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anito "Anito — Wikipedia")) · anitismo / anitería — the Spanish-era labels for the belief system, Anitism ([Wikipedia — Anito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anito "Anito — Wikipedia"))
The anito (also anitu) is the term for the ancestor spirits, nature spirits, and deities of the indigenous Philippine folk…
AFO · Ankle-Foot Brace
An Ankle-Foot Orthosis (AFO) is a support or brace, typically made of plastic or carbon fiber, that controls the position…
AFO · Foot Drop Brace
An Ankle–Foot Orthosis (commonly abbreviated as AFO) is a support or brace designed to control the position and motion of…
Title Annotation · Memorandum of Encumbrance Entry
An annotation (specifically a memorandum annotation on a title in the Philippines) is an official entry made by the Registrar…
Municipality of Antequera · Antequera Bohol
Antequera, officially the Municipality of Antequera, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
1. Definition Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) is a surgical procedure performed to treat spinal cord or nerve root…
Tony Villanueva · Silver medalist of Tokyo 1964
Anthony Villanueva (1945–1992) was a Filipino boxer who won the featherweight silver medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the…
Anti-Agricultural Sabotage Act · Republic Act No. 12022
The Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act is the popular name of Republic Act No. 12022, approved September 26, 2024 and signed…
Republic Act No. 10845 (the statutory citation) · RA 10845
The Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act of 2016 is the short title of Republic Act No. 10845, approved May 23, 2016 —…
ABM · Anti-Bases Coalition (ABC) — the Tañada–Diokno formation documented from 1983
The Anti-Base Movement (ABM) is the shorthand this wiki uses for the family of Philippine coalitions that campaigned, from the…
The Anti-Carnapping Act of 1972, Republic Act No. 6539, defines and penalizes carnapping as the taking of a motor vehicle…
Republic Act No. 9775 · RA 9775
The Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9775) is a Philippine law that criminalizes the production, distribution, sale,…
Republic Act No. 10913 · RA 10913
The Anti-Distracted Driving Act (ADDA) is the short title of Republic Act No. 10913, officially "An Act Defining and Penalizing…
The Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act of 2013 is a Philippine law that criminalizes driving under the influence of alcohol,…
Commonwealth Act No. 108 · CA 108
The Anti-Dummy Law is the short title of Commonwealth Act No. 108, formally "An Act to Punish Acts of Evasion…
Republic Act No. 8752 · RA 8752
The Anti-Dumping Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 8752, officially "An Act Providing the Rules for the…
RA 3019 · Republic Act No. 3019
The Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act (Republic Act No. 3019) is the Philippines' principal anti-corruption statute, approved on August 17,…
Republic Act No. 8049 · Anti-Hazing Law
The Anti-Hazing Act of 1995, officially Republic Act No. 8049, is the Philippine law regulating hazing and other initiation rites…
The Anti-Hazing Act of 2018 (Republic Act No. 11053) is the principal Philippine law regulating hazing and other forms of…
The Anti-Hazing Law (Republic Act No. 8049, 1995) is the Philippine statute that regulates initiation rites of fraternities, sororities, and…
RA 9160 · AMLA
The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001 (Republic Act No. 9160) is the principal Philippine law criminalizing money laundering and establishing…
AMLC
The Anti-Money Laundering Council (abbreviation AMLC) is the government instrumentality that serves as the Philippines' financial intelligence unit and the…
RA 9995 · Anti-Voyeurism Act of 2009
The Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act (Republic Act No. 9995), signed in 2010, is the Philippine law criminalizing the taking,…
The Anti-Plunder Act of 1991, Republic Act No. 7080, defines and penalizes plunder as the amassing of ill-gotten wealth by…
Republic Act No. 8353 · RA 8353
The Anti-Rape Law of 1997 (Republic Act No. 8353) is a Philippine statute that redefined rape as a crime against…
The Anti–Red Tape Authority (ARTA) is a Philippine government agency created under Republic Act No. 11032 (2018), which amended the…
The Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995, Republic Act No. 7877, was the Philippines' first law penalizing sexual harassment, defining it…
Republic Act No. 1700 · RA 1700
The Anti-Subversion Act of 1957 is the short title of Republic Act No. 1700, "An Act to Outlaw the Communist…
The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (Republic Act No. 11479) is the Philippines' principal statute defining and penalizing terrorism, replacing the…
ATC · Anti-Terrorism Council of the Philippines
The Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) is the inter-agency body created by Section 45 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (Republic Act…
Republic Act No. 9745 · RA 9745
The Anti-Torture Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9745) is a Philippine law that penalizes torture and other cruel, inhuman,…
RA 9208 · Anti-Trafficking Law of 2003
The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 (Republic Act No. 9208) is the principal Philippine statute criminalizing human trafficking, enacted…
Republic Act No. 9262 · RA 9262
The Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004 (Republic Act No. 9262) is the principal Philippine law criminalizing…
Agimat · Anting
Anting-anting are Filipino amulets or charms believed to protect the bearer from harm, grant supernatural abilities, or attract good fortune.…
1. Definition Antioxidants are organic compounds that inhibit oxidation, a chemical reaction that produces free radicals capable of damaging cells…
Municipality of Antipas · Antipas Cotabato
Antipas, officially the Municipality of Antipas, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Pilgrimage Capital of the Philippines · City in the Sky
Antipolo, officially the City of Antipolo, is a highly urbanized city and the capital of Rizal Province on the island…
The Antipolo Tree (Artocarpus blancoi) is a large, endemic Philippine timber tree of the mulberry family (Moraceae), closely related to…
Antique (Visayas) · Province of Antique
Antique, officially the Province of Antique, is a province in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, situated on the…
Antonio Luna y Novicio (short Spanish-style form) · Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (full birth name)
Antonio Luna (in full Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta; October 29, 1866, Binondo, Manila – June…
Antonio Lombardo — his enrollment name in the expedition's muster · Antonio Pigafetta Vicentino — the Renaissance styling honoring his city
Antonio Pigafetta (born c. 1491, Vicenza, Republic of Venice – died c. 1531–1534, the year uncertain, in Vicenza) was a…
Antonio J. Villegas · Antonio de Jesus Villegas
Antonio J. Villegas (born Antonio de Jesus Villegas; January 9, 1928 – November 16, 1984) was a Filipino politician who…
Apalit is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, located along the Pampanga River in…
Municipality of Apalit · Apalit Pampanga
Apalit, officially the Municipality of Apalit, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Aparri is a coastal municipality at the northern rim of Cagayan, Philippines, where the Cagayan River, the country's longest, empties…
Municipality of Aparri · Aparri Cagayan
Aparri, officially the Municipality of Aparri, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Rental unit · Flat (British usage)
An apartment is a self-contained residential unit within a larger building, typically rented (rather than owned) by the occupant. In…
Province of Apayao · Apayao
Apayao, officially the Province of Apayao, is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon, Philippines. Its capital…
The Apayao River is the principal river of Apayao province in northern Luzon, Philippines. Rising in the Cordillera mountains, it…
APEC 2015 · APEC Manila 2015
APEC Philippines 2015 refers to the Philippines' hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in 2015, the second time the…
Dipterocarpus grandiflorus · Apitong timber group (trade usage)
Apitong (Dipterocarpus grandiflorus) is a large hardwood tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae native to the Philippines and other parts of…
Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society · APO
APO Hiking Society is a Filipino vocal trio — Danny Javier, Jim Paredes, and Boboy Garrovillo — whose harmonized folk-pop…
The Apo myna (Goodfellowia miranda) is a striking starling-relative endemic to the high mountains of Mindanao, named after Mount Apo,…
Apo Reef Natural Park (protected-area designation) · Apo Reef Marine Park (early designation under the 1980 proclamation)
Apo Reef is a coral reef system in the Mindoro Strait, off the western coast of Occidental Mindoro in the…
Aethopyga boltoni (binomial name) · Mount Apo sunbird
The Apo sunbird (Aethopyga boltoni) is a species of bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. It is endemic to the…
Graphium sandawanum (scientific name) · Mount Apo swordtail (descriptive usage)
The Apo swallowtail (Graphium sandawanum) is a rare butterfly endemic to the high slopes of Mount Apo and neighboring mountains…
Apolaki submarine caldera · Benham Rise caldera
The Apolaki Caldera is a massive submarine volcanic crater on the Benham Rise (Philippine Rise) underwater plateau off the eastern…
Apolinario de la Cruz · Hermano Puli
Apolinario de la Cruz (1815–1841), widely revered as Hermano Pule, was a Filipino religious leader from Lucban, Tayabas (now Quezon…
The Sublime Paralytic (Dakilang Lumpo) · The Brains of the Revolution (Utak ng Rebolusyon)
Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864, Barrio Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas – May 13, 1903, Manila), known as the "Sublime…
ACV · Fermented Apple Cider
Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is an acidic liquid produced through the two-step fermentation of crushed apples (Malus domestica), a fruit…
Nene Pimentel — the familiar name by which his DBpedia and press record identify him · Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. — the library-catalog form of his name
Aquilino "Nene" Pimentel Jr. (December 11, 1933 – October 20, 2019) was a Filipino lawyer and politician from Misamis Oriental…
Arabica · Kapeng Tagalog (historical Tagalog term)
Arabica Coffee refers to coffee made from the beans of the plant Coffea arabica. Renowned for its superior flavor, complex…
Municipality of Araceli · Araceli Palawan
Araceli, officially the Municipality of Araceli, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Municipality of Arakan · Arakan Cotabato
Arakan, officially the Municipality of Arakan, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Araneta City · Araneta Center
Araneta City, formerly known as the Araneta Center, is a 35-hectare transit-oriented commercial, entertainment, and residential district located in Cubao,…
The Big Dome · Smart Araneta Coliseum (sponsored name, since 2011)
Araneta Coliseum is the indoor multi-purpose arena at the center of Araneta City (the former Araneta Center) in Cubao, Quezon…
The Aranetas · Araneta clan
The Araneta family is a prominent Spanish-Filipino family of Basque origin — the surname itself is a Basque name, carried…
The Araquio is a Philippine folk religious theater tradition of Nueva Ecija and neighboring central Luzon towns, centered on Peñaranda,…
Aratiles (Muntingia calabura), also called aratilis, sarisa, or manzanitas in various Philippine regions, is a fast-growing small tree whose sweet,…
Aratilis (Muntingia calabura), known in English as the strawberry tree or Panama berry, is a fast-growing shrub or small tree…
Araullo v. Aquino III · The DAP case — the standard shorthand in commentary
Araullo v. Aquino (G.R. No. 209287, decided July 1, 2014, en banc) is the decision of the Supreme Court of…
Davao City Charter Day (press usage for the March 16 anniversary) · Founding anniversary of Davao City (the city government's descriptive designation)
Araw ng Dabaw is the annual founding-anniversary festival of Davao City, held each March around the anniversary date of March…
Araw ng Kagitingan ("Day of Valor") is a Philippine national holiday observed every 9 April commemorating the fall of Bataan…
Arayat is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, situated at the southern base of…
Arayat · Municipality of Arayat
Arayat, officially the Municipality of Arayat, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Arca South · Arca South Taguig
Arca South is a 74-hectare master-planned mixed-use estate development located in Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Developed by Ayala Land,…
Arcadio Maxilom (1846–1924) was a Cebuano schoolteacher who became a general of the Philippine Revolution in Cebu, taking command of…
Metropolitan Archbishop of Manila — the linked-data styling · Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Manila
The Archbishop of Manila is the metropolitan archbishop who governs the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila — the oldest see…
Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in Cebu — the formal title · Archidioecesis Metropolitae Nominis Iesu o Caebuana — the Latin designation
The Archdiocese of Cebu — formally the Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Most Holy Name of Jesus in Cebu — is…
Philippine architecture — the common styling of the subject field · Filipino architecture — the national-adjective form, used interchangeably in the survey literature
The Architecture of the Philippines is the building tradition of the Philippine archipelago — the sequence of indigenous, colonial, American-period,…
Areca ipot, the ipot palm, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae endemic to the Philippines,…
1. Definition AREIT, Inc. (AREIT) is the first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) established and listed in the Philippines. Sponsored…
Arellano Law College (1938–1941) · Arellano Colleges (1945–1947)
Arellano University (AU) is a private, non-sectarian university based in Manila, Philippines, founded on February 27, 1938 by Florentino Cayco…
Kaong (Filipino name, also used for the palm's sweet fruits) · Sugar palm (English common name)
Arenga pinnata, commonly called the sugar palm or kaong in the Philippines, is a large feather palm native to tropical…
Municipality of Argao · Argao Cebu
Argao, officially the Municipality of Argao, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Aringay · Aringay La Union
Aringay, officially the Municipality of Aringay, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
The Arisan Maru was a 6,886-ton Japanese freighter used as a hell ship that was torpedoed on 24 October 1944…
Municipality of Aritao · Aritao Nueva Vizcaya
Aritao, officially the Municipality of Aritao, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
Armando V. Salarza · Prof. Armando Salarza (academic style used in festival and press materials)
Armando Salarza (Armando V. Salarza) is a Filipino concert organist, harpsichordist, and conductor — the titular organist of the Las…
AFP · Armed Forces of the Philippines
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is the unified military organization of the Philippines, comprising three major services —…
Arnault vs. Nazareno (the reporter's styling) · The Tambobong-Buenavista estates case (subject-matter shorthand)
Arnault v. Nazareno, G.R. No. L-3820 (July 18, 1950), is the en banc decision of the Supreme Court of the…
Arnis, also called eskrima or kali, is the national martial art and sport of the Philippines, characterized by weapon-based fighting…
Igan · Arnold Igan Clavio
Arnold Clavio (born November 2, 1965, in Tondo, Manila), known on air as Igan, is a Filipino broadcast journalist, news…
Essential Oil Therapy · Volatile Oil Therapy
Aromatherapy is a complementary and alternative therapeutic practice that utilizes concentrated volatile plant extracts, commonly known as essential oils, to…
Municipality of Aroroy · Aroroy Masbate
Aroroy, officially the Municipality of Aroroy, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Arroz caldo is a Filipino rice porridge (lugaw) cooked with chicken, garlic, onion, and ginger in a savory broth, finished…
Arsenio Cruz-Herrera — the hyphenated styling used by his Wikidata entry · The first Filipino mayor of Manila — the designation by which he is standardly identified
Arsenio Cruz Herrera (December 14, 1863 – April 8, 1917) was a Filipino lawyer, revolutionary-era official, and party leader —…
Arsenio Hilario Sison Lacson Sr. — the full record name · Arsenio H. Lacson
Arsenio Hilario Sison Lacson Sr. (December 26, 1912, Talisay, Negros Occidental – April 15, 1962, Manila), known as Arsenio H.…
Art Bonjoc Jr. (the broadcaster — bare "Art Bonjoc" bylines in 2009–2010 ABS-CBN/Philstar contexts refer to him) · "Art Bonjoc, News Manager for Northern Mindanao Regional Network Group, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation" (formal byline attribution per the Philippine Star, August 2009)
Art Bonjoc Jr. is a Filipino broadcast journalist and media executive who served as News Manager for the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Arteche · Arteche Eastern Samar
Arteche, officially the Municipality of Arteche, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
El Vibora (popular rendering of his nom-de-guerre) · General Víbora ("the Viper" — his Katipunan code name)
Artemio Ricarte (October 20, 1866, Batac, Ilocos Norte – July 31, 1945, Hungduan, Ifugao) was a Filipino general of the…
Arthaland Corporation · ALCO
Arthaland Corporation (commonly known as Arthaland) is a boutique property developer in the Philippines noted for its exclusive focus on…
Andersen, DeLany & Co. — the founding name, 1913–1918 · Arthur Andersen & Co. — the classic firm name from 1918
Arthur Andersen (1913–2002) was the Chicago-founded accounting and professional-services firm — formally Arthur Andersen & Co., later Arthur Andersen LLP…
Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur Jr. (rank attained September 15, 1906) · Military Governor of the Philippines (May 5, 1900 – July 4, 1901)
Arthur MacArthur Jr. (June 2, 1845 – September 5, 1912) was a United States Army officer — Civil War hero,…
Kamansi (Tagalog, Bikol, Visayan usage) · Antipolo, anang (other local names)
Artocarpus camansi, called kamansi or antipolo in much of the Philippines and breadnut in English, is a tropical tree of…
Arts in the Philippines span indigenous crafts, colonial-era religious art, classical painting and sculpture, performing arts, and contemporary multidisciplinary practice.…
Arturo Rogerio Dimayuga Luz (November 1926, Manila – May 26, 2021) was a Filipino painter, printmaker, sculptor, and designer —…
Arturo Rotor (1907–1988) was a Filipino physician, medical researcher, and fiction writer who bridged science and literature. A gastroenterology researcher…
Arturo "Ka Turing" Modesto Tolentino · Arturo M. Tolentino
Arturo Modesto Tolentino (September 19, 1910 – August 2, 2004), known as Ka Turing, was a Filipino statesman, legislator, and…
ACCSQ · ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality (full formal name)
The ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality (ACCSQ) is the ASEAN sectoral body responsible for standards, technical regulations, and…
ACD · ASEAN Harmonized Cosmetic Regulatory Scheme (the umbrella agreement containing the ACD)
The ASEAN Cosmetic Directive (ACD) is the harmonized framework regulating cosmetic products among the member states of the Association of…
AEC — the standard initialism · the economic pillar of the ASEAN Community — its designation in the three-pillar structure of political-security, economic, and socio-cultural communities
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is the economic pillar of the ASEAN Community — the framework for regional economic integration…
AFTA — the standard acronym · CEPT-AFTA — the styling of the 1992 agreement and scheme in the Philippine tariff record
The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) is the tariff-liberalization regime of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, established when the…
AHP · ASEAN Heritage Park (singular designation)
ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHP) are protected areas of high conservation importance designated by the member states of the Association of…
ASEAN NCAP · New Car Assessment Program for Southeast Asian Countries
ASEAN NCAP (New Car Assessment Program for Southeast Asian Countries) is an automobile safety rating program established in 2011 between…
Aseana City · Aseana Business Park
Aseana City is a major master-planned business, commercial, and tourism district located in Parañaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Situated on…
Geokichla cinerea (scientific name) · Zoothera cinerea (older genus placement)
The ashy thrush (Geokichla cinerea) is a ground-dwelling bird endemic to the Philippines, occurring on Luzon and Mindoro. Slate-gray above…
The Ashy-headed Babbler (Malacocincla cinereiceps) is a small passerine bird endemic to the Philippines, where it is associated with the…
Asia Brewery, Inc. · ABI
Asia Brewery (Asia Brewery, Inc., ABI) is the Philippine beverage company established by Lucio Tan on January 27, 1982, when…
ADB · Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a multilateral development bank established on December 19, 1966 and headquartered at 6 ADB…
AIM — the universal short form · The Institute — the styling in AIM's own materials
The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) is a private graduate school of business and development management in Makati, Metro Manila,…
ATI · Marina Port Services Inc.
Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI) is a Philippine port terminal operator, the concessionaire of Manila's South Harbor — the 80-hectare facility…
AUV (initialism, the usual Philippine usage) · Basic Utility Vehicle (BUV)
The Asian Utility Vehicle (AUV) is a class of simple, rugged, no-frills vehicle engineered for developing-world use — what international…
The Asiatic Squadron was the formation of the United States Navy stationed in East Asian waters from 1868 to 1902,…
Asik is a solo royal dance of the Maguindanao people of Mindanao, performed by a woman carrying a decorated umbrella…
Asik-Asik Falls, also known as the Curtain Waterfalls, is a waterfall near the town of Alamada in the province of…
Municipality of Asingan · Asingan Pangasinan
Asingan, officially the Municipality of Asingan, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Municipality of Asipulo · Asipulo Ifugao
Asipulo, officially the Municipality of Asipulo, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Aquino assassination · August 21, 1983 airport assassination
The assassination of Ninoy Aquino took place on August 21, 1983, on the tarmac of Manila International Airport, when opposition…
AMRSP · Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines
The Association of Major Religious Superiors — fully the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (AMRSP) — was…
ASEAN — the standard acronym · Association of Southeast Asian Nations — the full styling, also the Wikidata alias of Q7768
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the regional intergovernmental organization of Southeast Asia, established on August 8, 1967…
AVID · Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors, Inc.
The Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors (AVID) is the Philippine automotive industry association of companies that import and distribute…
Municipality of Asturias · Asturias Cebu
Asturias, officially the Municipality of Asturias, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Asuncion · Asuncion Davao del Norte
Asuncion, officially the Municipality of Asuncion, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Norte, located within the Davao…
Asuwang · Tik-tik (for the scouting familiar)
The aswang is the most feared monster of Philippine folklore, a shapeshifting, flesh-eating being that appears by day as an…
Ata Manobo people · Ata of Davao
The Ata Manobo are an indigenous Manobo-speaking people of the southern foothills and uplands of Mindanao, Philippines, living principally in…
Honorata "Atang" de la Rama · Queen of Zarzuela and Kundiman
Atang de la Rama (1902-1991), born Honorata de la Rama, was a Filipino singer, stage and film actress celebrated as…
Atsara · Achara
Atchara is the Philippine pickle of shredded unripe green papaya cured in vinegar and sugar with strips of carrot, bell…
Ateneo — the universal short form in Philippine usage · ADMU — the standard abbreviation in education and sports reporting
The Ateneo de Manila University (Filipino: Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila) is a private, Catholic, Jesuit-administered university in Loyola Heights, Quezon…
Ateneo Municipal — the shortened Spanish-era form · Escuela Municipal de Manila — the school's name from 1859 to 1865
The Ateneo Municipal de Manila was the Spanish-era, Jesuit-run secondary school of Intramuros, Manila — the municipal name and subsidy…
The Ati are an indigenous Negrito ethnic group of the Visayas, Philippines, traditionally living in Panay, Negros, and neighboring islands.…
Kalibo Sto. Niño Ati-Atihan Festival — the official styling used by the municipality of Kalibo · The Mother of All Philippine Festivals — the title the festival's reputation carries
The Ati-Atihan Festival is the annual religious and cultural festival of Kalibo, Aklan — a celebration held every January and…
Atimonan is a first-income-class municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, founded on February 4, 1608. A coastal town along the route…
"Atin Cu Pung Singsing" ("I Have a Ring") is a Kapampangan folk song whose narrator laments losing a treasured heirloom…
Sugar apple · Sweetsop
Atis is the sugar apple or sweetsop, a small green knobby fruit with sweet custard-like white pulp and glossy black…
Municipality of Atok · Atok Benguet
Atok, officially the Municipality of Atok, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Atopic Eczema · Eczema (common usage)
Atopic Dermatitis (AD), also called atopic eczema, is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory disorder of the skin characterized by intense itching…
1. Definition An Atrium (plural: atria) is a large, open-air or skylight-covered central space within a building, extending through multiple…
Semper's swallowtail (standard common name)
Atrophaneura semperi, Semper's swallowtail**, is a large, red-marked swallowtail butterfly endemic to the Philippines, represented by several island-specific forms across…
The Attack on Clark Field on 8 December 1941 was a massive Japanese air strike from Formosa (Taiwan) against Clark…
Atulayan Island is a small island off the coast of Sagñay, Camarines Sur, Philippines, known for its white-coral sand beaches,…
August 28, 1987 coup attempt — the single-day styling of the main fighting · The August 1987 RAM coup — the designation tying the attempt to its movement
The August 1987 Philippine coup attempt — the fighting of August 28, 1987, in a sequence running from the night…
OAR · Ordo Augustinianorum Recollectorum
The Augustinian Recollects (Latin: Ordo Augustinianorum Recollectorum; OAR) are a mendicant religious order of the Catholic Church — friars and…
Author of "Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas" · Revolutionary playwright of Pampanga (regional reference)
Aurelio Tolentino (1868-1915) was a Filipino playwright, poet, and revolutionary, remembered for the Tagalog drama "Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas" (Yesterday,…
Aurora Ave · The LRT-2 corridor
Aurora Boulevard is a major east-west arterial road beginning in the Santa Cruz-Sampaloc area of Manila, crossing San Juan and…
Aurora Memorial National Park is a protected area straddling the boundary of Rizal and Bongabon in Nueva Ecija and Maria…
Aurora is a coastal province in east-central Luzon, Philippines, facing the Philippine Sea and known for its surf town of…
Aurora Aragon Quezon · Doña Aurora
Aurora Quezon (1888-1949) was the wife of Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon and First Lady of the Philippines from 1935…
Aurora is a first-income-class municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, and the easternmost municipality in the province, bounded by the…
1. Definition Authentic Assessment is an evaluation method that measures a student’s knowledge, skills, and competencies through real-world, meaningful tasks…
1. Definition Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by difficulties in social interaction, communication, and restricted or…
Car Detailing · Auto Salon (common Philippine usage)
Auto detailing is the set of technical procedures aimed at the thorough cleaning, aesthetic restoration, and protection of a vehicle's…
AutoPaintWorkz (social-media handle)
Auto Paint Workz is an automotive paint and body repair shop in Davao City, Philippines, located in Millenium Village, Indangan,…
Philippine automotive industry · Philippine automotive sector
Automotive industry in the Philippines covers the assembly, manufacture, importation, distribution, and sale of motor vehicles in the country —…
Auto paint · Car paint
Automotive paint is the coating system applied to a vehicle's body for both appearance and corrosion protection — in the…
The Avelino case — the short citation in Philippine constitutional commentary · The Avelino doctrine — usage in Senate quorum practice
Avelino v. Cuenco (G.R. No. L-2821, 83 Phil. 17) is the decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, rendered…
Avida Land Corp. · Avida
Avida Land Corp. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ayala Land, Inc. (ALI), specializing in affordable and middle-market residential real estate…
The Awit Awards
The Awit Awards are the Philippines' premier music awards, presented annually by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI),…
Wall Street of the Philippines · Ayala Ave
Ayala Avenue is a major six-lane arterial road that runs through the heart of the Makati Central Business District (CBD)…
Puente de Ayala (historic predecessor)
Ayala Bridge is a steel girder bridge carrying Ayala Boulevard across the Pasig River in Manila, linking the San Miguel…
Ayala Corporation is the oldest and one of the largest publicly listed conglomerates in the Philippines. Founded in 1834, it…
ALI (stock ticker + informal) · Ayala Land Premier (luxury brand)
Ayala Land, Inc. (PSE: ALI) is the largest Philippine real estate development company by revenue, established on June 30, 1988…
1. Definition Ayala Land Premier is the luxury residential brand of Ayala Land, developing high-end real estate properties in the…
Ayala Mall Chain · Ayala Land Malls
Ayala Malls is a prominent retail real estate developer and shopping center operator in the Philippines. Operating as the retail…
Silver perch · Ayungin perch
Ayungin is the Philippine silver perch, a small deep-bodied silvery fish endemic to the lakes and rivers of Luzon, most…
Municipality of Ayungon · Ayungon Negros Oriental
Ayungon, officially the Municipality of Ayungon, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Casas Consistoriales · Marble Palace — American-era nickname
The Ayuntamiento de Manila, historically the Casas Consistoriales, is the government building on Plaza de Roma in Intramuros, Manila —…
Nonanedioic acid · Skinoren (brand name)
Azelaic Acid is a naturally occurring saturated dicarboxylic acid (with the chemical formula $C_9H_{16}O_4$) that has gained widespread clinical significance…
Muhammad Alimuddin — the Arabic-name form the record carries · Alimuddin I
Azim ud-Din I — also Muhammad Alimuddin, titled Sultan Amirul M'umimin Maharajah Adinda Azim ud-Din, and counted the nineteenth Sultan…
The Azkals is the popular nickname of the Philippines men's national football team administered by the Philippine Football Federation. The…
Pitta steerii (scientific name) · Blue-breasted pitta (informal usage)
The azure-breasted pitta (Pitta steerii) is a plump, long-legged songbird endemic to the Philippines, found on Mindanao, Bohol, Samar, and…
Municipality of Baao · Baao Camarines Sur
Baao, officially the Municipality of Baao, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Babendil · Babandil gong
The babandil (also spelled babendil) is a single narrow-rimmed Philippine gong used primarily as the timekeeper of the Maguindanao kulintang…
Municipality of Babatngon · Babatngon Leyte
Babatngon, officially the Municipality of Babatngon, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Balian / baylan (Visayan variants) · Katalonan / catalonan (Tagalog; William Henry Scott and others noted the catalonan spelling is "actually a Pampangan term")
The babaylan were the shamans of the pre-colonial Philippine ethnic groups — specialists, as the record puts it, in "communicating,…
Babandil (variant spelling) · Timekeeper gong of the kulintang ensemble
The babendil is the smallest gong of the Maguindanao and Maranao kulintang ensembles of Mindanao: a narrow-rimmed, knobbed gong held…
Mount Pangasun · Babuyan Claro Volcano
Babuyan Claro is a volcanic island and stratovolcano in the Babuyan Islands of Cagayan province, the northernmost island group of…
Mount Babuyan Claro · Babuyan Claro (island and volcano share the name)
Babuyan Claro Volcano (Mount Babuyan Claro) is an active stratovolcano on Babuyan Claro Island in the Babuyan Islands group of…
Municipality of Bacacay · Bacacay Albay
Bacacay, officially the Municipality of Bacacay, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Bacarra · Bacarra Ilocos Norte
Bacarra, officially the Municipality of Bacarra, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Saint Andrew the Apostle Parish Church (formal parish name) · Bacarra Bell Tower (belfry-focused usage)
The Bacarra Church, formally the Saint Andrew the Apostle Parish Church in Bacarra, Ilocos Norte, is an eighteenth-century Augustinian-built brick…
Baclayon · Municipality of Baclayon
Baclayon, officially the Municipality of Baclayon, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
The Immaculate Conception Parish Church, informally called Baclayon Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Baclayon, Bohol,…
Municipality of Bacnotan · Bacnotan La Union
Bacnotan, officially the Municipality of Bacnotan, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Baco · Baco Oriental Mindoro
Baco, officially the Municipality of Baco, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
City of Smiles · Sugar Capital of the Philippines (shared with the province)
Bacolod is a highly urbanized city and the capital of Negros Occidental province in the Philippines, on the northwestern coast…
Municipality of Bacolod · Bacolod Lanao del Norte
Bacolod, officially the Municipality of Bacolod, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
City of Bacolod · Bacolod
Bacolod City, officially the City of Bacolod, is a highly urbanized city geographically located within the province of Negros Occidental,…
Municipality of Bacolod-Kalawi · Bacolod-Kalawi Lanao del Sur
Bacolod-Kalawi, officially the Municipality of Bacolod-Kalawi, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Bacolor · Municipality of Bacolor
Bacolor, officially the Municipality of Bacolor, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Bacong · Bacong Negros Oriental
Bacong, officially the Municipality of Bacong, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
First Capital of the Philippine Republic · Salt Center of Cavite (historical)
Bacoor, officially the City of Bacoor, is a highly urbanized city in Cavite province on the island of Luzon in…
Bacuag is a fifth-income class coastal municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 95.85 square kilometers, it has…
Municipality of Badian · Badian Cebu
Badian, officially the Municipality of Badian, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Badiangan · Badiangan Iloilo
Badiangan, officially the Municipality of Badiangan, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
The Badjao, more fully the Sama-Bajau or Sama Dilaut, are a sea-based people of Southeast Asia whose Philippine communities are…
Municipality of Badoc · Badoc Ilocos Norte
Badoc, officially the Municipality of Badoc, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Bagabag · Bagabag Nueva Vizcaya
Bagabag, officially the Municipality of Bagabag, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
Municipality of Bagac · Bagac Bataan
Bagac, officially the Municipality of Bagac, is a municipality in the province of Bataan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Bagamanoc · Bagamanoc Catanduanes
Bagamanoc, officially the Municipality of Bagamanoc, is a municipality in the province of Catanduanes, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Baganga · Baganga Davao Oriental
Baganga, officially the Municipality of Baganga, is a municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, located within the Davao Region…
Bagasbas Beach is a beach in Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines, regarded as the birthplace of Philippine skimboarding and a noted…
Municipality of Baggao · Baggao Cagayan
Baggao, officially the Municipality of Baggao, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Ilocos bagnet · Chicharon-bagnet
Bagnet is the Ilocos region's deep-fried pork belly, distinguished by a twice-cooked process in which the belly is boiled or…
Bago, Negros Occidental · City of Bago
Bago, officially the City of Bago, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. Located immediately south…
The Bagobo are an indigenous Lumad people of southeastern Mindanao, Philippines, whose ancestral domains center on the slopes of Mount…
Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe · Bagobo Tagabawa
The Bagobo-Tagabawa are an indigenous Lumad people of the Davao region in southern Mindanao, Philippines, whose ancestral domain centers on…
BAYAN · Bayan
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN; literally "New Patriotic Alliance") is the largest progressive multisectoral alliance in the Philippines, founded in…
Bagoong alamang (shrimp paste) · Bagoong isda (fish paste)
Bagoong is a Philippine fermented fish or shrimp paste used as a seasoning and side dish. Made by salting small…
Eucalyptus deglupta (scientific name) · Rainbow eucalyptus
Bagras (Eucalyptus deglupta), known internationally as the rainbow eucalyptus or Mindanao gum, is a fast-growing tree famous for shedding its…
Bagtikan (Parashorea malaanonan) is a large dipterocarp tree native to the Philippines and northeastern Borneo. One of the towering emergents…
Baguio beans is the Philippine market name for immature green bean pods (Phaseolus vulgaris), the crisp, stringless young pods of…
Our Lady of Atonement Cathedral · Baguio Cathedral (Porta Vaga)
Baguio Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Our Lady of Atonement, is the principal Roman Catholic church of the Diocese of…
City of Baguio · Baguio
Baguio, officially the City of Baguio, is a highly urbanized city geographically located in the province of Benguet in northern…
Municipality of Bagulin · Bagulin La Union
Bagulin, officially the Municipality of Bagulin, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Bagumbayan · Bagumbayan Sultan Kudarat
Bagumbayan, officially the Municipality of Bagumbayan, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
G-string (dated colonial-era English term) · Igorot loincloth (descriptive)
A bahag is the traditional loincloth of indigenous Filipino men, worn throughout the archipelago in pre-colonial times and preserved most…
Bahala na is a Filipino expression and cultural attitude meaning, roughly, "come what may" or "leave it to God"—a resolve…
Aged tuba · Matured coconut wine
Bahalina is a traditional Philippine alcoholic beverage made by aging tuba, the fresh sap drawn from coconut or nipa palms,…
Nipa Hut · Payag (Visayan dialect)
The Bahay Kubo (also known as a nipa hut) is a traditional stilt house indigenous to the cultures of the…
1. Definition The Bahay Kubo (or nipa hut) is the traditional stilt house architecture indigenous to the cultures of the…
Bahay Kubo folk song · Nipa Hut song
"Bahay Kubo" is a beloved Tagalog folk song, composed in 1924 and attributed to Felipe Padilla de Leon, that enumerates…
1. Definition Bahay na Bato (Tagalog for ‘house of stone’) is a noble architectural style that emerged in the Philippines…
Nakpil-Bautista House · Nakpil–Bautista House
The Bahay Nakpil-Bautista is a heritage house and museum at 432 A. Bautista Street (formerly Barbosa Street), Quiapo, Manila, built…
City of Bais · Bais City
Bais, officially the City of Bais, is a component city in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. Positioned along the…
Badjao (common Philippine exonym) · Sama Dilaut (self-designation of sea-oriented groups)
The Bajau, also called Badjao or Sama-Bajau, are a maritime people of the Sulu archipelago and neighboring seas, traditionally living…
Bakasi eel stew · Linarang nga bakasi
Bakasi is a Filipino dish centered on small saltwater eels of the same name, harvested from the shallows and seagrass…
Municipality of Bakun · Bakun Benguet
Bakun, officially the Municipality of Bakun, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Moon-eater · Bakanawa (variant transcription)
The Bakunawa is a gigantic sea serpent of Visayan mythology, famed as the devourer of moons. In the old tale,…
Wooden clogs · Bakya crowd (metaphorical usage)
The bakya is the traditional Philippine wooden clog, carved from light wood such as santol or laniti, with a distinct…
Municipality of Balabac · Balabac Palawan
Balabac, officially the Municipality of Balabac, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Philippine mouse-deer · Pilandok
The Balabac chevrotain (Tragulus nigricans), locally called pilandok, is a small, nocturnal, hoofed mammal endemic to Balabac and nearby small…
The Balabac mouse-deer (Tragulus nigricans), known locally as pilandok, is a small, hoofed mammal endemic to Balabac, Bugsuk, and Ramos…
Balabac Channel
The Balabac Strait is the narrow sea passage between Balabac Island at the southern tip of Palawan and Banggi Island…
Municipality of Balabagan · Balabagan Lanao del Sur
Balabagan, officially the Municipality of Balabagan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Balagtas · Balagtas Bulacan
Balagtas, officially the Municipality of Balagtas, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Poetic debate / poetic joust (English descriptions) · Debate sa tulang Tagalog
The Balagtasan is a uniquely Filipino form of poetic debate in which two or more poets extemporaneously argue a chosen…
Municipality of Balamban · Balamban
Balamban, officially the Municipality of Balamban, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Located along the west-central…
Municipality of Balamban · Balamban Cebu
Balamban, officially the Municipality of Balamban, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Balanga, Bataan · City of Balanga
Balanga, officially the City of Balanga, is a component city and the capital of the province of Bataan, Philippines. Situated…
Balangaw · Balangao ethnolinguistic group
The Balangao People are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon, Philippines, concentrated in Natonin…
The balangay is a lashed-lug boat built by joining carved planks edge-to-edge with dowels and fiber lashings, used throughout the…
Balangiga · Municipality of Balangiga
Balangiga, officially the Municipality of Balangiga, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
The Balangiga bells are three church bells seized by United States Army troops from the town of Balangiga, Eastern Samar,…
The Balangiga massacre of 28 September 1901 was a surprise attack by Filipino fighters and townspeople on an American garrison…
Municipality of Balangkayan · Balangkayan Eastern Samar
Balangkayan, officially the Municipality of Balangkayan, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Balao-balao, also called burong hipon, is a Filipino condiment of cooked rice and whole raw small shrimp fermented together with…
Municipality of Balaoan · Balaoan La Union
Balaoan, officially the Municipality of Balaoan, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Balasan · Balasan Iloilo
Balasan, officially the Municipality of Balasan, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Balatan · Balatan Camarines Sur
Balatan, officially the Municipality of Balatan, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Municipality of Balayan · Balayan
Balayan, officially the Municipality of Balayan, is a first-class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located along the northern…
Balayan is a first-income-class municipality in Batangas, Philippines, formally founded on December 8, 1578. One of the province's oldest settlements,…
Puerto Princesa Founding Anniversary · Palawan Cherry Blossom Festival
Balayong Festival is an annual cultural and environmental festival celebrated in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines. Held every March 4,…
Balbacua is a Filipino stew built on oxtail, beef skin, and connective tissue simmered for hours until the collagen melts…
Municipality of Balbalan · Balbalan Kalinga
Balbalan, officially the Municipality of Balbalan, is a municipality in the province of Kalinga, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Balbalasang-Balbalan National Park is a protected area in the municipality of Balbalan, Kalinga, in the Cordillera Administrative Region of northern…
Veranda · Lanai (Hawaiian analogy commonly used)
A balcony is an elevated platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and…
Baldo — the family nickname of his childhood · Baldomero Aguinaldo y Baloy — the patronymic styling, from his parents Cipriano Aguinaldo y Jamir and Silveria Baloy
Baldomero Aguinaldo (born February 27, 1869 at Cavite el Viejo, now Kawit, Cavite; died February 4, 1915 at Malate, Manila)…
Municipality of Baleno · Baleno Masbate
Baleno, officially the Municipality of Baleno, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Baler · Baler
Baler, officially the Municipality of Baler, is a first-class municipality and the capital of the province of Aurora, Philippines. Located…
Baler · Municipality of Baler
Baler, officially the Municipality of Baler, is a municipality in the province of Aurora, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Balete is an inland municipality in Aklan province, Western Visayas, Philippines, lying to the east of the provincial capital, Kalibo.…
Municipality of Balete · Balete Aklan
Balete, officially the Municipality of Balete, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Balite (alternate spelling) · Strangler fig (ecological term)
Balete tree refers to several Philippine species of Ficus, the fig genus, that begin life as epiphytes or stranglers and…
Municipality of Baliangao · Baliangao Misamis Occidental
Baliangao, officially the Municipality of Baliangao, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Balicasag Island is a small, low coralline island off the southwestern tip of Panglao, Bohol, under the jurisdiction of the…
The balicassiao (Dicrurus balicassius) is a medium-sized songbird endemic to the Philippines, a glossy black drongo with a distinctly forked…
Municipality of Baliguian · Baliguian Zamboanga del Norte
Baliguian, officially the Municipality of Baliguian, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
BICPI · Balik Islam Council
The Balik Islam Council of the Philippines Inc. (BICPI) is a Philippine non-profit civil-society and religious-advocacy organization representing "Balik Islam"…
Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa (BP2) is a Philippine government program launched in 2020 that aims to decongest Metro Manila by…
Municipality of Balilihan · Balilihan Bohol
Balilihan, officially the Municipality of Balilihan, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Balimbing (Averrhoa carambola), the star fruit or carambola, is a small tree grown throughout the Philippines for its distinctive ridged…
Municipality of Balindong · Balindong Lanao del Sur
Balindong, officially the Municipality of Balindong, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Balingasag · Balingasag Misamis Oriental
Balingasag, officially the Municipality of Balingasag, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Balingoan · Balingoan Misamis Oriental
Balingoan, officially the Municipality of Balingoan, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Lake Balinsasayao and Lake Danao · Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park
The Balinsasayao Twin Lakes are two small, deep crater lakes, Lake Balinsasayao and Lake Danao, separated by a narrow forested…
Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park is a protected area in the municipalities of Sibulan and San Jose in Negros Oriental,…
The Balintang Channel is the waterway that separates the Batanes Islands from the Babuyan Islands in the northern Philippines, forming…
Balision (spelling variant) · Barsiong (spelling variant)
The balisiong (also spelled balision or barsiong) is a Filipino short-bladed weapon, a dagger or compact sword of the Tausug,…
The balisong is a folding pocket knife from the Philippines — also called a fan knife or butterfly knife —…
Balita Ko · Balitanghali Weekend
Balitanghali is a Philippine television noontime newscast in Filipino, produced by GMA Integrated News — a portmanteau of balita (news)…
The balitaw is a traditional Visayan song-and-dance form in triple meter in which a man and a woman exchange extemporaneous,…
Municipality of Baliuag · Baliuag Bulacan
Baliuag, officially the Municipality of Baliuag, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Baliuag · Baliwag, Bulacan
Baliwag (also spelled Baliuag) is a first-income-class urban municipality in Bulacan province, Philippines. Located along the Pan-Philippine Highway (Cagayan Valley…
Municipality of Ballesteros · Ballesteros Cagayan
Ballesteros, officially the Municipality of Ballesteros, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Spa therapy · Medical hydrology (as a discipline)
Balneotherapy is the therapeutic use of bathing in natural mineral or thermal waters — such as mineral baths, sulfur baths,…
Balobok Cave, also called the Balobok Rock Shelter, is a cave and archaeological site in Barangay Lakit-Lakit, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, in…
Municipality of Baloi · Baloi Lanao del Norte
Baloi, officially the Municipality of Baloi, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
San Diego Bastion · Baluarte de San Diego Gardens
Baluarte de San Diego is a 16th-century circular stone bastion inside Intramuros, Manila, among the oldest surviving fortifications of the…
Baluarte Wildlife Sanctuary and Mini-Forest · Baluarte (Vigan)
Baluarte Zoo is a private zoological and botanical park in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, owned by politician-businessman Luis "Chavit" Singson and…
Municipality of Balud · Balud Masbate
Balud, officially the Municipality of Balud, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Balungao · Balungao Pangasinan
Balungao, officially the Municipality of Balungao, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Balut · Sarangani-Balut Island
Balut Island is a volcanic island, the largest of the Sarangani Islands group, belonging to the municipality of Sarangani in…
BACOFA · BACOFA Cooperative
The Balutakay Coffee Farmers Association (commonly abbreviated as BACOFA) is an agricultural cooperative of smallholder coffee farmers based in Sitio…
Municipality of Bamban · Bamban Tarlac
Bamban, officially the Municipality of Bamban, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Bambang · Bambang Nueva Vizcaya
Bambang, officially the Municipality of Bambang, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
Bambanti sa Isabela · Isabela Scarecrow Festival
The Bambanti Festival is the annual province-wide festival of Isabela in the Cagayan Valley region, staged in the capital Ilagan…
Kawayan · Giant bamboo (for Dendrocalamus asper)
Bamboo is the giant grass that serves as one of the Philippines' most versatile plants, providing material for housing, furniture,…
Bamboo Organ Foundation, Inc. · BOFI
The Bamboo Organ Foundation, Inc. (BOFI) is the non-stock, non-profit organization that preserves and maintains the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ,…
Banaag at Sikat ("From Early Dawn to Full Light") is a 1906 Tagalog novel by Lope K. Santos, one of…
Giant crepe-myrtle · Pride of India
Banaba (Lagerstroemia speciosa), also called giant crepe-myrtle or pride of India, is a large ornamental and medicinal tree widely grown…
Banana Q · Banana barbecue
Banana cue (also spelled banana-q or banana Q) is a Filipino street snack of saba bananas rolled in brown sugar…
Banana ketchup (or banana catsup) is a Philippine condiment made from mashed saba banana, vinegar, sugar, spices, and red coloring,…
Municipality of Banate · Banate Iloilo
Banate, officially the Municipality of Banate, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Gateway to the Banaue Rice Terraces · "Eighth Wonder of the World" town (tagline applied to the terraces)
Banaue, officially the Municipality of Banaue, is a fourth-income-class municipality in Ifugao province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is the…
Banaue City · Municipality of Banaue
Banaue, officially the Municipality of Banaue, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Banaue Rice Terraces · Hagdan-hagdan (Filipino, "steps")
The Banaue Rice Terraces are irrigated terraced rice fields carved into the mountains of Banaue, Ifugao, in the Cordillera Central…
Banawe auto market · Banawe Street
Banawe is a 3.2-kilometer street in Quezon City, Philippines, running from Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue to Sgt. Emilio Rivera Avenue,…
Municipality of Banaybanay · Banaybanay Davao Oriental
Banaybanay, officially the Municipality of Banaybanay, is a municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, located within the Davao Region…
Municipality of Banayoyo · Banayoyo Ilocos Sur
Banayoyo, officially the Municipality of Banayoyo, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
BancNet, Inc. — the corporate styling of the consortium · The national ATM network — the designation styling the record carries
BancNet is the Philippine ATM consortium — the member banks' shared switching network for cash machines, point-of-sale terminals, and, since…
Banduria (colloquial Filipino spelling) · Philippine bandurria (fourteen-string rondalla form)
The bandurria is a small, pear-shaped, flat-backed plucked string instrument with a short neck and fourteen steel strings arranged in…
Municipality of Banga · Banga South Cotabato
Banga, officially the Municipality of Banga, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Municipality of Bangar · Bangar La Union
Bangar, officially the Municipality of Bangar, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
A bangka is a Philippine outrigger boat whose slim wooden hull is stabilized by bamboo outriggers called katig, and which…
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas · Central Bank of the Philippines
The Bangko Sentral, officially the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), is the central bank of the Republic of the Philippines.…
Republic Act No. 11054 (statutory citation) · RA 11054 (short citation)
The Bangsamoro Organic Law (Republic Act No. 11054), formally the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,…
Bangued Abra · Capital of Abra
Bangued is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of the province of Abra in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of…
Municipality of Bangued · Bangued Abra
Bangued, officially the Municipality of Bangued, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Bangui · Bangui Ilocos Norte
Bangui, officially the Municipality of Bangui, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
The Bangui Wind Farm is a row of wind turbines along the shore of Bangui Bay in Ilocos Norte, Philippines,…
The Bangui Windmills are a row of wind turbines along the shore of Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines — the country's…
Municipality of Banguingui · Banguingui Sulu
Banguingui, officially the Municipality of Banguingui, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Dagupan Bangus Festival · Kalutan ed Dalan (street grilling highlight)
The Bangus Festival is the annual festival of Dagupan City, Pangasinan, celebrating the city's bangus (milkfish, Chanos chanos) industry, of…
Bani is a second income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines, located along the western…
Municipality of Bani · Bani Pangasinan
Bani, officially the Municipality of Bani, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Banisilan · Municipality of Banisilan
Banisilan, officially the Municipality of Banisilan, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cotabato (historically North Cotabato) on the…
Bank Home Loan · Real Estate Mortgage Loan
Bank Financing refers to the method of acquiring real estate where a buyer borrows funds from a commercial banking institution…
El Banco Español Filipino · BPI
The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI, PSE: BPI) is a Philippine universal bank headquartered at the Ayala Triangle Gardens…
Bancao Revolt · Bankaw Uprising
The Bankaw Revolt of 1621-1622 was a religious uprising against Spanish colonial rule in Leyte led by Bankaw (Bancao), the…
BAP · The Bankers Association — the styling common in Philippine financial reporting
The Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) is the trade association of the Philippine banking industry's top tier — "a…
Municipality of Banna · Banna Ilocos Norte
Banna, officially the Municipality of Banna, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
"Coffee Town of Davao del Sur" · Part of the Bansalan-Magsaysay-Matanao (BaMaMa) corridor
Bansalan, officially the Municipality of Bansalan, is an upland municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines, lying on…
Municipality of Bansud · Bansud Oriental Mindoro
Bansud, officially the Municipality of Bansud, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Saint Augustine Parish Church of Bantay (formal name) · Bantay Bell Tower (belfry-focused usage)
The Bantay Church, formally the Saint Augustine of Hippo Parish Church in Bantay, Ilocos Sur, is one of the oldest…
Bantay is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines, lying immediately east of Vigan, the provincial capital. Set…
Municipality of Bantayan · Bantayan Cebu
Bantayan, officially the Municipality of Bantayan, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
The Lenten Capital of the Visayas · Danggit Country
Bantayan Island lies at the northern tip of Cebu province, comprising the municipalities of Bantayan, Madridejos, and Santa Fe. Known…
Bantayog — the short form in Philippine usage · Monument of Heroes — the English rendering of the name
The Bantayog ng mga Bayani ("Monument of Heroes") is the memorial complex on Quezon Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, near the…
Municipality of Banton · Banton Romblon
Banton, officially the Municipality of Banton, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Bantugan is the larger-than-life hero prince of the Darangen epic cycle of the Maranao people of Lanao, famed for his…
Banwaon people · Higaonon-Banwaon (combined usage in some ethnographies)
The Banwaon are an indigenous Lumad people of the Agusan River valley in northeastern Mindanao, Philippines, concentrated in the municipalities…
barrio
A barangay is the smallest political and administrative unit of government in the Philippines — the village-and-neighborhood tier below the…
Barangay Ginebra Kings · Ginebra San Miguel
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel is a Philippine professional basketball franchise competing in the Philippine Basketball Association — the league this…
BHWs · BHW
Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) are trained community health volunteers in the Philippines who serve as the first link between households…
Republic Act No. 9178 · RA 9178
The Barangay Micro Business Enterprises Act, officially the Barangay Micro Business Enterprises (BMBEs) Act of 2002 and designated Republic Act…
A barangay tanod is a community watch volunteer deputized by the barangay to assist in peacekeeping, patrol, and emergency response…
Baras, Rizal · Inland town of Baras
Baras is a fifth-income-class municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, located inland along the eastern coast of Laguna de Bay. One…
Municipality of Baras · Baras Catanduanes
Baras, officially the Municipality of Baras, is a municipality in the province of Catanduanes, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish — formal parish designation · Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Barásoain (Spanish designation)
The Barasoain Church, formally the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish (Spanish: Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Barásoain), is a…
Barbaza is an inland municipality in the province of Antique, Western Visayas, Philippines. Situated in the central part of the…
Municipality of Barbaza · Barbaza Antique
Barbaza, officially the Municipality of Barbaza, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Philippine flat-headed frog · Palawan flat-headed frog
Barbourula busuangensis, known by common names including the Philippine flat-headed frog, Palawan flat-headed frog, and Busuanga jungle toad, is a…
Municipality of Barcelona · Barcelona Sorsogon
Barcelona, officially the Municipality of Barcelona, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Weight loss surgery · Metabolic surgery
Bariatric Surgery (also known as metabolic surgery) refers to a group of surgical procedures designed to treat severe obesity and…
Municipality of Barili · Barili Cebu
Barili, officially the Municipality of Barili, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Barira · Barira Maguindanao
Barira, officially the Municipality of Barira, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Barlig · Barlig Mountain Province
Barlig, officially the Municipality of Barlig, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
Bangsamoro · BARMM
BARMM stands for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. See [[Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao]] for the full…
The baro't saya ("blouse and skirt") is the traditional feminine dress of the Philippines, developing in the nineteenth century from…
Barobo is a third-income class coastal municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines. Established on October 24, 1960, it…
The Barong Tagalog is the traditional formal shirt of Filipino men, made of sheer woven fabric — typically piña (pineapple…
Filipino Baroque — the styling the architectural record applies to Paoay, "this unique specimen of Filipino architecture called Filipino Baroque from the Spanish era" · Philippine Baroque — the descriptive equivalent
Baroque Architecture in the Philippines is the survey term for the body of church architecture built in the archipelago under…
Baroque Churches of the Philippines (World Heritage serial property, reference 677 / 677bis) · Iglesia de San Agustín de Manila — the Manila component's Spanish designation
The Baroque Churches of the Philippines is the UNESCO World Heritage serial inscription of December 11, 1993 (17th session of…
Municipality of Barotac Nuevo · Barotac Nuevo Iloilo
Barotac Nuevo, officially the Municipality of Barotac Nuevo, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western…
Municipality of Barotac Viejo · Barotac Viejo Iloilo
Barotac Viejo, officially the Municipality of Barotac Viejo, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western…
Municipality of Baroy · Baroy Lanao del Norte
Baroy, officially the Municipality of Baroy, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Barquillos are thin, crisp rolled wafer tubes in Philippine cuisine, adopted from Spanish confectionery and produced especially in Iloilo, where…
Barracuda Lake is a brackish lake in a limestone crater on Coron Island, Palawan, Philippines, reached by a climb over…
Gallirallus torquatus (scientific name) · Tikling (Filipino)
The barred rail (Gallirallus torquatus), known in much of the Philippines as tikling or tikling-ilog, is a chicken-like marsh bird…
Sea poison tree · Fish poison tree
Barringtonia asiatica, known in the Philippines as botong or bitaog and in English as the sea poison tree or fish…
Municipality of Barugo · Barugo Leyte
Barugo, officially the Municipality of Barugo, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the energy the body burns at complete rest to sustain vital work — brain, liver,…
Municipality of Basay · Basay Negros Oriental
Basay, officially the Municipality of Basay, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Basco Batanes · Capital of Batanes
Basco is a municipality and the capital of Batanes in the Cagayan Valley region of the Philippines. It is the…
Municipality of Basco · Basco Batanes
Basco, officially the Municipality of Basco, is a municipality in the province of Batanes, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Basco Airport is a domestic airport serving Basco, the capital of Batanes province, Philippines. Located on Batan Island, it is…
The Basco Lighthouse is a lighthouse in the town of Basco, capital of Batanes, the northernmost province of the Philippines.…
Bases Conversion Program · BCDA
Bases Conversion in the Philippines refers to the statutory process of transforming former military bases and military reservations into productive…
BCDA (common abbreviation)
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation created by Republic Act No. 7227…
BCDA · Bases Conversion and Development Authority
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) created under Republic Act No.…
Basey (pronounced "Bah-SAY") is a first-class municipality in the province of Samar, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, established in 1591 and among…
The Basi Revolt of September 1807 was an uprising in Ilocos, Philippines, led by Pedro Mateo of San Nicolas and…
Acerodon lucifer (scientific name)
Basilan Flying Fox is a large fruit bat known only from the Philippines and listed as possibly extinct, having last…
Basilan is an island province in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, Philippines, comprising the main Basilan island and surrounding islets in…
The Basilan Strait is the channel separating the island of Basilan from the Mindanao mainland, linking the Sulu Sea with…
The Basilica del Santo Niño in Cebu City, Philippines, is the church of the oldest Roman Catholic parish in the…
Basilica del Santo Niño — the common short form · Santo Niño Basilica — the popular styling of the devotion's literature
The Basilica Minore del Santo Niño — formerly the church and convent of San Agustín, Cebu — is the Augustinian…
Basilio Tomás Sancho y Hernando — the archiepiscopal record's styling · Basilio Tomás Sancho Hernando — the linked-data styling
Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufina — in the archiepiscopal record Basilio Tomás Sancho y Hernando (de Santas Justa…
Basilio José Segundo Pica Valdes — full name · Major General Basilio Valdes
Basilio Valdes — in full Basilio José Segundo Pica Valdes (1892, San Miguel, Manila – January 26, 1970, Manila) —…
Municipality of Basilisa · Basilisa Dinagat Islands
Basilisa, officially the Municipality of Basilisa, is a municipality in the province of Dinagat Islands, located within the Caraga (Region…
Municipality of Basista · Basista Pangasinan
Basista, officially the Municipality of Basista, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Basud, officially the Municipality of Basud, is a municipality in Camarines Norte, Philippines, with about 43,388 people per the 2024…
The Death March (the form used in prisoner-of-war memoirs) · Bataan: The March of Death (the title of Stanley L. Falk's 1962 study, often shortened to "the march of death")
The Bataan Death March was the forced transfer of roughly 72,000 to 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war by…
Parke Nasyonal ng Bataan · Mount Natib National Park (informal)
Bataan National Park is a protected area covering the forested mountain spine of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines, including…
Bataan Natural Park is a protected area occupying the forested interior and volcanic heights of the Bataan Peninsula in western…
BNPP — the standard initials of Philippine energy policy · The Morong nuclear plant — the locational styling
The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is the 621-megawatt Westinghouse pressurized-water reactor built by the National Power Corporation on a…
Province of Bataan · Bataan
Bataan, officially the Province of Bataan, is a province located in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines, occupying the…
BCIB · Bataan-Cavite Bridge
The Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge (BCIB) is a proposed toll road project consisting of long sea crossings and causeways across Manila…
City of Batac · Home of Great Leaders
Batac, officially the City of Batac, is a component city in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Known as the…
Municipality of Batad · Batad Iloilo
Batad, officially the Municipality of Batad, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Batad cluster (designation within the UNESCO inscription) · Amphitheater terraces of Batad (descriptive)
The Batad Rice Terraces are the amphitheater-shaped rice-terrace cluster of Barangay Batad, in the municipality of Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines —…
Batak people · Batak of Palawan
The Batak are an indigenous Negrito ethnolinguistic group of northeastern Palawan in the Philippines, considered one of the country's smallest…
Batak of Palawan · Negrito people of northeastern Palawan
The Batak are one of the smallest and most isolated indigenous Negrito groups of the Philippines, living in the river…
The Batak are one of the smallest and most traditional indigenous peoples of the Philippines, a Negrito group living in…
Batan is a coastal municipality in Aklan province, Western Visayas, Philippines, lying along the eastern coast of Panay Island near…
Municipality of Batan · Batan Aklan
Batan, officially the Municipality of Batan, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Batan Island is the main island of Batanes province, the northernmost province of the Philippines. It hosts the provincial capital,…
Province of Batanes · Batanes
Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes, is an archipelagic province in the Cagayan Valley region, Philippines. It is the northernmost…
Home of Taal Volcano · Land of the Barako (Coffee)
Batangas is a Philippine province in the Calabarzon region (Region IV-A). Its capital is Batangas City, an industrial port center.…
Batangas Bay is a semi-enclosed body of water in the province of Batangas, Luzon, connected to the Verde Island Passage…
City of Batangas · Industrial Port City of Calabarzon
Batangas City, officially the City of Batangas, is a component city and the provincial capital of Batangas, Philippines. Known as…
Batangas lomi is a Filipino noodle dish of thick, soft wheat-egg noodles simmered in a heavily starched pork broth that…
Batangas International Port · Port of Batangas
Batangas Port, officially designated as the Batangas International Port (or Batangas Base Port), is a major seaport located in Batangas…
Batangas State University (BatStateU) is a public state university headquartered in Batangas City, Philippines, with roots in a manual training…
Municipality of Bataraza · Bataraza Palawan
Bataraza, officially the Municipality of Bataraza, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
The Batas Kasambahay, or Domestic Workers Act, is the landmark Philippine law that extended full labor and social protection to…
BP 220 · Batas Pambansa Blg. 220
Batas Pambansa 220 (BP 220) is the landmark Philippine law that mandates the creation of relaxed technical design and construction…
The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980 — the Section 1 short title · BP 129 — the standard abbreviation of the era's practice
Batas Pambansa Blg. 129, by its own Section 1 "The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980," is the statute — long…
BP 220 · Batas Pambansa 220
Batas Pambansa Blg. 220 (commonly known as BP 220) is a Philippine law enacted on March 25, 1982, that authorizes…
BP Blg. 883 · BP 883
Batas Pambansa Blg. 883 is the statute enacted by the Batasang Pambansa and approved on December 3, 1985, officially titled…
Batasan Bayan — the spelling used in the text of Presidential Decree No. 995 itself · Legislative Advisory Council — the decree's formal description of the body
The Batasang Bayan (as spelled in Presidential Decree No. 995, "Batasan Bayan") was the all-appointive legislative advisory council created by…
The Batasan — the common short form, applied to both the legislature and its building · Interim Batasang Pambansa (IBP) — the 1978–1984 body
The Batasang Pambansa (English: "National Legislature") was the unicameral legislature of the Philippines under the 1973 Constitution, sitting from 1978…
The Batasan — the common short form, applied to the building as to the parliament it housed · Batasan Complex — the abbreviated everyday styling in Philippine news usage
The Batasang Pambansa Complex is the legislative building complex on Batasan Road in Batasan Hills, Quezon City — the seat…
Bataw is the Filipino name for the hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus), a vigorous climbing vine cultivated in Philippine gardens for…
Batch 81 · Batch '81 (1982 film)
Batch '81 is the 1982 Philippine drama film directed by Mike de Leon for Regal Films, starring Mark Gil as…
Batchoy is a Filipino noodle soup originating from La Paz, Iloilo City, made with fresh miki egg noodles in a…
Kiram–Bates Treaty (formal styling in scholarship) · Bates Agreement (common alternative name)
The Bates Treaty was an agreement signed on August 20, 1899, between Brigadier General John C. Bates of the United…
Bathalang Maykapal · Maykapal (the Creator)
Bathala is the supreme deity and creator god of precolonial Tagalog religion, often invoked as Bathalang Maykapal, the all-powerful maker.…
Bangungot demon · Batibat ng dungon (tree-dweller usage)
The batibat is a vengeful female demon in Ilocano folklore that dwells in the hollow of trees, particularly the dungon,…
Batibot is a landmark Philippine children's television program that began broadcasting in 1984, teaching literacy, numeracy, and values in the…
Pancit Batil Patung · Tuguegarao noodle dish
Batil patung is a hearty egg-and-noodle dish originating from Tuguegarao City, Cagayan in northeastern Luzon. It combines fresh miki noodles…
Hard alstonia · Hard milkwood
Batino is the Philippine name for Alstonia macrophylla, a tree of the dogbane family Apocynaceae also known in the timber…
Bato is a fourth-income-class coastal municipality in southwestern Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines. It comprises 32 barangays over about 72.45…
Batok is the traditional practice of tattooing among the Kalinga and other Cordillera peoples of northern Luzon, in which a…
Battery Electric Vehicle · BEV
A Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) is a type of electric vehicle that runs entirely on chemical energy stored in rechargeable…
Labanan sa Alapan · Battle at Alapan
The Battle of Alapan (May 28, 1898) was the five-hour engagement fought at Alapan, Imus, Cavite, between Filipino revolutionary forces…
Labanan sa Aliaga (Filipino) · Defense of Aliaga
The Battle of Aliaga (4–5 September 1897) was fought in the town of Aliaga, Nueva Ecija, between Philippine revolutionary forces…
Ang Labanan sa Alitao · Labanan sa Alitao
The Battle of Alitao (November 1, 1841) — remembered in the record as the Alitao massacre — was the four-hour…
Liberation of Bacsil Ridge · Bacsil Ridge battle
The Battle of Bacsil Ridge was a March 1945 engagement in Ilocos Norte during the liberation of the Philippines, in…
Liberation of Baguio · Labanan sa Baguio (Filipino)
The Battle of Baguio (21 February – 26 April 1945) was the Allied recapture of the summer capital of Baguio…
Second Battle of Jaro — the alternative name carried in the standard account · Labanan sa Balantang — the Tagalog designation
The Battle of Balantang (March 10, 1899) was a Philippine–American War engagement fought at Balantang, in what is now Jaro,…
The Battle of Bangkusay, fought on June 3, 1571, was a naval engagement in the channel off Bangkusay in what…
Defense of Bataan · Siege of Bataan
The Battle of Bataan (January 7 – April 9, 1942) was the protracted defense of the Bataan Peninsula in Luzon…
Labanan sa Pasong Bessang (Filipino) · Gubat ti Paso Bessang (Ilocano)
The Battle of Bessang Pass (9 January – 15 June 1945) was a major World War II engagement fought at…
Battle of Binakayan–Dalahican · Labanan sa Binakayan
The Battle of Binakayan, fought on November 9 to 11, 1896 in Binakayan and Dalahican, now part of Kawit and…
The Battle of Binakayan-Dalahican, fought from November 9 to 11, 1896, in Cavite, was a coordinated Katipunan assault on Spanish…
Battle of Binakayan and Dalahican · Battle of Binakayan-Dalahican (hyphenated variant, found in reference databases)
The Battle of Binakayan–Dalahican was a twin, simultaneous engagement of the Philippine Revolution, fought on November 9–11, 1896, along the…
Battle of Bagsak · Bud Bagsak (1913)
The Battle of Bud Bagsak (11-15 June 1913) was the final major battle of the Moro Rebellion, fought on Mount…
The First Battle of Bud Dajo (March 5–8, 1906) was a military assault by United States Army and Philippine Scout…
Labanan sa Caloocan (Filipino) · First Battle of Caloocan
The Battle of Caloocan (10 February 1899) was one of the opening engagements of the Philippine–American War, fought between American…
The Battle of Calumpit, alternately known as the Battles of Bagbag and Pampanga Rivers, was fought from April 25–27, 1899,…
Recapture of Corregidor · Operation Topside
The Battle of Corregidor (February 16–26, 1945) was the American assault to retake Corregidor island, "the Rock," guarding the entrance…
Battle of Ising (the final-engagement name used in the battle's coverage) · The liberation of Davao (descriptive usage)
The Battle of Davao (April 27 – June 10, 1945) was the liberation battle for Davao City and its surroundings…
Hill Eerie · Raid on Hill Eerie
The Battle of Hill Eerie was a series of Korean War engagements fought from March to July 1952 for an…
Siege of Imus · Labanan sa Imus (Filipino)
The Battle of Imus (1–3 September 1896) was the first major battle of the Philippine Revolution in Cavite, fought days…
Burning of Jolo · Siege of Jolo
The Battle of Jolo (February 1974), also called the burning or siege of Jolo, was a battle between Moro National…
The Battle of Kakarong de Sili was an engagement of the Philippine Revolution fought on January 1, 1897, at Kakarong…
The Leyte campaign — the October–December 1944 island operation · The Leyte operation — the Sixth Army's amphibious assault of A-day, October 20, 1944
The Battle of Leyte (October 20 – December 26, 1944) was the amphibious campaign by which American and Filipino forces…
The largest naval battle in history — the superlative styling, properly qualified by criteria · The Battles for Leyte Gulf — the plural styling used for its four separate engagements
The Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23–26, 1944) was the vast four-engagement naval battle fought in the waters of the…
Lingayen Gulf landings · Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
The Battle of Lingayen Gulf (January 3–13, 1945, with the landings on S-Day, January 9, 1945) was the Allied amphibious…
The Luzon campaign — the general-history styling · The liberation of Luzon — Philippine commemorative usage
The Battle of Luzon (January 9 – August 15, 1945) was the campaign by which Allied forces under General Douglas…
Labanan sa Mabitac (Filipino) · Batalla de Mabitac (Spanish)
The Battle of Mabitac (17 September 1900) was an engagement of the Philippine–American War in which Filipino forces under General…
The Battle of Mactan, 1521 — the year-qualified form · Lapu-Lapu's victory at Mactan — the result-based styling
The Battle of Mactan was fought in the early morning of April 27, 1521, on the shore of Mactan Island…
Battle of Makahambus Hill · Defense of Makahambus
The Battle of Makahambus, fought on June 4, 1900, at Makahambus Hill near Cagayan de Misamis (present-day Cagayan de Oro),…
Liberation of Manila · Liberation of Manila — the Philippine commemorative name for the battle and its aftermath
The Battle of Manila (February 3 – March 3, 1945) was the month-long battle for the Philippine capital during the…
The Battle of Manila (1762) was the capture of Spanish Manila by a British expeditionary force during the Seven Years'…
Labanan sa Maynila (Filipino) · Batalla de Manila (Spanish)
The Battle of Manila (1896) was a failed assault by Katipunan forces under Andres Bonifacio against Spanish-held Manila at the…
The Battle of Cavite — the alternative naming, after the anchorage where Montojo's squadron was destroyed · Dewey's victory — the popular American styling
The Battle of Manila Bay (May 1, 1898) was the naval engagement fought in Philippine waters at the opening of…
The Battle of Marawi was a five-month urban battle in 2017 between Philippine government forces and Islamic State-inspired Maute Group…
Crossing of the Marilao · Labanan sa Ilog ng Marilao (Filipino)
The Battle of Marilao River (27 March 1899) was fought at Marilao, Bulacan, during the American advance on Malolos in…
The Mindanao campaign — the general-history styling · The liberation of Mindanao — Philippine commemorative usage
The Battle of Mindanao (March 10 – August 15, 1945) was the campaign by which U.S. Eighth Army forces and…
The Battle of Mindoro was the American amphibious assault on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines on 15 December…
Battle of Calero Bridge · Labanan sa Noveleta (Filipino)
The Battle of Noveleta, also remembered as the Battle of Calero Bridge, was one of the first engagements of the…
Bombardment of Olongapo · Labanan sa Olongapo (Filipino)
The Battle of Olongapo (18–23 September 1899) was an amphibious engagement of the Philippine–American War fought on the shore of…
Ormoc Bay engagements · Operations TA interdiction (Allied reporting of Japanese convoy runs)
The Battle of Ormoc Bay (November–December 1944) was the series of naval, air, and amphibious actions by which Allied forces…
Labanan sa Paete (Filipino) · Defense of Paete
The Battle of Paete (12 April 1899) was a small engagement of the Philippine–American War fought at the woodcarving town…
Labanan sa Pagsanjan (Filipino) · Capture of Pagsanjan
The Battle of Pagsanjan (11 April 1899) was a sharp skirmish of the Laguna campaign of the Philippine–American War, fought…
The Battle of Paye was a battle of the Philippine-American War fought on July 2, 1900, near Boac in Marinduque…
Battle of San Juan del Monte · Sigaw ng Pinaglabanan
The Battle of Pinaglabanan, fought on August 30, 1896, in San Juan del Monte near Manila, was the first major…
The Battle of Pulang Lupa (September 13, 1900) was an engagement of the Philippine-American War fought on the slopes of…
The Battle of Quingua, fought on 23 April 1899 in the town of Quingua (present-day Plaridel, Bulacan), was an engagement…
Battle of Pinaglabanan · Sigaw ng Pinaglabanan
The Battle of San Juan del Monte, fought on 30 August 1896, was the first major armed engagement of the…
The Battle of San Mateo, fought on 19 December 1899 in and around San Mateo in the province of Rizal…
Capture of Santa Cruz · Labanan sa Santa Cruz (Filipino)
The Battle of Santa Cruz (April 1899) was the principal engagement of General Henry W. Lawton's Laguna de Bay campaign…
Labanan sa Santo Tomas (Filipino) · Batalla de Santo Tomás (Spanish)
The Battle of Santo Tomas (4 May 1899) was fought at Santo Tomas, Pampanga, during the Philippine–American War, in the…
Battle of the Surigao Strait · Battle of Surigao Straits
The Battle of Surigao Strait (the night of October 24–25, 1944) was the southern engagement of the Battle of Leyte…
The Battle of the Java Sea, fought on February 27, 1942, was the largest naval engagement of the Netherlands East…
The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot (popular nickname) · First Battle of the Philippine Sea (historiographic numbering)
The Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19–20, 1944) was a major carrier aircraft battle of the Pacific War, fought…
Battle of Sibuyan Sea · Sibuyan Sea, Battle of the
The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea (October 24, 1944) was the opening engagement of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, fought…
Liberation of the Visayas · Operations Victor I and II
The Battle of the Visayas was the campaign fought from March 18 to August 15, 1945, by United States forces…
Pasong Tirad · Battle of Pasong Tirad
The Battle of Tirad Pass (December 2, 1899), fought at the pass locally called Pasong Tirad near Concepcion, Ilocos Sur,…
Villa Verde Trail campaign · Labanan sa Tugaygayan ng Villa Verde (Filipino)
The Battle of Villa Verde Trail (21 February – 31 May 1945) was a World War II campaign in which…
Battle of Yuldong / Battle of Yuldong-ri · Battle of Meiluodong
The Battle of Yultong (April 22–23, 1951) was the fight put up by the 10th Battalion Combat Team (BCT) of…
Battle of Zapote River · Battle of Zapote (1899)
The Battle of Zapote Bridge, more formally the Battle of Zapote River, was fought on 13 June 1899 between roughly…
Battle of Zapote Bridge (1899) — press alias of the June 13, 1899 engagement · Battle of Zapote Bridge (1897) — the formal title of the February 17, 1897 revolution engagement
The Battle of Zapote River is the name carried by the Philippine–American War engagement fought on June 13, 1899 at…
Battle of Cape Engaño · Battle off Cape Engano
The Battle off Cape Engaño (October 25–26, 1944) was the northern engagement of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, fought in…
Battle of Samar · Samar, Battle off
The Battle off Samar (October 25, 1944) was the center engagement of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, fought off the…
The Battles of La Naval de Manila were a series of five naval engagements fought in 1646 in the waters…
Garcinia binucao (scientific name) · Batuan
Batuan (Garcinia binucao) is a sour green fruit endemic to the Philippines, especially abundant in the Visayas and parts of…
"Heart of the Chocolate Hills Country" · Batuan Heritage Town
Batuan is a fourth-class municipality in the interior of Bohol, Philippines, within the Chocolate Hills region. It is an agricultural…
Municipality of Bauan · Bauan
Bauan, officially the Municipality of Bauan, is a first-class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located immediately west of…
Bauan is a first-income-class municipality in Batangas, Philippines, and part of the Metro Batangas growth corridor. Founded as an independent…
Municipality of Bauang · Bauang La Union
Bauang, officially the Municipality of Bauang, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Bauko · Bauko Mountain Province
Bauko, officially the Municipality of Bauko, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
Municipality of Baungon · Baungon Bukidnon
Baungon, officially the Municipality of Baungon, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Municipality of Bautista · Bautista Pangasinan
Bautista, officially the Municipality of Bautista, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Garlic · Allium sativum (binomial name)
Bawang (Allium sativum L.), commonly known as garlic, is a bulbous herbaceous perennial plant native to Central Asia. It is…
Municipality of Bay · Bay Laguna
Bay, officially the Municipality of Bay, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Bayabas · Bayabas Surigao del Sur
Bayabas, officially the Municipality of Bayabas, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, located within the Caraga…
Bayambang is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines. Located in central Pangasinan,…
Municipality of Bayambang · Bayambang Pangasinan
Bayambang, officially the Municipality of Bayambang, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Nuestra Patria (original Spanish poem) · My Country (English rendering)
Bayan Ko is a patriotic Filipino song originally written as a Spanish poem, "Nuestra Patria," by José Corazón de Jesús…
Nation First
Bayan Muna (literally "Nation First") is a Philippine party-list organization founded on September 25, 1999, contesting elections under the party-list…
Bayan (Bagong Alyansyang Makabayan) v. Zamora — full caption · The VFA cases — the consolidated petitions
Bayan v. Zamora — formally Bayan (Bagong Alyansyang Makabayan) v. Executive Secretary Ronaldo Zamora, G.R. No. 138570, decided by the…
Municipality of Bayang · Bayang Lanao del Sur
Bayang, officially the Municipality of Bayang, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Bayanihan is the Filipino custom and core value of communal unity and mutual aid — neighbors working together, without expectation…
Republic Act No. 11469 · RA 11469
The Bayanihan to Heal as One Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 11469, officially "An Act Declaring…
Republic Act No. 11494 · RA 11494
The Bayanihan to Recover as One Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 11494, officially "An Act Providing…
Bayanihan 2 · BARO (abbreviated in budget documents)
The Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Republic Act No. 11494), commonly called Bayanihan 2, is the Philippine law enacted…
City of Bayawan · Bayawan City
Bayawan, officially the City of Bayawan, is a component city in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. Located along the…
City of Baybay · Baybay City
Baybay, officially the City of Baybay, is a component city in the province of Leyte, Philippines. Located along the west-central…
Baybay is a component city on the western coast of Leyte, Philippines, facing Camotes Sea and anchored by the Visayas…
Municipality of Bayog · Bayog Zamboanga del Sur
Bayog, officially the Municipality of Bayog, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Bayombong Nueva Vizcaya · Capital of Nueva Vizcaya
Bayombong is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of the province of Nueva Vizcaya in the Cagayan Valley region of…
Bayombong City · Municipality of Bayombong
Bayombong, officially the Municipality of Bayombong, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
A bayong is a traditional Philippine woven bag made from strips of buri palm leaf, pandan, romblon, or rattan, used…
City of Bayugan · Bayugan City
Bayugan, officially the City of Bayugan, is a component city in the province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines. Recognized as…
Bayugan City is a fifth-income-class component city in Agusan del Sur province in the Caraga Region (Region XIII), Philippines. It…
Manila Baywalk
The Baywalk is the two-kilometer seaside promenade along Roxas Boulevard in Manila, running along the shore of Manila Bay from…
BDO · Banco de Oro
BDO Unibank, Inc. (PSE: BDO) is the largest bank in the Philippines by total assets — a position the documented…
beep™ — the operator's stylized brand · Beep (smart card) — the encyclopedia article's title form
The beep card (branded beep™) is the stored-value contactless smart card used for fare payment on Metro Manila's rail lines…
The Pork Barrel Case · The PDAF unconstitutionality ruling
Belgica v. Ochoa (G.R. No. 208566, decided November 19, 2013) is a decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines…
Municipality of Belison · Belison Antique
Belison, officially the Municipality of Belison, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Philippine Trade Act of 1946 — the act's official United States title · Philippine Trade Act — the short form of the official title
The Bell Trade Act of 1946 — officially the Philippine Trade Act of 1946, Public Law 371 of the 79th…
Belo Clinic · Belo Medical Group Philippines
Belo Medical Group is a leading chain of specialized medical aesthetic and dermatological clinics in the Philippines. Founded in 1990…
McKinley's proclamation of December 21, 1898 — the documentary designation · The Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation — the capitalized styling in Philippine textbooks
Benevolent Assimilation is the name given to President William McKinley's proclamation of December 21, 1898 on the government of the…
Province of Benguet · Salad Bowl of the Philippines
Benguet is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the southern tip of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in…
Benguet Consolidated Mining Company (historical) · BenguetCorp / BC (ticker)
Benguet Corporation is the oldest mining company in the Philippines, organized in 1903 as Benguet Consolidated Mining Company to work…
Pinus kesiya (scientific name) · Khasya pine, Khasi pine (regional names in Asia)
The Benguet pine (Pinus kesiya, known in the Philippines as the Benguet variety) is a tropical pine native to the…
Province of Benguet · Benguet
Benguet, officially the Province of Benguet, is a landlocked highland province of the Philippines situated in the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Benguet State University (BSU) is a state university in La Trinidad, Benguet, in the Philippines' Cordillera Administrative Region. Its origins…
Benhur K. Luy · Principal whistleblower of the pork barrel scam (press designation)
Benhur Luy (full name Benhur K. Luy) is a Filipino whistleblower, formerly the personal assistant and finance officer of businesswoman…
Benigno Simeon Aquino III · Noynoy Aquino — the nickname by which he was universally known
Benigno Aquino III (Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino III; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021) was a Filipino politician…
Senator Ninoy Aquino · Ninoy
Benigno Simeon Aquino Jr. (November 27, 1932 – August 21, 1983), universally known as Ninoy Aquino, was a Filipino politician,…
Benigno Ramos y Pantaleón — full name · The Sakdal leader — press shorthand of the 1930s
Benigno Ramos — in full Benigno Ramos y Pantaleón (February 10, 1892 – disappeared 1945) — was a Filipino writer,…
Benigno Aquino Sr. · Benigno Aquino, Sr. — the comma styling of the reference works
Benigno Simeón Aquino y Quiambao (September 3, 1894 – December 20, 1947), known as Benigno S. Aquino Sr., was a…
Benito Cosmé Legarda y Tuason (full Spanish-style name) · Benito Legarda y Tuason
Benito Legarda (in full Benito Cosmé Legarda y Tuason; September 27, 1853, Manila – August 27, 1915, Évian-les-Bains, France) was…
Municipality of Benito Soliven · Benito Soliven Isabela
Benito Soliven, officially the Municipality of Benito Soliven, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan…
Bernardo Carpio is a legendary figure of Tagalog folklore, a man of superhuman strength said to be eternally trapped between…
Municipality of Besao · Besao Mountain Province
Besao, officially the Municipality of Besao, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
Santiago Apostol Church of Betis (formal name) · Sistine Chapel of the Philippines (popular nickname)
The Betis Church, formally the Santiago Apostol Parish Church in the Betis district of Guagua, Pampanga, is a Baroque church…
Billie Mary Chua Go-Belmonte — her full English and Chinese-lineage name (Chinese: 吳友德) · Betty Go — her maiden name, under which she began in journalism
Betty Go-Belmonte (Billie Mary "Betty" Chua Go-Belmonte; December 31, 1933, Santa Mesa, Manila – January 28, 1994, Quezon City) was…
Parke ng Biak-na-Bato · Biak-na-Bato (shattered rock, literal meaning)
Biak-na-Bato National Park is a protected area in San Miguel, Bulacan, declared in 1936 around a rugged landscape of rivers,…
Bicol Express is a Filipino stew from the Bicol region made of pork strips cooked in coconut milk with large…
The Bicol Region (Region V) is an administrative region in the southeastern part of Luzon, Philippines, comprising six provinces (Albay,…
The Bicol River is the principal waterway of the Bicol Peninsula in southern Luzon, Philippines, draining the Bicol Plain across…
Bicol University (BU) is the premier state university of the Bicol region, created by Republic Act No. 5521 in 1969…
The Bicolano people (Bikolano) are the native ethnolinguistic group of the Bicol Region in southeastern Luzon, Philippines, occupying the Bicol…
The bicolored flowerpecker is a tiny bird of the flowerpecker family (Dicaeidae) endemic to the Philippines. It is neatly two-toned,…
BAC — the universal Philippine government abbreviation · Committee on Bids and Awards (in some agency orders and older issuances)
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) is the standing committee that every Philippine government procuring entity must create to run…
Municipality of Bien Unido · Bien Unido Bohol
Bien Unido, officially the Municipality of Bien Unido, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central…
Bienvenido Lumbera (1932–2021) was a Filipino poet, critic, and dramatist, a leading figure of the Filipinization movement in Philippine literature…
Big Bert's Detailing · Big Bert's
Big Bert's Professional Detailers is an automotive detailing company based in Quezon City, Metro Manila, which describes itself on its…
Big Four · The Big Four auditors
The Big Four Accounting Firms — Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young (EY), and KPMG — are the four largest…
Antidesma bunius (scientific name) · Chinese laurel
Bignay (Antidesma bunius) is a native Philippine fruit tree, also called the Chinese laurel or currant tree, bearing long clusters…
Biko is a Filipino sticky rice cake made by cooking glutinous rice in coconut milk and caramelized sugar (usually latik…
Biko is a Filipino sticky-rice cake made by cooking glutinous rice in coconut milk and sugar until dense and glossy,…
Bilar Man-Made Forest Town · Mahogany Forest of Bohol
Bilar is a fourth-class municipality in the interior of Bohol, Philippines, along the road connecting Tagbilaran City to the Chocolate…
Biliran is an island province of the Philippines in the Eastern Visayas region (Region VIII). Its capital is Naval. One…
Municipality of Biliran · Biliran Biliran
Biliran, officially the Municipality of Biliran, is a municipality in the province of Biliran, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Province of Biliran · Biliran
Biliran, officially the Province of Biliran, is an island province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. It is…
Bilo-bilo are small round dumplings made from glutinous rice flour dough, the signature component of the Filipino coconut-milk dish most…
Binagol is a steamed Filipino delicacy from Leyte made from a mixture of grated giant taro (locally called "talyan"), coconut…
Binagoongan is a Filipino pork dish cooked in bagoong alamang, the fermented shrimp paste that gives the dish its name.…
Mindanao corn tamale · Binaki (corn husk kakanin)
Binaki is a Northern Mindanao steamed delicacy of young sweet corn grated from the cob, mixed with coconut milk and…
Binakol is a Filipino chicken soup in which chicken pieces are simmered with lemongrass, ginger, and vegetables in coconut water…
Municipality of Binalbagan · Binalbagan Negros Occidental
Binalbagan, officially the Municipality of Binalbagan, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Municipality of Binalonan · Binalonan Pangasinan
Binalonan, officially the Municipality of Binalonan, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
City of Biñan · Footwear Capital of Laguna
Biñan, officially the City of Biñan, is a component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. Situated 35 kilometers south…
Sesame doughnut balls (English descriptor) · Binangkal sa lumot (regional usage in some areas)
Binangkal is a Philippine doughnut from the Visayas and Mindanao consisting of dense dough balls deep-fried until crusty and completely…
Binangonan, Rizal · Lakeside town of Rizal
Binangonan is a first-income-class urban municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, along the northern shores of Laguna de Bay. It combines…
Municipality of Binangonan · Binangonan Rizal
Binangonan, officially the Municipality of Binangonan, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Binasuan is a Philippine folk dance from Pangasinan province in which performers balance glasses filled with rice wine — one…
Boiled White Corn with Coconut · Corn Merienda (colloquial)
Binatog is a Philippine street food and comfort snack of mature white corn kernels boiled until soft and chewy, served…
Municipality of Bindoy · Bindoy Negros Oriental
Bindoy, officially the Municipality of Bindoy, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Binga Hydroelectric Plant · Binga hydroelectric dam
Binga Dam is an earth-and-rockfill storage dam on the Agno River at Barrio Binga, Barangay Tinongdan, in the municipality of…
Municipality of Bingawan · Bingawan Iloilo
Bingawan, officially the Municipality of Bingawan, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Bb. Pilipinas (common abbreviation) · Binibining Pilipinas pageant
Binibining Pilipinas is the annual Philippine national beauty pageant founded in 1964 — the oldest active national beauty pageant in…
Municipality of Binidayan · Binidayan Lanao del Sur
Binidayan, officially the Municipality of Binidayan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Ginataang bilo-bilo (related Tagalog dish) · Binignit nga kamote (regional usage)
Binignit is a Visayan dessert soup made by simmering sliced saba banana, sweet potato (camote), taro (gabi), purple yam, landang…
The Binirayan Festival is an annual cultural festival of the province of Antique, Philippines, held around late April to May…
Binmaley is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines. Situated along the Pantal…
Municipality of Binmaley · Binmaley Pangasinan
Binmaley, officially the Municipality of Binmaley, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Manila Chinatown — the common synonym recorded in the dictionaries' own entry · The world's oldest Chinatown — the standing description of the 1594 establishment
Binondo is a district of Manila, Philippines, on the north bank of the Pasig River directly across from Intramuros —…
Binondo Church, formally the Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, is a Roman Catholic basilica in Binondo,…
Bearcat · Palawan binturong
The binturong (Arctictis binturong), commonly called the bearcat, is a large, stocky viverrid mammal with shaggy black fur, tufted ears,…
Municipality of Binuangan · Binuangan Misamis Oriental
Binuangan, officially the Municipality of Binuangan, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Binokot (variant spelling) · Kept maiden (descriptive translation)
The binukot, from a Visayan word meaning wrapped up or veiled, is a pre-colonial Visayan tradition in the Philippines of…
BMB — the standard abbreviation · DENR-BMB — the departmental styling
The Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) is the staff bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) responsible…
Republic Act No. 9367 · RA 9367
The Biofuels Act of 2006, officially Republic Act No. 9367 — "An Act to Direct the Use of Biofuels, Establishing…
Bioskin Philippines · Bioskin PH
Bioskin is a Philippine homegrown consumer skincare brand sold through the `bioskin.ph` WooCommerce storefront and the bioskinphilippines Shopee shop. The…
Davao Bioskin Tech Laboratories, Inc. (legal name) · Davao Bioskin Tech Laboratories Inc.
Bioskin Tech Laboratories, Inc. (legally Davao Bioskin Tech Laboratories, Inc.) is a privately held Philippine skincare and cosmetics contract manufacturer…
Municipality of Biri · Biri Northern Samar
Biri, officially the Municipality of Biri, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Biri Island is an island municipality in Northern Samar, Philippines, at the mouth of the San Bernardino Strait, famous for…
The Biri Larosa Protected Landscape and Seascape is a protected area in Northern Samar, Philippines, encompassing the rock formations of…
Biscocho is a Filipino twice-baked buttery biscuit—thin slices of sweet bread or dough re-baked until crisp and glazed with butter…
Bislig City is a third-income-class component city in Surigao del Sur province in the Caraga Region (Region XIII), Philippines. It…
Bistek Tagalog · Filipino beef steak
Bistek, also called bistek Tagalog, is a Filipino dish of thin slices of beef — typically sirloin or round —…
Palomaria (older Spanish-era and commercial usage) · Tamanu (Pacific and cosmetics-industry usage)
The Bitaog (Calophyllum inophyllum), also known in English as tamanu or palomaria, is a broadleaf evergreen tree of tropical seacoasts…
Tank goby · Barred goby
Biya is the tank goby, a small elongated goby found in rivers, lakes, and estuaries across the Philippines, including Laguna…
The Blaan (also spelled B'laan or Bla-an) are one of the indigenous peoples of southern Mindanao in the Philippines, concentrated…
The Blaan (or B'laan) are an indigenous Lumad people of southern Mindanao in the Philippines, inhabiting parts of South Cotabato,…
The Black Nazarene is a dark-skinned image of the kneeling Christ bearing the cross, venerated at the minor basilica of…
Siloy (Cebuano) · Copsychus cebuensis (scientific name)
The Black Shama (Copsychus cebuensis), called siloy in Cebuano, is a shy, medium-sized songbird about 20 to 22 centimetres long,…
Philippine black-and-white triller · Melanoleuca triller
The black-and-white triller (Lalage melanoleuca) is a Philippine-endemic songbird of the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. True to its name, the male…
The Black-belted Flowerpecker (Dicaeum haematostictum) is a small endemic passerine of the West Visayas, occurring on Negros, Panay, and Guimaras,…
The Black-chinned Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus leclancheri) is a small, arboreal pigeon endemic to the Philippines. The male is notable for…
The black-faced coucal (Centropus melanops) is a large, long-tailed cuckoo endemic to the central and southern Philippines, including islands such…
Centropus steerii (scientific name) · Steere's coucal
The Black-hooded Coucal (Centropus steerii) is a large, ground-foraging cuckoo endemic to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, where…
Oriolus chinensis (scientific name) · Kilyawan (Filipino onomatopoeic name)
The black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) is a golden-yellow passerine of the oriole family (Oriolidae) widespread across southern and eastern Asia,…
Carcharhinus melanopterus (scientific name) · Pulang-punta (local usage among fishers varies; reef sharks are broadly called iho)
The blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) is a small requiem shark of Indo-Pacific coral reefs, easily identified by the bold…
BYD Blade Battery · Blade Cell Technology
The Blade Battery is an advanced lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery technology developed and manufactured by BYD (Build Your Dreams)…
Blas F. Ople (full name with middle name Fajardo) · Blas Fajardo Ople
Blas Fajardo Ople (February 3, 1927, Hagonoy, Bulacan – December 14, 2003) was a Filipino journalist, labor statesman, legislator, and…
Eyelid Surgery · Eye Lift
Blepharoplasty is a surgical procedure performed to improve the appearance or function of the eyelids. It can be performed on…
1. Definition Block Scheduling is an academic scheduling method where students attend fewer classes per day but for longer periods…
Pacto de sangre · Sandugo of 1565
The Blood Compact — in Visayan, the Sandugo, literally "one blood" — is the pact sealed in March 1565 on…
Bloomberry Resorts Corporation · Bloomberry Resorts Corp.
Bloomberry Resorts Corporation (Philippine Stock Exchange ticker BLOOM) is a Philippine publicly listed holding company for hotel, gaming, and entertainment…
The blue paradise flycatcher is a forest bird of the monarch flycatcher family (Monarchidae) endemic to Palawan in the Philippines.…
Tanygnathus everetti (scientific name) · Müller's parrot
The Blue-Backed Parrot (Tanygnathus everetti), also known as Müller's parrot or Burbridge's parrot, is a large, endangered parrot endemic to…
Pitta arcuata (scientific name) · Philippine blue-banded pitta
The blue-banded pitta (Pitta arcuata) is a stocky, short-tailed ground bird endemic to the Philippines, inhabiting the shaded floors of…
Hombron's kingfisher · Actenoides hombroni (binomial name)
The blue-capped kingfisher (Actenoides hombroni), also known as Hombron's kingfisher, is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae endemic…
The Blue-crowned Racket-tail (Prioniturus discurus) is a parrot endemic to the Philippines, easily recognized by the blue patch on its…
The blue-crowned racquet-tail (Prioniturus discurus) is a parrot endemic to the central and southern Philippines, recognized by the pale blue…
The blue-headed fantail (Rhipidura cyaniceps) is a small insectivorous songbird endemic to the Philippines, found in forest on Luzon and…
Palawan racket-tail · Kinawihan (local name)
Blue-headed racket-tail, also called the Palawan racket-tail and locally known as kinawihan or kilit, is a parrot found in the…
Luzon parrot · Blue-naped parakeet
The blue-naped parrot (Tanygnathus lucionensis), also called the Luzon parrot, is a mostly green parrot endemic to the Philippines named…
The blue-winged racket-tail (Prioniturus verticalis) is a small green parrot endemic to the Sulu archipelago, chiefly Tawi-Tawi and adjacent islands,…
Boac Marinduque · Montserrat de Marinduque (historical)
Boac is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of the province of Marinduque in the Mimaropa region of the Philippines.…
Municipality of Boac · Boac Marinduque
Boac, officially the Municipality of Boac, is a municipality in the province of Marinduque, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
BOI · Board of Investments
The Board of Investments (BOI) is an attached agency of the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) responsible for…
BMI — the standard abbreviation in the Philippine maritime record · Special Board of Marine Inquiry (SBMI) — the designation of boards convened for particular disasters
The Board of Marine Inquiry (BMI) is the Philippine Coast Guard's marine-casualty investigating body — the board convened to determine…
Municipality of Bobon · Bobon Northern Samar
Bobon, officially the Municipality of Bobon, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Municipality of Bocaue · Bocaue Bulacan
Bocaue, officially the Municipality of Bocaue, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
1993 Bocaue Pagoda Festival tragedy · Pagoda sa Bocaue trahedya
The Bocaue Pagoda Tragedy was a deadly accident on the night of July 2, 1993, during the fluvial procession of…
Filipino vaudeville (English descriptor) · Stage show (generic show-bill term of the era)
Bodabil was the Philippine version of vaudeville — the name itself a Filipino respelling of "vaudeville" — that dominated popular…
Kalinga peace pact — the descriptive English term · Peace-pact system of the Kalinga
The bodong is the indigenous peace-pact institution of the Kalinga people of Kalinga Province in the Cordillera mountains of northern…
BMI · Quetelet Index
The Body Mass Index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a heuristic proxy for estimating human body fat based on an…
Physical Exfoliator · Body Polish
A Body Scrub is a physical exfoliation treatment designed to mechanically remove dead skin cells from the outermost layer of…
Northern Commercial Hub of Cebu (informal) · City of Bogo
Bogo, officially the City of Bogo (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Bogo; Filipino: Lungsod ng Bogo), is a component city in the…
Bohol Island State University (BISU) is a public state university in Bohol, Philippines, with its main campus in Tagbilaran City…
Provincial Government of Bohol · Bohol Provincial LGU
The Bohol Local Government Unit (Bohol LGU) refers to the provincial government and administrative body of the island province of…
Bohol · Province of Bohol — the formal designation
Bohol is an island province of the Philippines in the Central Visayas (Region VII) — the island itself, the tenth…
New Bohol International Airport · Panglao Airport
The Bohol-Panglao International Airport is the main airport of Bohol province, located on Panglao Island and opened in November 2018…
Faustino Dy III · Faustino De Guzman Dy III
Bojie Dy, born Faustino De Guzman Dy III on August 31, 1961, is a Filipino politician serving as the 29th…
Municipality of Bokod · Bokod Benguet
Bokod, officially the Municipality of Bokod, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
The Bolibong Kingking Festival is a music and dance festival of Loboc, Bohol, Philippines, held around the town's May fiesta.…
Bolinao is a first income-class municipality at the northwestern tip of the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines.…
Municipality of Bolinao · Bolinao Pangasinan
Bolinao, officially the Municipality of Bolinao, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Binubolinao · Sambal Bolinao (classification label in surveys)
Bolinao (Binubolinao) is a Philippine language of the Sambalic group spoken in the municipalities of Bolinao and Anda at the…
Municipality of Boliney · Boliney Abra
Boliney, officially the Municipality of Boliney, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Boljoon · Boljoon Cebu
Boljoon, officially the Municipality of Boljoon, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
The Archdiocesan Shrine of Patrocinio de María Santísima, commonly known as Boljoon Church, is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to…
Bombo Radyo Philippines is one of the largest radio networks in the Philippines, founded in Iloilo in the mid-1960s by…
Municipality of Bombon · Bombon Camarines Sur
Bombon, officially the Municipality of Bombon, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Bomod-ok Big Falls · The Big Fall of Sagada
Bomod-ok Falls is a tall, single-drop waterfall on the northern edge of Sagada, Mountain Province, in the Philippine Cordillera. Its…
Municipality of Bongabon · Bongabon Nueva Ecija
Bongabon, officially the Municipality of Bongabon, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Bongabong · Bongabong Oriental Mindoro
Bongabong, officially the Municipality of Bongabong, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Municipality of Bongao · Bongao
Bongao, officially the Municipality of Bongao, is a second-class municipality and the capital of the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. It…
Bonggao · Municipality of Bongao
Bongao, officially the Municipality of Bongao, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Bonifacio · Bonifacio Misamis Occidental
Bonifacio, officially the Municipality of Bonifacio, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
The Thirtieth of November — the statute's own name for the day, Act No. 2946 having added it without naming the hero · Araw ni Bonifacio — the Tagalog styling of the commemoration
Bonifacio Day is the Philippine national holiday observed every November 30 in honor of Andrés Bonifacio — the Katipunan founder…
BGC · The Fort (from Fort Bonifacio)
Bonifacio Global City (BGC) is a master-planned urban development and financial district in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines. Developed on the…
1. Definition Bonifacio Global City (former military base conversion) (commonly known as BGC or Fort Bonifacio) is a highly urbanized…
Bantayog ni Bonifacio — Filipino name recorded in the DBpedia entry · Bonifacio National Monument — official name in its heritage-designation records
The Bonifacio Monument (Filipino: Bantayog ni Bonifacio; official designation name, Bonifacio National Monument) is Guillermo Tolentino's monument to Andrés Bonifacio,…
Bonok-Bonok Maradjaw Karadjaw Festival · Surigao City fiesta festival
The Bonok-Bonok Festival is an annual cultural and religious festival held every September in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, in…
The Bontoc (Bontok) are an ethnolinguistic group of Mountain Province in the Cordillera Central, Philippines. Numbering over 150,000, they inhabit…
Bontoc · Capital of Mountain Province — the administrative designation since 1908 ([Wikipedia — Mountain Province](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Province "Mountain Province — Wikipedia"))
Bontoc is the capital municipality of Mountain Province in the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon — a first-class municipality of…
Municipality of Bontoc · Bontoc Southern Leyte
Bontoc, officially the Municipality of Bontoc, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Bontoc is an Austronesian language of the Northern Luzon (Cordilleran) group spoken by the Bontoc people of Mountain Province, centered…
Bontok people (variant spelling) · Bontoc Igorot
The Bontoc are an Igorot ethnolinguistic group of the Cordillera Central in northern Luzon, Philippines, centered on the municipality of…
The Bontok people are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the Cordillera Central mountain range in northern Luzon, concentrated in Mountain…
Military-style kamayan · Boodle lunch / boodle feast
A boodle fight is a Filipino communal dining style in which rice, ulam (main dishes), fruits, and condiments are laid…
Bopiz
Bopis is a spicy Filipino dish made of finely minced pig lungs and heart sautéed with garlic, onions, tomatoes, and…
White Beach Island · Boracay
Boracay Island (officially Boracay) is a small, resort island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, located approximately 315…
Palmyra palm (standard English name) · Toddy palm (usage name)
Borassus flabellifer, the palmyra, toddy, or sugar palm**, is a massive fan palm of South and Southeast Asia, growing up…
Borawan Island is a small island off the coast of Padre Burgos, Quezon province, Philippines, known for its white sand…
Municipality of Borbon · Borbon Cebu
Borbon, officially the Municipality of Borbon, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
City of Borongan · Borongan City
Borongan, officially the City of Borongan, is a component city and the capital of the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines.…
Municipality of Boston · Boston Davao Oriental
Boston, officially the Municipality of Boston, is a municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, located within the Davao Region…
1. Definition Botanical Supplements, in the Philippines, are health products derived from plants, herbs, or algae, formulated to support general…
Boto Mo, Ipatrol Mo · Boto Mo, Ipatrol Mo: Ako Ang Simula!
"Boto Mo, Ipatrol Mo: Ako Ang Simula!" was a citizen-journalism campaign launched by ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs in July…
Municipality of Botolan · Botolan Zambales
Botolan, officially the Municipality of Botolan, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Botox · Neurotoxin injection
Botulinum Toxin is a powerful neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It operates by blocking the release of…
Manuscript of the Boxer Codex (Lilly Library catalog usage) · The Boxer Codex: Spanish-colonial manuscript (modern facsimile edition title)
The Boxer Codex is an illustrated manuscript produced in Manila around 1590, containing some of the earliest known European depictions…
Pugilism · Prizefighting
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art in which two opponents fight in a ring, trading punches with gloved…
BSP · Mga Batang Iskawt ng Pilipinas
The Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) is the national scouting association for boys and young men, chartered under Commonwealth…
BP 220 · Batas Pambansa Blg. 220
BP 220 (Batas Pambansa Blg. 220) is a Philippine statute that authorizes the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development…
1. Definition BPO Housing refers to specialized residential accommodations—such as co-living spaces, micro-condos, and staff houses—designed to cater to the…
Municipality of Braulio E. Dujali · Braulio E. Dujali Davao del Norte
Braulio E. Dujali, officially the Municipality of Braulio E. Dujali, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Norte,…
Brazo de Mercedes is a Filipino dessert of soft meringue rolled around a rich egg-yolk custard filling, dusted with sugar.…
Augmentation Mammoplasty · Boob Job
Breast Augmentation, legally and medically referred to as augmentation mammoplasty, is a surgical procedure performed to increase breast size, alter…
Brigada (TV program) · GMA News TV Brigada
Brigada was a Philippine television documentary and investigative news-magazine program produced by GMA Public Affairs, broadcast on GMA News TV…
Dante Mendoza
Brillante Mendoza (born July 30, 1960, in San Fernando, Pampanga), also credited as Dante Mendoza, is a Filipino independent filmmaker…
Bringhe is a festive Filipino rice dish of glutinous rice slowly cooked in coconut milk with chicken, chorizo, and vegetables,…
The British conquest of Manila · The 1762–1764 occupation
The British occupation of Manila was the eighteen-month seizure of the Spanish colonial capital of the Philippines — with the…
Municipality of Brooke's Point · Brooke's Point Palawan
Brooke's Point, officially the Municipality of Brooke's Point, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA…
Brown Fat · Multilocular Adipose Tissue
Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT), commonly referred to as brown fat, is one of the two primary types of adipose tissue…
USS LST-821 (original United States Navy name) · USS Harnett County (LST-821/AGP-821) (United States Navy, 1955–1970)
BRP Sierra Madre (LT-57) is a Philippine Navy tank landing ship, laid down in 1944 as the United States Navy's…
Bryde's whale complex (taxonomic framing) · Eden's whale (named form within the complex)
Bryde's whale (pronounced "BROO-dahz") is the common name for a complex of rorqual baleen whale species centered on the warm-water…
BS Real Estate Management · Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Management
The Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Management (BS REM) is a four-year undergraduate degree program in the Philippines designed…
Municipality of Buadiposo-Buntong · Buadiposo-Buntong Lanao del Sur
Buadiposo-Buntong, officially the Municipality of Buadiposo-Buntong, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Bubong · Bubong Lanao del Sur
Bubong, officially the Municipality of Bubong, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Bucas Grande is a large island in Surigao del Norte, Philippines, politically part of the municipality of Socorro and separated…
Bucas Grande is an island in the province of Surigao del Norte in the Philippines, contiguous with the municipality of…
The Bucas Grande Islands are a group of limestone islands in the municipality of Socorro, Surigao del Norte, separated from…
Municipality of Bucay · Bucay Abra
Bucay, officially the Municipality of Bucay, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Bucloc · Bucloc Abra
Bucloc, officially the Municipality of Bucloc, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Mt. Dajo / Mount Dajo · Bud Daho (variant spelling)
Bud Dajo is a volcanic cone and lava dome about 630 metres (2,070 ft) high near the town of Jolo…
The Bud Dajo Massacre, also called the First Battle of Bud Dajo, occurred on March 7–8, 1906, at the crater…
Budbud pilit (glutinous rice version) · Budbud kabog (millet version)
Budbud is a Cebuano steamed delicacy of glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk and a little salt or sugar, packed…
Municipality of Buenavista · Buenavista Agusan del Norte
Buenavista, officially the Municipality of Buenavista, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Municipality of Bugallon · Bugallon Pangasinan
Bugallon, officially the Municipality of Bugallon, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
The Bugang River is a river in Pandan, Antique, Philippines, recognized multiple times as among the cleanest inland bodies of…
Bugasong is a coastal municipality in the southern part of Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines. Facing the Sulu Sea along…
Municipality of Bugasong · Bugasong Antique
Bugasong, officially the Municipality of Bugasong, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Ilongot · Ibungkalot
The Bugkalot, historically known as the Ilongot, are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group inhabiting the southern Sierra Madre and Caraballo mountain…
Ilongot · Ilungan
The Bugkalot, historically known as the Ilongot, are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group inhabiting the Caraballo mountain range where Nueva Vizcaya,…
Municipality of Buguey · Buguey Cagayan
Buguey, officially the Municipality of Buguey, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Buguias · Buguias Benguet
Buguias, officially the Municipality of Buguias, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Buhi · Buhi Camarines Sur
Buhi, officially the Municipality of Buhi, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Buhid writing · Mindoro paleograph
The Buhid script is one of the Philippines' indigenous writing systems, an abugida derived from Brahmic scripts of India and…
BBM · Build Better More (BBM) Program — official program styling
The Build Better More Program (BBM) is the infrastructure program of the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (2022–2028), which…
Build Build Build was the infrastructure program of the Duterte administration (2016–2022), billed as the "Golden Age of Infrastructure." It…
Republic Act No. 6957 · RA 6957
The Build-Operate-Transfer Law is the Philippine statute that first authorized private-sector financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of infrastructure projects —…
Construction Permit · Permit to Construct
A Building Permit is an official document issued by the Office of the Building Official in a Philippine municipality or…
Bukayo balls · Coconut toffee
Bukayo is a traditional Filipino candy made by cooking strips or shavings of young coconut (buko) in sugar — classically…
The Bukidnon people are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the Bukidnon plateau in north-central Mindanao, Philippines, closely associated with the…
Bukidnon · Province of Bukidnon
Bukidnon Province, officially the Province of Bukidnon, is a landlocked province in the Northern Mindanao region of the Philippines. Known…
Bukidnon State University (BukSU) is a public state university in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, Philippines. Founded in 1924 as a provincial…
Scolopax bukidnonensis (scientific name) · Philippine woodcock (older informal references)
The Bukidnon Woodcock (Scolopax bukidnonensis) is a medium-sized, cryptically patterned forest bird endemic to the high mountains of Mindanao, Philippines,…
Buklog is a thanksgiving ritual system of the Subanen people of the Zamboanga Peninsula in Mindanao, Philippines. Performed to express…
Municipality of Bula · Bula Camarines Sur
Bula, officially the Municipality of Bula, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Bulacan · Province of Bulacan
Bulacan Province, officially the Province of Bulacan, is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines, located immediately…
Bulacan State University (BulSU or BSU) is a state university in Malolos, Bulacan, tracing its roots to a trade school…
Municipality of Bulakan · Bulakan Bulacan
Bulakan, officially the Municipality of Bulakan, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Bulalacao · Bulalacao Oriental Mindoro
Bulalacao, officially the Municipality of Bulalacao, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Bulalo is a Filipino beef soup built around the shank with its marrow bone, simmered for hours until the broth…
Municipality of Bulan · Bulan Sorsogon
Bulan, officially the Municipality of Bulan, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Bulanglang na gulay · Abraw (Ilocano variant name)
Bulanglang is a Filipino vegetable soup in which an assortment of fresh garden vegetables and greens is briefly simmered in…
Municipality of Buldon · Buldon Maguindanao
Buldon, officially the Municipality of Buldon, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Buluan · Buluan Maguindanao
Buluan, officially the Municipality of Buluan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
bulol — variant spelling used in some ethnographic literature · bu-lul — transliteration
A bulul (also spelled bulol, and known to the Ifugao as tinagtaggu) is a carved wooden figure used by the…
Municipality of Bulusan · Bulusan Sorsogon
Bulusan, officially the Municipality of Bulusan, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Bulusan Lake is a small freshwater crater lake on the lower slopes of Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon, Bicol, within the…
Bulusan Volcano is an active stratovolcano in Sorsogon province, Philippines, rising to about 1,565 meters at the southeastern end of…
Municipality of Bumbaran · Bumbaran Lanao del Sur
Bumbaran, officially the Municipality of Bumbaran, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Bolbometopon muricatum (scientific name) · Green humphead parrotfish
The bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatus), also called the green humphead parrotfish, is the largest parrotfish in the world, reaching over…
Home of Lolong the crocodile · Riverside municipality of the lower Agusan River
Bunawan, officially the Municipality of Bunawan, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines, within the Caraga…
Single-storey house · One-storey house
A bungalow is a single-storey residential structure, typically detached, with all primary living spaces (bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen, living room) on…
Bungisngis giant · Giggling giant of Tagalog lore
The bungisngis is a one-eyed giant of Tagalog folklore, named after the Tagalog word for giggling because its laughter, a…
Bamboo buzzer · Balingbing (Kalinga name)
The bungkaka, widely known as the bamboo buzzer, is a Philippine idiophone made from a length of bamboo split along…
Buntun Bridge Tuguegarao · The long bridge of Tuguegarao (informal usage)
The Buntun Bridge is a truss bridge about 1.1 kilometers long crossing the Cagayan River at Tuguegarao City, Philippines. Long…
Municipality of Burauen · Burauen Leyte
Burauen, officially the Municipality of Burauen, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Burdeos · Burdeos Quezon
Burdeos, officially the Municipality of Burdeos, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
BAFE · DA-BAFE
The Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (BAFE) is a staff bureau of the Philippine Department of Agriculture mandated to…
BAEc · BAEcon — the styling of the statistical-system histories
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAEc) was the Philippine government's bureau for agricultural statistics and agricultural economics research — created…
BAE · BAEx — the styling the successor record uses for the merged bureau
The Bureau of Agricultural Extension (BAE) was the Department of Agriculture's extension bureau — the state's field service carrying farming,…
The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) is the Department of Agriculture agency that coordinates, funds, and monitors research and development…
BAS · The DA statistics bureau
The Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) was the Department of Agriculture's statistics bureau — the agency "mainly responsible for the…
Insular Bureau of Agriculture — the Act 261 statutory name · Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippine Islands — the era styling of its reports
The Bureau of Agriculture — the Insular Bureau of Agriculture in its creating statute — was the American colonial government's…
BAFS · Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards (former name)
The Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards (BAFS) is the staff bureau of the Department of Agriculture (Philippines) responsible for…
BAE · DepEd Bureau of Alternative Education
The Bureau of Alternative Education (BAE) is a specialized office within the Department of Education (DepEd) of the Philippines. Established…
BAI · Bureau of Animal Industry (Philippines) — the disambiguated styling
The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) is the Department of Agriculture's livestock bureau — the government service for animal disease…
BoC (Konrad Lawson's abbreviation) · The Constabulary (the occupation-era shorthand, ambiguous with the American-era Philippine Constabulary)
The Bureau of Constabulary was the national police force organized under Japanese sponsorship during the occupation of the Philippines in…
BuCor — the standard acronym · Bureau of Prisons — its name from 1905 to 1989
The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) is the agency of the Department of Justice charged with the custody and rehabilitation of…
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is the Philippine government agency responsible for assessing and collecting customs duties, taxes, and fees…
BOC · Bureau of Customs
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is the Philippine government agency responsible for customs administration — assessing and collecting duties and…
BFP · Bureau of Fire Protection of the Philippines
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) is the national fire service of the Philippines — the agency responsible for fire…
BFAR · Bureau of Fisheries (historical, 1947–1963 and 1972–1974)
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is a staff bureau of the Department of Agriculture (DA) of the…
BFD · The Bureau — the styling the Revised Forestry Code itself uses for the agency throughout its sections
The Bureau of Forest Development (BFD) was the forestry bureau of the Philippine Department of Natural Resources — the state's…
Forestry Bureau — the styling of the creating act's title in 1900 · Bureau of Forestry — the styling of the Forest Act and of Act 2666's bureau list
The Bureau of Forestry was the forestry bureau of the American-colonial and postwar Philippine state — the office that administered…
BI · Philippine Bureau of Immigration
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Imigrasyon) is the immigration and deportation law-enforcement agency of the Philippines —…
BI (common abbreviation) · Kawanihan ng Imigrasyon (Filipino name)
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is the Philippine government agency primarily responsible for regulating the entry, stay, and departure of…
BIR · Kawanihan ng Panloob na Kita (Filipino)
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is the revenue collection agency of the Philippine government responsible for the assessment and…
BIR (common abbreviation) · Kawanihan ng Rentas Internas (Filipino name)
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is the national tax authority of the Philippines, responsible for assessing and collecting internal…
BJMP · Bureau of Jail Management and Penology of the Philippines
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) is the Philippine government agency responsible for the custody, safekeeping, and rehabilitation…
Insular Bureau of Public Lands (IBPL) — the 1901 founding name · Bureau of Public Lands — the early acts' name
The Bureau of Lands was the Philippines' public-lands agency of the American colonial period and most of the twentieth century…
Republic Act No. 4109 · BPS
The Bureau of Philippine Standards (BPS or DTI-BPS) is the national standards body (NSB) of the Philippines, operating as a…
BPI · Kawanihan ng Industriya sa Paghahalaman — the Filipino name carried in the reference record
The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) is the Department of Agriculture's crops bureau — the government service for plant research…
BPW · Insular Bureau of Public Works
The Bureau of Public Works was the infrastructure agency of the American colonial Insular Government of the Philippine Islands —…
BSWM — the Executive Order No. 116 (1987) styling of the same body; this entry treats the 1951-created bureau and its 1987 reorganization as one continuous agency · Bureau of Soil Conservation — the Republic Act No. 622 (1951) original name
The Bureau of Soils is the Department of Agriculture's soils bureau — the Philippine government agency for soil survey, soil…
BSWM · Bureau of Soils — the 1964–1987 name of the same body; this entry treats the 1951-created bureau and its 1987 reorganization as one continuous agency, following this wiki's Bureau of Soils entry
The Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) is the Department of Agriculture's soils-and-water staff bureau — the Philippine government…
BTr · Kawanian ng Ingatang-Yaman (Filipino)
The Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Finance responsible for…
Municipality of Burgos · Burgos Surigao del Norte
Burgos, officially the Municipality of Burgos, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Corypha utan (scientific name) · Gebang palm
The buri palm (genus Corypha, in the Philippines chiefly Corypha utan) is the largest palm native to the country, a…
Burias · Isla de Burias (historical usage)
Burias Island is one of the three major islands of Masbate province, Philippines, separated from the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon…
Burias Pass is the strait separating Burias Island from the Bicol Peninsula in the Philippines, connecting Ragay Gulf with Ticao…
The burnay is an unglazed earthenware jar traditionally made in the Ilocos region, especially Vigan, by blending local clay with…
Report on Proposed Improvements at Manila — the formal title of the 1905 document · The Burnham Plan — the common short form in Philippine planning literature
The Burnham Plan of Manila is the popular name for the "Report on Proposed Improvements at Manila," the 1905 city…
Buru (Kapampangan) · Burong bangus (when milkfish is used)
Burong isda is a Philippine fermented food made by packing cleaned raw fish, commonly bangus, tilapia, or mudfish, with salted…
Fermented green mango · Pinangat na mangga (in some regions, for the boiled-brine variant)
Burong mangga is a Filipino preserved food consisting of unripe green mangoes fermented in brine, producing a sharply sour and…
Municipality of Buruanga · Buruanga Aklan
Buruanga, officially the Municipality of Buruanga, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Buses in the Philippines — a distinct entry in this wiki · Provincial bus
Buses in the Philippines are the country's principal mode of vehicular public transport for medium- and long-distance travel, divided by…
Coworking Space · Study Hall
Business Center, in the context of Philippine real estate, refers to a specialized facility within a condominium, office building, or…
Business Process Outsourcing · BPO
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in the Philippines, officially categorized under the broader Information Technology and Business Process Management (IT-BPM) sector,…
Municipality of Bustos · Bustos Bulacan
Bustos, officially the Municipality of Bustos, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Bustos Rubber Dam · Angat River Barrage at Bustos
Bustos Dam is an irrigation dam on the Angat River in the municipality of Bustos, Bulacan, Philippines. Operating downstream of…
Municipality of Busuanga · Busuanga Palawan
Busuanga, officially the Municipality of Busuanga, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Municipality of Butig · Butig Lanao del Sur
Butig, officially the Municipality of Butig, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Timber City of the South · Home of the Balangay
Butuan, officially the City of Butuan, is a highly urbanized city in the Caraga region (Region XIII) on the island…
balangay · balangai
The Butuan balangay finds are the eleven precolonial plank boats recovered since 1976 from an old river channel at Sitio…
Butuan Bay is a bay and extension of the Bohol Sea on the northeastern coast of Mindanao. Its main freshwater…
Butuanon is a Bisayan language traditionally spoken by the Butuanon people of Butuan City and parts of the Agusan River…
Butuanon ethnolinguistic group · Butuan people (older usage)
The Butuanon are an ethnolinguistic group of northeastern Mindanao, Philippines, centered in Butuan City and along the Agusan River basin…
Municipality of Buug · Buug Zamboanga Sibugay
Buug, officially the Municipality of Buug, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Dicaeum hypoleucum (scientific name)
The Buzzing Flowerpecker (Dicaeum hypoleucum) is a small, plainly plumaged flowerpecker endemic to the Philippines, found across most of the…
BYD Co. Ltd. · Build Your Dreams (corporate slogan / brand name origin)
BYD Company Limited (Build Your Dreams, Chinese: 比亚迪) is a Chinese multinational manufacturer of electric vehicles, batteries, electronics, and renewable…
BYD Atto 3 · BYD Yuan Plus (China)
The BYD Atto (marketed globally as the BYD Atto 3 and in China as the BYD Yuan Plus) is a…
BYD Yuan Plus · Atto 3
The BYD Atto 3 is a compact battery electric vehicle (BEV) crossover SUV manufactured by BYD Auto. Built on BYD's…
BYD · Build Your Dreams
BYD Auto, officially BYD Auto Co., Ltd., is the automotive subsidiary of BYD Co., Ltd., a major multinational manufacturing company…
BYD LFP Battery · Blade Cell
The BYD Blade Battery is a proprietary lithium iron phosphate (LFP, LiFePO₄) battery cell and pack technology developed and manufactured…
BYD in the Philippines · BYD Philippines
BYD Cars Philippines is the official distributor and brand representative of BYD Auto passenger electric vehicles in the Philippines. Managed…
BYD Dolphin Mini · Seagull
The BYD Seagull (marketed as the BYD Dolphin Mini in some regions) is an entry-level, five-door battery electric vehicle (BEV)…
C5 (Manila) · C5 service road
C5 Road, officially the Circumferential Road 5, is a 32.5-kilometer (20.2 mi) network of roads and bridges that acts as…
Municipality of Caba · Caba La Union
Caba, officially the Municipality of Caba, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
City of Cabadbaran · Cabadbaran
Cabadbaran, officially the City of Cabadbaran, is a component city and the capital of the province of Agusan del Norte,…
Municipality of Cabagan · Cabagan Isabela
Cabagan, officially the Municipality of Cabagan, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Caballo Island is one of the small islands guarding the entrance of Manila Bay in the Philippines, lying south of…
City of Cabanatuan · Cabanatuan
Cabanatuan City, officially the City of Cabanatuan, is a component city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. It is…
Municipality of Cabangan · Cabangan Zambales
Cabangan, officially the Municipality of Cabangan, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Cabanglasan · Cabanglasan Bukidnon
Cabanglasan, officially the Municipality of Cabanglasan, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Cabarroguis Quirino · Capital of Quirino
Cabarroguis is a third-income-class municipality and the capital of the province of Quirino in the Cagayan Valley region of the…
Municipality of Cabarroguis · Cabarroguis Quirino
Cabarroguis, officially the Municipality of Cabarroguis, is a municipality in the province of Quirino, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Cabatuan · Cabatuan Iloilo
Cabatuan, officially the Municipality of Cabatuan, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
The cabeza de barangay was the local headman of a barangay — the smallest territorial unit — during the Spanish…
Municipality of Cabiao · Cabiao Nueva Ecija
Cabiao, officially the Municipality of Cabiao, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Caboloan (also spelled Caboloan/Kaboloan, and identified with the Chinese toponym Fengjiaoshan) was a precolonial polity on the Lingayen Gulf coast…
Municipality of Cabucgayan · Cabucgayan Biliran
Cabucgayan, officially the Municipality of Cabucgayan, is a municipality in the province of Biliran, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Cabugao · Cabugao Ilocos Sur
Cabugao, officially the Municipality of Cabugao, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Cabusao · Cabusao Camarines Sur
Cabusao, officially the Municipality of Cabusao, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
City of Cabuyao · Enterprise City of the Philippines
Cabuyao, officially the City of Cabuyao, is a component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. Located 43 kilometers south…
Act No. 2259 — the statutory citation · The Cadastral Act — Section 29's own short title
The Cadastral Act — Act No. 2259, enacted by the Philippine Legislature and approved on February 11, 1913, long title…
Systemic land survey · Municipal land survey
A Cadastral Survey is a comprehensive, systematic survey of all land parcels within a specific municipality, city, or province in…
City of Cadiz · Cadiz
Cadiz, officially the City of Cadiz, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. Located along the…
Dehydrated Caffeine · Crystalline Caffeine
Caffeine anhydrous is a highly concentrated, dehydrated crystalline powder form of caffeine, a naturally occurring methylxanthine alkaloid. Mechanically, it is…
City of Cagayan de Oro · CDO
Cagayan de Oro City, officially the City of Cagayan de Oro, is a highly urbanized city geographically located within the…
CEZA (standard abbreviation) · Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport (the zone it administers)
The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) is the Philippine government agency that administers the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport,…
Province of Cagayan · Cagayan
Cagayan, officially the Province of Cagayan, is a province located in the Cagayan Valley region in the northeastern tip of…
Rio Grande de Cagayan · Cagayan de Cagayan
The Cagayan River (Ilokano: Karayan Cagayan; Filipino: Ilog Cagayan), also known as the Rio Grande de Cagayan, is the longest…
Cagayan State University (CSU or CagSU) is the first and largest state university in the Cagayan Valley region, established in…
Cagayan Valley (Region II) is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the northeastern portion of Luzon. It comprises five…
Municipality of Cagayancillo · Cagayancillo Palawan
Cagayancillo, officially the Municipality of Cagayancillo, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Cagbalete I · Cagbalete (Mauban)
Cagbalete Island is a barangay island of Mauban, Quezon, lying in Lamon Bay off the coast of southern Luzon. Covering…
Municipality of Cagdianao · Cagdianao Dinagat Islands
Cagdianao, officially the Municipality of Cagdianao, is a municipality in the province of Dinagat Islands, located within the Caraga (Region…
Cagsawa Church ruins · Cagsaua (historical spelling)
Cagsawa Ruins are the remnants of a sixteenth-century Franciscan church in Barangay Busay, Daraga, Albay, buried by the 1 February…
Mount Cagua · Cagua Peak
Cagua Volcano is an active stratovolcano in the municipality of Gonzaga, Cagayan province, at the northern end of the Sierra…
Municipality of Cagwait · Cagwait Surigao del Sur
Cagwait, officially the Municipality of Cagwait, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, located within the Caraga…
Municipality of Caibiran · Caibiran Biliran
Caibiran, officially the Municipality of Caibiran, is a municipality in the province of Biliran, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Star apple · Kaimito
Caimito, or star apple, is the round, shiny-skinned fruit of Chrysophyllum cainito, a tree introduced to the Philippines from its…
"Bibingka Capital of the Philippines" · Cainta, Rizal
Cainta is a first-income-class urban municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, located immediately east of Metro Manila. One of the oldest…
Municipality of Cainta · Cainta Rizal
Cainta, officially the Municipality of Cainta, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Cajidiocan · Cajidiocan Romblon
Cajidiocan, officially the Municipality of Cajidiocan, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Municipality of Calabanga · Calabanga Camarines Sur
Calabanga, officially the Municipality of Calabanga, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
CALABARZON (Region IV-A) is an administrative region in the southern part of Luzon, Philippines, composed of five provinces (Cavite, Laguna,…
City of Calaca · Calaca
Calaca, officially the City of Calaca, is a component city in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located along the northern…
The Calaguas Islands are an island group in the Philippine Sea off the coast of Vinzons, Camarines Norte, Philippines, famed…
City of Calamba · Spring Resort Capital of the Philippines
Calamba, officially the City of Calamba, is a component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. Located 54 kilometers south…
The Calamian deer (Hyelaphus calamianensis, also classified as Axis calamianensis) is a small, endangered deer endemic to the Calamian island…
Hyelaphus calamianensis (scientific name) · Axis calamianensis (older genus placement)
The Calamian hog deer (Hyelaphus calamianensis) is a small, stocky deer endemic to the Calamian Islands of Palawan province, Philippines,…
The Calamian Islands are an island group off the northern tip of Palawan province, comprising Busuanga, Coron, Culion and numerous…
Palawan treeshrew · Tupaia palawanensis (scientific name)
The Calamian treeshrew (Tupaia palawanensis), more commonly called the Palawan treeshrew, is a small, squirrel-like mammal endemic to Palawan and…
Municipality of Calanasan · Calanasan Apayao
Calanasan, officially the Municipality of Calanasan, is a municipality in the province of Apayao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Calanogas · Calanogas Lanao del Sur
Calanogas, officially the Municipality of Calanogas, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
City of Calapan · Calapan
Calapan, officially the City of Calapan, is a component city and the capital of the province of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.…
Calape Bay Area · Pangangan Island (linked islet)
Calape is a fourth-class municipality on the southwestern coast of Bohol, Philippines, facing the Cebu Strait. It is known for…
Calasiao is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines, adjacent to the capital…
Municipality of Calasiao · Calasiao Pangasinan
Calasiao, officially the Municipality of Calasiao, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Calatagan is a third-income-class municipality on a peninsula in western Batangas, Philippines, formally founded on January 1, 1912. It is…
Municipality of Calatrava · Calatrava Negros Occidental
Calatrava, officially the Municipality of Calatrava, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Calauag is a first-income-class municipality in southeastern Quezon Province, Philippines, near the boundary with the Bicol Region. Settlement in the…
Municipality of Calauan · Calauan Laguna
Calauan, officially the Municipality of Calauan, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Calauit Safari Park is a wildlife sanctuary on Calauit Island off the northwest coast of Busuanga, Palawan, Philippines, established in…
Municipality of Calayan · Calayan Cagayan
Calayan, officially the Municipality of Calayan, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Calayan Island is an island in the Babuyan Islands group in the Luzon Strait, off the northern coast of the…
Piding (local name) · Gallirallus calayanensis (scientific name)
The Calayan rail (Gallirallus calayanensis, local name "piding") is a flightless bird endemic to Calayan Island in the Babuyan group…
Calbayog Airport is a domestic airport serving Calbayog City in Samar province, Philippines. It is the main air gateway of…
City of Calbayog · Calbayog
Calbayog, officially the City of Calbayog, is a component city in the province of Samar, Philippines. It is the third…
Calbiga is a fourth-income-class municipality in Samar province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, facing Maqueda Bay. It comprises 41 barangays over about…
Caldereta (also spelled kaldereta) is a Filipino tomato-based stew, traditionally made with goat meat, simmered with liver paste or liver…
Municipality of Calinog · Calinog Iloilo
Calinog, officially the Municipality of Calinog, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Calintaan, officially the Municipality of Calintaan, is a municipality in Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, with about 31,088 people per the 2024…
Caliraya hydroelectric dam · Presa de Caliraya
Caliraya Dam is an embankment dam on the Caliraya River at the boundary of Laguna and Quezon provinces in the…
Caliraya Lake is a man-made reservoir in the Sierra Madre foothills of Laguna province, Philippines, created in the 1930s by…
Callao Cave is a limestone cave system in Peñablanca, Cagayan province, Philippines, featuring seven chambers accessible to visitors — cathedral-like…
Callao Man refers to hominin fossils recovered from Callao Cave in Peñablanca, Cagayan, Philippines — a foot bone dated to…
The Calleja v. Executive Secretary consolidation is the constitutional challenge to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (Republic Act No. 11479),…
Callos a la Madrileña · Filipino tripe stew
Callos is a Filipino stew of beef tripe and shank simmered in a tomato-based sauce with chorizo, chickpeas (garbanzos), olives,…
The Divided City (North and South Caloocan) · City of Caloocan
Caloocan, officially the City of Caloocan (Filipino: Lungsod ng Kalookan), is a highly urbanized first-class city in Metro Manila, Philippines.…
Calorie Deficit · Energy Deficit
A caloric deficit is a physiological state in which an individual's energy expenditure exceeds their energy intake over a specified…
Caloy Loyzaga (Carlos Loyzaga, 1930–2016), nicknamed "The Big J", is widely considered the greatest Filipino basketball player of the twentieth…
Municipality of Calubian · Calubian Leyte
Calubian, officially the Municipality of Calubian, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Calumpit · Calumpit Bulacan
Calumpit, officially the Municipality of Calumpit, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Caluya · Caluya Antique
Caluya, officially the Municipality of Caluya, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
1. Definition A CAM Walker Boot (Controlled Ankle Motion walker boot) is a rigid orthopedic rehabilitation device worn on the…
Municipality of Camalaniugan · Camalaniugan Cagayan
Camalaniugan, officially the Municipality of Camalaniugan, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Camalig · Camalig Albay
Camalig, officially the Municipality of Camalig, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Camaligan · Camaligan Camarines Sur
Camaligan, officially the Municipality of Camaligan, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Camarines Norte is a province of the Philippines in the Bicol Region (Region V) of Luzon. Its capital is Daet.…
Province of Camarines Norte · Camarines Norte
Camarines Norte, officially the Province of Camarines Norte, is a province of the Philippines located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Camarines Sur is a province of the Philippines in the Bicol Region (Region V) of Luzon. Its capital is Pili,…
Province of Camarines Sur · Camarines Sur
Camarines Sur, officially the Province of Camarines Sur, is a province of the Philippines located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Cambugahay Waterfalls · Cambugahay Falls of Lazi
Cambugahay Falls is a multi-tiered waterfall on the Cambugahay River in Lazi, Siquijor, Philippines. The falls descend in wide, curved…
1. Definition Camella is the flagship residential housing brand of Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the…
Camella Homes · Camella
Camella Homes is the largest residential homebuilder in the Philippines. Operating as a subsidiary of Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc.…
Camiguin hawk-owl · Ninox leventisi
The Camiguin boobook (Ninox leventisi), also called the Camiguin hawk-owl, is a small owl endemic to the island of Camiguin…
The Camiguin bulbul is a species of songbird in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae, endemic to the Philippines and found only…
Camiguin de Babuyanes is an active stratovolcano on Camiguin Island, Babuyan group, Cagayan province in the northern Philippines — distinct…
Camiguin colasisi (informal local-equivalent name)
The Camiguin hanging parrot (Loriculus camiguinensis) is a tiny, mostly green parrot endemic to the small island of Camiguin off…
The Camiguin hawk-owl (Ninox leventisi) is a small owl endemic to Camiguin island off the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines,…
Province of Camiguin · Camiguin
Camiguin, officially the Province of Camiguin, is an island province in the Bohol Sea, off the northern coast of Mindanao,…
Municipality of Camiling · Camiling Tarlac
Camiling, officially the Municipality of Camiling, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Camilo Osías y Olaviano — the full Spanish-style naming, paternal surname Osías, maternal surname Olaviano · Mr. Philippine Freedom — the nickname his House colleagues gave him during his Washington years
Camilo Osías (Camilo Osías y Olaviano; March 23, 1889 – May 20, 1976) was an Ilocos-born educator, textbook author, and…
Camotecue · Camote-cue
Camote cue (also spelled camote-cue or camotecue) is a popular snack food in the Philippines made from camote (sweet potato).…
The Camotes Sea is a small sea within the Philippine archipelago between the Central and Eastern Visayas, bordered by Cebu…
Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo — the formal designation · Camp Murphy — the 1935–1965 name, after High Commissioner Frank Murphy
Camp Aguinaldo (Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo) is the site of the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Armed Forces of the…
Camp General Rafael T. Crame — the formal designation · PNP National Headquarters — the functional styling
Camp Crame (Camp General Rafael T. Crame) is the national headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the country's civilian…
Camp John Hay is a former rest and recreation base of the United States Armed Forces in Baguio, Philippines, established…
Camp O'Donnell, Capas · Capas Concentration Camp
Camp O'Donnell is a military post at Capas, Tarlac, in the Philippines, built in 1941 as a training camp for…
Municipality of Can-avid · Can-avid Eastern Samar
Can-avid, officially the Municipality of Can-avid, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Municipality of Canaman · Canaman Camarines Sur
Canaman, officially the Municipality of Canaman, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Manila elemi tree (trade context) · Piling-liit / salong (regional names recorded for elemi-yielding Canarium trees)
Canarium luzonicum is a large Philippine tree of the Burseraceae, best known as a traditional source of elemi, the aromatic,…
Pili (Filipino common name) · Philippine nut tree
Canarium ovatum, commercially known as the pili tree, is a large evergreen tree endemic to the Philippines and the source…
Municipality of Candaba · Candaba Pampanga
Candaba, officially the Municipality of Candaba, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Candaba Marsh · Candaba Wetlands
Candaba Swamp is a vast floodplain of reed beds, marshes, fishponds, and seasonal wetlands around the town of Candaba in…
Candelaria is a first-income-class municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, founded on August 5, 1879. A progressive agricultural center, it is…
Candido Tría Tirona y Mata — full Spanish-style name · General Candido Tirona — the commemorative styling of the 1956 historical marker and popular history
Cándido Tirona — in full Candido Tría Tirona y Mata (August 29, 1863, Kawit, Cavite – November 10, 1896, Binakayan,…
Municipality of Candijay · Candijay Bohol
Candijay, officially the Municipality of Candijay, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
City of Candon · Candon
Candon, officially the City of Candon, is a component city in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. Located in the…
Municipality of Candoni · Candoni Negros Occidental
Candoni, officially the Municipality of Candoni, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
1. Definition Canes and crutches are handheld assistive mobility devices designed to transfer body weight from the lower extremities to…
City of Canlaon · Canlaon City
Canlaon, officially the City of Canlaon, is a component city in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. Situated at the…
Cansi (also spelled kansi) is an Ilonggo soup from the Philippines made with beef shank and marrow bone simmered until…
Cantilan is a municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines, recognized as a heritage town and the "Cradle of…
Municipality of Caoayan · Caoayan Ilocos Sur
Caoayan, officially the Municipality of Caoayan, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Capalonga, officially the Municipality of Capalonga, is a municipality in Camarines Norte, Philippines, with about 32,800 people per the 2024…
Municipality of Capas · Capas
Capas, officially the Municipality of Capas, is a first-class municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. It is historically known…
Capas · Municipality of Capas
Capas, officially the Municipality of Capas, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Capas Shrine · Dambana ng Kagitingan at Capas (memorial of valor)
The Capas National Shrine is a war memorial in Capas, Tarlac, Philippines, honoring the Filipino and American soldiers who perished…
Cape Bojeador Lighthouse, also known as Burgos Lighthouse, is a historic lighthouse atop Cape Bojeador in Burgos, Ilocos Norte, Philippines…
The Cape Bolinao Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse in the town of Bolinao, Pangasinan, on the coast of northwestern Luzon.…
Faro de Cabo Engaño · Palaui Lighthouse
The Cape Engaño Lighthouse is a Spanish-colonial era lighthouse completed in 1892 on the northern tip of Palaui Island in…
CGT · Property Sales Tax
Capital Gains Tax (commonly abbreviated as CGT) in the Philippines is a tax imposed on the gains presumed to have…
Capital punishment in the Philippines (Filipino: parusang kamatayan sa Pilipinas) refers to the use of the death penalty by the…
Province of Capiz · Capiz
Capiz, officially the Province of Capiz, is a province located in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, in the…
Capiznon is a Bisayan language spoken in the province of Capiz, including Roxas City, in the Western Visayas, Philippines. Closely…
Capones Island (Isla de Capones) is a small rocky island off the coast of San Antonio, Zambales, in the Philippines,…
The Capones Island Lighthouse is a historic Spanish-era lighthouse on Capones Island off the coast of Barangay Pundaquit, San Antonio,…
Municipality of Capoocan · Capoocan Leyte
Capoocan, officially the Municipality of Capoocan, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
The Capture of Aguinaldo on 23 March 1901 was the seizure of President Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine revolutionary…
The Capture of Emilio Aguinaldo on 23 March 1901 at Palanan, Isabela, ended the military leadership of the First Philippine…
Battle of Malolos · Labanan para sa Malolos (Filipino)
The Capture of Malolos (31 March 1899) was the American seizure of Malolos, Bulacan, the capital of the First Philippine…
Capul · Municipality of Capul
Capul, officially the Municipality of Capul, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Capul Island is an island municipality in Northern Samar, Philippines, guarding the western entrance of the San Bernardino Strait —…
The Capul Island Lighthouse is a historic light station on Titoog Point in the barangay of San Luis, at the…
Car care sector · Auto detailing industry
Car care industry in the Philippines is the service-and-retail sector built around the maintenance, cleaning, protection, and cosmetic enhancement of…
CDP · Car Development Program (1987)
The Car Development Program (CDP) was the Philippine automotive industrial program established in 1987 under President Corazon C. Aquino to…
Karwash (Philippine colloquial spelling, common in shop signs and business names) · Carwash (one-word alternative form)
Car wash is a facility for cleaning the exterior — and sometimes the interior — of motor vehicles, operating as…
Automobile wax · Paste wax (the traditional carnauba product form)
Car wax is the category of paste, liquid, and spray products applied to a vehicle's painted surfaces to form a…
Caraballo Range · Sierra de Caraballo (Spanish-era usage)
The Caraballo Mountains are a mountain range in northern Luzon, Philippines, situated where the Cordillera Central, the Sierra Madre, and…
Kalabaw · Philippine water buffalo
The carabao is the swamp-type water buffalo of the Philippines, the domesticated draft animal that has plowed the country's rice…
Carabao Island is a small island municipality of San Jose in Romblon province, Philippines, situated at the southern entrance of…
The Caracol Festival is the signature festival of Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines, staged by the city government since the…
Caraga (Region XIII) is an administrative region in the northeastern part of Mindanao, Philippines, created in 1995 by Republic Act…
Caraga, officially the Municipality of Caraga, is a coastal municipality in the province of Davao Oriental facing the Philippine Sea.…
Survivor filming islands (media tag) · Caramoan Peninsula
Caramoan is a municipality and peninsula in Camarines Sur, Philippines, known for limestone karst islands, white-sand coves, and clear waters.…
Municipality of Caramoan · Caramoan Camarines Sur
Caramoan, officially the Municipality of Caramoan, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
The Caramoan Peninsula is a rugged limestone projection on the Pacific coast of Camarines Sur, Bicol, comprising the municipality of…
Municipality of Caramoran · Caramoran Catanduanes
Caramoran, officially the Municipality of Caramoran, is a municipality in the province of Catanduanes, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Carasi · Carasi Ilocos Norte
Carasi, officially the Municipality of Carasi, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Hollywood Laser Peel · China Doll Peel
A Carbon Laser Peel is a non-invasive, minimally disruptive laser skin treatment that combines the application of a topical liquid…
Heritage City of Cebu (informal) · City of Carcar
Carcar, officially the City of Carcar (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Carcar; Filipino: Lungsod ng Carcar), is a component city in the…
Heart Disease (colloquial) · CVD
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the umbrella term for a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, principally coronary…
Heart health · Cardiometabolic wellness
Cardiovascular Health is the state of well-being of the heart and blood vessels, encompassing the absence of overt cardiovascular disease…
CVD risk reduction · Cardiovascular prevention
Cardiovascular Risk Reduction refers to the clinical and lifestyle strategies aimed at lowering the probability of developing cardiovascular diseases (CVD),…
Cardona, Rizal · Lakeside town of Cardona
Cardona is a fourth-income-class municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, along the northern shore of Laguna de Bay. One of the…
Municipality of Cardona · Cardona Rizal
Cardona, officially the Municipality of Cardona, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
CES — the standard abbreviation · Third level of the Philippine civil service
The Career Executive Service (CES) is the third level of the Philippine career service — in the Career Executive Service…
CESB · Career Executive Service Board
The Career Executive Service Board (CESB) is the governing body of the Career Executive Service (CES) — the third level…
CSE · Civil Service Examination
The Career Service Examination (CSE) is the Philippine government's merit examination administered by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to determine…
Municipality of Carigara · Carigara Leyte
Carigara, officially the Municipality of Carigara, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
The cariñosa is a Philippine courtship dance of Hispanic-era origin, performed by pairs wielding fans and handkerchiefs (pañuelo) in playful,…
Municipality of Carles · Carles Iloilo
Carles, officially the Municipality of Carles, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Carlo J. Caparas is a Filipino comics writer and film director whose serialized komiks novels and true-crime "massacre films" made…
Botong Francisco · Carlos V. Francisco
Carlos "Botong" Francisco (born Carlos Modesto Villaluz Francisco; November 4, 1912, Angono, Rizal – March 31, 1969, Angono) was a…
Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (1913–1956) was a Filipino American novelist and poet who immigrated to the United States in 1930 and…
Le Cost Killer · Keiretsu killer
Carlos Ghosn (born March 9, 1954, in Porto Velho, Brazil) is a Brazilian-born businessman holding Lebanese, French, and Brazilian citizenship…
Carlos Loyzaga (1930–2016), nicknamed "The Big J" and "The Big Difference," was a Filipino basketball player widely considered the greatest…
Carlos María de la Torre y Nava Cerrada — the styling of the English record and the Wikidata label · Carlos María de la Torre y Navacerrada — the single-word Spanish spelling of the record
Carlos María de la Torre (Carlos María de la Torre y Nava Cerrada; born in Seville in 1809 – died…
Carlos Polestico Garcia — full name · President Garcia
Carlos P. Garcia (Carlos Polestico Garcia; November 4, 1896, Talibon, Bohol – June 14, 1971, Quezon City) was a Filipino…
Carlos Peña Romulo — full name · General Romulo — the wartime rank by which he was widely styled thereafter
Carlos P. Romulo (Carlos Peña Romulo; born January 14, 1898 or 1899 — the references divide, and both years appear…
Tan Geng Lay — the Chinese birth name · Tan Guin Lay — Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization carried in the standard account
Carlos Palanca Sr. (born Tan Geng Lay — Chinese: 陳迎來, Pe̍h-ōe-jī Tân Gêng-lâi, often romanized Tan Guin Lay; September 1,…
Palanca v. Republic — the short citation form · Carlos Palanca vs. Republic of the Philippines — the LawPhil caption styling
Carlos Palanca v. Republic (G.R. No. L-301, decided April 7, 1948, Supreme Court En Banc, Padilla, J.) is the Philippine…
Carlos L. Quirino
Carlos Quirino (1910–1983) was a Filipino historian, biographer, and cartographer whose elegant documentary scholarship shaped Philippine historical writing in English.…
Carlos "Botong" V. Francisco (1912–1969) was a Filipino painter from Angono, Rizal, celebrated as the single-handed reviver of Filipino mural…
1. Definition Carmelray Industrial Park is a major industrial estate located in Canlubang, Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines. Spanning hundreds of…
Carmen Guerrero Nakpil (1922–2018) was a Filipino journalist, historian, and civic leader famed for her essays on Manila and Filipino…
Carmen is a municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines. Established in 1918, it covers 160.01 square kilometers and…
Carmona · The Industrial Estate Town (informal)
Carmona is a first-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, inland in the central province between Biñan/Santa Rosa to the east and…
Brazil wax · Palm wax
Carnauba wax is a yellow-brown natural wax obtained from the leaves of the carnauba palm (Copernicia prunifera), which grows only…
Zero-Carb Diet · All-Meat Diet
The Carnivore Diet is a restrictive, zero-carbohydrate elimination diet that consists exclusively of animal-derived foods. The fundamental premise of the…
CTS · Median nerve compression
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a common neurological and orthopedic condition caused by the compression of the median nerve as…
CTS · Median nerve compression
Carpian Tunnel Syndrome (commonly referred to in clinical practice as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) is an occupational neurological and orthopedic condition…
Municipality of Carranglan · Carranglan Nueva Ecija
Carranglan, officially the Municipality of Carranglan, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Carrascal is a municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines, heavily reliant on large-scale mining. Covering 265.80 square kilometers,…
Karomata — the Tagalog spelling, a listed synonym of kalesa ([Wiktionary — karomata](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/karomata "karomata — Wiktionary (Tagalog, Cebuano)")) · Karumata — the older Tagalog spelling, superseded but still recorded ([Wiktionary — karomata](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/karomata "karomata — Wiktionary (Tagalog, Cebuano)"))
A carromata is a light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn passenger carriage with a tilt (canvas) roof, used in the Philippines within cities…
Gorordo House Museum · Casa Gorordo (Cebu)
Casa Gorordo Museum is a nineteenth-century bahay na bato (stone-and-timber ancestral house) on Lopez Jaena Street in the Parian district…
Casablanca class · Casablanca-class CVE
The Casablanca-class escort carrier was a class of fifty escort carriers of the United States Navy, built by the Kaiser…
Cascarón (Spanish-style spelling) · Fried coconut rice balls
Cascaron is a Filipino fried snack made from ground glutinous rice mixed with grated coconut and sugar, deep-fried into crisp…
The Casecnan Protected Landscape is a protected area in the Casecnan River watershed of eastern Luzon, covering 88,846.80 hectares across…
Casey Keith · TheRealCaseyKeith (social-media handle — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube)
Casey Keith is an American search-engine-optimization (SEO) consultant, entity SEO strategist, and digital-marketing educator based in Oxnard, California, United States.…
Casiguran, officially the Municipality of Casiguran, is a municipality occupying the northern stretch of the province of Aurora on Luzon's…
Municipality of Casiguran · Casiguran Sorsogon
Casiguran, officially the Municipality of Casiguran, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Cassava cake is a beloved Filipino baked merienda dessert made from grated cassava (kamoteng kahoy), coconut milk, eggs, and sugar,…
Municipality of Castilla · Castilla Sorsogon
Castilla, officially the Municipality of Castilla, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Castillejos · Castillejos Zambales
Castillejos, officially the Municipality of Castillejos, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Casto Jurado Alejandrino — full name · Guan Yek (GY) — principal wartime alias
Casto Alejandrino — in full Casto Jurado Alejandrino, aliases Guan Yek (GY), Torres, GI, and Tatang (November 18, 1911 –…
Municipality of Cataingan · Cataingan Masbate
Cataingan, officially the Municipality of Cataingan, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Catanauan · Catanauan Quezon
Catanauan, officially the Municipality of Catanauan, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Province of Catanduanes · Catanduanes
Catanduanes, officially the Province of Catanduanes, is an island province located in the Bicol Region of Luzon, Philippines. Its capital…
Catandungan Day festival season · Founding anniversary of Catanduanes
The Catandungan Festival is the annual founding-anniversary festival of the island province of Catanduanes, held every October to mark the…
Municipality of Catarman · Catarman Camiguin
Catarman, officially the Municipality of Catarman, is a municipality in the province of Camiguin, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Catarman Airport (Catarman National Airport) is a domestic airport serving Catarman, the capital of Northern Samar, Philippines. It provides the…
City of Catbalogan · Catbalogan City
Catbalogan, officially the City of Catbalogan, is a component city and the capital of the province of Samar, Philippines. Situated…
Municipality of Cateel · Cateel Davao Oriental
Cateel, officially the Municipality of Cateel, is a municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, located within the Davao Region…
CBCP · Catholic Welfare Organization (CWO, 1945-1968)
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is the permanent assembly of Catholic bishops in the Philippines, through which…
Catholic Filipino Academy · CFA
Catholic Filipino Academy (CFA) is a prominent Catholic homeschool provider in the Philippines. Founded by lay preacher and author Bo…
CWO — the standard abbreviation of the record · The official organization of the Hierarchy of the Philippines — the designation given at the bishops' July 1945 assumption of control
The Catholic Welfare Organization (CWO) was the national organ of the Catholic hierarchy of the Philippines — created on February…
Municipality of Catigbian · Catigbian Bohol
Catigbian, officially the Municipality of Catigbian, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
CATL · Contemporary Amperex Technology
CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited) is a global energy technology company and the world's largest manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries…
Municipality of Catmon · Catmon Cebu
Catmon, officially the Municipality of Catmon, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Catriona Elise Magnayon Gray (full name) · Miss Universe 2018
Catriona Gray, born in Cairns, Queensland, Australia to an Australian father and a Filipina mother from Albay, is a Filipina-Australian…
Municipality of Catubig · Catubig Northern Samar
Catubig, officially the Municipality of Catubig, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Cauayan, officially the City of Cauayan, is a component city in Isabela, Philippines, and the primary trade and service center…
Municipality of Cauayan · Cauayan Negros Occidental
Cauayan, officially the Municipality of Cauayan, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Municipality of Cavinti · Cavinti Laguna
Cavinti, officially the Municipality of Cavinti, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
1. Definition Cavite City, officially the City of Cavite, is a component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines. Positioned…
CAVITEX · Coastal Road
The Manila-Cavite Expressway, commonly known as the Cavite Expressway or CAVITEX (and formerly known as the Coastal Road), is a…
Cavite Mutiny of 1872 · The 1872 Cavite Mutiny — the dated form of commemorative usage
The Cavite Mutiny was the uprising of about two hundred soldiers and laborers at the Spanish arsenal of Fort San…
The Cavite Mutiny of 1872 was a short-lived uprising on 20 January 1872 by Filipino soldiers and arsenal workers at…
Cavite · Province of Cavite
Cavite Province, officially the Province of Cavite, is a province in the CALABARZON region of the Philippines, situated on the…
Cavite State University (CvSU or CavSU) is a state university headquartered in Indang, Cavite, tracing its origins to a rural…
CALAX · Cavite–Laguna Expressway
Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX) is a 44.6-kilometer (27.7 mi) closed-system tollway in the Philippines, linking the provinces of Cavite and Laguna.…
CALAX · Cavite-Laguna Expressway
The Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX) is a 44.6-kilometer controlled-access toll expressway under construction in the Philippines, connecting the Manila-Cavite Expressway (CAVITEx)…
CALAX · Cavite-Laguna Expressway
The Cavite–Laguna Expressway (commonly abbreviated as CALAX) is a 45-kilometer closed-system toll expressway connecting the Cavite Expressway (CAVITEX) in Kawit,…
Municipality of Cawayan · Cawayan Masbate
Cawayan, officially the Municipality of Cawayan, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Cayetano Simplicio Arellano y Lonzón — the full Spanish-style name carried in the Library of Congress heading · Chief Justice Arellano — the styling of his two decades on the bench
Cayetano Arellano (Cayetano Simplicio Arellano y Lonzón; March 2, 1847, Udyong, now Orion, Bataan – December 23, 1920, Manila) was…
CCLEX · Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway
CCLEX (Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway) is an 8.9-kilometer (5.5 mi) toll bridge expressway in Metro Cebu, Philippines, linking Cebu City to…
CCS2 Connector Standard · CCS2
The CCS2 Connector Standard (Combined Charging System Type 2) is the internationally recognized plug and socket standard for fast charging…
Video Surveillance System · Closed-Circuit Television
A CCTV system (Closed-Circuit Television system) is a security installation consisting of cameras, recording devices (DVRs/NVRs), and monitors used to…
Cealwyn S. Tagle — the company record's full styling · Filipino organ builder Cealwyn Tagle — the press designation
Cealwyn Tagle — in the company record's full styling, Cealwyn S. Tagle — is a Filipino pipe-organ builder: the "Company…
Ninox rumseyi (scientific name) · Cebu hawk-owl (former treatment)
The Cebu boobook (Ninox rumseyi) is a small owl endemic to the Philippine island of Cebu, with warm brown upperparts,…
Hypsipetes caseyi (scientific name) · Cebu Streaked Bulbul (historical treatment)
The Cebu bulbul (Hypsipetes caseyi) is a drab, olive-brown songbird endemic to the island of Cebu, long treated as a…
Cebu BRT · Cebu Bus Rapid Transit System
The Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (Cebu BRT) is the first bus rapid transit project in the Philippines, under construction in…
Cinnamomum cebuense (scientific name) · Cebu cinnamon tree
The Cebu cinnamon (Cinnamomum cebuense) is a small to medium-sized tree endemic to the Philippine island of Cebu, one of…
City of Cebu · Queen City of the South
Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu, is a highly urbanized city in the island province of Cebu, Philippines. Positioned…
CDU · Cebu Doctors' University
Cebu Doctors' University (CDU) is a private, non-sectarian university in Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines, specializing in health-sciences and medical education.…
The Cebu flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor) is a small passerine bird endemic to the island of Cebu in the Philippines. Feared…
Cebu boobook · Ninox rumseyi (scientific name)
The Cebu Hawk-Owl (Ninox rumseyi), also called the Cebu boobook, is a small forest owl endemic to the island of…
Mactan-Cebu International Airport · MCIA
Cebu International Airport, officially named the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA), is the primary international airport serving the Metro Cebu area…
Asiatown IT Park · Asiatown
Cebu IT Park (formerly known as the Asiatown IT Park) is a 24-hectare modern mixed-use business park located in Cebu…
Cebu Landmasters, Inc. · CLI
Cebu Landmasters, Inc. (CLI) is a leading publicly-listed real estate developer in the Visayas and Mindanao (VisMin) regions of the…
Cebu Provincial Government · Province of Cebu LGU
The Cebu LGU (Local Government Unit) refers to the collective provincial, city, and municipal government administrations responsible for the public…
Metropolitan Cathedral and Parish of St. Vitalis — the formal designation in the archdiocese's own styling · Metropolitan Cathedral and Parish of Saint Vitalis and of the Immaculate Conception — the fuller title in the archdiocese's templates
The Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral — formally the Metropolitan Cathedral and Parish of St. Vitalis — is the seat of the…
Cebu Air, Inc. — corporate name · CEB — PSE ticker and airline code
Cebu Pacific (stylized cebupacific; corporate name Cebu Air, Inc., PSE: CEB) is the Philippine low-cost carrier of the Gokongwei group's…
Cebu Pacific Flight 387 was a scheduled domestic flight from Manila to Cagayan de Oro that crashed into Mount Sumagaya…
Port of Cebu · Cebu Port Complex
The Port of Cebu is the principal international and domestic seaport of the central Philippines, situated in the North Reclamation…
CPA (common abbreviation) · Port of Cebu (the baseport it administers)
The Cebu Port Authority (CPA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation created in 1975 to develop, operate, and regulate…
Cebu · Province of Cebu
Cebu Province, officially the Province of Cebu (Cebuano: Lalawigan sa Sugbo), is an island province of the Philippines in the…
The Cebu Provincial Capitol is the seat of the provincial government of Cebu, Philippines — a neoclassical building with art…
Bohol Strait · Kipot ng Cebu
The Cebu Strait is the strait of the Central Visayas, Philippines, that separates the island provinces of Cebu and Bohol…
Cebu Technological University (CTU) is a public state university system in Cebu, Philippines, with its main campus in Cebu City.…
The Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) is an 8.9-kilometer toll bridge expressway in Metro Cebu, Philippines, connecting the South Road Properties…
Cebuana Lhuillier Pawnshop is one of the Philippines' largest non-bank financial service networks, offering pawning, remittance, microinsurance and bills payment…
Bisaya — the speakers' own common name for the language · Binisayâ — the preferred name among many Leyte, Mindanao, Davao, Caraga, and Zamboanga speakers
The Cebuano language is an Austronesian language of the Bisayan (Visayan) group — classed within Greater Central Philippine, Central Philippine,…
Literature in Cebuano — the descriptive styling · The sugilambong tradition — the Cebuano novel's own name in the language
Cebuano literature is the literary tradition carried in the Cebuano language — the Philippines' principal Visayan tongue, the home language…
The Cebuano people are the largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines, numbering over twenty million, native to Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor,…
Cecile B. Licad (formal name)
Cecile Licad (born 1961, Manila) is a Filipino concert pianist of international stature, acclaimed for interpretations of Chopin, Schumann, Ravel,…
Justice Cecilia Muñoz-Palma · Cecilia Arreglado Muñoz-Palma — full name
Cecilia Arreglado Muñoz-Palma (November 22, 1913, Bauan, Batangas – January 2, 2006, Quezon City) was a Filipino jurist, the first…
Cecilio Apostol (1877–1938) was a Filipino poet considered the finest Spanish-language versifier of the revolutionary and American periods, renowned for…
Cédula · Sedula
The cedula personal, spelled cédula in Spanish records and colloquially sedula in the Philippines, was the personal registration and receipt…
Ceferino Garcia (1906–1981) was a Filipino boxer who won the world middleweight championship in 1939 by knocking out Fred Apostoli,…
Hypothymis coelestis (scientific name) · Symposiachrus coelestis (alternative scientific treatment)
The Celestial Monarch (Hypothymis coelestis, recently treated by some authorities as Symposiachrus coelestis) is a striking, electric-blue flycatcher endemic to…
Gynoid Lipodystrophy · Orange Peel Syndrome
Cellulite, clinically termed gynoid lipodystrophy, is the herniation of subcutaneous fat through fibrous connective tissue bands under the skin, producing…
CA — the census-year styling (CA 1991, CA 2002, CA 2012) · Census of Agriculture and Fisheries (CAF) — the combined agriculture-and-fisheries form of the modern censuses
The Census of Agriculture is the Philippines' periodic complete enumeration of its farm sector — in the Philippine Statistics Authority's…
Gotu Kola · Asiatic Pennywort
Centella Asiatica, also known as Gotu Kola, Asiatic Pennywort, or takip-kohol in Tagalog, is a perennial, herbaceous plant belonging to…
CMFR · Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) is a Philippine non-governmental organization organized in 1989 as a private, non-stock,…
Bikol Naga · Standard Bikol
Central Bikol, also called Bikol Naga or standard Bikol, is the most widely spoken variety of the Bicol macrolanguage of…
Central Luzon (Region III) is an administrative region on the largest island of the Philippines, occupying the central plain of…
CLSU · Central Luzon Agricultural School (original name, 1907)
Central Luzon State University (CLSU) is a public research university in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, about 150…
Central Mindanao University (CMU) is a public state university located in Musuan, Maramag, in the province of Bukidnon, Philippines. Tracing…
Central Visayas (Region VII) is an administrative region in the central Philippines, comprising the provinces of Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental,…
CPG · Century Properties
Century Properties Group Inc. (commonly known as Century Properties) is a major real estate developer in the Philippines, recognized for…
Nano-Ceramic Coating · Quartz Coating
Ceramic coating, in automotive use, is a liquid protectant based on silicon dioxide (SiO2) — often blended with other siloxanes…
Ceramic Pro PH · Ceramic Pro Philippines Official
Ceramic Pro Philippines is the Philippine distribution and application network of Ceramic Pro, a brand of nanoceramic surface-protection coatings manufactured…
Sphingolipids · Intercellular lipids
Ceramides are a family of waxy lipid molecules composed of sphingosine and a fatty acid. They constitute approximately 50% of…
Ceres — the colloquial rider's name for the buses and, loosely, the company · Ceres Tours — the air-conditioned brand of the same operator
Ceres Liner is the bus brand of Vallacar Transit, Inc. (VTI), the Bacolod-based carrier founded in 1968 by Dr. Ricardo…
BIR CAR · Tax Clearance for Transfer
A Certificate Authorizing Registration (CAR) is an official clearance document issued by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the…
CADT · Ancestral domain title
A Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) is an official land title issued by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples…
CLOA · DAR CLOA
A Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) is an official land title issued by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)…
CLT · Land Transfer Certificate — the decree's own term in PD 266, Section 1 ([LawPhil — PD 266](https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1973/pd_266_1973.html "Presidential Decree No. 266, Providing for the Mechanics of Registration of Ownership and/or Title to Land Under Presidential Decree No. 27 (August 4, 1973) — The LawPhil Project"))
The Certificate of Land Transfer (CLT) is the interim operating document of the tenant-emancipation program of Presidential Decree No. 27…
Occupancy Permit · Certificate of Completion and Occupancy
A Certificate of Occupancy (commonly referred to as an occupancy permit) is an official document issued by the local government…
CPC (the standard Philippine transport-industry abbreviation) · Certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN, required when a law or franchise so provides)
A Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC) is the Philippine franchise instrument that authorizes a person or company to operate a…
Petition for certiorari — the pleading's name in the Rule · Special civil action for certiorari — the docket classification
Certiorari under Rule 65 is the extraordinary remedial writ of Philippine procedure — the special civil action by which a…
Municipality of Cervantes · Cervantes Ilocos Sur
Cervantes, officially the Municipality of Cervantes, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Neck brace · C-collar
A cervical collar (also called a neck brace or C-collar) is an orthopedic device worn around the neck to support…
1. Definition The Cervical Spine is the neck region of the spinal column, consisting of the first seven vertebrae (designated…
Cesar Bengzon · César Fernando Bengzon y Cabrera
César Fernando Bengzon y Cabrera (May 29, 1896, Camiling, Tarlac – September 3, 1992) was a Filipino jurist, the ninth…
Cesar P. Nazareno · Cesar Pardo Nazareno
Cesar Pardo Nazareno (December 5, 1940 – October 30, 2006) was a Filipino police officer and constabulary general — the…
Cesar V. Purisima — a verified alias in the structured record ([Wikidata — Q1056659](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1056659 "Cesar Purisima (Q1056659) — Wikidata")) · Cesar Antonio Velasquez Purisima — the full name ([Wikipedia — Cesar Purisima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Purisima "Cesar Purisima — Wikipedia"))
Cesar Purisima — in full Cesar Antonio Velasquez Purisima (born April 3, 1960, Davao City) — is a Filipino certified…
Cesar E. A. Virata — the initialled citation form carried in library authority records · Cesar Enrique Aguinaldo Virata — full name
Cesar Virata (Cesar Enrique Aguinaldo Virata; born December 12, 1930, Kawit, Cavite — living, aged 95 as of 2026) is…
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research · Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CGIAR is the global agricultural research partnership — the world's largest network of its kind, describing itself as "a global…
Jaebeol · Chaebŏl
A chaebol (Korean: 재벌; Hanja: 財閥; revised romanization jaebeol) is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by…
CAMPI · CAMPI, Inc.
The Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, Inc. (CAMPI) is the Philippine automotive industry association of vehicle manufacturers, assemblers,…
Nautilus pompilius (scientific name) · Pearly nautilus
The chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) is a living-fossil cephalopod of the tropical Indo-Pacific found in Philippine waters, especially around Palawan,…
Champorado is a Philippine sweet rice porridge made by simmering glutinous rice with water or milk and tablea (roasted cacao…
Charles Harvey Denby — full name · Colonel Denby — his Civil War rank, by which he was known in Indiana
Charles Harvey Denby (June 16, 1830 – January 13, 1904) was an American lawyer, Civil War officer, and diplomat —…
Charlotte Maria Shaw Mason · Charlotte Mason Philosophy
Charlotte Mason (1842–1923) was a pioneering British educator and author whose progressive, child-centered educational philosophy has become a major foundation…
Charlotte Mason Education · CM Method
The Charlotte Mason Method is an educational philosophy and homeschooling methodology based on the teachings of 19th-century British educator Charlotte…
Chavez v. Gonzales (G.R. No. 168338) · Francisco Chavez v. Raul M. Gonzales and the National Telecommunications Commission
Chavez v. Gonzales (G.R. No. 168338, decided February 15, 2008) is a decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines,…
RA 9502 · Republic Act No. 9502
The Cheaper Medicines Act is the popular name of Republic Act No. 9502, officially "An Act Providing for Cheaper and…
The system of mutual restraint — the descriptive styling · The elaborate system of checks and balances — the Angara phrasing
Checks and balances is the constitutional system by which each department of the Philippine government — legislative, executive, and judicial…
Government Recognition (CHED) · Certificate of Program Compliance (COPC)
CHED Recognition, officially known as government recognition granted by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), is the formal, mandatory authorization…
CHED Memorandum Order compliance (for HEIs) · College admission for homeschool graduates
CHED Recognition for Homeschoolers refers to the policies and institutional practices by which the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) of…
Chelsea Logistics and Infrastructure Holdings · Chelsea Logistics and Infrastructure Holdings Corp. (full corporate name)
Chelsea Logistics and Infrastructure Holdings Corp. (CLC; formerly Chelsea Logistics Holdings Corp.) is the listed shipping and logistics arm of…
Chemexfoliation · Chemical resurfacing
A Chemical Peel is a dermatological procedure in which a chemical solution of specific pH and concentration is applied to…
Chester W. Nimitz · Chester William Nimitz
Chester Nimitz (February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy who commanded…
The chestnut munia (Lonchura atricapilla) is a small, gregarious seed-eating finch of the waxbill family, widespread across South and Southeast…
The chestnut-breasted malkoha (Phaenicophaeus curvirostris) is a large, long-tailed cuckoo endemic to the Philippines, marked by a chestnut breast and…
Zosterornis whiteheadi (scientific name) · Whitehead's babbler
The chestnut-faced babbler (Zosterornis whiteheadi) is a small endemic songbird of northern Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines, recognized by…
Caltex Philippines · Caltex (Philippines), Inc. (historical corporate name from 1936)
Chevron Philippines (Chevron Philippines Incorporated) is the Philippine subsidiary of American energy major Chevron Corporation and the operator of the…
Chicharong baboy (pork rind) · Chicharon bulaklak (ruffled fat variant)
Chicharon is the Philippine version of deep-fried pork rind, a golden, brittle crackling adopted from Spanish chicharrón and reinvented as…
Chicken inasal is a Bacolod-style charcoal-grilled chicken dish from Negros Occidental, marinated in calamansi juice, lemongrass, ginger, garlic, and annatto…
Chicken pastel is a Filipino savory dish of chicken (classically with ham or chorizo de Bilbao and sometimes vegetables) cooked…
The chico is the Philippine market name for the sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), a fruit tree native to southern Mexico and…
Río Chico de Cagayan · River of Life
The Chico River (Spanish: Río Chico de Cagayan) is a major river system in the Philippines, flowing through the Cordillera…
Chico River · Rio Chico (colonial-era usage)
The Chico River is a 233-kilometre river system on Luzon, flowing through the Cordillera Administrative Region and the Cagayan Valley…
Chico River Basin Development Project — the basin-wide styling of the scheme · Chico Dam Project — the short form used in Cordillera movement literature
The Chico River Dam Project was the Marcos-era hydroelectric scheme of the 1970s that planned four dams — Chico I…
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines — the fuller styling carried in the authority records · CJ — the customary Philippine shorthand in legal citation and journalism
The Chief Justice of the Philippines is the head of the Supreme Court and of the Philippine judiciary — the…
1. Definition Child Development is the biological, psychological, and emotional growth that occurs in human beings between birth and the…
Republic Act No. 11229 · RA 11229
The Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 11229, signed by President Rodrigo…
The Child Safety in Motorcycles Act, signed in 2015, regulates the riding of small children on motorcycles on Philippine roads.…
Chinabank — the bank's own brand styling, used in its corporate communications · CBC — the Philippine Stock Exchange ticker since 2024
The China Banking Corporation (PSE ticker CBC; widely styled Chinabank) is a Philippine universal bank and the first privately owned…
唐人街 · Tángrénjiē
A Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan — a…
Egretta eulophotes (scientific name) · Swinhoe's egret
The Chinese Egret (Egretta eulophotes), also called Swinhoe's egret, is a threatened species of egret first described by Robert Swinhoe…
Tsinoy · Chinoy
Chinese Filipinos (also Filipino Chinese, and widely Tsinoys or Chinoys) are Filipinos of full or partial Chinese descent, typically born…
Chinese Filipino Business History · Chinese-Filipino commercial history — the survey styling
Chinese Filipinos in Philippine business is the survey topic covering the commercial history of Filipinos of Chinese descent — from…
Joaquin "Chino" Roces · Joaquin "Chino" Pardo Roces — the full name of record
Chino Roces — Joaquin "Chino" Pardo Roces (June 29, 1913 – September 30, 1988) — was a Filipino businessman and…
Francis Escudero · Francis Joseph Guevara Escudero
Chiz Escudero — Francis Joseph Guevara Escudero, born October 10, 1969, in Manila — is a Filipino politician and lawyer,…
The chocolate boobook (Ninox randi) is a medium-sized owl endemic to the central and southern Philippines, named for its warm…
The Chocolate Hills are a geological formation of approximately 1,268 cone-shaped limestone hills spread across an area of over 50…
Chowking is a Philippine fast-food chain blending Chinese cuisine with quick-service formats, owned by Jollibee Foods Corporation and present in…
Chromium(III) Picolinate · Cr(Pic)3
Chromium picolinate is a coordination complex consisting of trivalent chromium (Cr3+), an essential trace mineral, bound to three molecules of…
1. Definition Chronic Low Back Pain is defined as persistent or recurrent pain in the lumbar region of the spine…
Jeong Uiseon · Euisun Chung
Chung Eui-sun (Korean: 정의선; Hanja: 鄭義宣; born October 18, 1970) is a South Korean business executive, the executive chairman and…
Jeong Ju-yung · Asan Chung Ju-yung
Chung Ju-yung (Korean: 정주영; November 25, 1915 – March 21, 2001) was a South Korean industrialist, the founder of the…
Jeong Mong-gu · Chung Mong-ku
Chung Mong-koo (Korean: 정몽구; born March 19, 1938) is a South Korean business executive, the honorary chairman of Hyundai Motor…
UP Chapel · Parish of the Holy Sacrifice (canonical designation since 1977)
The Church of the Holy Sacrifice — since 1977 canonically the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice, and popularly the UP…
Churrigueresco — the Spanish form · Ultra Baroque — "also but less commonly," per the style article of record
Churrigueresque (Spanish Churrigueresco; also, less commonly, "Ultra Baroque") is the Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament that "emerged…
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center · Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo
CIMMYT — the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, from its Spanish name Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y…
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival · Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival
Cinemalaya — in full the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival — is the annual Philippine festival of independent film established…
Cinnamon white-eye (informal) · Cinnamon ibon of Mindanao
The cinnamon ibon (Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus) is a small songbird endemic to the mountains of Mindanao in the Philippines. The only…
The first president of the CLO — his fixed place in the liberation-era record · The founder of PAFLU — the descriptive designation carried in the party record
Cipriano Cid was a Filipino labor leader — the first president of the Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO), the federation…
CCI — the standard abbreviation · Circuit Criminal Court — the singular styling used for each individual court
The Circuit Criminal Courts were the Philippines' experiment in specialized criminal adjudication: special courts created by Republic Act No. 5179…
Circuit Makati · Circuit
Circuit Makati is a 21-hectare master-planned mixed-use entertainment and residential district located in Barangay Carmona, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines.…
Citi Hardware is a Philippine construction-supplies and home-improvement retail chain concentrated in Visayas and Mindanao, serving builders and contractors. [(verify)]…
Participatory journalism · Grassroots journalism
Citizen journalism in the Philippines refers to the practice by which ordinary citizens — rather than salaried reporters — gather,…
City of Naga · Naga Cebu
Naga, officially the City of Naga, is a component city in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Located along the eastern…
CAB · Lupon ng Aeronautika Sibil (Filipino, Wikidata alias)
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) is the Philippines' regulator of the economic aspect of commercial aviation — the attached agency…
CAB · Board of Air Transportation (earlier name)
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) is the quasi-judicial agency of the Philippine government attached to the Department of Transportation that…
Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines · CAAP
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) is an independent regulatory body attached to the Department of Transportation (DOTr)…
CAAP (common abbreviation) · Air Transportation Office (historical predecessor name)
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) is the national agency responsible for regulating civil aviation, operating most airports…
Republic Act No. 386 · RA 386
The Civil Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 386) is the basic law governing private relations, family law, property,…
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is the central personnel agency of the Philippine government, established as an independent constitutional commission…
CSC · Civil Service Commission
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is the central personnel agency of the Government of the Philippines and, under the 1987…
CSC (common abbreviation) · Komisyon ng Serbisyo Sibil (Filipino name)
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is the central personnel agency of the Philippine government, established as an independent constitutional commission…
Clara Y. Lim-Sylianco (born 1925) is a Filipina chemist and professor celebrated for her research in organic chemistry and chemical…
Maj. Gen. Clarence A. Martin — the styling the eastern Mindanao official history uses · General Martin — the campaign-record shorthand
Clarence A. Martin (September 13, 1896, Belle Haven, Virginia — December 11, 1986, Greenville, South Carolina) was a major general…
Municipality of Clarin · Clarin Misamis Occidental
Clarin, officially the Municipality of Clarin, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Fort Stotsenburg (original name) · Clark Field
Clark Air Base is a former United States Air Force military facility in the Philippines, located in the province of…
Clark International Airport · CRK
Clark Airport, officially known as Clark International Airport (IATA: CRK, ICAO: RPLC), is an international airport located within the Clark…
CDC · Clark Development Corp.
The Clark Development Corporation (CDC) is the government-owned corporation that administers and operates the Clark Freeport Zone, the special economic…
Clark Freeport · CFZ
The Clark Freeport Zone is a special economic and freeport zone occupying the site of the former Clark Air Base…
CRK · Clark Airport
Clark International Airport (IATA: CRK, ICAO: RPLC) is a major international airport within the Clark Freeport Zone in Angeles and…
Claro Mayo Recto Jr. — his full name, the elder Recto's namesake · Don Claro Recto — the honorific styling of his Senate years
Claro Mayo Recto (February 8, 1890, Tiáong, Tayabas, now Quezon – October 2, 1960, Rome, Italy) was a Filipino lawyer,…
Claro Mayo Recto Jr. (1890–1960) was a Filipino statesman, constitutionalist, and leading voice of Filipino economic nationalism. President of the…
1. Definition Classical Education is an educational model root in the liberal arts tradition of Western civilization, structured around the…
Claver is a municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, known as a major nickel mining center. Established on…
Municipality of Claveria · Claveria Misamis Oriental
Claveria, officially the Municipality of Claveria, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Republic Act No. 8749 · RA 8749
The Clean Air Act, officially the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 (Republic Act No. 8749), is the statute "providing…
Clear Title · Unencumbered Title
A Clean Title refers to a Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) or Condominium Certificate of Title (CCT) that is free…
Republic Act No. 9275 · RA 9275
The Clean Water Act, officially the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 (Republic Act No. 9275), is the statute "providing…
Clearcoat (one-word industry spelling) · Clear lacquer (traditional terminology)
Clear coat is the unpigmented, transparent top layer of an automotive paint system, sprayed over the colored basecoat to form…
Clifton Albert Frederick Sprague · Ziggy Sprague
Clifton Albert Frederick Sprague (January 8, 1896 – April 11, 1955), nicknamed "Ziggy" since his Naval Academy days, was a…
Republic Act No. 9729 · RA 9729
The Climate Change Act, officially the Climate Change Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9729), is the statute "mainstreaming climate…
RA 9729 (statutory shorthand) · Republic Act No. 9729
The Climate Change Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9729) is the landmark Philippine law that created the Climate Change…
CCC
The Climate Change Commission (CCC) is the lead policy-making body of the Philippine government on climate change, created by Section…
Tropical maritime climate of the Philippines (PAGASA's descriptive phrase) · Philippine tropical climate
The climate of the Philippines is the tropical, maritime climate of the Philippine archipelago — in PAGASA's official characterization, one…
C. botulinum — the standard abbreviation in the microbiological literature · The botulism bacterium — the disease-oriented usage
Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, motile, spore-forming bacterium that grows only in the absence of oxygen and produces botulinum…
Cloud 9 is a surf break on the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines, widely regarded as the country's…
Community Center · Subdivision Clubhouse
A clubhouse is a communal building or facility within a residential subdivision, condominium development, or country club that serves as…
CLUP · Comprehensive Land Use Plan
CLUP (Comprehensive Land Use Plan) is the primary local government planning document in the Philippines that details the spatial allocation…
Tatus (Filipino/Visayan) · Robber crab
The Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) is the largest land-dwelling arthropod on Earth, capable of weighing over 4 kilograms and spanning…
Philippine coconut industry · Coconut sector
The coconut industry is one of the largest agricultural sectors in the Philippines, with coconut (Cocos nucifera) cultivated across roughly…
Coco-levy fund controversy · coco levy
The coconut levy refers to the series of compulsory exactions imposed on the first domestic sale of copra in the…
Coconut Consumers Stabilization Fund (CCSF) — the ₱15 levy fund of PD 276 · Coconut Investment Fund (CIF) — the ₱0.55 levy fund under RA 6260
The coconut levy funds are the monies exacted from Philippine coconut farmers by a series of Marcos-era statutes and decrees…
The coconut rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) is a large dynastine beetle whose adults bore into the crowns of coconut and…
R.A. No. 6389 — its docket styling · The Code of Agrarian Reforms of the Philippines — the amended Section 1's exact short title
The Code of Agrarian Reform is Republic Act No. 6389, approved September 10, 1971 — the statute that amended Republic…
Republic Act No. 6713 · RA 6713
The Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees is the short title of Republic Act No.…
Kalantiaw Code · Code of Kalantiaw (1433)
The Code of Kalantiaw is a supposed pre-colonial penal code of 1433 attributed to Datu Kalantiaw of Panay, now established…
CPRA · A.M. No. 22-09-01-SC
The Code of Professional Responsibility and Accountability (CPRA) is the code of ethical conduct governing all lawyers in the Philippines,…
Food Code (literal translation of the Latin name) · Codex (common short form)
The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "Food Code") is the collection of internationally recognized food standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and…
Coffee bean · Coffee
Coffee is a globally consumed beverage prepared from the roasted seeds—commonly referred to as beans—of plants belonging to the genus…
Philippine coffee · Coffee in the Philippines
Coffee in the Philippines refers to the historical cultivation, processing, commercial trade, and consumption of coffee within the country. The…
Confraternity of Saint Joseph · Confradia de San Jose
The Cofradía de San José (Confraternity of Saint Joseph) was a Filipino religious brotherhood founded in December 1832 in Lucban,…
1. Definition The Cognitive Science of Learning is the interdisciplinary study of how the human mind acquires, processes, represents, and…
Cokaliong Shipping Lines, Inc. is a shipping line based in Cebu City, Philippines, operating passenger and cargo ferries on routes…
The colasisi (Loriculus philippensis), or Philippine hanging parrot, is the smallest parrot in the Philippines, about 14 centimeters long, endemic…
Digmaang Malamig · Cold War era
The Cold War was the period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their…
Sarcops calvus (scientific name) · Bald starling (descriptive name)
The coleto (Sarcops calvus) is a starling-sized bird endemic to the Philippines, named for the bald, wattled skin of its…
Structural Protein of Connective Tissue · Dermal Collagen
Collagen is the most abundant structural protein in the human body and the principal building block of the extracellular matrix…
Todiramphus chloris (scientific name) · White-collared kingfisher
The collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized tree kingfisher of the subfamily Halcyoninae, white-collared and turquoise-and-white, with a wide…
CLM — the standard abbreviation of the era's record · The 1938 labor center — descriptive shorthand distinguishing it from the 1929 KAP and the 1945 CLO
The Collective Labor Movement (CLM) was a Philippine national labor center founded in 1938 — its founding meeting held in…
Colon St. · Calle Colón
Colon Street is a historical street in downtown Cebu City, Philippines, running about 1.17 kilometers (0.73 mi) from P. Burgos…
Colorum vehicle — the phrase this wiki's UV Express entry uses for the unfranchised van · Colorum operation / franchise-less operation — the practice rather than the vehicle
Colorum is the Philippine English term for a public transport vehicle that operates without a franchise — or in violation…
CAC · Columbian Autocar
Columbian Autocar Corporation (CAC) is a Philippine vehicle manufacturer and distributor incorporated in May 1994 as the assembler and exclusive…
Municipality of Columbio · Columbio Sultan Kudarat
Columbio, officially the Municipality of Columbio, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Ianfu (慰安婦, the contemporary Japanese administrative euphemism) · Military sexual slaves (the term used in the UN special rapporteurs' reports)
Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and…
Commercial Structure · Business Property
A Commercial Building is a structure designed, constructed, and utilized primarily for commercial activities, including offices, retail shops, wholesale trade,…
Strip Mall · Neighborhood Commercial Center
A Commercial Plaza is a commercial real estate development in the Philippines characterized by a cluster of retail businesses, service…
Commercial Property · Commercial Property (Philippines)
Commercial Property refers to income-generating real estate in the Philippines used for business purposes, including office spaces, retail shops, shopping…
Commercial real estate (CRE) · Retail property
Commercial property (also called commercial real estate) refers to real estate used for business purposes — including retail spaces, office…
Commercial Real Estate · Business Leases
Commercial Space in the Philippines refers to any real estate property leased or sold for business operations, including office buildings,…
Strip Mall · Retail Strip
A Commercial Strip, also known as a strip mall or retail strip, is a linear commercial real estate development characterized…
Commission on Appointments of the Philippines · CA (standard abbreviation in Philippine political reporting)
The Commission on Appointments (CA) is the constitutional commission of the Philippines that confirms, rejects, or withholds action on certain…
COA · Commission on Audit
The Commission on Audit (COA) is the supreme auditing agency of the Philippines, an independent constitutional commission established under Article…
COA (common abbreviation) · Komisyon ng Pagsusuri (Filipino rendering)
The Commission on Audit (COA) is an independent constitutional commission of the Philippines mandated to examine, audit, and settle all…
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is the constitutional commission that administers and enforces all laws relative to the conduct of…
COMELEC · Commission on Elections
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is one of the three constitutional commissions of the Philippines (alongside the Commission on Audit…
CFO · Komisyon ng mga Pilipino sa Ibayong Dagat
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) is a Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Foreign Affairs that serves…
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is the Philippine government agency that supervises the country's colleges and universities. Created by…
CHED · Commission on Higher Education
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is the Philippine government agency attached to the Office of the President responsible for…
1. Definition The Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) (CHED) is the government agency responsible for formulating and implementing policies, plans,…
CHR — the standard Philippine abbreviation · Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines — the international-style styling
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is the independent constitutional office that the 1987 Constitution ordains in Article XIII, Section…
CHR (common abbreviation) · Komisyon sa Karapatang Pantao (Filipino name)
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is an independent constitutional office of the Philippines mandated to investigate, on its own…
POPCOM (former and popular name) · Commission on Population (former official name)
The Commission on Population and Development (CPD), formerly and still widely known as POPCOM, is the Philippine government agency coordinating…
CPJ (standard initialism) · Committee to Protect Journalists, Inc. (formal corporate name)
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an independent, international nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom and defends the right…
Common-Use Supplies · Common-Use Supplies and Equipment (CSE)
Common-Use Supplies and Equipment (CUSE) is the category of ordinary goods that every Philippine government agency consumes in its day-to-day…
An Act Creating a Division of Investigation under the Department of Justice, Defining Its Powers and Duties, and Appropriating the Necessary Funds Therefor — the long title · The Division of Investigation Act — the descriptive styling
Commonwealth Act No. 181, long-titled "AN ACT CREATING A DIVISION OF INVESTIGATION UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, DEFINING ITS POWERS…
CA 182 · The NDC charter of 1936 — the descriptive styling
Commonwealth Act No. 182 — long title "An Act To Create a Public Corporation To Be Known as the 'National…
CA 430 — the standard citation form · An Act to Create the Department of National Defense and the Department of Health and Public Welfare — the long title
Commonwealth Act No. 430 is the statute of the Commonwealth of the Philippines approved on May 31, 1939, carrying the…
CA 441 — the statutory abbreviation · An Act Creating the National Land Settlement Administration — the long title
Commonwealth Act No. 441 is the statute of the Commonwealth of the Philippines "An Act Creating the National Land Settlement…
CA No. 51 · The Charter of the City of Davao — the statute's own short title (Sec. 1)
Commonwealth Act No. 51 is "An Act Creating the City of Davao," approved October 16, 1936, and by its own…
CA 682 · The People's Court Act — the descriptive styling in the legal literature
Commonwealth Act No. 682, approved September 25, 1945 and signed by President Sergio Osmeña, is the statute officially titled "An…
CA 83 — the standard citation form · The Securities Act — the Section 1 short title
Commonwealth Act No. 83, approved October 26, 1936, is the statute of the Commonwealth of the Philippines long-titled "AN ACT…
Commonwealth Ave · The widest road in the Philippines
Commonwealth Avenue is a twelve-kilometer radial highway in Quezon City running from the Elliptical Road at the Quezon Memorial Circle…
Philippine Commonwealth — the common English styling of the 1935–1946 government · Komonwelt ng Pilipinas — the Filipino form of the name
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was the ten-year transitional government that administered the Philippines from its inauguration on November 15,…
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP) — original and official name · Communist Party of the Philippines — the pre-1968 bearer of this English name
The Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930) — in Filipino, Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP), the name under which it…
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 · Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas
The Communist Party of the Philippines (PKP-1930) — in Filipino, Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP), the name under which it…
1. Definition Community Education is an educational practice that promotes learning and social development through programs run by local neighborhoods,…
1. Definition The Community Mortgage Program (CMP) is a mortgage financing program in the Philippines managed by the Social Housing…
Residential subdivision · Housing settlement
A Community Settlement (commonly referring to a residential subdivision, housing project, or barangay settlement area) is a planned or organic…
Municipality of Compostela · Compostela Davao de Oro
Compostela, officially the Municipality of Compostela, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
Pharmacy compounding regulation · Drug compounding oversight
Compounded pharmaceutical regulation in the Philippines is the body of statutes, licensing rules, and health advisories governing the preparation of…
CARL · Republic Act No. 6657
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), officially designated as Republic Act No. 6657, is a landmark social justice legislation in…
CARP · Republic Act 6657
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP, codified under Republic Act No. 6657) is a national land reform program in the…
CARPER · Republic Act No. 9700
The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms, commonly called CARPER, is Republic Act No. 9700 of 2009, which extended…
CARS Program · CARS
The Comprehensive Automotive Resurgence Strategy (CARS) Program is a Philippine industrial policy program that grants time-bound fiscal support to motor-vehicle…
Republic Act No. 9165 (statutory citation) · RA 9165 (short citation)
The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (Republic Act No. 9165) is the principal Philippine statute controlling and penalizing the…
CLUP · Land Use Plan
A Comprehensive Land Use Plan (commonly abbreviated as CLUP) is a primary planning document prepared by local government units (LGUs)…
CLUP · Local Land Use Plan
A Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) is a primary planning document prepared by a local government unit (LGU) in the…
Municipality of Concepcion · Concepcion Misamis Occidental
Concepcion, officially the Municipality of Concepcion, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Nao Concepción — her designation in the fleet lists · The Conception — the English form used in the Stanley translation of Pigafetta
The Concepción was a Spanish carrack (nao) of 90 tonels — about 108 toneladas, or roughly 54 English shipping tons…
Municipality of Concepcion · Concepcion
Concepcion, officially the Municipality of Concepcion, is a first-class municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. Located in the southern…
Conditional cash transfers · Conditional cash transfer program
A conditional cash transfer (CCT) is a social protection program in which the government (or a charity) transfers cash to…
Bedspacing · Co-living
Condo Sharing (commonly known in the Philippines as bedspacing or co-living) is a residential housing arrangement where multiple unrelated individuals…
Condo (informal) · Condominium unit
A condominium (often abbreviated condo) is a form of property ownership in which an individual owns a specific unit within…
1. Definition The Condominium Act, officially designated as Republic Act No. 4726, is the primary law regulating the creation, ownership,…
Condo Buyers · Condominium Unit Purchasers
Condominium Buyers in the Philippines are individuals or corporate entities who purchase individual units in a condominium project, acquiring exclusive…
CCT · Condo Title
A Condominium Certificate of Title (commonly abbreviated as CCT) is a legal document issued by the Registry of Deeds in…
Condominium Certificate of Title · CCT
A Condominium Certificate of Title (CCT) is a legal document issued by the Land Registration Authority (LRA) through the Registry…
Condo Corp · Condominium Association
A Condominium Corporation is a special non-stock, non-profit corporation formed by the owners of units in a condominium project in…
Condominium Development · Condominium Development (Philippines)
Condominium Development, in the Philippines, is the process of planning, constructing, and selling vertical or horizontal multi-unit estates where buyers…
Condo project · Condominium complex
A condominium development (or condominium project) in Philippine real estate is a multi-unit residential or mixed-use building (or complex of…
Cone snails are marine gastropods of the family Conidae, named for their conical, often intricately patterned shells. They immobilize prey…
The Confederate States of Lanao (Maranao: Pat a Pangampong a Ranao, the Four States of Lanao) was the confederation of…
Conformance testing · Conformity evaluation
Conformity Assessment refers to the set of activities — most prominently testing, inspection, and certification, together with the accreditation of…
COF — the standard abbreviation of the era's record · Labor Congress of the Philippines — the English rendering carried in the linked-data record
The Congreso Obrero de Filipinas (COF; English "Labor Congress of the Philippines") was a Philippine trade union federation founded at…
CLO — the standard abbreviation in the era's record · The labor center of the Democratic Alliance — its descriptive role in the coalition
The Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO) was the dominant labor federation of the Philippines in the period immediately after World…
Philippine Congress · Kongreso ng Pilipinas — the Filipino styling in official usage
The Congress of the Philippines (Filipino: Kongreso ng Pilipinas) is the national legislature of the Philippines, the bicameral body established…
CLA · Conjugated Linoleic Acid Isomers
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) refers to a family of positional and geometric isomers of linoleic acid, which is an essential…
Municipality of Conner · Conner Apayao
Conner, officially the Municipality of Conner, is a municipality in the province of Apayao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Conrado F. Benitez · Dean Conrado Benitez
Conrado Benitez (November 26, 1889, Pagsanjan, Laguna – January 4, 1971, Manila) was a Filipino educator, economist, textbook author, and…
1. Definition Consolacion, officially the Municipality of Consolacion, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Positioned within…
Municipality of Consolacion · Consolacion Cebu
Consolacion, officially the Municipality of Consolacion, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
1987 Constitution of the Philippines · Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas
The Constitution of the Philippines is the supreme law of the Republic of the Philippines. The country has operated under…
ConCom — the standard abbreviation in Philippine constitutional literature · 1986 Constitutional Commission — the date-tagged form distinguishing it from the 1934 and 1971 conventions
The Constitutional Commission of 1986 (ConCom) was the body of 48 appointed members convened by President Corazon C. Aquino on…
Building metrics · Space metrics
Construction and Space Metrics in the Philippines refers to the system of technical measurements, building codes, and space allocation ratios…
Republic Act No. 7394 · RA 7394 / R.A. 7394
The Consumer Act of the Philippines is the short title of Republic Act No. 7394, a statute of the Eighth…
RA 7394 · Consumer Act
The Consumer Act of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 7394, approved April 22, 1992) is the principal Philippine statute protecting…
Contempt of the legislature · Legislative contempt
Contempt of Congress in the Philippines is the coercive discipline the legislature may impose on persons who defy its power…
continental shelf
The continental shelf is, in the law of the sea, the zone of seabed and subsoil defined by Part VI…
CTS · Conditional Contract to Sell
A Contract to Sell (CTS) is a bilateral agreement used in Philippine real estate transactions where the seller reserves ownership…
1. Definition Contrast Therapy (or contrast bath therapy) is a physical rehabilitation method where a limb or the body is…
CITES · Washington Convention
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), also known as the Washington Convention,…
The Philippine Cooperative Code of 2008, Republic Act No. 9520, is the governing statute for cooperatives in the Philippines. It…
CDA
The Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) is the Philippine government agency responsible for the registration, regulation, and development of cooperatives. It…
Leptocoma calcostetha (scientific name) · Coppery-throated sunbird (variant spelling)
The copper-throated sunbird (Leptocoma calcostetha) is a small sunbird of mangrove and coastal scrub habitats in the Philippines, particularly in…
Coral whitening · Zooxanthellae expulsion
Coral bleaching is the breakdown of the symbiosis between reef corals and the microscopic algae (zooxanthellae) that live in their…
Coral reefs · Coral reef ecosystem
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals — stony corals (order Scleractinia) that secrete calcium carbonate…
Amazon of the seas (nickname) · CT region (in Coral Triangle Initiative usage)
Coral Triangle is the name given to a roughly triangular region of tropical marine waters spanning six countries — Indonesia,…
Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino stateswoman, eleventh President of the Philippines (1986–1992)…
Municipality of Corcuera · Corcuera Romblon
Corcuera, officially the Municipality of Corcuera, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) is the only landlocked region in the Philippines, located in the northern-central portion of Luzon.…
Cordillera Region · CAR
The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) is an administrative region in the Philippines, located within the island of Luzon. It is…
Cordillera Range · Cordillera Mountains
Cordillera Central is the largest mountain range in the Philippines, a massive north–south backbone that runs through northern Luzon for…
Rabor's wren-babbler · Luzon wren-babbler
Cordillera ground warbler (Robsonius rabori), also called Rabor's wren-babbler or the Luzon wren-babbler, is a small songbird currently placed in…
CPA · Cordillera People's Alliance
The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) is an independent federation of progressive, mostly grassroots organizations of the indigenous peoples of the…
Municipality of Cordoba · Cordoba Cebu
Cordoba, officially the Municipality of Cordoba, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Cordon · Cordon Isabela
Cordon, officially the Municipality of Cordon, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
1. Definition Cordova, officially the Municipality of Cordova, is a third-class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Comprising the…
Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway · CCLEX
The Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX), historically referred to as the Cordova Link Expressway, is an 8.9-kilometer (5.5-mile) toll bridge and…
Municipality of Corella · Corella Bohol
Corella, officially the Municipality of Corella, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Cornell
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university in Ithaca, New York, founded on April 27, 1865 by…
Wreck Diving Capital of the Philippines · Gateway to the Calamianes
Coron is a first-class municipality on Busuanga Island in northern Palawan, Philippines, world-famous for WWII wreck diving and for Coron…
Municipality of Coron · Coron Palawan
Coron, officially the Municipality of Coron, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Coron Bay is a well-known recreational diving region in the Sulu Sea, between the islands of Coron and Busuanga in…
Coron Island is a limestone island in northern Palawan, Philippines, belonging to the indigenous Tagbanwa people, whose ancestral waters cover…
Batas Pambansa Blg. 68 · BP Blg. 68
The Corporation Code of the Philippines is the short title of Batas Pambansa Blg. 68, approved on May 1, 1980…
Act No. 1459 · The Corporation Law
The Corporation Law of 1906 is the short title of Act No. 1459 — "The short title of this Act…
CIW · Women's prison in Mandaluyong
The Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) is the principal women's prison of the Philippines, operated by the Bureau of Corrections…
Corregidor · The Rock — the wartime and memorial-era nickname carried in the island's own record
Corregidor Island — "The Rock" — is the tadpole-shaped fortress island at the entrance of Manila Bay, about 48 kilometers…
The Corregidor Island Lighthouse is a historic light station at the highest point of Corregidor Island at the entrance of…
Graft and corruption — the standard Philippine legal-administrative phrase · Political corruption in the Philippines — the scholarly framing
Corruption in the Philippines is the abuse of public office for private gain as it has recurred through Philippine political…
Municipality of Cortes · Cortes Surigao del Sur
Cortes, officially the Municipality of Cortes, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, located within the Caraga…
Philippine cosmetic regulatory framework · FDA cosmetics notification
Cosmetics regulation in the Philippines is administered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Philippines through its Center for Cosmetics…
Cotabato City, Maguindanao · Regional center of BARMM
Cotabato City is a highly urbanized city in the Philippines that serves as the regional center of the Bangsamoro Autonomous…
Province of Cotabato · North Cotabato
Cotabato Province, officially the Province of Cotabato (and historically North Cotabato), is a landlocked province in the Soccsksargen region of…
The Cotton Development Administration, known by its abbreviation CODA, was an attached agency of the Philippine Department of Agriculture mandated…
National Defense Council — the designation used by Executive Order No. 3 of 1935 · The advisory council of the National Defense Act — its statutory description
The Council of National Defense is the advisory council on defense policy created by the Philippine Commonwealth's first statute —…
Republic Act No. 8751 · RA 8751
Countervailing duties are anti-subsidy import duties — levies imposed, after investigation, on products whose foreign producers receive government subsidies, in…
CAR — the standard abbreviation of the era's decisions and literature · The agrarian court — the descriptive styling of the tenancy cases
The Court of Agrarian Relations was the Philippines' special court for agrarian disputes — the judicial machinery of the land-reform…
Court of Appeals · Court of Appeals (CA)
The Court of Appeals of the Philippines (CA) is the second-highest judicial tribunal of the Philippines and the country's intermediate…
Courts of First Instance · CFI — the standard abbreviation of the era's decisions and pleadings
The Court of First Instance (CFI; Filipino Hukumang Unang Dulugan; Spanish-style Tribunal de Primera Instancia) was the general-jurisdiction trial court…
CLR · The land registration court — the descriptive styling of the literature
The Court of Land Registration (CLR) was the Philippines' first specialized land court — a court of record created outright…
CTA (standard abbreviation) · Court of Tax Appeals of the Philippines (Wikidata designation)
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) is the Philippines' specialized court of exclusive jurisdiction over tax and customs cases —…
Atrium · Inner Courtyard
A courtyard (specifically a pocket courtyard or residential atrium in real estate) is an open, unroofed area surrounded by walls…
COVAX — the standard short form · COVAX Facility — the procurement platform administered by Gavi
The COVAX Facility was the global COVID-19 vaccine procurement mechanism of COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19…
COVID-19 in the Philippines (common short form) · Pandemya ng COVID-19 sa Pilipinas (Filipino)
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines is the national epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, that…
Coworking space · Co working
Coworking is a business services model where individuals from different organizations and self-employed professionals share a common working environment, office…
Crab mentality is a metaphor for the tendency to pull down peers who succeed, derived from the observation that crabs…
Crateromys is a genus of large, nocturnal rodents endemic to the Philippines, known as bushy-tailed cloud rats, in the mouse…
The cream-bellied fruit dove (Ptilinopus merrilli) is a small, brightly patterned dove endemic to Luzon and its satellite islands in…
The cream-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus merrilli), also called the cream-bellied fruit dove, is a species of bird in the family…
Republic Act No. 11534 · RA 11534
The CREATE Act — the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act, Republic Act No. 11534 — is the…
Chamber of Real Estate and Builders' Associations · Creba
CREBA (officially the Chamber of Real Estate and Builders' Associations, Inc.) is the largest umbrella organization of the real estate…
Refrigerator cake (general family) · Crema de fruta cake
Crema de fruta is a Filipino layered refrigerator dessert — sponge cake or ladyfingers soaked in syrup, spread with custard…
Cresta de Gallo Island · Rooster's Comb Island
Cresta de Gallo is a small rooster-comb-shaped island off the coast of San Fernando, Romblon, in the Philippines. Named for…
Crisanto Abaño Evangelista — full name
Crisanto Abaño Evangelista (November 1, 1888 – June 2, 1942) was a Filipino labor leader and communist politician — the…
Crispa · Crispa Denims
The Crispa Redmanizers were the professional basketball franchise of P. Floro and Sons, Inc. — the Floro family's retail-store and…
Ka Bel — the universal movement name · Crispin Bertiz Beltran — the full name of the biographical record
Crispin Bertiz Beltran (January 7, 1933 – May 20, 2008), known across the Philippine labor movement as Ka Bel, was…
Fried pork hock · Crispy pork trotter
Crispy pata is a Filipino dish consisting of a pork leg or hock (pata) that is boiled with aromatics until…
Drone spraying · Agri-drone spraying
Crop spraying drones in the Philippines are remotely piloted aircraft used to apply pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer over Philippine farms…
The crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster) is a large, multi-armed starfish covered in venomous spines that feeds on living coral tissue. Widespread…
Cruz v. Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (full caption form) · Cruz v. Secretary of DENR, G.R. No. 135385
Cruz v. Secretary of DENR (G.R. No. 135385, December 6, 2000) is the en banc Supreme Court resolution that disposed…
Sigaw ng Pugad Lawin (Filipino) · Cry of Balintawak
The Cry of Pugad Lawin (Filipino: Sigaw ng Pugad Lawin), also and originally remembered as the Cry of Balintawak (Sigaw…
The inauguration of the Revolutionary Government of the Visayas — the government-making act the ceremony performed · The Santa Barbara convention of November 17, 1898
The Cry of Santa Barbara was the ceremony held at Santa Barbara, Iloilo, on November 17, 1898, at which the…
CoolSculpting · Fat Freezing
Cryolipolysis, colloquially referred to as "fat freezing" or by the proprietary brand name CoolSculpting, is a non-invasive dermatological and aesthetic…
1. Definition Cryotherapy (Cold Therapy) is the local or general application of cold temperatures to reduce tissue temperature for therapeutic…
Cuartero is a third-income-class, landlocked municipality in Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines. Surrounded by Dao, Dumalag, Dumarao, and Maayon, it covers…
Municipality of Cuenca · Cuenca Batangas
Cuenca, officially the Municipality of Cuenca, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Mount Talinis · Talinis Mountains
Cuernos de Negros, "the Horns of Negros," is the volcanic massif rising above the southern end of Negros Island in…
Body of Committed Members — the literal English rendering of the Spanish name · The conservative wing of La Liga Filipina — its documentary designation in accounts of the 1892 split
The Cuerpo de Compromisarios ("Body of Committed Members") was the conservative Filipino reform association formed from the wreckage of La…
Municipality of Culaba · Culaba Biliran
Culaba, officially the Municipality of Culaba, is a municipality in the province of Biliran, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Culasi is a coastal municipality in the northern part of Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, facing the Sulu Sea. It…
Municipality of Culasi · Culasi Antique
Culasi, officially the Municipality of Culasi, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Culion · Culion Palawan
Culion, officially the Municipality of Culion, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
CCP · Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is the Philippine government's national institution for the preservation, development, and promotion of…
Culture of the Philippines is the composite of indigenous Austronesian traditions layered with Spanish Catholic, American, Chinese, and wider Asian…
Spanner crab · Red frog crab
Curacha is the spanner crab or red frog crab, a distinctive reddish crab with a frog-like body harvested from sandy…
Municipality of Currimao · Currimao Ilocos Norte
Currimao, officially the Municipality of Currimao, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
CMTA (statutory abbreviation from Section 100) · Republic Act No. 10863
The Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) is Republic Act No. 10863, "An Act Modernizing the Customs and Tariff Administration,"…
Municipality of Cuyapo · Cuyapo Nueva Ecija
Cuyapo, officially the Municipality of Cuyapo, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Cuyo · Cuyo Palawan
Cuyo, officially the Municipality of Cuyo, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Cuyonen · Cuyunon
Cuyonon is an ethnolinguistic group native to the Cuyo archipelago in the northern Philippines province of Palawan, and the Bisayan…
Cuyono · Cuyunon (variant spelling)
Cuyonon is a Bisayan language of the Philippines spoken on Cuyo Island and the surrounding Cuyo archipelago of Palawan, historically…
Cuyunon · Cuyonen
The Cuyonon people are a Visayan ethnolinguistic group native to the Cuyo archipelago and adjoining parts of northern and central…
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10175) is the principal Philippine statute defining and penalizing offenses committed…
RA 10175 · Cybercrime Prevention Act
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10175) is the principal Philippine statute defining and penalizing offenses committed…
Online libel · Cyber libel — the two-word newspaper styling
Cyberlibel is the crime of libel committed through information and communications technology under Philippine law — the offense defined by…
Riumin cycad · Pitogo (generic Filipino name for cycads)
Cycas riuminiana is a species of cycad, an ancient group of palm-like seed plants, endemic to the Philippines and concentrated…
Municipality of Daanbantayan · Daanbantayan Cebu
Daanbantayan, officially the Municipality of Daanbantayan, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Goblet drum of the kulintang ensemble · Maguindanao/Maranao ensemble drum
The dabakan is the drum of the Maguindanao and Maranao kulintang ensembles of Mindanao: a single-headed, goblet- or bowl-shaped drum…
Dacer–Corbito double murder case (lowercase style) · Dacer-Corbito case
The Dacer–Corbito double murder case is the Philippine criminal case arising from the abduction and killing of the publicist Salvador…
Daet Camarines Norte · Capital of Camarines Norte
Daet is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of the province of Camarines Norte in the Bicol Region of the…
Municipality of Daet · Daet Camarines Norte
Daet, officially the Municipality of Daet, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Norte, located within the Bicol Region…
The Dagami Revolt of 1567 was an uprising in Cebu led by Dagami, a chieftain of Gabi, and is regarded…
Dagami is a third-class municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, with a deep agricultural and revolutionary heritage. Established as…
Dagohoy revolt — the short form most Philippine textbooks carry · Dagohoy revolution — the styling used in Bohol's own commemorative literature
The Dagohoy Rebellion — also called the Dagohoy revolt or Dagohoy revolution — was the uprising led by Francisco Dagohoy…
The Dagohoy Revolt (1744–1829) was an uprising in Bohol led by Francisco Dagohoy, a native constable whose grievance over a…
"Town Named After a Hero" · Francisco Dagohoy Memorial Town
Dagohoy is a fifth-class municipality in the interior of Bohol, Philippines, named in honor of Francisco Dagohoy, the Boholano leader…
Municipality of Daguioman · Daguioman Abra
Daguioman, officially the Municipality of Daguioman, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Dagupan, Pangasinan · City of Dagupan
Dagupan City, officially the City of Dagupan, is an independent component city geographically located within the province of Pangasinan, Philippines.…
Because of You (English adaptation) · Dahil sa Iyo (capitalization variant)
"Dahil Sa Iyo" is a Filipino kundiman-style love song composed in the 1930s by Miguel Velarde Jr. with Tagalog lyrics…
Buwad or bulad (Visayan) · Bilad (older Tagalog term)
Daing refers to salted and sun-dried fish from the Philippines, typically split open, gutted, rubbed liberally with salt, and air-dried.…
Snakehead murrel · Striped snakehead
Dalag is the snakehead murrel, a slender predatory freshwater fish with a snake-like head that breathes air and thrives in…
"Country Maiden" (English translation) · Dalagang Bukid (1919 film)
"Dalagang Bukid" (Country Maiden) is the 1919 silent film directed by José Nepomuceno, widely regarded as the first feature-length film…
Municipality of Dalaguete · Dalaguete Cebu
Dalaguete, officially the Municipality of Dalaguete, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Dalil Salam · Dalil Salam Solutions
Dalil Salam Solutions Inc. is a privately held Philippine B2B consultancy firm based in Davao City, Philippines. Per its live…
Balete Pass (historical name) · Dalton Pass National Shrine (memorial complex name)
Dalton Pass, historically known as Balete Pass, is a mountain pass about 1,100 meters high in the Caraballo Mountains on…
Dalupiri Island is an island municipality (part of San Antonio, Northern Samar) in the San Bernardino Strait off the northwestern…
Night-blooming jasmine · Lady of the night
Dama de noche ("lady of the night") is the Filipino Spanish name for Cestrum nocturnum, the night-blooming jasmine, a sprawling…
Municipality of Damulog · Damulog Bukidnon
Damulog, officially the Municipality of Damulog, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Danajon Double Barrier Reef · Danajon Bank double barrier reef system
Danajon Bank is a double barrier reef off the north coast of Bohol in the central Philippines, spanning the waters…
City of Danao · Danao
Danao, officially the City of Danao, is a component city in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Located immediately north of…
Danding Cojuangco (Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., 1935–2020) was a Filipino businessman and politician who controlled San Miguel Corporation, the country's largest…
Municipality of Dangcagan · Dangcagan Bukidnon
Dangcagan, officially the Municipality of Dangcagan, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
DDB — the standard abbreviation · Lupon sa Mapanganib na Droga — the Filipino designation
The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB; Filipino: Lupon sa Mapanganib na Droga) is the Philippine government's policy-making and strategy-formulating body on…
Danggit is the Filipino term for rabbitfish (Siganus species) that is split, salted, and sun-dried into a crisp breakfast fish,…
Municipality of Danglas · Danglas Abra
Danglas, officially the Municipality of Danglas, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Daniel Hudson Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner, the director of…
Daniel Tría Tirona y Mata (full Spanish-style name) · Daniel Tirona y Tría (alternative styling)
Daniel Tirona (July 22, 1864, Cavite el Viejo [now Kawit], Cavite – September 2, 1939) was a Filipino revolutionary and…
Danjugan Island is a 43-hectare, jungle-covered limestone island off the coast of Cauayan in Negros Occidental, Philippines. A marine and…
Daniel Morales Javier · Daniel Javier
Danny Javier — born Daniel Morales Javier on August 6, 1947, in Abuyog, Leyte — was a Filipino singer, songwriter,…
Municipality of Dao · Dao Capiz
Dao, officially the Municipality of Dao, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Dapa · Dapa Surigao del Norte
Dapa, officially the Municipality of Dapa, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Dapitan City is a third-income-class component city in Zamboanga del Norte province in the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX), Philippines. It…
Church of Nuestra Señora de la Porteria — the formal invocation · Our Lady of the Gate Parish Church — the English rendering carried in the church's own record
Daraga Church, formally the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Porteria — English Our Lady of the Gate Parish…
Daraga, officially the Municipality of Daraga (Central Bikol: Banwaan kan Daraga), is a first-class municipality in Albay, Philippines, with about…
Daral is a Tausug rolled crepe made from a thin rice-flour batter cooked on a griddle, filled with sweetened grated…
Municipality of Daram · Daram Samar
Daram, officially the Municipality of Daram, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Daranak Falls is a popular 14-meter cascade along the Daranak River in Tanay, Rizal, at the foothills of the Sierra…
Darangan (variant spelling) · Maranao epic of Bumbaran
The Darangen is the ancient epic chant of the Maranao people of Lanao in Mindanao, a vast cycle of poems…
Darna is the iconic Filipino superheroine created by writer Mars Ravelo and artist Nestor Redondo, first appearing in 1950 in…
Dasmariñas, Cavite · City of Dasmariñas
Dasmariñas, officially the City of Dasmariñas, is a component city and the most populous city in the province of Cavite,…
Municipality of Dasol · Dasol Pangasinan
Dasol, officially the Municipality of Dasol, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Data centre (British spelling) · DC infrastructure
Data center infrastructure refers to the physical and facility systems that house and operate computing at scale — server and…
The Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173) is the principal Philippine law protecting individual personal information in…
Republic Act No. 10173 · RA 10173
The Data Privacy Act of 2012 (officially Republic Act No. 10173) is the primary Philippine statute governing the processing of…
Municipality of Datu Abdullah Sangki · Datu Abdullah Sangki Maguindanao
Datu Abdullah Sangki, officially the Municipality of Datu Abdullah Sangki, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within…
Municipality of Datu Anggal Midtimbang · Datu Anggal Midtimbang Maguindanao
Datu Anggal Midtimbang, officially the Municipality of Datu Anggal Midtimbang, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within…
Datu Mama Bago (birth name) · Bawwangin (name used by local tribes)
Datu Bago (born Mama Bago, circa 1770 – died March 15, 1850) was the Moro chieftain who ruled the Davao…
Datu Bago Awards (plural press usage for the annual cohort) · The Datu Bago Awards
The Datu Bago Award is the highest honor conferred by the City Government of Davao on its own people —…
Municipality of Datu Blah T. Sinsuat · Datu Blah Sinsuat
Datu Blah, officially the Municipality of Datu Blah T. Sinsuat, is a coastal municipality in the province of Maguindanao del…
Municipality of Datu Blah T. Sinsuat · Datu Blah T. Sinsuat Maguindanao
Datu Blah T. Sinsuat, officially the Municipality of Datu Blah T. Sinsuat, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao,…
Municipality of Datu Hoffer Ampatuan · Datu Hoffer Ampatuan Maguindanao
Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, officially the Municipality of Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within…
Municipality of Datu Montawal · Datu Montawal Maguindanao
Datu Montawal, officially the Municipality of Datu Montawal, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Datu Odin Sinsuat · Datu Odin Sinsuat Maguindanao
Datu Odin Sinsuat, officially the Municipality of Datu Odin Sinsuat, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within…
Municipality of Datu Paglas · Datu Paglas Maguindanao
Datu Paglas, officially the Municipality of Datu Paglas, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Datu Piang · Datu Piang Maguindanao
Datu Piang, officially the Municipality of Datu Piang, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Datu Salibo · Datu Salibo Maguindanao
Datu Salibo, officially the Municipality of Datu Salibo, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Datu Saudi-Ampatuan · Datu Saudi-Ampatuan Maguindanao
Datu Saudi-Ampatuan, officially the Municipality of Datu Saudi-Ampatuan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Sikatuna · Katuna
Datu Sikatuna (also spelled Catunao; in the Filipino mononym tradition addressed by the sole name Katuna) was a Bohol chieftain…
Municipality of Datu Unsay · Datu Unsay Maguindanao
Datu Unsay, officially the Municipality of Datu Unsay, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Dauin · Dauin Negros Oriental
Dauin, officially the Municipality of Dauin, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Municipality of Dauis · Dauis Bohol
Dauis, officially the Municipality of Dauis, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Dauis · Parokya sa Pagpasang-ayon sa Birhen Maria
Dauis Church, the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Dauis on Panglao Island, Bohol, Philippines, is a heritage…
City of Davao · Durian Capital of the Philippines
Davao City, officially the City of Davao (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Dabaw; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Dabaw), is a highly urbanized city…
1. Definition Davao City Business refers to the commercial, industrial, agricultural, and retail business ecosystem in Davao City, the primary…
Province of Davao de Oro · Davao de Oro
Davao de Oro, officially the Province of Davao de Oro, is a province in the Davao Region of Mindanao, Philippines.…
Province of Davao de Oro · Davao de Oro
Davao de Oro, officially the Province of Davao de Oro, is a province of the Philippines located within the Davao…
Province of Davao del Norte · Davao del Norte
Davao del Norte, officially the Province of Davao del Norte, is a province in the Davao Region of Mindanao, Philippines.…
Province of Davao del Norte · Davao del Norte
Davao del Norte, officially the Province of Davao del Norte, is a province of the Philippines located within the Davao…
Province of Davao del Sur · Davao del Sur
Davao del Sur, officially the Province of Davao del Sur, is a province in the Davao Region of the Philippines,…
Province of Davao del Sur · Davao del Sur
Davao del Sur, officially the Province of Davao del Sur, is a province of the Philippines located within the Davao…
Davao Gulf is a large gulf in southeastern Mindanao, Philippines, bounded by Davao City to the north and the provinces…
Davao Light · Davao Light and Power Company, Inc. (full corporate name)
The Davao Light and Power Company, Inc. (Davao Light; DLPC) is the electric distribution utility serving Davao City and adjoining…
Province of Davao Occidental · Davao Occidental
Davao Occidental, officially the Province of Davao Occidental, is a province in the Davao Region of Mindanao, Philippines. It is…
Province of Davao Occidental · Davao Occidental
Davao Occidental, officially the Province of Davao Occidental, is a province of the Philippines located within the Davao Region (Region…
Province of Davao Oriental · Davao Oriental
Davao Oriental, officially the Province of Davao Oriental, is a province in the Davao Region of Mindanao, Philippines, occupying the…
Province of Davao Oriental · Davao Oriental
Davao Oriental, officially the Province of Davao Oriental, is a province of the Philippines located within the Davao Region (Region…
Davao Penal Colony · Dapecol (also styled DaPeCol)
The Davao Prison and Penal Farm, historically the Davao Penal Colony and still widely known by its old abbreviation Dapecol,…
The Davao Region (Region XI) is an administrative region in the southeastern part of Mindanao, Philippines. It comprises four provinces…
The PP 1017 cases — the collective name for the seven consolidated petitions · G.R. Nos. 171396, 171409, 171483, 171485, 171400, 171424 & 171489 — the full docket
David v. Macapagal-Arroyo is the decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines En Banc of May 3, 2006 —…
David v. Poe — the SET-case styling used in the standard reference article · G.R. No. 221538 — the Supreme Court docket
David v. Senate Electoral Tribunal (G.R. No. 221538, September 20, 2016) is a decision of the Supreme Court of the…
Fact-Finding Commission — the statutory designation under Republic Act No. 6832 · Davide Commission — the popular name drawn from its chairman
The Davide Commission — formally the Fact-Finding Commission created by Republic Act No. 6832, approved January 5, 1990 — was…
Governor Drake — the styling of the occupation record and the Anda correspondence · The first British Governor of Manila
Dawsonne Drake (1724, Madras, India – 1784, India) was a British East India Company servant — clerk, then governor of…
Key lime · Philippine lime
Dayap is the Filipino lime, a small green-to-yellow citrus whose intensely aromatic juice and zest season many of the country's…
Nursery Room · Children's Playroom
A daycare (specifically a children's playroom or nursery amenity in condominiums) is a dedicated indoor facility within a residential or…
DLSU — the standard abbreviation in Philippine education reporting · De La Salle College — the institution's name from 1911 to 1975
De La Salle University (abbreviation DLSU; Filipino Pamantasang De La Salle) is a private Catholic Lasallian research university in Malate,…
College of Saint Benilde · Benilde
De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde (abbreviation DLS-CSB, widely known simply as Benilde) is a private Catholic Lasallian college in…
Dean Conant Worcester (full name) · Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., FRGS (post-nominal form used in the standard reference)
Dean Conant Worcester (October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924) was an American zoologist, colonial administrator, and author who became…
Department of Education Culture and Sports · DECS Philippines
DECS stands for the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, the former name of the Department of Education (DepEd) in…
DECS Order No. 81, series of 1997 · Home Education Program Guidelines
DECS Order No. 81 s. 1997 (officially the Policy Guidelines on the Implementation of the Home Education Program) is the…
DOAS · Absolute Deed of Sale
A Deed of Absolute Sale (DOAS) is a legally binding contract used in the Philippines to execute the transfer of…
Transfer of Rights Contract · Deed of Assignment and Transfer of Rights
A Deed of Assignment is a legal contract through which one party (the assignor) transfers their rights, interests, titles, and…
Declaration of Restrictions · Subdivision Covenants and Restrictions
A Deed of Restrictions is a legally binding document in the Philippines that outlines the rules, limitations, and covenants governing…
1. Definition Deep Vein Thrombosis Prophylaxis (DVT Prophylaxis) is a set of medical interventions designed to prevent the formation of…
Philippine forest loss · The decline of Philippine forest cover
Deforestation in the Philippines is the long-term conversion and loss of the archipelago's forest cover — from roughly 90 percent…
Municipality of Del Carmen · Del Carmen Surigao del Norte
Del Carmen, officially the Municipality of Del Carmen, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within…
Municipality of Del Gallego · Del Gallego Camarines Sur
Del Gallego, officially the Municipality of Del Gallego, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the…
Del Rosario v. Bengzon (G.R. No. 88265, December 21, 1989) is the Supreme Court of the Philippines decision that upheld…
1. Definition Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is the pain, stiffness, and structural tenderness felt in muscles several hours to days…
Municipality of Delfin Albano · Delfin Albano Isabela
Delfin Albano, officially the Municipality of Delfin Albano, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan…
Delfina Herbosa de Natividad (December 20, 1879 – March 10, 1900) was a Filipina revolutionary and seamstress, remembered as the…
Deloitte Philippines — the styling the network's own country pages and country-leader titles use for the two-entity local practice ([Deloitte Southeast Asia — Philippines](https://www.deloitte.com/southeast-asia/en/about/philippines.html "Deloitte in the Philippines (Navarro Amper & Co. and Landicho Abela & Co.) — Deloitte Southeast Asia")) · Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) — the international name adopted in 1993
Deloitte is one of the world's largest professional-services networks — with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG, one of the…
Delta Motors · DMC
Delta Motor Corporation (also Delta Motors) was the Philippine vehicle manufacturer established by Ricardo C. Silverio Sr. in 1962 that…
Demetrio Larena y Sandes — the leaders-table styling of the Negros Republic record · Governor Demetrio Larena — the American-era styling
Demetrio Larena was the Negros Oriental leader of the island's 1898 revolution and the short-lived state it raised — the…
Partido Democrata Nacional — the Spanish styling, also given as the party's alternative name in the standard account · Nacionalista Democratic Party — the occasional English rendering of the Spanish name
The Democrata Party (Spanish Partido Democrata Nacional, "National Democratic Party") was the minority party of the American-period Philippines — the…
The Democratic Alliance of 1946 — the usage distinguishing it from later parties of the same name · The Huk political party — descriptive renderings in accounts of the rebellion
The Democratic Alliance was a leftist political coalition in the Philippines, created on July 15, 1945 — organized primarily from…
Democratic Party (Philippines) — the disambiguated reference styling · The Democratic Party of 1953 — the dating that distinguishes it from same-name parties
The Democratic Party was the Philippine political party founded on May 29, 1953 by the faction of Ambassador Carlos P.…
Dendrobium anosmum, known in the Philippines as sanggumay, is a pendulous epiphytic orchid native to the Philippines and other parts…
Chain orchids (common name) · Dendrochilum (currently synonymized under Coelogyne)
Dendrochilum is a genus of epiphytic, lithophytic, and occasionally terrestrial orchids whose dozens of species are concentrated in the Philippines,…
Dendrochilum cobbianum, newly reclassified as Coelogyne cobbiana, is an epiphytic orchid endemic to the Philippines, particularly the mountain forests of…
dengue fever · dengue hemorrhagic fever
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection spread mainly by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, with Aedes albopictus as a secondary vector,…
Dengvaxia scandal · 2017 Philippine dengue vaccination controversy
The Dengvaxia controversy is the Philippine public-health and political crisis that followed the discovery that Dengvaxia (CYD-TDV), the world's first…
Dennis Ang Uy (full name) · Dennis A. Uy
Dennis Ang Uy (born September 26, 1973) is a Filipino businessman from Davao City, founder and controlling shareholder of Udenna…
DENR ECC · Environmental Compliance Certificate
DENR ECC (Environmental Compliance Certificate) is a document issued by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment…
ECC · Environmental Compliance Certificate
A DENR Environmental Compliance Certificate (commonly abbreviated as ECC) is a legal document issued by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB)…
Land Management Bureau · DENR-LMB
The DENR Land Management Bureau (LMB) is a government bureau under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in…
First Supremo of the Katipunan · First president of the Katipunan Supreme Council (Kataas-taasang Pangulo)
Deodato Arellano (July 26, 1844 – October 7, 1899) was a Filipino patriot, clerk, and Freemason who served as the…
1. Definition The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is the lead government agency responsible for implementing agrarian reform programs in…
DA · Kagawaran ng Agrikultura (Filipino)
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for promoting agricultural and fisheries development…
DA (official acronym) · Kagawaran ng Agrikultura
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for promoting agricultural and fisheries development,…
DANR · Department of Agriculture and Commerce — the Act 4007 (1933–1947) styling of the same departmental line
The Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) was the agriculture-and-resources executive department of the American colonial and postwar Philippine…
DBM · Department of Budget and Management
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for the…
DepEd · Kagawaran ng Edukasyon
The Department of Education (DepEd) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring access to, promoting equity…
DOE · Department of Energy
The Department of Energy (Philippines) (DOE) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for preparing, integrating, and coordinating…
DENR · Department of Environment and Natural Resources
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is the principal environment-and-natural-resources agency of the Philippine national government. It is…
Department of Finance · DOF — the standard initialism
The Department of Finance (DOF) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the country's fiscal policy, revenue…
DFA · Department of Foreign Affairs
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is the executive department of the Philippine government charged with executing Philippine foreign policy…
DOH · Kagawaran ng Kalusugan
The Department of Health (DOH) is the primary executive department of the Philippine government responsible for national health policy, health…
DOH Philippines · Department of Health
The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines is the principal health-policy and regulatory agency of the Philippine national government.…
1. Definition The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) is the primary administrative agency of the Philippine government…
DICT · Department of Information and Communications Technology
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for…
DOJ — the standard initialism · Kagawaran ng Katarungan — the Filipino name
The Department of Justice (DOJ) (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Katarungan) is the executive department of the Philippine government that serves as…
DOJ (common abbreviation) · Kagawaran ng Katarungan (Filipino name)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is the principal law agency and legal counsel of the Philippine government, responsible for the…
DOLE · DOLE Philippines
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for labor-market…
DMW (standard initialism) · Kagawaran ng Manggagawang Mandarayuhan (Filipino name)
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the protection of overseas…
DND · Department of National Defense
The Department of National Defense (DND) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for the defense…
DNR · Ministry of Natural Resources — the PD 1397 styling of the 1978–1987 parliamentary era
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was the natural-resources executive department of the Philippine state from 1974 to 1987 —…
DPWH · Department of Public Works and Highways
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is the principal engineering, construction, and infrastructure-development agency of the Philippine national…
DOST · Department of Science and Technology
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for setting…
DSWD · Department of Social Welfare
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for…
Republic Act No. 6975 · RA 6975
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible…
DOT · DOT Philippines
The Department of Tourism (DOT) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for regulating the Philippine…
DTI · Department of Trade and Industry
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is the executive department of the Government of the Philippines responsible for trade,…
DOTr · Department of Transportation
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is the principal transportation policy and regulatory agency of the Philippine national government. It is…
DepEd Home Schooling Program requirements · Home Education Program (HEP) requirements
DepEd Homeschool Requirements refers to the set of policies, eligibility criteria, enrollment procedures, and assessment obligations established by the Philippine…
1. Definition The DepEd Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) represent the streamlined curriculum guidelines issued by the Department of Education…
1. Definition DepEd Order No. 001 s. 2022 is the administrative policy guideline issued by the Department of Education of…
Injectable fillers · Soft tissue fillers
Dermal Fillers are injectable, gel-like substances used in cosmetic medicine to restore lost volume, smooth out facial wrinkles, soften creases,…
Dermatology · Skin medicine (colloquial)
Dermatology is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the skin, hair, nails,…
Dermclinic Philippines · Dermclinic Inc.
Dermclinic is the pioneer chain of professional dermatological clinics in the Philippines. Founded in 1971 by Dr. Vinson B. Pineda,…
Ayala Distillery — the short English form used in the acquisition records · Destileria y Licoreria de Ayala y Compañía — the fuller styling in the Ayala corporate history
The Destilería de Ayala y Cía — in fuller form the Destileria y Licoreria de Ayala y Compañía, "Ayala &…
DAP · Development Academy
The Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation that serves as a graduate school…
DBP · Development Bank of the Philippines
The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is a government-owned development bank and the country's principal state instrument for long-term…
Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development · Housing Department
DHSUD, officially the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development, is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for…
Diabetes · DM
Diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous group of chronic endocrine and metabolic disorders characterized by sustained hyperglycemia — persistently elevated blood…
Municipality of Diadi · Diadi Nueva Vizcaya
Diadi, officially the Municipality of Diadi, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
The Tagalog Newspaper — the English gloss of the title given in the biographical record · The first bilingual newspaper of the Philippines — its description in the del Pilar record
Diariong Tagalog ("Tagalog Newspaper") was a short-lived bilingual newspaper of Tagalog and Spanish published in Manila in 1882, founded by…
Dictatorial Government of the Philippines (1898) · Aguinaldo's dictatorship of 1898
The Dictatorial Government of the Philippines was the provisional government established by Emilio Aguinaldo's decree of May 24, 1898, issued…
Didicas Island · Didicas Volcano
Didicas is a small volcanic island in the Babuyan Channel off the northern coast of Luzon, administered as part of…
Didicas Volcano is a volcanic island at the southern end of the Babuyan Islands chain in Cagayan province, northern Philippines.…
Fray Diego Cera de la Virgen del Carmen (full religious name) · Father Diego Cera
Diego Cera de la Virgen del Carmen (1762–1832) was a Spanish Augustinian Recollect friar, natural scientist, and organ builder —…
Diego Cera Organ Builders Inc. — the styling in some press accounts · Diego Cera Organbuilders
Diego Cera Organbuilders, Inc. is the Philippine pipe-organ building and restoration company that maintains the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, the…
Diego de los Ríos y Nicolau — full name · Don Diego de los Ríos
Diego de los Ríos y Nicolau (April 9, 1850, Guadalajara, Spain – November 4, 1911, Madrid) was a Spanish lieutenant…
Diego Silang y Andaya — the full Spanish name styling · Governor of the Ilocos — the styling the record's own register carries for 1762–1763
Diego Silang y Andaya (December 16, 1730, Aringay, then part of Pangasinan and now in La Union – May 28,…
Food supplement (official Philippine and international usage) · Nutritional supplement
A Dietary Supplement is a product intended to supplement the diet by providing dietary ingredients — vitamins, minerals, herbs or…
Food Supplement Regulation · FDA Food Supplement Guidelines
Dietary Supplement Regulation in the Philippines is the legal and administrative framework established to control the manufacturing, registration, distribution, and…
FDA Philippines regulatory framework · PFDA (Philippine Food and Drug Authority)
Dietary supplement regulation in the Philippines is the framework established by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Philippines…
1. Definition Differentiated Instruction is an educational framework where teachers adjust content, learning processes, assignments, and the learning environment to…
Municipality of Diffun · Diffun Quirino
Diffun, officially the Municipality of Diffun, is a municipality in the province of Quirino, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Digdig segment (of the Philippine Fault System) · Splay of the northwest Philippine Fault Zone
The Digdig Fault is the northwestern-Luzon branch of the Philippine Fault System — the splay that runs through the Caraballo…
Online marketing consulting · Digital strategy consulting
Digital marketing consulting is the professional practice of advising organizations on online marketing strategy and execution — spanning search engine…
Digos, officially the City of Digos, is a component city and the capital of Davao del Sur province on the…
Digos City is a third-income-class component city and capital of Davao del Sur province in the Davao Region (Region XI),…
Municipality of Dilasag · Dilasag Aurora
Dilasag, officially the Municipality of Dilasag, is a municipality in the province of Aurora, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Diliman District · Barangay Diliman
Diliman is the district at the geographic and civic center of Quezon City, the Philippines' most populous city — the…
UP Diliman Commune · Diliman Commune of 1971
The Diliman Commune was the nine-day occupation and barricading of the University of the Philippines Diliman campus by students, faculty,…
Municipality of Dimasalang · Dimasalang Masbate
Dimasalang, officially the Municipality of Dimasalang, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Dimataling is a fourth-income-class coastal municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, bordering Illana Bay and Maligay Bay of the Moro…
The Dimaukom Mosque, popularly known as the Pink Mosque, is a mosque in Datu Saudi-Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines, distinguished…
San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish · Pahangog Twin Falls
Dimiao is a fifth-class municipality on the southern coast of Bohol, Philippines. It is recognized for its Spanish-era heritage church…
Municipality of Dinagat · Dinagat Dinagat Islands
Dinagat, officially the Municipality of Dinagat, is a municipality in the province of Dinagat Islands, located within the Caraga (Region…
Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat · Crateromys australis
The Dinagat cloud rat (Crateromys australis), also called the Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat, is a large arboreal rodent endemic to…
The Dinagat cloudrunner (Crateromys australis), also called the Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat, is a large, tree-dwelling rodent endemic to Dinagat…
Podogymnura aureospinula · Dinagat moonrat
The Dinagat gymnure (Podogymnura aureospinula) is a small, spiny-furred mammal endemic to Dinagat and adjacent islands off northeastern Mindanao in…
Province of Dinagat Islands · Dinagat Islands
Dinagat Islands, officially the Province of Dinagat Islands, is an island province in the Caraga region of the Philippines, situated…
Dinagat Island · Dinagat Island Province
Dinagat Islands, officially the Province of Dinagat Islands, is a province of the Philippines located within the Caraga (Region XIII).…
The Dinagat moonrat (Podogymnura aureospinula), also called the Dinagat gymnure, is a small nocturnal mammal endemic to the Dinagat Islands…
Dinagsa sa Cadiz · Cadiz Ati-Atihan style festival
The Dinagsa Festival is an annual cultural and religious festival held every January in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, in honor…
Iloilo Ati-atihan — the festival's original name before the 1977 coining of "Dinagyang" · Dinagyang — the short form, used alike for the devotion, the festival, and its Sunday competition
The Dinagyang Festival is Iloilo City's annual religious and cultural festival, held on the fourth Sunday of January in honor…
Ilocano sisig
Dinakdakan is an Ilocano dish of chopped grilled pig parts — maskara (cheeks and face), ears, tongue, and liver —…
Municipality of Dinalungan · Dinalungan Aurora
Dinalungan, officially the Municipality of Dinalungan, is a municipality in the province of Aurora, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Dinalupihan · Dinalupihan Bataan
Dinalupihan, officially the Municipality of Dinalupihan, is a municipality in the province of Bataan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Dinapigue · Dinapigue Isabela
Dinapigue, officially the Municipality of Dinapigue, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Dinas · Dinas Zamboanga del Sur
Dinas, officially the Municipality of Dinas, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Dinengdeng is an Ilocano vegetable stew soured and salted with bagoong monamon (fermented fish paste), combining seasonal produce such as…
Municipality of Dingalan · Dingalan Aurora
Dingalan, officially the Municipality of Dingalan, is a municipality in the province of Aurora, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Dingle · Dingle Iloilo
Dingle, officially the Municipality of Dingle, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Dingras is a landlocked municipality in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, occupying one of the widest inland plains of the province. Long…
Municipality of Dingras · Dingras Ilocos Norte
Dingras, officially the Municipality of Dingras, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Dinuguan is a Filipino savory stew made of pork meat and offal simmered in a sauce of pig's blood, vinegar,…
Dioscoro L. Umali · D. L. Umali
Dioscoro L. Umali (1917-1988) was a Filipino agricultural scientist and educator regarded as the father of Philippine plant breeding, who…
Dado Banatao
Diosdado "Dado" Banatao (born 1946) is a Filipino-American engineer, chip designer, and venture capitalist who rose from a farming childhood…
Diosdado Pangan Macapagal — full name · The Poor Boy from Lubao — the political persona built on his Pampanga childhood
Diosdado Pangan Macapagal (September 28, 1910, Lubao, Pampanga – April 21, 1997, Makati) was a Filipino lawyer, economist, and statesman,…
Mabolo (fruit name, from the Filipino "foul smell" referring to the ripe fruit's aroma) · Kamagong (wood name in Filipino usage)
Diospyros discolor (also widely known as Diospyros blancoi), commonly called mabolo or kamagong, is a tree species endemic to the…
Municipality of Dipaculao · Dipaculao Aurora
Dipaculao, officially the Municipality of Dipaculao, is a municipality in the province of Aurora, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Diplahan · Diplahan Zamboanga Sibugay
Diplahan, officially the Municipality of Diplahan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
City of Dipolog · Dipolog
Dipolog, officially the City of Dipolog, is a component city and the capital of the province of Zamboanga del Norte,…
Dipterocarpus gracilis is a dipterocarp rainforest tree distributed from continental Southeast Asia through Malesia, including the Philippines. Of modest stature…
Apitong (Philippine name) · Keruing (regional trade name for Dipterocarpus timbers)
Dipterocarpus grandiflorus, known in the Philippines as apitong and across Southeast Asia by names such as hora and keruing, is…
Dipterocarpus kerrii is a huge emergent rainforest tree of the Philippines and Southeast Asia, belonging to the keruing timber group…
Dipterocarpus validus is a large resin-producing dipterocarp tree endemic to the Philippines, belonging to the genus that gives the family…
Persons with Disabilities · PWDs
In the Philippines, Disabled Persons (officially referred to under domestic law as Persons with Disabilities or PWDs) are individuals who…
DRRM · Disaster risk reduction (DRR)
Disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) is the Philippine framework for systematically preventing and reducing disaster risk and for managing…
DAP · DAP funds (usage in budget reporting)
The Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) was a spending-prioritization mechanism adopted by the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III and…
Davao Tourism Campaign · Discover Davao Region
Discover Davao is a comprehensive regional tourism campaign and travel information framework launched to showcase the Davao Region (Region XI)…
Disini v. Secretary of Justice · Disini v. The Secretary of Justice — the caption in the LawPhil report, used by the E-Library document itself
Disini v. Executive Secretary — the caption under which this wiki indexes the fifteen consolidated petitions that tested the Cybercrime…
1. Definition Distance Learning (also referred to as distance education or remote learning) is an educational method where student instruction…
The Dita Tree (Alstonia scholaris), also called the blackboard tree, is a tall evergreen tree of the dogbane family (Apocynaceae)…
DITO · Mislatel (Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, the original franchise holder)
DITO Telecommunity is the third major telecommunications carrier in the Philippines, admitted in 2018 to break the long-standing duopoly of…
Municipality of Ditsaan-Ramain · Ditsaan-Ramain Lanao del Sur
Ditsaan-Ramain, officially the Municipality of Ditsaan-Ramain, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Divilacan · Divilacan Isabela
Divilacan, officially the Municipality of Divilacan, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Divi (colloquial) · Divisoria Market
Divisoria is the densely packed commercial district of Manila straddling the boundaries of Tondo, Binondo and San Nicolas, famed as…
In Philippine mythology, a diwata is a deity, spirit, or nature being revered in various indigenous belief systems, often guarding…
DJI Agras series · DJI MG series (early models)
DJI Agras is the agricultural drone product line of the Chinese manufacturer DJI, a series of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles…
DMCI Holdings, Inc. · DMCI Holdings Incorporated
DMCI Holdings, Inc. (Philippine Stock Exchange ticker DMC) is the listed holding company of the Consunji family, incorporated on March…
DMCI · DMCI Project Developers
DMCI Homes (registered as DMCI Project Developers, Inc.) is a premier builder of resort-inspired, mid-density residential communities in the Philippines.…
DMI Medical Supply Co., Inc. · DMI Medical Supply
DMI Medical Supply Co., Inc. is a prominent Philippine-based corporation specializing in the development, distribution, and marketing of natural food…
DMI Medical Supply Co., Inc. · DMI
DMI Medical Supply Co (commonly known as DMI) is a prominent Philippine-based health and wellness enterprise, primarily recognized as the…
DMI Medical Supply · DMI (informal)
DMI Medical Supply Co., Inc. is a Philippine medical supply and dietary supplement company headquartered at the DMIRIE Center, J.P.…
Doctors to the Barrios (DTTB) is a program of the Philippine Department of Health that recruits, deploys, and supports licensed…
Doctrina Christiana, en lengua española y tagala — full title of the 1593 Tagalog-Spanish edition · Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua China — the companion 1593 Chinese-language edition
The Doctrina Christiana is the conventional name for the Doctrina Christiana, en lengua española y tagala — the catechism printed…
DST on real property · Documentary stamp
Documentary Stamp Tax (commonly abbreviated as DST) is a transaction tax imposed in the Philippines on documents, instruments, loan agreements,…
Dodiongan Waterfall
Dodiongan Falls is a waterfall on a tributary within Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, plunging roughly twenty meters (about…
Dodol (Filipino and regional usage) · Rice toffee (descriptive)
Dodol is a dense, chewy toffee-like confection made by slowly cooking glutinous rice flour, coconut milk, and unrefined sugar such…
Republic Act No. 11509 · RA 11509
The Doktor para sa Bayan Act (Republic Act No. 11509) is the Philippine law, approved on December 23, 2020, that…
Municipality of Dolores · Dolores Eastern Samar
Dolores, officially the Municipality of Dolores, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr. · Rodolfo Quizon Sr.
Dolphy — born Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr. (July 25, 1928 – July 10, 2012) — was a Filipino comedian, actor,…
RA 9295 — the standard short citation · Republic Act No. 9295
The Domestic Shipping Development Act — formally Republic Act No. 9295, cited as the Domestic Shipping Development Act of 2004…
Dr. Dominador Gomez — the physician styling of the UODF presidency · José María Dominador Vicente Gregorio Gómez de Jesús — the birth name carried by the linked-data record
Dominador Gomez — born José María Dominador Vicente Gregorio Gómez de Jesús on November 4, 1866, in Intramuros, Manila; died…
Municipality of Don Carlos · Don Carlos Bukidnon
Don Carlos, officially the Municipality of Don Carlos, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern…
Don Marcelino is a third-income-class municipality in Davao Occidental, Davao Region (Region XI), Philippines. A coastal municipality, it is bounded…
Municipality of Don Victoriano Chiongbian · Don Victoriano Chiongbian Misamis Occidental
Don Victoriano Chiongbian, officially the Municipality of Don Victoriano Chiongbian, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located…
DRT Bulacan · Municipality of Doña Remedios Trinidad
Doña Remedios Trinidad, officially the Municipality of Doña Remedios Trinidad (commonly abbreviated as DRT), is a local government unit in…
Municipality of Doña Remedios Trinidad · Doña Remedios Trinidad Bulacan
Doña Remedios Trinidad, officially the Municipality of Doña Remedios Trinidad, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within…
Whale Shark Capital of the World · Butanding town
Donsol is a municipality in Sorsogon, Philippines, at the head of Ticao Pass, internationally known as the "Whale Shark Capital…
Municipality of Donsol · Donsol Sorsogon
Donsol, officially the Municipality of Donsol, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
DOST-PCAARRD, the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development, is one of the sectoral planning councils…
Double jeopardy is the constitutional guarantee that no person shall be twice prosecuted or punished for the same offense. In…
DoubleDragon Corporation · DoubleDragon Properties
DoubleDragon Corporation is a major Philippine real estate developer and holding company joint-ventured by Edgar 'Injap' Sia II (founder of…
General MacArthur — the standard Philippine-period styling · General of the Army Douglas MacArthur — the five-star styling under which he signed the Japanese surrender
Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American soldier whose career is inseparable from Philippine history:…
Oil Deregulation Law · Republic Act No. 8479
The Downstream Oil Deregulation Act, officially Republic Act No. 8479 — "An Act Deregulating the Downstream Oil Industry and for…
The Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998, Republic Act No. 8479, dismantled state control over the pricing, importation, and…
Dao (timber trade name) · Paldao (veneer trade name)
Dracontomelon dao is a large deciduous tree of the family Anacardiaceae (the cashew and mango family) native to South and…
Drones4Rice Project · Drones4Rice Program
Drones4Rice is a Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) project that promotes drone-based services — seeding, fertilizer and pesticide application, crop…
Pharmaceutical Administration · FDA Drug Regulation
Drug Administration in the Philippines refers to the systemic execution of policies, laws, and clinical regulations governing the registration, quality…
Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines · FDA Philippines
The Drug Authority in the Philippines primarily refers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an attached agency under the…
Pharmaceutical Regulation · FDA Regulation of Drugs
Drug Regulation in the Philippines refers to the statutory and administrative frameworks that govern the safety, quality, efficacy, registration, licensing,…
Seasonal Water Shortage · Summer Water Crisis
Dry Season Water Scarcity in the Philippines refers to the recurring, seasonal reduction in the availability and supply of fresh…
The author of the Book of Duarte Barbosa — the Livro em que dá relação de que viu e ouviu no Oriente, its full Portuguese title · Captain of the Victoria — his command from the San Julián mutiny onward
Duarte Barbosa (c. 1480, Lisbon – May 1, 1521, Cebu) was a Portuguese writer, scrivener, and expedition officer — a…
Municipality of Dueñas · Dueñas Iloilo
Dueñas, officially the Municipality of Dueñas, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Duero · Duero Bohol
Duero, officially the Municipality of Duero, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Dugong dugon (scientific name) · Sea cow
The Dugong (Dugong dugon), sometimes called the sea cow, is a large, fully marine herbivorous mammal that grazes on seagrass…
Duhat (Syzygium cumini), known in English as Java plum or black plum, is a fruit tree naturalized throughout the Philippines.…
Dulag is a second-class coastal municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, fronting Leyte Gulf on the island's eastern seaboard.…
Trulicity · LY2189265
Dulaglutide is a recombinant fusion protein that functions as a long-acting, selective glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist administered subcutaneous once…
Dumagat people · Dumagat Agta
The Dumagat are an indigenous Negrito people of the Sierra Madre mountain range in eastern Luzon, found across provinces such…
Dumagat — standard short form · Agta — the self-designation ("human") of many of the communities so labeled by outsiders
The Dumagat people are an indigenous Negrito people of the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre, generally classified as a…
City of Dumaguete · Dumaguete
Dumaguete City, officially the City of Dumaguete, is a component city and the provincial capital of Negros Oriental, Philippines. Famous…
Municipality of Dumalag · Dumalag Capiz
Dumalag, officially the Municipality of Dumalag, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Dumalinao · Dumalinao Zamboanga del Sur
Dumalinao, officially the Municipality of Dumalinao, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Municipality of Dumalneg · Dumalneg Ilocos Norte
Dumalneg, officially the Municipality of Dumalneg, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Dumangas · Dumangas Iloilo
Dumangas, officially the Municipality of Dumangas, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Dumanjug · Dumanjug Cebu
Dumanjug, officially the Municipality of Dumanjug, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Dumaran · Dumaran Palawan
Dumaran, officially the Municipality of Dumaran, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Dumarao is a second-income-class municipality in Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines. Located about 45 kilometers from Roxas City, it covers 232.56…
Municipality of Dumingag · Dumingag Zamboanga del Sur
Dumingag, officially the Municipality of Dumingag, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Buno (general Tagalog term for wrestling) · Filipino wrestling
Dumog is the traditional Filipino art of wrestling and grappling, practiced in various regional forms across the archipelago. It emphasizes…
Municipality of Dupax del Norte · Dupax del Norte Nueva Vizcaya
Dupax del Norte, officially the Municipality of Dupax del Norte, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located…
Municipality of Dupax del Sur · Dupax del Sur Nueva Vizcaya
Dupax del Sur, officially the Municipality of Dupax del Sur, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located…
Twin home (side-by-side variant) · Two-family house
A duplex is a residential building containing two separate dwelling units within a single structure, typically sharing a common wall…
King of fruits · Durio zibethinus (binomial)
Durian (Durio zibethinus L.) is a tropical evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia, celebrated and debated for its large, thorn-covered…
Phentermine Resin Complex · Ion-exchange phentermine
Duromine is the brand name of an anti-obesity medication containing a phentermine-resin complex. In this formulation, phentermine is chemically bound…
Duende (Spanish spelling) · Nuno (as in nuno sa punso, the mound-dwelling elder)
The duwende is a small, gnome-like nature spirit in Philippine folklore, believed to dwell in earth mounds called punso, at…
Ike · General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Supreme…
Dyesebel (variously spelled Disebel in early serials) · Ravelo's mermaid (popular shorthand)
Dyesebel is the Filipino mermaid heroine created by Mars Ravelo, first serialized in the early 1950s and beloved ever since…
Dynamite Lumpia, also called dinamita, is a Filipino snack of long green chili peppers slit open, stuffed with cheese and…
1. Definition Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental learning disorder characterized by difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition, spelling, and word-decoding…
Super Radyo DZBB 594 · DZBB 594
DZBB (594 kHz AM, broadcasting as Super Radyo DZBB 594) is the flagship AM radio station of GMA Network in…
DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 was the AM flagship radio station of ABS-CBN, broadcasting on 630 kHz from Metro Manila. Launched…
DZRH is a Philippine AM radio station broadcasting on 666 kHz in Metro Manila, the flagship of the Manila Broadcasting…
The E-Commerce Act, signed on 14 June 2000, provides the legal framework for electronic transactions in the Philippines. Republic Act…
Esperidión Arsenio Manuel · E. Arsenio Manuel
E. Arsenio Manuel (1909-2003), born Esperidión Arsenio Manuel, was a Philippine anthropologist, linguist, and folklorist best known for his field…
Eagle Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) is a Philippine broadcasting company associated with the Iglesia ni Cristo, operating the television network Net…
Good Faith Deposit · Earnest Money Deposit
Earnest Money, in the Philippines, is a sum of money paid by a buyer to a seller to show good…
Seismic Baroque · Earthquake baroque architecture
Earthquake Baroque is a form of Baroque architecture designed to withstand earthquakes, developed in the Philippines and in Guatemala —…
Republic Act No. 11032 · RA 11032
The Ease of Doing Business Act — officially the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of…
Servitude · Right of User
An easement (also known as a servitude under civil law) is a real right constituted on another person's immovable property…
Legal Easement of Right of Way · Servidumbre de paso
An Easement of Right of Way is a legal right or encumbrance established on a property (the servient estate) that…
Province of Eastern Samar · Eastern Samar
Eastern Samar, officially the Province of Eastern Samar, is a province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, occupying…
Province of Eastern Samar · Eastern Samar
Eastern Samar, officially the Province of Eastern Samar, is a province of the Philippines located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Eastern Visayas (Region VIII) is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the eastern portion of the Visayas island group.…
Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU) is a public state university based in Tacloban City, Philippines, with its main campus in…
Eastwood City · Eastwood Libis
Eastwood City is a 18.5-hectare master-planned mixed-use township development located in Libis, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Developed by Megaworld…
EB — the standard initialism, itself a registered trademark cancelled in TAPE's name in December 2023 · Eat... Bulaga! — the program's stylized on-air rendering
Eat Bulaga! is a Philippine television variety show, premiered on July 30, 1979 on the Radio Philippines Network (RPN) and…
Municipality of Echague · Echague Isabela
Echague, officially the Municipality of Echague, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Republic Act No. 9003 · RA 9003
The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, officially Republic Act No. 9003, is the statute "providing for an ecological…
Economic Housing · Economic Housing (Philippines)
Economic Housing, in the Philippines, is a category of residential housing targeted at average-income earners, defined by a specific price…
Low-cost housing (informal but commonly used) · Mass housing (overlapping but broader)
Economic housing in the Philippines refers to a statutory housing category created by Batas Pambansa Blg. 220 (approved March 25,…
Filipino First — the campaign idiom of the 1950s and the name of its policy · Pilipino Muna — the Tagalog rendering
Economic nationalism in the Philippines is the tradition of public policy that reserves or preferentially allocates economic rights to Filipino…
Philippine economy (common shorthand) · Economy of the Republic of the Philippines (formal usage)
The economy of the Philippines is the national economy of the Republic of the Philippines — a newly industrialized, services-led…
ERDB · Kawanihan ng Pananaliksik at Pag-unlad Pangkalikasan — the Filipino styling in the DENR bureaus listing ([Wikipedia — DENR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Environment_and_Natural_Resources "Department of Environment and Natural Resources — Wikipedia"))
The Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB) is the research bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources…
Eden Nature Park and Resort · Eden (local shorthand among Davaoeños)
Eden Nature Park is a highland resort and nature park in the Toril district of Davao City, Philippines, sitting at…
Edjop · Edgardo Gil Mirasol Jopson
Edgar Jopson (born Edgardo Gil Mirasol Jopson; September 1, 1948, Sampaloc, Manila – September 21, 1982, Davao City), known throughout…
Edgardo J. Angara · Edgardo Javier Angara
Edgardo Javier Angara (September 24, 1934 – May 13, 2018) was a Filipino lawyer, educator, and politician — the founding…
Balinsasayaw · Bird's nest swiftlet
The edible-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus), known in the Philippines as balinsasayaw, is a small cave-dwelling bird that builds its nest…
General Edilberto Evangelista · Lieutenant General Edilberto Evangelista — the rank documented for the Imus Assembly election
Edilberto Evangelista (February 24, 1862 – February 17, 1897) was a Filipino civil engineer and revolutionary general — the Belgian-trained…
Edmund Hett Sykes — the full name carried in the Manila Railroad Company register · Don Edmundo Sykes — the Hispanicized styling used by the Spanish administration
Edmund Sykes — Edmund Hett Sykes, known to the Spanish administration of the Philippines by the Hispanicized styling Don Edmundo…
Epifanio de los Santos Avenue · EDSA
EDSA, officially the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (designated as Circumferential Road 4 or C-4), is a 23.8-kilometer (14.8 mi)…
EDSA Busway · Route E
The EDSA Carousel is the bus rapid transit-style service operating along the median of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA)…
May 1 Riots · EDSA Tres
EDSA III, also called the May 1 riots, was a week-long protest camp on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA)…
The EDSA People Power Anniversary commemorates the February 22–25, 1986 peaceful uprising on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Manila…
People Power · People Power Revolution
The EDSA People Power Revolution was the four-day civilian uprising of February 22–25, 1986, centered on Epifanio de los Santos…
National Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace · Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace
The EDSA Shrine, formally the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace (Our Lady of EDSA), is a Roman Catholic…
Ed Castrillo · Eduardo de los Santos Castrillo (birth name)
Eduardo Castrillo (born Eduardo de los Santos Castrillo, October 31, 1942, Santa Ana, Manila — died May 18, 2016, Muntinlupa)…
Danding · Danding Cojuangco
Eduardo "Danding" Murphy Cojuangco Jr. (June 10, 1935 – June 16, 2020) was a Filipino businessman and politician — governor…
Eduardo Mutuc is a Filipino master craftsman of sacred and decorative metalwork, awarded the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (National…
Eduardo Quisumbing (1895–1986) was a Filipino botanist acclaimed as the country's foremost authority on orchids and medicinal plants. Author of…
BP 232 · Batas Pambansa Blg. 232
The Education Act of 1982 (Batas Pambansa Blg. 232) is the comprehensive Philippine education law that restructured the national education…
Philippine educational system · Education in the Philippines
Education Philippines refers to the national system of formal, non-formal, and informal instruction administered across the Republic of the Philippines.…
1. Definition Educational Psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning, cognitive development, and…
EEAT / E-E-A-T · EAT (earlier three-signal version)
EEAT — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness — is the quality-rating framework Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines use to assess content…
Eighth Army · Eighth US Army
The Eighth United States Army is a field army headquarters of the United States Army, constituted June 2, 1944 and…
Ernest John Uy Obiena · EJ Obiena
Ernest John "EJ" Uy Obiena (born 1995) is a Filipino pole vaulter ranked among the world's leading men in the…
El filibusterismo (Spanish styling; often printed and capitalized as El Filibusterismo) · The Reign of Greed — the title of Charles Derbyshire's 1912 complete English translation
El Filibusterismo ("The Filibusterism," commonly rendered The Reign of Greed or The Subversive) is the second and last completed novel…
El Nido is a first-class municipality at the northern tip of Palawan, Philippines, renowned for its Bacuit Bay seascapes —…
Municipality of El Nido · El Nido Palawan
El Nido, officially the Municipality of El Nido, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA…
La Nina · El Nino
The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally recurring climate pattern driven by the coupling of ocean temperatures and atmospheric…
Muling Pagsilang (the Tagalog section's title, "The Rebirth" — treated by the courts as the same newspaper) · The Birds of Prey case (the shorthand name for the litigation over the October 30, 1908 editorial)
El Renacimiento ("The Renaissance") was a nationalist Manila newspaper founded in 1901 during the early American colonial period, published as…
City of El Salvador · El Salvador City
El Salvador, officially known as the City of El Salvador (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa El Salvador; Tagalog: Lungsod ng El Salvador),…
El Salvador City is a fifth-income-class component city in Misamis Oriental province in Northern Mindanao (Region X), Philippines. It had…
Election monitoring in the Philippines · Poll watching in the Philippines
Election observation in the Philippines is the practice — and the set of institutions — by which non-partisan monitors witness…
The Electoral Commission of the 1935 Constitution — the styling that fixes the charter and era · The Assembly's Electoral Commission — the contest forum of the unicameral National Assembly
The Electoral Commission was the constitutional organ created by Article VI, Section 4 of the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines…
EPIRA · Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001
The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA), formally Republic Act No. 9136 — "An Act ordaining reforms in the electric…
The Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001, officially Republic Act No. 9136 and commonly abbreviated EPIRA, is the Philippine…
Electric Vehicle · EV
An Electric Vehicle (EV) is a vehicle propelled by one or more electric motors, using electrical energy stored in rechargeable…
EVAP · Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines, Inc.
The Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (EVAP) is the national industry association of electric-vehicle manufacturers, assemblers, importers, distributors, and…
EV charging station · EV Charging
Electric Vehicle Charging (commonly referred to as EV charging) is the process of supplying electrical energy to the battery pack…
EV charging stations in the Philippines · EV charging stations Philippines
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the Philippines refers to the network of charging stations, technical standards, operating networks, and regulatory…
RA 11697 · EVIDA (common abbreviation)
The Electric Vehicle Industry Development Act (officially Republic Act No. 11697, commonly abbreviated EVIDA) is a Philippine law that establishes…
Republic Act No. 8792 — statutory designation · RA 8792 — common short form
The Electronic Commerce Act of 2000, formally Republic Act No. 8792 — "An Act Providing for the Recognition and Use…
The elegant tit (Periparus elegans, formerly Parus elegans) is a small, sharply patterned songbird endemic to the Philippines, noted for…
Elemi is an aromatic oleoresin obtained by tapping trees of the genus Canarium, particularly Canarium luzonicum, a species endemic to…
Service elevator · PWD lift
An elevator (commonly referred to as a lift) is a vertical transportation platform designed to move passengers and goods between…
Elias Lopez (the form used in the congressional record) · Mayor Elias B. Lopez
Elias B. Lopez was a Filipino politician of Davao City — a Nacionalista whose election in 1967 made him the…
Elpidio Rivera Quirino — his full name, the Spanish-era styling of his birth record · Elpidio R. Quirino — the form carrying his mother's surname as middle initial
Elpidio Quirino (born Elpidio Rivera Quirino; November 16, 1890, Vigan, Ilocos Sur – February 29, 1956, Novaliches, Quezon City) was…
General Otis — the styling of the Manila command years · Elwell Stephen Otis — his full name
Elwell S. Otis — Elwell Stephen Otis (March 25, 1838, Frederick, Maryland – October 21, 1909, Rochester, New York) —…
Ely Basiño Buendía · Frontman of the Eraserheads
Ely Buendia (born Eleandre Basiño Buendía in 1970) is a Filipino singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer best known as the frontman…
EP · Emancipation Patent and/or Grant — the decree's own styling in PD 266, Section 2 ([LawPhil — PD 266](https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1973/pd_266_1973.html "Presidential Decree No. 266, Providing for the Mechanics of Registration of Ownership and/or Title to Land Under Presidential Decree No. 27 (August 4, 1973) — The LawPhil Project"))
The Emancipation Patent (EP) is the final title instrument of the tenant-emancipation program of Presidential Decree No. 27 — the…
Filipino meatloaf · Embutidong baboy
Embutido is the Filipino steamed meatloaf: a roll of ground pork mixed with breadcrumbs or rice, finely diced carrots, bell…
EMCOR Incorporated is a Mindanao-based appliance and motorcycle retail chain, one of the region's largest homegrown dealers with stores across…
Emil Sumangil
Emil Sumangil (born November 23, 1978) is a Filipino broadcast journalist of GMA Integrated News who rose over two decades…
General Emilio Aguinaldo · Heneral Miong / Kapitan Miong / Ka Miong (from his childhood nickname "Miong")
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (March 22, 1869, Cavite el Viejo, now Kawit, Cavite – February 6, 1964, Quezon City) was…
Pingkian — his alias in the Katipunan, the name by which Bonifacio's circle knew him · Dimas-Ilaw (Dimasilaw) — his pen name in the newspaper Kalayaan
Emilio Jacinto y Dizon (December 15, 1875, Tondo, Manila – April 16, 1899, Laguna), known as the "Brains of the…
Eman Lacaba · Emmanuel F. Lacaba
Emmanuel Agapito Flores Lacaba (December 10, 1948, Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental – March 18, 1976, Tucaan Balaag, Asuncion, Davao…
Emmanuel Neri Pelaez — full name; born to Gregorio Aguilar Pelaez Sr. and Felipa Vicente Neri of Medina · Vice President Pelaez — the styling of the 1961–1965 term
Emmanuel Pelaez (Emmanuel Neri Pelaez; November 30, 1915, Medina, Misamis Oriental – July 27, 2003, Muntinlupa) was a Filipino lawyer,…
Empire East Land Holdings, Inc. · Empire East
Empire East Land Holdings, Inc. is a prominent public-listed real estate developer in the Philippines. Headquartered in Pasig City, it…
ECC · Komisyon sa Kompensasyon ng mga Empleyado
The Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) is a Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Labor and Employment that administers…
EMS Sculpt · HIFEM Therapy
EMS Body Sculpting (Electrical Muscle Stimulation body sculpting) is a non-invasive cosmetic procedure that utilizes High-Intensity Focused Electromagnetic (HIFEM) energy…
Encantadia is the Philippine fantasy television franchise created and written by Suzette Doctolero for GMA Network — the network this…
Encarnacion Alzona · first Filipina doctor of philosophy
Encarnación Alzona (1895-2001) was a Filipino historian, suffragist, and educator who in 1932 became the first Filipina to earn a…
EK (common abbreviation) · The Philippine Disneyland (colloquial)
Enchanted Kingdom is a theme park in Santa Rosa, Laguna, opened in 1995 as the Philippines' first world-class amusement park…
Hinatuan Enchanted River · Hinatuan River
The Enchanted River in Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur, is a spring-fed river section of startling deep-blue water that pools in…
The encomienda was a Spanish colonial institution by which the Crown entrusted a Spanish grantee, the encomendero, with the right…
Burden on Title · Carga o Gravamen (Spanish legal term)
An encumbrance is any right, interest, claim, or liability that attaches to a real property and burdens its use, transfer,…
Endo · End of contract practice
Endo contractualization — from "end of contract" — is the Philippine employment practice of hiring workers on repeated short-term engagements…
Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is the largest producer of geothermal energy in the Philippines and one of the leading geothermal…
RA 11285 · EE&C Act
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (Republic Act No. 11285), signed into law on April 12, 2019, is the Philippines'…
ERC · Energy Regulatory Commission (Philippines)
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is the Philippines' independent, quasi-judicial regulatory body for the electric power industry, created by Section…
ERC · (successor to the Energy Regulatory Board, ERB)
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is an independent, quasi-judicial body regulating the electric power industry in the Philippines. Created on…
ESS Energy Storage · ESS battery storage
An Energy Storage System (ESS) is a technology or set of technologies that captures electrical energy during periods of production…
Encanto · Engkantado / Engkantada (individual male / female spirit)
Engkanto are environmental spirits in Philippine folklore, believed to dwell in large trees, rivers, mounds, and other natural features. Derived…
EDCA · Agreement Between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Government of the United States of America on Enhanced Defense Cooperation (formal title)
The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) is the framework agreement signed by the Philippines and the United States at Manila…
The Enoura Maru was a Japanese hell ship that was bombed and sunk by American aircraft on 9 January 1945…
Municipality of Enrile · Enrile Cagayan
Enrile, officially the Municipality of Enrile, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
The Enrile bail case — the common styling of G.R. No. 213847 · The humanitarian bail ruling
Enrile v. Sandiganbayan is the case caption under which the Supreme Court of the Philippines, sitting En Banc, decided three…
Municipality of Enrique B. Magalona · Enrique B. Magalona Negros Occidental
Enrique B. Magalona, officially the Municipality of Enrique B. Magalona, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located…
Henrique — Pigafetta's recorded form · Enrique de Malacca / Enrique de Malaca — the Spanish-document spellings
Enrique of Malacca — Pigafetta's "Henrique," Hispanicized in the Spanish documents as Enrique — was Ferdinand Magellan's slave and interpreter…
Enrique K. Razon · Enrique K. Razon Jr.
Enrique Razon Jr. (born March 3, 1960, in Manila; full name Enrique Anselmo Klar Razon Jr.) is a Filipino businessman…
Enrique M. Razon Sr. · Enrique M. Razon
Enrique Razon Sr. — Enrique M. Razon Sr. in the fuller form recorded in his son's biographical entry — was…
Municipality of Enrique Villanueva · Enrique Villanueva Siquijor
Enrique Villanueva, officially the Municipality of Enrique Villanueva, is a municipality in the province of Siquijor, located within the Central…
The Enron collapse · The Enron bankruptcy — the December 2, 2001 event styling
The Enron Scandal is the 2001 collapse of the Enron Corporation — the Houston-based energy trader formed by the 1985…
The ensaïmada is a coiled, brioche-like sweet pastry of Spanish, specifically Mallorcan, origin that became a beloved delicacy in the…
Ensaimada (alternate spelling) · Filipino ensaymada
Ensaymada is a Filipino sweet pastry descended from the Majorcan ensaïmada, made from an enriched, butter-heavy yeast dough shaped into…
Enterprise IT · Enterprise systems
Enterprise computing is the domain of information technology serving large organizations — the hardware, software, and services that run business-critical…
Bagong Nayong Pilipino–Entertainment City · Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City
Entertainment City — officially styled Bagong Nayong Pilipino–Entertainment City — is the master-planned gaming-tourism district that the Philippine Amusement and…
Entity-based SEO · Knowledge graph optimization (related)
Entity SEO is the practice of optimizing a brand, person, or organization's representation as a disambiguated entity in search engines'…
The environment of the Philippines encompasses the archipelago's megadiverse ecosystems—tropical forests, coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, and mountain watersheds—together with…
ECC · Environmental certificate
An Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) is a document issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Environmental Management…
EMB · DENR-EMB
The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) is the bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) that serves…
Outer Skin Layer · Epidermal Layer
The Epidermis is the outermost of the three major layers that make up the skin, sitting above the dermis and…
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928), often styled "Don Panyong," was a Filipino scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, and collector celebrated as…
EPCI Bank · Equitable PCI
Equitable PCI Bank, Inc. was a Philippine universal bank — for a time the country's third largest — formed by…
E-Heads · EHeads
The Eraserheads are a Filipino rock band formed in 1989 in Quezon City by four University of the Philippines Diliman…
Archdiocesan Shrine of Nuestra Señora de Guía — the formal title since December 3, 2005 · Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Guidance — the English form of the shrine title
Ermita Church, formally the Archdiocesan Shrine of Nuestra Señora de Guía (Our Lady of Guidance), is the Roman Catholic church…
Ermita · Lagyo — the Tagalog settlement name recorded by Miguel de Loarca in 1582 ([Wikipedia — Ermita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermita "Ermita — Wikipedia"))
Ermita is a historic district of Manila on the shore of Manila Bay, part of the city's fifth congressional district…
Ernest Edwin Evans · Ernest Edwin "Chief" Evans
Ernest Edwin Evans (August 13, 1908 – October 25, 1944) was a United States Navy officer of Cherokee and Creek…
Ernest John Obiena (born 17 November 1995, Manila) is a Filipino pole vaulter, the reigning Asian record holder and the…
EY — the operating brand adopted in 2013 and the required short form · Ernst & Young Global Limited — the UK-registered holder of the global network
Ernst & Young — branded EY since 2013 — is one of the world's largest professional-services networks, providing assurance (audit),…
Escabeche is a Filipino dish of whole fried fish topped with a sweet-and-sour sauce of vinegar, sugar, ginger, bell peppers,…
City of Escalante · Escalante City
Escalante, officially the City of Escalante, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. Positioned along the…
Escalante Massacre of 1985 · Himugas massacre (local usage in some accounts)
The Escalante massacre of September 20, 1985 was the killing of protesting sugar workers and activists by government forces in…
Escolta Street · "Queen of the Streets" of old Manila
Escolta is a historic street in the Santa Cruz district of Manila, running from the Pasig River's Santa Cruz bridge…
Calle de la Escolta — the Spanish-era street name · La Escolta — the older shorthand, recorded in the sources for the riverside path before it was widened into a street
Escolta Street (Spanish: Calle de la Escolta) is a historic east–west street in the old downtown of Binondo and Santa…
Escrow Arrangement · Escrow Account
Escrow, in the context of Philippine real estate, is a legal arrangement where a neutral third party (usually a licensed…
Eskaya people · Visayan-Eskaya
The Eskaya are a cultural minority community in Bohol, Philippines, distinguished by a distinctive literary tradition, language, script, dress, and…
Eskayan script · Eskaya language
Eskayan is the constructed language and accompanying script of the Eskaya community of Bohol, Philippines. Attributed to the pioneer Mariano…
España (colloquial) · Espana Boulevard
España Boulevard is a roughly two-kilometer arterial road in the Sampaloc district of Manila, running from Welcome Rotonda at the…
Espasol is a Filipino rice cake made by toasting glutinous rice flour and simmering it in coconut milk with sugar…
Agricultural municipality of central Agusan del Sur · Rice and corn-producing town along the provincial highway
Esperanza, officially the Municipality of Esperanza, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines, within the Caraga…
1. Definition Espina Medical is a Philippine healthcare enterprise engaged in the distribution and retail of medical devices, physical therapy…
Espina Orthotics · Naviform Orthotic Braces
Espina Medical Orthotic Devices is a specialized product brand and clinical fitting division in the Philippines dedicated to the design,…
Espina Medical · Espina Medical Equipment Trading
Espina Medical Supply Co (operating under registered entities including Espina Medical Equipment Trading) is a specialized healthcare equipment distributor and…
Municipality of Estancia · Estancia Iloilo
Estancia, officially the Municipality of Estancia, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Inheritance Tax · Death Tax (informal term)
An estate tax is a tax imposed in the Philippines on the transfer of the net estate of a decedent…
Estipona — the short citation · Estipona, Jr. v. Hon. Lobrigo — the caption's fuller styling
Estipona v. Lobrigo — in full Salvador Estipona, Jr. y Asuela v. Hon. Frank E. Lobrigo, Presiding Judge of the…
The EDSA II legitimacy cases — the consolidated disputes over who lawfully held the presidency after January 20, 2001 · Estrada v. Macapagal-Arroyo — the companion quo warranto caption, G.R. No. 146738
Estrada v. Desierto (G.R. Nos. 146710-15, consolidated with G.R. No. 146738, Estrada v. Macapagal-Arroyo; en banc, March 2, 2001) is…
Estrella Alfon (1917-1983) was a prolific Filipina writer from Cebu who published scores of short stories, plays, and radio scripts…
Etag is the traditional smoked and salted dry-cured pork of the Igorot peoples of the Cordillera Administrative Region in the…
Eucalyptus deglupta, known as the rainbow eucalyptus or bagras, is a fast-growing rainforest tree famed for its trunk, which sheds…
Dr. Eugene Christopher B. Lim · Dr. Eugene Lim
Dr. Eugene Christopher B. Lim, M.D., RMT is a Filipino physician and Registered Medical Technologist practicing Internal Medicine in Cebu…
Eggie Apostol — the styling universal in Philippine journalism · Eugenia Apostol — the short form under which her Wikipedia article and Wikidata entity sit
Eugenia Duran Apostol (born Eugenia Obsum Duran, September 29, 1925, Sorsogon), universally known as Eggie Apostol, is a Filipino journalist…
Eugenio Lopez Sr · Eugenio Hofileña López
Eugenio Hofileña López Sr. (July 20, 1901, Jaro, Iloilo – July 5, 1975, San Francisco, California), known as Eñing, was…
Eulogio "Amang" Rodriguez Sr. · Eulogio A. Rodriguez Sr.
Eulogio "Amang" Adona Rodriguez Sr. (January 21, 1883 – December 9, 1964), also nicknamed Yoyong and in his later years…
Eumir Felix Marcial · "El Fénix" (ring nickname contexts)
Eumir Marcial (born 1995 in Zamboanga City) is a Filipino boxer who won the middleweight bronze medal at the 2020…
Euro 4/IV emission standards (DENR usage) · Euro 4 vehicle emission standards
Euro 4 Emission Standards are the vehicle-side limit values for carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter that the…
Eva Kalaw — the journalistic short form · Evangelina Reynada Estrada — her birth name
Eva Estrada-Kalaw (Evangelina Reynada Estrada; June 16, 1920, Murcia, Tarlac — a town now part of Concepcion, Tarlac – May…
Everett's Scops Owl (Otus everetti) is a small, nocturnal owl endemic to the southern Philippines. Long treated as part of…
Excelsa · Kapeng Makapal (local Tagalog term)
Excelsa Coffee refers to coffee made from the beans of the plant Coffea liberica var. dewevrei (formerly classified as a…
Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC Philippines
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines (often referred to simply as the Exchange Commission or SEC) is…
EEZ · 200-nautical-mile zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is the maritime zone defined by Part V of the United Nations Convention on the…
EO 116 · The Reorganization Act of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food — the order's own short title (Sec. 1), which preserves the old ministry's name
Executive Order No. 116 (January 30, 1987) is the Corazon C. Aquino executive order styled "RENAMING THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE…
EO 192 · The Reorganization Act of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources — the name the order gives itself in Section 1
Executive Order No. 192, signed by President Corazon C. Aquino on June 10, 1987 and long-titled "PROVIDING FOR THE REORGANIZATION…
EO 202 · EO No. 202, s. 1987
Executive Order No. 202 ("Creating the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board") is the executive issuance signed by President Corazon…
EO 228 · Executive Order No. 228, s. 1987
Executive Order No. 228 (July 17, 1987), long-titled "Declaring Full Land Ownership to Qualified Farmer Beneficiaries Covered by Presidential Decree…
EO 230 — the standard citation form · "Organizing the Department of National Defense" — the order's title
Executive Order No. 230 is the executive issuance of the Commonwealth of the Philippines dated October 31, 1939, titled "Organizing…
EO 33 — the standard citation form · EO 33, s. 1986 — the dated styling that distinguishes it from executive orders of the same number in other administrations
Executive Order No. 33 (July 28, 1986) is the executive order by which President Corazon C. Aquino, acting within the…
EO 350 — the docket styling · The PRISCO creation order — the creation-instrument styling
Executive Order No. 350 is the instrument of President Elpidio Quirino, "Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day…
EO 355 · EO No. 355, s. 1950 — the dated series styling
Executive Order No. 355 is the reorganization order signed at Manila on October 23, 1950, by President Elpidio Quirino —…
E.O. 464 · EO 464 (s. 2005)
Executive Order No. 464 (series of 2005) — in full, "Ensuring Observance of the Principle of Separation of Powers, Adherence…
Executive Order No. 62, s. 2024 · EO 62
Executive Order No. 62 (s. 2024), titled "Modifying the Nomenclature and Rates of Import Duty on Various Products," was signed…
EO 864 · The completion declaration of the judiciary reorganization
Executive Order No. 864 (January 17, 1983) is the presidential instrument by which President Ferdinand E. Marcos "declare[d] the completion…
EO 93 s. 1947 — the series-qualified citation that fixes the order's identity · The Government Enterprises Council order — the styling from its principal creation
Executive Order No. 93 is the Roxas administration's government-corporations reorganization order — issued at Manila on October 4, 1947, "By…
EO No. 94, s. 1947 — the standard citation · The 1947 Reorganization Order — the descriptive styling for the Roxas-era general reorganization
Executive Order No. 94 — long-titled "REORGANIZING THE DIFFERENT EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, OFFICES, AND AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE…
Presidential communications privilege — the Neri subset protecting the President's own decision-making deliberations · Deliberative process privilege — advisory opinions, recommendations, and deliberations in the policy-making process
Executive privilege in Philippine constitutional law is the power of the President — and, through express authorization, the Executive Secretary…
Skin Exfoliation · Skin Polishing
Exfoliation is the cosmetic and dermatologic practice of removing dead cells from the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum…
The Expanded Maternity Leave Law (Republic Act No. 11210, signed 20 February 2019) grants all female workers in the Philippines…
ENNS · National Nutrition Survey
The Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS) is the national nutrition survey program of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI)…
Republic Act No. 11038 · RA 11038
The Expanded NIPAS Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 11038, officially "An Act Declaring Protected Areas and…
ECP · Experimental Cinema
The Experimental Cinema of the Philippines (ECP) was the government-owned film corporation of the Marcos era, created by Executive Order…
1. Definition An Export Processing Zone (EPZ) is a specialized class of industrial estate established in the Philippines, designated for…
Exposiciones Nacionales de Bellas Artes (the series, plural) · National Exhibition of Fine Arts (English label of its Wikidata item)
The Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes was Spain's national fine arts exhibition — a juried competitive exhibition held principally in…
Extra judicial partition · Extra judicial settlement
An Extrajudicial Settlement of Estate (commonly referred to as an extrajudicial partition) is a legal process in the Philippines through…
Felipe Landa Jocano · F. Landa Jocano
Felipe Landa Jocano (1930–2013) was a Filipino anthropologist widely regarded as one of the most influential social scientists of the…
Francisco Sionil José · Frankie Sionil José
Francisco Sionil José (December 3, 1924 – January 6, 2022), who wrote as F. Sionil José and was known to…
Fabian de la Rosa · Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto
Fabián de la Rosa (born Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto; May 5, 1869, Paco, Manila – December 14, 1937,…
Moluccan albizia · Moluccan sau
The falcata tree (Falcataria moluccana, also treated taxonomically as Falcataria falcata), commonly called moluccan albizia or moluccan sau, is a…
The falcated wren-babbler (Ptilocichla falcata) is a small terrestrial bird in the family Pellorneidae, endemic to the island of Palawan…
FAMAS Awards · Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award
The FAMAS Award is the oldest film award in the Philippines, presented since the early 1950s by the Filipino Academy…
Executive Order No. 209 · EO 209
The Family Code of the Philippines (Executive Order No. 209) is the primary law governing marriage, family relations, property regimes…
Municipality of Famy · Famy Laguna
Famy, officially the Municipality of Famy, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Far East Bank · FEBTC
The Far East Bank and Trust Company (FEBTC) was a Philippine commercial bank that grew, in four decades from its…
FEU · Far Eastern University Inc
Far Eastern University (FEU) is a private, non-sectarian university on Nicanor Reyes Street in Sampaloc, Manila, set in the city's…
Faustino Aguilar (1882–1955) was a Filipino Tagalog novelist, playwright, and journalist regarded as one of the fathers of social realism…
Philippine Cosmetic Regulations · Republic Act No. 9711 Cosmetic Rules
FDA Cosmetic Regulations in the Philippines refer to the legal frameworks, administrative orders, and guidelines enforced by the Food and…
1. Definition FDA Philippines is the alternative name for the Food and Drug Administration (Philippines), the primary regulatory agency responsible…
Federal Land · Federal Homes
Federal Land, Inc. (formerly Federal Homes, Inc.) is a major prime property developer in the Philippines, serving as the real…
Estado Federal de Visayas (Spanish designation) · Pederal nga Estado sang Visayas (Hiligaynon designation)
The Federal State of the Visayas (Spanish: Estado Federal de Visayas; Hiligaynon: Pederal nga Estado sang Visayas; Cebuano: Pederal nga…
Partido Federal — the Spanish-era styling of the party's name · Federal Party — the English rendering used in American-period reporting
The Federalista Party (Spanish-era name Partido Federal) was a Philippine political party founded in Manila on December 23, 1900, one…
FFW — the universal short form, the only English alias the structured record carries (verified this session) · The Free Workers federation — the descriptive styling press and scholarship use
The Federation of Free Workers (FFW) is a Philippine national trade-union center founded on June 19, 1950 — "one of…
Federico Caballero is a Panay-Bukidnon (Sulod) epic chanter from Calinog, Iloilo, awarded the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (National Living…
Felipe Agoncillo y Encarnación (1859–1941) was a Filipino lawyer and diplomat from Taal, Batangas, remembered as the outstanding first Filipino…
Felipe Buencamino y Siojo (full Spanish-style name) · Felipe Buencamino, Sr. (disambiguating form, distinguishing him from his son and namesake)
Felipe Buencamino y Siojo (August 23, 1848, San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan – February 6, 1929, Manila) was a Filipino…
Felipe G. Calderón — common short form · Felipe Calderón y Roca — full name with maternal surname
Felipe Gonzáles Calderón y Roca (April 4, 1868, Santa Cruz de Malabon, now Tanza, Cavite – June 6, 1908, Manila),…
Felipe de León y Padilla · Felipe Padilla de Leon
Felipe Padilla de León (May 1, 1912 – December 5, 1992) was a Filipino composer, conductor, and scholar — born…
Félix R. Hidalgo — the short styling of Philippine commemoration · Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla — the full Spanish-style form
Félix Resurrección Hidalgo (in full Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla; born in Binondo, Manila, on February 21, 1855; died in…
Ka Bert — the movement name carried in the Bantayog record · Felixberto Olalia Sr. — the styling of the succession lists
Felixberto "Ka Bert" Olalia Sr. (August 3, 1903 – December 4, 1983) was a Filipino labor leader — the veteran…
Ferdinand Johann Franz Blumentritt — full name recorded in the standard references · The professor of Leitmeritz — the styling Philippine biographical literature attaches to him
Ferdinand Blumentritt (September 10, 1853, Prague – September 20, 1913, Leitmeritz, Bohemia; Czech: Litoměřice) was an Austrian teacher, ethnographer, and…
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, c. 1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organized and led the Spanish expedition that…
Martin Romualdez · Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez
Ferdinand Martin Gomez Romualdez Sr. (born November 14, 1963, Manila) is a Filipino businessman, lawyer, and politician — the Representative…
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto — the full Spanish-style name · The Grand Old Man of Philippine Art — the accolade conferred at the Manila Hilton in 1969
Fernando Amorsolo (born Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto; May 30, 1892, Paco, Manila – April 24, 1972, Quezon City) was a…
Sergeant Lamadrid · Ferdinand La Madrid
Fernando La Madrid (birth date and origin unrecorded; killed January 21, 1872) was the mestizo sergeant of the Cavite arsenal…
Vice President Fernando Lopez — the styling of both national tenures · Senator Fernando Lopez — the styling of his Senate years, 1947–1949 and 1953–1965
Fernando López (April 13, 1904, Jaro, Iloilo City – May 26, 1993, Iloilo City) was a Filipino statesman and businessman…
Fernando Ma. Guerrero (1873–1929) was a Filipino poet, journalist, and politician regarded as one of the last great masters of…
Fernando María Guerrero (1873–1929) was a Filipino poet, journalist, and editor acclaimed in his lifetime as the foremost lyric poet…
FPJ — the initials by which the Philippine public styled him · Da King — the popular title of his action-genre reign
Fernando Poe Jr. — born Ronald Allan Kelley Poe in Manila on August 20, 1939; died in Quezon City on…
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo (1924-1984) was a Spanish-Filipino painter and collector, one of the leading abstract artists of…
Manila–Dagupan railway (English designation) · Manila–Dagupan Railroad
The Ferrocarril de Manila a Dagupan — the Manila–Dagupan railway, the first railway in the Philippines — was the 195-kilometer…
Municipality of Ferrol · Ferrol Romblon
Ferrol, officially the Municipality of Ferrol, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
FPA · Pangasiwaan sa Pataba at Pestisidyo
The Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) is the technical regulatory agency of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) responsible for…
FIA · The Fertilizer Industry Authority of PD 135
The Fertilizer Industry Authority (FIA) was the Philippine government's fertilizer regulator of the early martial-law years, created by Presidential Decree…
Festivals in the Philippines are community celebrations spanning religious feasts, harvest thanksgivings, historical commemorations, and civic fiestas, held year-round across…
The Fiber Industry Development Authority (PhilFIDA) is a government corporation attached to the Department of Agriculture, mandated to develop and…
Tibig (Filipino common name) · Tikukong / tiwig (regional pronunciations recorded in ethnobotanical lists)
Ficus nota is a Philippine endemic fig tree commonly called tibig, growing in lowland to montane forest, along rivers, and…
Palm fig (English descriptive name) · False-palm fig
Ficus pseudopalma, the palm-like fig or "false palm" fig, is a fig species endemic to the Philippines, easily recognized because…
Elm-leaved fig (English name) · Aromatic fig (descriptive translation used in some plant lists)
Ficus ulmifolia, the elm-leaved fig, is a rare fig tree endemic to the Philippines, recorded from scattered localities on Luzon…
President Fidel · President Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos (March 18, 1928 – July 31, 2022), commonly known as FVR, was a Filipino military officer and…
Field of Dreams · Field of Dreams Orphanage
The Field of Dreams is a Philippine orphanage (residential childcare facility) located in Biao Guianga, Tugbok District, Davao City, Philippines.…
Filinvest · Filinvest Land, Inc.
Filinvest (Filinvest Land, Inc.) is a major full-range real estate developer in the Philippines, operating as the property development subsidiary…
Filinvest City · Filinvest Corporate City
Filinvest City, formerly known as Filinvest Corporate City, is a major master-planned business, commercial, and residential district located in Alabang,…
FLI · Filinvest
Filinvest Land, Inc. (commonly known as Filinvest) is a major property developer in the Philippines, specializing in affordable and middle-market…
Filipiniana carries two linked meanings in Philippine culture. As a mode of dress, it refers to formal attire—most iconically the…
The Filipinization policy · Filipinization of the civil service
Filipinization is the policy and broader nationalist process of transferring control of the Philippines' institutions to Filipinos — in its…
Makabagong alpabetong Filipino · Modern Filipino alphabet
The Filipino alphabet (Makabagong alpabetong Filipino) is the official writing alphabet of the Filipino national language, consisting of twenty-eight letters:…
Pilipino Muna — the Tagalog rendering used by the administration and its supporters · Filipino First — the short English form universal in the era's journalism
The Filipino First Policy (Tagalog: Pilipino Muna) was the economic-nationalist policy of the administration of Carlos P. Garcia (1957–1961), under…
Filipino Sign Language (FSL) is the natural visual-gestural language of the Filipino Deaf community, with its own grammar and vocabulary…
Sweet-style spaghetti · Pinoy spaghetti
Filipino Spaghetti is the Philippine adaptation of Italian spaghetti, distinguished by a sweet red sauce made with banana ketchup and…
The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) is a government agency under the Office of the President created by…
FinDreams Battery · BYD Battery Division
FinDreams (officially FinDreams Battery Co., Ltd.) is the dedicated battery development and manufacturing subsidiary of BYD. Spun off from BYD's…
The finless porpoise is a small, slender cetacean of coastal Indo-Pacific waters named for the absence of a dorsal fin,…
Revised Fire Code of the Philippines · Republic Act No. 9514
Fire Code (officially Republic Act No. 9514, commonly known as the Revised Fire Code of the Philippines) is a national…
Fire Code · Fire Code of the Philippines
The Fire Code of the Philippines, officially designated as Republic Act No. 9514, is the national law regulating fire safety…
Fire Safety and Prevention · Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Operations
Fire Protection refers to the comprehensive system of regulations, technologies, structural designs, and emergency services dedicated to preventing, suppressing, and…
Automatic Fire Sprinkler System · AFSS
A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection method consisting of a water supply system, piping, and automatic sprinkler…
The First Battle of Bud Dajo (March 5–8, 1906) was a military engagement on the volcanic cone of Bud Dajo…
The 2025 impeachment of Sara Duterte · The fourth impeachment complaint against Sara Duterte
The First impeachment of Sara Duterte was the proceeding in which the House of Representatives of the 19th Congress impeached…
Limasawa First Mass · Easter Mass of 1521
The First Mass in the Philippines refers to the Easter Sunday Mass celebrated on March 31, 1521 by Fray Pedro…
First Pacific · First Pacific (short form; stock name on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange)
First Pacific Company Limited (SEHK: 142) is a Hong Kong–listed investment management and holding company active in telecommunications, consumer food…
The First Philippine Assembly was the elected lower house of the Philippine Legislature convened under American colonial rule in 1907,…
Malolos Republic · Philippine Republic (República Filipina) — formal designation
The First Philippine Republic, formally the Philippine Republic (Spanish: República Filipina) and commonly called the Malolos Republic, was the unrecognized…
Sigwa ng Unang Kuwarto · Sigwa ng Unang Sangkapat
The First Quarter Storm (Filipino: Sigwa ng Unang Kuwarto; also Sigwa ng Unang Sangkapat) was the wave of student-led demonstrations,…
Republic Act No. 11261 · RA 11261
The First Time Job Seekers Act is the popular name of Republic Act No. 11261, signed by President Rodrigo Roa…
The First Time Jobseekers Act, enacted in 2019, exempts first-time Filipino job applicants from paying fees for government-issued documents required…
1. Definition Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) is an inter-agency government body in the Philippines chaired by the Department of…
Fishball · Iskool fish balls (campus slang in some areas)
Fish ball is the quintessential Filipino street snack: small spheres of minced, seasoned fish, deep-fried on pushcart stalls until puffed…
Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 · Republic Act No. 8550
The Fisheries Code of the Philippines is the short title of Republic Act No. 8550, officially "An Act Providing for…
Fitrah (app) · Fitrah app
Fitrah.me (Fitrah) is a free web and mobile application for Muslims that combines worship tools with community features, developed as…
Fitzpatrick Scale · Fitzpatrick Skin Typing
The Fitzpatrick Skin Phototype (FSP) classification, also called the Fitzpatrick scale or sun-reactive skin typing, is a six-point system that…
Republic Act No. 8491 · RA 8491
The Flag and Heraldic Code of the Philippines is the short title of Republic Act No. 8491, officially "An Act…
Pambansang Watawat ng Pilipinas — the Filipino styling · The Three Stars and a Sun flag — the early popular name for the banner Aguinaldo brought home
The Flag of the Philippines (Filipino Pambansang Watawat ng Pilipinas) is the national flag of the Philippines — a horizontal…
Ptilinopus marchei (scientific name) · Marche's fruit dove (historical name)
The flame-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus marchei) is a large, striking fruit dove endemic to the mountains of Luzon in the…
Dicaeum kampalili (scientific name) · Mindanao flame-crowned flowerpecker
The Flame-Crowned Flowerpecker (Dicaeum kampalili) is a species of bird in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae endemic to the island of…
Dasycrotapha speciosa (scientific name) · Golden-crowned babbler (informal usage)
The flame-templed babbler (Dasycrotapha speciosa) is a small, striking songbird endemic to Luzon in the Philippines. It is named for…
The flaming sunbird (Aethopyga flagrans) is a small, brilliantly colored sunbird endemic to the Philippines, where it occurs in the…
Flash Elorde (Gabriel "Flash" Elorde, 1935–1985) was a Filipino professional boxer who held the world junior lightweight (super featherweight) championship…
Flaviano Yengko y Abad (1874–1897) was a Filipino revolutionary general of the Philippine Revolution, remembered as one of the youngest…
Flawless Face & Body Clinic · Flawless Clinic
Flawless Aesthetic Clinic (officially Flawless Face & Body Clinic) is a well-established chain of aesthetic clinics in the Philippines. Founded…
Flood control — the field more broadly called flood management — is the body of methods for reducing or preventing…
Flood control corruption scandal · Philippines Under Water Senate probe (the Senate Blue Ribbon investigation's name)
The Flood Control Projects Scandal in the Philippines is a corruption controversy concerning billions of pesos in government funding for…
Flood forecast · Flood prediction
Flood forecasting is the process of predicting the occurrence, magnitude, timing, and duration of floods in a specific area, using…
FAR · Floor Space Index (FSI)
Floor Area Ratio (FAR) is the ratio of a building's total floor area (gross floor area) to the size of…
Flor Ramos Contemplacion — full name
Flor Ramos Contemplacion (January 7, 1953 – March 17, 1995) was a Filipina domestic worker from San Pablo, Laguna, convicted…
Municipality of Flora · Flora Apayao
Flora, officially the Municipality of Flora, is a municipality in the province of Apayao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Philippine flora · Philippine plant life
The flora of the Philippines is the plant life of the Philippine archipelago, numbering more than 9,250 native vascular plant…
Floridablanca is a first income-class municipality in southwestern Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, lying where the Central Luzon plains meet the…
Municipality of Floridablanca · Floridablanca Pampanga
Floridablanca, officially the Municipality of Floridablanca, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
FoamZone is a Philippine express-carwash franchise system operated by FoamZone Franchisor Corp., based in Davao City. It licenses standardized FoamZone…
Tanghalang Francisco Balagtas · FAT (initialism)
The Folk Arts Theater, formally the Tanghalang Francisco Balagtas, is a large open-air-capable theater in the Cultural Center of the…
FDA Philippines · Philippine FDA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Philippines is the national regulatory agency of the Department of Health (DOH)…
1. Definition The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Philippines (formerly the Bureau of Food and Drugs) is a…
FDA Philippines · Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines (officially the FDA Philippines) is the national regulatory agency under the Department of…
FNRI · DOST-FNRI
The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) is the principal research and development institute of the Department of Science and…
Food enrichment · Micronutrient fortification
Food fortification is the addition of micronutrients — essential trace elements and vitamins — to food products, deliberately undertaken at…
Food hygiene · Food safety regulation
Food safety is the scientific discipline and regulatory practice of handling, preparing, and storing food in ways that prevent foodborne…
Football in the Philippines is the association-football culture of the country, governed by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF), founded in…
Fiera (the name's generic usage for any utility vehicle in 1970s–80s Filipino motoring) · Ford Fiera crew cab (limited edition, 1982)
The Ford Fiera was a Philippine-assembled basic utility vehicle sold by the Ford Motor Company's pre-Ford-Group Philippine operations, produced in…
Ford Foundation, Inc.
The Ford Foundation is an American private philanthropic foundation, founded on January 15, 1936 in Michigan by Edsel Ford, president…
FGP · Ford Group Philippines, Inc.
Ford Group Philippines, Inc. (FGPI) is the Philippine subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, engaged in the importation, distribution, and after-sales…
Foreclosure Sale · Public Auction of Property
Foreclosure (specifically judicial or extrajudicial foreclosure in the Philippines) is the legal process by which a mortgagee (typically a bank…
The Foreign Investments Act of 1991, Republic Act No. 7042, is the foundational law governing foreign investment in the Philippines.…
Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation (PTFCF) · Forest Foundation
The Forest Foundation Philippines, formally registered as the Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation, Inc. (PTFCF), is a non-governmental organization and…
FMB · Kawanihan ng Pamamahala sa mga Kagubatan — the Filipino styling in the DENR bureaus listing ([Wikipedia — DENR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Environment_and_Natural_Resources "Department of Environment and Natural Resources — Wikipedia"))
The Forest Management Bureau (FMB) is the forest bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) —…
1. Definition Formative Assessment refers to a range of formal and informal evaluation procedures conducted by teachers during the learning…
Colforsin · Coleus forskohlii Extract
Forskolin is a labdane diterpene chemical compound derived from the roots of the Indian coleus plant (Coleus forskohlii, also known…
Bonifacio Global City (BGC) · Fort Bonifacio Military Reservation
Fort Bonifacio is a prominent administrative district, military camp, and commercial center in Metro Manila, Philippines. Situated within the city…
The concrete battleship — the standard nickname · El Fraile Island — the islet's own name, used for the Wikidata item
Fort Drum, nicknamed the "concrete battleship," is the reinforced-concrete sea fort built by the United States Army on El Fraile…
El Fraile Island · The concrete battleship
Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island, is a heavily fortified island at the mouth of Manila Bay in…
Fort Pilar is a 17th-century Spanish coastal fortress in Zamboanga City, Philippines, formally the Real Fuerza de Nuestra Señora del…
Fuerte de San Felipe — the Spanish-era designation · Fuerte San Felipe Neri — the Spanish Wikipedia article's styling of the fort
Fort San Felipe (Spanish: Fuerte de San Felipe) is the Spanish military fortress at the historic port town of Cavite…
Fuerza de San Pedro · Cebu Fort San Pedro
Fort San Pedro (Fuerza de San Pedro) is a triangular Spanish military fortification at the edge of Plaza Independencia in…
Fort Santa Isabel is a Spanish colonial fortification in Taytay, northeastern Palawan, Philippines, built in the seventeenth century to defend…
Fort Santa Isabel is a seventeenth-century Spanish fortification in Taytay, northeastern Palawan, Philippines — the oldest surviving colonial structure in…
Fort Santiago is a Spanish colonial fortress at the mouth of the Pasig River in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, first built…
Fortune Island is a 27-hectare limestone island off the coast of Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines, about 14 kilometers from the mainland,…
FOTON Philippines · Foton Motor Philippines, Inc. (FMPI)
Foton Motor Philippines is the Philippine operation of Foton Motor (Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd.), the Chinese manufacturer of trucks,…
Fuente de la Justicia — the Spanish label carried by the linked-data record · The fountain at the old Bacolod City Hall — the descriptive identification
The Fountain of Justice is a historic landmark in Bacolod, Negros Occidental — a fountain and public plaza of about…
FPA MC No. 2024-25 · Enhanced Rules and Regulations on Agricultural Pesticide Application Using RPAS
FPA Memorandum Circular No. 2024-25 is the Philippine Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority's circular on the "Enhanced rules and regulations on…
Ang Probinsyano · Probinsyano
FPJ's Ang Probinsyano is a Philippine television action drama series produced by ABS-CBN that ran for nearly seven years —…
Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser · CO2 Fractional Resurfacing
A Fractional CO2 Laser is a carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) gas laser that delivers light energy at a wavelength of 10,600nm…
F.B. Harrison — the initials styling carried by the Manila–Pasay–Parañaque boulevard and the Baguio road named for him · Governor-General Harrison — the designation of the insular-government era
Francis Burton Harrison (December 18, 1873, New York City – November 21, 1957, Hunterdon Medical Center, Raritan Township, New Jersey)…
Kiko Pangilinan — the form of his four Senate campaigns · Kiko — the standing nickname
Francis Pangilinan ("Kiko"; born August 24, 1963, Manila; in full Francis Pancratius Nepomuceno Pangilinan) is a Filipino lawyer and politician,…
Francisca Reyes-Aquino (1899–1983) was a Filipino educator, choreographer, and folklorist celebrated as the mother of Philippine folk dance, whose nationwide…
Frankie Arcellana
Francisco Arcellana (1916–2002), known to generations as "Frankie," was a Filipino fictionist, poet, essayist, and teacher who helped pioneer the…
Francisco Baltazar (pen name) · Prinsipe ng mga Makatang Tagalog (Prince of Tagalog Poets)
Francisco Balagtas (April 2, 1788 – September 20, 1862), who wrote under the name Francisco Baltazar, was the foremost Tagalog…
Davao International Airport · DVO
The Francisco Bangoy International Airport (IATA: DVO), commonly known as Davao International Airport, is the main airport serving Davao City…
Francisco Carreón y Marcos · General Francisco Carreón
Francisco Carreón y Marcos (born October 5, 1868, in Cotabato, Mindanao; died between 1939 and 1941 — the Wikidata record…
Francisco V. Coching (1919–1998) was a Filipino illustrator and writer hailed as one of the grand masters of Philippine komiks,…
Francisco Sendrijas — the recorded real name · Dagohoy — the amulet name that displaced it
Francisco Dagohoy (born Francisco Sendrijas, c. 1724, Inabanga, Bohol) was the Boholano cabeza de barangay who led the Dagohoy Rebellion…
Francisco Javier de la Torre — the full documented form of his name · Don Francisco de la Torre — the styling of the Anda correspondence's "Spanish governor designate"
Francisco de la Torre — in full Francisco Javier de la Torre — was a Spanish brigadier and colonial governor,…
Francisco Delgado y Afan — the record's full name · Francisco Afan Delgado — the common modern styling
Francisco Delgado — in full, Francisco Delgado y Afan (January 25, 1886, Bulacan – October 27, 1964, Manila) — was…
General Makabulos · Francisco Macabulos
Francisco Makabulos (1871–1922), born Francisco Macabulos y Soliman, was a Filipino patriot and revolutionary general from Tarlac who led Katipunan…
Don Francisco Maniago (courtesy title in the town record) · Chief of Mexico, Pampanga
Francisco Maniago was a Kapampangan chieftain of Mexico, Pampanga, the leader of the Pampanga Revolt of 1660 — the rising…
Francisco Motors · Francisco Motor Corporation
Francisco Motors — incorporated as Francisco Motor Corporation (FMC) — is a Filipino vehicle manufacturer and one of the oldest…
Father of the Kundiman Art Song
Francisco Santiago (January 29, 1889 – September 28, 1947) was a Filipino composer, pianist, and teacher remembered as the Father…
Kit Tatad — the byline and public nickname · Francisco S. Tatad — the Senate-record styling
Francisco "Kit" Sarmiento Tatad (born October 4, 1939, in Gigmoto, then part of Albay and now in Catanduanes) is a…
William Francis Murphy — the full name · Governor-General Murphy — the Philippine Insular Government styling
William Francis "Frank" Murphy (April 13, 1890, Harbor Beach, then Sand Beach, Michigan – July 19, 1949, Detroit) was an…
Franklin Baker Company · Franklin Baker
The Franklin Baker Company is one of the world's largest desiccated coconut producers, headquartered and operating production facilities in Sta.…
Maj. Gen. Franklin C. Sibert — the styling the Mindanao official history uses · General Sibert — the campaign-record shorthand
Franklin C. Sibert (January 3, 1891, Bowling Green, Kentucky — June 24, 1980, Fort Walton Beach, Florida) was a general…
Friar Botod
Fray Botod is the satirical narrative written by Graciano López Jaena — this wiki's entry on the propagandist documents his…
Ferdinand Pascual Aguilar · Abdul Farid
Freddie Aguilar (February 5, 1953 – May 27, 2025), born Ferdinand Pascual Aguilar in Santo Tomas, Isabela, was a Filipino…
Frederick Steven Roach · Freddie
Freddie Roach (born Frederick Steven Roach, March 5, 1960, in Dedham, Massachusetts) is an American boxing trainer and former professional…
Republic Act No. 10969 · RA 10969
The Free Irrigation Service Act is Republic Act No. 10969, approved on February 2, 2018 by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte…
FLAG — the standard initialism of Philippine legal and journalistic usage, the name carried in the organization's own data records · The FLAG lawyers — the collective shorthand of the martial-law years
The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of Filipino human-rights lawyers, founded on October 21, 1974 at…
FPIC · Free and Prior Informed Consent (IPRA statutory wording)
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is a principle of international human rights law and Philippine statute under which indigenous…
Proclamation No. 3 — the issuance number by which the charter is cited in legal literature · Provisional Constitution of 1986 — the functional description used by the Supreme Court and commentators
The Freedom Constitution was the provisional charter of the Philippines promulgated as Proclamation No. 3 on March 25, 1986 by…
FFFJ · Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists, Inc.
The Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), incorporated as Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists, Inc., was a coalition of six…
Free speech in the Philippines · Freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press
Freedom of expression in the Philippines is the constitutional guarantee set out in Article III, Section 4 of the 1987…
Frenchie Cumpio — the journalistic short form of Philippine headlines · One of the "Tacloban 5" — the arrest-group designation of the February 7, 2020 raids
Frenchie Mae Cumpio (born January 23, 1999) is a Filipino community journalist from Tacloban City, Leyte — the executive director…
Act No. 1120 — the statutory citation · The Friar Lands Act — Section 26's own short title
The Friar Lands Act — Act No. 1120, approved April 26, 1904, titled "The Friar Lands Act" by its own…
Frontpage · Ulat ni Mel Tiangco
Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco was the Filipino-language (Tagalog) early-evening newscast of GMA Network, produced by GMA News and Public…
Adhesive capsulitis · Shoulder stiffness
Frozen Shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) is a painful orthopedic condition characterized by stiffness, severe pain, and progressive loss of active and…
Pump prices · Oil price hike (the standard Philippine news term for a weekly increase)
Fuel pricing in the Philippines is the process by which retail pump prices for gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum…
Euro 4/IV-PH fuel standards · Philippine fuel specifications (PNS/DOE QS)
Fuel Quality Standards in the Philippines are the legally mandated specifications for gasoline, diesel, and blended fuels sold in the…
Fuerza de San Pedro (Fort San Pedro) is a triangular stone fortress at the edge of Cebu City's Plaza Independencia,…
Fuga Island is an island and barangay located north of Luzon in the Philippines, forming part of the Babuyan Islands,…
Function Hall · Multi-Purpose Hall
A function room (also referred to as a multi-purpose hall or event space) is a dedicated indoor room within a…
The Furtive Flycatcher (Ficedula disposita) is a small insect-eating bird of the family Muscicapidae, endemic to the island of Luzon…
Mega Dike · FVR Mega Dike — the styling of Wikipedia's lahar article
The FVR Megadike is the concrete lahar-containment dike system built along the Pasig–Potrero River in Pampanga after the 1991 eruption…
Gabâ is a Philippine folk concept, especially strong among Visayans, of an imminent, non-divine retribution — a negative karma that…
Municipality of Gabaldon · Gabaldon Nueva Ecija
Gabaldon, officially the Municipality of Gabaldon, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Gabaldon schoolhouses · Gabaldon buildings
Gabaldon School Buildings are the standard-plan schoolhouses of the American colonial period in the Philippines — the heritage school-building type…
Bamboo xylophone · Gabbang (Tausug-Sama usage)
The gabbang is a bamboo xylophone of the southern Philippines, consisting of graduated bamboo keys laid across a wooden frame…
Gabi is the Filipino name for taro (Colocasia esculenta), one of the archipelago's oldest food crops, grown for its starchy…
Flash Elorde · Gabriel "Flash" Elorde
Gabriel "Flash" Elorde (1935–1985) was a Filipino professional boxer who won the lineal world super featherweight title in 1960 and…
Maria Josefa Gabriela Cariño — her full name (DBpedia carries the birth name "María Josefa Gabriela Cariño") · La Generala — the command styling of her four months in the field
Gabriela Silang (Maria Josefa Gabriela Cariño; March 19, 1731 – September 20, 1763) was the Filipina insurgent leader who took…
The Gaddang are an ethnolinguistic people of the Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon, concentrated in Nueva Vizcaya and parts of…
Gadang (older spelling) · Gaddang of Nueva Vizcaya (survey usage distinguishing related varieties)
Gaddang is a Philippine language of the Malaueg-Itawis-Gaddang cluster spoken in the upper Magat valley around Solano, Bayombong, and adjacent…
The Gaddang are an ethnolinguistic people of the upper Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon, historically centered in Nueva Vizcaya and…
Municipality of Gainza · Gainza Camarines Sur
Gainza, officially the Municipality of Gainza, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
1. Definition Gait training is a specialized physical therapy intervention designed to help patients improve their ability to walk safely…
Galicano C. Apacible — the form used on his National Historical Institute marker · "physician, propagandist, diplomat, legislator, and patriot" — the inscription of his 2003 NHI marker in Balayan, Batangas
Galicano Apacible (June 25, 1864 – March 2, 1949) was a Filipino physician, propagandist, diplomat, and legislator — a cousin…
Municipality of Galimuyod · Galimuyod Ilocos Sur
Galimuyod, officially the Municipality of Galimuyod, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Galunggong is the Philippine market name for scads — chiefly the mackerel scad (Decapterus macarellus) and closely allied round scads…
Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan · National Living Treasures Award
The GAMABA Award, formally Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan, is the Philippines' highest state recognition for master traditional artists, created…
Municipality of Gamay · Gamay Northern Samar
Gamay, officially the Municipality of Gamay, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
The PLDT "capital" case — the shorthand in corporate-law commentary · The PTIC shares case — reference to the sequestered block sold in 2007
Gamboa v. Teves (G.R. No. 176579, June 28, 2011) is the decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines en…
Recreation Room · Entertainment Room
Game Room, in the context of Philippine real estate and condominium amenities, is a specialized indoor recreational facility provided for…
Municipality of Gamu · Gamu Isabela
Gamu, officially the Municipality of Gamu, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Partido Ganap de Filipinas — the Spanish-form styling recorded in the 1941 election results ([Wikipedia — 1941 Philippine presidential election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_Philippine_presidential_election "1941 Philippine presidential election — Wikipedia")) · Ganap — the short form, from the Tagalog word for "complete" ([Wikipedia — Ganap Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganap_Party "Ganap Party — Wikipedia"), [Wiktionary — ganap](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ganap "ganap — Wiktionary"))
The Ganap Party was a prewar Filipino political party of the late Commonwealth period, founded by Benigno Ramos — the…
Ganassi is a fourth-income-class municipality in Lanao del Sur, within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Philippines. It…
Gandara is a second-income-class municipality in Samar province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, set along the Gandara River. It comprises about 70…
Talking gongs · Maranao message gongs
The gandingan is a set of four small-to-medium suspended bossed gongs laid in a row and played by a single…
Cordillera flat gong · Kalinga gong
The gangsa is the flat-sided, unbossed gong of the Cordillera peoples of northern Luzon—among them the Kalinga, Bontoc, Ifugao, Ibaloy,…
Ganito Kami Noon (short title) · The Romero epic of the Revolution
Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon? is the 1976 Philippine epic film written and directed by Eddie Romero, starring Christopher…
City of Gapan · Footwear Capital of the North
Gapan, officially the City of Gapan, is a component city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. It is one…
Municipality of Garchitorena · Garchitorena Camarines Sur
Garchitorena, officially the Municipality of Garchitorena, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
García Jofré de Loaysa — the Spanish-period spelling carried by the Spanish Wikipedia and the older historiography · Fray García Jofré de Loaysa — the styling of the Spanish account, honoring his standing as a commander of the Order of St John (the Order of Malta)
García Jofre de Loaísa (Spanish: García Jofré de Loaysa; born in Ciudad Real, in or about 1490 — died July…
Garcia Hernandez (without hyphen, common spelling) · "Rice and Coconut Town of Southern Bohol"
Garcia-Hernandez is a fourth-class municipality in the southern interior of Bohol, Philippines, along the road connecting the southern coast to…
1. Definition Garcinia is a plant genus in the Clusiaceae family, native to Asia, America, and Africa. Consisting of evergreen…
Batuan · Batuan fruit tree
Garcinia binucao, commonly called batuan, is a fruit tree endemic to the Philippines and a close relative of the mangosteen.…
Garcinia gummi-gutta · Malabar Tamarind
Garcinia cambogia (scientifically known as Garcinia gummi-gutta) is a tropical species of fruit-bearing tree in the family Clusiaceae, native to…
1. Definition Garcinia mangostana is the scientific botanical name for the mangosteen tree, a tropical evergreen species indigenous to Southeast…
Green Space · Landscaped Park
A garden (specifically a landscaped garden or green space in real estate) is an outdoor area set aside for the…
Filling station · Petrol station
Gas station — more formally a filling station — is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor…
Municipality of Gasan · Gasan Marinduque
Gasan, officially the Municipality of Gasan, is a municipality in the province of Marinduque, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) · Roux gastric bypass
Gastric Bypass Surgery (specifically Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass) is a major bariatric surgical procedure that alters the anatomy of the stomach…
Stomach emptying · Gastric motility
Gastric Emptying is the physiological process by which the contents of the stomach are moved into the duodenum of the…
GIP · Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide
Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide (also known as glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide or GIP) is a 42-amino-acid peptide hormone synthesized and secreted by…
Delayed Gastric Emptying · Stomach Paralysis
Gastroparesis, also known as delayed gastric emptying, is a chronic medical condition characterized by delayed movement of food from the…
Gattaran is a municipality in Cagayan, Philippines, in the lower valley north of Tuguegarao, known in the region for cattle…
Municipality of Gattaran · Gattaran Cagayan
Gattaran, officially the Municipality of Gattaran, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
UP Gawad Plaridel — the styling used in UP's announcements · Gawad Plaridel Award — the label carried in Wikidata
The Gawad Plaridel is the journalism and media award of the University of the Philippines — the sole award in…
National Living Treasures Award · GAMABA — the standard acronym
The Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA), the National Living Treasures Award, is the Philippine state's highest recognition for masters…
Gawad Urian Awards · Urian Awards
Gawad Urian is the annual film award conferred by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino ("Filipino Film Critics"), a critics' group…
Gawad Urian · Urian Awards
The Gawad Urian Award is the film award given by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, a circle of Filipino film…
GB/T · Guobiao EV Standard
The GB/T Connector Standard (guobiao standard) is the set of electric vehicle charging standards developed and used in China. Governed…
Geminiano T. de Ocampo (1907–1987) was a Filipino physician widely called the Father of Modern Philippine Ophthalmology. He pioneered eye…
GAA · National budget (popular usage)
The General Appropriations Act (GAA) is the law that enacts the national budget of the Philippines — the annual statute…
GAO · Office of the Auditor for the Philippine Islands (1899–1901)
The General Auditing Office (GAO) was the Philippines' national audit institution for most of the twentieth century — the constitutional…
Republic Act No. 8791 · RA 8791
The General Banking Law of 2000 is the short title of Republic Act No. 8791, officially "An Act Providing for…
Municipality of General Emilio Aguinaldo · General Emilio Aguinaldo Cavite
General Emilio Aguinaldo, officially the Municipality of General Emilio Aguinaldo, is a municipality in the province of Cavite, located within…
Municipality of General Luna · General Luna, Surigao del Norte
General Luna, officially the Municipality of General Luna, is a fifth-class municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.…
General Luna (Siargao) · Municipality of General Luna
General Luna, officially the Municipality of General Luna, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within…
Municipality of General MacArthur · General MacArthur Eastern Samar
General MacArthur, officially the Municipality of General MacArthur, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the…
Municipality of General Mamerto Natividad · General Mamerto Natividad Nueva Ecija
General Mamerto Natividad, officially the Municipality of General Mamerto Natividad, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located…
GMA · The Resettlement Town (informal)
General Mariano Alvarez (GMA) is a fifth-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines. Created in the late 20th century as a resettlement…
Municipality of General Nakar · General Nakar Quezon
General Nakar, officially the Municipality of General Nakar, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON…
Salipada K. Pendatun · General Salipada K. Pendatun
General Salipada K. Pendatun (1912–1985) was a legendary Filipino soldier, lawyer, politician, and statesman who was the first Muslim to…
Municipality of General Salipada K. Pendatun · General Salipada K. Pendatun Maguindanao
General Salipada K. Pendatun, officially the Municipality of General Salipada K. Pendatun, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao,…
GenSan · Tuna Capital of the Philippines
General Santos, officially known as the City of General Santos (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Heneral Santos; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Heneral Santos),…
General Santos City, widely called GenSan, is a highly urbanized city in South Cotabato within the SOCCSKSARGEN region (Region XII)…
Municipality of General Tinio · General Tinio Nueva Ecija
General Tinio, officially the Municipality of General Tinio, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the…
San Francisco de Malabon (historical) · Malabon (1914-1920)
General Trias is a first-class municipality (and city by some recent classifications) in the province of Cavite, Philippines. Originally founded…
Republic Act No. 6675 · RA 6675
The Generics Act of 1988 is the short title of Republic Act No. 6675, officially "An Act to Promote, Require…
Licensed land surveyor · Geodetic surveyor
A Geodetic Engineer is a licensed professional in the Philippines who specializes in land surveying, geodetic positioning, hydrographic mapping, and…
Geography of the Philippines comprises an archipelago of 7,641 islands in Southeast Asia, bounded by the Philippine Sea, Pacific Ocean,…
The Hero of Manila Bay — the popular American styling after May 1, 1898 · Admiral of the Navy — the unique rank used as his distinguishing title
George Dewey (December 26, 1837, Montpelier, Vermont – January 16, 1917, Washington, D.C.) was an admiral of the United States…
George S.K. Ty · George Siao Kian Ty
George Siao Kian Ty (October 18, 1932 – November 23, 2018), also written George S.K. Ty (Chinese: 鄭少堅; pinyin: Zhèng…
Gerardo de León (1913–1981), born Gerardo Ilagan, was a Filipino film director regarded as among the greatest in the history…
Gerry Roxas · Gerry Roxas — the familiar form by which the standard record itself labels him
Gerardo Roxas — Gerardo Manuel de León Roxas, "Gerry" (born August 25, 1924, Manila; died April 19, 1982, New York…
Municipality of Gerona · Gerona Tarlac
Gerona, officially the Municipality of Gerona, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Getafe · Getafe Bohol
Getafe, officially the Municipality of Getafe, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Lenomorelin · The Hunger Hormone
Ghrelin is a 28-amino acid peptide hormone produced and secreted primarily by the P/D1 cells lining the fundus of the…
Dragon bamboo · Asper bamboo
Giant bamboo, Dendrocalamus asper, also called dragon bamboo, is a giant tropical clumping bamboo native to Southeast Asia and widely…
Crateromys schadenbergi (binomial) · bushy-tailed cloud rat
The Giant Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat (Crateromys schadenbergi) is a large, endangered rodent endemic to the mountains of Luzon in the…
Taklobo (Filipino name) · Tridacna gigas (scientific name)
The Giant Clam (Tridacna gigas), known in the Philippines as taklobo, is the largest living bivalve mollusk on Earth, capable…
The giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) is a fruit bat endemic to the Philippines and one of the largest…
Ligligan Parul — the Kapampangan designation · Ligligan Parul Sampernandu — the full Kapampangan styling with the city's name
The Giant Lantern Festival (Kapampangan: Ligligan Parul) is the annual lantern competition held in mid-December in the City of San…
Grammatophyllum speciosum (scientific name) · Tiger orchid
The giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum), also called the tiger orchid, is the largest orchid species in the world, a Philippine…
Otus gurneyi (scientific name) · Mimizuku gurneyi (alternative genus placement)
The giant scops-owl (Otus gurneyi), sometimes separated in the genus Mimizuku, is the largest of the Philippine scops-owls, endemic to…
Caranx ignobilis (scientific name) · Maliputo (Filipino name for mature adults)
The giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis), known in the Philippines as maliputo when mature and talakitok among related trevallies, is a…
The giant triton (Charonia tritonis), also called Triton's trumpet, is one of the largest marine snails, reaching up to about…
The Gigantes Islands are an island group in the Visayan Sea off the coast of Carles, Iloilo province, Philippines, comprising…
Gigaquit is a fourth-income class municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. It covers 138.11 square kilometers, has 13…
Gigil is a Filipino word for the overwhelming urge to squeeze, pinch, or bite something overwhelmingly cute or infuriating —…
Municipality of Gigmoto · Gigmoto Catanduanes
Gigmoto, officially the Municipality of Gigmoto, is a municipality in the province of Catanduanes, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Gil Montilla y Miranda · Speaker Montilla
Gil Montilla (September 11, 1876, Hinigaran, Negros – July 20, 1946, Bacolod, Negros Occidental), fully Gil Montilla y Miranda, was…
Gil J. Puyat · Gil Juco Puyat Sr.
Gil Juco Puyat Sr. (September 1, 1907 – March 22, 1981) was a Filipino businessman, economist, and politician who served…
Gilas · Smart Gilas
Gilas Pilipinas is the name of the Philippines' national basketball teams, used above all for the men's national team that…
Ginataan refers to Filipino dishes and desserts cooked with ginata, coconut milk, making coconut the defining ingredient rather than any…
Ginataang bilo-bilo is a Filipino sweet stew of glutinous rice balls (bilo-bilo) simmered in coconut milk with saba banana, camote,…
Ginataang kalabasa, also known as kalabasa sa gata, is a Filipino vegetable stew made by simmering calabaza squash in coconut…
Municipality of Ginatilan · Ginatilan Cebu
Ginatilan, officially the Municipality of Ginatilan, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Manlilikha ng Bayan (1993) — his formal title as a National Living Treasure · GAMABA awardee, 1993 first batch — the award's acronym-based reference
Ginaw Bilog (January 3, 1953 – June 3, 2003) was a Hanunuo Mangyan poet of the ambahan — the seven-syllable…
Ginebra San Miguel is the Philippines' best-known gin brand and one of the world's largest-selling gins by volume. First produced…
City of Gingoog · Gingoog City
Gingoog, officially the City of Gingoog, is a component city in the province of Misamis Oriental, Philippines. Positioned between Macajalar…
Gingoog City is a second-income-class component city in Misamis Oriental province in Northern Mindanao (Region X), Philippines. It had a…
Ginisang munggo (alternate spelling) · Mongo guisado
Ginisang monggo is a Filipino savory mung bean stew whose name means "sautéed mung bean." Whole mung beans are simmered…
Ginisang munggo is a Filipino mung bean stew made by first sautéing garlic, onions and tomatoes, then simmering pre-boiled mung…
Municipality of Giporlos · Giporlos Eastern Samar
Giporlos, officially the Municipality of Giporlos, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
GSP · Girl Scouting movement of the Philippines
The Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP) is the national guiding association for girls and young women, organized in 1940…
Municipality of Gitagum · Gitagum Misamis Oriental
Gitagum, officially the Municipality of Gitagum, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Glan · Glan
Glan, officially the Municipality of Glan, is a first-class municipality in the province of Sarangani, Philippines. Located on the eastern…
Glan is a first-income-class municipality in Sarangani, Soccsksargen (Region XII), Philippines. Located east of Sarangani Bay, west of Davao Occidental,…
CPJ Impunity Index
The Global Impunity Index is a ranking published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that lists countries where the…
Globe · GTI (Globe Telecom, Inc.)
Globe Telecom, Inc. is one of the two dominant telecommunications carriers in the Philippines, a joint venture anchored by the…
Municipality of Gloria · Gloria Oriental Mindoro
Gloria, officially the Municipality of Gloria, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Miss Universe 1969 · Gloria Aspillera Diaz (full name)
Gloria Diaz (born 1951) is a Filipina beauty queen and actress who in 1969 became the first Philippine representative to…
Compounded Semaglutide · Compounded Tirzepatide
GLP-1 Compounding refers to the custom preparation of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist medications — such as semaglutide or tirzepatide…
GLP-1 agonists · Incretin mimetics
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists, sometimes shortened to GLP-1 RAs or incretin mimetics) are a class of injectable…
Konjac Fiber · Konjac Mannan
Glucomannan is a water-soluble, highly viscous dietary polysaccharide classified as a hemicellulose, consisting of D-mannose and D-glucose monomers linked by…
L-Glutathione · Reduced Glutathione
Glutathione is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its therapeutic…
Gluta drip · IV glutathione therapy
A Glutathione Drip (commonly referred to in the Philippines as a gluta drip) is the intravenous (IV) administration of glutathione—a…
Gluta drip · IV gluta
Glutathione Drip Therapy (commonly known in the Philippines as gluta drip) is the intravenous administration of glutathione, often formulated with…
GI · Glycaemic index (British spelling)
The Glycemic Index (GI) is a scale from 0 to 100 that ranks carbohydrate-containing foods by how much they raise…
2-Hydroxyacetic acid · Hydroxyacetic acid
Glycolic Acid is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its…
GMA News · GMA News and Public Affairs
GMA Integrated News was the name given in late 2022 to the news organization of GMA Network, Inc., the Quezon…
GMA-7 · Channel 7
GMA Network, Inc. is one of the Philippines' major commercial broadcast networks and media companies, commonly known as GMA-7 or…
GMANews.TV
GMA News Online is the digital news operation of GMA Network, Inc. — the Filipino-and-English news website published at gmanetwork.com/news…
GNTV · GMA News TV Channel 11
GMA News TV was a Philippine free-to-air television channel that operated domestically from February 28, 2011 until February 22, 2021,…
GMA Network Public Affairs
GMA Public Affairs is the public-affairs and documentary production unit of GMA Network, Inc., the Quezon City broadcast company profiled…
Gumhar · White teak
Gmelina (Gmelina arborea), also called gumhar or white teak, is a fast-growing deciduous tree in the mint family (Lamiaceae) native…
Go Ka Toe Sons & Co. v. Rice & Corn Board — the spelling in the Supreme Court's own later citation of the case ([LawPhil — Purina](https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/sep2015/gr_180323_2015.html "Purina Philippines, Inc. v. Flores, G.R. No. 180323 (September 16, 2015) — The LawPhil Project")) · 126 Phil. 481 (1967) — the Philippine Reports citation
Go Ka Toc Sons & Co. v. Rice and Corn Board, docketed as G.R. No. L-23607 and decided by the…
Goa, officially the Municipality of Goa, is a first-class municipality in Camarines Sur, Philippines, with about 71,651 people per the…
Municipality of Godod · Godod Zamboanga del Norte
Godod, officially the Municipality of Godod, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Caticlan Airport · Boracay Airport
The Godofredo P. Ramos Airport, commonly called Caticlan Airport, is the airport serving Malay, Aklan, and the principal air gateway…
The golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata), known locally as kuhol, is a large freshwater snail native to South America that…
The golden cowrie (Callistocypraea aurantium, formerly Cypraea aurantium) is a large marine gastropod mollusk whose adult shell — oval, heavy,…
Malusog Rice · GR2E
Golden Rice is a rice (Oryza sativa) genetically engineered to produce beta-carotene — a provitamin A pigment that gives the…
The Golden Tara (Agusan image) is a small solid-gold statuette of a female Hindu-Buddhist deity, generally identified as the bodhisattva…
The golden-crowned babbler (Dasycrottorcha serrata, sometimes placed in Sterrhoptilus) is a small songbird endemic to the mountains of northern Luzon…
The Golden-crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus), also called the giant golden-crowned flying fox, is a large fruit bat endemic to…
Dicaeum aureolimbatum (scientific name) · Golden-rumped flowerpecker of Luzon and Mindanao
The golden-rumped flowerpecker (Dicaeum aureolimbatum) is a tiny endemic bird of the Philippines, found in forest, edge, and scrub habitats…
Goldilocks
Goldilocks Bakeshop is a Philippine chain of bakeshops and restaurants founded in 1966 by the Chinese-Filipino Leelin family, known for…
GomBurZa — the stylized syllabic form of the portmanteau · GOMBURZA — the all-capital styling common in commemorative use
Gomburza is the compound name — a portmanteau of their surnames, Gomburza — for the three secular priests Mariano Gómez…
Municipality of Gonzaga · Gonzaga Cagayan
Gonzaga, officially the Municipality of Gonzaga, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
GMP · Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP / CGMP)
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is the body of quality-assurance requirements that manufacturers of drugs, food, cosmetics, medical devices, and related…
GBP · Google My Business (GMB, former name)
Google Business Profile (GBP) — formerly Google My Business (2012–2021) and earlier Google Places/Google+ Local — is Google's free tool…
Goto (beef tripe porridge) · Lugaw na goto
Goto is a Filipino rice porridge cooked with tender strips or cubes of beef tripe, ginger, and garlic in the…
lugang goto · gotoh (variant spelling)
Goto is a Filipino rice porridge cooked with strips of beef tripe under plenty of ginger and garlic, belonging to…
GCG · Governance Commission for Government-Owned or -Controlled Corporations
The Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) is the central advisory, monitoring, and oversight body for government-owned or -controlled corporations (GOCCs)…
GPPB · Government Procurement Policy Board
The Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) is the Philippines' central inter-agency procurement policy body, created by Article XX (Sections 63-64)…
RA 9184 · Republic Act No. 9184
The Government Procurement Reform Act, or Republic Act No. 9184, is the Philippine law enacted in 2003 that governed the…
GSIS · Paseguruhan ng mga Naglilingkod sa Pamahalaan
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is the Philippine government's social insurance institution for public-sector employees — a government-owned and…
GOCC / GOCCs · Government-owned and/or controlled corporation (statutory variant)
Government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) are the corporate arm of the Philippine state: stock or non-stock corporations, "whether performing governmental…
Municipality of Governor Generoso · Governor Generoso Davao Oriental
Governor Generoso, officially the Municipality of Governor Generoso, is a municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, located within the…
Antonio María Blanco · Governor Antonio María Blanco
Governor-General Antonio María Blanco was a Spanish military officer and administrator who served as the acting (ad interim) Governor-General of…
Governor and Captain-General of the Philippines — the combined civil-military styling of the Spanish record · Capitán General de Filipinas — the formal Spanish-era designation
The Governor-General of the Philippines was the chief executive of the archipelago under two successive colonial regimes — the office…
Goyo: The Boy General · Goyo
Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral — released internationally as Goyo: The Boy General — is a 2018 Filipino epic historical war…
Grab Holdings Limited (listed parent) · MyTeksi (2012–2013 original name)
Grab is the Southeast Asian technology company — formally Grab Holdings Limited, headquartered in Singapore and listed on NASDAQ since…
Grab PH · MyTaxi.PH, Inc. (registered Philippine entity named in the PCC decision)
Grab Philippines is the Philippine operation of Grab Holdings Inc., the Singapore-headquartered technology company whose super-app covers ride-hailing, food delivery,…
Mary Grace Poe-Llamanzares · Mary Grace Natividad Poe-Llamanzares
Grace Poe — Mary Grace Natividad S. Poe-Llamanzares, born September 3, 1968 — is a Filipino politician who served two…
Graciano López y Jaena (baptismal styling; Spanish surname order) · Diego Laura (pen name at La Solidaridad)
Graciano López Jaena (December 18, 1856 – January 20, 1896), born Graciano López y Jaena at Jaro, Iloilo, to Plácido…
Grammatophyllum speciosum, the giant orchid or tiger orchid, is the largest orchid species in the world, producing cane-like pseudobulbs that…
Grand Land Inc. · Grand Land
Grand Land Inc. is the real estate development arm of the Gaisano Grand Group, a major retail and mall conglomerate…
Grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction — the full constitutional phrase · The grave-abuse-of-discretion clause — the styling for Article VIII, Section 1's second paragraph
Grave abuse of discretion is the standard of judicial review written into Article VIII, Section 1 of the 1987 Constitution…
Butaan · Varanus olivaceus
Gray's monitor (Varanus olivaceus), known locally as butaan, is a large, shy lizard endemic to southern Luzon and neighboring islands…
Pink Sand Beach of Zamboanga · Santa Cruz Grande
Great Santa Cruz Island is a small island in Basilan Strait about 20 minutes by boat from Zamboanga City, Philippines,…
The greater dwarf cloud rat (Carpomys melanurus), also called the short-footed Luzon tree rat, is a species of rodent in…
Tokyo Conference · The Tokyo Conference of November 1943
The Greater East Asia Conference — also called the Tokyo Conference — was the assembly held in Tokyo on November…
GEAP · Green Energy Auction
The Green Energy Auction Program (GEAP) is the Department of Energy's competitive procurement program for renewable energy capacity in the…
The green mussel (Perna viridis), called tahong in the Philippines, is an edible bivalve with a smooth green shell that…
The Green Racket-tail (Prioniturus luconensis) is a parrot endemic to the Philippines, recorded on Luzon and historically on other islands,…
Third Agricultural Revolution · Green revolution in agriculture
The Green Revolution, also called the Third Agricultural Revolution, was the worldwide transfer of agricultural technology — semi-dwarf, high-yielding varieties…
Pawikan (Filipino) · Chelonia mydas (scientific name)
The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), called pawikan in much of the Philippines, is a large marine turtle named for…
Camellia sinensis extract · GTE
Green tea extract (GTE) is a concentrated dietary supplement derived from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, which are…
Erythrura viridifacies (scientific name) · Luzon parrotfinch (informal birding usage)
The Green-faced Parrotfinch (Erythrura viridifacies) is a small, largely emerald-green finch endemic to the Philippines, associated mainly with Luzon and…
Greenbelt Makati · Greenbelt Mall
Greenbelt is a five-wing shopping, dining, and lifestyle complex at the Ayala Center in the Makati Central Business District, Metro…
Greenhills Mall · Greenhills
Greenhills Shopping Center (commonly known as Greenhills) is a major commercial and retail complex located in San Juan City, Metro…
Greenwich, also known as Greenwich Pizza, is a pizza and pasta chain in the Philippines founded in 1971 by Cresida…
Oriang — childhood nickname · Aling Oriang — later-life honorific
Gregoria de Jesús y Álvarez (May 9, 1875, Caloocan – March 15, 1943, Manila), nicknamed "Oriang," was a Filipino revolutionary…
Obispo Máximo Gregorio Aglipay — his title as supreme bishop, 1902–1940 · Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán — full birth name
Gregorio Aglipay (Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán; born May 5, 1860, in Batac, Ilocos Norte — baptized May 9, and…
Gregorio S. Araneta · Gregorio Araneta y Soriano — the full Spanish-style name
Gregorio Araneta (born Gregorio Araneta y Soriano; April 19, 1869, Molo, Iloilo – May 9, 1930, Manila) was a Filipino…
Goyong · The Boy General
Gregorio H. del Pilar y Sempio (November 14, 1875, San Jose, Bulacan (now Bulakan), Bulacan – December 2, 1899, Tirad…
Gregorio del Pilar is a small upland municipality in the mountains of eastern Ilocos Sur, Philippines. Founded as the town…
Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan II — the standard public styling, after the "Gringo" nickname · Gregorio Ballesteros Honasan II — full name with maternal surname
Gregorio Ballesteros Honasan II (born March 14, 1948, in Baguio), known as Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan II, is the Philippine Military…
Gregorio Melitón Martínez Santa Cruz · Gregorio Martínez
Gregorio Melitón Martínez (in full Gregorio Melitón Martínez Santa Cruz; born March 10, 1815, Pradoluengo, Burgos, Spain – died October…
Gregorio F. Zaide — the publication signature · Gregorio Fernandez Zaide — the full record name
Gregorio Zaide (in full Gregorio Fernandez Zaide; May 25, 1907, Pagsanjan, Laguna – October 31, 1986, Manila), known in his…
Gregorio Y. Zara · Inventor of the two-way telephone-telefon with video (photophone usage in popular accounts)
Gregorio Zara (1902–1978) was a Filipino engineer and physicist remembered as one of the country's most prolific inventors, credited with…
Ducula pickeringii (scientific name) · Sulu imperial pigeon (descriptive name)
Grey imperial pigeon (Ducula pickeringii) is a large pigeon of the family Columbidae found in the Sulu Archipelago of the…
Haliaeetus ichthyaetus (scientific name) · Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus (former generic placement)
The Grey-Headed Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus ichthyaetus) is a fish-eating bird of prey of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, where it…
Aethopyga primigenia (scientific name) · Gray-hooded sunbird (American spelling)
The grey-hooded sunbird (Aethopyga primigenia) is a small sunbird endemic to the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, where…
GFA · Total Floor Area
Gross Floor Area (GFA) is the total area of all floors of a building, measured from the outside faces of…
GRP-NDFP peace talks · GRP-NDFP negotiations
The GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations are the on-again, off-again peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP,…
GT Capital · GTCAP
GT Capital Holdings, Inc. (PSE: GTCAP) is the listed holding company of the Ty family of Manila — established on…
Good TV · Good TeleVision
GTV (stylized Gtv, for "Good TeleVision") is a Philippine free-to-air television channel owned by GMA Network, Inc. and operated through…
Guagua is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines. Historically a major commercial and river-trade…
Municipality of Guagua · Guagua Pampanga
Guagua, officially the Municipality of Guagua, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Bolbopsittacus lunulatus (scientific name) · Guayabero (Spanish-derived spelling)
The guaiabero (Bolbopsittacus lunulatus) is a small, stocky green parrot endemic to the Philippines and the sole member of its…
Security Gate · Guard Post
A guardhouse (commonly referred to in the Philippines as a security gate or guard outpost) is a small building or…
Municipality of Gubat · Gubat Sorsogon
Gubat, officially the Municipality of Gubat, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Guiguinto · Guiguinto Bulacan
Guiguinto, officially the Municipality of Guiguinto, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
City of Guihulngan · Guihulngan City
Guihulngan, officially the City of Guihulngan, is a component city in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. Positioned along the…
Guijo (trade name) · Guiso (binomial epithet)
Guijo is the Philippine timber name for Shorea guiso, a large dipterocarp rainforest tree native to the Philippines and other…
Guillermo Beato Francisco — full name · Major General Guillermo B. Francisco
Guillermo B. Francisco — in full Guillermo Beato Francisco (February 10, 1885, Manila – April 7, 1976, Manila) — was…
Guillermo Capadocia of the PKP — reference form in the labor-movement literature · General secretary of the merged Communist Party — organizational designation from November 7, 1938
Guillermo Capadocia (born c. 1909 in Negros Oriental — died September 28, 1951, San Remigio, Antique) was a Filipino labor…
Guillermo Rafael Masangkay · General Guillermo Masangkay
Guillermo Masangkay (full name Guillermo Rafael Masangkay; 1867–1963) was a Filipino revolutionary — a boatman from Tondo, Manila, without formal…
Guillermo Estrella Tolentino — full name · Guillermo E. Tolentino — the signature and citation form
Guillermo Estrella Tolentino (July 24, 1890, Malolos, Bulacan – July 12, 1976, Quezon City) was a Filipino sculptor and longtime…
The MT Solar 1 oil spill — the vessel-based name for the incident · The Solar 1 disaster — the common press shorthand
The Guimaras oil spill was the sinking of the oil tanker MT Solar 1 around midnight on August 11, 2006…
Province of Guimaras · Guimaras
Guimaras, officially the Province of Guimaras, is an island province in the Western Visayas region, Philippines. Located in the Panay…
Municipality of Guimba · Guimba Nueva Ecija
Guimba, officially the Municipality of Guimba, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Guimbal · Guimbal Iloilo
Guimbal, officially the Municipality of Guimbal, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Guinayangan · Guinayangan Quezon
Guinayangan, officially the Municipality of Guinayangan, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Guindulman · Guindulman Bohol
Guindulman, officially the Municipality of Guindulman, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Guindulungan · Guindulungan Maguindanao
Guindulungan, officially the Municipality of Guindulungan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Guinobatan, officially the Municipality of Guinobatan, is a first-class municipality in Albay, Philippines, with about 84,420 people per the 2024…
The Guinsaugon Landslide was a rock slide–debris avalanche that buried the mountain barangay of Guinsaugon in Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte,…
Municipality of Guinsiliban · Guinsiliban Camiguin
Guinsiliban, officially the Municipality of Guinsiliban, is a municipality in the province of Camiguin, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Municipality of Guipos · Guipos Zamboanga del Sur
Guipos, officially the Municipality of Guipos, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Municipality of Guiuan · Guiuan Eastern Samar
Guiuan, officially the Municipality of Guiuan, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Church of the Immaculate Conception (Guiuan) (formal name) · Guiuan shell church (descriptive usage)
The Guiuan Church, formally the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, is an eighteenth-century stone church famed…
The Guling-Guling Festival is Paoay, Ilocos Norte's pre-Lenten street festival held on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, tracing its roots…
Gumaca is a first-income-class municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, established on November 13, 1582. One of the oldest towns in…
Boracay of Mindanao (tourism nickname) · Glan white-sand coast
Gumasa Beach is a stretch of white-sand coastline along Sarangani Bay in the municipality of Glan, Sarangani province, in Mindanao.…
The gunong is a Filipino knife from Mindanao and the Visayas, essentially a diminutive form of the larger kalis (kris),…
Municipality of Gutalac · Gutalac Zamboanga del Norte
Gutalac, officially the Municipality of Gutalac, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Guyabano (Annona muricata), known internationally as soursop, is a small tropical fruit tree widely grown in the Philippines for its…
Guyam Island is a small, tear-drop shaped island in the Philippine Sea situated in the province of Surigao del Norte,…
The Guyangan Cave System is a group of seven caves on Guyangan Hill, a limestone formation in the barangays of…
Fitness Center · Gymnasium
A gym (short for gymnasium or fitness center) in real estate is a dedicated indoor facility equipped with exercise machines,…
Gurmar (Hindi for "sugar destroyer") · Madhunashini
Gymnema sylvestre is a species of perennial woody vine belonging to the Apocynaceae family, native to the tropical forests of…
Southwest monsoon · Tag-ulan winds (colloquial usage)
Habagat is the Filipino term for the southwest monsoon, the warm, moisture-laden wind system that blows from the southwest across…
habal habal / habalhabal (spelling variants) · skylab (Mindanao winged-plank variant, after the NASA space station)
Habal-habal is the traditional Philippine motorcycle taxi: a motorcycle — usually unmodified or fitted with an extended seat or plank…
The great writ · Writ of liberty
Habeas corpus — Latin for "you shall have the body" — is the judicial writ long called the "great writ"…
Hablon is the handwoven textile tradition of Iloilo province, Philippines — particularly the towns of Miagao, Oton, and Arevalo —…
Hacienda Luisita incident of 2004 · Luisita strike dispersal
The Hacienda Luisita massacre refers to the violent dispersal of striking workers at the Hacienda Luisita sugar plantation in Tarlac…
Municipality of Hadji Mohammad Ajul · Hadji Mohammad Ajul Basilan
Hadji Mohammad Ajul, officially the Municipality of Hadji Mohammad Ajul, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within…
Municipality of Hadji Muhtamad · Hadji Muhtamad Basilan
Hadji Muhtamad, officially the Municipality of Hadji Muhtamad, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Hadji Panglima Tahil · Hadji Panglima Tahil Sulu
Hadji Panglima Tahil, officially the Municipality of Hadji Panglima Tahil, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within…
Hagimit Nature Park · Hagimit Waterfalls
Hagimit Falls is a cascade and natural swimming area on Samal Island in the province of Davao del Norte, Philippines.…
Banana-producing municipality of Davao del Sur · Lowland farming neighbor of Digos City
Hagonoy, officially the Municipality of Hagonoy, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines, within Region XI…
The Hague Joint Declaration
The Hague Joint Declaration is the framework agreement of the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the…
Haladaya · Halad kay Datu Daya
The Haladaya Festival is the annual festival of Daanbantayan, Cebu, held in May in thanksgiving and offering — halad —…
Halal Certification in the Philippines · Philippine halal sector
The Halal Industry in the Philippines encompasses the production, certification, trade, and promotion of halal — goods and services permissible…
The Halaran Festival is an annual cultural festival of Capiz province, centered in Roxas City, that commemorates the Capiznon people's…
The Halsema Highway — also the Benguet–Mountain Province Road, the Baguio–Bontoc Road, or simply the Mountain Trail — is a…
Mountain Trail Landslides · Benguet-Mountain Province Road Landslides
Halsema Highway Traffic Landslides refers to the recurring phenomena of slope instability, rockfalls, debris flows, and subsequent traffic disruptions along…
Batomys hamiguitan (scientific name) · Hamiguitan cloud rat (informal usage)
The Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat (Batomys hamiguitan) is a small forest rodent endemic to Mount Hamiguitan in Davao Oriental, Philippines. Described…
Sphyrnidae (family name) · Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini, the species most often recorded in the Philippines)
The hammerhead sharks are a family (Sphyrnidae) of sharks named for the distinctive cephalofoil, a laterally flattened, hammer-shaped head with…
Hamtic is a municipality in Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, immediately adjoining the provincial capital, San Jose de Buenavista. It…
Municipality of Hamtic · Hamtic Antique
Hamtic, officially the Municipality of Hamtic, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Aethopyga bella (scientific name) · Beautiful sunbird (literal rendering)
The handsome sunbird (Aethopyga bella) is a small, active sunbird endemic to the Philippines, found in forest, edge, and flowering…
Hanging coffins are a burial practice in which coffins are suspended or placed on projecting beams along cliff faces. In…
Surat Hanunoo · Hanunó'o script
The Hanunoo script (surat Hanunoo) is a pre-colonial Philippine syllabic writing system of the baybayin family, still actively used by…
The Hapao Rice Terraces are part of the Philippine Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras inscribed on the UNESCO World…
1. Definition HAPI (Homeschool Association of the Philippine Islands) is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to supporting and promoting homeschooling…
HHC Act — the standard abbreviation · Hare-Hawes-Cutting Law — a variant styling carried in the Filipino-language literature
The Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act (chapter 11, 47 Stat. 761) is the United States statute that became law when Congress passed it…
Tagalog Republic · Sovereign Tagalog Nation — the standard English rendering
The Haring Bayang Katagalugan ("Sovereign Tagalog Nation," also rendered "Sovereign Nation of the Tagalog People" and shortened Haring Bayan) is…
Sir Harold (testimonial usage) · Coach Harold Atondo
Harold Atondo is a Philippine sales and business-growth coach, travel-and-tours practitioner, and entrepreneur, known as the owner of Xenials (Xenials…
Pawikan (generic Filipino term for sea turtles) · Eretmochelys imbricata
The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), known in the Philippines as pawikan, is a critically endangered marine turtle named for…
Public Health Regulations · Sanitary Regulations
Health Regulations refer to the body of rules, standards, enforcement mechanisms, and administrative policies established by government authorities to protect…
Thermotherapy · Hot therapy
Heat therapy (also called thermotherapy) is the therapeutic application of heat to body tissues for pain relief, muscle relaxation, increased…
Heber Bartolome of Banyuhay · Composer of "Tayo'y Mga Pinoy"
Heber Bartolome (1948–2025) was a Filipino singer-songwriter, visual artist, and academic who pioneered Tagalog folk-rock in the 1970s with his…
T'boli lute · Kuglung (closely related smaller T'boli lute)
The hegelung is a wooden two-stringed lute played by the T'boli, an ethnolinguistic group of southern Mindanao in the Philippines…
Gloriagate · The Hello Garci tapes
The Hello Garci scandal, also known as Gloriagate, was a Philippine political and electoral crisis that opened in June 2005…
HLG · Hello, Love, Goodbye (2019 film)
Hello, Love, Goodbye is a 2019 Philippine romantic drama film directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina — credited in later years as…
Heneral Luna (2015 film) · The Luna film
Heneral Luna is a 2015 Filipino epic historical biopic directed by Jerrold Tarog — who also wrote, edited, and scored…
H. Otley Beyer · Henry Otley Beyer
Henry Otley Beyer (1883-1966) was an American-born anthropologist who spent his entire career in the Philippines and is called the…
Henry Sy Sr. · Henry Sy Sr. — the customary styling, distinguishing him from his son Henry Sy Jr.
Henry Sy (birth name Sy Chi Sieng; October 15, 1924 – January 19, 2019) was a Chinese-Filipino businessman, the founder…
Herbal medicine — also called herbalism, phytotherapy, or phytomedicine — is the study of the medicinal properties of plants (pharmacognosy)…
1. Definition Heritage Conservation is the systematic process of protecting, preserving, and managing cultural, historical, and architectural sites, structures, and…
Parian Monument · Cebu Heritage Monument
The Heritage of Cebu Monument, also called the Parian Monument or the Cebu Heritage Monument, is a sculptural tableau in…
Apolinario de la Cruz · Hermano Puli
Hermano Pule (July 22, 1815 – November 4, 1841), born Apolinario de la Cruz, was a Filipino religious reformer from…
Apolinario de la Cruz (baptismal name) · Pule (variant spelling in older sources)
Hermano Puli was the religious title of Apolinario de la Cruz (1815–1841), a Tagalog lay preacher from Lucban, Tayabas (present-day…
The UOD's first secretary — the founding-congress styling of February 2, 1902 · The COF's first president — the May 1, 1913 styling
Hermenegildo Cruz (December 31, 1880, Binondo, Manila – March 21, 1943, Manila) was a Filipino printer-turned-organizer, labor federation president, and…
Herminio T. Disini · Herminio T. Disini, petitioner in G.R. No. 205172 (posthumous caption)
Herminio T. Disini (Manila, April 25, 1936 – June 3, 2014) was a Filipino businessman who became one of the…
Municipality of Hermosa · Hermosa Bataan
Hermosa, officially the Municipality of Hermosa, is a municipality in the province of Bataan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
The Hermosa Festival, also known as Zamboanga La Hermosa and popularly as Fiesta Pilar, is a month-long festival held every…
Hernando Ruiz Ocampo — the full name of record · Hernándo R. Ocampo — the styling used in the National Artist rolls
Hernando Ocampo — Hernando Ruiz Ocampo (April 28, 1911 – December 28, 1978) — was a Filipino painter and writer,…
Municipality of Hernani · Hernani Eastern Samar
Hernani, officially the Municipality of Hernani, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Slipped disc · Ruptured disc
A Herniated Disc (commonly known as a slipped or ruptured disc) is a spinal condition that occurs when the soft,…
Hibok-Hibok (Mount Hibok-Hibok) is the only historically active volcano on Camiguin island province, a 1,332-meter stratovolcano on its northern coast.…
Mount Hibok-Hibok / Mt. Hibok-Hibok — the usual full form · Hibok-Hibok Volcano — PHIVOLCS's designation in its official commemorative material
Hibok-Hibok (usually Mount Hibok-Hibok) is a 1,332-meter (4,370-foot) stratovolcano and dome complex at the northwestern end of Camiguin, the small…
Higalaay: A Month of Friendship · Kagay-an Festival (predecessor branding)
The Higalaay Festival is the patronal festival of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, held each year on 28 August in celebration…
Feast of Saint Clement · Angono Higantes Festival
The Higantes Festival is the annual town fiesta of Angono, Rizal, held around November 22 and 23 in honor of…
The Higaonon are an indigenous people of northern Mindanao in the Philippines, inhabiting the mountainous interior of Bukidnon and adjacent…
The Higaonon are an indigenous Lumad people of northern and central Mindanao, Philippines, whose ancestral domains span Bukidnon, Agusan del…
Higatangan (barangay name) · The moving island of Biliran (folk nickname for its shifting sandbar)
Higatangan Island is an island barangay of Naval, the capital of Biliran province, in the eastern Visayas. It is best…
Ocean Freight Rates · Maritime Freight Rates
High Sea Shipping Rates (commonly referred to as maritime freight rates or ocean freight rates) are the financial charges levied…
High-Rise Building · High-Rise Building (Philippines)
High-Rise Building, in the Philippines, is defined under the National Building Code of the Philippines (PD 1096) as a multi-story…
Tower (informal) · MRB (Mid-Rise Building)
A high-rise building is generally defined as a multi-storey structure tall enough to require mechanical vertical transportation (elevators) — typically…
Tertiary Education · Higher Education System
Higher Education in the Philippines refers to the stage of formal education that follows secondary education, encompassing tertiary level programs…
Hiko nose threadlift · Hiko Nose Lift
Hiko Thread Lift, commonly referred to as the "Hiko Nose Lift," is a minimally invasive, non-surgical cosmetic procedure designed to…
Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. — the styling of his seven years at the head of the court · Hilario G. Davide Jr. — the form carried in the Library of Congress name authority and the Magsaysay Award citation
Hilario Gelbolingo Davide Jr. (born December 20, 1935, Barangay Colawin, Argao, Cebu) is a Filipino lawyer, constitutionalist, professor, and diplomat…
The Hiligaynon people, popularly known as Ilonggos, are one of the largest ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines, native to the…
Municipality of Hilongos · Hilongos Leyte
Hilongos, officially the Municipality of Hilongos, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Wellness Hilot · Traditional Hilot
Hilot is an ancient Philippine traditional healing massage and manual therapy system that utilizes hands-on manipulation, herbal oils, and heated…
Hilot · Traditional Filipino Massage
Hilot Massage, historically and culturally referred to simply as Hilot, is an ancient, indigenous Filipino healing art and science that…
Hilutangan Channel is a deep-water channel in the Philippines that separates Mactan Island from Olango Island and nearby islets in…
Miracle · Himala: Isang Musikal
Himala ("Miracle") is a 1982 Philippine religious drama film directed by Ishmael Bernal, written by Ricardo Lee, and produced by…
Himala (1982 film) · Miracle (English rendering of the title)
Himala is the 1982 Philippine drama film directed by Ishmael Bernal from a screenplay by Ricky Lee, starring Nora Aunor…
1. Definition Himamaylan, officially the City of Himamaylan, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. Located…
Municipality of Hinabangan · Hinabangan Samar
Hinabangan, officially the Municipality of Hinabangan, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Hinagdanan Cave Panglao (tourism usage)
Hinagdanan Cave is a limestone cave in Dauis, Panglao island, Bohol, Philippines, known for its cathedral-like chamber, stalactite and stalagmite…
The Hinatuan Enchanted River, also called the Hinatuan Sacred River, is a deep spring river on the island of Mindanao…
Hinatuan is a second-income class municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 299.10 square kilometers, it has 24…
Municipality of Hindang · Hindang Leyte
Hindang, officially the Municipality of Hindang, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Hingyon · Hingyon Ifugao
Hingyon, officially the Municipality of Hingyon, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Hinigaran · Hinigaran Negros Occidental
Hinigaran, officially the Municipality of Hinigaran, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Epic of Panay · Sulod epic
The Hinilawod is the epic of the Sulod, the Panay-Bukidnon people of the central Panay highlands in the Philippines. One…
Hino Motors Philippines Corporation (HMP) · Pilipinas Hino, Inc. (former name)
Hino Philippines is the Philippine operation of Hino Motors, Ltd., the Japanese manufacturer of trucks, buses, and diesel engines, carried…
Municipality of Hinoba-an · Hinoba-an Negros Occidental
Hinoba-an, officially the Municipality of Hinoba-an, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Hinulugang Taktak National Park · Hinulugang Taktak Protected Landscape
Hinulugang Taktak is a waterfall along a river in Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines, protected as a national park and popularly linked…
Municipality of Hinunangan · Hinunangan Southern Leyte
Hinunangan, officially the Municipality of Hinunangan, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Municipality of Hinundayan · Hinundayan Southern Leyte
Hinundayan, officially the Municipality of Hinundayan, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
HKAFO · Full-leg brace with pelvic band
A Hip-Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis (HKAFO) is a complex, extensive orthopedic device that encompasses the hip, knee, ankle, and foot joints to…
Hiraya · Hiraya Academy CDO
Hiraya Academy (also known as Hiraya School or Hiraya Education) is a Philippine homeschool education provider headquartered in Cagayan de…
Vigan Heritage Village · Ciudad Fernandina de Vigan
The Historic City of Vigan is the exceptionally well-preserved Spanish colonial town at the mouth of the Abra River in…
History of Davao (short form) · Davao City history (descriptive form)
The History of Davao City is the documented record of the settlement on the Davao Gulf in Mindanao — from…
The history of the Philippines is the chronological record of the archipelago and its peoples, spanning the precolonial barangay societies…
The late Spanish period · The last century of Spanish rule
The History of the Philippines (1765–1898) is this wiki's umbrella survey of the last stretch of Spanish rule — from…
The American period — the common Philippine-textbook name · The American colonial period
The History of the Philippines (1898–1946) is the umbrella survey of the American era — the forty-eight years that run…
Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935–1946) period — the plain-form alias of the survey's first half · Commonwealth era
The History of the Philippines (1935–1946) is the period survey covering the Commonwealth of the Philippines and the Japanese occupation…
The early Third Republic — the survey's constitutional frame · The postwar Philippines (1946–1965) — the reconstruction-and-republic era
The History of the Philippines (1946–1965) is the period survey covering the first two decades of the Third Republic of…
The Marcos era — the standard shorthand · The Marcos dictatorship — the characterization of the 1972–1986 years
The History of the Philippines (1965–1986) is the period survey covering the two decades of Ferdinand Marcos's rise, rule, and…
Walking catfish · Freshwater catfish
Hito is the walking catfish, a scaleless freshwater catfish with prominent barbels that can survive out of water and wriggle…
Hiya is a core Filipino value variously rendered as shame, propriety, modesty, or social sensibility — the felt obligation to…
Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board · Human Settlements Commission (historical predecessor)
The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) was a government agency in the Philippines responsible for regulating land use,…
Jolen · Jolens
Holen is the traditional Filipino marble game, in which players flick glass marbles with the thumb to strike target marbles…
1. Definition The Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF), popularly known as the Pag-IBIG Fund, is a government-mandated housing cooperative in…
1. Definition Home Education (widely known as homeschooling) is a legal educational alternative where parents assume primary responsibility for their…
Homeschooling ADM · DepEd Homeschooling Program
The Home Schooling Program in the Philippines is an Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) of basic education where the teaching-learning process…
HOA · Homeowners' Association
A Homeowners Association (HOA) is a non-stock, non-profit organization established by the residents and owners of a subdivision, condominium, or…
Home education · Home schooling
Homeschool (more commonly called homeschooling or home education) is an educational approach in which a child's primary education is directed…
Portfolio review · Quarterly assessment (Philippine providers)
Homeschool assessment is the process of measuring, documenting, and certifying a home-educated learner's academic progress and competency mastery. In the…
Homeschool Coalition · Home Education Association
A Homeschool Association is an organized network, non-profit group, or coalition of families engaged in home education in the Philippines.…
1. Definition A Homeschool Co-op (cooperative) is a collaborative group of homeschool families who meet regularly to share teaching duties,…
Homeschool cooperative · Co-op (informal)
A homeschool co-op (cooperative) is an organized group of homeschooling families who collaborate to share teaching responsibilities, specialized expertise, resources,…
Home education curriculum · K–12 curriculum (Philippine context)
A homeschool curriculum is the structured set of learning objectives, materials, instructional methods, and assessments used to direct a child's…
DepEd-recognized homeschool diploma · Home Schooling Program diploma
A Homeschool Diploma in the Philippines is an official DepEd-recognized document certifying that a learner has completed basic education (Kindergarten…
Homeschool Global · HG
Homeschool Global is a prominent pioneer homeschool education provider in the Philippines. Headquartered in Pasig City, Metro Manila, the institution…
Homeschool commencement · Provider graduation ceremony
Homeschool Graduation in the Philippines refers to the process by which a homeschooled learner formally completes basic education (Kindergarten through…
Homeschool Support Groups · Homeschool Cooperatives (Co-ops)
Homeschool Groups, in the context of the Philippine education system, are organized associations, cooperatives, support networks, and community-led collectives formed…
1. Definition Homeschool Groups (Manila, Cebu, Davao) refers to the regional support networks, parent cooperatives, and online communities established by…
Homeschool support group · Homeschool community
Homeschool groups in the Philippines are organized or informal communities of homeschooling families who gather for mutual support, socialization, resource…
Umbrella school · Cover school
Homeschool providers are educational organizations — public, private, or non-profit — that offer structured homeschool programs, curriculum, teacher support, assessment,…
Daily routine · Weekly rhythm
A homeschool schedule is the structured or flexible plan that outlines when and how a homeschooled learner's educational activities take…
Socialization of homeschooled children · Homeschool co-op participation
Homeschool socialization refers to the ways in which home-educated learners develop social skills, peer relationships, civic awareness, and emotional intelligence…
Home education (Philippines) · DepEd Home Schooling Program
Homeschooling in the Philippines (also called home education or the DepEd Home Schooling Program) is an Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM)…
1. Definition Homeschoolinging-in-the-philippines is an alternate search term and landing page for Homeschooling in the Philippines, a legal educational model…
Homo luzonensis is an extinct species of archaic human known from fossils recovered between 2007 and 2015 inside Callao Cave…
Homonhon Island is an island at the eastern entrance of Leyte Gulf, part of Eastern Samar province, Philippines, historically celebrated…
Honda Bay is a bay on the eastern coast of Palawan island in the Philippines, fronting Puerto Princesa City, famed…
HCPI · Honda Cars Philippines, Inc.
Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI) is the Philippine distributor of Honda passenger automobiles. Established in November 1990 as a joint…
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. — the formal corporate name · Honda — the global brand styling used in the company's official releases
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is the Japanese multinational manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles and power equipment, incorporated on September 24, 1948…
HPI · Honda Philippines, Inc.
Honda Philippines, Inc. (HPI) is the Philippine motorcycle manufacturing and sales company of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., and the country's…
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region · Hong Kong SAR
Hong Kong is a city and special administrative region of China on the South China coast, some nine hundred kilometers…
Hongkong Junta · The Junta
The Hong Kong Junta was the committee of Filipino revolutionary exiles organized in Hong Kong after the Pact of Biak-na-Bato…
Atang de la Rama · Queen of Kundiman
Honorata "Atang" de la Rama (1902–1991) was a Filipino singer and stage actress who was named National Artist of the…
Kalahari Cactus (botanically incorrect, as it is a succulent, not a cactus) · Bushman's Hat
Hoodia gordonii is a leafless, spiny succulent plant belonging to the Apocynaceae family, native to the arid regions of the…
Hopea acuminata is a dipterocarp tree endemic to the Philippines, named for the long tapering tips — acuminate apices —…
Hopea foxworthyi is a dipterocarp tree endemic to the Philippines, a medium-sized hardwood of lowland and lower hill forest named…
Hopea malibato is a rare dipterocarp tree endemic to the Philippines, known from very few localities in the country's remaining…
Hopea philippinensis is a species of dipterocarp rainforest tree endemic to the Philippines, belonging to Hopea, a genus of mostly…
Hopia is a Filipino flaky pastry introduced by Chinese-Filipino (Chinoy) bakers, consisting of a thin wheat crust wrapped around a…
Horace L. Higgins (documented active 1887–1916) was a British railway engineer, the founding general manager of the Manila Railway Company…
Hotdog band · HOTDOG
Hotdog (stylized HOTDOG) was a Filipino band formed in Manila in 1972 by the brothers Dennis and Rene Garcia, schoolmates'…
Single-detached house · Single-family home
House and lot is a Philippine real estate term referring to a residential property that includes both a constructed dwelling…
HRET
The House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) is the nine-member constitutional tribunal that the 1987 Constitution makes "the sole judge…
Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan — the Filipino styling in official usage · The Lower House — the chamber's designation in the Constitution's bicameral Congress
The House of Representatives of the Philippines (Filipino: Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan) is the lower chamber of the Congress of…
The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) was a Philippine government agency that regulated real estate development and housing,…
HUDCC · Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council of the Philippines
The Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) was the umbrella agency that coordinated the Philippine government's shelter and urban…
Hubert Jeffrey Pagaspas Webb · Hubert Jeffrey Webb y Pagaspas
Hubert Webb — born Hubert Jeffrey Pagaspas Webb on November 7, 1968, in San Diego, California — is a Filipino…
Hudhud chants of the Ifugao · Hudhud ni Aliguyon
The Hudhud is a tradition of epic chants of the Ifugao people of the Cordillera mountains in northern Luzon, performed…
The hudhud are epic narrative chants of the Ifugao people of the Cordillera mountain province of the same name, performed…
Hudhud ni Aliguyon is the best-known portion of the hudhud, the epic chanted tradition of the Ifugao people of the…
HNP · Alliance for Change
Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP; "Alliance for Change") is a regional political party based in the Davao Region of the Philippines,…
HSTL · HTL
Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod — literally "alliance of the city people" and commonly called Hugpong — is a local political…
Huks · Huk
The Hukbalahap — Hukbong Bayan Laban sa mga Hapon, "People's Army Against the Japanese" — was the anti-Japanese peasant guerrilla…
Huk rebellion · Huk insurrection
The Hukbalahap Rebellion (1942–1954) is the conventional name for the rural insurrection in the Philippines that grew out of the…
HMB — the standard initialism · People's Liberation Army — the English rendering of the Filipino name
The Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (HMB, "People's Liberation Army") was the postwar reincarnation of the Hukbalahap — the Central Luzon…
Hulugan Waterfalls · Luisiana Falls
Hulugan Falls is a tall curtain-type waterfall near Luisiana, Laguna, Philippines, dropping roughly seventy meters down a mossy rock face…
Human rights in the Philippines are guaranteed primarily by the Bill of Rights of the 1987 Constitution and the country's…
Human Rights Violations Victims Claims Board · HRVCB
The Human Rights Victims Claims Board (HRVCB) was the quasi-judicial body created by Republic Act No. 10368, the Human Rights…
Republic Act No. 10368 · RA 10368
The Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013 is the short title of Republic Act No. 10368, "An…
HRVVMC · Human Rights Violations Victims Memorial Commission — the punctuation-free styling common in press usage
The Human Rights Violations Victims' Memorial Commission (HRVVMC) is the Philippine government commission created by Section 27 of Republic Act…
Republic Act No. 9372 · RA 9372
The Human Security Act of 2007 is the short title of Republic Act No. 9372, the Philippines' first statute to…
1. Definition The Human Settlements Adjudication Commission (HSAC) is a quasi-judicial government agency in the Philippines attached to the DHSUD.…
Adobong humba · Humbang Bisaya
Humba is a Filipino braised pork dish especially associated with the Visayas and Mindanao, made by slowly simmering pork belly…
Megaptera novaeangliae (scientific name) · Humpback (informal English name)
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale and the only living member of the genus Megaptera, reaching…
Mameng (Filipino local name) · Napoleon wrasse
The Humphead Wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), known in Palawan and other Philippine areas as mameng, is the largest species of wrasse,…
Hundred Islands · Hundred Islands National Park (HINP)
The Hundred Islands National Park is a protected area in Alaminos, Pangasinan, comprising 124 islands and islets (123 at low…
Hungduan is a fourth-class municipality in the province of Ifugao, Cordillera Administrative Region, known for its stone-walled rice terraces that…
Municipality of Hungduan · Hungduan Ifugao
Hungduan, officially the Municipality of Hungduan, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Hunter's ROTC Guerrillas (variant styling) · Terry's Hunters (reference to its youthful leadership)
Hunters ROTC was a Filipino guerrilla organization of the Second World War, founded in 1942 by young Reserve Officers' Training…
8LI1NAG-ORMOC — the grid line identifier · 8LI1NAG-ORMOC HVDC — the identifier with the system suffix
HVDC Leyte–Luzon is the high-voltage direct-current transmission link of the Philippine grid that connects the island of Leyte to Luzon,…
Sodium Hyaluronate · HA
Hyaluronic Acid is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its…
1. Definition Hybrid Homeschooling is an alternative educational model that combines parent-led home instruction with part-time attendance at a physical…
Hybrid Electric Vehicle · HEV
A hybrid vehicle (specifically a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle or PHEV in modern transport) is a vehicle that utilizes two…
The HydraFacial is a patented multi-step treatment that cleanses, exfoliates, extracts impurities, and hydrates the skin in one session using…
Lake Taal snake · Garman's sea snake
Hydrophis semperi, commonly known as the Lake Taal snake, Garman's sea snake, or Philippine freshwater sea snake, is a rare…
Hydroelectric power in the Philippines · Philippine hydropower sector
Hydropower in the Philippines is the generation of electricity from the country's river systems, accounting for about 11.8 percent of…
Benzene-1,4-diol · 1,4-Dihydroxybenzene
Hydroquinone is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its therapeutic…
Hydropathy · Water Therapy
Hydrotherapy, formerly referred to as hydropathy, is a therapeutic treatment modality that utilizes water in any of its physical states—liquid,…
Skin Darkening · Dark Spots
Hyperpigmentation is a broad term used to describe areas of skin that become darker than the surrounding skin. This darkening…
high blood pressure
Hypertension is persistently elevated pressure in the arteries — diagnosed, under the World Health Organization's criterion, when blood pressure on…
HARI · Hyundai Asia Resources, Inc.
Hyundai Asia Resources, Inc. (HARI) is the Philippine automotive company that served as the official distributor of Hyundai passenger cars…
Hyundai · HMC
Hyundai Motor Company (Korean: 현대자동차, Hyundai Jadongcha) is a South Korean multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, founded on December…
HMG · Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group
The Hyundai Motor Group (Korean: 현대자동차그룹) is the South Korean chaebol — a conglomerate connected through complex shareholdings rather than…
HMPH · HMPHI
Hyundai Motor Philippines, Inc. (HMPH) is the official sales subsidiary and distributor of Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) of South Korea…
Hyundai H-1 · Hyundai Grand Starex
The Hyundai Starex is a series of light commercial vehicles — van, minibus, minivan, and pickup — produced by Hyundai…
First Corps — the numeral styling · I Corps (United States Army) — the disambiguated styling
I Corps is a corps of the United States Army — the American Expeditionary Forces' first corps headquarters, activated January…
i-Witness · i-Witness: The GMA Documentaries
I-Witness (formerly styled i-Witness: The GMA Documentaries) is a Philippine television documentary program that premiered on GMA Network on January…
Municipality of Iba · Iba Zambales
Iba, officially the Municipality of Iba, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Ibaan · Ibaan Batangas
Ibaan, officially the Municipality of Ibaan, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Ibajay · Ibajay Aklan
Ibajay, officially the Municipality of Ibajay, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Ibaloy · Ibadoy
The Ibaloi (also spelled Ibaloy or Ibadoy) are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group native to southern and central Benguet province in…
Ibalong · Legazpi Ibalong Festival
The Ibalong Festival is an annual cultural festival held in Legazpi City, Albay, every August, celebrating the Ibalong epic and…
The Ibaloy (also Ibaloi) are an ethnolinguistic group of the southern half of Benguet province in the Cordillera Administrative Region,…
Ibaloi · Nabaloi (older ethnographic spelling)
The Ibaloy (also Ibaloi) are an ethnolinguistic group of the southern Cordillera Central in Benguet province, Philippines, historically concentrated around…
Ibanag is a Northern Luzon language spoken by the Ibanag people of the middle Cagayan River region, centered on the…
Ybanag · Ibanag of the Cagayan Valley
The Ibanag are an ethnolinguistic group native to the lower Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon, particularly in Cagayan province along…
IBM · International Business Machines
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), headquartered in Armonk, New York, is an American multinational technology corporation and one of the…
Buko ice cream / buko sherbet · Ice candy (home tube version)
Ice buko is a Filipino frozen dessert made from young coconut — buko water, tender coconut meat, and milk or…
Freeze pop (generic English name) · Iskrambol tube (colloquial usage in some areas)
Ice candy is the Filipino version of the freeze pop, a water-based frozen confection made by freezing sweetened flavored liquid…
The idaw is a traditional Kalinga dance named after a forest bird whose flight and calls were read as omens…
Ijang (alternative transliteration used in scholarship) · Ivatan hillfort (descriptive name)
An idjang is a fortified hilltop refuge built from stone by the Ivatan people of Batanes, the northernmost islands of…
Ifugao is an Austronesian language of the Northern Luzon (Cordilleran) group spoken in Ifugao province, on the eastern slopes of…
Ipugao / Ipugo — the ethnonym's native root · Ayangan — one of the principal subgroup identities, with Tuwali and Kalanguya (Kallahan)
The Ifugao are the terrace-building ethnolinguistic people of Ifugao province in the Cordillera Central of northern Luzon, Philippines — the…
Province of Ifugao · Ifugao
Ifugao, officially the Province of Ifugao, is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon, Philippines. Its capital…
Ifugao State University (IFSU) is a state university headquartered in Lamut, Lagawe, and other campuses in Ifugao province, Cordillera Administrative…
Dinaldalem · Ilocano igado
Igado, also known as dinaldalem, is a Filipino pork dish characterized by its savory and slightly tangy flavor. It is…
Municipality of Igbaras · Igbaras Iloilo
Igbaras, officially the Municipality of Igbaras, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
IEMELIF · Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas — the unaccented spelling of Philippine records
The Iglesia Evangélica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas (IEMELIF) — rendered in English as the Evangelical Methodist Church in the…
Aglipayan Church · IFI
The Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church), commonly called the Aglipayan Church after its first supreme bishop Gregorio Aglipay, is…
Cordilleran peoples (recent collective usage) · Igorots (Spanish-era spellings include Igorrote, Igolot, Ygolot)
The Igorot are the umbrella grouping of the indigenous peoples of the Cordillera Central of northern Luzon, Philippines — an…
Igpasungaw Falls is a waterfall in Sebaste, Antique, Philippines, where a stream drops over mossy rock tiers into natural pools…
Municipality of Iguig · Iguig Cagayan
Iguig, officially the Municipality of Iguig, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
City of Ilagan · Ilagan City
Ilagan is a component city and the capital of the province of Isabela in the Cagayan Valley region of the…
Iligan Bay is a bay of the Bohol Sea on the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines, bounded roughly by the…
City of Iligan City · Iligan City
Iligan City, officially the City of Iligan, is a highly urbanized city geographically located in the province of Lanao del…
Ilin Island cloudrunner (current English name) · Crateromys paulus (scientific name)
The Ilin cloud rat or Ilin Island cloudrunner (Crateromys paulus) is a small, poorly known cloud rat endemic to tiny…
Crateromys paulus (scientific name) · Ilin Island cloudrunner
The Ilin cloud runner (Crateromys paulus), also called the Ilin Island cloudrunner, is a small, little-known cloud rat known only…
Ilin Island is a small island in the Mindoro Strait off the town of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, administered as…
Yllana Bay · Bahias de Illana
Illana Bay (sometimes spelled Yllana Bay) is a large, strategically important body of water forming part of the Moro Gulf,…
Iloko · Iluko (variant spelling)
Ilocano is an Austronesian language of northern Luzon, Philippines, historically the language of the narrow Ilocos coast and its adjacent…
The Ilocano people are one of the largest ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines, historically inhabiting the narrow coastal plain of…
Province of Ilocos Norte · Ilocos Norte
Ilocos Norte, officially the Province of Ilocos Norte, is a province in the Ilocos Region of Luzon, Philippines, occupying the…
Ilocos Region (Region I) is an administrative region in the northwest of Luzon, Philippines, comprising four provinces (Ilocos Norte, Ilocos…
Province of Ilocos Sur · Ilocos Sur
Ilocos Sur, officially the Province of Ilocos Sur, is a province in the Ilocos Region of Luzon, Philippines. Its capital…
Municipality of Ilog · Ilog Negros Occidental
Ilog, officially the Municipality of Ilog, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
City of Love · City of Majestic Mansions
Iloilo City is a highly urbanized city on the southern coast of Panay Island and the regional center of Western…
Iloilo · Province of Iloilo
Iloilo Province, officially the Province of Iloilo, is a province in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, occupying the…
The Iloilo Strait is the narrow passage separating the islands of Panay and Guimaras in the Western Visayas, connecting Panay…
Bugkalot (autonym, preferred) · Ilongot (historical exonym)
Ilongot, today more commonly called Bugkalot, is an ethnolinguistic group of the Caraballo and Sierra Madre highlands in the provinces…
The enlightened ones / enlightened class (literal rendering of the Spanish) · Filipino intelligentsia of the late Spanish period
The ilustrados — Spanish for "the enlightened," "learned," or "erudite ones" — were the educated Filipino middle and upper class…
Imbestigador ng Bayan — title used for the September 2, 2023 tribute to Mike Enriquez
Imbestigador is the investigative public-affairs program of GMA Network — an investigative docudrama produced by GMA Public Affairs that debuted…
Municipality of Imelda · Imelda Zamboanga Sibugay
Imelda, officially the Municipality of Imelda, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Imelda Romualdez Marcos · Iron Butterfly
Imelda Marcos (born Imelda Remedios Visitación Trinidad Romuáldez on 2 July 1929 in San Miguel, Manila) is a Filipino politician…
Impasug-ong (alternate spelling) · Higaonon highland municipality of Bukidnon
Impasugong, officially the Municipality of Impasugong (Binukid and Higaonon: Banuwa ta Impasug-ung; also spelled Impasug-ong), is a municipality in the…
Impeachment is the constitutional process by which the Philippine Congress may remove the highest officials of the state — the…
Impeachment under the 1987 Constitution · Article XI impeachment proceedings
Impeachment in the Philippines is the constitutional mechanism by which the Congress of the Philippines removes the highest officials of…
Erap impeachment — the common press shorthand · Estrada impeachment trial — the Senate proceeding itself
The impeachment of Joseph Estrada was the proceeding in which the House of Representatives of the 11th Congress impeached Joseph…
Corona impeachment · Renato Corona impeachment
The impeachment of Renato Corona was the constitutional proceeding by which the House of Representatives impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona…
IJA — the universal short form · Rikugun — the Japanese common noun ("the Army") by which the service was known before its 1928 re-styling as kōgun, the "Imperial Army"
The Imperial Japanese Army — in Japanese, Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun — was the ground force of the Empire of Japan…
IJN · Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) — in Japanese, Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun — was the naval branch of the Empire of…
Flag Capital of the Philippines · City of Patriots
Imus, officially the City of Imus, is a highly urbanized city in Cavite province on the island of Luzon in…
Yamashita v. Styer — the paired caption in the reports · Application of Yamashita — the original-application style
In re Yamashita — the decision of the United States Supreme Court styled in the reports as Application of Yamashita;…
Developer Financing · Seller Financing
In-House Financing is a financing method where the real estate developer directly extends credit to the buyer to purchase a…
Inabanga · Municipality of Inabanga
Inabanga, officially the Municipality of Inabanga, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Abel Iloko · Ilocano weave
Inabel is the traditional handwoven textile of the Ilocos region, produced on wooden pedal looms known as pag-ablan from cotton…
Inaul is the traditional hand-woven textile of the Maguindanao people of Mindanao, Philippines, whose name means "woven" in the Maguindanao…
Incretins · Gut hormones
Incretin Hormones are a group of metabolic hormones released by the endocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract in response to…
Municipality of Indanan · Indanan Sulu
Indanan, officially the Municipality of Indanan, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
The University Town of Cavite (informal) · Home of Cavite State University
Indang is a first-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, on the inland plateau west of Tagaytay. It is an agricultural and…
Indarapatra at Sulayman is a Maguindanao epic that recounts how the hero-prince Indarapatra and his younger brother Sulayman rid Mindanao,…
Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal · Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal
Inday Badiday (born Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal; August 6, 1944, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental – September 26, 2003, Quezon City) was…
Araw ng Kasarinlán — the official Filipino designation · Araw ng Kalayaan — "Day of Freedom," the common Filipino styling
Independence Day (Philippines) — Filipino Araw ng Kasarinlán, also called Araw ng Kalayaan ("Day of Freedom") — is the Philippine…
Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs) · Native Filipinos
Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines (officially referred to as Indigenous Cultural Communities or ICCs) are distinct ethnolinguistic groups that have…
Katutubo (Filipino term) · IPs (official shorthand)
The indigenous peoples of the Philippines are ethnolinguistic groups or subgroups that maintained partial isolation or independence throughout the colonial…
Republic Act 8371 · IPRA
The Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (officially the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997, Republic Act No. 8371) is the principal…
The Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 (Republic Act No. 8371) is the principal Philippine statute recognizing and protecting the…
Alcedo cyanipectus (scientific name) · Indigo-banded river kingfisher
The Indigo-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo cyanipectus) is a small, strikingly coloured kingfisher about 16 centimetres long, endemic to the Philippines. Found…
Industrial Property · Industrial Property (Philippines)
Industrial Property refers to real estate in the Philippines used for manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, research and development, and heavy storage.…
Industrial estate · Manufacturing property
Industrial property in Philippine real estate refers to land and buildings used for manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, distribution, and related industrial…
Municipality of Infanta · Infanta Quezon
Infanta, officially the Municipality of Infanta, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Vanishing Edge Pool · Zero Edge Pool
Infinity Pool, also known as a vanishing edge pool, is a swimming pool where the water flows over one or…
Inflation is "an increase in the average price of goods and services in terms of money" — a rise in…
Far-Infrared Sauna · Near-Infrared Sauna
An Infrared Sauna is a wellness device that utilizes infrared heaters to emit light waves (near, mid, or far-infrared) that…
Iñigo Edgardo Reyes Regalado · Iñigo Ed. Regalado (pen and byline name)
Iñigo Ed. Regalado was a Filipino poet, journalist, novelist, and politician of the first decades of the American period, remembered…
Inihaw is the Filipino tradition of grilling food, especially meat and seafood, over charcoal, and by extension the dishes so…
Municipality of Initao · Initao Misamis Oriental
Initao, officially the Municipality of Initao, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Inopacan · Inopacan Leyte
Inopacan, officially the Municipality of Inopacan, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
INQUIRER.net · Inquirer.net
Inquirer.net (styled INQUIRER.net) is the digital news platform of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, published by Inquirer Interactive, Inc. from the…
Legislative inquiries in aid of legislation · The power of legislative inquiry
Inquiries in aid of legislation are the constitutional form of the power of congressional inquiry in the Philippines: the authority…
Surian ng Wikang Pambansa (the Filipino name, abbreviated SWP) · Institute of Philippine Languages (the post-1987 renaming under Executive Order No. 117)
The Institute of National Language (Filipino: Surian ng Wikang Pambansa) was the Commonwealth-era agency created by Commonwealth Act No. 184,…
Insular Government of the Philippine Islands — the formal designation · Government of the Philippine Islands — the alternate styling authorized by the 1917 Administrative Code
The Insular Government — formally the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, and under the 1917 Administrative Code either the…
Insular Government · Philippine Islands under American rule
The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands was the executive-led territorial government of the Philippines under United States sovereignty from…
Metabolic insensitivity to insulin · Impaired insulin sensitivity
Insulin Resistance is a pathological condition in which the body's cells — primarily in skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, and the…
Insurance Code of the Philippines · Amended Insurance Code
The Insurance Code is the Philippines' consolidated statute governing the business of insurance — the contract of insurance, the classes…
IC · Insurance Commission of the Philippines
The Insurance Commission (IC) is the agency of the Philippine government that regulates and supervises the country's insurance industry —…
ICH
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is the UNESCO-defined category of living culture — "the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as…
IBP — the standard initialism · The Integrated Bar — the common short designation
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) is the official organization of all Filipino lawyers — the mandatory national bar…
INP · Pinagsamang Pulisyáng Pambansà (Filipino)
The Integrated National Police (INP) was the national police force of the Philippines from 1975 to 1991, constituted during the…
Presidential Decree No. 1 (P.D. 1) · IRP of 1972
The Integrated Reorganization Plan (IRP) is a comprehensive administrative reform program enacted in the Philippines through Presidential Decree No. 1…
Integrated Reorganization Plan · IRP No. 1
The Integrated Reorganization Plan No. 1, often abbreviated as IRP No. 1 or simply the Integrated Reorganization Plan, was a…
Republic Act No. 8293 · RA 8293
The Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines is the short title (Section 1) of Republic Act No. 8293, officially "An…
RA 8293 · IP Code
The Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 8293, approved June 6, 1997) is the principal Philippine statute…
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) is the government agency responsible for the administration and enforcement of intellectual…
IPL photorejuvenation · FotoFacial
Intense Pulsed Light Therapy (IPL) is a non-invasive cosmetic skin treatment that uses high-intensity pulses of broad-spectrum light to target…
The Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995 (Republic Act No. 8043) is the Philippine law governing the adoption of Filipino children…
IBC · IBC-13
The Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) is a Philippine government-owned broadcasting company that operates IBC-13, the VHF Channel 13 television service…
IBP — the standard abbreviation · The interim Batasan — the common journalistic styling
The Interim Batasang Pambansa (IBP) was the first legislature of the Philippines under the 1973 Constitution — the transitional parliament…
IAC · Intermediate Appellate Court of the Philippines
The Intermediate Appellate Court (IAC) was the Philippines' intermediate appellate tribunal under Batas Pambansa Blg. 129 — the name and…
Time-Restricted Feeding · Time-Restricted Eating
Intermittent fasting (IF) is an eating pattern that cycles between designated periods of voluntary fasting and eating. Unlike conventional dietary…
Internal Medicine · General Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine is a PRC-recognized medical specialty focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and non-surgical treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing…
National Internal Revenue · Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)
Internal Revenue in the Philippines refers to the system of national taxes, duties, licenses, and other imposts levied by the…
IBOF · Bamboo Organ Festival
The International Bamboo Organ Festival (IBOF) is the annual music festival held each February at St. Joseph Parish Church in…
International Container Terminal Services · ICTSI
International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) is a Philippine multinational port and terminal operator headquartered at the Port of Manila,…
ICJ · World Court
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), commonly the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, established…
ICC — the standard abbreviation · The ICC — the everyday designation
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the permanent international tribunal, seated in The Hague, Netherlands, that prosecutes individuals for the…
IHR · IHR 2005
The International Health Regulations (IHR) are the World Health Organization's legally binding instrument of international law for preventing and responding…
ISO · Organisation internationale de normalisation (French official name)
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard-development organization composed of national standards bodies, with one…
IRRI Genebank · International Rice Genebank Collection
The International Rice Genebank is the seed bank of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Los Baños, Laguna —…
IRRI — the standard initialism used worldwide in rice science · IRRI, Los Baños — the styling that distinguishes the Philippines headquarters from its country offices
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is the international non-profit agricultural research institute dedicated to rice, headquartered at Los Baños,…
ITLOS · Tribunal international du droit de la mer
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an independent judicial body established by the United Nations…
The Internet in the Philippines connects the archipelago through fiber, mobile-broadband, and satellite networks, with the country's first connection established…
The Internet Transactions Act, signed into law on 5 December 2023, is the Philippines' comprehensive e-commerce statute. Republic Act No.…
International Criminal Police Organization · ICPO-INTERPOL
Interpol — the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-INTERPOL) — is the world's largest international police organization, a global cooperation body…
Gastric balloon · Saline-filled gastric balloon
An Intragastric Balloon is a non-surgical, temporary medical device designed to assist with weight loss in patients with obesity. The…
Intramuros · Walled City of Manila
Intramuros (Latin for "within the walls") is the historic walled city of Manila, Philippines — a 0.67-square-kilometer district enclosed by…
IA · Administracion de Intramuros
The Intramuros Administration (IA) is the Philippine government agency mandated to restore, administer, and develop the historic walled city of…
Ipil (Philippines) · Merbau (Malaysia, Indonesia)
Intsia bijuga, called ipil in the Philippines and merbau in much of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, is a large…
The Invasion of Lingayen Gulf was the Allied amphibious landing on 6–9 January 1945 along the coast of Pangasinan and…
Intsia bijuga (scientific name) · Merbau (international timber name)
The ipil (Intsia bijuga) is a large tropical hardwood tree of coastal and lowland forests in the Philippines and the…
Municipality of Ipil · Ipil Zamboanga Sibugay
Ipil, officially the Municipality of Ipil, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Ipil-ipil (Leucaena leucocephala) is a fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing legume tree naturalized throughout the Philippines, with feathery acacia-like leaves, round white flower…
Ipoh Dam (variant spelling) · Angat-Ipo diversion dam
Ipo Dam is a concrete gravity diversion dam on the Angat River in Norzagaray, Bulacan, Philippines, forming the middle link…
Republic Act No. 8371 · RA 8371
The IPRA Law, officially known as the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 (Republic Act No. 8371), is a landmark…
IR8-288-3 (breeding-line designation) · Miracle rice
IR8 is a high-yielding, semi-dwarf rice variety — a cultivated variety (cultivar) of Oryza sativa, the Asian cultivated rice of…
Iranon · Ilanun / Illanun (older spellings)
The Iranun (also spelled Iranon or Ilanun) are a Muslim ethnolinguistic people of Mindanao, historically settled around Illana Bay and…
Illanun · Illanun/Iranun of Mindanao
The Iranun are a Moro ethnolinguistic group of Mindanao, concentrated along the coastal areas of the former provinces of Maguindanao…
Iraya Volcano, or Mount Iraya, is a forested stratovolcano rising to about 1,000 meters on Batan Island in Batanes province,…
City of Iriga · Iriga
Iriga, officially the City of Iriga, is a component city in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. Located in the…
Municipality of Irosin · Irosin Sorsogon
Irosin, officially the Municipality of Irosin, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) is a small, snoutless cetacean of coastal and freshwater habitats in South and Southeast Asia,…
Municipality of Isabel · Isabel Leyte
Isabel, officially the Municipality of Isabel, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Isabela · Isabela Negros Occidental
Isabela, officially the Municipality of Isabela, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
City of Isabela · Isabela City
Isabela, officially the City of Isabela, is a component city geographically located in the island province of Basilan, Philippines. While…
Isabela City is a component city and the de facto commercial capital of Basilan province in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region,…
Oriolus isabellae (scientific name) · Isabela golden-oriole
The Isabela Oriole (Oriolus isabellae) is a scarce songbird endemic to the island of Luzon in the Philippines, recorded almost…
Province of Isabela · Corn Capital of the Philippines
Isabela Province, officially the Province of Isabela, is a province in the Cagayan Valley region of the Philippines, located in…
Isabela State University (ISU) is a multi-campus state university in Isabela province, Cagayan Valley, established in 1978 with its main…
Don Belong (nickname) · Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino (full name)
Isabelo de los Reyes (July 7, 1864, Vigan, Ilocos Sur – October 10, 1938, Manila), nicknamed Don Belong, was a…
Isabelo L. Tampinco (1850–1933) was a Filipino sculptor regarded as the foremost Filipino carver of the late Spanish colonial period,…
Isauro Gabaldón y González — the full Spanish-Filipino styling, paternal surname Gabaldón, maternal surname González · Isauro Gabaldon — the accent-less spelling used in the U.S. congressional record
Isauro Gabaldón (born Isauro González; December 8, 1875 – December 21, 1942) was a Filipino lawyer, estate owner, and Nacionalista…
Grilled chicken intestines · Isaw manok (chicken) and isaw baboy (pork)
Isaw is a popular Filipino street food of grilled chicken or pig intestines that are meticulously cleaned, boiled until tender,…
Ishmael Bernal (September 30, 1938 – June 2, 1996) was a Filipino film, stage, and television director, screenwriter, and actor…
Isidro de Castro y Cisneros · Colonel Isidro de Castro
Isidro de Castro — in full Isidro de Castro y Cisneros — was a Spanish Army officer, styled colonel in…
Isinay · Isinai people
The Isinai (also spelled Isinay) are a small ethnolinguistic group of Nueva Vizcaya province in the Philippines, concentrated in the…
The Isinai (also spelled Isinay) are an ethnolinguistic group of Nueva Vizcaya province in northern Luzon, Philippines, concentrated in the…
Isko Moreno Domagoso · Francisco Domagoso
Francisco Moreno Domagoso (born October 24, 1974, in Tondo, Manila), known professionally and politically as Isko Moreno, is a Filipino…
Scramble (Ilonggo style) · Ilonggo shaved-ice scramble
Iskrambol is a Filipino street iced treat of shaved ice stirred with milk, sugar, and colorful flavoring, associated particularly with…
PwC Philippines — the network branding on the firm's own site · PwC Philippines (Isla Lipana & Co.) — the full styling of the firm's own pages
Isla Lipana & Co. is the Philippine professional services partnership that constitutes PwC Philippines — in its own site's description,…
ISIS · ISIL
The Islamic State — widely known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh — is a transnational Sunni jihadist organization that grew…
IGaCoS / IGACOS · City of Samal
The Island Garden City of Samal (IGaCoS; Cebuano: Pulong Harding Dakbayan sa Samal) is a component city of Davao del…
Isneg · Apayao (older ethnographic name)
The Isnag, also historically called Isneg, are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of northern Luzon whose homeland is the uplands of…
Isnag · Apayao (historic exonym)
The Isneg (also spelled Isnag or Isneg-Apayao), historically called Apayao by outsiders, are an Austronesian ethnolinguistic people of the northern…
Isnag · Apayao (historical exonym)
The Isneg (also Isnag) are the indigenous people of northern Luzon's Apayao province, living along the Apayao, Abulug, and related…
Abu Abdullah al-Filipini · Isnilon Totoni Hapilon
Isnilon Totoni Hapilon (born March 10, 1968, by his school records, or March 18, 1966, by the FBI's listing —…
ISO 9000 family / series · ISO 9001 (the certifiable standard)
ISO 9000 is a family of quality management standards published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), defining the principles…
Municipality of Isulan · Isulan Sultan Kudarat
Isulan, officially the Municipality of Isulan, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Isuzu Hi-Lander (Philippine market name, 1996–2001; also used in Vietnam) · Isuzu Panther (Indonesian market name)
The Isuzu Crosswind is a Philippine-market multi-purpose vehicle based on the second-generation Isuzu Panther, assembled locally by Isuzu Philippines Corporation…
Isuzu Dmax · D-Max
The Isuzu D-Max is the pickup truck model line of Isuzu Motors of Japan, produced since its debut in Thailand…
Isuzu MU-X (capitalization used in international markets) · Isuzu mu-X LS / LS-M / LS-A (first-generation Philippine variants)
The Isuzu mu-X is a mid-size, body-on-frame sport utility vehicle derived from the Isuzu D-Max pickup — the badge stands…
IPC · Isuzu Philippines Corporation
Isuzu Philippines Corporation (IPC) is the Philippine manufacturing and distribution joint venture of Isuzu Motors, Ltd. of Japan, formed on…
1. Definition The IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) is the primary trade association and advocacy group…
Showtime
It's Showtime is a Philippine noontime variety program produced by ABS-CBN, on the air since October 24, 2009. It premiered…
The Itawes are an ethnolinguistic group of Cagayan province in northeastern Luzon, settled mainly along the Chico river towns south…
Itawis people (variant spelling) · Tawish (older ethnographic usage)
The Itawes are an ethnolinguistic group of the lower Chico and Pinacanauan river valleys in Cagayan province, northeastern Luzon, Philippines,…
Itawit · Tawit
The Itawis are an ethnolinguistic group of Cagayan province in northern Luzon, concentrated in towns such as Tuao, Piat, Iguig,…
Municipality of Itbayat · Itbayat Batanes
Itbayat, officially the Municipality of Itbayat, is a municipality in the province of Batanes, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Tinguian (historical exonym) · Itneg
The Itneg people, historically called the Tinguian, are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Abra province in the Cordillera region of…
Municipality of Itogon · Itogon Benguet
Itogon, officially the Municipality of Itogon, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Ivana · Ivana Batanes
Ivana, officially the Municipality of Ivana, is a municipality in the province of Batanes, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Ibatan (common older spelling; also used for the related Babuyan variety) · Basco Ivatan (for the principal dialect)
Ivatan is the native language of the Batanes islands and parts of the Babuyan Islands north of Luzon, Philippines, spoken…
The Ivatan are the Austronesian people of the Batanes Islands, the northernmost province of the Philippines, with related communities on…
Ivisan is a coastal municipality in Capiz province, Western Visayas, Philippines, located west of Roxas City and facing coastal waters…
Municipality of Ivisan · Ivisan Capiz
Ivisan, officially the Municipality of Ivisan, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Iwahig Penal Colony · Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm (IPPF)
Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm is the Philippines' open-air penal colony in Puerto Princesa, Palawan — a prison run as…
Jose B.L. Reyes · Jose B. L. Reyes
J.B.L. Reyes (born Jose Benedicto Luis Luna Reyes; August 19, 1902, Manila – December 27, 1994, Quezon City) was a…
Jabidah — the covert unit designation whose name the event carries · Operation Merdeka / Project Merdeka — the covert Sabah operation for which the trainees were recruited
The Jabidah Massacre is the killing of Moro military trainees on Corregidor Island in March 1968 — the event fixed…
Jabonga is a third-income class municipality in Agusan del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, situated along Lake Mainit. Covering 293 square…
Jacinto Lumberas · J. Lumbreras
Jacinto Lumbreras was a Katipunan leader of the Magdiwang faction in Cavite at the height of the Philippine Revolution against…
Jacinto Manahan of the KPMP — reference form in the peasant-movement literature · President of the Kalipunang Pambansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Pilipinas — organizational designation, by 1928
Jacinto Manahan was a Filipino labor and peasant leader of the first generation of tenant organizers — the founder, in…
Jacinto Zamora y del Rosario · Padre Jacinto Zamora
Jacinto Zamora (in full, Jacinto Zamora y del Rosario; August 14, 1835, Pandacan, Manila – February 17, 1872, Bagumbayan, Manila)…
Mary Jane Guck · Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck
Jaclyn Jose — the screen name of Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck (October 21, 1963 – March 2, 2024) —…
Jacob G. Schurman — the common short form · President Schurman — his Cornell styling, carried into the commission's popular naming
Jacob Gould Schurman (May 2, 1854, Freetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada – August 12, 1942, Bedford Hills, New York) was…
Jacob Hurd Smith (full name) · "Hell-Roaring Jake" / "Hell Roaring Jake" (press sobriquet, for extravagant language)
Jacob H. Smith (January 29, 1840 – March 1, 1918) was a United States Army brigadier general from Jackson County,…
The jade vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) is a spectacular climbing legume endemic to the rainforests of the Philippines, famous for its…
Municipality of Jaen · Jaen Nueva Ecija
Jaen, officially the Municipality of Jaen, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Calamay Capital of Bohol · Jagna Port
Jagna is a fourth-class municipality on the southeastern coast of Bohol, Philippines, facing the Bohol Sea. It is one of…
Jaime Alfonso Zobel · Alfonso Zobel
Jaime Alfonso Zobel de Ayala (commonly known as Jaime Alfonso Zobel) is a prominent Filipino business executive and a member…
Jaime Carlos de Veyra y Díaz — the full baptismal styling, paternal surname de Veyra, maternal surname Díaz · Jaime de Veyra — the common short form in Spanish- and English-language references
Jaime C. de Veyra (Jaime Carlos de Veyra y Díaz; November 4, 1873 – March 7, 1963) was a Leyte-born…
Jaime Sin · Jaime Lachica Sin (full name)
Jaime Cardinal Sin (in full Jaime Lachica Sin; August 31, 1928 – June 21, 2005) was a Filipino Catholic prelate…
Jaime V. Ongpin · Jimmy Ongpin
Jaime "Jimmy" Velayo Ongpin (June 15, 1939 – December 7, 1987) was a Filipino businessman, anti-Marcos opposition figure, and public…
Ka Jimmy · Jimmy Tadeo
Jaime "Ka Jimmy" San Luis Tadeo (March 28, 1938 – March 26, 2023) was a Filipino peasant leader, the founding…
JVOAEJ · JVO Awards
The Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ) were the annual Philippine competition for published investigative and explanatory…
Municipality of Jalajala · Jalajala Rizal
Jalajala, officially the Municipality of Jalajala, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Jama Mapun people · Sama Mapun
The Jama Mapun are a Sama-Bajau ethnolinguistic group native to Mapun (Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi) island and neighboring areas of the…
Municipality of Jamindan · Jamindan Capiz
Jamindan, officially the Municipality of Jamindan, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Janet Lim-Napoles · Janet Napoles
Janet Lim Napoles (born Janet Luy Lim on 15 January 1964 in Malabon, then Rizal province) is a Filipino businesswoman,…
Municipality of Janiuay · Janiuay Iloilo
Janiuay, officially the Municipality of Janiuay, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
JMA (standard acronym) · Kisho-cho (気象庁, Japanese name)
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is the national meteorological, hydrological, and seismological service of Japan, an agency of the Ministry…
Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku (瑞鶴, "auspicious crane") was the second and last of the Imperial Japanese Navy's two Shōkaku-class fleet…
Fuso · IJN Fusō
Fusō was a dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy — the lead ship of the two-ship Fusō-class, built at…
Musashi · IJN Musashi
Musashi was a Yamato-class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy — one of the two largest, heaviest, and most heavily…
Yamato · IJN Yamato
Yamato was the name-ship of the Yamato class of the Imperial Japanese Navy — the lead hull of what the…
The Japanese period — the common Philippine usage for the occupation years · The Japanese era — the generational shorthand in Philippine family memory
The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines (1942–1945) was the period of Imperial Japanese military rule over the Philippine Islands during…
Municipality of Jaro · Jaro Leyte
Jaro, officially the Municipality of Jaro, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Elizabeth of Hungary · Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral
Jaro Cathedral, formally the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of…
Jaro · District of Jaro
Jaro, Iloilo is the largest of the seven districts of Iloilo City in the Western Visayas — 42 barangays across…
Municipality of Jasaan · Jasaan Misamis Oriental
Jasaan, officially the Municipality of Jasaan, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
The Ratification Cases — the collective title for the five consolidated petitions · The 1973 Ratification Cases
Javellana v. Executive Secretary (G.R. No. L-36142, March 31, 1973, decided en banc by the Supreme Court of the Philippines)…
Javier is a fourth-income-class municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, located along the Leyte Gulf. Founded as a municipality…
Jose Yumang Sonza · Jose Sonza
Jay Sonza (born Jose Yumang Sonza, September 20, 1955, in Macabebe, Pampanga) is a Filipino broadcaster, former newscaster and talk…
King of the road · Dyip
Jeepney is the Philippines' iconic public utility vehicle: a jeep-derived shared taxi, usually seating fourteen to eighteen passengers on two…
Hajji Jeffrey Prevendido · Jeffrey A. Prevendido
Hajji Jeffrey Andante Prevendido is a Filipino Medical Technologist, public-health practitioner, and halal-industry entrepreneur based in Davao City, Philippines. He…
Jejemon refers to a Philippine youth subculture and its stylized SMS language that stretches words with mixed capitalization, numbers, and…
Jojo Binay — the familiar form the Library of Congress carries as its authorized heading · Jesus Jose Cabauatan Binay — birth name; "Jejomar" a portmanteau of Jesus, Joseph, and Mary
Jejomar Binay (born Jesus Jose Cabauatan Binay; November 11, 1942, Paco, Manila) is a Filipino lawyer and politician — the…
Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog · Ramon Ukit
Jerrold Tarog (born Jerrold Viacrucis Tarog, May 30, 1977, in Manila) is a Filipino film director, screenwriter, editor, and composer…
Jesse B. Oldendorf · Jesse Barrett Oldendorf
Jesse Barrett Oldendorf (February 16, 1887, Riverside, California – April 27, 1974, Portsmouth, Virginia), nicknamed "Oley," was a United States…
Jesse Manalastas Robredo (full given name at birth) · Mayor Jesse Robredo (Naga City, six terms)
Jesse Manalastas Robredo (May 27, 1958 – August 18, 2012) was a Filipino local-government leader and cabinet secretary whose nineteen…
Star witness in the Vizconde massacre · NBI informant in the Vizconde case
Jessica Alfaro is the Filipino woman known to the Philippine judicial record as the National Bureau of Investigation informant who…
Maria Jessica Aspiras Soho · Jessica A. Soho
Jessica Soho (Maria Jessica Aspiras Soho; born March 27, 1964, in La Union) is a Filipino broadcast journalist who has…
Society of Jesus — the formal name of the order · S.J. — the post-nominal initials of its members
The Jesuits — the Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; S.J.), founded by Ignatius of Loyola and approved by Pope…
Jesús Balmori (1887–1948) was a Filipino poet, playwright, and novelist in the Spanish language, writing under the pen name "Batikuling."…
Municipality of Jiabong · Jiabong Samar
Jiabong, officially the Municipality of Jiabong, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Jimalalud · Jimalalud Negros Oriental
Jimalalud, officially the Municipality of Jimalalud, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Municipality of Jimenez · Jimenez Misamis Occidental
Jimenez, officially the Municipality of Jimenez, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Jose Pimentel Ejercito Jr. (full legal name) · Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada
Jinggoy Estrada (born Jose Pimentel Ejercito Jr. on 17 February 1963 in Manila) is a Filipino actor and politician, the…
The Jintotolo Channel is the body of water connecting the Sibuyan Sea with the Visayan Sea, located between the islands…
Municipality of Jipapad · Jipapad Eastern Samar
Jipapad, officially the Municipality of Jipapad, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Jisaburo Ozawa
Jisaburō Ozawa (October 2, 1886 – November 9, 1966) was a vice admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the last…
Juan Serrano — the Spanish form of his name · Juan Rodríguez Serrano — the full Spanish form
João Serrão — in full João Rodrigues Serrão, Spanish Juan Rodríguez Serrano; born in the fifteenth century at Fregenal de…
Joaquin G. Bernas, S.J. — the byline of his books and legal scholarship · Fr. Joaquin Bernas — the press styling of his later public career
Joaquin G. Bernas (born July 8, 1932 in Baao, Camarines Sur — died March 6, 2021 at the Ateneo Jesuit…
Joaquín Miguel Elizalde — the full English-form name under which his American congressional service is recorded · Joaquín M. Elizalde — the diplomatic-era signature form
Joaquín Elizalde — in full Joaquín Miguel Elizalde y Díaz-Moreu, and known personally as "Mike" (Manila, August 2, 1896 –…
Joey Ayala ng Mindanao · Father of contemporary Mindanao music (informal press label)
Joey Ayala (born 1956) is a Filipino singer-songwriter, composer, and cultural worker from Mindanao who pioneered the fusion of contemporary…
Jose Maria Ramos de Leon Jr. · Henyo Master
Jose Maria Ramos de Leon Jr. (born October 14, 1946, in Binondo, Manila), known professionally as Joey de Leon and…
Jogging Trail · Walking Path
A jogging-path (or jogging trail) is a dedicated, paved or rubberized pathway within a residential subdivision, master-planned community, or condominium…
Orgelbau Klais · Klais (the Bonn workshop, among organists)
Johannes Klais Orgelbau (German: Orgelbau Klais; full style Johannes Klais Orgelbau GmbH & Co. KG) is the organ-building firm of…
Romeo John Gonzales Arcilla
John Arcilla (born Romeo John Gonzales Arcilla, June 24, 1966, in Manila) is a Filipino actor of stage, film, and…
John D Rockefeller · John Davison Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839, Richford, New York – May 23, 1937, Ormond Beach, Florida) was an American industrialist…
John & Marsha (film-series spelling) · John and Marsha
John en Marsha is the landmark Philippine television family sitcom that starred Dolphy as John H. Puruntong and Nida Blanca…
John L. Gokongwei Jr. · John Gokongwei
John Gokongwei Jr. — born John Robinson Lim Gokongwei Jr. in Xiamen, Fujian, China, on August 11, 1926; died in…
John B. Goodenough · John Banister Goodenough
John Goodenough (1922–2023) was an American solid-state physicist and Nobel laureate who co-invented the Lithium-ion Battery. While working at the…
Ceferino "Joker" Paz Arroyo Jr. — the full name of the standard account, birth name and card-derived nickname together · The Scrooge of Congress — the documented moniker of his thrift record
Joker Arroyo (born Ceferino Paz Arroyo Jr.; January 5, 1927, Naga, Camarines Sur – October 5, 2015, San Francisco, California,…
Jollibee is the flagship fast-food brand of Jollibee Foods Corporation, founded in the Philippines and known for Chickenjoy, Jollibee spaghetti…
Jolo · Municipality of Jolo
Jolo, officially the Municipality of Jolo, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Jomalig · Jomalig Quezon
Jomalig, officially the Municipality of Jomalig, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Jonathan M. Wainwright — short form of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV · "Skinny" — West Point and Army nickname, earned at six feet two inches and 125 pounds
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (August 23, 1883 – September 2, 1953), nicknamed "Skinny," was a United States Army general who…
Municipality of Jones · Jones Isabela
Jones, officially the Municipality of Jones, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
William A. Jones Memorial Bridge — the official designation carried in the multilingual record · Puente Jones — the Spanish-era styling
The Jones Bridge — officially the William A. Jones Memorial Bridge — is the crossing of the Pasig River that…
Philippine Autonomy Act — the formal short title of the statute · Jones Act — the styling carried in American references and reference databases
The Jones Law, formally the Philippine Autonomy Act, was the act of the United States Congress approved on August 29,…
Jordan is a Middle Eastern kingdom, a stabilizing state in a volatile region, hosting refugees from successive crises. It counts…
Jordan is a fifth-class municipality and the capital of the island province of Guimaras, Philippines. It serves as the administrative…
Jorge Vargas · "Mr. Sports" of the Philippines (informal media epithet)
Jorge B. Vargas (1890–1980) was a Filipino lawyer, sports leader, and public official who served as Executive Secretary under President…
Jorge Cleofas Bocobo — the name-form carried by his Wikidata record · Jorge C. Bocobo
Jorge Bocobo (October 19, 1886 – July 23, 1965), also recorded as Jorge Cleofas Bocobo, was a Filipino lawyer, educator,…
Jose Abad Santos (February 19, 1886 - May 2, 1942) was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of…
José Abad Santos · Chief Justice José Abad Santos — the styling of his final office
José Abad Santos (José Abad Santos y Basa; February 19, 1886, San Fernando, Pampanga – May 1, 1942, Malabang, Lanao)…
Jose Abad Santos is a first-income-class municipality in Davao Occidental, Davao Region (Region XI), Philippines, and the southernmost municipality on…
José Cándido Alejandrino y Magdangal — full name · General José Alejandrino
José Alejandrino — in full José Cándido Alejandrino y Magdangal (December 1, 1870 – June 1, 1951) — was a…
José Dira Avelino Sr. — the full form carrying his mother's surname · José Avelino y Dira — the Spanish-era styling of his birth name
José Dira Avelino (born José Avelino y Dira; August 5, 1890, Calbayog, Samar – July 21, 1986, Manila) was a…
Jose B. Fernandez Jr. — the professional banker whose Far East Bank founding loan came from the Sycip circle · Jobo
Jose B. Fernandez Jr. (September 22, 1923 – June 19, 1994), known throughout Philippine banking as Jobo, was a Filipino…
Jose Burgos · José Apolonio Burgos
José Burgos (in full José Apolonio Burgos y García; February 9, 1837, Vigan, Ilocos Sur – February 17, 1872, Bagumbayan,…
JoeCon · Jose S. Concepcion Jr.
Jose Concepcion Jr. (in full Jose Santos Concepcion Jr.; December 29, 1931, Pasay – March 6, 2024), known across Philippine…
José Corazón de Jesús (1896–1932), who wrote under the pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino Tagalog poet acclaimed as…
Municipality of Jose Dalman · Jose Dalman Zamboanga del Norte
Jose Dalman, officially the Municipality of Jose Dalman, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within…
Jose Delos Reyes — the birth-name spelling carried by his Wikidata record · Major General Jose de los Reyes
José de los Reyes (born Jose Delos Reyes; August 19, 1874, Bulakan, Bulacan – February 7, 1945, Manila) was a…
Jose Claveria de Venecia Jr. · Jose de Venecia
Jose de Venecia Jr. (in full Jose Claveria de Venecia Jr.; December 26, 1936, Dagupan, Pangasinan – February 10, 2026)…
José Dizon (c. 1838 – 11 January 1897) was a Filipino patriot, Freemason, and co-founder of the Katipunan born in…
José B. Laurel Jr. — the conventional styling of his public career · José Bayani Hidalgo Laurel Jr. — the full name of the record
José Laurel Jr. (José Bayani "Pepito" Hidalgo Laurel Jr.; August 27, 1912, Tanauan, Batangas – March 11, 1998, Manila) was…
José Maceda (Spanish-style spelling) · National Artist Maceda
Jose Maceda (1917-2004) was a Filipino composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist who transformed the study and sound of Filipino music. Trained…
Joma · Joma Sison
Jose Maria Sison (February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022), known across five decades of Philippine political life as Joma…
Jose Nepomuceno · José Nepomuceno y Zialcita
José Nepomuceno (José Nepomuceno y Zialcita; born May 15, 1893 in Manila, then the Captaincy General of the Philippines —…
José Cruz de Oyanguren · Cruz de Uyanguren (period spelling recorded in the Davao historical literature)
José Oyanguren — fully Don José Cruz de Oyanguren (born in Vergara, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1800; died October 10, 1858) —…
José Paciano Laurel — his full Spanish-style name, the form carried in the Library of Congress heading · José Paciano Laurel y García — the Spanish-era styling of his era's records
Jose P. Laurel (born José Paciano Laurel y García; March 9, 1891, Tanauan, Batangas – November 6, 1959, Manila) was…
José Palma · Jose Palma y Velásquez
Jose Palma — in full José Palma y Velásquez (June 3, 1876 – February 12, 1903) — was a Filipino…
Jose Panganiban, officially the Municipality of Jose Panganiban, is a coastal municipality in Camarines Norte, Philippines, with about 60,626 people…
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (full baptismal name) · Dimasalang (pen name)
José Rizal (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), born José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, was a Filipino…
José de Luzuriaga — the short form carried as his Wikipedia article title · José Ruiz de Luzuriaga y Guiquín — full patronymic
José Ruiz de Luzuriaga — full name José Ruiz de Luzuriaga y Guiquín (January 10, 1843 – July 5, 1921)…
José Torres Bugallón (1873–1899) was a Filipino military officer of the Revolutionary Army who fought in the Philippine–American War. Mortally…
Jose W. "Ka Pepe" Diokno (1922–1987) was a Filipino nationalist lawyer, statesman, and human-rights advocate who topped the 1944 bar…
Chief Justice José Yulo — the styling his wartime office gave him and the 1957 campaign used · Speaker José Yulo — the styling of his Commonwealth years, 1939–1941
José Yulo (September 24, 1894, Bago, Negros Occidental – October 27, 1976, Makati Medical Center) was a Filipino lawyer, legislator,…
Josefa Escoda (short name) · Pepa (familiar name)
Josefa Llanes Escoda (1898-1945) was a Filipino social worker, civic leader, and war heroine remembered as the founder of the…
Municipality of Josefina · Josefina Zamboanga del Sur
Josefina, officially the Municipality of Josefina, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Erap (the nickname given by fellow actor Fernando Poe Jr. — Tagalog back-slang for pare, "buddy") · Jose Marcelo Ejercito (birth name)
Joseph Estrada (born Jose Marcelo Ejercito on April 19, 1937, in Tondo, Manila) is a Filipino actor and politician, the…
Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken · Josefina
Josephine Bracken — born Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken on August 9, 1876 at Victoria Barracks, Hong Kong, to Irish parents,…
Martial-law era press · Mosquito press era
Journalism during the Marcos Dictatorship (1972–1986) refers to the condition of the Philippine press under the martial-law regime of Ferdinand…
Philippine journalism — the standard styling · The Philippine press — the collective term for the country's news media
Journalism in the Philippines is the profession, practice, and institutional history of newsgathering and publication in the Philippine archipelago —…
Municipality of Jovellar · Jovellar Albay
Jovellar, officially the Municipality of Jovellar, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
First Filipina opera star of international rank · Jovita Fuentes-Reyes (married name in some programs)
Jovita Fuentes (1895–1978) was a Filipina soprano regarded as the first Filipino performer to win major international acclaim in opera,…
Ka Jovy — the familiar address of his party and movement years · Jovito R. Salonga — the initials styling of official records
Jovito Salonga (Jovito Reyes Salonga; June 22, 1920, Pasig, Rizal – March 10, 2016, Quezon City), known as "Ka Jovy"…
Jovito Yusay, secretary of justice — the cabinet styling of the 1898 government · The last president of the Federal State of the Visayas — the historical identification
Jovito Yusay was an Ilonggo revolutionary official of the Visayan rising of 1898–1899 — the secretary of justice in the…
JoyRide PH · JoyRide Philippines
JoyRide is a Philippine motorcycle-taxi and delivery platform operated by We Move Things Philippines, Inc., a Filipino-owned company that joined…
JRS Express is a Philippine domestic courier and freight company whose branch network covers provincial towns and cities, including widely…
JSON-LD · Linked data (broader concept)
JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding linked data using JSON, standardized by the World…
Author of "Tanikalang Guinto" · Seditious-play dramatist (American-era label)
Juan Abad (1872-1932) was a Filipino printer and playwright, best known for "Tanikalang Guinto" (The Golden Chain, 1902), the most…
Juan Anacleto Araneta y Torres · Tan Juan
Juan Araneta (July 13, 1852 – October 3, 1924), fully Juan Anacleto Araneta y Torres and remembered in Negros as…
Juan M. Arellano — the conventional styling of his professional years and the Wikidata label · Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmán — the full Spanish-style name
Juan Arellano (Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmán; April 25, 1888, Tondo, Manila – December 5, 1960, aged 72) was…
Juan Cailles (1871-1951) was a Filipino military officer and public servant who fought in the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American…
Juan dela Cruz (alternative spelling) · The "average Filipino" or "the Filipino everyman"
Juan de la Cruz is the national personification of the Philippines, a stock name standing in for the ordinary Filipino…
Juan Dela Cruz Band · The Juan de la Cruz Band
The Juan de la Cruz Band is the Filipino rock band that pioneered what became known as Pinoy rock —…
Juan de Salcedo (1549-1576) was a Novohispano conquistador who joined the Spanish expedition to the Philippines in 1565 as a…
Juan Feleo of Nueva Ecija — reference form in the peasant-movement literature · KPMP general secretary — organizational designation from the late 1920s
Juan Feleo (May 1, 1896 – August 24, 1946) was a Filipino peasant leader of Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija —…
Juan Luna y Novicio (short Spanish-style form) · Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio (full birth name)
Juan Luna (in full Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio; born in Badoc, Ilocos Norte, on October 25, 1857…
Juan Martin Flavier (full name) · Johnny Flavier
Juan Martin Flavier (June 23, 1935 – October 30, 2014) was a Filipino physician, public-health administrator, and senator whose career…
Migz Zubiri · Juan Miguel F. Zubiri
Juan Miguel "Migz" Fernandez Zubiri (born April 13, 1969, in Makati) is a Filipino politician who has served two stretches…
Juan F. Nakpil — his professional styling · Juan Felipe Nakpil y de Jesús — full baptismal name
Juan Nakpil (born Juan Felipe Nakpil y de Jesús, May 26, 1899, Quiapo, Manila – May 7, 1986, Manila) was…
Juanito Furagganan (birth name) · Juan Ponce Enrile Sr.
Juan Ponce Enrile (born Juanito Furagganan on 14 February 1924 in Gonzaga, Cagayan, per official records; died 13 November 2025,…
Juan Sebastián del Cano — the older Spanish rendering of the surname · Juan Sebastián Elkano — the modern Basque spelling
Juan Sebastián Elcano (born c. 1486–1487 at Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Basque country; died August 4, 1526, in the Pacific Ocean) was…
Juan Sumulong y Marquez — the full Hispanic styling under which the Library of Congress catalogs him · Don Juan Sumulong — the honorific form of Commonwealth-era usage
Juan Sumulong y Marquez (born December 27, 1875, Antipolo, Distrito de Morong — died January 9, 1942, Manila) was a…
Municipality of Juban · Juban Sorsogon
Juban, officially the Municipality of Juban, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
JBC — the universal initialism, used alike in the constitutional commentaries and the Council's own record · The Council — the short form the constitutional text itself uses ("The Council shall have the principal function of recommending appointees to the Judiciary")
The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) is the constitutional body created by Article VIII, Sections 8 and 9 of the…
Power of judicial review — the Philippine citation form · Constitutional review — the comparative label for review of legislation against the charter
Judicial review is the power of the courts to examine and invalidate the acts of the legislative and executive departments…
Republic Act No. 296 · RA 296
The Judiciary Act of 1948 is Republic Act No. 296, a statute of one hundred and one sections approved June…
The Philippine judiciary · The judicial branch of the Philippine government
The Judiciary of the Philippines is the branch of the Philippine government vested with judicial power — the system headed…
Julián Felipe · Julián Reyes Felipe
Julian Felipe (also written Julián Reyes Felipe; January 28, 1861 – October 2, 1944) was a Filipino composer, pianist, organist,…
Julio Nakpil y García · J. Giliw
Julio Nakpil y García (May 22, 1867, Quiapo, Manila – November 2, 1960, Quiapo) was a Filipino composer, pianist, and…
Julio Rosales y Ras — the Spanish-style full name · Julio Ras Rosales — the Filipino name-order form the reference article carries
Julio Rosales y Ras (September 18, 1906 – June 2, 1983) was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church…
Municipality of Julita · Julita Leyte
Julita, officially the Municipality of Julita, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Juramentado is a historical term from the Philippine-American and Spanish colonial periods referring to a Moro swordsman, typically a Tausug…
The justiciable controversy requirement — the threshold styling of the cases · Case or controversy requirement — the constitutional phrase's shorthand
Justiciability is the doctrine that defines "the limits upon legal issues over which a court can exercise its judicial authority"…
JDRC · Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court — the singular styling each local act used
The Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts (JDRCs) were the Philippines' special courts for children and the family — created not…
The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 is Republic Act No. 9344, a Philippine law that established a separate…
K-12 · K to 12
The K to 12 Program is the Philippines' enhanced basic education program instituted by Republic Act No. 10533, the Enhanced…
K–12 Curriculum · K-12 Education Program
K–12 Curriculum, in the Philippines, is the national basic education program enacted under Republic Act No. 10533 (Enhanced Basic Education…
The Kaamulan Festival is an ethnic cultural festival held annually in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, from the second half of February…
Municipality of Kabacan · Kabacan Cotabato
Kabacan, officially the Municipality of Kabacan, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
City of Kabankalan · Kabankalan
Kabankalan, officially the City of Kabankalan, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. Located in the…
Municipality of Kabasalan · Kabasalan Zamboanga Sibugay
Kabasalan, officially the Municipality of Kabasalan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
KM · Patriotic Youth
Kabataang Makabayan (KM, "Patriotic Youth") is a Filipino nationalist youth organization founded on November 30, 1964 — Bonifacio Day, chosen…
Municipality of Kabayan · Kabayan Benguet
Kabayan, officially the Municipality of Kabayan, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Ibaloi Mummies · Kabayan Mummies
The Kabayan Fire Mummies, also known as the Ibaloi mummies or Kabayan mummies, are a group of artificially mummified human…
The Kabayan Mummies, also called the Ibaloi mummies or fire mummies, are human remains produced through a distinctive pre-colonial mummification…
Kabigan waterfall of Pagudpud · Friendship falls (from the Ilocano sense of "kaibigan"/friend origin story told locally for the name)
Kabigan Falls is a curtain-type waterfall about 27 meters high in the forested uplands of Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Reached…
Municipality of Kabugao · Kabugao Apayao
Kabugao, officially the Municipality of Kabugao, is a municipality in the province of Apayao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Kabuntalan · Kabuntalan Maguindanao
Kabuntalan, officially the Municipality of Kabuntalan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Kadaugan sa Mactan ("Victory at Mactan") is an annual festival in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, commemorating the 1521 Battle of Mactan…
Apo Duwaling — the 1986 festival, named for Mount Apo, the durian, and the waling-waling orchid, Kadayawan's direct predecessor · Kadayawan sa Dabaw — the full local styling of the festival
The Kadayawan Festival is Davao City's annual festival of thanksgiving, held in August as "a celebration of life, a thanksgiving…
Municipality of Kadingilan · Kadingilan Bukidnon
Kadingilan, officially the Municipality of Kadingilan, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Kadios baboy langka (Hiligaynon: "kadyos, baboy, kag langka") is a savory Filipino soup from the Western Visayas combining pigeon peas…
Kadiwa stores are Philippine government retail outlets selling low-priced basic food and household items, first established under Presidential Decree No.…
KBL (kadyos, baboy, kag langka) · Kadyos baboy kag langka
Kadyos is a Filipino pork-and-legume soup associated with the Hiligaynon-speaking people of the Western Visayas, named after the pigeon pea…
Kadyos baboy langka (KBL) is a classic Ilonggo stew from the Western Visayas combining kadyos (pigeon peas, Cajanus cajan), pork—often…
Star apple · Caimito (Spanish-derived spelling)
Kaimito (Chrysophyllum cainito), the star apple, is a fast-growing tropical tree of the Sapotaceae family reaching about twenty meters, native…
Kakawate (Gliricidia sepium), internationally called gliricidia and in older sources madre de cacao ("mother of cacao"), is a thornless, nitrogen-fixing…
Madre de cacao (Spanish common name) · Gliricidia (scientific shorthand)
Kakawati is the Filipino name for Gliricidia sepium, a medium-sized leguminous tree in the family Fabaceae known in Spanish as…
Kalagan (also spelled Calagan or Kallagan in older sources) · Kagan (for largely Islamized communities)
The Kalagan are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group in southeastern Mindanao, Philippines, generally treated as a subgroup of the Mandaya–Mansaka peoples.…
Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan · KC
KALAHI-CIDSS, fully the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services, is the community-driven development (CDD) program of…
Kalamansig (Sultan Kudarat) · Part of the "SOKKSAR" tourism corridor of Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani
Kalamansig is a coastal municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, facing the Moro Gulf on the island's southwestern…
Municipality of Kalamansig · Kalamansig Sultan Kudarat
Kalamansig, officially the Municipality of Kalamansig, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Kalamay-hati · Bohol kalamay
Kalamay is a sticky, sweet Filipino delicacy made from glutinous rice flour, coconut milk, and sugar, cooked slowly to a…
Kalanggaman Island is a small elongated island barangay of Palompon, Leyte, celebrated for its sprawling white sandbars that stretch into…
The Kalanguya are an indigenous people of the southern Cordillera and adjacent Caraballo highlands, found in Tinoc in Ifugao, Santa…
The Kalanguya (also spelled Kallahan or Ikalahan) are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the southern Cordillera and Caraballo mountain ranges…
Kalantas (Toona calantas) is a large forest tree endemic to the Philippines, the country's representative of the mahogany family's "cedar"…
Municipality of Kalawit · Kalawit Zamboanga del Norte
Kalawit, officially the Municipality of Kalawit, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Kalayaan · Ang Kalayaan — the title as registered in the Wikidata authority record
Kalayaan ("Freedom") was the official organ of the Katipunan, the secret revolutionary society that launched the 1896 Philippine Revolution against…
Municipality of Kalayaan · Kalayaan Palawan
Kalayaan, officially the Municipality of Kalayaan, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Kalayaan Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Project — the full project designation · Kalayaan PSPP (Pumped-Storage Power Plant) — the abbreviation used in plant trackers
The Kalayaan Pumped-Storage Power Plant is the hydroelectric pumped-storage facility at Kalayaan, Laguna, roughly 950 feet above Laguna de Bay,…
Kaldereta (from Spanish caldereta, "little cauldron") is a Filipino stew classically made with goat meat simmered in tomato sauce with…
Calesa — the Spanish and Philippine Spanish form from which the Tagalog name descends · Karitela or karetela — the larger type, often loosely called kalesa
A kalesa (Philippine Spanish calesa, from Spanish calesa, itself from French calèche, ultimately from Czech kolesa) is a two-wheeled, horse-drawn…
Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas — the full Filipino name · Association for Service to the New Philippines — the English rendering
KALIBAPI — Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas, the "Association for Service to the New Philippines" — was the sole…
Ati-Atihan Town · Capital of Aklan
Kalibo, officially the Municipality of Kalibo, is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of Aklan province in Western Visayas, Philippines.…
Kalibo City · Municipality of Kalibo
Kalibo, officially the Municipality of Kalibo, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Kalilangan · Kalilangan Bukidnon
Kalilangan, officially the Municipality of Kalilangan, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Kalinga coffee is the highland arabica and robusta coffee grown in the province of Kalinga in the Cordillera Administrative Region,…
iKalinga
The Kalinga people are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the Cordillera mountain range of northern Luzon, Philippines — one of…
Province of Kalinga · Kalinga
Kalinga, officially the Province of Kalinga, is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon, Philippines. Its capital…
Kalinga textile weaving is the backstrap loom tradition of the Kalinga people of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines, producing distinctive…
Kalingag (Cinnamomum mercadoi) is a tree endemic to the Philippines belonging to the same genus as true cinnamon. Its bark…
Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang · Kalingalan Caluang Sulu
Kalingalan Caluang, officially the Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro…
KPMP · National Federation of Peasants in the Philippines — English rendering
The Kalipunang Pambansa ng mga Magbubukid sa Pilipinas (KPMP) — in English rendering, the National Federation of Peasants in the…
The kalis (Baybayin: ᜃᜎᜒᜐ᜔; Jawi: كاليس; Spanish-era spelling: cális) is a type of Philippine sword derived from the wider Southeast…
Kalivungan (convergence gathering) · Cotabato founding anniversary festival
The Kalivungan Festival is the founding-anniversary festival of the province of Cotabato (formerly North Cotabato), staged in the provincial capital…
Kaliwa Low Dam · New Centennial Water Source–Kaliwa Dam Project
The Kaliwa Dam is a proposed concrete dam on the Kaliwa River in the Sierra Madre mountains of Rizal and…
Kaliwa Dam · New Centennial Water Source–Kaliwa Dam Project (NCWS-KDP)
The Kaliwa Dam Project — formally the New Centennial Water Source–Kaliwa Dam Project (NCWS-KDP) — is a water-supply scheme of…
Terminalia microcarpa (scientific name) · Kalumpit tree
Kalumpit (Terminalia microcarpa) is a large native forest tree of the Philippines and parts of Southeast Asia, valued both for…
Kamagong is the Philippine ebony (Diospyros discolor, also treated as Diospyros blancoi), a slow-growing hardwood tree of the lowland and…
Kamayan, from the Tagalog word for hand (kamay), refers to the Filipino practice of eating with the bare hands, and…
Kamayo is an Austronesian language and ethnolinguistic community of the Pacific seaboard of eastern Mindanao, centered on the coastal towns…
Kamias (Averrhoa bilimbi), also known as bilimbi or cucumber tree, is a small tropical tree grown across the Philippines for…
Divine Wind · Shinpu Tokubetsu Kogekitai
Kamikaze (Japanese: 神風, "divine wind") was the World War II tactic of deliberately crashing explosive-laden aircraft into Allied ships, first…
Camote · Sweet potato
Kamote is the Filipino term for sweet potato, the starchy tuber of a trailing vine that serves as staple food,…
Cassava · Balinghoy
Kamoteng Kahoy is cassava, the starchy tuberous root of a drought-tolerant shrub introduced to the Philippines during the Spanish era.…
Kampilan sword · War blade of the datu class
The kampilan is a long, single-edged sword of pre-colonial and early colonial Philippines, among the largest traditional Filipino bladed weapons.…
Kamyas (Averrhoa bilimbi), more commonly spelled kamias and also called cucumber tree or tree sorrel, is a small tree grown…
Municipality of Kananga · Kananga Leyte
Kananga, officially the Municipality of Kananga, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Binukaw · Batuan
Kandis (Garcinia binucao) is a flowering tree of the Clusiaceae family endemic to the Philippines, known in different regions as…
Manila sea catfish · Sea catfish
Kanduli commonly refers to the Manila sea catfish, a marine and brackishwater catfish named after the waters where it was…
Water spinach · Swamp cabbage
Kangkong (Ipomoea aquatica) is a fast-growing, semi-aquatic tropical vine widely cultivated and gathered in the Philippines for its tender leaves…
The Kankanaey are an Igorot people of the southern Cordillera Central, concentrated in western Mountain Province — around Sagada and…
Kankanay (variant spelling) · Sagada Kankanaey (northern variety)
Kankanaey is a South-Central Cordilleran language of the Philippines, spoken in the western Mountain Province around Sagada and Besao and…
The Kankanaey are an Igorot ethnolinguistic people of the Cordillera mountain range in northern Luzon, inhabiting western Mountain Province —…
The Kanlaon Volcano Natural Park is a protected area centered on Mount Kanlaon, the highest peak in the Visayas at…
KVO · KVO-LCC
The Kanlaon Volcano Observatory (KVO) is the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) monitoring observatory for Kanlaon Volcano on…
Ilonggo sour bulalo (descriptive nickname) · Kansi nga baka (beef kansi, in Hiligaynon usage)
Kansi is a sour beef-shank soup from the Western Visayas, especially associated with Bacolod City and Negros Occidental, often described…
The Kansilay Festival is the annual charter-day festival of Silay City, Negros Occidental, held in June, named after the kansilay…
The Kaogma Festival is the founding-anniversary celebration of the province of Camarines Sur, held in May in the provincial capital…
Kaong is the Filipino name for Arenga pinnata, the sugar palm, and for the candied fruits of that palm that…
Showy medinilla (English common name) · Rose grape (horticultural English name)
Kapa-kapa (Medinilla magnifica) is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, endemic to the Philippines, where it grows…
Showy medinilla (international horticultural name) · Rose grape (English common name)
Kapa-kapa (Medinilla magnifica) is a large ornamental shrub endemic to the Philippines, celebrated for its spectacular pendant clusters of pink…
Municipality of Kapai · Kapai Lanao del Sur
Kapai, officially the Municipality of Kapai, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Kapalong · Kapalong Davao del Norte
Kapalong, officially the Municipality of Kapalong, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Norte, located within the Davao…
ABS-CBN Kapamilya Channel
Kapamilya Channel is a Philippine 24-hour pay television channel owned by ABS-CBN Corporation, launched on June 13, 2020 as the…
Lutung Kapampangan · Kapampangan cooking
Kapampangan cuisine is the culinary tradition of the Kapampangan people of Pampanga province in Central Luzon — a repertoire the…
Pampango (Spanish-era and older English spelling) · Capampangan (self-conscious modern spelling)
Kapampangan is a Central Luzon language of the Philippines, spoken in Pampanga province, southern Tarlac, and adjacent fringes of Bataan,…
The Kapampangan people are a major ethnolinguistic group of central Luzon, native to Pampanga and adjoining parts of Tarlac and…
Municipality of Kapangan · Kapangan Benguet
Kapangan, officially the Municipality of Kapangan, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Kapatagan · Kapatagan Lanao del Sur
Kapatagan, officially the Municipality of Kapatagan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Barako Coffee · Philippine Liberica
Kapeng Barako (historically known as Philippine Liberica) is a distinct coffee variety grown in the Philippines, belonging to the species…
KBP · Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas
The Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) — in English, the Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines — is…
The Finding of the Santo Niño — the English rendering the Basilica's literature uses · The rediscovery of the Santo Niño de Cebú — the standard account's term
The Kaplag — Cebuano for "finding" or "discovery" — is the name given to the rediscovery of the Santo Niño…
Kapreh · Agta (in some Visayan traditions)
The kapre is a giant of Philippine folklore, a tall, dark, hairy tree-dwelling being with glowing eyes who sits in…
Kapurpurawan Rock Formation is a white limestone rock formation on the coast of Burgos, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, sculpted by wind…
KMJS · Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho
Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS; English title rendered as "One at Heart, Jessica Soho") is a Philippine television news magazine…
Kara Patria Constantino David · Kara David-Cancio
Kara David — born Kara Patria Constantino David on September 12, 1973, in Guagua, Pampanga, and recorded under her married…
Caracoa (Spanish-era spelling) · Karakoa (Kapampangan and Tagalog usage)
The karakoa was a large outrigger warship of pre-colonial and early colonial Philippines, built by coastal and river polities such…
Karakol procession · Fluvial karakol (boat-borne variant)
Karakol is a Philippine religious procession-dance in which devotees dance their way along streets — and sometimes across rivers or…
Karansa sa Danao · Danao City fiesta festival
The Karansa Festival is an annual festival held in September in Danao City, Cebu, celebrated in thanksgiving to the city's…
The Karay-a are an ethnolinguistic group of western Visayas, Philippines, concentrated in Antique province and southern Iloilo, with communities in…
Kari-kari (older spelling) · Peanut stew
Kare-kare is a Filipino stew of oxtail, tripe, and pork hocks simmered until gelatinous, thickened with ground roasted rice and…
Karioka, standardly known as cascaron, is a Filipino merienda of ball-shaped deep-fried doughnuts made from glutinous rice flour and grated…
Primer of the Katipunan (English rendering) · Kartilla ng Katipunan (Spanish-derived variant spelling)
The Kartilya ng Katipunan ("Primer of the Katipunan") was the guidebook for new members of the Katipunan, the secret revolutionary…
Domestic Workers Act · Republic Act No. 10361
The Kasambahay Law (Republic Act No. 10361), enacted in 2013, is the Domestic Workers Act of the Philippines. It recognizes…
Municipality of Kasibu · Kasibu Nueva Vizcaya
Kasibu, officially the Municipality of Kasibu, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
Cashew (English name) · Kasoy (alternate Tagalog spelling)
Kasuy is the Filipino term for the cashew (Anacardium occidentale), a tropical evergreen tree in the family Anacardioideae that yields…
Katibawasan Falls is the tallest known waterfall on Camiguin island, Philippines, dropping approximately 75 meters into a rock pool ringed…
Katipunan Revolutionary Society · Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (full Tagalog name)
The Katipunan, formally the Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan ("Highest and Most Respected Society of the Children…
Municipality of Katipunan · Katipunan Zamboanga del Norte
Katipunan, officially the Municipality of Katipunan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
KAP — the standard abbreviation of the era's record · Proletarian Labor Congress of the Philippines — the English rendering carried in the federation's article
The Katipunan ng mga Anak-Pawis sa Pilipinas (KAP; English "Proletarian Labor Congress of the Philippines") was a Philippine national labor…
Katmon (Dillenia philippinensis) is a tree endemic to the Philippines, valued both as an ornamental with large showy white flowers…
Agati (Indian subcontinent usage) · Vegetable hummingbird tree (English descriptive name)
Katuray (Sesbania grandiflora), also called vegetable hummingbird or agati, is a fast-growing small tree widely grown in Philippine backyards and…
Municipality of Kauswagan · Kauswagan Lanao del Norte
Kauswagan, officially the Municipality of Kauswagan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
KMP · KMPC
Kawasaki Motors Philippines — officially Kawasaki Motors (Phils.) Corporation (KMPC) — is the Philippine motorcycle manufacturing and distribution company of…
Kawasan Waterfalls · Matutinao Falls
Kawasan Falls is a three-tier waterfall in Matutinao, Badian, Cebu, celebrated for its striking turquoise-blue water fed by springs filtering…
Municipality of Kawayan · Kawayan Biliran
Kawayan, officially the Municipality of Kawayan, is a municipality in the province of Biliran, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Kawit · Kawit
Kawit, officially the Municipality of Kawit, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. Located 23 kilometers south…
Municipality of Kawit · Kawit Cavite
Kawit, officially the Municipality of Kawit, is a municipality in the province of Cavite, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Kayangan Lake is a brackish crater-like lake on Coron Island, Palawan, Philippines, set in a limestone basin reached by a…
Municipality of Kayapa · Kayapa Nueva Vizcaya
Kayapa, officially the Municipality of Kayapa, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
Keloids · Cheloids
A Keloid Scar is an abnormal, overgrown fibrous tissue that forms at the site of a healed skin injury. Unlike…
Kenpeitai (alternate romanization; the DBpedia and Wiktionary headword form) · 憲兵隊 (Japanese script form)
The Kempeitai (憲兵隊, "military police corps") was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, established on January 4,…
Francisco "Kenkoy" Harabas (character's full name) · Kenkoyisms (the character's signature mangled English)
Kenkoy is the first and most iconic character of the Filipino komiks tradition: Francisco "Kenkoy" Harabas, a wisecracking, Americanized young…
Kentex factory fire — the common short form in Philippine news usage · Kentex Manufacturing fire — the styling after the corporate name
The Kentex Slipper Factory Fire was the fire that destroyed the two-storey rubber-footwear factory of Kentex Manufacturing Corporation in Barangay…
Philippine white cheese · Queso blanco (in Spanish records)
Kesong puti, or Philippine white cheese, is a traditional soft, fresh cheese made from carabao's milk, lightly salted, and typically…
Keto Diet · Low-Carb High-Fat Diet
The Ketogenic Diet (often abbreviated as the "keto diet") is a therapeutic and nutritional regimen characterized by high-fat, moderate-protein, and…
Nutritional Ketosis · Ketogenic State
Ketosis is a metabolic state characterized by elevated levels of ketone bodies—namely beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), acetoacetate, and acetone—in the blood, tissues,…
Keyland Corporation · Keyland
Keyland Corporation is a boutique real estate developer in the Philippines, specializing in premium residential condominiums, corporate office towers, and…
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) is an American fried-chicken quick-service brand operated in the Philippines by franchisees, with outlets in Mindanao…
Kia Motors Corporation · Kia Motors
Kia Corporation (Korean: 기아) is a South Korean automobile manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, founded in 1944 as Kyungsung Precision Industry,…
Kia in the Philippines · Kia Philippines, Inc.
Kia Philippines is the national sales company and franchise operation of the South Korean marque Kia (Kia Corporation) in the…
Kiamba is a first-income-class municipality in Sarangani, Soccsksargen (Region XII), Philippines. Bordered by Maitum to the west, Maasim to the…
Kiangan is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, Cordillera Administrative Region, regarded as the oldest town of the province…
Municipality of Kiangan · Kiangan Ifugao
Kiangan, officially the Municipality of Kiangan, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Kibawe · Kibawe Bukidnon
Kibawe, officially the Municipality of Kibawe, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Municipality of Kiblawan · Kiblawan Davao del Sur
Kiblawan, officially the Municipality of Kiblawan, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, located within the Davao…
Municipality of Kibungan · Kibungan Benguet
Kibungan, officially the Municipality of Kibungan, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
1. Definition Kidapawan, officially the City of Kidapawan, is a component city and the provincial capital of Cotabato, Philippines. Located…
Wading Pool · Children's Pool
Kiddie Pool, in the context of Philippine real estate and condominium amenities, is a shallow swimming pool specifically designed for…
Toyoda Kiichiro · Kiichiro Toyoda
Kiichiro Toyoda (June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist, the founder of Toyota Motor…
Kikiam is a Filipino street food consisting of a seasoned minced pork and vegetable filling rolled in bean-curd (tawpe) skin…
Kinilaw (Visayas–Mindanao term, especially for raw seafood versions) · Kilawin na kambing (goat variant beloved in the Ilocos and Northern Luzon)
Kilawin is a Philippine method of preparing meat or seafood "cooked" without fire — dressed in vinegar or citrus juice…
Kilig is a Filipino word describing the exhilarating shiver or giddy rush triggered by romantic or exciting moments — butterflies…
Kilometre Zero · Km 0
Kilometer Zero (also spelled Kilometre Zero, abbreviated Km 0) is the Philippines' zero-mile marker for road distances — a small…
KBL — the standard abbreviation · New Society Movement — the English rendering of the name
The Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL — the "New Society Movement"), formally launched at its founding as the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan…
Peasant Movement of the Philippines
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP; "Peasant Movement of the Philippines") is the largest national federation of peasant organizations in…
KMU — the universal short form · May First Movement — the English rendering of the name
The Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU, "May First Movement") — its name built on kilusan, the Tagalog word for "movement" —…
Kimona at patadyong (the full two-piece ensemble, often named together) · Blusa (generic local term in some areas)
A kimona is a loose, sheer blouse worn by Filipino women, the standard upper garment of the traditional Visayan everyday…
Kinalas is a Filipino noodle soup from the Bicol region, especially associated with Naga City: wheat egg noodles served in…
Kinamiging · Camiguin language
Kinamigin, also known as Kinamiging or the Camiguin language, is the indigenous language of Camiguin island province in Northern Mindanao,…
Karay-a · Hiniraya
Kinaray-a is a Bisayan language spoken principally in the province of Antique and in adjoining areas of Panay island, Philippines,…
Karay-a · Hinaraya
Kinaray-a is an Austronesian language of Panay island, Philippines, spoken principally in Antique province and across large parts of southern…
RA 10157 · Universal Kindergarten Act
The Kindergarten Education Act (Republic Act No. 10157) is the Philippine law that made kindergarten a mandatory and compulsory stage…
The king cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, is the world's longest venomous snake, reaching lengths beyond five meters, and occurs in the…
The Kingdom of Tondo was a pre-colonial Philippine polity centered on the north bank of the Pasig River delta at…
Kinilaw is a Visayan and Cebuano term meaning "to eat raw" and refers to a raw seafood dish and preparation…
Municipality of Kinoguitan · Kinoguitan Misamis Oriental
Kinoguitan, officially the Municipality of Kinoguitan, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Kiping is a leaf-shaped rice wafer associated with Lucban, Quezon, made by steaming a batter of soaked, ground rice on…
The Kisi-Kisi Festival is the fish-themed festival of Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. Its name comes from the Hiligaynon word…
Municipality of Kitaotao · Kitaotao Bukidnon
Kitaotao, officially the Municipality of Kitaotao, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Kitcharao is a fourth-income class municipality in Agusan del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. Created on June 22, 1963, it covers…
Shima Kiyohide · Vice Admiral Kiyohide Shima
Kiyohide Shima (February 25, 1890 – November 7, 1973) was a vice admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commander-in-chief of…
Knee splint (related but sometimes used interchangeably) · Long leg knee immobilizer
A knee immobilizer is a rigid external orthopedic device designed to completely restrict knee joint movement during post-injury or post-surgical…
1. Definition A Knight-Taylor brace is a rigid spinal orthosis (orthotic device) designed to limit motion of the thoracic, lumbar,…
KGO · Entity optimization (near-synonym of Entity SEO)
Knowledge graph optimization is the discipline of improving how an entity is represented within search engines' and platforms' knowledge graphs…
KNP · Coalition of United Filipinos
The Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP, "Coalition of United Filipinos"; classified in Wikidata as an electoral alliance) was a Philippine…
Kojic Acid Dipalmitate · 5-Hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4H-pyran-4-one
Kojic Acid is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its…
Municipality of Kolambugan · Kolambugan Lanao del Norte
Kolambugan, officially the Municipality of Kolambugan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Bamboo tube zither · Polychordal tube zither
The kolitong is a polychordal bamboo tube zither of the Bontok and Kalinga peoples of the northern Philippines. Six strings…
The komedya (from Spanish comedia) is a Philippine theatrical form, also known as moro-moro, that dramatizes the conflicts between Christians…
KWF · Commission on the Filipino Language
The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF, Commission on the Filipino Language) is the Philippine government agency charged with undertaking, coordinating,…
The Konektadong Pinoy Act (Republic Act No. 12234), formerly known as the Open Access in Data Transmission Act, is a…
Koompassia excelsa is one of the tallest tropical rainforest trees in the world, an emergent of Southeast Asia that reaches…
Köppen-Geiger climate classification · Koeppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is the empirical, vegetation-based system that divides the world's climates into five principal groups — tropical…
The kora-kora is a traditional outrigger war canoe of maritime Southeast Asia, originating from the Maluku Islands and widely recorded…
Korean Armistice Agreement — the formal documentary title · Armistice of Panmunjom — the signing-place styling
The Korean Armistice Agreement, signed at Panmunjom on July 27, 1953 and effective at 10:00 p.m. that night, twelve hours…
6.25 War (yugio; 육이오) — the Korean naming by the war's opening date, June 25 · Fatherland Liberation War (Jogukhaebangjeonjaeng; 조국해방전쟁) — the North Korean designation
The Korean War (June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953) was the war between the two Korean states proclaimed in…
The korido is a Philippine metrical romance derived from the Spanish corrido, sung or chanted in eight-syllable lines and recounting…
City of Koronadal · Marbel
Koronadal, officially the City of Koronadal, is a component city and the provincial capital of South Cotabato, Philippines. It also…
The Koronadal Valley — historically the Marbel Valley — is the fertile agricultural basin of South Cotabato province, Philippines, drained…
Alocasia sanderiana · Sander's alocasia
The kris plant (Alocasia sanderiana) is a tropical aroid endemic to Mindanao, Philippines, prized for long, dark green leaves with…
Bamboo jaw harp · Mouth harp (generic)
The kubing is a traditional Philippine bamboo jaw harp, a slim idioglot lamellophone carved from a single section of bamboo…
Kutsinta · Kuchinta
Kuchinta, also spelled kutsinta, is a Filipino steamed rice cake made from rice flour and lye water, giving it a…
The kudyapi (also kutiyapi) is a Philippine two-stringed, fretted boat lute carved from a single block of soft wood, played…
A kuliglig is a Philippine motorized cart or trailer, typically powered by a diesel or gasoline pump engine adapted from…
Kolintang · Kulintangan
The kulintang is a row of five to nine graduated knobbed (bossed) gongs laid horizontally on a wooden frame and…
Sulat Kapampangan · Kulit (colloquial short form)
Kulitan is the indigenous writing system of the Kapampangan language, one of the Philippine suyat scripts derived from Brahmic writing…
Beef kulma · Tausug korma
Kulma is a Tausug-Filipino dish of beef slowly braised in spiced coconut milk, associated with the Sulu archipelago, Tawi-Tawi, and…
Municipality of Kumalarang · Kumalarang Zamboanga del Sur
Kumalarang, officially the Municipality of Kumalarang, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Kumander Liwayway (Remedios Gómez-Platon, 1919–2014) was a Filipina guerrilla and Hukbalahap squadron commander, one of the few women to lead…
Comintang (colonial-era spelling variant) · Kumintang ng manliligaw (courting-song usage)
The kumintang is a traditional Tagalog song and dance form associated with Batangas, where the name also survives as the…
Kundiman art song · Filipino love song
The kundiman is the Philippine art-song genre of courtship and unrequited love, sung in Tagalog and formalized in the early…
Kundol is the Filipino name for the winter melon or wax gourd (Benincasa hispida), a large, mild-flavored gourd with a…
Kune Labs Philippines OPC
Kune Labs Philippines (OPC) is a Philippine venture in sustainable protein production — specifically rabbit farming — documented among the…
The kuratsa is a Waray folk dance of courtship from Eastern Visayas, danced by a couple in lively triple-time with…
Kuroshio — the standard short form · Black Stream — the English calque of the Japanese name
The Kuroshio Current (Japanese 黒潮, kuro shio, "black tide" — hence the English Black Stream; also the Japan Current, 日本海流…
The Kutawato Caves, also called Kutang Bato Cave, is a cave system at the foot of Pedro Colina Hill in…
Kutsinta (also spelled cuchinta) is a Philippine steamed rice cake made from rice flour, lye water (lihiya), and brown sugar,…
Kwek-kwek is a Philippine street food consisting of quail eggs coated in an orange-tinted batter and deep-fried until crisp, typically…
Pure Vitamin C · Ascorbic acid
L-Ascorbic Acid is the chemically active, pure form of Vitamin C (with the chemical formula $C_6H_8O_6$) that plays a fundamental…
Levocarnitine · Vitamin BT
L-Carnitine is a quaternary ammonium compound biosynthesized from the essential amino acids lysine and methionine. It plays a critical role…
City of La Carlota · La Carlota City
La Carlota, officially the City of La Carlota, is a fourth-class component city located in the province of Negros Occidental,…
La Castellana · Municipality of La Castellana
La Castellana, officially the Municipality of La Castellana, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the…
La Independencia was the revolutionary newspaper founded at Manila on September 3, 1898 by General Antonio Luna — a four-page…
Municipality of La Libertad · La Libertad Zamboanga del Norte
La Libertad, officially the Municipality of La Libertad, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within…
The Philippine League (English rendering) · Liga Filipina (short form)
La Liga Filipina ("The Philippine League") was a Filipino civic association founded by José Rizal on July 3, 1892 at…
La Loma Catholic Cemetery · Campo Santo de La Loma (Spanish name)
La Loma Cemetery — formally the La Loma Catholic Cemetery, in Spanish Campo Santo de La Loma — is a…
La Mesa Reservoir · La Mesa Weir
La Mesa Dam is an earthfill impounding dam in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, forming the La Mesa Reservoir at…
Municipality of La Paz · La Paz Agusan del Sur
La Paz, officially the Municipality of La Paz, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, located within…
La Paz batchoy is a Filipino noodle soup originating from the La Paz district of Iloilo City, widely regarded as…
La Paz Dunes · Paoay Sand Dunes
The La Paz Sand Dunes are a coastal stretch of wind-blown sand and low ridges covering parts of La Paz…
The Philippine Revolution
La Revolución Filipina is the political memoir of Apolinario Mabini — the "Brains of the Revolution" and first Prime Minister…
LSGH
La Salle Green Hills (abbreviation LSGH) is a private Catholic Lasallian school at 343 Ortigas Avenue, Mandaluyong City, in the…
La Solidaridad (Spanish styling of the masthead) · The organ of the Propaganda Movement — its standing description in Philippine historiography
La Solidaridad was the official newspaper and organ of the Propaganda Movement, the campaign of Filipino reformists in Spain for…
La Tondeña, Inc. (1902–1987) · La Tondeña Distillers, Inc. (1987–2003)
La Tondeña Distillers was the historic Philippine distilling company of the Palanca family of Manila, maker of Ginebra San Miguel,…
La Trinidad is the capital municipality of Benguet province in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of the Philippines. Located immediately…
Municipality of La Trinidad · La Trinidad Benguet
La Trinidad, officially the Municipality of La Trinidad, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera…
Province of La Union · La Union
La Union, officially the Province of La Union, is a province in the Ilocos Region of the Philippines, located in…
Provincial Government of La Union · La Union Provincial LGU
The La Union Local Government Unit (La Union LGU) refers to the provincial government and administrative body of the province…
Municipality of Laak · Laak Davao de Oro
Laak, officially the Municipality of Laak, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
LDP · Fight of Democratic Filipinos
The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP, literally "Fight of Democratic Filipinos"; more commonly called Laban in its early years) is…
Municipality of Labangan · Labangan Zamboanga del Sur
Labangan, officially the Municipality of Labangan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Labason is a second-income-class coastal municipality in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, lying along the province's northern coast facing the Sulu…
Municipality of Labo · Labo Camarines Norte
Labo, officially the Municipality of Labo, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Norte, located within the Bicol Region…
PD 442 · Presidential Decree No. 442
The Labor Code of the Philippines is the principal statute governing employment practices and labor relations in the Philippines, enacted…
Municipality of Labrador · Labrador Pangasinan
Labrador, officially the Municipality of Labrador, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Municipality of Lacub · Lacub Abra
Lacub, officially the Municipality of Lacub, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Ladislao Diwa (1863–1930) was a Filipino patriot who, together with his friends Andrés Bonifacio and Teodoro Plata, co-founded the Katipunan,…
Municipality of Lagangilang · Lagangilang Abra
Lagangilang, officially the Municipality of Lagangilang, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Lagawe · Lagawe
Lagawe, officially the Municipality of Lagawe, is a fourth-class municipality and the capital of the landlocked province of Ifugao, Philippines.…
Municipality of Lagawe · Lagawe Ifugao
Lagawe, officially the Municipality of Lagawe, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Lagayan · Lagayan Abra
Lagayan, officially the Municipality of Lagayan, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
G.R. Nos. 231658, 231771 and 231774 · The Mindanao martial law petitions of 2017
Lagman v. Medialdea is the Supreme Court decision of July 4, 2017 in three consolidated original petitions — G.R. Nos.…
Municipality of Lagonglong · Lagonglong Misamis Oriental
Lagonglong, officially the Municipality of Lagonglong, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Lagonoy · Lagonoy Camarines Sur
Lagonoy, officially the Municipality of Lagonoy, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Lagonoy Gulf is a large gulf on the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon, opening to the Philippine Sea between the coast…
Municipality of Laguindingan · Laguindingan Misamis Oriental
Laguindingan, officially the Municipality of Laguindingan, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Cagayan de Oro airport · Laguindingan Airport
Laguindingan Airport is the primary international airport serving the cities of Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City, and the…
Resort Capital of the Philippines · Birthplace of Jose Rizal
Laguna is a Philippine province in the Calabarzon region (Region IV-A). Its capital is Santa Cruz, and it surrounds much…
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI) is a thin copper-plate document dated 900 CE, bearing an inscription in Kawi script that…
Laguna Lake · Laguna de Bae (historical spelling)
Laguna de Bay is the largest lake in the Philippines, with a surface area of approximately 911–949 square kilometers and…
Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX) · CALAX
The term Laguna Expressway refers to the modern high-speed toll road infrastructure serving the province of Laguna and the wider…
LLDA · Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) — statutory name since 1966
The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) is a Philippine quasi-government corporation created by Republic Act No. 4850, signed July 18,…
1. Definition Laguna Technopark is a premier industrial estate situated in Santa Rosa and Biñan, Laguna, Philippines. Established as a…
The Laguna Volcanic Field is a scattered volcanic area on the southern side of Laguna de Bay in Luzon, Philippines,…
Five-leaved chaste tree · Vitex negundo (binomial name)
Lagundi (Vitex negundo L.), also known as the five-leaved chaste tree, is a large woody shrub native to the Philippines.…
Volcanic mudflow · Volcanic debris flow
Lahar is a volcanic mudflow or debris flow — a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris, and water that rushes…
Manila Water Supply III Project — the 1979 conception under which the MWSS studies began ([Wikipedia — Laiban Dam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laiban_Dam "Laiban Dam — Wikipedia (article: Proposed dams in the Kaliwa River watershed)")) · Laiban Dam Project — the styling of the 2009–2010 San Miguel–MWSS joint-venture proposals ([Inquirer — July 2013](https://web.archive.org/web/2012/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/443527/sierra-madre-tribe-asks-congress-to-stop-laiban-dam "Philippine Daily Inquirer (Delfin T. Mallari Jr., July 12, 2013; archived) — Sierra Madre tribe asks Congress to stop Laiban Dam"))
The Laiban Dam is a large water-supply dam proposed since 1979 at Barangay Laiban, Tanay, Rizal, on the upper Kaliwa…
Laing is a Filipino dish of dried or fresh taro (gabi) leaves slowly simmered in coconut milk with garlic, onion,…
Laing (Bicolano spelling also "laing") · Pinangat na gabi (related wrapped preparation)
Laing is a Filipino dish from the Bicol Region consisting of dried taro (gabi) leaves slowly simmered in coconut milk…
ginataang laing · natong (Bicolano name)
Laing is a Filipino vegetable dish from the Bicol region consisting of dried taro (gabi) leaves slowly simmered in coconut…
Lakan Banaw Dula · Lakandula
Lakan Dula (Lakan Banaw Dula) was the pre-colonial ruler of Tondo, the wealthy trading polity at the mouth of the…
Lakan Dula (alternative rendering) · Rajah Lakan Dula (older historical labels)
Lakandula (also rendered Lakan Dula, c. 1503-1589?) was the lakan, or paramount ruler, of Tondo, the principal coastal polity on…
LABAN · Lakas ng Bayan (People's Power)
Lakas ng Bayan ("People's Power"), abbreviated LABAN — the Filipino word laban meaning "fight" — was the electoral front organized…
Lakas-CMD (unhyphenated styling in everyday and news usage) · Lakas–Christian Muslim Democrats (official long form)
Lakas–CMD, officially Lakas–Christian Muslim Democrats, is a Philippine centre-right political party whose present form dates from the 2008 merger of…
Lakawon Island, also spelled Llacaon, is a 13-hectare, banana-shaped islet off the coast of Cadiz in northern Negros Occidental, Philippines.…
Agco Lake · "Boiling lake" of Mount Apo (descriptive nickname)
Lake Agco is a small geothermal lake at the foot of Mount Apo in Kidapawan City, Cotabato, within the Mount…
Aguingay Lake · Lake Aguingay of Banahaw
Lake Aguingay is a shallow seasonal lake at the foot of Mount Banahaw on the boundary of Majayjay in Laguna…
Lake Apo is a small, deep crater lake in Barangay Balabag, Kidapawan City, in the province of Cotabato on the…
Baao Lake
Lake Baao is a small, shallow natural lake near the town of Baao in Camarines Sur, Bicol Region. Though modest…
Balanan Lake · Landslide-dammed lake of Siaton (descriptive)
Lake Balanan is a freshwater lake in Siaton, Negros Oriental, Philippines, formed when a strong earthquake in 1925 triggered a…
Balinsasayao Lake · Balinsasayao-Danao Twin Lakes
Lake Balinsasayao is a deep volcanic crater lake in the municipality of Sibulan, Negros Oriental, Philippines, lying at an elevation…
Bato Lake
Lake Bato is a large natural freshwater lake in the municipality of Bato, Camarines Sur, in the Bicol Region. With…
Buhi Lake · Lake Buhi crater lake
Lake Buhi is a small freshwater crater lake with a surface area of about 18 square kilometers located in the…
Lake Buluan is a lake in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines, bounded by the towns of Buluan, Mangudadatu, and Pandag,…
Lake Bulusan is a crater lake on the upper slopes of Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon province, Philippines, sitting within the…
Lake Bunot is a volcanic crater lake, one of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo in Laguna province, Philippines. Located…
Lake Calibato is one of the seven crater lakes collectively called Pitong Lawa or Seven Lakes of San Pablo in…
Lake Caliraya is an artificial upland reservoir in the province of Laguna on Luzon island, Philippines, impounded in the late…
Lake Danao is a guitar-shaped crater-adjacent lake within Lake Danao National Park in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines, sitting at about 700…
Dapao Lake · Lake Dapao National Park (protected-area name)
Lake Dapao is a deep freshwater lake in the province of Lanao del Sur, Mindanao, Philippines, located in the municipalities…
Duminagat Lake · Sacred Lake Duminagat
Lake Duminagat is a high-altitude crater lake located within the Mount Malindang Natural Park, a protected area and ASEAN Heritage…
Lake Holon is a crater lake occupying the caldera of Mount Parker in Cotabato province, Philippines, at approximately 1,300 meters…
Lake Lanao is the largest lake in Mindanao and the second largest lake in the Philippines, located in Lanao del…
Leonard Range crater lake
Lake Leonard is a small freshwater crater lake situated on Mount Leonard, part of the Leonard Range volcanic complex in…
Lake Mainit is the fourth-largest lake in the Philippines, straddling the boundary of Surigao del Norte and Agusan del Sur…
Manguao Lake
Lake Manguao is the largest natural freshwater lake on Palawan's main island, located in the municipality of Taytay in northeastern…
Lake Mohicap (common variant spelling) · Lake Mojicap (older maps)
Lake Muhikap is one of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, a cluster of small volcanic crater lakes (maars) scattered…
Napalit Lake · Lake Napalit of Pantabangan
Lake Napalit is a small freshwater lake covering roughly 74 hectares in the municipality of Pantabangan in Nueva Ecija, Philippines.…
Naujan Lake · Lawa ng Naujan
Lake Naujan is the largest lake on the island of Mindoro and among the largest natural lakes in the Philippines,…
Palakpakin Lake · Lake Palacpaquin (archaic orthography in some colonial-era maps)
Lake Palakpakin is one of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, a group of volcanic crater lakes in San Pablo…
Lake Pandin is one of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, a cluster of volcanic crater lakes scattered around San…
Lake Paoay is the largest lake in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, a shallow natural lake of roughly four square kilometers nestled…
Lake Pinatubo is the crater lake that formed inside the summit caldera of Mount Pinatubo after its cataclysmic 1991 eruption,…
Lake Sampaloc is the largest of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, Laguna, a roughly horseshoe-shaped volcanic crater lake (maar)…
Lake Sebu is a natural lake of 354 hectares with a maximum depth of 34 meters, sitting at about 1,000…
Lake Sebu · Municipality of Lake Sebu
Lake Sebu, officially the Municipality of Lake Sebu, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the…
Venado Lake · The lake of Mount Apo
Lake Venado is a small, marsh-ringed mountain lake at roughly 2,200 meters elevation on the upper slopes of Mount Apo,…
Lake Wood (Allah Valley) · One of the Allah Valley lakes of South Cotabato
Lake Wood is a natural freshwater lake in South Cotabato province, Mindanao, Philippines, lying within the Allah Valley area south…
Lakes Pandin and Yambo are adjacent freshwater crater lakes in San Pablo City, Laguna, two of the famous "Seven Lakes…
Municipality of Lakewood · Lakewood Zamboanga del Sur
Lakewood, officially the Municipality of Lakewood, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Municipality of Lal-lo · Lal-lo Cagayan
Lal-lo, officially the Municipality of Lal-lo, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Lala · Lala Lanao del Norte
Lala, officially the Municipality of Lala, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Coconut vodka · Tuba distillate
Lambanog is a traditional Philippine distilled alcoholic spirit made from the fermented sap of coconut flowers, produced chiefly in the…
Municipality of Lambayong · Lambayong Sultan Kudarat
Lambayong, officially the Municipality of Lambayong, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Lamberto V. Avellana (1915–1991) was a Filipino stage and film director who became the first National Artist of the Philippines…
Municipality of Lambunao · Lambunao Iloilo
Lambunao, officially the Municipality of Lambunao, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
City of Lamitan · Lamitan City
Lamitan, officially the City of Lamitan, is a component city and the capital of the province of Basilan, Philippines. It…
Bahía de Lamon (historical Spanish charts)
Lamon Bay is a large embayment on the Pacific coast of the Philippines, facing east from the province of Quezon…
Municipality of Lamut · Lamut Ifugao
Lamut, officially the Municipality of Lamut, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Province of Lanao del Norte · Lanao del Norte
Lanao del Norte, officially the Province of Lanao del Norte, is a province in the Northern Mindanao region of the…
Province of Lanao del Norte · Lanao del Norte
Lanao del Norte, officially the Province of Lanao del Norte, is a province of the Philippines located within the Northern…
Province of Lanao del Sur · Lanao del Sur
Lanao del Sur, officially the Province of Lanao del Sur, is a province of the Philippines located in the Bangsamoro…
Province of Lanao del Sur · Lanao del Sur
Lanao del Sur, officially the Province of Lanao del Sur, is a province of the Philippines located within the Bangsamoro…
The Authority — the statute's own shorthand in the Agricultural Land Reform Code · The Land Authority under the Office of the President — RA 6389's styling in its abolition clause
The Land Authority was the Philippine government agency created by Section 49 of Republic Act No. 3844, the Agricultural Land…
Land Bank of the Philippines — the state-owned counterpoint in this wiki’s banking set · LANDBANK
The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) is a government-owned bank created on August 8, 1963 by Republic Act No.…
1. Definition Land Conversion is the legal process of changing the classified use of a parcel of land from agricultural…
The Land Management Bureau (LMB) is the Department of Environment and Natural Resources agency responsible for the administration and disposition…
Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) · Agrarian Reform Title
A Land Ownership Award, most commonly manifested in the Philippines as the Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA), is a…
Act No. 496 · The Land Registration Act — the Act's own short title (Sec. 1) ([LawPhil — Act 496](https://www.lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1902/act_496_1902.html "Act No. 496, Land Registration Act (November 6, 1902) — The LawPhil Project"))
The Land Registration Act — Act No. 496, approved November 6, 1902, "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADJUDICATION AND…
The Land Registration Authority (LRA) is the Philippine government agency, attached to the Department of Justice, that issues decrees of…
LASEDECO — the statutory abbreviation used in the reorganization literature · The Land Settlement and Development Corporation of EO 355
The Land Settlement and Development Corporation (LASEDECO) was the Philippine public corporation created by Executive Order No. 355 of President…
LTA — the standard abbreviation of the land-reform literature · The Administration — RA 1400's own shorthand throughout the statute
The Land Tenure Administration (LTA) was the Philippine government agency created by Republic Act No. 1400, the Land Reform Act…
Title transfer process · Transfer of land ownership
Land Title Transfer is the legal and administrative process of transferring the ownership of a real property (land, house-and-lot, or…
Republic Act No. 4136 · RA 4136
The Land Transportation and Traffic Code is the short title of Republic Act No. 4136, officially "An Act to Compile…
LTFRB · Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board of the Philippines
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is the Philippine government agency that regulates public land transportation services. It…
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Transportation…
Land Transportation Office · LTO
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is a regulatory agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Transportation. The LTO…
Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) · Human Settlements Regulatory Commission (historical name)
The Land Use Regulatory Board (officially known as the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board or HLURB) was the premier…
1. Definition Landbanking is the real estate investment strategy of purchasing raw, undeveloped land parcels in strategic locations and holding…
Landco Pacific Corporation · Landco
Landco Pacific Corporation is a leading luxury real estate developer in the Philippines, operating as a subsidiary of Metro Pacific…
1. Definition Landlord-Tenant Law is the legal framework regulating the rental of residential and commercial real estate properties. In the…
The Dreamweaver — the name drawn from the dream-origin of her designs · A "T'boli princess" — the description used in biographical accounts of the Lake Sebu weaver ([Wikipedia — Lang Dulay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Dulay "Lang Dulay — Wikipedia"))
Lang Dulay (born August 3, 1928 in standard references, though reports at her death gave her age as 91; died…
Municipality of Langiden · Langiden Abra
Langiden, officially the Municipality of Langiden, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
The Langun-Gobingob Caves are a vast limestone cave system beneath the municipality of Calbiga, Samar, in the Philippines. Regarded as…
Municipality of Languyan · Languyan Tawi-Tawi
Languyan, officially the Municipality of Languyan, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Lansones is the Philippine name for Lansium domesticum, a fruit tree of the mahogany family cultivated across Southeast Asia and…
"Vegetable basket of Mindanao" · Foothill municipality of the Mount Kitanglad Range
Lantapan, officially the Municipality of Lantapan (Bukid and Higaonon: Banuwa ta Lantapan), is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon,…
Municipality of Lantawan · Lantawan Basilan
Lantawan, officially the Municipality of Lantawan, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Lanuza · Lanuza Surigao del Sur
Lanuza, officially the Municipality of Lanuza, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, located within the Caraga…
The Lanzones Festival is an annual agri-tourism festival held in Mambajao, Camiguin, during the third week of October, celebrating the…
Municipality of Laoac · Laoac Pangasinan
Laoac, officially the Municipality of Laoac, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
City of Laoag · Laoag
Laoag, officially the City of Laoag, is a component city and the capital of the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines.…
Municipality of Laoang · Laoang Northern Samar
Laoang, officially the Municipality of Laoang, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Municipality of Lapinig · Lapinig Northern Samar
Lapinig, officially the Municipality of Lapinig, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Çilapulapu — Pigafetta's recorded form, the only undisputed primary-source mention · Cali Pulaco — the form in Carlos Calao's 1614 poem; Sandoval's 1604 account writes "Calipulapo"
Lapu-Lapu (fl. 1521; birth and death dates unknown) was the Mactan chieftain whose refusal of fealty to Ferdinand Magellan and…
Lapulapu · City of Lapu-Lapu
Lapu-Lapu City, officially the City of Lapu-Lapu, is a highly urbanized city geographically located on Mactan Island within the province…
Lapu-Lapu Day is the annual Philippine commemoration of April 27, the date of the Battle of Mactan of 1521, in…
Municipality of Lapuyan · Lapuyan Zamboanga del Sur
Lapuyan, officially the Municipality of Lapuyan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Municipality of Larena · Larena Siquijor
Larena, officially the Municipality of Larena, is a municipality in the province of Siquijor, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
The large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) is among the biggest bat species in the world, with a wingspan reaching about…
Laureano Alcala (formal name)
Larry Alcala (1926–2002) was a Filipino cartoonist and illustrator whose strips chronicled everyday Filipino life for over half a century,…
Municipality of Las Navas · Las Navas Northern Samar
Las Navas, officially the Municipality of Las Navas, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the…
Municipality of Las Nieves · Las Nieves Agusan del Norte
Las Nieves, officially the Municipality of Las Nieves, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Norte, located within…
Home of the Bamboo Organ · City of Las Piñas
Las Piñas, officially the City of Las Piñas (Filipino: Lungsod ng Las Piñas), is a highly urbanized city in southern…
Bamboo Organ (Las Piñas) · Bamboo Organ (common short form and Wikipedia article title)
The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ is the 1824 pipe organ of the St. Joseph Parish Church in Las Piñas, Metro…
Himig Kawayan Boys Choir of Las Piñas — original name · Las Piñas Boys' Choir — styling used in some festival programs and press
The Las Piñas Boys Choir is the boys' choir of the Parish of St. Joseph in Las Piñas, Metro Manila…
Las Piñas, officially the City of Las Piñas, is a highly urbanised first-income-class city in southern Metro Manila within the…
LPPCHEA — the standard abbreviation · Freedom Island — the common name of the Parañaque-side island, often used for the whole sanctuary
The Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA) is the protected coastal wetland on the shores of Manila Bay…
Lasam is an inland agricultural municipality in Cagayan, Philippines, northwest of Tuguegarao, farming rice, corn, and livestock on land between…
Municipality of Lasam · Lasam Cagayan
Lasam, officially the Municipality of Lasam, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Laser hair removal · Hair removal treatment
Laser Hair Removal is a medical and cosmetic procedure that uses a concentrated beam of light (laser) to remove unwanted…
laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis
LASIK — laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis — is refractive eye surgery in which an ophthalmologist cuts a thin hinged flap…
The Last Ecological Frontier · Palawan Province
The Last Frontier is a widely recognized geopolitical and environmental moniker for Palawan, an island province in the Philippines located…
Laswa is a simple boiled vegetable soup of the Hiligaynon-speaking regions of the Philippines, particularly Iloilo and the rest of…
Tennis elbow · Lateral elbow tendinopathy
Lateral Epicondylitis (commonly known as tennis elbow) is a painful orthopedic condition characterized by inflammation or micro-tearing of the tendons…
Municipality of Laua-an · Laua-an Antique
Laua-an, officially the Municipality of Laua-an, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Laur · Laur Nueva Ecija
Laur, officially the Municipality of Laur, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Laurel · Laurel Batangas
Laurel, officially the Municipality of Laurel, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Laurel–Langley Trade Agreement · Republic Act No. 1417 (approving legislation in the Philippines)
The Laurel–Langley Agreement (signed December 15, 1955) is the trade and economic agreement between the Republic of the Philippines and…
Lavrente Indico Diaz · Lavrente Indico Díaz
Lav Diaz — born Lavrente Indico Diaz on December 30, 1958, in Columbio, Cotabato, Mindanao — is a Filipino filmmaker,…
Municipality of Lavezares · Lavezares Northern Samar
Lavezares, officially the Municipality of Lavezares, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Municipality of Lawaan · Lawaan Eastern Samar
Lawaan, officially the Municipality of Lawaan, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Lawphil Project · Lawphil
The Lawphi Mirror (officially and widely known as the Lawphil Project) is an open-access, web-based digital repository and search engine…
Lay Bare is a Philippine waxing-salon franchise that standardized body-waxing services at mall-scale prices, with branches in major Mindanao cities.…
Lázaro Francisco (accented form) · Novelist of Sariaya
Lazaro Francisco (1898–1980) was a Filipino novelist widely regarded as the master of the Tagalog novel between the wars and…
Municipality of Lazi · Lazi Siquijor
Lazi, officially the Municipality of Lazi, is a municipality in the province of Siquijor, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
LBC Express is a Philippine courier, cargo and remittance company, historically the balikbayan-box shipping leader, with branches across Mindanao handling…
General Leandro Fullon · Leandro Fullón y Locsín
Leandro Fullon (1874–1904) was a Filipino general and government administrator from Panay who fought against Spain during the Philippine Revolution…
Leandro V. Locsin — the byline styling of his professional record · Lindy — the nickname the standard biography records
Leandro Locsin (Leandro V. Locsin; born August 15, 1928, in Silay, Negros Occidental — died November 15, 1994, at Makati…
LEARN, EARN & RETURN · Core Starter Bundle
Learn, Earn & Return (stylized "LEARN, EARN & RETURN"; labeled the "Core Starter Bundle" on the company's courses page) is…
LIS · DepEd LIS
The Learner Information System (LIS) is a web-based registry of student profiles, enrollments, and academic histories managed by the Department…
Learning disabilities (clinical term) · Specific learning disorders (DSM-5)
Learning difficulties (also called learning disabilities or specific learning disorders when formally diagnosed) refers to a range of neurological conditions…
1. Definition Learning Difficulties — Special Needs Support encompasses the educational modifications, specialized tutoring, therapy services, and assistive tools provided…
1. Definition A Learning Pod (sometimes called a micro-school or pandemic pod) is a small, organized group of children who…
VARK (Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, Kinesthetic) · Modalities of learning
Learning styles refers to the contested framework that individuals have preferred, relatively stable modes of receiving and processing information —…
Municipality of Lebak · Lebak Sultan Kudarat
Lebak, officially the Municipality of Lebak, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Leche flan is the Philippine version of crème caramel: a rich steamed custard made chiefly from egg yolks, condensed milk,…
Lechon kawali is a Filipino dish of pork belly (liempo) that is boiled until tender, then deep-fried in a kawali…
LEB (official abbreviation) · Legal Education Board of the Philippines
The Legal Education Board (LEB) is a Philippine government body created by Republic Act No. 7662, the Legal Education Reform…
Municipality of Leganes · Leganes Iloilo
Leganes, officially the Municipality of Leganes, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
City of Legazpi · Legazpi
Legazpi, officially the City of Legazpi, is a component city and the capital of the province of Albay, Philippines. It…
Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa Magistrado de Lima — the full birth name of the standard account · Prisoner of conscience — Amnesty International's designation during her detention
Leila de Lima (born Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa Magistrado de Lima; August 27, 1959, Iriga, Camarines Sur) is a Filipino…
Lejano v People · The Vizconde acquittal
Lejano v. People, G.R. Nos. 176389 and 176864, is the decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines of December…
Municipality of Lemery · Lemery
Lemery, officially the Municipality of Lemery, is a first-class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located along the northern…
Municipality of Lemery · Lemery Iloilo
Lemery, officially the Municipality of Lemery, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Maria Leonor Gerona Robredo — full legal name from her birth name and married surname · Leni Gerona Robredo — the styling her published works use
Leni Robredo (born April 23, 1965, Naga, Camarines Sur; birth name Maria Leonor Santo Tomas Gerona) is a Filipino lawyer…
Leo Echegaray — the short citation in death-penalty jurisprudence · G.R. No. 117472 — the automatic-review docket (People v. Echegaray) ([LawPhil — People v. Echegaray](https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1996/jun1996/gr_117472_1996.html "People v. Echegaray, G.R. No. 117472 (June 25, 1996) — The LawPhil Project"))
Leo Pilo Echegaray (July 11, 1960 – February 5, 1999) was a Manila house painter whose execution by lethal injection…
Fr. Leo Renier — the styling of his priestly decades · Father Renier — the parish usage carried in the choir's record
Leo Renier (born February 22, 1944, Hasselt, Belgium) is a Belgian musician and former Roman Catholic priest of the Congregation…
Municipality of Leon · Leon Iloilo
Leon, officially the Municipality of Leon, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Leon B. Postigo · Leon B. Postigo Zamboanga del Norte
Leon B. Postigo, officially the Municipality of Leon B. Postigo, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte,…
Leon Kilat (born Pantaleon Villegas, 1873–1898) was a Filipino revolutionary leader who organized the Katipunan uprising against Spanish rule in…
Leona Florentino (1849–1884) was a Filipina poet from Vigan, Ilocos Sur, regarded as the first significant woman writer of the…
Mount Leonard Kniaseff, or simply Leonard Kniaseff, is a stratovolcano between the municipalities of Mabini and Maco in the province…
General Leonard Wood — the styling of his Cuban and Philippine commands · Major General Leonard Wood — his rank as recorded at the 1921 Wood–Forbes Mission
Leonard Wood (October 9, 1860, Winchester, New Hampshire – August 7, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts) was a United States Army general…
Leonardo Salvador Sarao — his full name in the Filipino naming convention, Salvador being the maternal surname · Mang Nardo — the familiar Tagalog styling recorded by his family and employees
Leonardo S. Sarao (born Leonardo Salvador Sarao; April 13, 1921, Imus, Cavite – July 31, 2001, Las Piñas, Metro Manila)…
Leonor Orosa Goquingco · "Mother of Philippine Theater Dance"
Leonor Goquingco (1917-2005), full name Leonor Orosa Goquingco, was a Filipino dancer, choreographer, and writer remembered as the mother of…
Cristina Luna (pen name as critic and writer) · Mother of Philippine Theater Dance
Leonor Orosa Goquingco (1917–2005) was a Filipino dancer, choreographer, and writer who was named National Artist of the Philippines for…
Leonor Rivera (1867–1893) was José Rizal's cousin and the great love of his life, widely regarded as the principal inspiration…
Hyperleptinemia with Leptin Insensitivity · Leptin Receptor Desensitization
Leptin Resistance is a complex pathophysiological condition characterized by a diminished biological response of the brain, specifically the hypothalamus, to…
1. Definition Lessandra is an affordable residential brand under Vista Land, designed to provide budget-friendly house-and-lot packages for starting Filipino…
LOI No. 9 · LOI 9
Letter of Implementation No. 9 (November 1, 1972) is the Ferdinand E. Marcos issuance that implemented Chapter I, Part VIII…
Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc — the hyphenated styling used in much Philippine reporting, including the Inquirer's own · Leticia Jimenez — her birth name
Letty Jimenez Magsanoc (born Leticia Jimenez; September 13, 1941, Manila – December 24, 2015), was a Filipino journalist and editor…
Municipality of Leyte · Leyte Leyte
Leyte, officially the Municipality of Leyte, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
The Leyte Geothermal Production Field is the largest geothermal resource field in the Philippines, spanning the Tongonan and Mahanagdong sectors…
Golfo de Leyte (Spanish colonial-era form) · The Leyte (older English usage recorded in the standard reference)
Leyte Gulf is a gulf of the Philippine Sea in the Eastern Visayas, Philippines, bounded by the island of Samar…
Leyte Landing · Leyte Gulf Landings
The Leyte Landings — A-Day, October 20, 1944 — were the amphibious assault with which General Douglas MacArthur's Sixth Army,…
Province of Leyte · Leyte
Leyte Province, officially the Province of Leyte, is a province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, occupying the…
Leyte Regional Prison (LRP) · LRP
The Leyte Regional Prison (LRP) is a penal colony and agricultural prison farm operated by the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor)…
Municipality of Lezo · Lezo Aklan
Lezo, officially the Municipality of Lezo, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Lian is a third-income-class municipality on the western coast of Batangas, Philippines, facing Nasugbu Bay and located about 100 km…
Lianga is a municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines, in a historically conflict-affected area. Established on October 17,…
Libacao is an inland, second-class municipality in Aklan province, Western Visayas, Philippines, lying in the mountainous interior of the province…
Municipality of Libacao · Libacao Aklan
Libacao, officially the Municipality of Libacao, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Libagon · Libagon Southern Leyte
Libagon, officially the Municipality of Libagon, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Spondias pinnata (scientific name) · Hog plum
Libas (Spondias pinnata), one of several plants called hog plum, is a tree bearing edible sour fruits that is native…
LP — the standard abbreviation in Philippine election reporting · Partido Liberal ng Pilipinas — the Filipino styling of the name
The Liberal Party of the Philippines (Filipino Partido Liberal ng Pilipinas, abbreviation LP) is a Philippine political party founded in…
Municipality of Libertad · Libertad Misamis Oriental
Libertad, officially the Municipality of Libertad, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Heroes' Cemetery · Cemetery of Heroes — the literal English rendering of the name
The Libingan ng mga Bayani ("Cemetery of Heroes") is the national cemetery of the Philippines, occupying a reserved tract of…
Municipality of Libjo · Libjo Dinagat Islands
Libjo, officially the Municipality of Libjo, is a municipality in the province of Dinagat Islands, located within the Caraga (Region…
Municipality of Libmanan · Libmanan Camarines Sur
Libmanan, officially the Municipality of Libmanan, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Libon, officially the Municipality of Libon, is a first-class municipality in Albay, Philippines, covering 222.76 square kilometres with about 72,135…
Municipality of Libona · Libona Bukidnon
Libona, officially the Municipality of Libona, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Municipality of Libungan · Libungan Cotabato
Libungan, officially the Municipality of Libungan, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Municipality of Licab · Licab Nueva Ecija
Licab, officially the Municipality of Licab, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
DHSUD License to Sell · LTS Permit
License to Sell (LTS), in the Philippines, is a mandatory regulatory permit issued by the Department of Human Settlements and…
Licerio Geronimo (1855–1924) was a Filipino general of the Revolutionary Army best remembered for the Battle of San Mateo on…
Municipality of Licuan-Baay · Licuan-Baay Abra
Licuan-Baay, officially the Municipality of Licuan-Baay, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Lidlidda · Lidlidda Ilocos Sur
Lidlidda, officially the Municipality of Lidlidda, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Legal Claim · Annotation of Debt
A lien (in Philippine law, commonly associated with an annotation or encumbrance on a title) is a legal claim or…
The Liga ng mga Barangay is the national association of all punong barangays (village chiefs) in the Philippines, organized by…
City of Ligao · Ligao City
Ligao, officially the City of Ligao, is a component city in the province of Albay, Philippines. Located at the foot…
LRMC (standard acronym) · Light Rail Manila (short form)
The Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) is the private Filipino consortium that holds the concession to operate and maintain the…
The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation under the Department of Transportation, created on…
1. Definition Lighthouse Homeschool Network is a non-profit support organization and cooperative network of homeschool families based in the Philippines.…
Ligpo Islet · Liligpo (older maps' rendering)
Ligpo Island is a small rocky island off the coast of Mabini, Batangas, at the mouth of Balayan Bay near…
Liguasan Wetland · Maguindanao Marshland
The Liguasan Marsh is a vast wetland ecosystem located in the central basin of Mindanao, southern Philippines. Spanning approximately 220,000…
Municipality of Lila · Lila Bohol
Lila, officially the Municipality of Lila, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Liliosa Rapi Hilao · Liliosa R. Hilao
Liliosa Rapi Hilao (March 14, 1950 – April 5, 1973) was a Filipina student journalist and activist, a communication arts…
Municipality of Liliw · Liliw Laguna
Liliw, officially the Municipality of Liliw, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
1. Definition Liloan, officially the Municipality of Liloan, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Located within…
Municipality of Liloan · Liloan Southern Leyte
Liloan, officially the Municipality of Liloan, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Liloy is a second-income-class agricultural municipality in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, occupying the northwestern side of the Zamboanga Peninsula and…
Lin Feng (林鳳) — the Mandarin pinyin form of his Chinese name · Lim Hong — a Hokkien-derived romanization
Limahong (Chinese: 林鳳; also Lin Feng or Lim Hong) was a Chinese pirate and warlord of the late Ming dynasty,…
Municipality of Limasawa · Limasawa Southern Leyte
Limasawa, officially the Municipality of Limasawa, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Limasawa (municipality) · Mazaua (contested historic name in the Pigafetta account)
Limasawa is a small island at the southern tip of Leyte in the Philippines, administratively an independent municipality of Southern…
Municipality of Limay · Limay Bataan
Limay, officially the Municipality of Limay, is a municipality in the province of Bataan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Limunsudan Falls is a two-tiered waterfall on the Limunsudan River at the boundary of Iligan City and Bukidnon province in…
Mindanao montane sunbird (descriptive name among birders)
Lina's sunbird is a small nectar-feeding bird endemic to the mountains of Mindanao in the Philippines, where it inhabits tropical…
Linagpang nga isda (fish linagpang) · Inilagpang (regional verb form)
Linagpang is a Filipino soup dish of Western Visayas, particularly associated with Ilonggo kitchens, made by grilling fish, and sometimes…
Municipality of Linamon · Linamon Lanao del Norte
Linamon, officially the Municipality of Linamon, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Linapacan is an island municipality of Palawan situated between El Nido and the Calamianes group, composed of Linapacan Island and…
Municipality of Linapacan · Linapacan Palawan
Linapacan, officially the Municipality of Linapacan, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Larang · Linarang nga isda (Cebuano)
Linarang is a Visayan sour stew in which fish is sautéed with garlic, onion, ginger, and tomatoes, then simmered in…
Lingayen Pangasinan · Capital of Pangasinan
Lingayen is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of the province of Pangasinan in the Ilocos Region of the Philippines.…
Municipality of Lingayen · Lingayen Pangasinan
Lingayen, officially the Municipality of Lingayen, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Golfo de Lingayen (Spanish) · Gulf of Lingayen
Lingayen Gulf is a large, strategically important gulf in northwestern Luzon, Philippines, extending from the provinces of Pangasinan and La…
Lingayen Gulf Coastal Flooding · Pangasinan Storm Surge
Lingayen Gulf Storm Flooding refers to the severe, recurring inundation of low-lying coastal and riverine areas bordering the Lingayen Gulf…
Municipality of Lingig · Lingig Surigao del Sur
Lingig, officially the Municipality of Lingig, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, located within the Caraga…
A lingling-o is a penannular or double-headed pendant and amulet associated with Late Neolithic to Iron Age Austronesian cultures of…
Catalino Ortiz Brocka (full name) · National Artist for Film (title, conferred posthumously, 1997)
Lino Brocka, born Catalino Ortiz Brocka (April 3, 1939, Pilar, Sorsogon – May 22, 1991, Quezon City, on the standard…
City of Lipa · Lipa City
Lipa, officially the City of Lipa, is a component city in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located 78 kilometers south…
Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian, Lipa (formal title) · San Sebastian Cathedral Lipa (common usage)
The Lipa Cathedral, formally the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian in Lipa, Batangas, is the mother church of the Archdiocese…
Lipolysis · Fat breakdown (colloquial)
Lipolysis is the metabolic process by which triglycerides (stored fat) are hydrolyzed into glycerol and free fatty acids for use…
Lipo · Lipoplasty
Liposuction, also known as lipoplasty or suction-assisted lipectomy, is a surgical procedure that uses a suction technique to remove fat…
Lipote is a common Philippine name for several closely related trees bearing clusters of edible dark-purple berries, chiefly Syzygium curranii…
Lipotropic Shots · MIC Injections
Lipotropic Injections are medical treatments containing a combination of lipotropic nutrients designed to support the liver's natural ability to metabolize…
Victoza · Saxenda
Liraglutide is a synthetic, long-acting glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist administered subcutaneous once daily. It is chemically modified from human…
The very lis mota of the case — the decisions' own formula · The crux of the controversy — the gloss the cases give the Latin
Lis mota — Latin for the cause or motivation of a lawsuit, which the Supreme Court has glossed as "the…
NIPAS list — the shorthand that resolves to the register (DBpedia's "NIPAS" redirects here) · Protected areas of the Philippines — also a redirect to the register
The list of protected areas of the Philippines is the register of the parks, sanctuaries, reserves, landscapes, and seascapes held…
LFP Battery · LiFePO4 Battery
A Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery (commonly abbreviated as LFP battery) is a type of lithium-ion battery that uses lithium iron…
Lithium-ion Battery · Li-ion Battery
A Lithium-ion Battery is a type of rechargeable battery chemistry in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to…
The little golden-mantled flying fox (Pteropus pumilus) is a small fruit bat of the family Pteropodidae, occurring in the Philippines…
The little slaty flycatcher (Ficedula basilanica) is a small passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae found in the Philippines, where…
Plaza Lawton · Lawton
Liwasang Bonifacio is a city square and transport hub in the Ermita district of Manila, fronting the Manila Central Post…
Liwayway Publishing magazine · "Dawn" of Tagalog fiction
Liwayway ("Dawn") was the leading Tagalog-language weekly magazine of the Philippines, founded in 1922 by Ramón Roces of the TVT…
Municipality of Llanera · Llanera Nueva Ecija
Llanera, officially the Municipality of Llanera, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Llorente · Llorente Eastern Samar
Llorente, officially the Municipality of Llorente, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Loaysa expedition — the older transliteration carried by the Wikidata label · The García Jofre de Loaísa expedition — the commander's full-name styling of the Spanish account
The Loaísa Expedition — the fleet of seven ships and 450 men that left A Coruña on July 24, 1525…
Baguio Airport · Baguio Loakan Airport
Loakan Airport is the airport serving Baguio City, located in the Loakan barangay south of the city center at an…
Municipality of Loay · Loay Bohol
Loay, officially the Municipality of Loay, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Reception Hall · Entrance Lobby
A lobby (specifically a grand lobby or reception lobby in Philippine real estate) is the entrance hall or reception area…
Municipality of Lobo · Lobo Batangas
Lobo, officially the Municipality of Lobo, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Loboc · Municipality of Loboc
Loboc, officially the Municipality of Loboc, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
San Pedro Apostol Parish Church — the parish's formal styling · Parish Church of San Pedro and San Pablo of Loboc — the name in its National Cultural Treasure listing
Loboc Church — the Parish Church of San Pedro and San Pablo of Loboc, formally the San Pedro Apostol Parish…
Loboc River Cruise (tourism usage) · Ilog ng Loboc
The Loboc River is a scenic waterway on the island of Bohol that winds through the town of Loboc before…
Sole proprietorship · Local enterprise
A Local Business (commonly referring to a sole proprietorship, micro-enterprise, or community establishment like a sari-sari store) is a locally…
Municipal Agriculture Office · MAO
A Local Farming Center (commonly operating as the Municipal Agriculture Office or Barangay Agricultural Extension Desk) is a decentralized government…
LGC · Local Government Code of 1991
The Local Government Code of the Philippines, officially designated as Republic Act No. 7160, is the comprehensive law defining the…
Local Government Unit · LGU
Local Government Unit (LGU), in the Philippines, is a political subdivision of the state established under the Local Government Code…
Local search optimization · Local search engine marketing
Local SEO is the branch of search engine optimization focused on improving a business's visibility in location-based searches — queries…
LWUA · Local Water Utilities Administration (the agency chartered by PD 198, sometimes called the Local Water Utilities Administration Law framework)
The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation that serves as a specialized lending and…
legal standing — the Philippine decisions' own pairing, "legal standing or locus standi" · standing — the short form
Locus standi — legal standing, or simply standing — is "a right of appearance in a court of justice on…
Lokot-lokot is a traditional Filipino fried delicacy common in Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, made by drizzling a runny rice-flour…
Lolong was a male saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) captured in September 2011 in a creek at Bunawan, Agusan del Sur,…
Batangas lomi · Lomeng Batangas
Lomi is a Filipino dish of thick fresh egg noodles served in a rich soup thickened with starch and beaten…
Long Beach is the roughly fourteen-kilometer continuous white-sand coastline of San Vicente, Palawan, facing the West Philippine Sea across the…
In Philippine usage, longaniza (also spelled longganisa or longanisa) is the family of local fresh-cured sausages — typically pork, coarsely…
Longganisa (from Spanish longaniza) is the Philippine version of cured sausage, typically made of ground pork seasoned with garlic, salt,…
Municipality of Looc · Looc Romblon
Looc, officially the Municipality of Looc, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Loon Heritage District · Nuestra Señora de la Luz Parish
Loon is a first-class municipality on the northwestern coast of Bohol, Philippines, north of Tubigon. It is best known for…
1. Definition Loop Scheduling is a time management and lesson planning methodology utilized in homeschooling. Instead of assigning specific subjects…
Municipality of Lope de Vega · Lope de Vega Northern Samar
Lope de Vega, officially the Municipality of Lope de Vega, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located…
Lope Santos · Lope Santos y Canseco — the birth name
Lope K. Santos — born Lope Santos y Canseco on September 25, 1879, in Pasig, Province of Manila, raised in…
Municipality of Lopez · Lopez Quezon
Lopez, officially the Municipality of Lopez, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Lopez Jaena · Lopez Jaena Misamis Occidental
Lopez Jaena, officially the Municipality of Lopez Jaena, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the…
Lorna Regina Bautista Legarda · Lorna Regina Legarda
Lorna Regina "Loren" Bautista Legarda (born January 28, 1960, in Malabon, then part of Rizal province) is a Filipino broadcaster,…
Lorenza Mariño Agoncillo · Enchang
Lorenza Mariño Agoncillo (September 5, 1890 – September 2, 1972) was the eldest daughter of the diplomat Felipe Agoncillo and…
San Lorenzo Ruiz · Saint Lorenzo Ruiz
Lorenzo Ruiz (November 28, 1594 – September 29, 1637) was a Filipino Catholic layman, martyr, and the first Filipino saint.…
Lorenzo M. Tañada — the initials styling of his official records · Ka Tanny — the familiar address of a half-century of movement politics
Lorenzo Tañada (Lorenzo Martínez Tañada; August 10, 1898, Gumaca, Tayabas, now Quezon – May 28, 1992, Manila) was a Filipino…
Municipality of Loreto · Loreto Dinagat Islands
Loreto, officially the Municipality of Loreto, is a municipality in the province of Dinagat Islands, located within the Caraga (Region…
Municipality of Los Baños · Special Science and Nature City of the Philippines
Los Baños, officially the Municipality of Los Baños, is a first-class municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the…
Lourdes Jansuy Cruz is a Filipino biochemist known for her research on the toxins of marine cone snails (Conus), which…
Lourdes J. Cruz (born 1942) is a Filipino biochemist whose research on the venom of cone snails (Conus) helped launch…
Aethopyga shelleyi (scientific name) · Shelley's sunbird
The Lovely Sunbird (Aethopyga shelleyi) is a small nectar-feeding bird endemic to the Philippines, found in tropical moist lowland and…
LCHF · Low-Carbohydrate High-Fat Diet
The Low-Carb High-Fat (LCHF) diet is a dietary protocol that restricts the intake of carbohydrates while significantly increasing the consumption…
Light Rail Transit Line · Manila LRT
An LRT Line (officially Light Rail Transit Line) refers to a rapid transit railway system operating in Metro Manila, Philippines.…
LRT-1 · Manila LRT Green Line
The LRT Line 1 (commonly known as LRT-1 or the Green Line) is the first rapid transit line in the…
LRT-2 · Manila LRT Blue Line
The LRT Line 2 (commonly known as LRT-2 or the Blue Line) is an 17.6-kilometer rapid transit line operating in…
LRT-1 South Extension · Cavite Extension Project
The LRT-1 Cavite Extension is a major railway infrastructure project in the Philippines that extends the existing Light Rail Transit…
Lualhati Torres Bautista (1945–2023) was a Filipina novelist, essayist, and activist known for socially committed fiction in Tagalog. Her best-known…
Municipality of Luba · Luba Abra
Luba, officially the Municipality of Luba, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Lubang · Lubang Occidental Mindoro
Lubang, officially the Municipality of Lubang, is a municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Lubang Island is the largest island of the Lubang group off the northwestern tip of Mindoro, within the province of…
Lubao is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines. One of the oldest and largest…
Lubao · Municipality of Lubao
Lubao, officially the Municipality of Lubao, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Lubuagan · Lubuagan Kalinga
Lubuagan, officially the Municipality of Lubuagan, is a municipality in the province of Kalinga, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Lucban · Lucban Quezon
Lucban, officially the Municipality of Lucban, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Lucban sausage · Longganisang Lucban
Lucban longganisa is a small native Filipino sausage from Lucban, Quezon, distinguished by an assertive blend of garlic, black pepper,…
City of Lucena · Lucena
Lucena City, officially the City of Lucena, is a highly urbanized city geographically located within the province of Quezon, Philippines.…
Lucio C. Tan · Lucio C. Tan, Sr.
Lucio Tan (Lucio C. Tan, Sr.; Chinese name Chen Yongzai; born July 17, 1934, in Amoy, now Xiamen, China, per…
First Lady of Philippine Music · Lucrecia R. Kasilag (married name, used in her published scores)
Lucrecia Kasilag (1918–2008) was a Filipino composer, pianist, and music educator who was named National Artist of the Philippines for…
President's fish · Lobed river mullet (in fisheries literature)
Ludong is a prized mullet regarded as the most expensive food fish in the Philippines, celebrated as the "President's fish"…
Municipality of Lugait · Lugait Misamis Oriental
Lugait, officially the Municipality of Lugait, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Rice porridge (Philippines) · Plain lugaw
Lugaw is a Filipino rice porridge made by boiling rice in water or broth until soft and viscous, served plain…
Municipality of Lugus · Lugus Sulu
Lugus, officially the Municipality of Lugus, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Luis Mangalus Taruc — full name · El Supremo — the title attached to his Hukbalahap command
Luis Taruc (Luis Mangalus Taruc; June 21, 1913, barrio of Santa Monica, San Luis, Pampanga – May 4, 2005, Quezon…
Luis Teodoro — the shortened form of his byline and classroom name · The Vantage Point columnist — his standing identification in Philippine commentary
Luis V. Teodoro (died March 13, 2023, aged 81) was a Filipino journalist, academic, and media critic — professor and…
Municipality of Luisiana · Luisiana Laguna
Luisiana, officially the Municipality of Luisiana, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Jump over the cow · Baka (playground shorthand)
Luksong baka, meaning "jump over the cow," is a traditional Philippine outdoor game in which players take turns vaulting over…
Luksong tinik ("jump over the thorns") is a traditional Filipino game in which players leap over the outstretched feet and…
Lulugayan Falls is a multi-tiered waterfall on the Calbiga River in Calbiga, Samar, Philippines, dropping over dozens of cascade steps…
Lumad is the collective self-designation for the non-Islamized indigenous peoples of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. The term, a Cebuano…
Lumad · Katawhang Lumad ("indigenous people" — the full form from which the short form comes)
Lumad is the collective self-designation for the non-Islamized indigenous peoples of Mindanao, the Philippines — a Cebuano word meaning "native"…
Municipality of Lumba-Bayabao · Lumba-Bayabao Lanao del Sur
Lumba-Bayabao, officially the Municipality of Lumba-Bayabao, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Lumbaca-Unayan · Lumbaca-Unayan Lanao del Sur
Lumbaca-Unayan, officially the Municipality of Lumbaca-Unayan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
The Embroidery Capital of the Philippines · Home of Burdang Lumban
Lumban is a fourth-income-class municipality in Laguna, Philippines, on the northern shore of Laguna de Bay. Widely known as the…
LSO · Lumbar brace
A Lumbar-Sacral Orthosis (LSO, commonly referred to as a lumbar brace or back support) is a rigid or semi-rigid orthopedic…
Municipality of Lumbatan · Lumbatan Lanao del Sur
Lumbatan, officially the Municipality of Lumbatan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Lumbayanague · Lumbayanague Lanao del Sur
Lumbayanague, officially the Municipality of Lumbayanague, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Sierra Lake · Lumot Reservoir
Lumot Lake, also known as Sierra Lake, is a man-made reservoir in the towns of Cavinti and Lumban, Laguna province,…
Lumpiang Shanghai is the Filipino deep-fried appetizer made by wrapping a mixture of giniling (ground pork) with finely diced carrots,…
Municipality of Luna · Luna Isabela
Luna, officially the Municipality of Luna, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Luna · Luna, Apayao
Luna, officially the Municipality of Luna, is a first-class municipality in the province of Apayao, Philippines. It serves as the…
The Luna Awards are the film awards presented by the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP), honoring outstanding achievements in…
Marcha Nacional Filipina · Filipinas
Lupang Hinirang ("Chosen Land") is the national anthem of the Philippines — originally the instrumental march Marcha Nacional Filipina composed…
Municipality of Lupao · Lupao Nueva Ecija
Lupao, officially the Municipality of Lupao, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Lupi · Lupi Camarines Sur
Lupi, officially the Municipality of Lupi, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Municipality of Lupon · Lupon Davao Oriental
Lupon, officially the Municipality of Lupon, is a municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, located within the Davao Region…
Municipality of Lutayan · Lutayan Sultan Kudarat
Lutayan, officially the Municipality of Lutayan, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Municipality of Luuk · Luuk Sulu
Luuk, officially the Municipality of Luuk, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Luzón — the Spanish form under which the island entered Western maps · Luzon island group — the administrative sense bundling the island with Mindoro, Palawan, and neighboring smaller islands
Luzon is the largest and most populous island of the Philippines and, with the Visayas and Mindanao — the other…
The Luzon bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica) is a ground-dwelling dove endemic to the islands of Luzon and Polillo in the Philippines,…
The Luzon Boobook (Ninox philippensis) is a small owl endemic to Luzon and nearby parts of the northern Philippines. Formerly…
The Luzon Flameback (Chrysocolaptes haematribon) is a large woodpecker endemic to Luzon and neighboring islands in the Philippines, recognized as…
The Luzon Hawk-Owl (Ninox philippensis), also called the Luzon boobook, is a small to medium brown owl of lowland and…
Luzon tarictic hornbill · Tariktik (local name)
The Luzon hornbill (Penelopides manillae), sometimes called the Luzon tarictic hornbill, is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae.…
Papilio chikae (scientific name) · Cordillera peacock swallowtail (descriptive usage)
The Luzon peacock swallowtail (Papilio chikae) is a rare, high-altitude swallowtail butterfly endemic to the mountains of Luzon, Philippines, particularly…
Luzon highland scops owl · Long-horned scops owl (from its scientific name)
The Luzon scops-owl (Otus longicornis) is a small owl endemic to the mountains of Luzon, Philippines. It is the highland…
The Luzon Strait is the deep-water passage in the western Pacific between Luzon in the Philippines and Taiwan, connecting the…
The Luzon striped babbler (Zosterornis striatus, formerly Stachyris striata) is a small babbler endemic to Luzon in the northern Philippines,…
Luzon redstart · Rhyacornis bicolor (scientific name)
The Luzon water redstart (Rhyacornis bicolor), also called the Luzon redstart, is a small chat of the family Muscicapidae endemic…
LVN Studio · LVN Pictures Incorporated
LVN Pictures was a pioneering Philippine film studio founded in the late 1930s that became one of the "Big Four"…
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) · Lymphatic Massage
Lymphatic Drainage Massage, clinically known as Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD), is a specialized, gentle massage technique designed to stimulate the…
M. Lhuillier Financial Services is a Philippine pawnshop and remittance chain with an extensive branch network serving provinces where bank…
Municipality of M'lang · M'lang Cotabato
M'lang, officially the Municipality of M'lang, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Ma-i is the earliest recorded name of a Philippine polity, documented in Chinese Song dynasty sources — most famously Zhao…
MMK
Maalaala Mo Kaya (MMK), meaning "Would You Remember," is a Philippine television drama anthology broadcast by ABS-CBN since 1991. Presented…
Maasim is a first-income-class municipality in Sarangani, Soccsksargen (Region XII), Philippines. Bordering Kiamba, General Santos, Sarangani Bay, and the Celebes…
Municipality of Maasin · Maasin Iloilo
Maasin, officially the Municipality of Maasin, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
City of Maasin · Maasin City
Maasin, officially the City of Maasin, is a component city and the capital of the province of Southern Leyte, Philippines.…
Municipality of Maayon · Maayon Capiz
Maayon, officially the Municipality of Maayon, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Mabalacat is a first income-class component city in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, converted from a municipality through…
Mabanag v. Lopez Vito, G.R. No. L-1123, is the decision the Philippine Supreme Court rendered en banc on March 5,…
Municipality of Mabinay · Mabinay Negros Oriental
Mabinay, officially the Municipality of Mabinay, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Municipality of Mabini · Mabini Davao de Oro
Mabini, officially the Municipality of Mabini, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
MABINI · MABINI — the acronym by which the group is almost always cited
The Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc., universally known by its acronym MABINI, is a Philippine lawyers'…
MABINI — the acronym by which the group is almost always cited · Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc. — the corporate styling recorded by the ICJ mission
The Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc., universally known by its acronym MABINI, is a Philippine lawyers'…
Municipality of Mabitac · Mabitac Laguna
Mabitac, officially the Municipality of Mabitac, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Velvet apple · Cheese fruit
Mabolo is the fruit of Diospyros blancoi, a Philippine tree also known as kamagong, celebrated for its dark, dense ebony-like…
Municipality of Mabuhay · Mabuhay Zamboanga Sibugay
Mabuhay, officially the Municipality of Mabuhay, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Macabebe is a third income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, located along the Pampanga River delta…
Municipality of Macabebe · Macabebe Pampanga
Macabebe, officially the Municipality of Macabebe, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Macahambus Cave is a scenic cave and gorge area in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, set within a patch of…
Municipality of Macalelon · Macalelon Quezon
Macalelon, officially the Municipality of Macalelon, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Coconut sport · Macapuno coconut
Macapuno is a rare coconut variant in which the endosperm fails to develop normally, producing a soft, jelly-like, translucent kernel…
Macario Sakay y de León · President of the Tagalog Republic
Macario Sakay y de León (c. 1870–1907) was a Filipino revolutionary general who fought in the 1896 Philippine Revolution against…
Municipality of MacArthur · MacArthur Leyte
MacArthur, officially the Municipality of MacArthur, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Manila North Road · MacArthur Highway
MacArthur Highway, officially the Manila North Road (designated as Route 1 of the Philippine highway network), is a 682-kilometer (424…
The MacArthur Landing Memorial National Park is a national park in Palo, Leyte, Philippines, commemorating the October 20, 1944 landing…
Republic Act No. 6552 · RA 6552
The Maceda Law (officially designated as the Realty Installment Buyer Act or Republic Act No. 6552) is a Philippine statute…
Macliing Dulag — the spelling carried in Wikidata and much of the literature · Pangat Macli-ing — the styling that carries his traditional office
Macli-ing Dulag (birthdate unrecorded — contemporaries placed him in his early twenties during the Second World War, in which he…
Municipality of Maco · Maco Davao de Oro
Maco, officially the Municipality of Maco, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
Municipality of Maconacon · Maconacon Isabela
Maconacon, officially the Municipality of Maconacon, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Makopa (alternate Filipino spelling) · Wax apple
Macopa (Syzygium samarangense), the wax apple, is a tropical tree of the Myrtaceae family, native to the region between the…
Municipality of Macrohon · Macrohon Southern Leyte
Macrohon, officially the Municipality of Macrohon, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Mactan · Lapu-Lapu Island
Mactan Island is a densely populated coral island located in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Situated a few kilometers off…
Liberty Shrine — statutory name under RA 5695 · Lapu-Lapu Shrine / Lapulapu Monument — popular names keyed to the statue
The Mactan Shrine, formally the Liberty Shrine, is a memorial park in Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island, Cebu, marking "the…
Cebu International Airport · MCIA Cebu
Mactan–Cebu International Airport (MCIA) is the second busiest international airport in the Philippines, serving as the primary gateway to the…
MCIA · Cebu Airport
Mactan–Cebu International Airport (commonly abbreviated as MCIA) is the secondary international gateway serving the Philippines and the primary airport for…
Madalag is an inland municipality in Aklan province, Western Visayas, Philippines, occupying a forested mountain valley in the province's interior.…
Municipality of Madalag · Madalag Aklan
Madalag, officially the Municipality of Madalag, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Madalum is a third-income-class municipality in Lanao del Sur, within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Philippines. It…
Madamba is a fourth-income-class municipality in Lanao del Sur, within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Philippines. It…
Municipality of Maddela · Maddela Quirino
Maddela, officially the Municipality of Maddela, is a municipality in the province of Quirino, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Madja-as (also rendered Madya-as or Madjad-as) is the precolonial polity described in Visayan oral and colonial-era chronicles as a confederation…
Madrid is a fourth-income class agricultural municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines. Established on February 2, 1953, it…
Municipality of Madridejos · Madridejos Cebu
Madridejos, officially the Municipality of Madridejos, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Magindi · Indi (Sambalic)
Mag-indi is a Sambalic language spoken by Aeta communities in parts of Zambales, Philippines, and by extension its speakers. It…
Magalang is a third income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines. It is a predominantly agricultural town…
Municipality of Magalang · Magalang Pampanga
Magalang, officially the Municipality of Magalang, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Magalat Revolt of 1596 · First Cagayan revolt
The Magalat revolt was an armed uprising in 1596 in the Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon, led by Magalat, a…
Magalawa (island barangay) · Rice Island (informal nickname for its shape)
Magalawa Island is a small island barangay of Palauig, Zambales, on Luzon's western coast facing the South China Sea. Roughly…
Municipality of Magallanes · Magallanes Agusan del Norte
Magallanes, officially the Municipality of Magallanes, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Municipality of Magarao · Magarao Camarines Sur
Magarao, officially the Municipality of Magarao, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Magat Reservoir · Magat Hydroelectric Power Plant
Magat Dam is a large multipurpose rock-fill dam on the Magat River — the largest tributary of the Cagayan River…
Magat Salamat was a sixteenth-century Tagalog noble of Tondo, a son of Rajah Lakandula, who became one of the principal…
Municipality of Magdalena · Magdalena Laguna
Magdalena, officially the Municipality of Magdalena, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Magdalena Gamayo is an Ilocano master weaver of inabel cloth from Pinili, Ilocos Norte, awarded the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng…
Sangguniang Magdalo (Magdalo Council) · Magdalo Council
The Magdalo was one of the two great councils (sanggunian) through which the Katipunan organized the Philippine Revolution in Cavite…
Sangguniang Magdiwang (Magdiwang Council) · Magdiwang Council
The Magdiwang was the larger of the two great Katipunan councils (sanggunian) that organized the Philippine Revolution in Cavite after…
Municipality of Magdiwang · Magdiwang Romblon
Magdiwang, officially the Municipality of Magdiwang, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Troides magellanus (scientific name) · Magellan's birdwing
The Magellan birdwing (Troides magellanus) is one of the largest butterflies in the Philippines, a golden-and-black swallowtail named in honor…
Magellan–Elcano expedition — the naming now standard in Spanish and Quincentennial usage · Armada de Molucca (Armada del Maluco) — the fleet's contemporary designation for the Spice Islands it sought
The Magellan expedition — also styled the Magellan–Elcano expedition or the Armada de Molucca — was the Spanish fleet of…
Magellan's Cross Pavilion · Santo Niño cross (popular usage)
Magellan's Cross is a Christian cross housed in an octagonal stone-and-wood pavilion along Magallanes Street in Cebu City, Philippines, planted…
Ginoo class · Tagalog nobility
The maginoo were the hereditary noble class of pre-colonial Tagalog society, comprising the ruling elite from whom datus, lakan, and…
Magkono (Xanthostemon verdugonianus), also called Philippine ironwood, is a small to medium tree endemic to parts of the southern and…
Maglalatik is a Philippine folk dance from Laguna province, traditionally performed by men wearing halves of coconut shells strapped to…
Great Charter of Sectoral Rights · Statutory Charter of Rights
In the Philippine legal and political context, a Magna Carta refers to a comprehensive legislative act designed to codify, protect,…
1. Definition The Magna Carta for Disabled Persons, officially designated as Republic Act No. 7277, is the primary Philippine law…
RA 4670 · Teachers' Magna Carta
The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers (Republic Act No. 4670) is the 1966 Philippine law that codified the rights,…
Republic Act No. 7305 · RA 7305
The Magna Carta of Public Health Workers is the short title of Republic Act No. 7305, approved on March 26,…
RA 7305 · Health Workers' Magna Carta
The Magna Carta of Public Health Workers (Republic Act No. 7305) is the 1992 Philippine law that sets the rights,…
Republic Act No. 9710 · Republic Act 9710
The Magna Carta of Women is the short title of Republic Act No. 9710, officially "An Act Providing for the…
Republic Act No. 9710 · RA 9710
The Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act No. 9710), signed in 2009, is the principal Philippine law comprehensively defining and…
The magnificent sunbird is a small nectar-feeding bird of the sunbird family endemic to the Philippines, occurring in the Visayan…
Purefoods Hotdogs (1988–1990) · Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs (1991–2005, with variant spellings)
The Magnolia Hotshots are the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) franchise of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) group that entered the…
GMA's Saturday-night drama anthology — common identifying designation · The Mel Tiangco drama anthology — host-based designation
Magpakailanman — Tagalog for "forevermore" — is a Philippine television drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network and produced by its…
Municipality of Magpet · Magpet Cotabato
Magpet, officially the Municipality of Magpet, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
"Rice Municipality of Davao del Sur" · Part of the Bansalan-Magsaysay-Matanao (BaMaMa) corridor
Magsaysay, officially the Municipality of Magsaysay, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines, within Region XI…
Municipality of Magsingal · Magsingal Ilocos Sur
Magsingal, officially the Municipality of Magsingal, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Province of Maguindanao del Norte · Northern Maguindanao (English rendering)
Maguindanao del Norte ("Northern Maguindanao") is a province in the Philippines located in the northern portion of the former province…
Province of Maguindanao del Sur — formal designation · Salatan Magindanaw — Maguindanaon name
Maguindanao del Sur (Maguindanaon: Salatan Magindanaw) is a landlocked province in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on…
Maguindanao (also spelled Maguindanaon) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maguindanao people of the Cotabato region of Mindanao, Philippines…
Province of Maguindanao · Maguindanao Provincial Government
The Maguindanao LGU (Local Government Unit) refers to the provincial governance structure of the historical province of Maguindanao, situated in…
Ampatuan Massacre · Maguindanao Massacre of 2009
The Maguindanao Massacre, also known as the Ampatuan Massacre, was the killing of 58 civilians — including 32 journalists and…
Maguindanaon (endonym-based variant) · Maguindanaoan (older ethnographic spelling)
The Maguindanao are one of the largest Moro ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines, native to the Pulangi River basin and…
Province of Maguindanao · Maguindanao
Maguindanao Province, officially the Province of Maguindanao, is a historical province in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Muslim Mindanao…
Municipality of Maguing · Maguing Lanao del Sur
Maguing, officially the Municipality of Maguing, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Mahulayon · Magwayen, the sea goddess of Panay
Magwayen, also known as Mahulayon, is the goddess of the sea and of the afterlife in Visayan mythology, recorded most…
Mahagnao Volcano is a dormant-to-active, solfataric stratovolcano in the municipality of Burauen, Leyte, whose crater, lakes, springs, and forests are…
Mahaplag is a fourth-income-class interior municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines. It comprises 28 barangays over roughly 104.79 square…
Pan-Philippine Highway · AH26 (Asian Highway 26)
Maharlika Highway (officially designated as the Pan-Philippine Highway or Route 1 / AH26) is a massive 3,517-kilometer network of roads,…
MIC — the standard initialism · Maharlika Investment Corp. — common news styling
The Maharlika Investment Corporation (MIC) is the government-owned and controlled corporation created by Republic Act No. 11954, the Maharlika Investment…
MIF · Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF)
The Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF, also called the Maharlika Wealth Fund) is the Philippines' first sovereign wealth fund, established by…
The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is a Philippine regional basketball league founded in 2017 by then-senator and boxing icon…
Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) · MWF
The Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF), also called the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), is the Philippines' first sovereign wealth fund, managed…
Municipality of Mahatao · Mahatao Batanes
Mahatao, officially the Municipality of Mahatao, is a municipality in the province of Batanes, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Mahayag is a first-income-class agricultural municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula. It covers 194.90 square…
Municipality of Mahinog · Mahinog Camiguin
Mahinog, officially the Municipality of Mahinog, is a municipality in the province of Camiguin, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Municipality of Maigo · Maigo Lanao del Norte
Maigo, officially the Municipality of Maigo, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Municipality of Maimbung · Maimbung Sulu
Maimbung, officially the Municipality of Maimbung, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Mainit is a fourth-income class municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, situated on the north shore of Lake…
Mais con yelo (alternate spelling) · Corn with ice
Mais con hielo is a simple Philippine cold dessert of shaved or crushed ice mixed with sweet corn and milk,…
Mais con hielo (Spanish spelling) · Sweet corn ice dessert
Mais con yelo is a Filipino shaved-ice dessert of sweet corn kernels and milk served over crushed ice, sweetened with…
Maitum is a second-income-class municipality in Sarangani, Soccsksargen (Region XII), Philippines. Bordered by Sultan Kudarat to the west, South Cotabato…
Maja blanca is a Filipino coconut-milk pudding made by cooking coconut milk, cornstarch, and sugar into a soft-set mold, traditionally…
Municipality of Majayjay · Majayjay Laguna
Majayjay, officially the Municipality of Majayjay, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Rizal's third novel — the standing designation in Philippine literary historiography · Borrador del Noli me Tángere — the National Library catalogue label under which the papers long hid
Makamisa ("after Mass") is the heading of the unfinished third novel of José Rizal — a work he began in…
Makabayang Katipunan ng mga Pilipino · Kalipunang Makabayan ng mga Pilipino
The Makapili (Makabayang Katipunan ng mga Pilipino, "Patriotic Association of Filipinos") was a Filipino collaborationist militia organized under Japanese sponsorship…
Coconut sport · Macapuno
Makapuno is an unusual coconut phenotype in which the endosperm fails to develop normally, filling the nut's cavity with soft,…
Financial Center of the Philippines · Wall Street of the Philippines (Ayala Avenue)
Makati, officially the City of Makati, is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila and the Philippines' leading financial and…
Makati Central Business District · Ayala CBD
Makati CBD (Makati Central Business District) is the premier financial and commercial district of the Philippines, located in the central…
Makati CBD · Makati Financial District
Makati Central Business District (commonly known as Makati CBD) is the premier financial and business district in the Philippines, located…
Makati Development Corporation · MDC
Makati Development Corporation (MDC) is a leading engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company in the Philippines. Operating as a…
Municipality of Makato · Makato Aklan
Makato, officially the Municipality of Makato, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Makilala · Makilala Cotabato
Makilala, officially the Municipality of Makilala, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
MCME · Makiling Center (short form)
The Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems (MCME) is an academic institution of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB),…
Makopa (Syzygium samarangense), the wax apple or Java apple, is a fruit tree cultivated throughout the Philippines for its bell-shaped,…
Malabang is a third-income-class municipality in Lanao del Sur, within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Philippines, situated…
City of Malabon · Local Venice (informal, due to canals and floods)
Malabon, officially the City of Malabon (Filipino: Lungsod ng Malabon), is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. It…
The Malabrigo Point Lighthouse, also known as Faro de Punta Malabrigo, is a historic lighthouse on Malabrigo Point in the…
Malabsay Falls is a waterfall on the slopes of Mount Isarog in Naga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines, dropping into a…
Municipality of Malabuyoc · Malabuyoc Cebu
Malabuyoc, officially the Municipality of Malabuyoc, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Palasyo ng Malakanyang · Malacañan Palace
Malacañang Palace (officially Palasyo ng Malakanyang) is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the Philippines. Located…
Malagos Agri-Ventures Corporation (corporate name) · Malagos 100% Cacao (product-line phrasing)
Malagos Chocolate is a Philippine bean-to-bar chocolate brand produced by Malagos Agri-Ventures Corporation of Davao City, made from cacao grown…
Coastal aquaculture town of Davao del Sur · Gateway municipality along the Davao Gulf coast
Malalag, officially the Municipality of Malalag, is a coastal municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines, facing the…
Malalison Island (also spelled Mararison) is a small hook-shaped island off the coast of Culasi, Antique, Philippines, ringed by white…
The Malampaya Fund is the special account of the Philippine government into which the state's share of revenues from the…
Malampaya project · Service Contract 38 (SC-38) reservoir
The Malampaya gas field is a deepwater natural gas reservoir lying offshore northwest of Palawan in the Philippines, developed under…
Malampaya Deep Water Gas-to-Power Project · Malampaya–Camago field
The Malampaya Gas-to-Power Project is the Philippines' first and only commercial natural gas venture, a deep-water gas-condensate field in Service…
Fish Bowl of Palawan · Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape and Seascape (protected-area name)
Malampaya Sound is a large enclosed sound, part bay and part river delta, on the northeastern coast of Palawan in…
Municipality of Malangas · Malangas Zamboanga Sibugay
Malangas, officially the Municipality of Malangas, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Malapascua Island is a small island barangay of Daanbantayan, Cebu, renowned in the global diving community as one of the…
Municipality of Malapatan · Malapatan Sarangani
Malapatan, officially the Municipality of Malapatan, is a municipality in the province of Sarangani, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
One-stop-shop medical center · Malasakit office
A Malasakit Center is a one-stop-shop medical financial assistance facility established inside selected government hospitals in the Philippines. Mandated under…
Municipality of Malasiqui · Malasiqui Pangasinan
Malasiqui, officially the Municipality of Malasiqui, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Malate Catholic Church · Church of Our Lady of Remedies — English rendering of the parish title
Malate Church, formally the parish of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Our Lady of Remedies), is the Roman Catholic church…
Malate · Malate District
Malate is a historic district of Manila on the shore of Manila Bay, immediately south of Ermita — the district…
Malay is a first-income-class municipality in Aklan, Western Visayas, Philippines. It is the northernmost town on Panay island and is…
City of Malaybalay · Malaybalay
Malaybalay, officially the City of Malaybalay, is a component city and the provincial capital of Bukidnon, Philippines. Known as the…
Malcapuya Island is an island in the Calamian group off Coron, Palawan, Philippines, known for its long white sand beach,…
Municipality of Malibcong · Malibcong Abra
Malibcong, officially the Municipality of Malibcong, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Malilipot · Malilipot Albay
Malilipot, officially the Municipality of Malilipot, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Malimono is a fifth-income class coastal municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 80.13 square kilometers, it has…
Municipality of Malinao · Malinao Aklan
Malinao, officially the Municipality of Malinao, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Malinta Hill tunnel — from the 390-foot rise it pierces · Bomb-proof storage and personnel bunker — original harbor-defense designation
The Malinta Tunnel is the tunnel complex bored through Malinta Hill on Corregidor Island, the fortress at the mouth of…
Giant trevally (English common name) · Talakitok (related carangids in some local usage)
Maliputo is the local Filipino name for the giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis), a large predatory reef and estuarine fish celebrated…
Palimbang massacre · Masjid Malisbong massacre
The Malisbong Massacre, also documented as the Palimbang massacre or the Masjid Malisbong massacre, was the mass killing of Muslim…
Malita is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of Davao Occidental, Davao Region (Region XI), Philippines. Facing the Davao Gulf,…
Municipality of Malitbog · Malitbog Bukidnon
Malitbog, officially the Municipality of Malitbog, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Municipality of Mallig · Mallig Isabela
Mallig, officially the Municipality of Mallig, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
City of Malolos · Malolos City
Malolos is a component city and the capital of Bulacan in Central Luzon. It is of exceptional historical importance as…
Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception · Malolos Basilica
Malolos Cathedral, formally the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, is the seat of the Diocese of Malolos in Bulacan…
Revolutionary Congress (Congreso Revolucionario) · National Assembly — formal designation
The Malolos Congress (Spanish: Congreso de Malolos), formally the National Assembly and also known as the Revolutionary Congress (Congreso Revolucionario),…
Political Constitution of 1899 (Constitución Política de la República Filipina) — formal title · Malolos Constitution of 1899
The Malolos Constitution, formally the Political Constitution of 1899 (Spanish: Constitución Política de la República Filipina), was the constitution of…
The Malolos Republic, formally the First Philippine Republic, was the sovereign government established by the Philippine revolutionary movement with its…
Malong a andon (elaborately dyed tubular cloth) · Tube skirt
The malong is a traditional tube-shaped woven cloth of the Maranao and Maguindanao peoples of Mindanao, Philippines, worn by wrapping…
Pangasinan Revolt of 1660 · Malong Uprising
The Malong Revolt of 1660–1661 was an uprising in Pangasinan led by Andrés Malong, a native chief who had risen…
Moringa (international common name) · Drumstick tree (English, for its long seed pods)
Malunggay (Moringa oleifera), called the drumstick tree or horseradish tree in English, is a fast-growing, drought-resistant tree whose leaves, pods,…
Malungon is a first-income-class municipality in Sarangani, Soccsksargen (Region XII), Philippines. Located in the province's north-east and the only landlocked…
Municipality of Maluso · Maluso Basilan
Maluso, officially the Municipality of Maluso, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Malvar · Malvar Batangas
Malvar, officially the Municipality of Malvar, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
ML · Mamamayang Liberal party-list
Mamamayang Liberal (abbreviation ML) is the party-list organization of the Liberal Party of the Philippines, founded in 2024 to give…
The Mamanwa are an indigenous Negrito people of northeastern Mindanao, Philippines, traditionally inhabiting the mountains and interior areas of Surigao…
Municipality of Mamasapano · Mamasapano Maguindanao
Mamasapano, officially the Municipality of Mamasapano, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Oplan Exodus · Mamasapano incident
The Mamasapano clash was a shootout that took place during a police operation by the Special Action Force (SAF) of…
Barang (the practice) · Insect sorcerer (descriptive)
The mambabarang is a figure in Philippine folk belief, especially in the Visayas, a sorcerer who practices barang, the sending…
Municipality of Mambajao · Mambajao
Mambajao, officially the Municipality of Mambajao, is a third-class municipality and the capital of the island province of Camiguin, Philippines.…
Municipality of Mambajao · Mambajao Camiguin
Mambajao, officially the Municipality of Mambajao, is a municipality in the province of Camiguin, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Mambo Magsaysay is the 1953 Philippine presidential campaign jingle composed by Raul Manglapus for the candidacy of Ramon Magsaysay, set…
Municipality of Mamburao · Mamburao
Mamburao, officially the Municipality of Mamburao, is a first-class municipality and the capital of the province of Occidental Mindoro, Philippines.…
Municipality of Mamburao · Mamburao Occidental Mindoro
Mamburao, officially the Municipality of Mamburao, is a municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Mambusao is a third-income-class municipality in Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines. Located 36 kilometers from Roxas City, it covers 136.91 square…
Mami is a Filipino egg-noodle soup with chicken or beef broth, topped with shredded meat, wonton dumplings, and chopped scallions.…
Mamón · Torta mamón (Visayan usage)
Mamon are traditional Filipino chiffon or sponge cakes typically baked in distinctive cupcake-like molds, giving them soft, fine crumbs and…
Municipality of Manabo · Manabo Abra
Manabo, officially the Municipality of Manabo, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Manananggol · Tanga-anhig (Visayan variants)
The manananggal is a female monster of Philippine folklore who severs her body at the waist, sprouts bat-like wings from…
"Manang Biday" is a traditional Ilocano folk song of courtship in which a young man serenades Biday, an older unmarried…
Municipality of Manaoag · Manaoag Pangasinan
Manaoag, officially the Municipality of Manaoag, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Municipality of Manapla · Manapla Negros Occidental
Manapla, officially the Municipality of Manapla, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Municipality of Manay · Manay Davao Oriental
Manay, officially the Municipality of Manay, is a municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, located within the Davao Region…
Tiger City · Millennium City
Mandaluyong, officially the City of Mandaluyong (Filipino: Lungsod ng Mandaluyong), is a highly urbanized first-class city in Metro Manila, the…
Municipality of Mandaon · Mandaon Masbate
Mandaon, officially the Municipality of Mandaon, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
The Industrial City of Metro Cebu · City of Mandaue
Mandaue, officially the City of Mandaue (Filipino: Lungsod sa Mandaue; Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Mandaue), is a highly urbanized city in…
Mandaya of the Davao region · People of the upland (name interpretation)
The Mandaya are among the largest non-Islamized indigenous ethnolinguistic groups of the Davao region in southeastern Mindanao, inhabiting the uplands…
Mang Inasal Philippines
Mang Inasal is a Philippine fast-food chain specializing in chicken inasal, charcoal-grilled chicken marinated in a blend of local spices,…
Mangaldan is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines, located northeast of Dagupan…
Municipality of Mangaldan · Mangaldan Pangasinan
Mangaldan, officially the Municipality of Mangaldan, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Municipality of Mangatarem · Mangatarem Pangasinan
Mangatarem, officially the Municipality of Mangatarem, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Guimaras Manggahan Festival · Guimaras Mango Festival
The Manggahan Festival is the annual mango festival of Guimaras province in the Western Visayas, held every May to celebrate…
The Floodway (common local shorthand) · Marikina River diversion channel (descriptive term)
The Manggahan Floodway is a flood control channel in Metro Manila, Philippines, built in 1986 at a cost of about…
Pahutan (Tagalog) · Paho (Bikol and Visayan regions)
Mangifera altissima, locally known as pahutan or paho, is a wild mango species native to the Philippines. Closely related to…
Philippine ironwood · Magkono
Mangkono (Xanthostemon verdugonianus), called the Philippine ironwood, is a small to medium-sized endemic tree celebrated for having one of the…
Bruha / brujo (Spanish-derived synonyms) · Mambabarang (Visayan counterpart)
A mangkukulam is a practitioner of kulam, the Tagalog tradition of malevolent magic roughly equivalent to sorcery or witchcraft, typically…
Purple mangosteen · Queen of fruits
Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L.) is a tropical evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia, cultivated primarily for its edible fruit —…
Alimango (Filipino name) · Mud crab (English name)
Mangrove crab (Scylla serrata), known in the Philippines as alimango, is a large swimming crab found in the estuaries and…
Municipality of Mangudadatu · Mangudadatu Maguindanao
Mangudadatu, officially the Municipality of Mangudadatu, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Mangyanes (historical Spanish usage) · Hanunoo Mangyan (for the script-bearing group)
The Mangyan are the indigenous peoples of Mindoro island, comprising eight ethnolinguistic groups generally listed as the Iraya, Alangan, Tadyawan,…
The Mangyan are the indigenous peoples of Mindoro island, comprising eight ethnolinguistic groups, including the Iraya, Alangan, Tadyawan, Buhid, Hanunoo,…
The Maniago Revolt was a Pampanga uprising in 1660 led by Francisco Maniago, a native leader from Bacolor, against Spanish…
SMMITT — the acronym of its formal Filipino name · Federation of Drivers, Commuters, and United Transportation Terminals — the English rendering of its name
Manibela — formally the Samahang Manibela, Mananakay at Nagkaisang Terminal ng Transportasyon (SMMITT), rendered in English as the "Federation of…
Manila city · City of Manila
Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the capital of the Philippines and a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila.…
The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial is a United States military cemetery in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Metro Manila, administered by…
Look ng Maynila (Filipino) · Manila Harbour
Manila Bay is a natural harbour on the western side of Luzon in the Philippines, opening into the South China…
The Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC), operating in recent years as the MBC Media Group, is one of the largest radio…
The Manila Bulletin is an English-language broadsheet newspaper founded in Manila on February 2, 1900 by the American Carson Taylor…
Minor Basilica and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception — the formal title · Manila Metropolitan Cathedral — the metropolitan designation
The Manila Cathedral, formally the Minor Basilica and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, is the cathedral church of the…
The Manila Post Office — the common short form · The Central Post Office — PHLPost's own styling for its traditional headquarters
The Manila Central Post Office is the neoclassical headquarters building of the Philippine postal service, standing on Liwasang Bonifacio (Magallanes…
The Manila Chinese Cemetery is the oldest Chinese cemetery in the Philippines, located in Santa Cruz, Manila. Established in the…
Manila City Hall building · "Big Ben of Manila" (clock tower)
Manila City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of Manila, located in the Ermita-Intramuros civic complex facing the…
MCJ — agency and media shorthand · Old Bilibid Prison — popular styling inherited from the site
The Manila City Jail is the city jail of Manila, located at 851 Oroquieta Road in the Santa Cruz district,…
Dolomite Beach
The Manila Dolomite Beach — officially the Manila Baywalk Dolomite Beach — is an artificial white-sand beach laid along the…
Film Center
The Manila Film Center is a Brutalist cinema building at the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines…
Galleon Trade · La Nao de China — "the China ship," the New Spanish popular name
The Manila galleon (Spanish galeón de Manila; known in New Spain as La Nao de China, "the China ship") was…
Quirino Grandstand hostage taking — the styling derived from the site · Rizal Park hostage crisis — the styling derived from the park containing the grandstand
The Manila hostage crisis was the bus hijacking and police siege of August 23, 2010, at the grounds of the…
The Grand Dame of Manila
The Manila Hotel is the historic grand hotel of the Philippines, opened in 1912 on a bayfront site along Roxas…
MIAA (standard initialism) · The airport authority of record for NAIA (descriptive)
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) is the Philippine government instrumentality, attached to the Department of Transportation (DOTr), that has…
MIAS · Manila Motor Show (original 2005 name)
Manila International Auto Show (MIAS) is the Philippines' longest-running annual automotive exhibition, organized by Worldbex Services International (WSI) and staged…
MICP · BOC-MICP
The Manila International Container Port (MICP) is the Bureau of Customs collection district that administers customs clearance for the international…
MICT
The Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) is the Philippines' largest international container terminal, a dedicated facility for international containerized cargo…
Manila LRT · LRT
The Manila Light Rail Transit (LRT) is a rapid transit system serving the Metro Manila area in the Philippines. It…
LRT · LRTA
The Manila Light Rail Transit System is the primary urban rapid transit network of Metro Manila, comprising two lines: LRT…
The Manila massacre is the documented record of mass killings of Filipino civilians by Japanese forces during the Battle of…
Manila MRT · MRT-3
The Manila Metro Rail Transit system, commonly known as the MRT, is a rapid transit rail network that serves Metro…
MRT · MRT-3
The Manila Metro Rail Transit System (commonly known as the MRT or MRT-3) is a rapid transit line serving Metro…
The Manila Metropolitan Theater is an Art Deco performing-arts venue beside Mehan Garden in Manila, Philippines, inaugurated in 1931 from…
North Cemetery · Cementerio del Norte
The Manila North Cemetery is one of the oldest and largest public cemeteries in Metro Manila, located in Santa Cruz,…
Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila (Spanish-era name) · MO (common abbreviation)
The Manila Observatory is a scientific research institution founded in Manila in 1865 by Jesuit priests, making it one of…
Manila Ocean Park is a marine themed park behind the Quirino Grandstand at Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines — the country's…
Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty · Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (Manila Pact)
The Manila Pact, formally the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, was the eight-power collective-defense treaty signed at Manila on September…
Manila Peninsula siege · Peninsula Manila mutiny
The Manila Peninsula rebellion was a seven-hour standoff on November 29, 2007, when Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and Brigadier General…
Peninsula Manila siege · The Pen siege (colloquial)
The Manila Peninsula siege was a six-hour standoff on November 29, 2007, at The Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati, Philippines.…
MRR · MRRCo
The Manila Railroad Company (MRR, also MRRCo) was the railway operator of the Philippines from the American colonial period until…
Tunog ng Maynila · Manila sound genre
The Manila Sound (Filipino: Tunog ng Maynila) is the Philippine popular-music genre and movement that began in Metro Manila in…
The Manila Times, founded on October 11, 1898, is the oldest existing English-language newspaper in the Philippines. Founded in the…
Manila Water · MWC (PSE ticker)
Manila Water Company, Inc. (Manila Water; PSE: MWC) is the private concessionaire that operates the East Zone of Metropolitan Manila's…
Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden
The Manila Zoo, officially the Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden, is the 5.5-hectare (14-acre) zoological park on Adriatico Street in…
Manila–Cavite Expressway · CAVITEX
Manila–Cavite Expressway, also known as CAVITEX (designated as E3 of the Philippine expressway network), is a 14-kilometer (8.7 mi) access-controlled…
Manili Mosque Massacre · Carmen Mosque Massacre
The Manili Massacre was the mass killing of Moro (Muslim) civilians at a mosque in the village of Manili, Carmen,…
Municipality of Manito · Manito Albay
Manito, officially the Municipality of Manito, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Manjuyod · Manjuyod Negros Oriental
Manjuyod, officially the Municipality of Manjuyod, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Municipality of Mankayan · Mankayan Benguet
Mankayan, officially the Municipality of Mankayan, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Calayan Clinic · Manny & Pie Calayan Clinic
Manny and Pie Calayan Clinic is a pioneering cosmetic surgery and dermatology clinic chain in the Philippines. Co-founded in 1995…
PacMan · Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao
Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao (born December 17, 1978, in Kibawe, Bukidnon), known worldwide as Manny Pacquiao and nicknamed PacMan, is a…
Manny Pangilinan (Manuel V. Pangilinan, born 1946) is a Filipino businessman who leads the Hong Kong-based investment group First Pacific…
Mano (from Spanish for "hand"), also called pagmamano, is a traditional Filipino gesture of respect in which a younger person…
The Manobo are a cluster of culturally related indigenous peoples of Mindanao, Philippines, speaking languages of the Austronesian family and…
Pineapple municipality of Bukidnon · Formerly known as Maluko
Manolo Fortich, officially the Municipality of Manolo Fortich (Bukid and Higaonon: Banuwa ta Manolo Fortich), is a municipality in the…
2001 Manor Hotel fire · Quezon City Manor Hotel tragedy
The Manor Hotel Fire was a deadly hotel fire that broke out on August 18, 2001 at the Manor Hotel…
The Mansaka are a Lumad (indigenous non-Islamized) people of the Davao region, concentrated in Davao de Oro province in towns…
Mansaka of Davao · Mandaya-Mansaka (in older literature pairing kindred groups)
The Mansaka are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the Davao Region, principally in Davao de Oro province and adjacent parts…
Municipality of Mansalay · Mansalay Oriental Mindoro
Mansalay, officially the Municipality of Mansalay, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Mansueto "Onyok" Velasco, born in 1974 in Bago City, Negros Occidental, is a Filipino boxer who won the silver medal…
Giant manta ray · Oceanic manta ray
Manta Ray refers to the giant rays of the genus Mobula (formerly Manta), the largest rays in the world, found…
Mantanani scops-owl (alternative spelling)
The Mantanani scops owl (Otus mantananensis) is a small, island-dwelling owl of the Philippines and neighboring Bornean seas, occurring in…
Mantayupan Falls · Barili Falls
Mantayupan Falls is a waterfall in Barangay Mantayupan in the municipality of Barili, southwestern Cebu, Philippines. Regarded as one of…
Municipality of Manticao · Manticao Misamis Oriental
Manticao, officially the Municipality of Manticao, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Mantigue Island is a small protected island about four kilometers off the southern coast of Camiguin, Philippines, fringed with white…
1. Definition Manual therapy refers to a clinical approach in physical therapy involving skilled, hands-on techniques administered by a practitioner…
Manuel Araullo y Gonzáles · Chief Justice Araullo
Manuel Araullo (Manuel Araullo y Gonzáles; January 1, 1853, Balayan, Batangas – July 26, 1924, Manila) was a Filipino jurist…
Manuel P. Manahan — the initial styling of formal reference · Manuel Perez Manahan — full name with maternal surname
Manuel Manahan (Manuel Perez Manahan; January 1, 1916, Manila – May 18, 1994, Caba, La Union) was a Filipino journalist,…
Manuel L Quezon · Manuel L. Quezon — the standard styled form, and the title of his page in the standard account
Manuel Quezon (Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina; born August 19, 1878, Baler, district of El Príncipe, then part of Nueva…
Manuel Antonio Rojo del Río — the styling carried in the linked-data labels · Archbishop Rojo — the usage of the occupation's documentary record ("According to Archbishop Rojo's journal")
Manuel Antonio Rojo del Río y Vieyra (September 24, 1708, Tula, Viceroyalty of New Spain — January 30, 1764, Manila)…
President Manuel A. Roxas · Manuel Acuña Roxas — his full name, the form carried in the Library of Congress heading
Manuel Roxas (January 1, 1892, Capiz, Capiz – April 15, 1948, Clark Air Base, Angeles) was a Filipino statesman, the…
Manuel Tinio (17 June 1877 – 22 February 1924) was a Filipino revolutionary general and public official from Aliaga, Nueva…
MVP · Manny Pangilinan
Manuel V. Pangilinan (born July 14, 1946), universally known by his initials MVP, is a Filipino businessman who chairs or…
Manukan is a first-income-class municipality in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, located about 38 kilometres west of Dipolog. It spans 246.35…
The Manunggul Jar is a Neolithic secondary-burial earthenware jar excavated from Manunggul Cave at the Tabon Cave complex in Lipuun…
Ilog Manupali · Manupali watershed (for the research catchment)
The Manupali River is a river in central Bukidnon on the island of Mindanao, Philippines, rising on the slopes of…
Municipality of Mapanas · Mapanas Northern Samar
Mapanas, officially the Municipality of Mapanas, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Mapandan is a third income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines. Located in central Pangasinan…
Municipality of Mapandan · Mapandan Pangasinan
Mapandan, officially the Municipality of Mapandan, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Mapanuepe · Lahar lake of San Marcelino
Mapanuepe Lake is a lake in San Marcelino, Zambales, Philippines, formed after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo when volcanic…
Maphilindo Confederation · Malaya-Philippines-Indonesia confederation
Maphilindo was a proposed nonpolitical confederation of Malaya, the Philippines, and Indonesia announced in July 1963 by President Diosdado Macapagal,…
Mapúa Institute of Technology — the institution's name from 1925 until the 2017 university conversion ([Wikipedia — Mapúa University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%C3%BAa_University "Mapúa University — Wikipedia")) · MIT — the initials by which the institute was long known in Philippine engineering circles ([Wikidata — Mapúa University](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268248 "Mapúa University (Q3268248) — Wikidata"))
Mapúa University is a private, non-sectarian, research-oriented university headquartered in Intramuros, Manila, founded on January 25, 1925 as the Mapúa…
Municipality of Mapun · Mapun Tawi-Tawi
Mapun, officially the Municipality of Mapun, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Mobility Access Philippines Ventures, Inc. · BYD Cars Philippines
MAPVI (officially Mobility Access Philippines Ventures, Inc.) is a private corporate entity operating under the brand name BYD Cars Philippines.…
Maquinit Hot Spring is a saltwater hot spring on the coast of Coron, Palawan, Philippines — among the rare hot…
Manuel Araneta Roxas II — full legal name · Manuel Roxas II — the formal styling distinguishing him from his grandfather
Mar Roxas (Manuel Araneta Roxas II; born May 13, 1957, Manila) is a Filipino politician and economist, the grandson of…
Marabut is a coastal municipality in Samar, Philippines, whose shoreline is defined by dramatic limestone karst islets rising from shallow,…
Marabut is a fifth-income-class coastal municipality in Samar province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, created on 22 July 1949. It comprises 24…
Maragondon, Cavite · Site of the Bonifacio Trial
Maragondon is a municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines, set against the slopes of the Maragondon mountain range near…
Maragondon · Municipality of Maragondon
Maragondon, officially the Municipality of Maragondon, is a municipality in the province of Cavite, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Church (formal parish name)
The Maragondon Church, formally the Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Church in Maragondon, Cavite, is a centuries-old Baroque church…
Maragtas is a chronicle compiled and published by Pedro Alcantara Monteclaro of Miagao, Iloilo in 1907, purporting to record the…
Municipality of Maragusan · Maragusan Davao de Oro
Maragusan, officially the Municipality of Maragusan, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
Central Bukidnon trade and transport hub · Gateway to Central Mindanao University and Musuan
Maramag, officially the Municipality of Maramag, is a first-class municipality in the province of Bukidnon, Philippines, within Region X (Northern…
Maranao is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people of the area around Lake Lanao in Lanao del Sur…
The Maranao are an ethnolinguistic group of Mindanao, Philippines, concentrated around Lake Lanao in Lanao del Sur province and across…
Marang (Artocarpus odoratissimus) is a tropical fruit tree of the mulberry family native to Borneo and Mindanao and cultivated in…
The marang (Artocarpus odoratissimus) is a tropical fruit tree of the mulberry family native to Borneo and Palawan and cultivated…
Municipality of Marantao · Marantao Lanao del Sur
Marantao, officially the Municipality of Marantao, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Mararison, also known as Malalison, is a small island and barangay in Culasi in the province of Antique, on the…
Marawi City is a highly urbanized city and capital of Lanao del Sur province in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in…
Marble Capital of the Philippines · Romblon Province
The Marble Capital, officially recognized as the "Marble Capital of the Philippines", is a title held by the archipelagic province…
5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 — the full citation form · Marbury — the shorthand used in constitutional-law teaching
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803), decided unanimously by the United States Supreme Court on February 24,…
Doña Marcela · Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo
Marcela Agoncillo (born Marcela Coronel Mariño; June 24, 1859 – May 30, 1946), honored as the Mother of the Philippine…
Marcelo "Celing" Briones Fernan (October 24, 1927, Cebu City – July 11, 1999, Manila) was a Filipino lawyer, jurist, and…
Second Mactan-Mandaue Bridge · Mactan Channel Bridge (informal usage)
The Marcelo Fernan Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Mactan Channel between Mandaue City on Cebu island and Mactan…
Plaridel · Plaridel (principal pen name)
Marcelo H. del Pilar (August 30, 1850 – July 4, 1896), born Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán at sitio…
Marcopper mine spill of 1996 · Boac River tailings disaster
The Marcopper mining disaster refers to the March 24, 1996 failure of a drainage tunnel plug at the Marcopper Mining…
Municipality of Marcos · Marcos Ilocos Norte
Marcos, officially the Municipality of Marcos, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Marikina-Infanta Highway · Marilaque Scenic Highway
Marcos Highway, officially designated as the Marikina-Infanta Highway (and also referred to as the Marilaque Highway in its mountainous sections),…
Marcus Peter Miller — the full record name, the unambiguous form · Brigadier General Marcus P. Miller — the styling of the 1899 Iloilo record
Marcus Peter Miller (March 27, 1835, Stockbridge, Massachusetts – December 11, 1906, Fort Barrancas, Florida) was a career United States…
Margie Moran · Margarita Moran Floirendo
Margarita Moran (born 1953) is a Filipina beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1973 in Athens, Greece, becoming the second…
Margosatubig is a third-income-class municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, and the oldest town in the province, with a coastline…
Municipality of Maria · Maria Siquijor
Maria, officially the Municipality of Maria, is a municipality in the province of Siquijor, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Maria Aurora · Maria Aurora Aurora
Maria Aurora, officially the Municipality of Maria Aurora, is a municipality in the province of Aurora, located within the Central…
Maria Cacao of Mount Lantoy · Diwata of Lantoy
Maria Cacao is the diwata or mountain goddess of Mount Lantoy in Argao, Cebu, in Visayan folklore. She is said…
Maria Clara dress · Traje de mestiza (related period term)
The Maria Clara gown is the traditional Filipino women's dress named after the heroine of Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me…
Mariang Makiling · The fairy of Mount Makiling
Maria Makiling is the legendary diwata, or guardian spirit, of Mount Makiling in Laguna province, one of the most famous…
Mariang Makiling · Dayang Makiling — the precolonial appellation, dayang denoting princess or noble lady
The Maria Makiling Legend is the cycle of Tagalog folklore surrounding Mariang Makiling, the diwata — guardian spirit or nature…
Maria Angelita Delfin Aycardo (birth name) · Maria A. Ressa
Maria Ressa (born Maria Angelita Delfin Aycardo, October 2, 1963, Manila) is a Filipino and American journalist, the co-founder and…
Lola Rosa · Maria Rosa Henson
María Rosa Luna Henson (December 5, 1927 – August 18, 1997), known to the Philippines as Lola Rosa ("Grandma Rosa"),…
Maria Victoria Evangelista · Ma'am Maria Victoria Evangelista (client / honorific reference)
Maria Victoria C. Evangelista is a Filipino business executive and cosmetics-industry entrepreneur based in Davao City, Philippines. She is the…
Maria Sinukuan · Apung Sinukuan (revered elder framing)
Mariang Sinukuan is the guardian diwata of Mount Arayat in Pampanga, one of the most celebrated mountain goddesses in Philippine…
Sr. Mariani Dimaranan · Mariani Cuevas Dimaranan
Mariani Dimaranan — in full Mariani Cuevas Dimaranan, SFIC (February 1, 1925 – December 17, 2005) — was a Filipino…
Mariano Malia Álvarez — full name with maternal surname · Mainam — his Katipunan nom de guerre, the signature he placed on the Acta de Tejeros
Mariano Álvarez y Malia (September 3, 1842, Tierra Alta, Noveleta, Cavite – August 25, 1924, San Roque, Cavite) was a…
Mariano Jesús Cuenco — the full styling · Mariano Jesús Cuenco y Diosomito — the maternal-surname form
Mariano Cuenco — in full Mariano Jesús Cuenco y Diosomito (January 16, 1888, Carmen, Cebu – February 25, 1964, Manila)…
Mariano Gómez · Mariano Gomes
Mariano Gomez (born Mariano Gómez y Custodio; later restyled Mariano Gómes de los Ángeles; August 2, 1799, Santa Cruz, Manila…
Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) is a state university headquartered in Batac, Ilocos Norte, created in 1978 and named after…
Mariano Ponce y Collantes — full name in the Spanish convention (paternal surname Ponce, maternal surname Collantes) · Naning — childhood nickname carried into his pen names
Mariano Ponce (born March 22, 1863, Baliwag, Bulacan – died May 23, 1918, Hong Kong), full name Mariano Ponce y…
Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca · Mariano Ricafort y Palacín
Mariano Ricafort — in full Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca (February 20, 1776 – October 16, 1846) — was a…
Labong (his Katipunan nom-de-guerre, "bamboo shoots") · Mariano Trías y Closas (full Spanish-style name)
Mariano Trias (October 12, 1868, San Francisco de Malabon, Cavite [now General Trias] – February 22, 1914, Manila) was a…
Maribojoc · Municipality of Maribojoc
Maribojoc, officially the Municipality of Maribojoc, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Marihatag is a third-income class municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 312.50 square kilometers, it has 12…
Marikina · City of Marikina
Marikina, officially the City of Marikina, is a highly urbanized city in the eastern sub-region of Metro Manila, Philippines. Renowned…
Marikina · Marikina City
Marikina, officially the City of Marikina, is a highly urbanized city in the eastern sub-region of Metro Manila, Philippines. Renowned…
Ilog Marikina · Marikina Valley river system
The Marikina River is the largest tributary of the Pasig River, draining a roughly 680-square-kilometer basin that rises in the…
Municipality of Marilao · Marilao Bulacan
Marilao, officially the Municipality of Marilao, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Province of Marinduque · Marinduque
Marinduque, officially the Province of Marinduque, is an island province of the Philippines located in the Mimaropa region. The capital…
MPA · Marine sanctuary
A Marine Protected Area (MPA) is a clearly defined geographical space dedicated to the conservation and sustainable use of marine…
Municipality of Maripipi · Maripipi Biliran
Maripipi, officially the Municipality of Maripipi, is a municipality in the province of Biliran, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
MARIS · Maris Hydro
The Maris Hydroelectric Plant (Maris Hydro) is an 8.5-megawatt run-of-river hydroelectric power plant at Ramon, Isabela, built by SN Aboitiz…
MARINA (standard acronym) · Pangasiwaan sa Industriyang Maritima (Filipino name)
The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) is the Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Transportation (DOTr) that integrates the…
Municipality of Mariveles · Mariveles Bataan
Mariveles, officially the Municipality of Mariveles, is a municipality in the province of Bataan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Marogong is a fourth-income-class municipality in Lanao del Sur, within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Philippines. A…
The maroon-naped sunbird (Aethopyga primigeniae) is a small nectar-feeding bird endemic to Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Males carry an…
Marcial Custodio Ravelo · King of Pinoy Komiks (honorific)
Mars Ravelo (Marcial Custodio Ravelo, 1916–1988) was a Filipino comic strip cartoonist and writer hailed as the "King of Pinoy…
Martial Law · Batas Militar (Filipino)
Martial law in the Philippines (Filipino: Batas Militar sa Pilipinas) refers to the imposition of direct military control over all…
Martín de Goiti (Spanish spelling) · Maestre de campo de Goiti
Martin de Goiti was a Spanish conquistador who led the first armed expedition to Maynila in 1570 and became one…
Fray Martín de Rada, O.S.A. · Martín de Herrada (variant spelling in the early documents)
Martín de Rada (1533–1578) was a Spanish Augustinian friar — mathematician, linguist, and missionary — who was one of the…
Martín Teófilo Delgado (1858–1918) was a Filipino revolutionary general and statesman from Iloilo who led Visayan forces against Spain in…
Martín Delgado — the Wikidata label and common short form (never bare "Delgado," which in this wiki also belongs to Francisco Delgado, a different person) · Martín Teófilo Delgado y Bermejo — the full record name carried as a Wikidata alias
Martín Teófilo Delgado (November 11, 1858, Santa Barbara, Iloilo – November 12, 1918, Culion, Palawan) was the Filipino revolutionary general…
Climbing perch
Martiniko is the climbing perch, a small hardy freshwater fish known for its ability to breathe air and move across…
Maruya is a Philippine banana fritter made by coating slices or fanned whole saba bananas in a batter of flour,…
pinaypay (fan-cut Bicol version) · banana fritter
Maruya is a Philippine snack of saba banana slices, sometimes fanned out, dipped in a thin rice-flour batter and deep-fried,…
Masagana 99 program · Masagana 99 rice program
Masagana 99 was a Philippine rice-production program — Wikidata's item for it is classified as a Philippine agricultural program —…
Masagana Rice Industry Development Program 2023–2028 · MRIDP
The Masagana Rice Industry Development Program (MRIDP) is the Department of Agriculture's national framework for the Philippine rice industry covering…
The Poet General · Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma
Masaharu Homma (November 27, 1887 – April 3, 1946) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army who commanded…
Municipality of Masantol · Masantol Pampanga
Masantol, officially the Municipality of Masantol, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Masareal is a traditional Filipino candy from Cebu made from ground roasted peanuts and sugar, cooked into a stiff paste,…
City of Masbate · Masbate City
Masbate, officially the City of Masbate, is a component city and the capital of the province of Masbate, Philippines. Situated…
Province of Masbate · Masbate
Masbate, officially the Province of Masbate, is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bicol Region, situated at…
Masbatenyo · Minasbate
Masbateño (Masbatenyo) is the Bisayan language spoken in the province of Masbate, Philippines, and the people who speak it as…
Masbateño (also spelled Masbateno, endonym Minasbate) is a Bisayan language spoken in Masbate province, including the islands of Ticao and…
Municipality of Masinloc · Masinloc Zambales
Masinloc, officially the Municipality of Masinloc, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Masino Intaray was a Palaw'an master musician and epic chanter from Brooke's Point, Palawan, honored in 1993 among the first…
Municipality of Masiu · Masiu Lanao del Sur
Masiu, officially the Municipality of Masiu, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Maslog · Maslog Eastern Samar
Maslog, officially the Municipality of Maslog, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Master Deed with Declaration of Restrictions · Condominium Master Deed
Master Deed (officially the Master Deed with Declaration of Restrictions) is a foundational legal document required under Philippine law to…
1. Definition The Master Deed and Declaration of Restrictions is the foundational legal document required to register a condominium project…
Master-Planned Community · Master-Planned Community (Philippines)
Master-Planned Community is a large-scale real estate development model in the Philippines designed with a comprehensive master plan that details…
Township (Filipino developer terminology, particularly Megaworld) · Eco-city (when sustainability-focused, e.g., Nuvali)
A master-planned community (MPC) in Philippine real estate is a large-scale, integrated real estate development designed from a comprehensive master…
Masungi Georeserve is a karst conservation area in Baras, Rizal province, Philippines, protecting limestone formations, caves, and forested ridges in…
The Masustansyang Pagkain para sa Batang Pilipino Act, signed in 2018, institutionalizes a national feeding program for undernourished children in…
Municipality of Mataasnakahoy · Mataasnakahoy Batangas
Mataasnakahoy, officially the Municipality of Mataasnakahoy, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Matag-ob · Matag-ob Leyte
Matag-ob, officially the Municipality of Matag-ob, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Matalam · Matalam Cotabato
Matalam, officially the Municipality of Matalam, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Matalom is a third-income-class coastal municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, facing the Camotes Sea. It comprises 30 barangays…
Crossroads town of central Davao del Sur · Part of the Bansalan-Magsaysay-Matanao (BaMaMa) corridor
Matanao, officially the Municipality of Matanao, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines, on the island…
Municipality of Matanog · Matanog Maguindanao
Matanog, officially the Municipality of Matanog, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Mateo del Castillo of the AMT — reference form in the peasant-movement literature · Chairman of the Organizational Department of the Central Luzon Bureau — organizational designation, 1942
Mateo del Castillo was a Filipino peasant-movement leader of the 1930s — the Pampanga organizer remembered in the record of…
Mati City is a fifth-income-class component city and capital of Davao Oriental province in the Davao Region (Region XI), Philippines.…
Matigsalog · Matigsalug Manobo
The Matigsalug are an indigenous Manobo-subgroup people of the upper Davao River in Mindanao, living in Bukidnon province and the…
Municipality of Matnog · Matnog Sorsogon
Matnog, officially the Municipality of Matnog, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Matuguinao · Matuguinao Samar
Matuguinao, officially the Municipality of Matuguinao, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Matungao · Matungao Lanao del Norte
Matungao, officially the Municipality of Matungao, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Mauban is a first-income-class municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, founded on July 15, 1583. One of the oldest municipalities in…
Islamic State of Lanao · Dawlah Islamiya
The Maute Group — known since 2019 as the Islamic State of Lanao and commonly called Dawlah Islamiya — is…
Municipality of Mawab · Mawab Davao de Oro
Mawab, officially the Municipality of Mawab, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
Maximo Villaflor Soliven — full name · Maximo V. Soliven — the Library of Congress authorized form
Max Solivén (Maximo Villaflor Soliven; September 4, 1929, Manila – November 24, 2006, Narita, Japan) was a Filipino journalist and…
Maximilian van Sevenbergen — the birth name and the form his contemporaries knew ([Wikipedia — Maximilianus Transylvanus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilianus_Transylvanus "Maximilianus Transylvanus — Wikipedia")) · Maximilian von Sevenborgen — the German-styled variant of the family name ([Wikipedia — Maximilianus Transylvanus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilianus_Transylvanus "Maximilianus Transylvanus — Wikipedia"))
Maximilianus Transylvanus (born Maximilian van Sevenbergen, between 1485 and 1490 – died in Brussels, 1538) was a courtier of the…
Dr. Máximo Viola · Máximo Viola y Sison — birth name recorded by DBpedia
Máximo Viola y Sison (October 17, 1857 – September 3, 1933) was a Filipino physician, propagandist, and writer from San…
Labor Day — the statutory and common styling · Araw ng Manggagawa — the Filipino styling of record
May Day in the Philippines — officially Labor Day, Filipino Araw ng Manggagawa, also styled Araw ng Paggawa — is…
Municipality of Mayantoc · Mayantoc Tarlac
Mayantoc, officially the Municipality of Mayantoc, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Mayari is the goddess of the moon in Tagalog and Kapampangan mythology, widely told of as one of the daughters…
Municipality of Maydolong · Maydolong Eastern Samar
Maydolong, officially the Municipality of Maydolong, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (corporate name) · Maynilad (trade name)
Maynilad Water Services, Incorporated, commonly Maynilad, is the water and wastewater utility serving the west zone of Metropolitan Manila and…
Maynilad (standard short name) · Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (full corporate name)
Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) is the private concessionaire that operates the water and used-water services of the West Zone…
Bulkang Mayon · Mt Mayon
Mayon Volcano is an active stratovolcano famous for its exceptionally symmetrical 'perfect cone' shape, located in the province of Albay…
Punong Dakbayan sa Davao — the Cebuano styling · City Mayor of Davao
The Mayor of Davao City (Cebuano: Punong Dakbayan sa Davao) is the chief executive of the government of Davao City…
Municipality of Mayorga · Mayorga Leyte
Mayorga, officially the Municipality of Mayorga, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Mayoyao is a fourth-class municipality in the province of Ifugao, Cordillera Administrative Region, whose stone-walled rice terraces constitute one of…
Municipality of Mayoyao · Mayoyao Ifugao
Mayoyao, officially the Municipality of Mayoyao, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
McGregor's cuckooshrike, also called the sharp-tailed cuckooshrike, is a bird of the cuckooshrike family (Campephagidae) endemic to the island of…
McKinley Hill · McKinley Taguig
McKinley Hill is a 50-hectare master-planned mixed-use township development located in Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Developed by Megaworld Corporation…
Medium-Chain Triglyceride Oil · Liquid Coconut Oil
MCT Oil (Medium-Chain Triglyceride oil) is a highly concentrated dietary supplement composed of medium-chain saturated fatty acids, typically caprylic acid…
Mechadong baka · Filipino larded beef stew
Mechado is a Filipino braised beef stew in which a strip of pork fat is inserted into a lean cut…
Municipality of Medellin · Medellin Cebu
Medellin, officially the Municipality of Medellin, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Media of the Philippines comprises print, broadcast, and digital platforms serving a multilingual public. Major broadsheets include the Philippine Daily…
Golfer's elbow · Medial elbow tendinopathy
Medial Epicondylitis (commonly known as golfer's elbow) is a painful orthopedic condition characterized by inflammation or micro-tearing of the tendons…
MediaQuest
MediaQuest Holdings, Inc. is the Philippine media holding company established in 1998 by people connected with PLDT, acting through the…
Republic Act No. 2382 · RA 2382
The Medical Act of 1959 is Republic Act No. 2382, approved on June 20, 1959 and headed in the statute…
Tertiary Hospital · Teaching Hospital
A Medical Center in the Philippines is a high-level healthcare facility that provides tertiary medical services, specialized clinical care, advanced…
MD program in the Philippines · Doctor of Medicine program
Medical education in the Philippines is the system that trains and licenses physicians through a post-baccalaureate Doctor of Medicine (MD)…
Med Spa · Medi-Spa
A Medical Spa, commonly abbreviated as a med spa or medi-spa, is a hybrid facility that combines the clinical environment…
Philippine medical tourism · Healthcare tourism Philippines
Medical Tourism in the Philippines refers to the industry of foreign patients traveling to the Philippines for medical treatment, dental…
Municipality of Medina · Medina Misamis Oriental
Medina, officially the Municipality of Medina, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Medinilla magnifica, known in the Philippines as kapa-kapa, is an epiphytic shrub endemic to Philippine rainforests, celebrated for its drooping…
Mediterranean-Style Eating Pattern · MedDiet
The Mediterranean Diet is a nutritional and lifestyle pattern modeled after the traditional dietary habits of populations living in the…
Medullary Thyroid Cancer · MTC
Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (MTC), also referred to as medullary spindle thyroid carcinoma in specific histological classifications, is a distinct and…
Megaworld · Megaworld Corporation
Megaworld (Megaworld Corporation) is a leading real estate developer in the Philippines, widely recognized as the pioneer of the integrated…
MEG · Megaworld
Megaworld Corporation (commonly known as Megaworld) is a leading real estate developer in the Philippines, pioneered the 'Live-Work-Play-Learn' integrated township…
Mel and Jay · Mel & Jay sa DZMM
Mel & Jay was the Philippine radio and television program that paired newscasters Mel Tiangco and Jay Sonza — a…
Carmela Corro Tiangco — her birth name, the form of formal records · Mel — her single-name screen identity in Filipino broadcasting
Mel Tiangco (birth name Carmela Corro Tiangco; born August 10 in Bataan, with reference sources variously reporting 1949 and 1955…
Skin Pigment · Melanic Pigment
Melanin is a broad family of natural pigments produced by specialized cells called melanocytes through a process known as melanogenesis.…
Chloasma (when occurring during pregnancy) · Mask of Pregnancy
Melasma is a common, acquired pigmentary disorder of the skin characterized by symmetric, hyperpigmented macules and patches on sun-exposed areas,…
Tandang Sora · Melchora Aquino de Ramos
Melchora Aquino (January 6, 1812 – 1919), universally known as Tandang Sora, was a Filipino revolutionary heroine remembered as the…
Melecio Severino y Yorac — the patronymic carried in the governors' register · Melecio Severino é Yorac — the spelling carried in the Republic of Negros leaders table
Melecio Severino — carried in one register as Melecio Severino é Yorac (1866 – May 25, 1915) — was a…
Melinda Quintos de Jesus — the most common styling of her name in Philippine journalism · Melinda Quintos-de Jesus — the hyphenated form used in legal filings, including her Supreme Court petition in the cybercrime cases
Melinda Quintos De Jesus is a veteran Filipino journalist and media advocate, the founder and executive director of the Center…
The melodious babbler (Malacopteron musicum) is a small songbird endemic to the Philippines, confined to the Palawan faunal region including…
In the Philippines, "melon" refers to the netted sweet melon (Cucumis melo), the cantaloupe-and-muskmelon family of fruits with rough, net-like…
Municipality of Mendez · Mendez Cavite
Mendez, officially the Municipality of Mendez, is a municipality in the province of Cavite, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Black Thursday · Mendiola massacre of 1987
The Mendiola Massacre was the killing of protesting farmers by state security forces on Mendiola Street, San Miguel, Manila, on…
Torn knee cartilage · Torn meniscus
A Meniscus Tear is a common orthopedic knee injury characterized by a rupture or tear in the meniscus, a C-shaped…
Mental health in the Philippines refers to the state of psychological well-being of Filipinos and to the country's policies, services,…
Chin Augmentation · Chin Reduction
Mentoplasty, also known as chin surgery, is a surgical procedure designed to reshape the chin either by enhancement (chin augmentation…
Manila Electric Company · meralco
Meralco (officially the Manila Electric Company) is the largest electric power distribution utility company in the Philippines. It holds the…
Municipality of Mercedes · Mercedes Eastern Samar
Mercedes, officially the Municipality of Mercedes, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
The Mercedes Group of Islands is a cluster of small rocky islands off the coast of Mercedes, Camarines Norte, Philippines…
Mercury Drug Corporation · Mercury Drugstore
Mercury Drug, officially Mercury Drug Corporation, is the largest and most dominant retail drugstore chain in the Philippines. Founded in…
Municipality of Merida · Merida Leyte
Merida, officially the Municipality of Merida, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Merit principle · "Merit and fitness" rule
The Merit System in the Philippines is the constitutional and statutory principle that appointments and promotions in the government service…
Merloquette Falls is a multi-tiered waterfall in the Marilog District of Davao City, Philippines, on the city's highland frontier with…
Mesotherapy is a minimally invasive technique in which microinjections of vitamins, enzymes, hormones, plant extracts, and pharmaceutical agents are delivered…
Sangley mestizo · Mestisong Sangley (Tagalog form)
Mestizo de Sangley (also Sangley mestizo, mestisong Sangley, chino mestizo, or Chinese mestizo) is the Spanish-colonial ethnoclass designation for a…
MASLD · Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD, historical terminology)
Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD), formerly known as Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), is a clinical condition characterized by…
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of interrelated metabolic abnormalities that together raise the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2…
Metabolic processes · Energy metabolism
Metabolism is the complete set of life-sustaining chemical reactions that occur within the cells of a living organism. These enzyme-catalyzed…
1. Definition Metacognition is defined as the cognitive process of ‘thinking about thinking’ or having awareness and control over one’s…
Metallic-winged sunbird of the Philippines · Pulcherrima sunbird
The metallic-winged sunbird (Aethopyga pulcherrima) is a Philippine-endemic member of the sunbird family Nectariniidae, named for the iridescent sheen of…
Metropolitan Cebu · Kalakhang Cebu
Metro Cebu, officially known as the Metropolitan Cebu area (Cebuano: Metropolitanong Sugbo; Tagalog: Kalakhang Cebu), is the primary urban, commercial,…
National Capital Region · NCR
Metro Manila, officially the National Capital Region (NCR), is the metropolitan area comprising the city of Manila and its surrounding…
MMC · Metropolitan Manila Commission — the formal decree styling
The Metro Manila Commission (MMC), formally the Metropolitan Manila Commission, was the governing public corporation of the Philippine capital region…
The Metro Manila Council (MMC) is the governing board and policy-making body of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), created…
MMFF · Metropolitan Film Festival
The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is the annual Philippine film festival that runs from Christmas Day, December 25, through…
Skyway · South Metro Manila Skyway
The Metro Manila Skyway is an elevated toll expressway system in Metro Manila running above major surface roads to provide…
Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) · Mega Manila Subway (former name)
The Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP), formerly the Mega Manila Subway, is an under-construction underground rapid transit line in Metro…
The Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) is the flagship underground rapid transit project of the Philippine government — the country's…
MMTC 2023 · Single Ticketing System
The Metro Manila Traffic Code of 2023 (MMTC 2023) is the uniform traffic code for Metropolitan Manila, adopted by the…
LRT-MRT Network · Manila LRT and MRT System
The Metro Manila Transit Lines comprise the rapid transit network serving Metro Manila and adjacent provinces in the Philippines. This…
Metro Pacific Investments Corp. · Metro Pacific Investments Corp
Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC) is the Philippine infrastructure holding company of the First Pacific group, chaired by Manuel V.…
MPTC · Metro Pacific Tollways
Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) is the largest toll road developer, builder, and operator in the Philippines. A subsidiary of…
MRTC (standard initialism) · EDSA LRT Corporation, Ltd. (former name)
The Metro Rail Transit Corporation (MRTC) is the Filipino private consortium that financed and owned the MRT-3 elevated rail line…
MRT-7 · MRT Line 7
Metro Rail Transit Line 7 (MRT-7) is a 22.8-kilometer elevated railway project under construction that will connect San Jose del…
Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company · Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co.
Metrobank — formally the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company (PSE: MBT), with the short form recorded in Philippine English as…
Metrobank Foundation, Inc. · Metrobank Foundation Incorporated
The Metrobank Foundation, Inc. (MBFI) is the corporate social responsibility arm of the Metrobank Group, established on January 8, 1979…
MMDA · Metro Manila Development Authority
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is the agency of the Philippine government that plans, coordinates, monitors, and regulates the…
MeTC · Metropolitan Trial Court of Metro Manila — the Sec. 27 styling for the National Capital Region's court
The Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) is the first-level trial court of the Philippines for the metropolitan area — in practice,…
MWSS (standard initialism) · Pangasiwaan ng Tubig at Alkantarilya sa Kalakhang Maynila (Filipino name)
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) is the Philippine government agency responsible for water supply and sewerage services in…
Mexico is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon (Region III), Philippines. Bordering the provincial capital…
Meycauayan City · Jewelry Capital of the Philippines
Meycauayan is a first-income-class component city in Bulacan province, Philippines, immediately north of Metro Manila along the MacArthur Highway and…
Mi último pensamiento — the title Mariano Ponce gave the poem when he first had it printed in Hong Kong in 1897 · Último adiós — the title under which Fr. Mariano Dacanay published it in La Independencia on September 25, 1898
Mi último adiós (Spanish, "My Last Farewell") is the farewell poem of José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines,…
Miagao · Municipality of Miagao
Miagao, officially the Municipality of Miagao, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Santo Tomás de Villanueva Parish Church — the formal parish designation · Church of Santo Tomas de Villanueva — the name the UNESCO serial listing carries
Miagao Church, formally the Santo Tomás de Villanueva Parish Church (Parokya ni Santo Tomas de Villanueva; Parroquia de Santo Tomás…
Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin SCA · Pneu Michelin
Michelin (in full, Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin SCA) is a French multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France —…
"Mickey Mouse money" is the popular Filipino nickname for the fiat currency issued by the Japanese occupation government in the…
MSMEs · MSME sector (Philippines)
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Philippines are defined under Republic Act No. 9501 (Magna Carta for MSMEs,…
Microfinance is the provision of financial services — small loans, savings, insurance, and payments — to individuals and small businesses…
Collagen Induction Therapy (CIT) · Skin needling
Microneedling is a minimally invasive cosmetic procedure that involves the use of a device equipped with fine, sterile needles to…
1. Definition A Mid-Rise Building, in the Philippines, is defined as a building that has more than four stories but…
MRB (Mid-Rise Building) · Mid-rise condominium (when residential)
A mid-rise building (MRB) is a multi-storey structure typically defined in Philippine practice as 5 to 10 storeys tall —…
West Asia · Western Asia
The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey, and Egypt. It is bordered by the Mediterranean…
Municipality of Midsalip · Midsalip Zamboanga del Sur
Midsalip, officially the Municipality of Midsalip, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Municipality of Midsayap · Midsayap Cotabato
Midsayap, officially the Municipality of Midsayap, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Migrant Workers Act · RA 8042
The Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act (short title of Republic Act No. 8042, approved June 7, 1995) is the…
Miguel de Benavides y Añoza · Fray Miguel de Benavides, O.P.
Miguel de Benavides, O.P. (born Miguel de Benavides y Añoza; c. 1552, Carrión de los Condes, Spain – July 26,…
Miguel López de Legazpi · El Adelantado (The Governor/Governor-General)
Miguel López, widely known in world history as Miguel López de Legazpi (1502 – August 20, 1572), was a Spanish…
Miguel Malvar y Carpio (1855–1911) was a Filipino general from Santo Tomas, Batangas, who fought in both the Philippine Revolution…
Miguel Castro Enriquez — his full name, used in GMA's formal announcements · "Booma" — the nickname his GMA colleagues used, after the elephant character of Mars Ravelo's Pinoy Komiks, for his booming voice
Mike Enriquez (Miguel Castro Enriquez; September 29, 1951 – August 29, 2023) was a Filipino broadcast journalist — the radio…
Municipality of Milagros · Milagros Masbate
Milagros, officially the Municipality of Milagros, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Milaor · Milaor Camarines Sur
Milaor, officially the Municipality of Milaor, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
1947 Military Bases Agreement · RP-US Military Bases Agreement
The Military Bases Agreement (MBA) — formally the Agreement Concerning Military Bases, signed at Malacañang in Manila on March 14,…
The milkfish (Chanos chanos), known in the Philippines as bangus, is the country's national fish and the single most important…
#MillionPeopleMarch (organizing hashtag) · #ScrapPork (demand hashtag)
The Million People March was the anti-"pork barrel" protest held on 26 August 2013 — National Heroes Day — at…
MIMAROPA (Region IV-B), also known as the Southwestern Tagalog Region, is an administrative region in the Philippines composed of five…
Mimbilisan Protected Landscape is a small protected area in Misamis Oriental, Northern Mindanao, centered on Mimbilisan Lake and its surrounding…
Municipality of Mina · Mina Iloilo
Mina, officially the Municipality of Mina, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Minalabac · Minalabac Camarines Sur
Minalabac, officially the Municipality of Minalabac, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Municipality of Minalin · Minalin Pampanga
Minalin, officially the Municipality of Minalin, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Minalungao Protected Landscape · Penaranda River Gorge
Minalungao National Park is a 2,018-hectare protected area in General Tinio, Nueva Ecija, Luzon, centered on a limestone gorge carved…
Sweetened saba bananas · Saging con yelo (iced serving style)
Minatamis na saging ("sweetened banana") is a Filipino dessert of saba bananas simmered in caramelized brown sugar until tender, glossy,…
Land of Promise (traditional sobriquet) · Southern Philippines (colloquial, for the island group)
Mindanao is the second largest island of the Philippines (after Luzon) and the cultural and economic center of the Philippine…
Mindanao art encompasses the visual art traditions of southern Philippines — spanning indigenous Lumad and Moro craft lineages (okir carving,…
The Mindanao bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba crinigera) is a ground-dwelling dove endemic to the Philippines, named for the vivid red patch blazing…
The Mindanao blue fantail (Rhipidura superciliaris) is a small insectivorous bird in the family Rhipiduridae, endemic to the Philippines, where…
Mindanao hawk-owl (alternate English name) · Ninox owl of Mindanao
Mindanao boobook, also called the Mindanao hawk-owl, is a small owl of the family Strigidae endemic to the Philippine island…
MinDA · Mindanao Economic Development Council (predecessor, MEDCo)
The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) is the Philippine government agency mandated to coordinate the planning and implementation of development programs…
MinDA · Mindanao Development Authority
The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) is a Philippine government agency under the Office of the President of the Philippines responsible…
The Mindanao flying squirrel (Petinomys crinitus) is a small gliding rodent endemic to the Philippines, where it is widespread and…
The Mindanao gymnure (Podogymnura truei) is a small insect-eating mammal endemic to the mountains of Mindanao in the Philippines, including…
Mindanao boobook · Ninox spilocephala (scientific name)
The Mindanao Hawk-Owl (Ninox spilocephala), also known as the Mindanao boobook, is a small owl endemic to the island of…
The Mindanao hornbill (Penelopides affinis) is a small, mostly black-and-white hornbill endemic to the Philippines, where it inhabits lowland and…
The Mindanao lorikeet (Trichoglossus johnstoniae), also called Johnstone's lorikeet, is a small, fast-flying parrot endemic to the mountains of Mindanao,…
The Mindanao pygmy babbler (Dasycrotapha plateni) is a tiny songbird endemic to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It…
Otus mirus (scientific name) · Mindanao scops-owl
The Mindanao scops owl (Otus mirus) is a small owl endemic to the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines,…
MSU · MSU System
The Mindanao State University (MSU) is the Philippine state university system centered on a main campus in Marawi City, Lanao…
Philippine treeshrew (general English name) · Urogale everetti (scientific name)
The Mindanao treeshrew (Urogale everetti) is a small, shrew-like mammal endemic to Mindanao and nearby islands, and the sole living…
Mindoro bleeding-heart dove · Puñalada (local usage among bleeding-hearts)
The Mindoro bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba platenae) is a critically endangered ground-dwelling dove endemic to the island of Mindoro, Philippines, named for…
The Mindoro boobook (Ninox mindorensis) is a small hawk-owl endemic to the island of Mindoro, recognized as a distinct species…
Hypsipetes mindorensis (scientific name) · Mindoro Island bulbul
The Mindoro bulbul (Hypsipetes mindorensis) is an olive-brown songbird endemic to the island of Mindoro, formally separated from the widespread…
The Mindoro Hawk-Owl (Ninox mindorensis), also called the Mindoro boobook, is a small brown forest owl endemic to the island…
Tariktik (local name) · Anthracoceros mindorensis (scientific name)
The Mindoro Hornbill (Anthracoceros mindorensis), locally called tariktik, is a medium-sized hornbill endemic to the island of Mindoro in the…
The Mindoro imperial pigeon (Ducula mindorensis) is a large forest pigeon found only on the island of Mindoro, one of…
Mindoro · Mina de Oro (Spanish era name)
Mindoro Island is the seventh-largest island in the Philippines, encompassing a land area of approximately 10,571 square kilometers. Located southwest…
The Mindoro pine is the pine tree native to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, forming the island's only…
The Mindoro racket-tail (Prioniturus mindorensis) is a green parrot endemic to the island of Mindoro, distinguished by the blue crown…
Mindoro racket-tail (alternative spelling) · Blue-crowned racquet-tail (former broader-species name)
The Mindoro racquet-tail (Prioniturus mindorensis) is a green, island-endemic parrot found only on Mindoro, where it inhabits montane and remaining…
Otus mindorensis (scientific name) · Mindoro scops-owl
The Mindoro scops owl (Otus mindorensis) is a small, earless scops owl endemic to the island of Mindoro in the…
Estrecho de Mindoro (Spanish charts) · Mindoro-Palawan Passage (navigational usage)
The Mindoro Strait is the deep sea channel between the island of Mindoro and the Calamian island group of northern…
MGB · Bureau of Mines and Geosciences
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) is the line bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)…
1. Definition Minglanilla, officially the Municipality of Minglanilla, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. Located in…
Municipality of Minglanilla · Minglanilla Cebu
Minglanilla, officially the Municipality of Minglanilla, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
RA 7942 · Republic Act No. 7942
The Mining Act of 1995 is the short title that Section 1 gives to Republic Act No. 7942, officially "An…
MHS — the standard abbreviation · Department of Human Settlements (DHS) — the original designation in PD 1396, before PD 1397 converted departments into ministries
The Ministry of Human Settlements (MHS) was the cabinet-level ministry of the Philippine New Society era that held the state's…
Minokawa bird · The moon-swallower of Bagobo myth
The Minokawa is a colossal bird of Bagobo mythology from Mindanao, said to be large enough to swallow the moon…
Minori Cave is an archaeological cave in Barangay Quibal, Peñablanca, Cagayan, part of the Callao limestone formation that riddles the…
Minute Burger is a Philippine grill-to-go burger franchise operated by D&C Foods, commonly sited near markets and transport hubs at…
Maryknoll College (former name) · Miriam College Foundation, Inc.
Miriam College is a private Catholic educational institution for women in Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, administered in the tradition of…
The Iron Lady of Asia — the most widely used of her press sobriquets · MDS — the initials by which she was commonly discussed
Miriam Defensor Santiago (June 15, 1945 – September 29, 2016) was a Filipino lawyer, trial judge, cabinet secretary, three-term senator,…
Misa de Gallo, Spanish for "Rooster's Mass," is the dawn or midnight Mass celebrated in Catholic tradition on Christmas Eve…
Province of Misamis Occidental · Misamis Occidental
Misamis Occidental, officially the Province of Misamis Occidental, is a province in the Northern Mindanao region of the Philippines. Its…
Province of Misamis Occidental · Misamis Occidental
Misamis Occidental, officially the Province of Misamis Occidental, is a province of the Philippines located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Province of Misamis Oriental · Misamis Oriental
Misamis Oriental, officially the Province of Misamis Oriental, is a province in the Northern Mindanao region of the Philippines, located…
Province of Misamis Oriental · Misamis Oriental
Misamis Oriental, officially the Province of Misamis Oriental, is a province of the Philippines located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Panganiban Reef (Philippine name, after José Rizal's pen name) · Bahura ng Panganiban (Filipino)
Mischief Reef, known in the Philippines as Panganiban Reef (Filipino: Bahura ng Panganiban), in China as Měijì Jiāo (美济礁), and…
Miss Earth is an annual international beauty pageant based in the Philippines that advocates environmental awareness, conservation and social responsibility.…
Miss Earth Philippines (officially Miss Philippines Earth) is the national pageant that selects the Philippine representative to Miss Earth, an…
The 23rd Miss Universe pageant · Miss Universe 1974 (Manila edition)
Miss Universe 1974 was the 23rd edition of the international beauty pageant, held on July 21, 1974 at the newly…
The 65th Miss Universe pageant · Miss Universe 2016 (Manila edition)
Miss Universe 2016 was the 65th edition of the pageant, staged on January 30, 2017 at the Mall of Asia…
Miss Universe Philippines (MUPH) is the national organization that has selected the Philippines' representative to the Miss Universe pageant since…
Mitsubishi Freeca (regional base name, from "free" plus "ca," the Taiwanese word for vehicle) · Mitsubishi Kuda (Indonesian market name)
The Mitsubishi Adventure is the Philippine-market name of the Mitsubishi Freeca, a body-on-frame Asian Utility Vehicle (AUV) wagon — offered…
Mitsubishi Delica (global name of the van family) · Mitsubishi L300 Versa Van (locally assembled passenger version, discontinued 2012)
The Mitsubishi L300 is the Philippine-market name for light commercial vehicles derived from the Mitsubishi Delica van family, and one…
Mitsubishi Attrage (Japanese, Thai, and other markets) · Dodge Attitude (Mexico)
The Mitsubishi Mirage G4 is the Philippine and North American name for the sedan version of the sixth-generation Mitsubishi Mirage…
Mitsubishi Motors · MMC
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) is the Japanese automobile manufacturer spun off from the automobile division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on…
MMPC · Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation
Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation (MMPC) is the Philippine subsidiary of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and the longest-operating automotive manufacturer in the…
1. Definition Mixed-age Learning (also known as multi-age grouping) is an educational model where children of different ages and developmental…
Township developer · Estate developer
A Mixed-Use Developer is a real estate developer that specializes in the planning, financing, construction, and management of mixed-use developments…
Mixed-Use Development · Mixed-Use Development (Philippines)
Mixed-Use Development is a real estate development model in the Philippines that integrates multiple urban uses—such as residential, commercial, retail,…
Township development (Filipino developer terminology) · Integrated lifestyle community
A mixed-use development in Philippine real estate refers to a master-planned project integrating multiple property types within a single site…
1. Definition Mixed-Use Property is a real estate development strategy that integrates multiple urban usages—such as residential, commercial, retail, office,…
Moalboal is a municipality of about 38,000 people (2024 census) on Cebu's southwestern peninsula, bordered to the west by the…
Municipality of Moalboal · Moalboal Cebu
Moalboal, officially the Municipality of Moalboal, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Moalboal sardine baitball · Pescador Island sardine run
The Moalboal Sardine Run is the year-round aggregation of millions of sardines that mass in shimmering bait balls just off…
Municipality of Mobo · Mobo Masbate
Mobo, officially the Municipality of Mobo, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Battle of Manila (1898) — the canonical title of the standard account, which notes the action is "sometimes called the Mock Battle of Manila" ([Wikipedia — Battle of Manila (1898)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_(1898) "Battle of Manila (1898) — Wikipedia")) · The sham battle for Manila — the negotiating parties' own description of the arrangement ([Wikipedia — Battle of Manila (1898)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_(1898) "Battle of Manila (1898) — Wikipedia"))
The Mock Battle of Manila — the staged surrender of Manila on August 13, 1898, at the close of the…
Municipality of Mogpog · Mogpog Marinduque
Mogpog, officially the Municipality of Mogpog, is a municipality in the province of Marinduque, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Municipality of Moises Padilla · Moises Padilla Negros Occidental
Moises Padilla, officially the Municipality of Moises Padilla, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the…
Molave (Vitex parviflora) is a large native hardwood tree of the Philippines and parts of Southeast Asia, prized for its…
Vitex parviflora (scientific name) · Tugas (Visayan name)
The molave (Vitex parviflora) is a native Philippine hardwood tree prized for its dense, durable, termite-resistant timber, once a standard…
Molave is a first-income-class municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, widely regarded as the commercial hub of the Salug Valley…
Molbog people · Balabac islanders
The Molbog are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group concentrated on Balabac and Bugsuk islands at the southern tip of Palawan, with…
Molbog of Balabac · Balabac islanders
The Molbog are a small, traditionally Islamized seafaring indigenous people of Balabac and Bugsuk islands at the southern tip of…
Moldex Realty, Inc. · Moldex
Moldex Realty, Inc. is a prominent real estate developer in the Philippines, operating under the Moldex Group of Companies. Headquartered…
St. Anne Parish Church (Molo) · The Feminist Church
Molo Church, formally the St. Anne Parish Church, is a coral-stone and brick Gothic-renaissance church in the Molo district of…
Maluku Islands · Spice Islands
The Moluccas — the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, remembered as the Spice Islands — are an archipelago of roughly…
Monay is a dense, chewy Filipino bread roll distinguished by its split top and moist crumb, made from an enriched…
Municipality of Moncada · Moncada Tarlac
Moncada, officially the Municipality of Moncada, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Mondragon · Mondragon Northern Samar
Mondragon, officially the Municipality of Mondragon, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
The Monfort Bat Sanctuary is a privately protected cave complex on Samal Island, in the Island Garden City of Samal,…
Monito monita is the Filipino version of Secret Santa, a Christmas-season gift-exchange game in which participants draw names and become…
Municipality of Monkayo · Monkayo Davao de Oro
Monkayo, officially the Municipality of Monkayo, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
Municipality of Monreal · Monreal Masbate
Monreal, officially the Municipality of Monreal, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
southwest monsoon · northeast monsoon
A monsoon is a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation — traditionally defined by the wind's reversal,…
1. Definition Montessori Education is a child-centered educational approach developed by Italian physician Maria Montessori. Characterized by self-directed activity, hands-on…
Municipality of Montevista · Montevista Davao de Oro
Montevista, officially the Municipality of Montevista, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
The moot and academic doctrine — the Philippine decisions' own name · Moot and academic — the adjectival formula of the resolutions
Mootness is the doctrine that courts decline to decide cases whose issues have ceased to present a live controversy —…
Morcon is a festive Filipino dish of meat — most classically a flat slab of beef, though pork and chicken…
Moriones · Senakulo ng Marinduque
The Moriones Festival is the Holy Week tradition of Marinduque province in which masked and costumed men called moriones, dressed…
Moro Gulf earthquake / Moro Gulf tsunami — the common names of the August 17, 1976 disaster associated with the gulf · 1976 Mindanao earthquake — the alternate scholarly name for the same event, used in seismological literature
The Moro Gulf is the large gulf of southwestern Mindanao in the Philippines — the largest gulf in the country…
MILF · Moro Islamic Liberation Front (established 1984 from the New MNLF)
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is a Muslim Filipino revolutionary organization formed in the late 1970s as a breakaway…
MNLF · Bagong Moro National Liberation Front
The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) is a political and formerly insurgent organization founded in 1969 under Nur Misuari that…
The Moro people are the Muslim peoples of the Philippines — thirteen Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan,…
Moro Province of the Philippines · District of Mindanao and Sulu (successor context)
The Moro Province was a special province of the American-insular Philippines created in 1903 to administer the largely Muslim districts…
The Moro Rebellion (1899–1913) was the armed resistance of the Muslim Moro peoples of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago against…
Moro-moro is a Philippine theatrical form depicting stylized battles between Muslim ("Moro") and Christian kingdoms, adapted during the Spanish colonial…
Moron rice cake · Chocolate suman of Eastern Visayas
Morón is a Filipino rice cake similar to suman, native to the Waray people of the Eastern Visayas region, particularly…
Municipality of Morong · Morong Rizal
Morong, officially the Municipality of Morong, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Real Estate Mortgage · REM
A mortgage (specifically a real estate mortgage or REM under Philippine law) is an accessory contract whereby a debtor (the…
MELCS · MELCs
Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) is a streamlined basic education curriculum framework issued by the Department of Education (DepEd) in…
Municipality of Motiong · Motiong Samar
Motiong, officially the Municipality of Motiong, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Engine oil · Lubricating oil
Motor oil is the lubricant formulated for internal-combustion engines: it reduces friction and wear on moving parts, cleans the engine…
MVDP · Motor Vehicle Development Program (MVDP)
The Motor Vehicle Development Program (MVDP) is the Philippine government's framework industrial policy for the motor-vehicle manufacturing industry, established by…
MVIS · Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Center system
The Motor Vehicle Inspection System (MVIS) is the roadworthiness-testing regime of the Philippine government under which motor vehicles are examined…
MVUC · Motor Vehicle User's Charge (MVUC)
The Motor Vehicle User's Charge (MVUC), popularly called the road user's tax, is the annual charge imposed by Republic Act…
Republic Act No. 11235 · RA 11235
The Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 11235, officially "An Act Preventing and Penalizing…
MDPPA · Motorcycle Development Program Participants Association, Inc.
The Motorcycle Development Program Participants Association (MDPPA) is the industry association of motorcycle manufacturers in the Philippines, formed to organize…
Republic Act No. 10054 · RA 10054
The Motorcycle Helmet Act of 2009 is the short title of Republic Act No. 10054, officially "An Act Mandating All…
The Motorcycle Helmet Act, signed on 23 March 2010, mandates that all motorcycle riders, including drivers and backriders, wear protective…
Philippine motorcycle industry · Two-wheeler industry in the Philippines
Motorcycle industry in the Philippines is the manufacturing, assembly, importation, distribution, and sale of motorcycles — the country's dominant form…
Habal-habal (from Cebuano habalhabal; skylab in parts of Mindanao) · Motorcycle ride-hailing
Motorcycle taxi refers to the transport of paying passengers on a motorcycle, in the Philippines traditionally the informal habal-habal —…
Tirzepatide (generic name) · Zepbound (brand name for weight management in the US)
Mounjaro (generic name: tirzepatide) is a prescription-only injectable medication developed by Eli Lilly and Company, indicated for the treatment of…
Amorong volcano
Mount Amorong is a dormant volcanic cone in eastern Pangasinan, Philippines, rising a few hundred meters above the surrounding plains…
Amuyao · Mount Amuyao-Barlig
Mount Amuyao is a 2,702-meter peak in the Cordillera Central of northern Luzon, rising on the boundary of Barlig and…
Mount Apo is the highest mountain in the Philippines, with an elevation of 2,954 meters (9,692 feet) above sea level.…
Mt. Apo Specialty Coffee · Apo Arabica
Mount Apo Coffee refers to the single-origin specialty coffee grown on the high-altitude slopes of Mount Apo, the highest peak…
Mindanao Geothermal Production Field · Mount Apo Geothermal Power Plant
The Mount Apo Geothermal Project is the geothermal power complex on the northwestern slope of Mount Apo, the Philippines' highest…
MANP · Mount Apo Protected Area
Mount Apo Natural Park is the protected area, established under the natural park category of the National Integrated Protected Areas…
Bundok Alaya ("eastern mountain" — an old vernacular name) · Bondoc Alaya / Bondo Kalaya (recorded in Gemelli Careri's 1696 travel diary)
Mount Arayat is an isolated stratovolcano rising to 1,026 meters (3,366 feet) above the Central Luzon plain in the province…
Mount Arayat is a solitary extinct stratovolcano in Pampanga province, Philippines, rising to about 1,026 meters from the flat Central…
Mount Asog is a forested dormant stratovolcano in Camarines Sur province, Philippines, rising to about 1,140 meters beside Lake Buhi…
Mount Balatukan is a massive stratovolcano forming the highest point of the Misamis Oriental coastal range in northern Mindanao, Philippines,…
Balungao Volcano · Mount Balungaw (alternate spelling)
Mount Balungao is a dormant volcano rising to about 380 meters above the coastal plains of Balungao, a town in…
Banahaw · Mount Banahao (older spelling retained in the 1921 forest reserve name)
Mount Banahaw is an active complex volcano on the boundary of Laguna and Quezon provinces in the Philippines, rising to…
Mount Banahaw de Lucbán · Lucban side of Banahaw
Mount Banahaw de Lucban is the northeastern summit of the Banahaw mountain complex, rising to about 1,875 meters above the…
Mount Bongao, known locally as Bud Bongao, is a 314-meter sacred mountain on Bongao Island in Tawi-Tawi, the Philippines' southernmost…
Bulusan Volcano
Mount Bulusan is an active stratovolcano rising 1,565 meters in Sorsogon province at the southeastern tip of Luzon, within Bulusan…
Cagua Volcano · Mount Cagua
Mount Cagua, also known as Cagua Volcano, is an active stratovolcano in the municipality of Santa Teresita in Cagayan province,…
Mount Cristobal (Mount San Cristobal) is a potentially active stratovolcano rising about 2,170 meters on the boundary of Laguna and…
Mount Daraitan is a limestone mountain in Barangay Daraitan, Tanay, Rizal, on the eastern flank of the Sierra Madre range…
Mount Data National Park (protected-area usage)
Mount Data (about 2,310 meters) is a high mountain at the boundary of Benguet and Mountain Province in the Cordillera…
Diwata mountain of Monkayo · Diwalwal mining mountain (popular usage)
Mount Diwata is a mountain in the Diwata Range of Davao de Oro province (formerly Compostela Valley), Mindanao, Philippines, whose…
Mount Dulang-dulang is the second-highest mountain in the Philippines at approximately 2,938 meters above sea level, located in the Kitanglad…
M2G2 (mountaineering abbreviation)
Mount Guiting-Guiting (about 2,058 meters) is the jagged highest peak of Sibuyan Island in Romblon province, Philippines, whose saw-toothed summit…
Mount Halcon is a mountain on the island of Mindoro rising about 2,582 meters above sea level, the highest peak…
Mount Hamiguitan is a mountain in Davao Oriental province, Philippines, rising to about 1,620 meters above sea level and famed…
Mount Hibok-Hibok is an active stratovolcano on Camiguin island, Philippines, rising to about 1,332 meters — the volcano whose twentieth-century…
Mount Iglit · Mount Baco
Mount Iglit-Baco is a mountain massif in Mindoro, Philippines, straddling the provincial boundary between Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro within…
Mount Iraya Volcano · Basco Volcano (informal usage)
Mount Iraya (about 1,009 meters) is a stratovolcano on Batan Island, the main island of Batanes province in the northernmost…
Mount Asog · Volcan de Asog
Mount Iriga, also known as Mount Asog, is a dormant stratovolcano in the Bicol Region of the Philippines, rising about…
Mount Isarog is a 1,966-metre potentially active stratovolcano rising behind Naga City in Camarines Sur, Bicol, Philippines. Cloaked in some…
Mount Kalatungan is a stratovolcano in Bukidnon province, Mindanao, Philippines, rising to approximately 2,824 meters — among the highest peaks…
Kanlaon Volcano · Canlaon Volcano
Mount Kanlaon (Kanlaon Volcano) is an active andesitic stratovolcano on Negros island in the central Philippines and, at 2,465 meters…
Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park — the statutory spelling of Republic Act No. 9154 · MKNP — the standard abbreviation of Philippine conservation and DENR usage
Mount Kanlaon Natural Park (statutory spelling Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park; MKNP) is the protected area enclosing Mount Kanlaon, the 2,465-meter…
Mount Kitanglad is a dormant volcano in Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao, rising about 2,899 meters above sea level, making it the…
Madja-as peak · Mount Madia-as (older spelling)
Mount Madja-as, rising to about 2,100 meters above Culasi in Antique province, is the highest mountain of Panay Island in…
Mount Makaturing is a stratovolcano in the province of Lanao del Sur on the island of Mindanao, Philippines, rising over…
Mount Makiling Forest Reserve · Mount Maquiling (older spelling)
Mount Makiling is a 1,090-meter dormant volcano at the boundary of Laguna and Batangas provinces on Luzon, rising over the…
Mount Macolod · Bundok Makulot
Mount Makulot (also spelled Mount Macolod) is a 830-meter volcanic peak in the municipality of Cuenca, Batangas, Philippines. Rising on…
Malepunyo Mountain Range · Mount Malepunyo
Mount Malarayat is a forested mountain massif rising to roughly 1,000 meters near Lipa City in Batangas, Philippines. Together with…
Malinao Volcano
Mount Malinao is a potentially active stratovolcano about 1,548 meters high in the municipalities of Malinao and Tabaco, Albay. It…
Mount Malindang Range Natural Park (MMRNP) · Malindang Volcano
Mount Malindang is a massive volcanic mountain range and a protected natural park located in the southern island of Mindanao,…
Mount Marlanga (older name on charts)
Mount Malindig (also spelled Malindig Mountain, about 1,157 meters) is a dormant stratovolcano and the highest peak of Marinduque island…
Manabu peak · Mount Malepunyo's high shoulder (the range's peaks include Malepunyo, Susong Dalaga, and Manabu)
Mount Manabu, about 830 meters high in the Malepunyo Mountain Range of Batangas province, is a popular day-hike destination on…
Mandalagan massif
Mount Mandalagan is a large mountain massif in the northern part of Negros island, Philippines, rising within Negros Occidental as…
The Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape is a protected mountain range at the southern end of Palawan, Philippines, covering over 120,000…
Mount Mantalingahan (protected-area spelling) · Roof of Palawan (nickname)
Mount Mantalingajan (about 2,086 meters) is the highest mountain of Palawan province in the Philippines, an ultrabasic massif rising above…
Manunggal peak · Magsaysay crash site mountain
Mount Manunggal is a mountain in Balamban, Cebu, Philippines, within the Central Cebu Protected Landscape, rising to about 1,000 meters.…
Mataas na Gulod Boulders · Silyang Bato (rock-chair formation, informal)
Mount Marami is a hiking destination in the Maragondon uplands of Cavite province, Luzon, Philippines, a dramatic cliff-and-boulder complex on…
Mount Mariveles is a 1,388-meter forested volcano dominating the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines, rising directly…
Masaraga Volcano
Mount Masaraga is a forested stratovolcano rising about 1,328 meters in Ligao City, Albay, northwest of Mayon Volcano. Considered potentially…
Mount Matutum is a dormant stratovolcano in South Cotabato province, Philippines, rising to about 2,286 meters above the Koronadal Valley…
Mayon Volcano · Bulkan Mayon
Mount Mayon, also known as Mayon Volcano (Central Bikol: Bulkan Mayon; Tagalog: Bulkang Mayon), is an active stratovolcano located in…
Mount Parker · Parker Volcano
Mount Melibengoy, also widely known as Mount Parker, is a forested stratovolcano in the province of South Cotabato on the…
Mount Calayo · Musuan Volcano
Mount Musuan, also called Mount Calayo, is a small volcanic cone and lava dome in Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao, rising about…
Mount Nangtud is the second-highest peak on the island of Panay, Philippines, and the third-highest mountain in the Visayas, after…
Mt. Natib · Natib Volcano
Mount Natib is a dormant stratovolcano and the highest peak on the Bataan Peninsula in Luzon, rising about 1,253 metres…
Mount Parker is a stratovolcano in Cotabato province on Mindanao island, Philippines, rising to approximately 1,824 meters above sea level.…
Mt. Pinatubo · Bulkang Pinatubo (Filipino)
Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the tri-boundary of Zambales, Tarlac, and Pampanga provinces on the island of…
Mount Pulog · Mt. Pulag
Mount Pulag (also spelled Mount Pulog) is, at 2,928 meters (9,606 feet) above sea level, the highest mountain on Luzon…
Blue Mountain (English nickname) · Mount Piapayungan (older cartographic name)
Mount Ragang (about 2,803 meters, also cited near 2,815 meters) is an active stratovolcano on the boundary of Lanao del…
Mt. Samat · Dambana ng Kagitingan (name of the shrine complex)
Mount Samat is a 553-metre (1,814 ft) mountain in the town of Pilar, Bataan, Luzon, best known as the site…
Mount San Cristobal (Banahaw twin) · Devil's Mountain (folk nickname)
Mount San Cristobal (about 1,470 meters) is a dormant stratovolcano in the provinces of Laguna and Quezon, Philippines, rising immediately…
Mount Sto. Tomas (abbreviated local usage)
Mount Santo Tomas (about 2,260 meters) is a stratovolcano in the municipality of Tuba, Benguet, Philippines, rising southwest of Baguio…
Sembrano Peak · Bundok Sembrano
Mount Sembrano is a ridge-like mountain about 780 meters high on the Jalajala peninsula at the southeastern edge of Laguna…
Mt. Sicapoo · Sicapoo Peak
Mount Sicapoo is a high mountain peak in the Cordillera Central of northern Luzon, rising to about 2,361 metres (7,746…
Mount Silay volcano · Patag highlands (for its foothill region)
Mount Silay is a forested stratovolcano in the northern portion of Negros island, Philippines, rising about 1,533 meters within Silay…
Mount Sumagaya is a 2,248-meter mountain in the municipality of Claveria, Misamis Oriental, on the northern coast of Mindanao. It…
Mount Gonzales · Sungay Peak ("sungay" meaning horn in Tagalog)
Mount Sungay, also known as Mount Gonzales, is the highest point of Cavite province, rising about 709 metres on the…
Mt. Tabayoc · Mount Talayoc
Mount Tabayoc is a mountain in the municipality of Kabayan, Benguet province, Philippines, rising to about 2,842 meters above sea…
Mount Tagapo is a 438-meter dormant volcano and the highest point of Talim Island, the large island within Laguna de…
Mount Talamitam is a grassland mountain in the municipality of Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines, rising to roughly 630 meters beside its…
Mount Talinis, also known as the Cuernos de Negros ("Horns of Negros"), is a complex stratovolcano in the southern portion…
Talomo volcano · Mount Talomo-Apo range (when paired with Mount Apo)
Mount Talomo is a 2,674-meter stratovolcano in the Apo–Talomo mountain range of Mindanao, Philippines, rising over Davao del Sur and…
High Peak · Mount High Peak
Mount Tapulao is the highest peak of the Zambales mountain range on Luzon, rising about 2,037 meters in Zambales province…
Mount Timbak, also called Mount Singakalsa, is a 2,717-meter peak in the municipality of Atok, Benguet, and among the highest…
Mount Victoria, also called Victoria Peaks, is a mountain in central Palawan, Philippines, lying within the municipality of Narra. Its…
Province of Mountain Province · Mountain Province
Mountain Province, officially the Province of Mountain Province, is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon, Philippines.…
Grey-capped shrike · Lanius validirostris
The mountain shrike (Lanius validirostris), also called the grey-capped shrike, is a songbird endemic to the Philippines and a member…
Mountains of the Philippines form the archipelago's volcanic and tectonic backbone, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Mount Apo…
Mounts Iglit-Baco Natural Park is a protected area straddling the provinces of Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro in the Philippines,…
MoveIt · MOVE IT
Move It is a Philippine motorcycle-taxi booking platform, launched in 2019, that operates as the third player — alongside Angkas…
MTRCB · Lupon sa Rebyu at Klasipikasyon ng Pelikula at Telebisyon
The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) is the Philippine government agency that reviews and classifies motion pictures,…
Mr. and Ms. · Mr & Ms
Mr & Ms Magazine (styled Mr. & Ms.) was a Philippine magazine established in 1977 by the journalist Eugenia Duran…
Manila Metro Rail Transit System · MRT
An MRT Line (Metro Rail Transit Line) in the Philippines refers to any high-capacity rapid transit line operating within the…
Metro Rail Transit Line 3 · Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 3
MRT Line 3, also known as the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 3 (or the EDSA MRT), is a…
MRT-7 · Metro Rail Transit Line 7
The MRT Line 7 (commonly known as MRT-7) is an under-construction rapid transit line in Metro Manila and Bulacan, Philippines.…
The Mindoro oil spill — the press shorthand used in Philippine coverage · The oil spill incident in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro — the government situation-report designation
The MT Princess Empress oil spill is the marine disaster that began when the tanker MT Princess Empress, owned by…
Vector (post-1980 renaming, before December 1987) · Oil Nic-II (name at completion, 1980)
The MT Vector was a small Philippine-registered motor tanker — 629 gross register tons, 51.7 meters long, built at Manila…
Mounts Palay-Palay–Mataas-na-Gulod Protected Landscape · Pico de Loro Forest Reserve (popular usage)
The Mts. Palay-Palay–Mataas-na-Gulod Protected Landscape is a protected area of more than four thousand hectares on the border of Cavite…
Alimango (Filipino) · Mangrove crab
The mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata) is a large edible crab of estuaries and mangroves across the Indo-Pacific,…
Sultan Kudarat · Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat
Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat (c. 1581-1671) was the seventh Sultan of Maguindanao who reigned from 1619 to 1671 and successfully defended…
Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat (c. 1581–1671) was the seventh Sultan of Maguindanao who ruled over much of central Mindanao for roughly…
Municipality of Mulanay · Mulanay Quezon
Mulanay, officially the Municipality of Mulanay, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Mulondo · Mulondo Lanao del Sur
Mulondo, officially the Municipality of Mulondo, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
1. Definition Multi-generational housing refers to residential designs and living arrangements where two or more adult generations (such as grandparents,…
Theory of Multiple Intelligences · Gardner's Intelligences
The theory of Multiple Intelligences is an educational model developed by Dr. Howard Gardner that proposes humans possess a range…
Municipality of Munai · Munai Lanao del Norte
Munai, officially the Municipality of Munai, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
MCTC · Municipal Circuit Trial Courts — the statutory plural
The Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC) is the first-level trial court of the Philippines that serves a municipal circuit —…
MTC · MTCs — the statutory plural of the Sec. 25 family
The Municipal Trial Court (MTC) is the first-level trial court of the Philippines for cities and municipalities outside the metropolitan…
MTCC · Municipal Trial Courts in Cities — the statutory plural used by RA 7691, RA 11576, and the small-claims rule
The Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) is the first-level trial court of the Philippines for chartered cities outside the…
1. Definition Muñoz, officially the Science City of Muñoz, is a component city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.…
Muntinlupa City · City of Muntinlupa
Muntinlupa, officially the City of Muntinlupa, is the southernmost highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. Positioned as the 'Gateway…
Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway · MCX
Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway (MCX) is a 4.0-kilometer (2.5 mi) access-controlled toll expressway linking the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) in Muntinlupa to…
Municipality of Murcia · Murcia Negros Occidental
Murcia, officially the Municipality of Murcia, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Kamuning (Filipino; also the name of a Quezon City district) · Orange jessamine, mock orange, Chinese box (English names)
Murraya paniculata, called kamuning in the Philippines and orange jessamine or Chinese box abroad, is a dense, glossy-leaved shrub or…
Saging matsing, butuhan, bisul (Philippine common names) · Wild banana, starchy wild banana (English)
Musa balbisiana is a wild banana species of South and Southeast Asia, widespread in the Philippines as saging matsing ("monkey…
Cebu Provincial Museum · Museo Sugbo (Cebu Museum)
Museo Sugbo is the provincial museum of Cebu, located along M.J. Cuenco Avenue in Cebu City. It occupies the former…
Museum-Library of the Philippines (English rendering) · Museo Biblioteca de Filipinas (as styled in the 1887 royal decree)
The Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinas ("Museum-Library of the Philippines") was the museum and library founded at Manila under Spanish rule by…
Mussaenda philippica, known in gardens as tropical dogwood, is a shrub or small tree endemic to the Philippines and one…
Mount Musuan · Mount Calayo (from the Bisaya word for fire, "kalayo")
Musuan Peak, also called Mount Musuan or Mount Calayo, is an active volcano in Maramag, Bukidnon, on the island of…
Municipality of Mutia · Mutia Zamboanga del Norte
Mutia, officially the Municipality of Mutia, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
MDT — the standard abbreviation in Philippine and American usage · 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty — the dating style used to distinguish it from other treaties of the same name
The Mutual Defense Treaty (formally the Mutual Defense Treaty between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of…
Mutya ng Pilipinas ("Muse of the Philippines") is a Philippine national beauty pageant established in the late 1960s that crowns…
Doña Marilyn — the styling of the vessel's name in Philippine reporting · Otohime Maru — her original name in Japanese service, 1966–1976
The MV Doña Marilyn was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry operated by Sulpicio Lines — built in Japan in 1966 as…
Doña Paz — the styling of the vessel's name in most Philippine reporting · Himeyuri Maru — her original name in Japanese service, 1963–1975
The MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry — built in Japan in 1963 and operated by Sulpicio Lines…
Sun Flower 11 — the name as built for Nippon Kosoku Ferry in 1974 · Sun Flower Satsuma — the name carried from 1990 to 1993 under Blue Highway Line
MV Princess of the Orient was a 195.81-meter roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry of Sulpicio Lines — built in Japan by Shin…
Princess of the Stars — the common short styling · Ferry Lilac — the ship's name as built in Japan in 1984
MV Princess of the Stars was a 193-meter roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry of Sulpicio Lines — built in Japan in 1984…
Ferry Sumiyoshi — her 1973–1992 Japanese name in Meimon Taiyo Ferry service · MV Aboitiz SuperFerry 2 — her 1992–2012 name in Aboitiz service
The MV St. Thomas Aquinas was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry operated by 2GO Travel — a Japanese-built vessel of 1973,…
MWSS RO · Regulatory Office
The MWSS Regulatory Office (MWSS RO, or RO) is the economic regulator of the Metro Manila water concession — the…
MX3 Soap · MX3 Antibacterial Soap with Xanthone
MX3 Antibacterial Soap (officially MX3 Antibacterial Soap with Xanthone) is a Philippine-manufactured skin hygiene product produced by DMI Medical Supply…
MX3 500mg Capsule · MX3 Plus Capsule (variant with L-Carnitine and CoQ10)
MX3 Capsule is a Philippine-manufactured dietary supplement produced by DMI Medical Supply Co., Inc., containing 500 mg of Garcinia mangostana…
MX3 Coffeemix 3-in-1 · MX3 Mangosteen Coffee
MX3 Coffee Mix (officially MX3 Coffeemix 3-in-1) is a Philippine wellness beverage manufactured and distributed by DMI Medical Supply Co.,…
MX3 · MX3 Mangosteen
MX3 Philippines is a brand of natural dietary health supplements and beverages produced, distributed, and marketed by DMI Medical Supply…
GCash · Mynt
Mynt is the Philippine fintech group that owns and operates GCash, the country's dominant mobile wallet — a joint venture…
N.V.M. Gonzalez (Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez, 1915–1999) was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, conferred the National…
Municipality of Naawan · Naawan Misamis Oriental
Naawan, officially the Municipality of Naawan, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Nabao Lake (Candaba) · One of the Candaba swamps and fishponds
Nabao Lake is a small, shallow lake in the municipality of Candaba, Pampanga, Philippines, forming part of the greater Candaba…
Municipality of Nabas · Nabas Aklan
Nabas, officially the Municipality of Nabas, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Nabua, officially the Municipality of Nabua (Rinconada Bikol: Banwāan ka Nabua), is a first-class municipality in Camarines Sur, Philippines, with…
Municipality of Nabunturan · Nabunturan Davao de Oro
Nabunturan, officially the Municipality of Nabunturan, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
NP — the standard abbreviation in Philippine election reporting · Partido Nacionalista — the Spanish-era styling of the party's name
The Nacionalista Party (Spanish Partido Nacionalista) is a Philippine political party founded in Manila on April 29, 1907 by the…
Municipality of Naga · Naga Zamboanga Sibugay
Naga, officially the Municipality of Naga, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
City of Naga · An Maogmang Lugar (The Happy Place)
Naga City, officially the City of Naga, is an independent component city geographically located within the province of Camarines Sur,…
Municipality of Nagbukel · Nagbukel Ilocos Sur
Nagbukel, officially the Municipality of Nagbukel, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Nagcarlan · Nagcarlan Laguna
Nagcarlan, officially the Municipality of Nagcarlan, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
The Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery is a 19th-century burial complex in Nagcarlan, Laguna, Philippines, whose baroque chapel stands above a crypt…
Municipality of Nagtipunan · Nagtipunan Quirino
Nagtipunan, officially the Municipality of Nagtipunan, is a municipality in the province of Quirino, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Naguilian · Naguilian Isabela
Naguilian, officially the Municipality of Naguilian, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
NAIA Expressway · NAIAX
NAIA Expressway, also known as NAIAX (designated as E6 of the Philippine expressway network), is a 12.6-kilometer (7.8 mi) elevated…
Municipality of Naic · Naic
Naic, officially the Municipality of Naic, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. Located along the western…
Naic Agreement (short form) · The Naic military pact (descriptive variant)
The Naic Military Agreement is the document signed at Naic, Cavite — the town covered by this wiki's entry on…
Naic · Bonifacio's Last Town (informal)
Naic is a first-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, on the coast of Manila Bay west of Tanza. It is historically…
Nail Penetration Safety Test · Internal Short Circuit Simulation Test
The Nail Penetration Test is a rigorous battery safety testing method where a steel nail is driven through an lithium-ion…
The Nakabuang Beach Arch is a natural limestone rock arch on the white sand beach of Nakabuang (also called White…
The Naliyagan Festival is the annual foundation festival of Agusan del Sur held in June at the provincial capital of…
Naltrexone and Bupropion Extended-Release · Contrave
Naltrexone-Bupropion is a fixed-dose combination medication containing naltrexone hydrochloride, an opioid receptor antagonist, and bupropion hydrochloride, an aminoketone antidepressant and…
Namayan was one of the major precolonial polities of the Pasig River basin around Manila Bay — alongside Tondo and…
National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections · NAMFREL — the universal acronym
The National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) is the Philippines' principal non-partisan citizens' election-watch organization, formally organized in October…
Municipality of Nampicuan · Nampicuan Nueva Ecija
Nampicuan, officially the Municipality of Nampicuan, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) is the central mapping agency of the Philippine government, attached to the…
Nanoshine Group Corp. — the current legal name of the Taiwan-based controlling entity · Nanoshine Ltd — the earlier corporate styling used in the brand's founding-era materials and independent profiles
Nanoshine Group is the corporate parent and manufacturer of Ceramic Pro, the nanoceramic surface-protection coating brand distributed in the Philippines…
Napoleon V. Abueva — the signature and citation form used in his proclamation · Billy Abueva — the name he was fondly called by
Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva (January 26, 1930, Tagbilaran, Bohol – February 16, 2018, Quezon City) was a Filipino sculptor known…
Napoleon G. Rama — the full styling · Commissioner Rama — his title on the 1986 Constitutional Commission ([Philstar — Commissioner Rama](https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2014/11/02/1387243/commissioner-napoleon-g-rama "Commissioner Napoleon G. Rama — Philstar.com / The Freeman (November 2, 2014)"))
Napoleon G. Rama (July 27, 1923, Cebu — January 10, 2016, Quezon City) was a Filipino journalist and constitutionalist —…
Napoleones is a Bacolod City signature pastry: a rectangular stack of crisp puff pastry layers filled with soft custard cream…
Narciso Claveria · Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa
Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa — born Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, on May 2, 1795;…
Narra (Pterocarpus indicus) is the national tree of the Philippines — a large tropical hardwood tree of the legume family…
Narra is a first-class municipality in the central plains of Palawan, Philippines, situated along the Sulu Sea coast south of…
Narvacan is a coastal municipality in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, stretched between the West Philippine Sea and the first ridges of…
Municipality of Narvacan · Narvacan Ilocos Sur
Narvacan, officially the Municipality of Narvacan, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Nasipit is a municipality in Agusan del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, and the primary seaport gateway of the province. Established…
Municipality of Nasugbu · Nasugbu
Nasugbu, officially the Municipality of Nasugbu, is a first-class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located along the western…
Nasugbu is a first-income-class municipality in western Batangas, Philippines, and the largest municipality in the province by land area at…
NAST Philippines (official short form) · NAST (abbreviation)
The National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST Philippines) is the country's highest advisory body on science and technology, composed…
Pambansang Sinupan ng Pilipinas (Filipino designation) · NAP
The National Archives of the Philippines (NAP; Filipino: Pambansang Sinupan ng Pilipinas) is the government agency mandated to collect, store,…
First National Assembly of the Philippines · The Assembly — the standard short form of the Commonwealth era, 1935–1941
The National Assembly of the Philippines is the name carried by three distinct legislatures in the country's constitutional history. The…
NBB · National Biofuel Board
The National Biofuels Board (NBB) is the Philippine inter-agency body created by Section 8 of Republic Act No. 9367, the…
NBDB (abbreviation) · Pambansang Lupon sa Pagpapaunlad ng Aklat (Filipino usage)
The National Book Development Board (NBDB) is a Philippine government agency created by Republic Act No. 8047 (1995), the Book…
NBS
National Book Store is the Philippines' largest book and school-supplies retail chain, which grew from a small prewar Manila shop…
National Building Code · PD 1096
National Building Code of the Philippines, enacted under Presidential Decree No. 1096 (PD 1096), is the primary regulatory framework governing…
NBI · National Bureau of Investigation of the Philippines
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is the principal investigative agency of the Government of the Philippines, a civilian agency…
NCRPO · PNP National Capital Region Police Office (PNP NCRPO) — official styling
The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) is the regional command of the Philippine National Police (PNP) with jurisdiction over…
NCAE · Career Assessment Exam
The National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) is an annual standardized test administered to Grade 9 or 10 students in all…
NCAA Philippines — standard disambiguating style distinguishing it from the United States NCAA · The NCAA — usual short form in Philippine sports coverage
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) — NCAA Philippines — is an athletic association of ten private colleges and universities…
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is the Philippine government's national policy-making and coordinating body for culture…
NCIP · NCIP Philippines
The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) is the primary Philippine government agency responsible for protecting and promoting the rights…
NCMF · National Commission on Muslim Filipinos
The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) is a Philippine government agency created under Republic Act No. 9997 (signed December…
The National Cultural Heritage Act (Republic Act No. 10066) is the principal Philippine statute for the protection and conservation of…
National Cultural Heritage Act · Republic Act No. 10066
The National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 10066) is the Philippines' principal statute for the protection and…
NCT — the standard acronym · National Cultural Treasures — the plural styling of the registry and the standard lists
A National Cultural Treasure (NCT) is the highest designation the Philippine state confers on a cultural property — defined in…
NDA · National Dairy Administration (erroneous variant)
The National Dairy Authority (NDA) is a government-owned and controlled corporation attached to the Department of Agriculture, created under Republic…
Commonwealth Act No. 1 · CA No. 1
The National Defense Act is the short title of Commonwealth Act No. 1, officially "An Act to Provide for the…
NDCP · National Defense College of the Armed Forces of the Philippines — the founding title of EO 44, 1963
The National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) is the country's premier graduate institution for defense and national-security education —…
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF) is a coalition of revolutionary organizations founded in 1973, aligned with the…
NDFP · NDF
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is a revolutionary united-front coalition of the Philippine communist movement, founded on…
NDC · Compañía de Fomento Nacional — the original 1919 name
The National Development Company (NDC) is the Philippine government's corporate investment arm — by its own reckoning and that of…
NDRRMC · National DRRM Council
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) is the inter-agency body of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring…
NEDA · NEDA Philippines
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) was, from 1972 until 2025, the Philippines' independent socioeconomic planning body — the…
NEPA · The oldest local non-government organization — the standard-account description ([Wikipedia — NEPA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Economic_Protectionism_Association "National Economic Protectionism Association — Wikipedia"))
The National Economic Protectionism Association (NEPA) is the Philippines' oldest organized economic-nationalist lobby — in the standard account "the oldest…
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation created by Republic Act No. 6093 in 1969,…
NEP · President's budget
The National Expenditure Program (NEP) is the President of the Philippines' annual budget proposal — the multi-volume document in which…
NFRDI (acronym)
The National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) is the principal fisheries research agency of the Philippine government, created under…
NFA · National Grains Authority
The National Food Authority (NFA) is the Philippine government agency responsible for maintaining the national rice buffer stock, created by…
NGP · Expanded National Greening Program (ENGP) — the program's styling under EO 193 of 2015
The National Greening Program (NGP) is the Philippine government's flagship reforestation undertaking of the 2010s, declared by Executive Order No.…
NGCP (usual initialism) · The grid operator (common shorthand in industry reporting)
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is the private corporation that operates, maintains, and expands the Philippines' electricity…
Republic Act No. 7875 · RA 7875
The National Health Insurance Act, officially Republic Act No. 7875, is the statute "instituting a national health insurance program for…
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) is the government agency responsible for the research, marking, conservation, and commemoration…
The National Housing Authority (NHA) is a government-owned and controlled corporation responsible for providing decent, affordable housing to low-income and…
1. Definition The National Housing Authority (NHA) is a government agency of the Philippines under the Department of Human Settlements…
NIPAS · Protected areas system
The National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS, codified under Republic Act No. 7586 and amended by the ENIPAS Act of…
The National Integrated Protected Areas System Act, or NIPAS Act, is a Philippine law signed on 1 June 1992 that…
NICA · National Intelligence and Security Authority (NISA, historical name)
The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) is the primary intelligence gathering and analysis arm of the government of the Philippines,…
NIA (usual initialism) · National Irrigation Administration of the Philippines
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is the government-owned and controlled corporation of the Philippines responsible for irrigation development and management.…
NLRC
The National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) is the quasi-judicial agency of the Philippine government that adjudicates labor and management disputes…
The Council — the statute's own shorthand throughout the Agricultural Land Reform Code · NLRC — the abbreviation of agrarian-reform historiography
The National Land Reform Council was the governing and coordinating body created by Section 126 of Republic Act No. 3844,…
NLSA — the statutory abbreviation of the 1939 Act · The land settlement administration of Commonwealth Act No. 441
The National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA) was the Commonwealth-era corporation that directed the Philippines' first organized, state-sponsored agricultural colonization program.…
The National Library of the Philippines (NLP) is the country's national repository of books, manuscripts, and other documentary heritage, tracing…
The National Living Treasures Award, or Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA), is the Philippines' highest state recognition for practitioners…
The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) is the principal mapping agency of the Philippine government, tasked with producing…
NAMRIA (official acronym) · Philippine central mapping agency
The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) is the Philippine government's central mapping agency, attached to the Department of…
The National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) is a Philippine government agency under the Department of Agriculture (DA) tasked with the…
NMAT
The National Medical Admission Test (NMAT) is the national entrance examination required of applicants to all medical schools in the…
Pambansang Museo ng Sining — the Filipino name ([Wikipedia — National Museum of Fine Arts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Fine_Arts_(Manila) "National Museum of Fine Arts (Manila) — Wikipedia")) · National Art Gallery — the former designation of the fine-arts museum ([Wikipedia — National Museum of Fine Arts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Fine_Arts_(Manila) "National Museum of Fine Arts (Manila) — Wikipedia"))
The National Museum of Fine Arts (Pambansang Museo ng Sining) is the Philippines' national museum of Filipino art, occupying the…
The National Museum of the Philippines is the country's flagship institution of art, culture, and natural history, operating a complex…
NNC
The National Nutrition Council (NNC) is the Philippines' "highest policy-making and coordinating body on nutrition," created by Presidential Decree No.…
The National Planetarium is an astronomy museum and domed theater within Rizal Park, Manila, operated by the National Museum of…
Napolcom · NAPOLCOM
The National Police Commission (Napolcom) is the civilian agency of the Government of the Philippines responsible for the administration and…
NAPOCOR · Napocor
The National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR, also NPC) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation created under Commonwealth Act No. 120,…
NPC · Komisyon para sa Proteksyon ng Personal na Impormasyon
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) is the Philippine government's independent data protection authority, created by Republic Act No. 10173, the…
NREB
The National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) is the Philippine government's standing advisory and policy-coordination body for renewable energy, created by…
The National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) is the advisory body to the Philippine government on scientific research and…
NARRA — the statutory abbreviation of Republic Act No. 1160 · The resettlement administration of 1954 — the shorthand used in land-reform histories
The National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration (NARRA) was the Philippine resettlement agency created by Republic Act No. 1160, approved June…
NARIC — the abbreviation used in the Supreme Court's own recital of the corporation's history · The defunct NARIC — Republic Act No. 663's own designation of the dissolved corporation whose assets it reclaimed
The National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC) was the Philippine state trading corporation for the two staple grains — the…
The National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest honor conferred by the Philippine state upon individuals who have made…
NSC · The National Security Council of the Philippines — the disambiguating styling against the American namesake
The National Security Council (NSC) is the President of the Philippines' principal advisory body on national security. It was created…
NSTP (abbreviation) · RA 9163 (enabling law)
The National Service Training Program (NSTP) is a Philippine collegiate program established by Republic Act No. 9163 in 2002 that…
NSO · Bureau of the Census and Statistics (BCS) — the 1940–1974 styling
The National Statistics Office (NSO) was the Philippine government's central statistical body — the office that took the national censuses…
1. Definition The National Structural Code of the Philippines (NSCP) is a technical regulatory document published by the Association of…
NTF-WPS (standard abbreviation) · National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea (variant styling used in official statements)
The National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) is the inter-agency coordinating body through which the Philippine government…
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is the Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Information and Communications Technology that…
NTC · National Telecommunications Commission
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is the Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)…
NTC (common abbreviation) · Pambansang Komisyon sa Telekomunikasyon (Filipino rendering)
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is the Philippine government's quasi-judicial regulatory agency for telecommunications, broadcasting, and related communications services. Attached…
NTA · Pambansang Pangasiwaan ng Tabako
The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) is a government-owned and controlled corporation attached to the Department of Agriculture, created in 1987…
TransCo · TRANSCO
The National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) is the Philippine government-owned and -controlled corporation that owns the country's high-voltage electricity transmission grid…
NUJP
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) is a national organization of working journalists in the Philippines, founded…
National University, Inc. · NU / National U (standard abbreviations)
National University (NU) is a private, non-sectarian, non-stock, non-profit university on M.F. Jhocson Street, Sampaloc, Manila, founded on August 1,…
NWRB · National Water Resources Council (historical name)
The National Water Resources Board (NWRB) is the Philippine government agency that regulates and coordinates the country's water resources. It…
NCP — the standard abbreviation of the era's reporting · Lapiang Makabansa — the Filipino name recorded for the party
The Nationalist Citizens' Party (NCP; Filipino: Lapiang Makabansa) was the Philippine political party founded in 1957 by Claro M. Recto…
NPC — the standard abbreviation in Philippine election reporting · Partido Pilipino — the party's original registration name of February 5, 1991
The Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) is a Philippine political party founded by Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco Jr. — the San Miguel…
Municipality of Natividad · Natividad Pangasinan
Natividad, officially the Municipality of Natividad, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Municipality of Natonin · Natonin Mountain Province
Natonin, officially the Municipality of Natonin, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
Philippine natural hazards · Disasters in the Philippines
Natural disasters in the Philippines are the recurrent emergency events — tropical cyclones, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides, and droughts…
Natural Wellness · Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Natural Health is a holistic approach to wellness and medicine that emphasizes the use of natural therapies, diet, lifestyle, and…
Natural Wealth · Raw Materials
Natural Resources are materials and components (such as mineral reserves, water, forest lands, agricultural soil, and marine life) that occur…
Municipality of Naujan · Naujan Oriental Mindoro
Naujan, officially the Municipality of Naujan, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Naujan Lake is a large freshwater lake in the northeastern part of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, within the municipalities of Naujan,…
Municipality of Naval · Naval, Biliran
Naval, officially the Municipality of Naval, is a first-class municipality and the capital of the island province of Biliran, Philippines.…
Municipality of Naval · Naval Biliran
Naval, officially the Municipality of Naval, is a municipality in the province of Biliran, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Deloitte Philippines — the network branding the firm and its sister entity use in the press and on Deloitte's site · Deloitte Philippines (Navarro Amper & Co.) — the styling of the 2022 anniversary coverage
Navarro Amper & Co. is the Philippine professional services partnership through which the Deloitte network practices in the Philippines —…
Naviform by Espina Medical · Naviform PH
Naviform is a Philippine premium orthopedic brand owned and operated by Espina Medical, headquartered in Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao,…
Fishing Capital of the Philippines · City of Navotas
Navotas, officially the City of Navotas (Filipino: Lungsod ng Navotas), is a highly urbanized coastal city in Metro Manila, Philippines,…
Nayong Pilipino is a cultural theme park concept of the Philippine government presenting miniature replicas and living exhibits of the…
NBI clearance certificate — the certificate's own styling · Multi-purpose NBI clearance — the styling since the 2017 single-format reform ([Philstar — multi-purpose](https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/02/22/1673873/nbi-clearance-become-multi-purpose "NBI clearance to become multi-purpose — The Philippine Star (February 22, 2017)"))
The NBI Clearance is the identity-and-background certificate issued by the National Bureau of Investigation — the document by which the…
Go Negosyo Act · Negosyo Center (singular form)
Negosyo Centers are the Philippine government's one-stop-shop facilities for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), mandated by Republic Act No.…
Negros bleeding heart dove · Bleeding-heart pigeon of Negros
The Negros bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba keayae) is a critically endangered ground-dove endemic to the islands of Negros and Panay in the…
Negros bleeding-heart · punay (generic local name for ground doves)
The Negros bleeding-heart pigeon (Gallicolumba keayi) is a ground-dwelling dove endemic to the islands of Negros and Panay in the…
The Negros fruit dove (Ptilinopus arcanus) is a small green dove known to science from a single female specimen collected…
Buglas (pre-colonial name) · Sugarbowl of the Philippines
Negros is the fourth-largest island of the Philippines, in the central Visayas between Panay and Cebu. It is divided into…
NIR
The Negros Island Region (NIR) is the administrative region of the Philippines comprising Negros Occidental (including Bacolod City), Negros Oriental,…
Sugarbowl of the Philippines · The City of Smiles (Bacolod)
Negros Occidental is a Philippine province occupying the western portion of Negros Island in the Negros Island Region (Region XVIII,…
Province of Negros Occidental · Negros Occidental
Negros Occidental, officially the Province of Negros Occidental, is a province of the Philippines located within the Western Visayas (Region…
The City of Gentle People (Dumaguete) · University Town of the South
Negros Oriental is a Philippine province occupying the southeastern portion of Negros Island in the Negros Island Region (Region XVIII,…
Province of Negros Oriental · Negros Oriental
Negros Oriental, officially the Province of Negros Oriental, is a province of the Philippines located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) is a state university headquartered in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, tracing its origins to a…
Cantonal Republic of Negros · Republic of Negros
The Negros Republic, also remembered as the Cantonal Republic of Negros, was a short-lived revolutionary government established on Negros Island…
Cinco de Noviembre · Al Cinco de Noviembre — commemorative styling of the date
The Negros Revolution, commemorated in Negros as Cinco de Noviembre, was the uprising of November 1898 by which the people…
Otus nigrorum (scientific name) · Negros scops-owl
The Negros scops owl (Otus nigrorum) is a small owl endemic to Negros Island in the central Philippines, recognized as…
Zosterornis nigrorum (scientific name) · Negros tree-babbler
The Negros Striped Babbler (Zosterornis nigrorum) is a small songbird endemic to Negros Island in the Philippines, confined to tropical…
Nepenthes aenigma is a tropical pitcher plant known from two mountains in Ilocos Norte province on the Philippine island of…
Nepenthes alata is a carnivorous tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Philippines, common in montane mossy forests of Luzon and…
Nepenthes argentii is a highland tropical pitcher plant native to Mount Guiting-Guiting on Sibuyan Island in the Philippines. It is…
Attenborough's pitcher plant (common name) · Giant pitcher plant of Palawan (descriptive usage)
Nepenthes attenboroughii is a giant carnivorous pitcher plant discovered on Mount Victoria, Palawan, in the Philippines. Formally described in 2009…
Nepenthes bellii is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to eastern Mindanao and one of the smallest species in its genus,…
Burke's pitcher plant · Nepenthes burkei (horticultural shorthand: N. burkei)
Nepenthes burkei is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines, a climbing carnivorous plant whose leaf tips…
Nepenthes copelandii is a species of tropical pitcher plant native to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. Originally described…
Nepenthes deaniana is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Philippines, growing at altitudes of about 1,180–1,296 meters. It is…
Nepenthes gantungensis is a tropical pitcher plant known from a single peak on the Philippine island of Palawan, where it…
Nepenthes hamiguitanensis is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to a single peak on the Philippine island of Mindanao, where it…
Nepenthes justinae is a tropical pitcher plant known only from Mount Hamiguitan on the Philippine island of Mindanao, where it…
Nepenthes mantalingajanensis is a tropical pitcher plant known only from the summit region of Mount Mantalingajan, the highest point on…
Nepenthes merrilliana is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Mindanao and nearby islands in the southern Philippines. A climbing carnivorous…
Nepenthes micramphora is a tropical pitcher plant known only from Mount Hamiguitan on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines,…
Nepenthes mira is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Philippine island of Palawan, growing as a highland species at…
Nepenthes negros is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines, occurring on the islands of Negros and Biliran. Described…
Nepenthes peltata is a tropical pitcher plant known only from the upper slopes of Mount Hamiguitan on the island of…
Nepenthes petiolata is a highland tropical pitcher plant endemic to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, where it grows…
Nepenthes philippinensis is a species of tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines, producing slender climbing stems and pitchers that…
Sibuyan pitcher plant · Sibuyan tropical pitcher plant
Nepenthes sibuyanensis is a carnivorous tropical pitcher plant endemic to Mount Guiting-Guiting on Sibuyan Island, Romblon, Philippines, where it grows…
Nepenthes surigaoensis is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines, named after Surigao whence it was described.…
Nepenthes truncata is a large tropical pitcher plant endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines, prized among carnivorous-plant enthusiasts for producing…
Nepenthes ventricosa (binomial name) · Ventricose pitcher plant
Nepenthes ventricosa is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Philippines, where it is a highland species growing at elevations…
Nepenthes viridis is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Philippines, known only from low-altitude coastal areas and recorded from…
Neri v. Senate · Neri v. Senate — the short citation in Philippine constitutional literature
Neri v. Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations (G.R. No. 180643, March 25, 2008, decided en banc…
Neurodiversity Paradigm · Neurological Diversity
Neurodiversity is a conceptual framework that views neurological differences, such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and dyscalculia, as natural variations of…
Neurotransmitters · Neuroregulators
A neurotransmitter is a signaling molecule secreted by a neuron to affect another cell across a synapse — the target…
Municipality of New Bataan · New Bataan Davao de Oro
New Bataan, officially the Municipality of New Bataan, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within…
NBP (standard abbreviation) · Bilibid (colloquial short form)
The New Bilibid Prison (NBP) is the national penitentiary of the Philippines, located on a 5,310,872-square-meter reservation in Muntinlupa, then…
NCC · Clark Green City
New Clark City (NCC), also known as Clark Green City, is a planned city under development in Capas, Tarlac, Philippines,…
Municipality of New Corella · New Corella Davao del Norte
New Corella, officially the Municipality of New Corella, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Norte, located within…
NEV · Alternative Fuel Vehicle
New Energy Vehicle (NEV) is a classification utilized primarily in automotive regulation to designate automobiles driven by clean energy technologies,…
Municipality of New Lucena · New Lucena Iloilo
New Lucena, officially the Municipality of New Lucena, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western…
New airport in Bulacan · New Manila airport
New Manila International Airport (NMIA), also known as the Bulacan International Airport, is a major international airport under construction in…
NNIC
The New NAIA Infrastructure Corporation (NNIC) is the Filipino private consortium that has operated and maintained the Ninoy Aquino International…
NPA · Bagong Hukbong Bayan
The New People's Army (NPA) is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, founded on 29 March…
Bagong Lipunan
The New Society (Filipino: Bagong Lipunan) was the program and governing idea with which President Ferdinand Marcos described and justified…
Viceroyalty of New Spain · Nueva España
New Spain (Spanish Virreinato de Nueva España) was the viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire centered on Mexico City — created…
New Washington is a coastal municipality in Aklan province, Western Visayas, Philippines, situated on a peninsula along the Sibuyan Sea…
Municipality of New Washington · New Washington Aklan
New Washington, officially the Municipality of New Washington, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western…
NYF · New York Festivals TV & Film Awards
The New York Festivals (NYF) are a family of international media and advertising award competitions established in 1957 and based…
Newport City · Newport Pasay
Newport City is a 25-hectare master-planned mixed-use township development located in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Developed by Megaworld Corporation…
Nicotinamide · Vitamin B3
Niacinamide is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its therapeutic…
Nicanor Abelardo (1893–1934) was a Filipino composer, pianist, and teacher widely honored as the father of the Filipino art song,…
Nicanor E. Yñiguez · Speaker Nicanor Yñiguez
Nicanor Espina Yñiguez (November 6, 1915 – April 13, 2007) was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the…
Nicholas Loney, Esq. — consular styling in the Foreign Office dispatches · Vice-Consul Loney — and later Acting Consul Loney, his successive designations at Iloilo
Nicholas Loney (1826, Plymouth, United Kingdom – April 1869, Negros) was a British merchant and diplomat — the first British…
Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin (full name) · Nicomedes "Nick" M. Joaquin
Nick Joaquin, born Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin (May 4, 1917, Paco, Manila – April 29, 2004, San Juan, Metro Manila), was…
Nicolás Gólez y Coloso · Nicolas Golez — spelling used in Negrense commemorative accounts
Nicolás Gólez — in full Nicolás Gólez y Coloso, as the record of the Negros Republic styles him — was…
Nicolas Zamora · Nicolas Villegas Zamora
Nicolás Zamora (in full, Nicolás Villegas Zamora; September 10, 1875, Binondo, Manila – September 14, 1914, Bulakan, Bulacan) was a…
Nilaga (from the Filipino word for "boiled") is a Filipino clear soup made by simmering beef, usually shank or brisket,…
Nilupak is a Filipino dessert or merienda made by pounding or mashing cooked cassava (kamoteng kahoy) — or sometimes boiled…
Ninay — accentless spelling, used for the 1908 Tagalog edition and in general reference · Nínay (costumbres filipinas) — full Spanish title with subtitle
Nínay is the 1885 novel of Pedro Alejandro Paterno, written in Spanish and published by the Imprenta de Fortanet in…
Nine-dashed line · Nine-dotted line
Nine-Dash Line (Chinese: Nánhǎi Duànxùxiàn, "South Sea intermittent line") is the name given to a set of nine line segments…
Ningas cogon is a Filipino idiom that literally means "cogon fire," describing zeal that blazes up suddenly and dies out…
NAIA · Manila International Airport (historical)
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) is the primary international gateway of the Philippines, located between Pasay and Parañaque in…
Philippine fig · Dracaena fig
Niog-niogan (Ficus pseudopalma) is a species of fig endemic to the Philippines, especially Luzon, whose common names include Philippine fig,…
Bahay kubo · Nipa house
The nipa hut, widely known by its Tagalog name bahay kubo, is the traditional stilt house of the Philippines: a…
The Nipa Palm (Nypa fruticans) is the only palm considered a true mangrove, growing in brackish tidal flats along Philippine…
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. · Jidosha-Seizo
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese automobile manufacturer founded on December 26, 1933 in Yokohama — first incorporated as…
NPI · Nissan Philippines, Inc.
Nissan Philippines, Inc. (NPI) is the national sales company of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in the Philippines, responsible for the…
Chinese honeysuckle · Rangoon creeper
Niyog-niyogan (Combretum indicum L., also known as Quisqualis indica), commonly known as Chinese honeysuckle, is a woody climbing liana native…
Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Battery · Li-NMC Battery
An NMC Battery is a type of lithium-ion battery that uses a cathode containing a combination of nickel, manganese, and…
Mahalagang Paalala Warning · FDA Supplement Disclaimer
"No Approved Therapeutic Claims" is a mandatory consumer health warning and labeling requirement enforced by the Food and Drug Administration…
NCAP · No Contact Apprehension Policy
The No-Contact Apprehension Program (NCAP) is a traffic-enforcement method used in the Philippines under which violations are detected by traffic…
Nobel Peace Award · Peace Nobel
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, awarded…
Manuel Leuterio de Castro Jr. · Kabayan Noli
Manuel Leuterio de Castro Jr. (born July 6, 1949, in Pola, Oriental Mindoro), known professionally as Noli de Castro and…
Noli Me Tángere (Spanish styling; often printed without the accent as Noli Me Tangere) · Touch Me Not (English rendering of the title)
Noli Me Tangere ("Touch Me Not") is a novel by José Rizal, written in Spanish and printed at the Berliner…
Ate Guy — the intimate showbiz honorific · The Superstar — the standing title of her stardom
Nora Aunor — born Nora Cabaltera Villamayor on May 21, 1953, in Barrio San Francisco, Iriga, Camarines Sur; died on…
Municipality of Norala · Norala South Cotabato
Norala, officially the Municipality of Norala, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Norberto Romualdez · Norberto L. Romualdez
Norberto Romualdez Sr. (born Norberto Romuáldez y López; June 6, 1875, Burauen, Leyte – November 4, 1941, Palapag, Samar) was…
Norkis Trading Co., Inc. · NTC (Norkis Trading Company)
Norkis Trading Co., Inc. (NTC) is the Philippine company that built the Yamaha motorcycle business in the Philippines, and the…
Norman Ernest Borlaug · Norman E. Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914, near Cresco, Iowa – September 12, 2009, Dallas, Texas) was an American agronomist and…
The Northern Continent · NA Region
North America is a major continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely in the Western Hemisphere. Covering…
North Avenue · Avenida North
North Avenue is a major six-lane national primary road located in the Diliman area of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.…
NLEX · North Diversion Road (former)
The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) is a four-to-eight-lane limited-access toll expressway extending roughly 84 kilometers from Balintawak in Quezon City,…
North-South Commuter Railway · NSCR
North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR), also known as the Clark-Calamba Railway, is a 147-kilometer (91 mi) transit-oriented passenger railway system under…
Municipality of Northern Kabuntalan · Northern Kabuntalan Maguindanao
Northern Kabuntalan, officially the Municipality of Northern Kabuntalan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Amianan nga Luzon (in Ilocano) · Northern Luzon Region
Northern Luzon is a major geographic and socio-economic sub-region of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It comprises three…
The Northern Luzon giant cloud rat (Phloeomys pallidus) is a large, tree-dwelling rodent endemic to the forests of Luzon, Philippines.…
Northern Mindanao (Region X) is an administrative region in the northern part of the island of Mindanao, Philippines. It comprises…
Northern Mindanao · Region X (Region 10)
Northern Mindanao (designated as Region X) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the northern part of the…
The Northern Negros Natural Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in the northern mountainous forest region of…
Province of Northern Samar · Northern Samar
Northern Samar, officially the Province of Northern Samar, is a province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, occupying…
Province of Northern Samar · Northern Samar
Northern Samar, officially the Province of Northern Samar, is a province of the Philippines located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Bitatawa · Varanus bitatawa (scientific name)
The Northern Sierra Madre Forest Monitor Lizard (Varanus bitatawa), also called the bitatawa, is a large, brightly patterned monitor lizard…
NSMNP · Palanan Wilderness Area
The Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park (NSMNP) is the largest protected area of the Philippines — a roughly 359,486-hectare expanse…
Silvery kingfisher (former combined name) · Northern silvery kingfisher of the Visayas
Northern silvery kingfisher (Ceyx flumenicola in the broad sense) is a small kingfisher of the family Alcedinidae endemic to the…
Norzagaray, Bulacan · Watershed town of Bulacan
Norzagaray is a first-income-class municipality in Bulacan province, Philippines, in the upland north along the foothills of the Sierra Madre,…
Municipality of Norzagaray · Norzagaray Bulacan
Norzagaray, officially the Municipality of Norzagaray, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
ND · Disallowance
A notice of disallowance (ND) is the principal accountability instrument of the Commission on Audit (COA) of the Philippines: the…
The Notifiable Diseases Act, signed in 2019, modernized the Philippine system for reporting diseases and public health events of concern.…
Notre Dame of Marbel University (NDMU) is a private Catholic university in Koronadal City (formerly Marbel), South Cotabato, Philippines, run…
The Novales Revolt was a one-day mutiny in Manila on June 1, 1823, led by Captain Andrés Novales, a criollo…
Municipality of Noveleta · Noveleta Cavite
Noveleta, officially the Municipality of Noveleta, is a municipality in the province of Cavite, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Novo Nordisk A/S · Novo (colloquial)
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, headquartered in Denmark, specializing in diabetes care, obesity management, hemophilia care, growth…
Rice Granary of the Philippines · Rice Bowl of the Philippines
Nueva Ecija is a landlocked Philippine province in the Central Luzon region (Region III). Its capital is Palayan City, though…
Province of Nueva Ecija · Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija, officially the Province of Nueva Ecija, is a province of the Philippines located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Nueva Era is an upland municipality in southeastern Ilocos Norte, Philippines, where the province meets its highland neighbors toward Abra…
Provincia de Nueva Guipúzcoa (Spanish designation) · Government of Nueva Guipúzcoa (gobierno político-militar form)
Nueva Guipúzcoa was a Spanish colonial province (gobierno político-militar) on the Davao Gulf of Mindanao, erected by royal decree of…
Nueva Valencia is a second-income-class municipality in the island-province of Guimaras, Western Visayas, Philippines. Facing the Panay Gulf, it is…
Citrus Capital of the Philippines · NV (colloquial)
Nueva Vizcaya is a landlocked Philippine province in the Cagayan Valley region (Region II) on Luzon. Its capital is Bayombong.…
Province of Nueva Vizcaya · Nueva Vizcaya
Nueva Vizcaya, officially the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, is a province of the Philippines located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Nueva Vizcaya State University (NVSU) is a public state university with its main campus in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. Growing…
Numancia is a fourth-income-class municipality in Aklan, Western Visayas, Philippines. Located 5 kilometers from the provincial capital Kalibo, it is…
Nuno · Nuno sa punso (mound dweller)
The nuno sa punso, "old man of the mound," is a small gnome-like ancestor spirit of Philippine folklore believed to…
Municipality of Nunungan · Nunungan Lanao del Norte
Nunungan, officially the Municipality of Nunungan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Nourishment · Nutritional science
Nutrition is the process by which organisms obtain and use the nutrients in food to sustain life, growth, reproduction, and…
Nuvali · Nuvali Laguna
Nuvali is a massive 2,290-hectare master-planned eco-city township development located in the cities of Santa Rosa, Cabuyao, and Calamba in…
Oakwood Mutiny — the capitalized styling used in Proclamation No. 75, series of 2010 · July 27, 2003 Oakwood Mutiny — the incident designation in the amnesty instruments
The Oakwood mutiny was the seizure, in the early hours of July 27, 2003, of the Oakwood Premier serviced apartments…
Municipality of Oas · Oas Albay
Oas, officially the Municipality of Oas, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Obando · Obando Bulacan
Obando, officially the Municipality of Obando, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
The Obando Fertility Rites are a dance ritual of pre-Christian, Anitist origin that evolved into a Catholic festival celebrated every…
Obando Fertility Rites · Sayaw sa Obando
The Obando Festival, formally the Obando Fertility Rites, is a three-day religious festival held May 17 to 19 in Obando,…
Obesity epidemic Philippines · Filipino obesity
Obesity in the Philippines is a growing public-health concern characterized by increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity across the Philippine…
OMA · American Society of Bariatric Physicians (former name)
The Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) is the largest professional organization of clinicians in the United States and internationally dedicated to…
The UP Oblation — the usual designation outside the university · Pahinungod — the Filipino name, the word of self-offering
The Oblation (Filipino: Pahinungod, Oblasyon) is the concrete statue by Guillermo Tolentino — cast in concrete painted to imitate bronze…
Obo Manobo people · Obo (short form)
The Obo Manobo are an indigenous Manobo-speaking people of the northeastern foothills of Mount Apo and the uplands between North…
Municipality of Ocampo · Ocampo Camarines Sur
Ocampo, officially the Municipality of Ocampo, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Occidental Mindoro is a province of the Philippines in the Mimaropa region (Region IV-B). Its capital is Mamburao. Occupying the…
Province of Occidental Mindoro · Occidental Mindoro
Occidental Mindoro, officially the Province of Occidental Mindoro, is a province of the Philippines located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B).…
Certificate of Habitation · Occupancy Certificate
An Occupancy Permit (officially known as a Certificate of Occupancy) is a legal document issued by the local Building Official…
Lease Occupancy Rate · Tenancy Rate
The occupancy rate is a key real estate metric in the Philippines that measures the percentage of occupied space or…
The Allied Occupation of Japan · The American occupation of Japan
The Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) was the Allied military administration of Japan that began with the surrender of September 2,…
The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Act, signed on 17 August 2018, strengthens enforcement of workplace safety rules in the…
OT · Occupational rehabilitation
Occupational Therapy (OT) is an allied health profession in the Philippines concerned with promoting health and well-being through engagement in…
Republic Act No. 11241 · RA 11241
The Occupational Therapy Law, officially enacted as Republic Act No. 11241 (commonly referred to as the Philippine Occupational Therapy Law…
Philippine octavina · Octavina española (historical name)
The octavina is a Philippine plucked string instrument of the rondalla: a guitar-shaped, flat-backed lute with fourteen strings in courses,…
Municipality of Odiongan · Odiongan Romblon
Odiongan, officially the Municipality of Odiongan, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
OTS
The Office for Transportation Security (OTS) is the Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Transportation (Philippines) responsible for…
OCD · Tanggapan ng Sibil na Depensa
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) is the operating arm and secretariat of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management…
OCD · Civil defense office of the Philippines
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) is the organization within the Department of National Defense that serves as the implementing…
OCA · Tanggapan ng Tagapangasiwa ng Hukuman — the Tagalog name
The Office of the Court Administrator — abbreviated OCA, in Tagalog Tanggapan ng Tagapangasiwa ng Hukuman — is the administrative…
Tanodbayan · Ombudsman of the Philippines
The Office of the Ombudsman (Tanodbayan) is the independent constitutional body of the Philippines charged with investigating and prosecuting public…
Tanodbayan (Filipino title) · Ombudsman of the Philippines
The Office of the Ombudsman (Filipino: Tanodbayan) is an independent constitutional body of the Philippines mandated to investigate and prosecute…
Tanggapan ng Pangulo ng Pilipinas — the Filipino designation · OP — the standard abbreviation in Philippine government usage
The Office of the President of the Philippines (Filipino: Tanggapan ng Pangulo ng Pilipinas) is the administrative, advisory, and consultative…
OPAPP (acronym of former name) · Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU)
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) was the Philippine government agency created in 1993 to…
OSG · Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines
The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) is the "law office of the Government" of the Philippines — the principal…
OSG (common abbreviation) · Solicitor General of the Philippines (title of the office head, also used for the office)
The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) is the legal counsel and representative of the Government of the Philippines in…
Office Space · Office Space (Philippines)
Office Space refers to commercial real estate properties in the Philippines leased or sold to businesses for administrative, professional, and…
Office lease · BPO space (when in PEZA IT zones)
Office space in Philippine commercial real estate refers to leasable or owned properties used for business operations — corporate headquarters,…
Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines · Gazette
The Official Gazette is the official journal of the Republic of the Philippines. Governed by the Office of the President…
Okir (also okil) is the carving and design tradition of the Maranao and Maguindanao peoples of Mindanao, Philippines — flowing…
Ukoy · Ukoy na hipon
Okoy (also spelled ukoy) is a Filipino crispy shrimp fritter made by battering small shrimp — often with heads and…
Olango Island is the main island of the Olango Island Group, a cluster of seven islands and islets in the…
Olango Island Group
The Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected wildlife sanctuary on Olango Island, the low coralline island and its satellite…
Old Bilibid · Carcel y Presidio Correccional
The Old Bilibid Prison, known under Spanish rule as the Carcel y Presidio Correccional ("Correctional Jail and Military Prison"), was…
Municipality of Old Panamao · Old Panamao Sulu
Old Panamao, officially the Municipality of Old Panamao, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro…
The Old Volcano (Mount Camiguin de land section, locally the Old Volcano trail) is the eroded volcanic edifice on Camiguin…
Pawikan · Lepidochelys olivacea
The olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), called pawikan in the Philippines, is the smallest and most abundant marine turtle,…
The olive-backed flowerpecker is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae endemic to the Philippines, where it inhabits tropical…
City of Olongapo · Olongapo
Olongapo, officially the City of Olongapo, is a highly urbanized city geographically located in the province of Zambales, Philippines. While…
Municipality of Olutanga · Olutanga Zamboanga Sibugay
Olutanga, officially the Municipality of Olutanga, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Municipality of Omar · Omar Sulu
Omar, officially the Municipality of Omar, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
The Ombudsman of the Philippines, formally the Office of the Ombudsman (Filipino: Tanggapan ng Tanodbayan), is an independent constitutional body…
Omnibus Election Code of the Philippines (Batas Pambansa Blg. 881) · BP 881
The Omnibus Election Code of the Philippines is the short title of Batas Pambansa Blg. 881, a statute approved on…
OFG · Omnibus Guidelines on the Planning and Identification of Public Road Transportation Services and Franchise Issuance
The Omnibus Franchising Guidelines (OFG) are the Philippine Department of Transportation's policy framework for the planning and franchising of public…
One Ayala is a mixed-use, transit-oriented development of Ayala Land, Inc. at the corner of Ayala Avenue and EDSA in…
1. Definition Online Schooling is a form of distance education where instruction, learning modules, and teacher-student interactions are conducted entirely…
Onok Island is a small stilt-village island in the municipality of Balabac, at the southern end of Palawan, Philippines, inhabited…
Open-Market Housing · Open-Market Housing (Philippines)
Open-Market Housing, in the Philippines, refers to residential real estate properties sold or leased at market rates, free from government-mandated…
Market-rate housing · Standard housing
Open-market housing in the Philippines refers to residential properties priced above the DHSUD-set ceiling for economic housing, developed and sold…
Municipality of Opol · Opol Misamis Oriental
Opol, officially the Municipality of Opol, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
OMB · Videogram Regulatory Board (predecessor agency)
The Optical Media Board (OMB) is the Philippine regulatory agency that supervises the manufacture, replication, and distribution of optical media…
Dicaeum australe (scientific name)
The Orange-bellied Flowerpecker (Dicaeum australe) is a diminutive endemic bird of the Philippines, the male strikingly patterned with glossy dark…
Municipality of Orani · Orani Bataan
Orani, officially the Municipality of Orani, is a municipality in the province of Bataan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Oras · Oras Eastern Samar
Oras, officially the Municipality of Oras, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
National Artist of the Philippines · National Artist Award
The Order of National Artists (Orden ng mga Pambansang Alagad ng Sining) is the highest national recognition conferred on Filipinos…
Dominicans · Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers (Latin Ordo Praedicatorum; post-nominal O.P.), commonly the Dominicans, is the Roman Catholic religious order founded by…
The Augustinians — the common English designation · O.S.A. — the post-nominal initials
The Order of Saint Augustine (Latin: Ordo Sancti Augustini; O.S.A.) is a mendicant religious order of the Catholic Church whose…
Knights of Rizal · KOR (initialism)
The Order of the Knights of Rizal is a Philippine civic and fraternal organization dedicated to honoring and spreading the…
Republic Act No. 10068 · RA 10068
The Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 is the short title of Republic Act No. 10068, officially "An Act Providing for…
Oriental Mindoro is a province of the Philippines in the Mimaropa region (Region IV-B). Its capital is Calapan. Occupying the…
Province of Oriental Mindoro · Oriental Mindoro
Oriental Mindoro, officially the Province of Oriental Mindoro, is a province of the Philippines located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B).…
Original Certificate of Title · OCT
Original Certificate of Title (OCT) is the first land title issued by the government under the Torrens System when a…
OPM · Original Pinoy Music
Original Pilipino Music, almost always shortened to OPM, is the umbrella term for Philippine popular music — in its settled…
Municipality of Orion · Orion Bataan
Orion, officially the Municipality of Orion, is a municipality in the province of Bataan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Tetrahydrolipstatin · Xenical
Orlistat is a reversible gastrointestinal lipase inhibitor used for the long-term management of obesity. Unlike centrally acting appetite suppressants, orlistat…
City of Ormoc · Ormoc
Ormoc, officially the City of Ormoc, is an independent component city geographically located within the province of Leyte, Philippines. It…
Ormoc Bay is a large bay on the island of Leyte in the Philippines, an extension of the Camotes Sea.…
Oro Plata Mata · Oro, Plata, Mata (1982)
Oro, Plata, Mata ("Gold, Silver, Death") is a 1982 Philippine historical war drama co-written and directed by Peque Gallaga for…
City of Oroquieta · Oroquieta
Oroquieta, officially the City of Oroquieta, is a component city and the capital of the province of Misamis Occidental, Philippines.…
Orthoses (plural) · Orthosis (singular)
Orthopedic braces (also called orthoses, supports, or orthotic devices) are external medical devices applied to the body to support, align,…
Orthoses · Orthosis (singular)
Orthotic Devices, collectively referred to as orthoses (singular: orthosis), are externally applied medical devices used to modify the structural and…
1. Definition Orthotics is a specialized healthcare discipline focused on the design, manufacture, and application of orthoses—externally applied devices used…
Ortigas CBD · Ortigas Center Business District
Ortigas Center is a major central business district in Metro Manila, Philippines, straddling Mandaluyong, Pasig, and Quezon City (with a…
Ortigas Land Corporation · Ortigas & Company Limited Partnership
Ortigas Land (formerly Ortigas & Company) is one of the oldest and most established real estate developers in the Philippines,…
The Oryoku Maru (Ōryoku Maru) was a Japanese passenger-cargo ship that became infamous as a "hell ship" when it was…
Municipality of Oslob · Oslob Cebu
Oslob, officially the Municipality of Oslob, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
The OsRox Mission of 1931 was the independence mission to the United States led by Senate President pro tempore Sergio…
1. Definition Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease characterized by the breakdown of articular cartilage and underlying bone, resulting in…
Otap (also spelled otapi) is a Philippine oval-shaped puff pastry biscuit coated in sugar, produced by repeatedly folding and rolling…
Municipality of Oton · Oton Iloilo
Oton, officially the Municipality of Oton, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Our Lady of Peñafrancia (Inang Peñafrancia) is a Marian devotion centered on an image of the Virgin Mary venerated in…
Republic Act No. 9189 · OAV Act
The Overseas Absentee Voting Act (Republic Act No. 9189) is the Philippine law that established a system allowing qualified Filipinos…
Overseas Filipino Workers · OFWs
An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a Filipino engaged, to be engaged, or previously engaged in remunerated work in a…
Overseas Filipino · Filipino diaspora
Overseas Filipinos are people of Filipino origin living outside the Philippines — a diaspora that spans permanent emigrants and their…
OWWA · Welfare and Training Fund for Overseas Workers (1977 name)
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is the Philippine government agency charged with protecting and promoting the welfare of Overseas…
Ozamiz City is a second-income-class component city in Misamis Occidental province in Northern Mindanao (Region X), Philippines. It had a…
Semaglutide Injection (Ozempic) · Once-Weekly Semaglutide for Diabetes
Ozempic is a brand name for once-weekly subcutaneous injectable semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist. It is clinically indicated…
Ozone Disco fire — the short form of everyday Philippine usage · Ozone tragedy — the styling common in anniversary coverage
The Ozone Disco Club Fire was the fire that destroyed the Ozone Disco Club on Timog Avenue, Barangay South Triangle,…
The Ozone Disco Fire was the deadliest fire in Philippine history, killing 162 people—most of them high school and college…
Pinoy pop · Pinoy popular music
P-pop, also written Pinoy pop, is "an abbreviated form of 'Pinoy popular music' or 'Philippine popular music'" — the popular…
Pabasa ("reading" or "passion chanting") is a Filipino Catholic Lenten devotion in which the Pasyon, a long Tagalog verse narrative…
Pablo S. Antonio, Sr. — his professional styling · Pablo Sebero Antonio — full name
Pablo Antonio (born Pablo Sebero Antonio Sr., January 25, 1901, Binondo, Manila – June 14, 1975, Manila) was a Filipino…
Pablo de León Ocampo — the full Spanish-style name · Don Pablo Ocampo — the honorific styling of his Manila-era prominence
Pablo Ocampo (born Pablo de León Ocampo; January 25, 1853, Quiapo, Manila – February 5, 1925, Manila) was a Filipino…
Pachyrhynchus is a genus of flightless weevils celebrated as the "easter egg weevils" for the brilliant metallic scale patterns that…
Paciano Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda — full name · Rizal y Alonzo, Paciano Mercado, 1851-1930 — Library of Congress authorized heading
Paciano Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (March 9, 1851 – April 13, 1930) was a Filipino revolutionary and landed proprietor…
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world's five oceans, covering approximately 165 million square kilometers—larger than…
Pacific Ring of Fire · Circum-Pacific Belt
The Pacific Ring (commonly known as the Pacific Ring of Fire) is a major geological region characterized by active plate…
Circum-Pacific Belt · Ring of Fire
The Pacific Ring of Fire is the horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes, volcanic arcs, trenches, and fault systems rimming the Pacific…
Pacific Theater · War against Japan
The Pacific War (December 7, 1941 – September 2, 1945) was the theater of World War II fought between the…
Pacifica Agrivet Supplies is a Mindanao farm-and-veterinary retail chain serving poultry and livestock raisers with feeds, vaccines and equipment. [(verify)]…
Cementerio General de Dilao — original Spanish-era name · Paco Cemetery — former designation still used in heritage literature
Paco Park is a 0.411-hectare urban park and former cemetery in the Paco district of Manila — a circular, walled…
Pacto de Biak-na-Bató (Spanish designation) · Truce of Biak-na-Bató (Teodoro Agoncillo's designation for the three documents taken together)
The Pact of Biak-na-Bato (Spanish: Pacto de Biak-na-Bató) was the truce agreement signed in two-day ceremonies on December 14–15, 1897…
One of the oldest municipalities of Davao del Sur · Early provincial center of Davao del Sur
Padada, officially the Municipality of Padada, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines, within Region XI…
Municipality of Padre Burgos · Padre Burgos Southern Leyte
Padre Burgos, officially the Municipality of Padre Burgos, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the…
Observatorio Street — the former name, from the Manila Observatory · Calle Observatorio — the Spanish-era styling of the same name
Padre Faura Street is an east–west street of downtown Manila in the Philippines — about a kilometer long, running one-way…
Padre Garcia is a second-income-class municipality in Batangas, Philippines, created on December 1, 1949. It is recognized as the "Cattle…
The Woodcarving Capital of the Philippines · Home of Filipino Santos (religious statuary)
Paete is a fourth-income-class municipality in Laguna, Philippines, on the northern shore of Laguna de Bay at the foot of…
Pag-asa
Pag-asa (Filipino for "hope"; hatched January 15, 1992, died January 6, 2021) was a male Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) and…
Home Development Mutual Fund · HDMF
Pag-IBIG Fund, officially the Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF), is a government-owned and controlled corporation in the Philippines responsible for…
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa ("Love for the Native Land") is a poem written by Katipunan founder Andres Bonifacio, published in…
Pagadian City is a second-income-class component city and capital of Zamboanga del Sur province in the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX),…
Municipality of Pagalungan · Pagalungan Maguindanao
Pagalungan, officially the Municipality of Pagalungan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Pagayawan · Pagayawan Lanao del Sur
Pagayawan, officially the Municipality of Pagayawan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Pagbilao is a first-income-class municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, established on August 29, 1730. A coastal town bordering Lucena City,…
Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation · Pagcor
PAGCOR (officially the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation) is a government-owned and controlled corporation established under Presidential Decree No. 1869.…
Pagdiwata (single-d spelling) · Tagbanwa thanksgiving festival
Pagdidiwata is a thanksgiving and propitiatory ritual festival of the Tagbanwa and related indigenous peoples of Palawan, Philippines, centered on…
Pagdiwata is a Tagbanwa ritual of thanksgiving, healing, and propitiation performed in Palawan, in which offerings of rice wine, food,…
Municipality of Paglat · Paglat Maguindanao
Paglat, officially the Municipality of Paglat, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Mano po · Blessing of the hand
Pagmamano is a traditional Filipino gesture of respect in which a younger person takes the hand of an elder and…
Chicken pagpag · Pagpag (food scavenging practice)
Pagpag in the Philippines refers to leftover food, typically uneaten fast-food chicken and pork, scavenged from restaurant garbage bins, then…
Municipality of Pagsanghan · Pagsanghan Samar
Pagsanghan, officially the Municipality of Pagsanghan, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Pagsanjan · Pagsanjan Laguna
Pagsanjan, officially the Municipality of Pagsanjan, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Pagsanjan Gorge National Park is a national park and tourist zone in the province of Laguna, about 100 kilometers southeast…
Boracay of the North · Home of Blue Lagoon (Maira-ira Cove)
Pagudpud is a coastal municipality in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, near the northern tip of Luzon, famed for wide white-sand beaches…
Municipality of Pagudpud · Pagudpud Ilocos Norte
Pagudpud, officially the Municipality of Pagudpud, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
The Pahiyas Festival is an annual harvest thanksgiving celebration held every 15 May in Lucban, Quezon, in honor of San…
Machine Polishing · Machine Buffing
Paint correction is the machine polishing of automotive paint to permanently remove surface defects from the clear coat — swirl…
PPF · Clear Bra
Paint protection film (PPF) is a transparent thermoplastic urethane film applied to painted surfaces to shield them from stone chips,…
polymer sealant · acrylic sealant
Paint sealant is the class of fully synthetic products applied over a vehicle's painted surfaces — specifically the clear coat…
Pakikisama is a Filipino social value denoting the willingness to get along, maintain smooth group membership, and accommodate others for…
The Turumba Town · Home of the Birhen ng Turumba
Pakil is a fifth-income-class municipality in Laguna, Philippines, on the northern shore of Laguna de Bay. A small, quiet lakeside…
Paksiw is a Philippine method of cooking meat or fish by simmering it in vinegar with garlic, peppercorns and salt,…
Pakwan is the Filipino name for watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), the large vining fruit with a hard green rind and crisp,…
Palabok (also pancit palabok) is a Filipino noodle dish consisting of thin rice noodles (bihon) blanketed in a savoury shrimp-flavoured…
Palacio del Gobernador (Spanish-era palace) — historic designation · Casa Real — colonial designation
The Palacio del Gobernador ("Palace of the Governor") names two distinct buildings on one Intramuros, Manila site facing Plaza Roma…
Palanan · Municipality of Palanan
Palanan, officially the Municipality of Palanan, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Palanas · Palanas Masbate
Palanas, officially the Municipality of Palanas, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature — the official name · Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards
The Palanca Awards, officially the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, are the Philippines' longest-running and most prestigious literary competition,…
Maranao palapa · Sakurab relish
Palapa is a traditional Maranao condiment from the Lake Lanao region centered on Marawi, made by pounding sakurab (native shallot…
Municipality of Palapag · Palapag Northern Samar
Palapag, officially the Municipality of Palapag, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
The Palaris Revolt (1762–1765) was an uprising in Pangasinan during the British occupation of Manila, led by Juan de la…
National Games (older references) · Palaro (common shorthand)
Palarong Pambansa is the annual national multi-sport tournament for elementary and secondary school athletes in the Philippines, organized by the…
Palaui Island is a protected island off the coast of Santa Ana, Cagayan, at the northeastern tip of Luzon, Philippines,…
Municipality of Palauig · Palauig Zambales
Palauig, officially the Municipality of Palauig, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
The Palaw'an are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of southern and central Palawan, Philippines, concentrated in the municipalities of Brooke's Point,…
The Palawan bearded pig (Sus ahoenobarbus) is a wild pig endemic to the Palawan island group in the western Philippines,…
Trogonoptera trojana (scientific name) · Palawan birdwing butterfly
The Palawan birdwing (Trogonoptera trojana) is a large swallowtail butterfly endemic to the Philippine island of Palawan, marked by velvety…
Cyornis lemprieri (scientific name) · Lemprier's blue flycatcher
The Palawan Blue Flycatcher (Cyornis lemprieri) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, endemic to…
Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) — official statutory name · Palawan Council for Sustainable Development
The Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) is the multi-sectoral government body created by Republic Act No. 7611 — the…
The Palawan fairy-bluebird is a striking canopy songbird endemic to Palawan, Balabac, and the Calamian islands. The male wears brilliant…
Platen's flowerpecker (name honoring its discoverer's patronym)
The Palawan flowerpecker (Prionochilus plateni) is a small, stout-billed songbird endemic to the Palawan faunal region, where it forages for…
Ficedula platenae (scientific name)
The Palawan flycatcher (Ficedula platenae) is a small passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae) endemic to the…
The Palawan flying fox (Acerodon leucotis), also called the Palawan fruit bat, is a large fruit bat endemic to the…
The Palawan frogmouth (Batrachostomus chaseni) is a nocturnal bird endemic to Palawan and its satellite islands in the southwestern Philippines,…
The Palawan hornbill (Anthracoceros marchei) is a hornbill species endemic to the Philippines, found in Palawan and its adjacent islands…
Megophrys ligayae (scientific name) · Xenophrys ligayae (former generic placement)
The Palawan horned frog (Megophrys ligayae) is a small, stocky amphibian endemic to the island of Palawan in the Philippines,…
The Palawan Massacre of December 14, 1944 was a World War II atrocity in which Japanese soldiers at Puerto Princesa,…
The Palawan pangolin (Manis culionensis), also called the Philippine pangolin, is a scaly, ant-eating mammal endemic to Palawan and nearby…
The Palawan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis) is a strikingly plumaged ground bird endemic to the island of Palawan, with the male…
Hystrix pumila (scientific name) · Philippine porcupine (informal usage)
The Palawan porcupine (Hystrix pumila) is a spiny rodent endemic to the island of Palawan in the Philippines. A small…
Province of Palawan · Palawan
Palawan, officially the Province of Palawan, is an archipelagic province of the Philippines located in the Mimaropa region. It is…
Palawan scops owl · Fuliginous scops owl
The Palawan scops-owl (Otus fuliginosus) is a small, reddish-brown owl found only on the island of Palawan in the western…
Palawan State University (PSU) is the first state university in Palawan province, with its main campus in Tiniguiban Heights, Puerto…
Mydaus marchei (scientific name) · Palawan skunk (informal usage)
The Palawan stink badger (Mydaus marchei) is a small, stocky mammal endemic to Palawan, Busuanga, and Calauit in the Philippines.…
Ameline swiftlet (current English name for the species) · Aerodramus amelis / Collocalia amelis (scientific combinations)
The Palawan swiftlet is a small, dark swiftlet of the western Philippine islands, particularly Palawan and adjacent islets, long treated…
The Palawan Tit (Periparus amabilis) is a tiny songbird endemic to Palawan and its satellite islands in the western Philippines.…
Tupaia palawanensis (scientific name) · Palawan tree shrew
The Palawan treeshrew (Tupaia palawanensis) is a small, squirrel-like mammal endemic to the Philippine island of Palawan and a few…
City of Palayan · Palayan City
Palayan, officially the City of Palayan, is a component city and the provincial capital of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. As one…
Palayan · Capital of Nueva Ecija
Palayan City is a component city and the capital of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon. It is one of seven…
Maguindanao lip-valley flute · Largest of the Maguindanao bamboo flutes
The palendag is the largest and lowest-toned bamboo flute of the Maguindanao of Mindanao, classified as a lip-valley flute: a…
A palengke is a Philippine public wet market where fresh produce, meat, fish, and dry goods are sold by stall…
Paleolithic Diet · Caveman Diet
The Paleo Diet (also referred to as the Paleolithic diet, Caveman diet, or Stone Age diet) is a nutritional framework…
Municipality of Palimbang · Palimbang Sultan Kudarat
Palimbang, officially the Municipality of Palimbang, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Palitaw sa latik (variant name in some regions) · Floating rice cake (descriptive translation)
Palitaw is a Filipino rice cake consisting of flat, oval discs of glutinous rice dough boiled in water until they…
The Palmero Conspiracy was a failed plot uncovered in Manila in 1828 to overthrow Spanish colonial government in the Philippines,…
Palosebo · Greased pole climbing
Palo-sebo is a traditional Filipino fiesta game in which contestants climb a tall bamboo pole smeared with grease to retrieve…
Palo is a first-class municipality in the province of Leyte, Eastern Visayas (Region VIII), Philippines. It serves as the seat…
Municipality of Palompon · Palompon Leyte
Palompon, officially the Municipality of Palompon, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Mersawa (regional trade name for Anisoptera timber)
Palosapis is the Philippine timber name for Anisoptera thurifera, a large tree of the dipterocarp family Dipterocarpaceae native to the…
Palosebo (also spelled palo-sebo) is a traditional Filipino festival game in which contestants climb a tall, greased bamboo pole to…
Municipality of Paluan · Paluan Occidental Mindoro
Paluan, officially the Municipality of Paluan, is a municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Pamamanhikan is the Filipino tradition in which a man, often with his parents and close relatives, formally visits the home…
Pamanhikan is a traditional Filipino courtship and marriage custom in which the suitor, usually accompanied by his parents or elders,…
University of the City of Manila · PLM
The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), chartered in English as the University of the City of Manila, is the…
Pamatong v. COMELEC — the usual short citation · The nuisance-candidate case of 2004 — its casebook styling
Pamatong v. Commission on Elections (G.R. No. 161872, April 13, 2004) is the Philippine Supreme Court's leading decision on the…
PKM · National Peasants Union — English rendering
The Pambansang Kaisahan ng mga Magbubukid (PKM) — in English rendering, the National Peasants Union — was the national peasant…
Municipality of Pambujan · Pambujan Northern Samar
Pambujan, officially the Municipality of Pambujan, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Pamilacan Island is a small island barangay of the municipality of Baclayon, Bohol, about 12.5 kilometers south of Bohol island…
Pamitinan Cave is a limestone cave in Barangay San Rafael, Rodriguez, Rizal, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre beside…
Pampanga · Province of Pampanga — the formal designation
Pampanga Province, officially the Province of Pampanga, is a province of the Philippines in Central Luzon (Region III), on the…
Rio Grande de Pampanga — the Spanish-era designation · Pampanga–Pantabangan river system — the system-wide designation that includes the upper reservoir reach
The Pampanga River — the Rio Grande de Pampanga of the Spanish record — is the trunk stream of Central…
Municipality of Pamplona · Pamplona Negros Oriental
Pamplona, officially the Municipality of Pamplona, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Pamulinawen Festival of Laoag · Laoag City fiesta celebration
The Pamulinawen Festival is an annual festival in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, named after the woman immortalized in the popular…
Tambaliza (island barangay name) · Tampisaw Island (tourism name)
Pan de Azucar Island, also known as Tambaliza or Tampisaw Island, is a populated island in the Visayan Sea belonging…
Pan de Regla is a classic Filipino bakery bread consisting of a soft, slightly sweet elongated roll filled with a…
Maharlika Highway · Asian Highway 26 (AH26)
The Pan-Philippine Highway, also called the Maharlika Highway, is a 3,517-kilometer network of roads, bridges, and ferry routes forming the…
Panaad sa Negros Festival is the annual "festival of festivals" of Negros Occidental, Philippines, held each spring at the Panaad…
Panabas sword (disambiguating usage) · Moro executioner's sword (sensationalist label in old accounts)
The panabas is a large, forward-curving single-edged sword of the Moro peoples of Mindanao and Sulu, its name derived from…
Panabo City is a third-income-class component city in Davao del Norte, Davao Region (Region XI), Philippines. It had a 2020…
Municipality of Panaon · Panaon Misamis Occidental
Panaon, officially the Municipality of Panaon, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
The Panatang Makabayan ("Patriotic Oath of the Philippines") is the civic oath recited by Filipino students during the daily flag…
Panay is a coastal municipality in Capiz province, Western Visayas, Philippines, lying just east of Roxas City. Historically known as…
Municipality of Panay · Panay Capiz
Panay, officially the Municipality of Panay, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
The Panay Bukidnon (also called Sulud or Sulodnon, and known in official discourse as Tumandok in some municipalities) are the…
Crateromys heaneyi (scientific name) · Panay cloud rat (common synonym)
The Panay cloud runner (Crateromys heaneyi) is a large, squirrel-like rodent endemic to the island of Panay in the Philippines.…
The Panay cloudrunner (Crateromys heaneyi) is a large, squirrel-like rodent endemic to the island of Panay in the central Philippines.…
The Panay Gulf is an extension of the Sulu Sea reaching between the islands of Panay and Negros in the…
Panay · Panay Island
Panay Island is a salient entity in the Philippines...
The Panay monitor lizard (Varanus mabitang), known locally as mabitang, is a large, rare lizard endemic to the island of…
Panay Railways, Inc. (PRI) · Panay Railway Company
Panay Railways, Inc. (PRI) is the government-owned and controlled corporation that historically operated the island of Panay's only railway —…
The Panay River is the principal river of Capiz province on Panay island in the Philippines. Rising in the island's…
The Panay striped babbler (Zosterornis latistriatus) is a small, streak-plumaged babbler endemic to the island of Panay in the west-central…
PGN Bridge · Panay-Guimaras-Negros Island Bridges
The Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) Island Bridge project is a proposed network of sea crossings that would link the islands of Panay,…
Francisco Guilledo · Francisco Villaruel Guilledo
Pancho Villa, born Francisco Villaruel Guilledo (August 1, 1901 – July 14, 1925), was a Filipino professional boxer and the…
Pancit Bato is the signature noodle dish of Bato, Camarines Sur, in the Bicol region of the Philippines, named after…
Pancit na itim (black pancit) · Choca en su tinta (Hispanized usage echoing Spanish cookery)
Pancit choca is a distinctive Filipino noodle dish from Cavite in which rice vermicelli is cooked with fresh squid and…
Pancit Lucban · Pancit Hab-Hab
Pancit Habhab is a stir-fried noodle dish from Lucban, Quezon, made with thin miki wheat noodles sautéed with pork, shrimp,…
Pancit Malabon is a Filipino noodle dish from Malabon City that dresses thick rice noodles in an orange shrimp-and-pork sauce,…
Pancit Molo is a Filipino soup dish from the Molo district of Iloilo City consisting of pork-and-chicken wontons served in…
Pancit palabok is a Philippine noodle dish of thin rice noodles (bihon) smothered in a savory orange sauce flavored with…
Pancreatic Inflammation · Inflamed Pancreas
Pancreatitis is a pathological condition characterized by the inflammation of the pancreas, a vital glandular organ located behind the stomach…
Pandacan district · "Little Tokyo" (prewar Japanese quarter, historical)
Pandacan is a riverside district of Manila lying on the south bank of the Pasig River, east of Quiapo and…
Municipality of Pandag · Pandag Maguindanao
Pandag, officially the Municipality of Pandag, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Pandaka pygmaea, the dwarf pygmy goby, is a tiny freshwater and brackish-water fish endemic to the island of Luzon in…
Municipality of Pandami · Pandami Sulu
Pandami, officially the Municipality of Pandami, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Pandan is a coastal municipality in northern Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, widely recognized as the province's leading tourist destination.…
Municipality of Pandan · Pandan Antique
Pandan, officially the Municipality of Pandan, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Pandanggo sa Ilaw ("fandango with lights") is a popular Philippine folk dance in which performers balance glass oil lamps on…
Pande Pira · Panday Pira ("panday" meaning smith)
Panday Pira (c. 1483–1576) was a Filipino master blacksmith of sixteenth-century Maynila, remembered as the archipelago's first known cannon-maker. A…
Pan de sal · Filipino salt bread
Pandesal is a Filipino bread roll made from wheat flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and oil, coated in breadcrumbs before baking.…
Municipality of Pandi · Pandi Bulacan
Pandi, officially the Municipality of Pandi, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Ping Lacson · Ping
Panfilo Lacson (born June 1, 1948, in Imus, Cavite), widely known as Ping Lacson, is a Filipino politician and former…
Pangalay is a traditional dance form of the Sulu archipelago, associated with the Tausug, Sama, and Bajau peoples, characterized by…
Municipality of Panganiban · Panganiban Catanduanes
Panganiban, officially the Municipality of Panganiban, is a municipality in the province of Catanduanes, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Municipality of Pangantucan · Pangantucan Bukidnon
Pangantucan, officially the Municipality of Pangantucan, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
The Pangasinan people are an ethnolinguistic group of the central Luzon plains and coast, concentrated in Pangasinan province and speaking…
Pangasinan · Province of Pangasinan
Pangasinan Province, officially the Province of Pangasinan, is a province in the Ilocos Region of the Philippines, located along the…
Pangasinan State University (PSU) is a public, multi-campus state university in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines, with its main campus…
Municipality of Pangil · Pangil Laguna
Pangil, officially the Municipality of Pangil, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Panglao · Panglao Bohol
Panglao, officially the Municipality of Panglao, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Panglao
Panglao Island is a coralline limestone island off the southwestern coast of Bohol in the Philippines' Central Visayas, lying across…
Municipality of Panglima Estino · Panglima Estino Sulu
Panglima Estino, officially the Municipality of Panglima Estino, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Panglima Sugala · Panglima Sugala Tawi-Tawi
Panglima Sugala, officially the Municipality of Panglima Sugala, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro…
Port Panguil · Panguil Inlet
Panguil Bay is a narrow, ecologically and economically vital bay located in the northwestern region of Mindanao, Philippines. The bay…
Panguil Bay Bridge Project
The Panguil Bay Bridge is a 3.77-kilometer extradosed sea-crossing bridge that spans Panguil Bay between Tangub City in Misamis Occidental…
Municipality of Pangutaran · Pangutaran Sulu
Pangutaran, officially the Municipality of Pangutaran, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Paniqui · Paniqui Tarlac
Paniqui, officially the Municipality of Paniqui, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Panitan is an agricultural municipality in Capiz province, Western Visayas, Philippines, located inland to the north of Roxas City. It…
Municipality of Panitan · Panitan Capiz
Panitan, officially the Municipality of Panitan, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Taal River · Ilog Pansipit
The Pansipit River is a short but historically important river in Batangas, Philippines, the sole surface outlet of Taal Lake,…
Municipality of Pantabangan · Pantabangan Nueva Ecija
Pantabangan, officially the Municipality of Pantabangan, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Pantabangan Reservoir (the lake's alternative designation) · Pantabangan Lake (the reservoir)
The Pantabangan Dam is a 107-meter-high, 1,615-meter-long earth-fill embankment dam on the Pampanga River at Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija — the…
Leon Kilat (nom de guerre, "Lightning Lion") · Pantaleon Villegas (legal name)
Pantaleon Villegas (1873-1898), better known by his nom de guerre Leon Kilat, was a Cebuano revolutionary leader whose forces won…
Municipality of Pantao Ragat · Pantao Ragat Lanao del Norte
Pantao Ragat, officially the Municipality of Pantao Ragat, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within…
Pantar is a fifth-income-class municipality in Lanao del Norte, Northern Mindanao, Philippines. Located near the northern shores of Lake Lanao,…
4Ps · Pantawid Pamilya
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is the national conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Philippines, implemented by the…
Municipality of Pantukan · Pantukan Davao de Oro
Pantukan, officially the Municipality of Pantukan, is a municipality in the province of Davao de Oro, located within the Davao…
Municipality of Panukulan · Panukulan Quezon
Panukulan, officially the Municipality of Panukulan, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Panyalam is a Filipino deep-fried rice cake made from ground glutinous rice, sugar, and grated coconut, shaped into flat round…
Municipality of Paoay · Paoay Ilocos Norte
Paoay, officially the Municipality of Paoay, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Saint Augustine Parish Church, Paoay — the formal parish designation · San Agustín Church, Paoay — the name the UNESCO serial listing carries
Paoay Church, formally the Saint Augustine Parish Church of Paoay, Ilocos Norte, is the Augustinian-built church whose present fabric —…
Paoay Lake National Park (protected-area name) · Lake Paoay
Paoay Lake is a horseshoe-shaped freshwater lake in the municipality of Paoay, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, about three kilometers from the…
Municipality of Paombong · Paombong Bulacan
Paombong, officially the Municipality of Paombong, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Papa Isio (born Dionisio Magbuelas, c. 1848–1911) was a Negrense babaylan-style religious leader and revolutionary who commanded sugarcane workers and…
Pinapaitan · Papaitan nga kalding (Ilocano, goat papaitan)
Papaitan is an Ilocano soup made from goat or cattle innards, such as tripe, intestines, liver, and heart, bittered with…
Paphiopedilum adductum is a lady's slipper orchid endemic to the island of Mindanao, Philippines. Like all Paphiopedilum it bears a…
Ciliate slipper orchid · Tropical lady's-slipper orchid of the Philippines
Paphiopedilum ciliolare is a lady's-slipper orchid endemic to the Philippines, growing as a terrestrial or lithophytic plant in lowland and…
Haynald's slipper orchid · Paphiopedilum haynaldianum (horticultural shorthand: Paph. haynaldianum)
Paphiopedilum haynaldianum is a large-flowered lady's-slipper orchid endemic to the Philippines, recorded from islands including Luzon and parts of the…
Paphiopedilum hennisianum is a lady's slipper orchid endemic to Palawan, Philippines, recognized by its attractively mottled foliage and striped, pouch-lipped…
Philippine lady's-slipper (English common name) · Slipper orchid (general group name)
Paphiopedilum philippinense is a lady's-slipper orchid endemic to the Philippines, celebrated for dramatically long, twisted, ribbon-like pendant petals that can…
Luzon peacock swallowtail · Baguio peacock swallowtail
Papilio chikae, the Luzon peacock swallowtail, is a large swallowtail butterfly endemic to the mountains of northern Luzon, Philippines, first…
No widely standardized common name; most frequently cited by its scientific name in exhibits and checklists
Papilio rumanzovia is a large swallowtail butterfly endemic to the Philippines, occurring on Luzon and associated islands such as Mindoro…
Paracale, officially the Municipality of Paracale, is a municipality in Camarines Norte, Philippines, with about 58,391 people per the 2024…
Municipality of Paracelis · Paracelis Mountain Province
Paracelis, officially the Municipality of Paracelis, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
The Parada ng Lechon is the festival of Balayan, Batangas, held every June 24 for the feast of St. John…
Home of Entertainment City (PAGCOR's Bagong Nayong Pilipino) · City of Parañaque
Parañaque, officially the City of Parañaque (Filipino: Lungsod ng Parañaque), is a highly urbanized first-class city in southern Metro Manila,…
PITX · Southwest Integrated Terminal Exchange
The Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX) is the Philippines' first integrated, multimodal land transport terminal — promoted by its operator…
Paranas is a fourth-income-class municipality in Samar province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, on the western coast facing Maqueda Bay. It comprises…
Parang, officially the Municipality of Parang, is a coastal municipality on Illana Bay now belonging to Maguindanao del Norte province…
Municipality of Parang · Parang Sulu
Parang, officially the Municipality of Parang, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Parang Sabil denotes a Tausug oral-verse tradition — kissa sung in the Tausug language and written in jawi script —…
White lauan (trade name, shared with related species) · White seraya (Sabah trade name)
Parashorea malaanonan is a species of large emergent tree in the dipterocarp family Dipterocarpaceae, native to the Philippines and the…
The Paraw Regatta is an annual boat race held in Iloilo City since 1973, featuring paraws, the native outrigger sailboats…
Philippine Association of the Record Industry · Kapisanan ng Industriya ng Plaka ng Pilipinas
The Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) — in Filipino, Kapisanan ng Industriya ng Plaka ng Pilipinas — is…
Parián de Arroceros — "the rice farmers' market," from its first site · Pantin
The Parían (also Pantin or Parían de Arroceros) was the segregated market-and-residence quarter of Spanish Manila, established in 1581 beside…
PPCRV · Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) — full organizational name
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) is a Catholic Church-based, non-partisan election watchdog in the Philippines, founded on…
Parity Rights Amendment · Parity Rights
The Parity Amendment was the amendment to the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines ratified in the plebiscite of March 11,…
Parity Amendment · Bell Trade Act parity clause
Parity Rights refers to the equal rights granted to United States citizens and businesses, under the Bell Trade Act of…
Mount Melibengoy (current name) · Mount Parker
Parker Volcano, officially known as Mount Melibengoy, is an active stratovolcano in the province of South Cotabato on the island…
Parking Slot · Carport
A parking-space (or parking slot) is a dedicated, marked area on a surface lot, podium level, or basement level designed…
Farol — the Spanish source word, still used for the lantern tradition's Hispanic antecedents · Paritaan — a native-language generic term for lanterns recorded alongside parol
A parol is the Philippine ornamental Christmas lantern, today standardized as a five-pointed star that symbolizes the Star of Bethlehem,…
PPA · Probation Administration (historical name)
The Parole and Probation Administration (PPA) is the Philippine government agency responsible for the administration of the country's probation, parole,…
PFP · Partido Federal
The Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) is a Philippine national political party organized in 2018 by supporters of President Rodrigo…
Party-List System Act · Party-List System Act (Republic Act No. 7941)
The party-list system is the constitutional mechanism by which a portion of the Philippine House of Representatives is elected through…
Field Butterfly · Mariposa Bella (Spanish-language original)
Paru-Parong Bukid ("field butterfly") is a traditional Filipino folk song in Tagalog that evolved from the Spanish-language song "Mariposa Bella,"…
Municipality of Pasacao · Pasacao Camarines Sur
Pasacao, officially the Municipality of Pasacao, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Pasalamat sa La Carlota · La Carlota Pasalamat Festival
The Pasalamat Festival is the annual thanksgiving festival of La Carlota City in Negros Occidental. Its name means "thanksgiving" in…
Assume Balance · Assumption of Mortgage
Pasalo (from the Tagalog word salo, meaning "to catch" or "take over") is a popular Philippine real estate practice where…
City of Pasay · Travel Capital of the Philippines
Pasay, officially the City of Pasay, is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. Positioned next to Manila Bay,…
General Pascual Álvarez · Pascual Álvarez y de Jesús
Pascual Álvarez (May 17, 1861 – March 8, 1923) was a Filipino revolutionary general of Cavite — a nephew of…
Pascual Borbon Racuyal — full name · Pascual B. Racuyal — the styling in Ocampo's column
Pascual Racuyal — in full Pascual Borbon Racuyal (1911, Tinago, Cebu City – 2004, Bulacan) — was a Filipino mechanic…
Former capital of Rizal province · City of Pasig
Pasig, officially the City of Pasig (Filipino: Lungsod ng Pasig), is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. It…
Ilog Pasig (Filipino) · River Pasig
The Pasig River is a roughly 27-kilometre (17 mi) river in the Philippines that connects Laguna de Bay, the country's…
The Pasig River Ferry is a passenger water transport service operating along the Pasig River in Metro Manila, offering an…
PRRC · Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission-PRRC
The Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) was a Philippine government agency created in 1999 to lead the cleanup and rehabilitation…
Pasigarbo sa Sugbo ("Pride of Cebu") is the annual festival-of-festivals of the Province of Cebu, in which component cities and…
Municipality of Pasil · Pasil Kalinga
Pasil, officially the Municipality of Pasil, is a municipality in the province of Kalinga, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Pasma is a Filipino folk illness attributed to an imbalance between hot (init) and cold (lamig) states of the body,…
City of Passi · Sweet City of Iloilo
Passi, officially the City of Passi, is a component city in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. Known as the Sweet…
Pastel (colloquial, on the island) · Yema buns
Pastel de Camiguín is a soft, pillowy bun filled with yema — a sweet custard made of egg yolks and…
Pastil is a one-wrap rice meal of the Moro (Muslim Filipino) communities of central and western Mindanao, especially the Maguindanao…
Pastores ("shepherds") is a Philippine Christmas folk tradition, associated especially with Albay and the Bicol region, in which costumed young…
Pastrana is a fourth-income-class interior municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, about 27 kilometers from Tacloban City. Organized as…
Municipality of Pasuquin · Pasuquin Ilocos Norte
Pasuquin, officially the Municipality of Pasuquin, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
The Pasyon is a Philippine narrative chant that recounts the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, performed publicly…
Municipality of Pata · Pata Sulu
Pata, officially the Municipality of Pata, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Pata massacre · Pata Island incident (1981)
The Pata Island massacre refers to an incident on February 12, 1981, on Pata Island in Sulu, Philippines, in which…
Patadyung (spelling variant) · Visayan wrap skirt (English gloss)
A patadyong is a wraparound tube skirt of the Visayas and parts of Mindanao, woven in colorful plaid, striped, or…
Patani is the Filipino name for the lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus), a climbing or bush legume cultivated for its flat,…
The Patapat Viaduct is an elevated coastal highway segment on the northern coast of Ilocos Norte, Philippines, carrying the Maharlika…
1. Definition A Patellar Fracture is a break in the patella (kneecap), typically caused by direct trauma, such as a…
Runner's knee · PFPS
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS, commonly known as runner's knee) is a broad term used to describe pain starting from the…
The Paternity Leave Act of 1996, Republic Act No. 8187, grants every married male employee in the private and public…
Balut Capital of the Philippines · The only municipality in Metro Manila
Pateros is a first-class municipality in Metro Manila, Philippines, and the only municipality (rather than a city) in the National…
Municipality of Pateros · Pateros Metro Manila
Pateros, officially the Municipality of Pateros, is a municipality in the province of Metro Manila, located within the National Capital…
Municipality of Patikul · Patikul Sulu
Patikul, officially the Municipality of Patikul, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Patintero is a traditional Filipino street team game played on a rectangular grid drawn on the ground, in which attacking…
Patis is the Philippine fish sauce, a clear amber liquid made from salted fish allowed to ferment, and one of…
Municipality of Patnanungan · Patnanungan Quezon
Patnanungan, officially the Municipality of Patnanungan, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Patnongon is a coastal municipality in the southern part of Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, facing the Sulu Sea. It…
Municipality of Patnongon · Patnongon Antique
Patnongon, officially the Municipality of Patnongon, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Patola is the Filipino term for the ridged luffa or angled gourd (Luffa acutangula), a fast-climbing vine cultivated for its…
Patricio Montojo y Pasarón — full Spanish name · Contraalmirante Montojo — his final rank
Patricio Montojo y Pasarón (September 7, 1839, Ferrol, Galicia – September 30, 1917, Madrid) was a rear admiral (contraalmirante) of…
Patrocinio Gamboa y Villareal — the full record name · Tia Patron
Patrocinio Gamboa (in full Patrocinio Gamboa y Villareal; April 30, 1865, Jaro, Iloilo – November 24, 1953, Molo, Iloilo City),…
Pattaraday sa Santiago · Santiago City charter festival
The Pattaraday Festival is the annual founding anniversary festival of Santiago City, Isabela, held in early May. Its name comes…
The Pattaradday Festival is the annual festival of Santiago City in Isabela province, Cagayan Valley, celebrating the unity of the…
Paul McNutt
Paul Vories McNutt (July 19, 1891 – March 24, 1955) was an American politician and diplomat whose career ran from…
Paulino Torres Santos — full name · Major General Paulino Santos
Paulino Santos — in full Paulino Torres Santos (June 22, 1890 – August 29, 1945) — was a Filipino soldier,…
Paulo C. Campos · Father of Philippine nuclear medicine
Paulo Campos (1921–2007) was a Filipino physician and scientist celebrated as the father of nuclear medicine in the Philippines. A…
Pavvurulun Festival · Pav-Vurulun
The Pav-vurulun Festival is the founding anniversary festival of Tuguegarao City, the capital of Cagayan province. Its name derives from…
Municipality of Pavia · Pavia Iloilo
Pavia, officially the Municipality of Pavia, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Pawikan (Tagalog and many Philippine languages) · Philippine sea turtles
Pawikan is the Filipino term for sea turtles, marine reptiles of the family Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae. Philippine waters host five…
Municipality of Payao · Payao Zamboanga Sibugay
Payao, officially the Municipality of Payao, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
PNPI — the abbreviation used in the merger announcement and the corporation's own releases · Payments Network — the short styling of the corporation's news items
The Payments Network of the Philippines, Inc. (PNPI) is the Philippine payments-network corporation formed on June 1, 2026 by the…
The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 was a United States tariff law that, together with its companion Philippine Tariff Act,…
Paz Latorena (1908–1953) was a pioneering Filipina writer in English, one of the earliest women to publish fiction in the…
Paz Márquez-Benítez (1894–1983) was a Filipino short-story writer, educator, and editor whose 1925 story "Dead Stars" is widely regarded as…
Commissioner's Cup · PBA Second Conference (the historical name of the mid-season tournament slot it replaced in 1993)
The PBA Commissioner's Cup is one of the three conferences contested in each season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA),…
Fiesta Conference · The Fiesta
The PBA Fiesta Conference was the import-laden tournament of the Philippine Basketball Association's (PBA) two-conference era — the transitional competition…
Governors Cup · PBA Governors Cup
The PBA Governors' Cup is one of the three conferences (tournaments) contested in each season of the Philippine Basketball Association…
PBA All-Filipino Conference (1977–1992 designation) · PBA All-Filipino Cup (1993–2003 designation)
The PBA Philippine Cup is the all-Filipino conference of each Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) season — the tournament in which…
1. Definition The PBCom Tower is an office skyscraper located in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. Standing at 259 meters (850…
Philippine Council for Agriculture Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development · DOST-PCAARRD
PCAARRD — the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development — is the sectoral planning council…
Presidential Decree No. 1096 · National Building Code
PD 1096, officially the National Building Code of the Philippines, is the presidential decree governing building standards, setbacks, fire zones,…
PD957 · PD 957
PD 957 (Presidential Decree No. 957), also known as the Subdivision and Condominium Buyers' Protective Decree, is the primary consumer…
S-2 License · PDEA S2 License
The PDEA S2 License (also written S-2 license) is a special license issued by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)…
PDP-Laban · PDP Laban
PDP–Laban, formally the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan ("Philippine Democratic Party–Struggle of the Nation") and known simply as PDP since…
George Foster Peabody Awards · George Foster Peabody Award
The Peabody Awards — formally the George Foster Peabody Awards, named for the American investment banker and philanthropist George Foster…
Pearl Farm Beach Resort is a luxury island resort occupying the islands of Samal and Malipano, just off the coast…
Don Perico — the nickname recorded in the standard account · Pedro Abad Santos y Basco — the full Hispanic styling
Pedro Abad Santos (Pedro Abad Santos y Basco; January 31, 1876, San Fernando, Pampanga – January 15, 1945, Minalin, Pampanga)…
Pedro Almazan was an Ilocano chieftain who led an uprising against Spanish rule in the Ilocos region in 1660-1661, proclaiming…
Father of Ilocano Literature · Pedro Bukaneg
Pedro Bucaneg (c. 1592–c. 1630) was an Ilocano poet, translator, and interpreter remembered as the "Father of Ilocano Literature." Blind…
Pedro Bukaneg is traditionally regarded as the Father of Ilocano Literature, a poet, translator, and linguist of the early Spanish…
Pedro Calonsor, el Visayo — the designation in the mission records · San Pedro Calungsod
Pedro Calungsod (born around 1654 by the traditional dating; died April 2, 1672, at Tumon, Guam) was a Filipino Catholic…
Pedro Dungoc · Dungoc, Pedro Sr. — the Wall of Remembrance listing
Pedro Dungoc Sr. (born 1943, by one record on January 1, 1943 – June 22, 1985) was a Kalinga farmer…
Pedro Guevara y Valenzuela · Resident Commissioner Pedro Guevara
Pedro Guevara y Valenzuela (February 23, 1879 – January 19, 1938) was a Filipino soldier, lawyer, legislator, and Spanish-language writer…
Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio — full birth name (also spelled y Debera Ignacio) · Pedro A. Paterno
Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio (February 27, 1857, Santa Cruz, Manila – April 26, 1911, Manila) was a Filipino…
The Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK) was the Philippine military contingent that served under the United Nations Command in…
Alopias pelagicus (scientific name) · Pelagic fox shark
The pelagic thresher (Alopias pelagicus) is a slender shark distinguished by a whip-like upper tail fin as long as its…
Peñablanca (Penablanca) is a municipality in Cagayan, Philippines, east of Tuguegarao City, named for the white limestone cliffs along the…
Municipality of Peñablanca · Peñablanca Cagayan
Peñablanca, officially the Municipality of Peñablanca, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Peñablanca Protected Landscape · PPLS
The Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape is a protected area in Peñablanca, Cagayan, Philippines, safeguarding the limestone karst country northeast…
Municipality of Peñaranda · Peñaranda Nueva Ecija
Peñaranda, officially the Municipality of Peñaranda, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Peñarrubia · Peñarrubia Abra
Peñarrubia, officially the Municipality of Peñarrubia, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Peniel Integrated Christian Academy of Rizal · PICA Homeschool
Peniel Integrated Christian Academy (officially Peniel Integrated Christian Academy of Rizal) is a private, DepEd-recognized educational institution in the Philippines.…
Penoy-lugo (soupy form of the spoiled-egg variant, in trade usage) · Fertilization-failed balut (process description)
Penoy is a Philippine street food consisting of a boiled duck egg that, unlike balut, contains no developed embryo —…
Penshoppe is a Philippine clothing brand under Golden ABC, marketing casual apparel through mall-based stores nationwide and regional ambassador campaigns.…
Act No. 854 — the statute number of the Philippine Commission · The Pensionado Law — the styling this wiki's Tomás Mapúa entry uses for the 1903 authority
The Pensionado Act (Act No. 854 of the Philippine Commission, enacted August 26, 1903 — formally "An Act providing for…
The Maria Ressa cyberlibel case · The Rappler cyberlibel case
People of the Philippines v. Santos, Ressa and Rappler (Criminal Case No. R-MNL-19-01141-CR, Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 46)…
The EDSA Monument — popular shorthand · The People Power Monument on EDSA — site styling used in protest coverage
The People Power Monument is a monument on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) at its corner with White Plains…
People of the Philippines v. Hernandez — the full case styling · The Hernandez doctrine — the 1956 absorption rule's customary name
People v. Hernandez, G.R. Nos. L-6025 and L-6026, is the Philippine Supreme Court's landmark pair of rulings in the rebellion…
People of the Philippines v. Eduardo Prieto · G.R. No. L-399 (the docket citation)
People v. Prieto is a decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, G.R. No. L-399, decided January 29, 1948…
People's Court of the Philippines — the expanded styling in legal literature · The special treason court — the descriptive styling of the occupation-era jurisdiction
The People's Court was the special court created by Commonwealth Act No. 682, approved September 25, 1945 — signed by…
PHHC · The Homesite Corporation — the shorthand of the postwar housing literature
The People's Homesite and Housing Corporation (PHHC) was the Philippine government's national housing corporation of the pre-martial-law decades — the…
The People's Survival Fund, created by Republic Act No. 10174 in 2012 as an amendment to the Climate Change Act…
PTV · PTV-4
The People's Television Network (PTV) is the flagship state-owned television broadcaster of the Philippines, operating on channel 4 and chartered…
Pansit-pansitan (Tagalog, from the noodle-like flower spikes) · Ulasimang-bato / linas-bato (Tagalog, "rock polisher," from where it grows)
Peperomia pellucida, known in the Philippines as pansit-pansitan or ulasimang-bato, is a small, fleshy, shade-loving herb of damp nooks —…
Maurice Gallaga · Maurice "Peque" Gallaga
Peque Gallaga — born Maurice Gallaga on August 25, 1943, in Bacolod, Negros Occidental — was a Filipino filmmaker, production…
Municipality of Perez · Perez Quezon
Perez, officially the Municipality of Perez, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
PCA (common abbreviation) · Cour permanente d'arbitrage (French, one of the PCA's official languages)
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, which…
1. Definition Personalized Learning is an educational model that customizes the pacing, instructional methods, and academic content to match the…
PDL · PDLs
Persons deprived of liberty — in official Philippine usage almost always abbreviated PDLs — is the legal term of art…
Pescador Island is a small limestone island in the Tañon Strait, a few kilometers off the western coast of Cebu,…
Toog (local name) · Petersianthus quadrialatus (binomial name)
Petersianthus quadrialatus, commonly called toog, is a large tree species endemic to the Philippines and one of the country's tallest…
Petron Corporation · Petrophil Corporation (historical, 1973–1988)
Petron (Petron Corporation, PSE: PCOR) is the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines and the operator of…
Bataan Refinery
The Petron Bataan Refinery (also called the Bataan Refinery) is an oil refinery in Limay, Bataan, Philippines, owned and operated…
PEZA · Philippine Economic Zone Authority
PEZA (Philippine Economic Zone Authority) is a government agency in the Philippines attached to the Department of Trade and Industry…
PEZA IT Park · PEZA IT Center
PEZA-accredited IT refers to Information Technology (IT) Parks, IT Centers, or buildings and offices that have been formally registered and…
Moon orchid · Moth orchid
Phalaenopsis amabilis, commonly called the moon orchid or moth orchid, is a species of epiphytic orchid native to parts of…
Equestris phalaenopsis (horticultural shorthand: P. equestris)
Phalaenopsis equestris is a small-flowered species of moth orchid native to the Philippines and Taiwan. Producing arching inflorescences of ten…
Linden's moth orchid · Striped Phalaenopsis
Phalaenopsis lindenii is a species of moth orchid endemic to the island of Luzon in the Philippines, named after the…
Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana (binomial name) · Lueddemann's moth orchid
Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana is a species of orchid endemic to the Philippines. It bears arching sprays of waxy, fragrant flowers marked…
Phalaenopsis philippinensis is an endemic species of orchid found on Luzon island in the Philippines. A moth orchid with broad,…
Polychilos pulchra (older generic placement) · P. pulchra (horticultural shorthand)
Phalaenopsis pulchra is an orchid species endemic to the Philippines, prized for its glossy, deep magenta-pink, waxy flowers. A member…
Sander's phalaenopsis (English common name)
Phalaenopsis sanderiana is a moth orchid species endemic to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, bearing gracefully arching sprays…
Schiller's phalaenopsis · Pink moth orchid
Phalaenopsis schilleriana is a species of moth orchid endemic to the Philippines, prized for its arching sprays of fragrant pink…
Phalaenopsis stuartiana is a species of orchid endemic to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. A compact moth orchid…
Natural Product Pharmacology · Materia Medica Study
Pharmacognosy is the branch of pharmacology that focuses on the study of physical, chemical, biochemical, and biological properties of drugs,…
Drug Safety Monitoring · Adverse Event Reporting
Pharmacovigilance (abbreviated as PV) is the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of adverse effects…
The Pharmally scandal — the standard styling · The Pharmally hearings — the Senate proceedings at the scandal's core
The Pharmally Scandal is the Philippine procurement controversy that broke in August 2021 over pandemic-supply contracts awarded to Pharmally Pharmaceutical…
Phentermine Hydrochloride · Adipex-P
Phentermine is a sympathomimetic amine anorectic drug chemically related to amphetamines. It acts as a central nervous system stimulant and…
Phentermine and Topiramate Extended-Release · Qsymia
Phentermine-Topiramate is a fixed-dose combination medication containing phentermine, a sympathomimetic stimulant appetite suppressant, and topiramate, an atypical anticonvulsant. The combination…
Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System — the full statutory name · G-EPS — the Government Electronic Procurement System styling used in RA 9184 and its implementing rules
PhilGEPS, the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System, is the single central electronic portal through which the Philippine government conducts and…
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation · PHIC
PhilHealth (officially the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation) is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) attached to the Department of Health…
PACCD · Philippine Academy of Clinical and Cosmetic Dermatology Inc.
The Philippine Academy of Clinical and Cosmetic Dermatology (PACCD) is a recognized medical organization composed of licensed physicians in the…
Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas · PAF
The Philippine Air Force (Filipino: Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas; PAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Armed Forces…
PAL · Philippine Air Lines, Inc. — original corporate style
Philippine Airlines (PAL; incorporated as Philippine Air Lines, Inc.) is the flag carrier of the Philippines — the airline founded…
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was a Boeing 747 en route from Cebu to Tokyo on 11 December 1994 when a…
PAR (standard acronym in forecasts and media) · PAGASA area of responsibility (expanded usage)
The Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) is the area of the Northwestern Pacific in which PAGASA, the Philippine national weather…
Ciudad de Victoria Arena · INC Centennial Arena
The Philippine Arena is a large indoor arena at Ciudad de Victoria in Bocaue, Bulacan, built by the Iglesia ni…
PA — the standard abbreviation · Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas — the Filipino designation
The Philippine Army (Filipino: Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas) is the main, oldest, and largest branch of the Armed Forces of…
Assembly — the common short form in American-period records and reporting · First Philippine Assembly — the inaugural 1907–1909 body and, loosely, the institution's founding moment
The Philippine Assembly was the lower house of the Philippine Legislature from 1907 to 1916 — the first elected national…
Philippine Association, Inc. · PA
The Philippine Association, Inc. was a prominent, non-stock, non-profit private business organization and lobby group established in 1950 by leading…
PASOO · PASOO, Inc. (SEC-registered non-stock, non-profit corporation)
The Philippine Association for the Study of Overweight and Obesity (PASOO) is a Philippine professional and scientific society of physicians,…
PAPRAS · Philippine Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons
The Philippine Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (PAPRAS) is the premier professional medical organization of board-certified plastic surgeons…
1. Definition The Philippine Association of Real Estate Boards (PAREB) is the oldest and largest national real estate professional organization…
PAGASA · PAGASA-DOST
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, widely known as PAGASA, is the national meteorological, hydrological, and astronomical services…
Banking in the Philippines · Philippine banking system
Philippine banking is the banking system of the Republic of the Philippines — the institutions licensed to take deposits, extend…
PBA (initialism) · Philippine Bar Association, Inc. (corporate name following the 1958 incorporation)
The Philippine Bar Association (PBA) is a voluntary professional association of lawyers in the Philippines. It describes itself as the…
Philippine Bar Examinations (plural form usual in Court usage) · The Bar
The Philippine Bar Examination is the professional licensure examination for the practice of law in the Philippines, administered exclusively by…
Dobsonia chapmani · Cebu bare-backed fruit bat
The Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia chapmani) is a cave-dwelling fruit bat that once occurred on Cebu and Negros in…
PBA — the standing abbreviation in Philippine sports usage · Asia's first professional basketball league — its most-cited superlative
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is the men's professional basketball league of the Philippines, which opened play on April 9,…
PBPS · Board of Plastic Surgery of the Philippines
The Philippine Board of Plastic Surgery (PBPS) is the official, recognized certifying body for the specialty of plastic, reconstructive, and…
The Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) is the official government radio network of the Philippines, operating under the Presidential Communications Office.…
The Philippine brown deer (Rusa marianna), also called the Philippine deer, is a deer species endemic to the Philippines, native…
Hypsipetes philippinus (scientific name) · Philippine brown bulbul
The Philippine bulbul (Hypsipetes philippinus) is a plain brown, crestless songbird endemic to the Philippines, abundant in forest, second growth,…
PCC (carabao research agency) · DA-PCC
The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC; Filipino: Sentro ng Kalabaw sa Pilipinas) is an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture…
PCIJ — the standard initialism used by the center itself and in bylines · The Center — the self-reference used in PCIJ's own statements and reports
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is an independent, non-profit media organization in the Philippines specializing in investigative reporting,…
PHilMech (official styling) · PhilMech
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) is a research and extension agency attached to the Department of…
PCSO IMAP · PCSO medical assistance
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Medical Assistance (commonly known as the PCSO Individual Medical Assistance Program or IMAP) is a…
Filipino cinema · Philippine film industry
Philippine cinema is the national film industry and art of the Philippines — one of Asia's oldest, begun with the…
Republic Act No. 9275 · RA 9275
The Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 (Republic Act No. 9275) is the principal statute governing water pollution control in…
PCHC · The clearing house — the banking market's shorthand
The Philippine Clearing House Corporation (PCHC) is the banking industry's check-clearing utility — the private corporation incorporated on July 29,…
PCG · Philippine Coast Guard (Tanod Baybayin ng Pilipinas)
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is the Philippines' armed and uniformed civilian maritime service, attached to the Department of Transportation…
The Philippine cobra (Naja philippinensis) is a highly venomous, spitting cobra endemic to the northern Philippines, occurring on Luzon, Mindoro,…
The Philippine cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia), also known as the red-vented cockatoo and locally called katala, abukay, agay, or kalangay, is…
PCA · Philippine Coconut Authority
The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) is a Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Agriculture (DA) responsible for the…
Philippine Coffee Board Inc. · PCBI
The Philippine Coffee Board Inc. (PCBI) is a private-sector-led non-profit organization established to develop, promote, and sustain the Philippine coffee…
The Philippine collared dove (Streptopelia dusumieri) is a bird in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae, long treated as a…
PCP · Philippine College of Physicians
The Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) is the national professional specialty society of internists (specialists in Internal Medicine) in the…
Kagwang (Filipino) · Philippine flying lemur
The Philippine Colugo (Cynocephalus volans), widely called kagwang in Filipino and historically the "flying lemur," is a nocturnal gliding mammal…
Taft Commission — the popular name for the commission under its first president · Second Philippine Commission — its formal designation, distinguishing it from the Schurman Commission of 1899
The Philippine Commission was the body appointed by U.S. President William McKinley to legislate for, and then help administer, the…
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) — the 1975–2009 name · NCRFW — the original acronym
The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) is the Philippine national government's gender-equality machinery — the "primary policymaking and coordinating body…
Republic Act No. 10667 (statutory citation) · RA 10667 (short citation)
The Philippine Competition Act (Republic Act No. 10667) is the principal antitrust law of the Philippines, enacted in 2015 after…
PCC · PhCC (abbreviation used on the commission's official website)
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) is the independent, quasi-judicial agency that enforces the Philippine Competition Act, Republic Act No. 10667,…
PC · Insular Constabulary (original statutory designation, 1901)
The Philippine Constabulary (PC) was the national police force of the Philippines from 1901 to 1991. It was created by…
Metrocom · PC Metropolitan Command (PC METROCOM)
The Philippine Constabulary Metropolitan Command (Metrocom) was the metropolitan command of the Philippine Constabulary (PC) that operated in the Greater…
1934 Constitutional Convention · Constitutional Convention of 1934
The Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1934 was the constituent assembly that drafted the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines, the charter…
The Philippine coucal (Centropus viridis) is a large, long-tailed cuckoo endemic to the Philippines, widespread from Luzon to Mindanao in…
PCAARRD · DOST-PCAARRD
The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) is the sectoral planning council of the…
PCHRD · DOST-PCHRD
The Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) is the national council of the Department of Science and Technology…
PCIEERD · DOST-PCIEERD
The Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) is the Department of Science and Technology…
Rhabdornis (genus name) · Rhabdornis creepers
The Philippine creepers (genus Rhabdornis) are small, starling-like birds endemic to the Philippines that creep along tree trunks and branches,…
The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) is a small, freshwater crocodile endemic to the Philippines and one of only two crocodile…
Macropygia tenuirostris (scientific name) · Rusty cuckoo-dove (descriptive English name)
Philippine cuckoo-dove (Macropygia tenuirostris) is a long-tailed dove of the family Columbidae found in the Philippines and Taiwan. Slender and…
Filipino cuisine · Filipino food
Philippine cuisine — the standard reference's preferred name is Filipino cuisine — is the body of food traditions of the…
PDI — the universal short form · The Inquirer — the common spoken form
The Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) is the Philippines' most widely read English-language broadsheet — the paper most often called the…
The Philippine Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898, in Kawit, Cavite, by General Emilio Aguinaldo, declaring the…
The Philippine deer (Rusa marianna), also called the Philippine brown deer or sambar, is a small brown deer endemic to…
PDIC · Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp.
The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) is a Philippine government instrumentality created on June 22, 1963 by Republic Act No.…
PDS · Philippine Dermatological Society
The Philippine Dermatological Society (PDS) is the national professional specialty society of dermatologists in the Philippines, recognized by the Philippine…
Philippine Food Supplement Market · Nutraceutical Sector Philippines
The Philippine dietary supplement industry comprises the commercial sector of manufacturers, importers, distributors, and retailers of dietary and food supplements…
PDEA — the standard abbreviation of the agency's own usage · The implementing arm of the Dangerous Drugs Board — the statutory description
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is the national lead agency against dangerous drugs — the law-enforcement body created by…
The Philippine duck (Anas luzonica), also called the Philippine mallard, is a large dabbling duck endemic to the Philippines, recognized…
The Philippine dwarf kingfisher (Ceyx melanurus) is a tiny forest kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, measuring only about 12 centimeters.…
Monkey-eating eagle — the original common name, retained in the scientific name Pithecophaga ("ape eater") jefferyi · Philippine monkey-eating eagle
The Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi), among the world's largest and most powerful raptors, is a forest eagle endemic to the…
PEF · Monkey-Eating Eagle Conservation Program (1969 predecessor)
The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) is a Davao City-based non-profit organization dedicated to conserving the Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi), the…
The Philippine eagle-owl (Bubo philippensis) is a large owl species endemic to the Philippines, found in forested lowlands across Luzon,…
PEZA · Philippine Economic Zone Authority
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) is a government agency attached to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) responsible…
PEPT · Philippine Educational Placement Test
Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT) is a national equivalency examination administered by the Department of Education (DepEd) through the Bureau…
PEMC
The Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC) is the non-stock, non-profit corporation that governs the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), the…
Philippine epic poetry refers to the long narrative poems and chanted tales composed and transmitted by the country's ethnolinguistic communities…
PEC — the standard abbreviation in the historiography of the occupation · Komisyong Tagapagpaganap ng Pilipinas — the Filipino designation
The Philippine Executive Commission (PEC), in Filipino Komisyong Tagapagpaganap ng Pilipinas, was the caretaker civil administration through which the Japanese…
PEFTOK — the standard acronym · Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea — the singular form the standard article's text uses
The Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK; Filipino Ipinadalang Lakas ng Pilipinas sa Korea) was the Philippine Army contingent of…
Irena cyanogastra (binomial) · Fairy bluebird of the Philippines
The Philippine fairy-bluebird (Irena cyanogastra) is a medium-sized, chiefly frugivorous songbird endemic to the Philippines and the country's sole representative…
The Philippine falconet (Microhierax erythrogenys) is a tiny, endemic Philippine bird of prey, at roughly 15 centimeters among the smallest…
Philippine Fault Zone (PFZ) · Philippine Fault
The Philippine Fault System — formally the Philippine Fault Zone (PFZ) in much of the technical literature — is the…
The Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority (PhilFIDA) is the Department of Agriculture agency responsible for regulating and developing the country's…
Fisheries Code of the Philippines · RA 8550
The Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 (Republic Act No. 8550) is the principal law governing the conservation, management, and development…
PFDA
The Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) is a government-owned corporation attached to the Department of Agriculture (Philippines), created in 1976…
The Philippine fishing industry is the sector that harvests and farms the country's aquatic resources, divided into municipal fishing (small…
The Philippine flat-headed frog (Barbourula busuangensis) is a fully aquatic frog endemic to the Philippines, recorded from Busuanga and Palawan…
The Philippine flying lemur (Cynocephalus volans), known locally as kagwang, is a nocturnal gliding mammal endemic to the southern Philippines,…
Palawan forest turtle · Leyte pond turtle (historic misnomer)
The Philippine Forest Turtle (Siebenrockiella leytensis), also called the Palawan forest turtle or Philippine pond turtle, is a medium-sized freshwater…
Batrachostomus septimus (scientific name) · Philippine nightjar (misnomer sometimes used by locals)
The Philippine frogmouth (Batrachostomus septimus) is a nocturnal bird endemic to the Philippines, found in forest and secondary growth from…
PGH · UP-PGH
The Philippine General Hospital (PGH) is the tertiary state-owned teaching hospital administered by the University of the Philippines Manila, designated…
The Philippine Green Pigeon (Treron axillaris) is an arboreal fruit-eating pigeon endemic to the Philippines, split in modern classifications from…
Colasisi / Kulasisi · Loriculus philippensis (scientific name)
The Philippine hanging parrot (Loriculus philippensis), known in Filipino and Cebuano as colasisi or kulasisi, is a small, predominantly green…
The Philippine hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx pectoralis) is a medium-sized forest cuckoo endemic to the Philippines, long treated as a subspecies of…
The Philippine hawk-eagle (Nisaetus philippensis) is a medium-sized bird of prey endemic to the Philippines, found in forests on Luzon,…
The Philippine Hawk-Owl is the name historically applied to the small forest owls of the genus Ninox found across the…
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is the government-owned and controlled corporation that administers the National Health Insurance Program, the…
PHSA · Makiling arts school (campus at the National Arts Center, Mount Makiling)
The Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) is the Philippines' specialized public secondary school for artistically gifted children, founded…
The Philippine Highway System — the Philippine highway network in its standard encyclopedic designation — is the country's network of…
Lan-nang-oe · Lannang-oe
Philippine Hokkien is the heritage variety of the Hokkien language — a Southern Min Chinese tongue native to southern Fujian…
Republic Act No. 11055 · PhilSys Act
The Philippine Identification System Act (Republic Act No. 11055) is the law signed on August 6, 2018 establishing the Philippine…
Commonwealth Act No. 613 · CA 613
The Philippine Immigration Act of 1940, officially Commonwealth Act No. 613 and formally "An Act to Control and Regulate the…
Aglipayan Church — the popular designation, from its first supreme bishop · Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) — the Spanish-Filipino formal name and initials
The Philippine Independent Church (Spanish: Iglesia Filipina Independiente, IFI), popularly the Aglipayan Church, is the Filipino nationalist church in schism…
PIA (government communications agency) · Ahensya ng Impormasyon ng Pilipinas
The Philippine Information Agency (PIA) is the national government communications agency of the Philippines, attached to the Presidential Communications Office…
Public Works and Transportation · PH Infrastructure System
Philippine Infrastructure and Transit encompasses the network of national roads, expressways, bridges, airports, seaports, and rail transit systems in the…
PITAHC · PHIVOLCS
A Philippine Institute refers to any of the specialized, state-chartered research, regulatory, and policy-formulating bodies established by the government of…
PIDS
The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is the Philippine government's primary socioeconomic policy think tank, established on September 26,…
PIA (architects' institute) · Philippine Architects Society
The Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA) is the professional institute of Filipino architects and the oldest architectural society in the…
PHIVOLCS · PHIVOLCS-DOST
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) is the service institute of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology…
PICC
The Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) is the national convention complex of the Philippines, located in the Cultural Center of…
PIMS · CAMPI Motor Show
Philippine International Motor Show (PIMS) is the flagship auto exhibition of the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, Inc.…
Mangkono (Filipino common name) · Magkono (alternate spelling)
Philippine ironwood, commonly called mangkono and scientifically named Xanthostemon verdugonianus, is a species of flowering tree in the myrtle family…
The Philippines · Republic of the Philippines
The Philippine Islands (officially the Republic of the Philippines, Filipino: Pilipinas) is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia, situated…
PJR — the standard abbreviation · Philippine Journalism Review : PJR — the Library of Congress catalog styling of the serial
The Philippine Journalism Review (PJR) is the journal of media criticism published by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility…
Philippine trade union movement · Labor movement in the Philippines
The Philippine Labor Movement is the organized tradition of Filipino worker collective action — the guilds, unions, federations, and national…
Phylloscopus olivaceus · Olive-backed leaf warbler
The Philippine leaf warbler (Phylloscopus olivaceus) is a small, plain greenish songbird of the Old World warbler family (Phylloscopidae), endemic…
Chloropsis flavipennis (scientific name) · Yellow-throated leafbird
The Philippine Leafbird (Chloropsis flavipennis) is a small, almost entirely leaf-green bird endemic to the Philippines, occurring on Mindanao, Leyte,…
The Legislature — the standard short form in American-period Philippine records · Legislature of the Philippine Islands — the formal styling of the insular-government era
The Philippine Legislature was the legislature of the Philippines under American rule, in existence from the inauguration of its first…
Copsychus mindanensis (scientific name) · Formerly lumped with the Oriental magpie-robin
The Philippine magpie-robin (Copsychus mindanensis) is a sleek, long-tailed songbird endemic to the Philippines, glossy black-and-white in the male with…
Philippine mahogany is a commercial trade name applied to several hardwood species of the family Dipterocarpaceae native to the Philippines,…
PMC · Philippine Marines — name from 1976 to 1995, still in colloquial use
The Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) is the naval infantry force of the Philippines, organized on November 7, 1950 as "A"…
PMA · Philippine Medical Association
The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) is the national umbrella organization of Philippine physicians and the largest professional medical association in…
Tabon scrubfowl · Tabon bird
The Philippine megapode (Megapodius cumingii), popularly called the Tabon bird or Tabon scrubfowl, is a ground-dwelling bird of Palawan and…
PMA · Academia Militar — designation of the 1898 Malolos-era predecessor
The Philippine Military Academy (PMA) is the principal officer-training school of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, occupying a 373-hectare…
The Philippine mouse-deer (Tragulus nigricans), commonly called pilandok, is a tiny, forest-dwelling hoofed mammal endemic to Balabac and nearby small…
The Philippine music industry is the ecosystem of businesses that create, record, publish, manufacture, distribute, license, and monetize music in…
The Philippine naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia chapmani) is a large fruit bat endemic to the islands of Negros and Cebu,…
PNB
The Philippine National Bank (PNB) is a Philippine universal bank established on July 22, 1916 as a government-owned banking institution…
PNOC
The Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) is the Philippine government's oil and energy state enterprise, created by Presidential Decree No.…
PNP · Philippine National Police
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is the national police force of the Philippines — a civilian organization national in scope…
PNR · Philippine National Railways (PNR)
The Philippine National Railways (PNR) is the state-owned railway operator of the Philippines, a government-owned and controlled corporation attached to…
PNS · Philippine National Standard (singular form used in standard designations)
Philippine National Standards (PNS) are the formal national standards of the Philippines, developed, promulgated, and implemented by the Bureau of…
Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas · PN
The Philippine Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, responsible for maritime defense,…
PNA · PNA.gov.ph
The Philippine News Agency (PNA) is the official, state-run news agency of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines.…
The Philippine Nightjar (Caprimulgus manillensis) is a nocturnal bird endemic to the Philippines, belonging to the nightjar family Caprimulgidae. Cloaked…
Philippine Normal School (PNS, 1901–1949) · Philippine Normal College (PNC, 1949–1991)
The Philippine Normal University (PNU) is the state university at 104 Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila, created by Act No. 74…
The Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) is a research and development institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)…
Philippine Bill of 1902 · Cooper Act
The Philippine Organic Act of 1902, also called the Philippine Bill of 1902 or Cooper Act, was the first organic…
Cooper Act — the name carried from the House author, Henry A. Cooper, used in this wiki's Philippine Assembly entry · Philippine Bill of 1902 — the contemporary American styling of the statute
The Philippine Organic Act of 1902 — the Philippine Bill of 1902, popularly the Cooper Act after its House author,…
Oriolus steerii (scientific name) · Steere's oriole (older English usage, after explorer Joseph Beal Steere)
The Philippine oriole (Oriolus steerii) is a drab, endemic oriole of the Philippine lowlands, olive-brown where its Asian relatives wear…
1. Definition The Philippine Orthopedic Center (POC) is a tertiary specialized government hospital located in Quezon City, Philippines. Operating under…
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration · POEA (historical)
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) was the Philippine government agency responsible for the regulation, licensing, and oversight of overseas…
Painting in the Philippines · Filipino painting
Philippine painting is the practice of painting in the Philippines — a tradition whose documented record runs from Neolithic rock…
Malintong · Gintong-pilipit
The Philippine pangolin (Manis culionensis), known locally as gintong-pilipit or malintong, is a scaly, anteating mammal endemic to the Palawan…
RA 8239 · Passport Law of 1996
The Philippine Passport Act (Republic Act No. 8239) is the 1996 statute governing the issuance, use, and regulation of Philippine…
Piso (Filipino spelling) · PHP (ISO 4217 alphabetic code)
The Philippine peso (Filipino: piso; ISO 4217 code PHP, numeric 608; symbol ₱) is the official currency of the Philippines,…
Philippine Physical Fitness Test (PPFT) · Philippine Physical Activity Pyramid
Philippine Physical refers to the national standards, guidelines, and evaluation testing batteries established by the Philippine government to evaluate and…
1. Definition The Philippine Physical Therapy Association (PPTA) is the national professional organization representing registered physical therapists in the Philippines.…
Trimeresurus flavomaculatus (scientific name) · Parias flavomaculatus (alternative generic placement)
The Philippine pit viper (Trimeresurus flavomaculatus) is a green, tree-dwelling pit viper endemic to the Philippines, particularly the Luzon faunal…
Philippine forest turtle · Palawan forest turtle
The Philippine pond turtle (Siebenrockiella leytensis, placed by some taxonomists in Panayanemys) is a critically endangered freshwater turtle endemic to…
Filipino popular music · Philippine pop music
Philippine popular music is the whole recorded tradition of commercially circulated Filipino music, from the indigenous gong and string ensembles…
Palawan porcupine (common alternative name) · Durian (local usage in parts of its range)
The Philippine porcupine (Hystrix pumila) is a stocky, quill-covered rodent endemic to the Palawan faunal region, occurring on Palawan and…
PPA · Awtoridad ng Pantalan ng Pilipinas
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is a government-owned corporation under the Department of Transportation responsible for planning, building, and operating…
PHLPost · Philippine Postal Corporation
The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) is the government-owned Philippine postal operator — the corporate body created by Republic Act No.…
Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation — the formal styling and the article's canonical title · PRPUC — the abbreviation the linked-data record carries
The Philippine Presidential Unit Citation — formally the Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation, the canonical title of the standard reference…
PPI · The national association of newspapers of the Philippines
The Philippine Press Institute (PPI) is the national association of newspapers of the Philippines, a non-stock, non-profit organization of daily…
The Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) is the premier institution for training, human resource development, and continuing education of the…
The Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker (Dendrocopos maculatus, placed by some authorities in Yungipicus) is the smallest woodpecker endemic to the Philippines,…
The Philippine Racing Commission (Philracom) is the government agency attached to the Office of the President that regulates horse racing…
Philippine Railway Co. · Philippine Railway Company, Inc.
The Philippine Railway Company was the American-era railway operator, incorporated in the state of Connecticut on March 5, 1906, to…
PRA · Public Estates Authority (PEA) — statutory name from 1977 to 2004
The Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) is the Philippine government's lead agency for land reclamation, a chartered government-owned and controlled corporation…
Philippine National Red Cross · PNRC
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) is the national Red Cross society of the Philippines, a voluntary, independent, and autonomous nongovernmental…
PRBRES · Real Estate Service Board
The Philippine Regulatory Board of Real Estate Service (PRBRES) is a collegial body under the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in…
Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946 — the statute's own citation name ([govinfo — 60 Stat. 128](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-60/pdf/STATUTE-60-Pg128.pdf "Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, Public Law 370, 60 Stat. 128 — govinfo")) · Public Law 370, 79th Congress — the public law designation ([govinfo — 60 Stat. 128](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-60/pdf/STATUTE-60-Pg128.pdf "Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, Public Law 370, 60 Stat. 128 — govinfo"))
The Philippine Rehabilitation Act — the short title of "An Act For the rehabilitation of the Philippines," Public Law 370…
Himagsikang Pilipino (Tagalog) · Revolución Filipina (Spanish)
The Philippine Revolution (Filipino: Himagsikang Pilipino) was the movement by which Filipinos ended more than three centuries of Spanish rule,…
Army of the First Philippine Republic · Revolutionary Army of the Philippines
Philippine Revolutionary Army was the military force of the Philippine Revolution and the First Philippine Republic, evolving from the Katipunan…
PhilRice · PRRI
The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is the Philippine government's national rice research and development agency, created by Executive Order…
Benham Rise · Talampas ng Pilipinas
The Philippine Rise — known from its identification until 2017 as Benham Rise — is a submerged plateau in the…
The Philippine sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus pustulatus), also called the Philippine sailfin dragon, is a large semiaquatic agamid lizard endemic to…
PSHS (official abbreviation) · Pisay (popular nickname)
The Philippine Science High School (PSHS or Pisay) is the country's specialized public high school system for gifted Filipino students…
Philippine Science High School · PSHS
The Philippine Science High School System (PSHS), commonly PSHS or Philippine Science High School, is the Philippines' specialized public high…
The Philippine Scops Owl (Otus megalotis) is a small, endemic Philippine owl recognized by its prominent ear tufts, large golden…
The Philippine Scouts were units of the United States Army composed primarily of Filipino soldiers under American officers, formed in…
West Pacific Marginal Sea · Philippine Basin
The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bounded by the Philippine archipelago to the west,…
Spilornis holospilus (binomial) · Philippine crested serpent eagle
The Philippine serpent eagle (Spilornis holospilus) is a bird of prey endemic to the Philippines, formerly treated as a subspecies…
The Philippine slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis) is a small nocturnal strepsirrhine primate native to the north and east coastal areas…
PSEDM · Philippine Society of Endocrinology
The Philippine Society of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (PSEDM) is the national professional specialty society of endocrinologists (specialists in endocrine…
South Sea pearl · Golden South Sea pearl
The Philippine South Sea Pearl is the golden to white cultured pearl produced by the gold-lipped pearl oyster Pinctada maxima…
The Philippine Space Act (Republic Act No. 11363, signed 8 August 2019) is the law establishing the Philippine Space Agency…
PhilSA · PhilSAgency (official social-media handle)
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) is the national civil space agency created by Republic Act No. 11363, the Philippine Space…
PSC (standard abbreviation) · National sports agency of the Philippines (generic descriptor)
The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) is the Philippine government agency responsible for developing elite and grassroots sports. Created by Republic…
PST · Philippine Time
Philippine Standard Time (PST or PhST; Filipino: Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas) is the official time of the Philippines, a single…
Philippine Star · The Philippine STAR
The Philippine Star (self-styled The Philippine STAR) is a major English-language broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, founded on July 28,…
RA 10625 · Republic Act No. 10625
The Philippine Statistical Act of 2013 is Republic Act No. 10625 — signed by President Benigno S. Aquino III on…
PSA · Pangasiwaan ng Pilipinas sa Estadistika (Filipino)
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is the central statistical authority of the Philippine government, responsible for compiling, producing, and disseminating…
The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE) is the national securities exchange of the Philippines and a core institution of its…
Porphyrio pulverulentus (scientific name) · Formerly treated as a Philippine subspecies of the purple swamphen
The Philippine swamphen (Porphyrio pulverulentus) is a large, deep-blue marsh bird endemic to Luzon, Philippines, with a heavy red bill,…
The Philippine tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps) is a small, active warbler-like songbird endemic to the Philippines, recognized by its chestnut crown…
Carlito syrichta — the binomial since the 2010 revision · Tarsius syrichta — the binomial of the older literature, still the NCBI record's merge source
The Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta, formerly Tarsius syrichta; the spelling C. syrichtus also runs through the mammalogical literature) is a…
The Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary in Corella, Bohol is a government-declared forest reserve dedicated to the protection of the Philippine tarsier…
Philippine teak (Tectona philippinensis) is a tree of the family Lamiaceae, formerly placed in the Verbenaceae, endemic to the Philippines.…
TV in the Philippines · Philippine TV broadcasting industry
Philippine television is the television broadcasting system and industry of the Philippines — the set of networks, stations, regulators, and…
The Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) is the corporate training arm of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), mandated…
DOT accreditation glossary · Philippine travel agency ticketing glossary
The Philippine travel agency DOT accreditation and ticketing glossary defines the working vocabulary of Philippine travel-agency regulation under the Department…
The Philippine Tree Squirrel (Sundasciurus philippinensis) is a small diurnal squirrel endemic to the Philippines, one of several Sundasciurus tree…
The Philippine trogon (Harpactes ardens) is a colorful, forest-dwelling bird endemic to the Philippines, found in humid forests on most…
Bayakan (local name) · Nyctimene rabori (binomial name)
The Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene rabori), locally known in Tagalog as bayakan, is a species of bat in the…
PVAO
The Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) is the agency of the Department of National Defense through which the Philippine state…
Baboy damo (Filipino) · Wild pig of Luzon and Mindanao
The Philippine warty pig (Sus philippensis) is a wild pig species endemic to the Philippines, occurring on islands including Luzon,…
Dendrocopos macularius (scientific name) · Philippine spotted woodpecker
The Philippine woodpecker (Dendrocopos macularius) is a small, endemic Philippine bird, the archipelago's representative of the spotted-woodpecker group, patterned in…
Philippine War of Independence · Philippine Insurrection (historical U.S. term)
The Philippine-American War (also known as the Philippine War of Independence or the Philippine Insurrection) was an armed conflict between…
Philippine language · Filipino language
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia consisting of about 7,641 islands…
Philippines AirAsia is a Philippine low-cost airline based at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay, Metro Manila, operating domestic and…
Invasion of the Philippines · Battle of the Philippines
The Philippines campaign (1941–1942) was the Japanese invasion and conquest of the Philippine Commonwealth — fought from December 8, 1941,…
Liberation of the Philippines · Operation Musketeer
The Philippines campaign (1944–1945), codenamed Operation Musketeer, was the combined American, Filipino, and allied effort to liberate the Philippines from…
Department of Health · Kagawaran ng Kalusugan
The Department of Health (DOH) (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kalusugan) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring…
West Philippine Sea Dispute · South China Sea Arbitration
Philippines v. China, formally styled The South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of the Philippines v. The People's Republic of…
Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization · PHilMech
PhilMech (Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization) is a corporate entity attached to the Department of Agriculture, mandated to…
The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) is the government-owned national postal operator, descending from the 1767 Manila post office, with post…
Philippine Rice Research Institute · PhilRice Maligaya (head station)
PhilRice, the Philippine Rice Research Institute, is the national research and development institute of the Philippines dedicated to rice. Created…
ULTRA stampede · Wowowee stampede
The PhilSports Stadium stampede (also called the ULTRA stampede) occurred on February 4, 2006, at the PhilSports Complex (then known…
A. L. Ammen Transport Company (ALATCO) — the founding name, 1914–1971 · Albert Louis Ammen Transportation Company — the founding name as given in some accounts
Philtranco — in full Philtranco Service Enterprises, Inc. (PSEI) — was the Philippines' oldest bus company, a carrier whose corporate…
Phinma Property Holdings Corporation · Phinma Properties
Phinma Properties, officially the Phinma Property Holdings Corporation, is a major real estate developer in the Philippines, operating under the…
Phoenix · Phoenix Fuels (retail brand)
Phoenix Petroleum (Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc.; PSE: PNX) is a Davao-born independent oil company and one of the most prominent…
Extrinsic Aging of the Skin · Dermatoheliosis
Photoaging, also known as extrinsic skin aging, refers to the premature aging of the skin caused by repeated, chronic exposure…
Physical therapist · Physiotherapy
Physical Therapy (commonly referred to as Physiotherapy or PT) is a allied healthcare profession dedicated to restoring, maintaining, and promoting…
Physical therapy (PT) is a health profession that uses exercise, manual techniques, electrotherapy, and education to restore movement and function…
Maria Pia Arcangel · Maria Pia Concepcion Nieva Arcangel-Halili
Pia Arcangel — Maria Pia Concepcion Nieva Arcangel-Halili, born December 8, 1978, in Manila — is a Filipino broadcast journalist…
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach · Pia Romero (screen name as teen actress)
Pia Wurtzbach (born 1988 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a Filipina-German model, television host and beauty queen who won Miss Universe…
Municipality of Piagapo · Piagapo Lanao del Sur
Piagapo, officially the Municipality of Piagapo, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Piaparan a manok (when made with chicken) · Maranao coconut-chicken stew
Piaparan is a rich coconut-milk dish of Maranao cuisine from Lanao del Sur around Lake Lanao. Meat — commonly chicken…
Municipality of Piat · Piat Cagayan
Piat, officially the Municipality of Piat, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Piaya is a flat, round unleavened pastry from the Philippines, especially associated with Negros Occidental and its capital Bacolod. It…
Piaya is a thin, round unleavened flatbread from Negros Island, Philippines, filled with muscovado sugar and baked until flaky and…
Pichi-pichi is a Philippine steamed cake made from grated cassava (kamoteng kahoy) mixed with sugar and lye water (lihiya), cooked…
Picosecond Laser · Pico Toning
A Pico Laser (or picosecond laser) is an advanced dermatological laser technology that delivers energy in ultra-short pulses measured in…
Municipality of Picong · Picong Lanao del Sur
Picong, officially the Municipality of Picong, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Piddig is a hilly municipality in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, east of Laoag City, remembered as the cradle of the Basi…
Municipality of Piddig · Piddig Ilocos Norte
Piddig, officially the Municipality of Piddig, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Pidigan · Pidigan Abra
Pidigan, officially the Municipality of Pidigan, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Pigcawayan · Pigcawayan Cotabato
Pigcawayan, officially the Municipality of Pigcawayan, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
The pigeon orchid (Dendrobium crumenatum) is a small, epiphytic orchid widespread in the Philippines and tropical Asia, celebrated for its…
Municipality of Pikit · Pikit Cotabato
Pikit, officially the Municipality of Pikit, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Filipino hopscotch · Pikô
Piko is the Filipino version of hopscotch and one of the most widely played traditional children's games in the Philippines.…
Municipality of Pila · Pila Laguna
Pila, officially the Municipality of Pila, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Pilar · Pilar Surigao del Norte
Pilar, officially the Municipality of Pilar, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Pilar Cañeda Braga · Pilar C. Braga
Pilar C. Braga (full name Pilar Cañeda Braga, as recorded in the caption of a 2016 Supreme Court decision) is…
Pili Camarines Sur · Capital of Camarines Sur
Pili is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of the province of Camarines Sur in the Bicol Region of the…
Municipality of Pili · Pili Camarines Sur
Pili, officially the Municipality of Pili, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Pililla, Rizal · Gateway to the Laguna Lake
Pililla is a second-income-class municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, in the eastern portion of the province along the shores of…
Municipality of Pililla · Pililla Rizal
Pililla, officially the Municipality of Pililla, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
"Pilipinas Kong Mahal" ("My Beloved Philippines") is one of the most popular patriotic songs of the Philippines, with music by…
PSPC — the standard abbreviation of the corporate name · The Shell Refining Company (Philippines), Inc. — the original 1959 corporate name
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (PSPC) was for decades the corporate name of Shell's refining and marketing arm in the Philippines…
Pilipit snack · Twisted Filipino doughnut
Pilipit is a traditional Filipino deep-fried twisted doughnut made from a simple dough of flour, eggs, milk, salt, and baking…
Piña cloth is a sheer, luxurious Philippine textile handwoven from fibers scraped from the leaves of the Red Spanish pineapple.…
Piña is a traditional Philippine textile woven from the fibers of pineapple leaves, prized for its sheer, lustrous quality and…
Piña cloth · Pineapple fiber
Pina fiber (from Spanish piña, pineapple) is the fine, silky thread scraped and combed from the leaves of native pineapple…
Municipality of Pinabacdao · Pinabacdao Samar
Pinabacdao, officially the Municipality of Pinabacdao, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Pinacanauan de Tuguegarao · Callao River (informal, after the caves it passes)
The Pinacanauan River, also called the Pinacanauan de Tuguegarao, is a 46-kilometre tributary of the Cagayan River in Cagayan province,…
Pinakbet (also spelled pakbet) is a Filipino vegetable stew originating from the Ilocos region, made by simmering bitter melon, eggplant,…
Municipality of Pinamalayan · Pinamalayan Oriental Mindoro
Pinamalayan, officially the Municipality of Pinamalayan, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Municipality of Pinamungajan · Pinamungajan Cebu
Pinamungajan, officially the Municipality of Pinamungajan, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Piñan · Piñan Zamboanga del Norte
Piñan, officially the Municipality of Piñan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Pinangat is a Bicolano dish of gabi (taro) leaves and stalks simmered with coconut milk, salt, and chili, traditionally wrapped…
Papaitan · Pinapait an (Ilocano construction)
Pinapaitan (also spelled papaitan) is a bitter Ilocano stew made from goat or beef offal, such as tripe, liver, intestine,…
Pinasugbo is a Filipino delicacy from Cebu consisting of sliced saba bananas that are deep-fried, caramelized in dark sugar, and…
Pindang is a salt-curing and brining tradition shared across island Southeast Asia under related names, applied in the Philippines chiefly…
Filipino food plate — the English rendering of the name · Pinggang Pinoy for Filipino adults — the first guide in the series
Pinggang Pinoy ("Filipino plate") is the Philippine national food guide developed by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of…
Igorot chicken dish · Pinikpikan ng Cordillera
Pinikpikan is a traditional chicken dish of the Cordillera highlands in the Philippines, associated with Igorot ethnolinguistic communities. Its name…
Municipality of Pinili · Pinili Ilocos Norte
Pinili, officially the Municipality of Pinili, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Ducula poliocephala (binomial) · Balorinay (local usage in some Tagalog areas)
The pink-bellied imperial pigeon (Ducula poliocephala) is a large frugivorous pigeon endemic to the Philippines, where it inhabits lowland and…
Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle (Nisaetus pinskeri) is a forest raptor endemic to the Philippines, recognized as a species distinct from the wider…
Pinta Flores · San Carlos City fiesta festival
The Pinta Flores Festival is the charter-day and fiesta festival of San Carlos City in Negros Occidental, Philippines, honoring its…
Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival (merged usage) · Pintados de Leyte
The Pintados Festival is a street festival in Tacloban City, Leyte, held in late June, whose dancers paint their bodies…
The Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival is an annual cultural festival in Tacloban City, Leyte, held in late June around the feast of…
Pinta Flores Festival · San Carlos City fiesta festival
The Pintaflores Festival is the annual cultural festival of San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, held in early November in honor…
Municipality of Pintuyan · Pintuyan Southern Leyte
Pintuyan, officially the Municipality of Pintuyan, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Municipality of Pinukpuk · Pinukpuk Kalinga
Pinukpuk, officially the Municipality of Pinukpuk, is a municipality in the province of Kalinga, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Igorot blood sausage · Cordillera blood sausage
Pinuneg is a traditional blood sausage of the Igorot peoples of the Cordillera mountains in the northern Philippines. It is…
Benguet pine (Philippine common name) · Khasia pine / Khasi pine (regional Asian names)
Pinus kesiya, the Benguet pine or Khasia pine, is a species of three-needled pine native to the highlands of the…
Pío Isidro y Castañeda — birth name · Pang-una — Katipunan nom de guerre
Pío del Pilar — born Pío Isidro y Castañeda, and best recorded under the Katipunan nom de guerre "Pang-una" ("first"…
Municipality of Pio Duran · Pio Duran Albay
Pio Duran, officially the Municipality of Pio Duran, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol…
Municipality of Pio V. Corpuz · Pio V. Corpuz Masbate
Pio V. Corpuz, officially the Municipality of Pio V. Corpuz, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within…
Dimas Ayaran — Katipunan nom de guerre, "the untouchable" · Madlang-Away — nom de plume for his writing in Ang Kalayaan
Pío Valenzuela y Alejandrino (July 11, 1869, Polo, Bulacan – April 6, 1956, Polo) was a Filipino physician and Katipunan…
The pis syabit is the traditional woven headcloth of the Tausug people of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines — a small,…
Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide — the rendering most common in Philippine news reporting · Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide — the rendering carried in the English Wikipedia account
PISTON (rendered by the federation itself as Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide, "Solidarity of Drivers' and…
PITAHC · Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Medicine
The Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) under the Department…
Municipality of Pitogo · Pitogo Zamboanga del Sur
Pitogo, officially the Municipality of Pitogo, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Piyanggang manok · Pyanggang
Piyanggang (also spelled piyanggang manok) is a Tausug chicken dish from the Sulu archipelago and Zamboanga in which fowl is…
Piaya (common spelling) · Muscovado piaya
Piyaya is a flat, round unleavened Filipino pastry filled with muscovado sugar — and sometimes sesame or ube — produced…
Philippine Journalism Review Reports — the full styling in use by 1995, abbreviated PJRR · PJRR — the abbreviation used in CMFR's own records
PJR Reports is the media-monitoring publication of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), the Quezon City press-freedom organization…
Placer is a fourth-income class municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. Located on the northeastern tip of Mindanao…
Heel pain syndrome · Plantar fasciosis
Plantar Fasciitis is a common orthopedic condition characterized by inflammation of the plantar fascia, a thick band of tissue that…
Plaridel, Bulacan · Rail junction town of Bulacan (historical)
Plaridel is a first-income-class urban municipality in Bulacan province, Philippines, in the central part of the province. It occupies a…
Municipality of Plaridel · Plaridel Misamis Occidental
Plaridel, officially the Municipality of Plaridel, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Vampire Facial · Vampire Facelift
Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP) is an autologous medical and cosmetic treatment that utilizes a concentrated injection of a patient's own…
Children's Play Area · Outdoor Play Park
Playground (specifically a children's playground in residential communities) is an outdoor or indoor area equipped with play structures (such as…
Plaza Miranda · The Plaza Miranda bombing of 1971 — the dated styling
The Plaza Miranda Bombing was the grenade attack on the Liberal Party's proclamation rally at Plaza Miranda, Quiapo, Manila, on…
Rajah Sulayman Park — the alternative name in the standard record · The Malate plaza — descriptive shorthand in district usage
Plaza Rajah Sulayman, also known as Rajah Sulayman Park, is the public square at the bayfront heart of Malate, Manila…
Plaza Rizal — the square's former name, from its Rizal monument · Plaza Sugbu — the spelling of the reference articles and the plaza's signage styling
Plaza Sugbo is the public square at the colonial core of Cebu City — in the reference record's words, "Plaza…
PLDT, Inc. (corporate name since April 2016) · Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (legal name, 1928–2016)
PLDT (corporate name PLDT, Inc., and from 1928 to 2016 the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company) is the largest telecommunications,…
Plug-in Hybrid · Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
A Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) is an electric vehicle whose battery pack can be recharged by plugging it into an external…
Anti-Plunder Act (short title of RA 7080) · Republic Act No. 7080
Plunder is a crime under Philippine law defined and penalized by Republic Act No. 7080, the Anti-Plunder Act, "An Act…
Republic Act No. 7080 — its statutory citation · RA 7080 — the common short form
The Plunder Law is Republic Act No. 7080, "An Act Defining and Penalizing the Crime of Plunder," the 1991 statute…
Po / ho (free variants) · Opo / oho (respectful yes variants)
Po and opo are Tagalog politeness particles used to soften statements and signal respect toward elders and social superiors in…
Pocdol volcanic belt · Manito–Bacon volcanic range
The Pocdol Mountains are a volcanic mountain group straddling the boundary between the towns of Manito in Albay and Bacon…
Puchero · Pocherong Bisaya (Cebu clear-broth style)
Pochero, from Spanish puchero ("cookpot"), is a Philippine stew of meat, saba banana, and vegetables in a savory broth, with…
Municipality of Pola · Pola Oriental Mindoro
Pola, officially the Municipality of Pola, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the MIMAROPA (Region…
Polanco is a first-income-class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, lying just inland of the provincial capital…
Polangui, officially the Municipality of Polangui (Central Bikol: Banwaan kan Polangui), is a first-class municipality in Albay, Philippines, with about…
Municipality of Polillo · Polillo Quezon
Polillo, officially the Municipality of Polillo, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Polillo Island is the largest island of the Polillo group off the northeastern coast of Quezon province, Luzon, separated from…
The Polillo Islands are an island group in Lamon Bay off the northeastern coast of Quezon province, Luzon, Philippines. The…
Political question — the standard Philippine citation form · Political-question doctrine — the hyphenated styling common in Philippine commentary
The political question doctrine in Philippine constitutional law is the separation-of-powers principle that certain questions are, by constitutional commitment or…
Politics of the Philippines operates under a unitary presidential constitutional republic established by the 1987 Constitution, with power divided among…
Polo · Corvée Labor (Spanish Philippines)
Polo y servicio was the system of forced labor imposed by Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines, requiring Filipino men…
Municipality of Polomolok · Polomolok
Polomolok, officially the Municipality of Polomolok, is a first-class municipality in the province of South Cotabato, Philippines. Located immediately north…
Municipality of Polomolok · Polomolok South Cotabato
Polomolok, officially the Municipality of Polomolok, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Pulboron · Polvorones (Spanish plural)
Polvoron is a Filipino confection of toasted flour, powdered milk, sugar, and butter or shortening, mixed dry and pressed into…
PN Therapy · PN Injectables
Polynucleotides Therapy is an advanced regenerative aesthetic treatment that utilizes highly purified DNA fractions, typically extracted from salmon (Salmo salar)…
Phenolic Compounds · Plant Polyphenols
Polyphenols are a large family of naturally occurring organic compounds characterized by the presence of multiple phenol structural units. Abundant…
The pomelo (Citrus maxima, also Citrus grandis), called suha or lukban in the Philippines, is the largest citrus fruit, bearing…
Elephant foot yam · Whitespot giant arum
Pongapong (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), the elephant foot yam, is a tuber-producing aroid found across tropical Asia including the Philippines, famous for…
Pontevedra is a coastal municipality in Capiz province, Western Visayas, Philippines, located along the northern coast of Panay Island facing…
Municipality of Pontevedra · Pontevedra Negros Occidental
Pontevedra, officially the Municipality of Pontevedra, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Municipality of Poona Bayabao · Poona Bayabao Lanao del Sur
Poona Bayabao, officially the Municipality of Poona Bayabao, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within…
Municipality of Poona Piagapo · Poona Piagapo Lanao del Norte
Poona Piagapo, officially the Municipality of Poona Piagapo, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within…
Frente Popular — the Spanish styling carried in the 1937 Philippine Magazine reference of the party's own record · Popular Front (Philippines) — the disambiguated form, against the European popular fronts of the same name
The Popular Front (Spanish: Frente Popular) was a Philippine political party of the late Commonwealth — founded in 1934 to…
Puke-puke (variant spellings recorded in older usage) · Ilocano eggplant scramble (descriptive name)
Poqui-poqui is an Ilocano dish of smoked or grilled eggplant sautéed with garlic, onions, and tomatoes, into which beaten eggs…
Municipality of Porac · Porac Pampanga
Porac, officially the Municipality of Porac, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
pork · pork-barrel spending
Pork barrel is a metaphor, of United States origin, for the appropriation of government spending on localized projects secured to…
PDAF scam · Napoles pork barrel scandal
The Pork Barrel Scam is the billion-peso corruption scandal exposed in 2013 linking businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles and dozens of…
Municipality of Poro · Poro Cebu
Poro, officially the Municipality of Poro, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Port Barton is a coastal village and bay in the municipality of San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines, known for its laid-back…
Port of Batangas · Batangas Harbor
Port of Batangas is a major international and domestic seaport situated in Batangas City, Philippines. Managed by the Philippine Ports…
Manila Bay Port · Manila Harbor
The Port of Manila is the largest and busiest seaport in the Philippines, located along the eastern shore of Manila…
PIH · Postinflammatory Hyperpigmentation
Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) is an acquired condition in which patches of skin become darker than the surrounding area after an…
Potato Corner is a Filipino fast food franchise known for its flavored french fries. Founded in Quezon City in the…
Potenciano V. Gregorio (1880–1939) was a Bicolano composer, musician, and bandleader from Lib-og (now Santo Domingo), Albay, best remembered as…
Potipot Islet · Isla Potipot
Potipot Island is a small, white-sand islet situated a few hundred meters off the coast of Candelaria in Zambales province,…
Municipality of Pototan · Pototan Iloilo
Pototan, officially the Municipality of Pototan, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
PSALM · PSALM Corporation
The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) is a Philippine government-owned and -controlled corporation created by Section 49…
Municipality of Pozzorubio · Pozzorubio Pangasinan
Pozzorubio, officially the Municipality of Pozzorubio, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
PPP Center · Public-Private Partnership Center of the Philippines (full name)
The PPP Center of the Philippines is the government agency that serves as the central coordinating and facilitating office for…
Professional Regulatory Board of Real Estate Service · Board of Real Estate Service
PRBRES (officially the Professional Regulatory Board of Real Estate Service) is a government collegial body under the administrative supervision of…
Pre-selling Real Estate · Off-plan Property
Pre-selling, in the Philippines, is the practice of selling real estate properties (such as condominium units, townhouses, or subdivision lots)…
Preclinical Studies · Non-Clinical Safety Evaluation
Preclinical research (also known as preclinical studies) is the stage of research that takes place before clinical trials in humans,…
Preparatory Committee for Philippine Independence — the styling carried by the standard reference work and by this wiki's sister entries · PCPI — the standard abbreviation
The Preparatory Commission for Philippine Independence (PCPI) was the twenty-member body elected by the sole legal organization KALIBAPI on June…
Drug Shortages · Pharmaceutical Supply Deficit
Prescription Drug Shortages refer to the supply chain disruptions that lead to a temporary or prolonged deficit in the availability…
Municipality of Presentacion · Presentacion Camarines Sur
Presentacion, officially the Municipality of Presentacion, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Municipality of President Carlos P. Garcia · Pitogo
President Carlos, officially the Municipality of President Carlos P. Garcia and also known as Pitogo, is an island municipality in…
Municipality of President Carlos P. Garcia · President Carlos P. Garcia Bohol
President Carlos P. Garcia, officially the Municipality of President Carlos P. Garcia, is a municipality in the province of Bohol,…
President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. · President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
President Ferdinand refers to the national leadership and executive administrations of two distinct presidents in Philippine history: Ferdinand Edralin Marcos…
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. · Bongbong Marcos
Bongbong Marcos (Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.; born September 13, 1957, Manila) is a Filipino politician, the 17th President of the…
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo · Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a prominent Filipino economist and politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001…
Manuel Luis Quezon · Manuel L. Quezon
President Manuel (specifically Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina; August 19, 1878 – August 1, 1944) was a Filipino statesman, soldier,…
Municipality of President Manuel A. Roxas · President Manuel A. Roxas Zamboanga del Norte
President Manuel A. Roxas, officially the Municipality of President Manuel A. Roxas, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga…
Pangulo ng Pilipinas — the Filipino designation · Presidente ng Pilipinas — the Filipino styling in common use
The President of the Philippines (Filipino: Pangulo ng Pilipinas) is the head of state and head of government of the…
Senate President · President of the Senate
The President of the Senate of the Philippines is the presiding officer and highest official of the Senate of the…
Municipality of President Quirino · President Quirino Sultan Kudarat
President Quirino, officially the Municipality of President Quirino, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located within the…
Digong · PRRD (President Rodrigo Roa Duterte)
Rodrigo Roa Duterte (born March 28, 1945), also known by the moniker Digong, is a Filipino politician and lawyer who…
Municipality of President Roxas · President Roxas Cotabato
President Roxas, officially the Municipality of President Roxas, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN…
PCGG — the universal abbreviation · Good Government Commission — descriptive shorthand in English-language reporting
The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) is the Philippine government agency created to recover the ill-gotten wealth accumulated by…
PCO · Office of the Press Secretary (OPS)
The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) is the principal communications arm of the Office of the President of the Philippines —…
1. Definition Presidential Decree 1529 (PD 1529), officially known as the Property Registration Decree, is the codifying law governing land…
Presidential Decree 957 · PD 957
Presidential Decree 957 (PD 957) is the foundational law regulating the sale and development of subdivision lots and condominium units…
Integrated Reorganization Plan — the plan the decree enacted, used interchangeably with the decree · Presidential Decree No. 1 (1972) and the Integrated Reorganization Plan
Presidential Decree No. 1 (September 24, 1972), styled "Reorganizing the Executive Branch of the National Government," is the founding decree…
Toll Operation Decree · PD 1112
Presidential Decree No. 1112, signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on March 31, 1977 and titled "Authorizing the Establishment of…
Government Auditing Code of the Philippines · Government Auditing Code
Presidential Decree No. 1445, signed in Manila on June 11, 1978 by President Ferdinand E. Marcos, is the Government Auditing…
PD 1566 · Presidential Decree No. 1566, s. 1978
Presidential Decree No. 1566, signed on June 11, 1978, by President Ferdinand E. Marcos, is the decree "Strengthening the Philippine…
PD 266 · The Land Transfer Certificate and Emancipation Patent decree — the descriptive styling
Presidential Decree No. 266 is the martial-law decree signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on August 4, 1973, under the…
P.D. No. 27 · The Tenant Emancipation Decree
Presidential Decree No. 27 is the martial-law decree signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on October 21, 1972, under the…
National Grains Industry Development Act — the decree's own Section 1 title · National Grains Authority Act — the title substituted by PD 1485's 1978 amendment
Presidential Decree No. 4 is the decree of September 26, 1972 by which President Ferdinand E. Marcos — acting "[p]ursuant…
P.D. No. 421, s. 1974 · The Greater Manila police integration decree
Presidential Decree No. 421 is the martial-law-era issuance signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos on March 21, 1974, officially titled…
PD 461 · The DANR split decree
Presidential Decree No. 461 (May 17, 1974) is the Ferdinand E. Marcos decree styled "REORGANIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND…
Revised Forestry Code · Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines — Section 1's own name for the decree
Presidential Decree No. 705, signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos in Manila on May 19, 1975 and long-titled "REVISING PRESIDENTIAL…
PD 765 · The INP charter (the decree constituting the Integrated National Police)
Presidential Decree No. 765 (August 8, 1975), long titled "Providing for the Constitution of the Integrated National Police and for…
PD 902-A · Presidential Decree 902-A
Presidential Decree No. 902-A is the March 11, 1976 decree of President Ferdinand E. Marcos formally titled "Reorganization of the…
PD 957 · Subdivision and Condominium Buyers' Protective Decree
Presidential Decree No. 957 (commonly known as the Subdivision and Condominium Buyers' Protective Decree) is a Philippine law enacted on…
PET — the standard initials in Philippine legal usage · The Presidential Electoral Tribunal of the Supreme Court — the descriptive full styling
The Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) is the Supreme Court of the Philippines sitting en banc in its capacity as the…
The Presidential Management Staff (PMS) is the technical and managerial arm of the Office of the President of the Philippines,…
Freedom of the press in the Philippines · Freedom of the Philippine press
Press freedom in the Philippines is the constitutional and practical condition under which journalism can operate in the country without…
Republic Act No. 7581 · RA 7581
The Price Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 7581, signed by President Corazon C. Aquino on May…
PRISCO · The price-stabilization corporation of EO 350 — the creation-instrument styling
The Price Stabilization Corporation (PRISCO) was the Philippine state trading corporation of the early 1950s — a public corporation created…
PwC · Price Waterhouse — the pre-1998 firm, 1849–1998
PricewaterhouseCoopers — trading since September 2010 under the short brand PwC — is one of the world's largest professional-services networks…
Municipality of Prieto Diaz · Prieto Diaz Sorsogon
Prieto Diaz, officially the Municipality of Prieto Diaz, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol…
President of the Council of Government · President of the Council (Philippines)
The Prime Minister of the Philippines was the office of head of government created by the 1973 Constitution in its…
Urduja of Tawalisi · Dayang Urduja
Princess Urduja is a legendary warrior queen said to have ruled the land of Tawalisi in the fourteenth-century Philippines, known…
The principalia was the hereditary ruling class of native municipal elites in the Spanish Philippines, comprising cabezas de barangay (barangay…
PDAF · Congressional pork barrel
The Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) was a lump-sum appropriation in the Philippine General Appropriations Act that provided fixed annual…
PDAF scam · Pork barrel scam
The Priority Development Assistance Fund Scandal (widely called the PDAF scam or pork barrel scam) was a 2013 Philippine political…
Philippine privatization program · Asset disposition program
Privatization in the Philippines refers to the program of transferring government-owned corporations, sequestered assets, and other state properties to private…
Martial Law Proclamation of 1972 · Declaration of Martial Law
Proclamation No. 1081 was the decree by which President Ferdinand Marcos formally declared martial law throughout the Philippines in September…
Proclamation 216 · Martial law in Mindanao
Proclamation No. 216 is the proclamation by which President Rodrigo Duterte, on May 23, 2017, declared a state of martial…
The Freedom Constitution proclamation — the descriptive reference used in constitutional literature · Proclamation No. 3, s. 1986 — the issuance-series styling
Proclamation No. 3 is the presidential proclamation of March 25, 1986 by which President Corazon C. Aquino promulgated the Provisional…
The Roxas amnesty — the standard short name in Philippine historiography · The 1948 amnesty for collaborators
Proclamation No. 51 ("A Proclamation Granting Amnesty"), issued by President Manuel Roxas on January 28, 1948, granted a "full and…
Proclamation 58 — the shortened citation · Proclamation No. 58, s. 1987 — the issuance-series styling
Proclamation No. 58 was the presidential proclamation of February 11, 1987 by which President Corazon C. Aquino proclaimed the ratification…
Proclamation No. 9, s. 1986 — the issuance-series styling · The "Law Governing the Constitutional Commission of 1986" — the instrument's operative title ([LawPhil — Proclamation No. 9](https://www.lawphil.net/executive/proc/proc1986/proc_9_1986.html "Proclamation No. 9 (April 23, 1986): Law Governing the Constitutional Commission of 1986 — The LawPhil Project"))
Proclamation No. 9 is the proclamation of April 23, 1986 by which President Corazon C. Aquino promulgated the "Law Governing…
Act of the Proclamation of Independence of the Filipino People — the document's formal English title · Acta de la proclamación de independencia del pueblo Filipino — the document's Spanish title
The Proclamation of Philippine Independence of June 12, 1898 was the act by which Emilio Aguinaldo, as head of the…
PS-DBM · DBM-Procurement Service (DBM-PS)
The Procurement Service (PS), commonly PS-DBM, is the central procurement arm of the Philippine government — a self-sustaining service under…
Certificate of Product Registration (CPR) · Product Licensing
Product Registration is the administrative and regulatory process by which a manufacturer, importer, distributor, or wholesaler secures official approval from…
1. Definition The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) is a three-man commission attached to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)…
Philippine Regulation Commission · PRC
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) is the Philippine government agency responsible for the regulation, licensing, and supervision of the 43…
The Philippine professional-regulatory system — the survey's descriptive name · Professional licensure in the Philippines — the function-centered styling
Professional regulation in the Philippines is the body of constitutional commands, statutes, and administrative practice by which the Philippine state…
PRB · Regulatory Board
A Professional Regulatory Board (PRB) in the Philippines is a specialized administrative body under the administrative supervision of the Professional…
Hyaluronic Acid Bioremodeling · Profhilo Injectable
Profhilo is a patented, non-crosslinked injectable hyaluronic acid (HA) treatment designed to address skin laxity and tissue sag through bioremodeling.…
Property Company of Friends, Inc. · Profriends
Profriends, officially the Property Company of Friends, Inc., is a major real estate developer in the Philippines, specializing in low-cost,…
Partido Nacional Progresista — the Spanish styling adopted at the January 1907 reorganization · Nationalist Progressive Party — the English rendering of the reorganized name
The Progresista Party (Spanish Partido Nacional Progresista, "Nationalist Progressive Party") was the Philippine political party formed when the Federalista Party…
PCMP · Progressive Car Manufacturing Program (PCMP)
The Progressive Car Manufacturing Program (PCMP) was the Board of Investments (BOI) program of the 1970s that made the Philippines'…
Progressive Party — the standard short form of the era's reporting · The Progressives — the press shorthand for its candidates and following
The Progressive Party of the Philippines, commonly the Progressive Party, was a Filipino reformist political party founded in 1957 by…
Petition for prohibition — the pleading's name in Rule 65, Section 2 · Writ of prohibition — the common-law styling
Prohibition is the extraordinary writ of Philippine procedure by which a superior court commands a tribunal, board, or officer to…
Reform Movement (common English rendering) · Reformist Movement
The Propaganda Movement (also called the Reform Movement) was the campaign of Filipino expatriates — indios, mestizos, and insulares studying…
Real Estate Management · Property Operations
Property Management is the operation, control, maintenance, and oversight of real estate and physical property in the Philippines. Typically handled…
Municipality of Prosperidad · Prosperidad Agusan del Sur
Prosperidad, officially the Municipality of Prosperidad, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, located within the Caraga…
PAMB · The Board — Section 11's own shorthand ("The Board shall, by a majority vote...")
A Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) is the multi-stakeholder governing body that the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of…
Provident mutual fund · Pag-IBIG Fund (primary Philippine example)
A Provident Fund is a government-mandated or employer-sponsored investment fund designed to provide retirement benefits, housing finance, and emergency loans…
Presidential Decree No. 198 · PD 198
The Provincial Water Utilities Act of 1973 is the short title of Presidential Decree No. 198, signed by President Ferdinand…
PS Mark · PS Quality and/or Safety Certification Mark
The PS (Philippine Standard) Quality and/or Safety Certification Mark and the Import Commodity Clearance (ICC) are the two marks of…
Ispaghula · Isabgol
Psyllium husk is the fibrous, mucilaginous outer seed coating of the plant Plantago ovata (commonly referred to as blond psyllium),…
PTT Philippines Corporation (PTTPC) · PTT Philippines Trading Corporation (PTTTC)
PTT Philippines is the Philippine fuel retail and trading arm of Thailand's state-linked oil giant PTT Public Company Limited, operating…
PTV · PTV-4
The PTV Network, operating formally as the People's Television Network, is the flagship state-owned television broadcaster of the Philippines, owned…
Pualas is a fifth-income-class municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao…
Commonwealth Act No. 141 · CA 141
The Public Land Act (officially Commonwealth Act No. 141) is the foundational Philippine statute governing the classification, administration, and disposition…
Commonwealth Act No. 146 (CA 146) · Public Service Law (style used in early compilations)
The Public Service Act, officially Commonwealth Act No. 146, is the 1936 Philippine statute — approved on November 7, 1936…
The Public Service Act, Commonwealth Act No. 146 of 1936, is the basic statute governing public services in the Philippines.…
PUVMP · PUV Modernization Program
The Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) is the Philippine government's flagship reform of road-based public transport, launched by the…
Infrastructure Projects · Government Infrastructure
Public Works refers to a broad category of infrastructure projects financed, constructed, and maintained by government entities for the public's…
Public-Private Partnership in the Philippines · PPP
A Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a long-term contractual arrangement between a government and one or more private-sector entities in which…
Pucherong baka · Filipino beef pot stew
Puchero is a Filipino stew of Spanish derivation, named after the earthenware cooking pot of the same meaning. The Philippine…
Municipality of Pudtol · Pudtol Apayao
Pudtol, officially the Municipality of Pudtol, is a municipality in the province of Apayao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Pueblo de Oro Development Corporation · Pueblo de Oro
Pueblo de Oro Development Corporation (PDODC) is a prominent real estate developer in the Philippines, operating under the PHINMA Group…
"Port of Galleons" (Spanish-era anchorage) · PG (diver shorthand)
Puerto Galera is a first-class municipality on the north coast of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, celebrated for its dive sites, White…
Puerto Galera · Municipality of Puerto Galera
Puerto Galera, officially the Municipality of Puerto Galera, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the…
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan · "City in a Forest"
Puerto Princesa is a highly urbanized city and the capital of Palawan province in the Philippines. Located midway along the…
City of Puerto Princesa · Puerto Princesa
Puerto Princesa, officially the City of Puerto Princesa, is a highly urbanized city geographically located in the province of Palawan,…
Puerto Princesa City Government · City Government of Puerto Princesa
The Puerto Princesa LGU (Local Government Unit) is the highly urbanized city government administration responsible for the public administration, economic…
PPSRNP · St. Paul Subterranean National Park
The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP) is the protected area of 22,202 hectares on the Saint Paul Mountain…
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP) — formal name since Proclamation No. 212 (1999) · St. Paul Subterranean National Park — original 1971 designation
The Puerto Princesa Underground River is the navigable subterranean stretch of the Cabayugan River, which rises on the slopes of…
Pugad Baboy ("Pig's Nest") is a landmark Philippine comic strip created by Apolinio "Pol" Medina Jr., debuting in 1988 in…
Municipality of Pugo · Pugo La Union
Pugo, officially the Municipality of Pugo, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Pugot mamu (in some Ilocano tellings) · Headless friar
The pugot is a headless supernatural being in Philippine folklore, particularly in Ilocano tradition, appearing as a black, headless giant…
Pujada Bay is a deep, sheltered embayment on the Pacific coast of Davao Oriental province, Mindanao, bounded by the Pujada…
Pulahanes · Dios-Dios movement (in Spanish and American colonial reports)
The Pulahan Movement was a religio-political resistance movement in the Philippines — centered in Samar, Leyte, and parts of the…
Pulilan, Bulacan · Home of the Kneeling Carabaos
Pulilan is a first-income-class urban municipality in Bulacan province, Philippines, along the Angat River in the central part of the…
Municipality of Pulilan · Pulilan Bulacan
Pulilan, officially the Municipality of Pulilan, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Municipality of Pulupandan · Pulupandan Negros Occidental
Pulupandan, officially the Municipality of Pulupandan, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Hungduan tug of war · Ifugao harvest tug of war
Punnuk is the traditional tug-of-war ritual of the Tuwali-speaking Ifugao of Hungduan, Ifugao, in the northern Philippines. Held in the…
P&A · P&A Grant Thornton — the network-era branding on the firm's own site
Punongbayan & Araullo — universally shortened to P&A and branded since its network years as P&A Grant Thornton — is…
Municipality of Pura · Pura Tarlac
Pura, officially the Municipality of Pura, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Pura Villanueva Kalaw (1886–1954) was a Filipina feminist and suffrage leader from Iloilo who founded the Asociación Feminista Ilonga in…
Puregold Price Club
Puregold is a Philippine retail chain of supermarkets and warehouse clubs founded by businessman Lucio Co's family in the late…
Purina Philippines, Inc. v. Hon. Waldo Q. Flores — the caption styling · G.R. No. 180323 — the docket styling
Purina Philippines, Inc. v. Flores, docketed as G.R. No. 180323 and decided by the Supreme Court First Division on September…
The purple-throated sunbird (Leptocoma sperata) is a small nectar-feeding bird in the family Nectariniidae found in the Philippines and on…
Purpose Beyond Profits (book, 2026) · PBP movement (informal shorthand for the associated ecosystem)
Purpose Beyond Profits is a self-published values-based leadership book by Filipino broadcast journalist Art Bonjoc Jr., released in 2026. The…
Puso (pusô) is cooked rice steamed inside woven pouches of young coconut leaves in the Philippines, especially associated with Cebu…
Pusoy dos is a Philippine shedding-type card game for three or four players using a 52-card deck, in which participants…
Pusyon Bisaya — the standard styling, from the Visayan pusyon (fusion or coalition) · Visayan Coalition — the literal English rendering recorded in the party's reference article
Pusyon Bisaya (literally "Visayan Coalition") was a Filipino political party founded in 1978 and led by the Cebu lawyer and…
Putli mandi (Sulu spelling variants: putli mandi/putlimandi) · Tausug sweet rice ball
Putli mandi is a Filipino steamed rice cake originating from the Tausug and Yakan peoples of Sulu. Balls of glutinous…
Puto is a Philippine steamed rice cake made from galapong, or ground soaked rice, lightly sweetened and steamed until fluffy,…
Puto bumbong ng Sto. Niño (vendor branding usage) · Violet rice cake
Puto bumbong is a Filipino steamed rice cake made from pirurutong, a violet-glutinous rice, ground into dough, packed into bamboo…
Puto Calasiao is a small, chewy, dome-shaped steamed rice cake that originated in Calasiao, Pangasinan, in the Philippines. Made from…
Puto majja (old spelling variant) · Violet rice cakes of Cagayan de Oro (descriptive)
Puto maya is a Filipino steamed sticky-rice dish of Mindanao and the Visayas, made by steaming glutinous rice (often the…
Philippine pygmy flowerpecker · Pygmy flowerpecker of the Philippines
The pygmy flowerpecker (Dicaeum pygmaeum) is a Philippine-endemic bird among the smallest in the archipelago, barely larger than a thumb.…
Fischer's pygmy fruit bat
Pygmy Fruit Bat is Fischer's pygmy fruit bat, a tiny fruit-eating bat endemic to the Philippines and the only species…
Hippocampus bargibanti (gorgonian seahorse, the best-known pygmy species) · Pygmy pony (diver slang)
Pygmy seahorses are several tiny seahorse species of the genus Hippocampus — most famously Hippocampus bargibanti, the gorgonian seahorse —…
Collocalia troglodytes (scientific name) · Philippine pygmy swiftlet
The pygmy swiftlet (Collocalia troglodytes) is the smallest of the Philippine swiftlets, a glossy blue-black aerial insectivore with a pale…
Pyroclastic density current (PDC, the broader term) · Glowing avalanche
A pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving, ground-hugging current of hot volcanic gas, ash, and fragmented rock that races away from…
1. Definition A Quadriceps Tendon Rupture is a tear of the thick tendon that connects the quadriceps muscle group to…
Quedancor · Quedan Guarantee Fund Board (historical predecessor)
The Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corporation (Quedancor) is a government-owned credit guarantee corporation attached to the Department of Agriculture…
Hara Humamay — the conventional styling, from the contested Aginid chronicle · Amihan — the name in some versions of the tradition and in Sinulog narratives
Queen Juana was the consort of Rajah Humabon, the chieftain of Cebu at Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in 1521 — the…
Querube C. Makalintal · Chief Justice Makalintal — the eleventh Chief Justice of the Philippines
Querube Cortinas Makalintal (December 22, 1910, San Jose, Batangas – November 2002, Manila) was a Filipino jurist who served as…
Question Hour (capitalized chamber usage) · Question period (the British parliamentary term the Philippine provision descends from)
The question hour is the constitutional practice under which the heads of executive departments may appear before the Senate or…
Quezon (film)
Quezon is a 2025 Philippine biographical film — 139 minutes long, in Filipino and English — co-written, edited, composed, and…
Municipality of Quezon · Quezon Bukidnon
Quezon, officially the Municipality of Quezon, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Quezon Palawan · Gateway to the Tabon Caves
Quezon is a municipality in the southern part of Palawan province, Philippines, best known as the home of the Tabon…
Quezon Ave · Q Ave (colloquial)
Quezon Avenue is one of Quezon City's principal radial thoroughfares, running southwest from the Elliptical Road at the Quezon Memorial…
Puente Quezon · Quezon Boulevard Bridge
Quezon Bridge is a steel arch bridge carrying Quezon Boulevard across the Pasig River in Manila, connecting the Quiapo and…
QC · City of Stars (media-industry nickname)
Quezon City, officially the City of Quezon, is a highly urbanized city and the most populous city in the National…
Quezon City Circle · Quezon Memorial Shrine
The Quezon Memorial Circle — also called the Quezon City Circle and known locally simply as "the Circle" — is…
The Quezon Protected Landscape is a protected area of the Philippines spanning the municipalities of Atimonan, Pagbilao, and Padre Burgos…
Quezon is a province in Calabarzon, Philippines, occupying the long Tayabas Isthmus and the Bicol-facing coast east of Laguna, named…
Old Downtown of Manila · Quiapo District
Quiapo is a district of Manila, Philippines, popularly called the "Old Downtown of Manila" — a dense rectangle of about…
Old downtown of Manila · Home of the Black Nazarene (district label)
Quiapo is a dense historic district of Manila on the north bank of the Pasig River, centered on Quiapo Church…
Municipality of Quinapondan · Quinapondan Eastern Samar
Quinapondan, officially the Municipality of Quinapondan, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Quintín Paredes y Babila — birth name recorded in the standard references · Quintin Paredes — the accentless spelling used in most English-language sources
Quintín Paredes (September 9, 1884, Bangued, Abra – January 30, 1973, Manila) was a Filipino lawyer, jurist, and legislator whose…
Quintín Salas — the accented spelling of the local record · Coronel Quintín Salas — the rank styling of the Dumangas account
Quintín Salas was the Ilonggo revolutionary colonel of Dumangas, Iloilo — the leader of the Dumangas uprising of October 28,…
Quirino is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cagayan Valley region (Region II) of Luzon. Its capital is…
Municipality of Quirino · Quirino Isabela
Quirino, officially the Municipality of Quirino, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Independence Grandstand — the structure's name from its 1949 completion until its renaming for Quirino · The Luneta grandstand — the descriptive styling from its siting at Rizal Park (historically Luneta)
The Quirino Grandstand is a 10,000-capacity grandstand on Independence Road at the seaward, western end of Rizal Park, Ermita, Manila,…
Province of Quirino · Quirino
Quirino, officially the Province of Quirino, is a landlocked province in the Cagayan Valley region of Luzon, Philippines. Its capital…
Quirino-Foster Agreement — the hyphenated styling common in Philippine historiography · Memorandum of Agreement between Foster and President Quirino — the document's title in the Foreign Relations of the United States record
The Quirino–Foster Agreement is the memorandum of agreement signed at Baguio on November 14, 1950 between President Elpidio Quirino of…
quo warranto proceeding · quo warranto petition
Quo warranto — Medieval Latin for "by what warrant" — is a legal remedy by which a court demands that…
KPMG in the Philippines — the network branding on the firm's own site · KPMG R.G. Manabat & Co. (KPMG RGM&Co.) — the member-firm styling of the Manabat era
R.G. Manabat & Co. is the Philippine professional services partnership that constitutes KPMG in the Philippines — in the firm's…
1. Definition Republic Act No. 11201, known as the DHSUD Act, is the Philippine law signed in 2019 that created…
1. Definition RA 4726 (Condominium Act), officially designated as Republic Act No. 4726, is the foundational law governing the creation,…
1. Definition Republic Act No. 6657 (commonly known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988) is the landmark Philippine…
RA 7279 · Urban Development and Housing Act
RA 7279 (Urban Development and Housing Act), officially known as the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (Republic Act…
Republic Act 7722 · RA 7722
Republic Act No. 7722, officially designated as the Higher Education Act of 1994, is the Philippine statute that established the…
R-10 · Road 10
Radial Road 10 (R-10) is the northernmost of Manila's ten radial roads, running through the Port Area and Tondo districts…
RMN — standard abbreviation · Radyo Mo Nationwide — AM network branding
The Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) is a Philippine radio broadcasting company founded on August 28, 1952, in Cagayan de Oro,…
RPN-9 · Kanlaon Broadcasting System (KBS)
Radio Philippines Network (RPN) is one of the oldest broadcast companies of the Philippines, launched in 1960 as the Kanlaon…
RTVM · Presidential Broadcast Staff
The Presidential Broadcast Staff–Radio Television Malacañang (RTVM) is the Philippine government's broadcast unit for the audio and video documentation of…
Radyo Veritas — the Filipino styling of the 846 kHz station · Veritas 846 — current branding; 846 promoted as "the number of truth"
Radio Veritas is the Catholic radio broadcasting service of the Church in the Philippines — the Manila AM station inaugurated…
RF · radio-frequency
Radiofrequency (RF) denotes, in general usage, electromagnetic oscillation in the radio band — roughly 3 kHz to 300 GHz —…
RF skin tightening · Radiofrequency therapy
Radiofrequency Skin Tightening is a non-surgical cosmetic procedure that uses radiofrequency (RF) energy to heat the deep layers of the…
Radyo Pilipinas – Radyo Publiko (flagship DZRB 738 kHz) · Radyo ng Bayan (former brand of the flagship, 1995–2017)
Radyo Pilipinas is the national state radio brand of the Presidential Broadcast Service – Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS), the…
Rafael Crame y Pérez de Tagle — the full Spanish-style name, paternal surname Crame, maternal surname Pérez de Tagle · Brigadier General Rafael Crame — the rank he held as Constabulary chief
Rafael Crame (Rafael Crame y Pérez de Tagle; October 2, 1863 – January 1, 1927) was a Filipino constabulary officer…
Rafael de Echagüe y Bermingham (full name) · Rafael Echagüe y Bermingham
Rafael de Echagüe y Bermingham (1815–1887) was a Spanish lieutenant general and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the…
Rafael Izquierdo y Gutiérrez — the full Spanish styling of the record · Rafael Gerónimo Cayetano Izquierdo — the baptismal names
Rafael de Izquierdo (Rafael Izquierdo y Gutiérrez; baptized Rafael Gerónimo Cayetano; born September 30, 1820, Santander, Spain – died in…
Rafael Ledesma Jalandoni — full name · Major General Rafael Jalandoni
Rafael Jalandoni — in full Rafael Ledesma Jalandoni (born October 24, 1894, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental; death not documented in the…
Rafael M. Salas (1928-1987) was a Filipino public servant and international civil servant who served as Executive Secretary under President…
Rafael V. Palma — the initial styling carried in the University of the Philippines' roster of presidents · Commissioner Palma — the styling of his Philippine Commission years, when he was the body's youngest member
Rafael Palma (October 24, 1874, Tondo, Manila – May 24, 1939, Manila, aged 64) was a Filipino journalist, legislator, cabinet…
Rafflesia aurantia is a parasitic flowering plant of the genus Rafflesia endemic to Luzon, Philippines, where it occurs within the…
Rafflesia baletei is a species of parasitic flowering plant endemic to Luzon in the Philippines, named in honor of the…
Rafflesia banaoana is a Philippine species of Rafflesia, the giant flowers that parasitize forest vines, collected from the ancestral lands…
Consuelo's rafflesia (English rendering of the name) · No established vernacular name (species described only in 2016)
Rafflesia consueloae is the smallest known species of Rafflesia, the giant corpse-flower genus, with blooms barely the width of a…
Rafflesia lagascae, locally called malabô, is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia, found only in the…
Rafflesia leonardi is a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia endemic to the Philippines. Described in 2008 from Leyte…
Rafflesia lobata is a species of Rafflesia, the giant corpse-flower genus, endemic to the island of Panay in the Philippines.…
Rafflesia manillana is a parasitic flowering plant endemic to the Philippines and one of the smallest members of its genus,…
Rafflesia mira is a species of Rafflesia endemic to the rainforests of Mindanao, Philippines, known only from the vicinity of…
Rafflesia philippensis is a parasitic flowering plant of the family Rafflesiaceae named by Francisco Manuel Blanco in his Flora de…
Rafflesia schadenbergiana is a species of parasitic flowering plant endemic to Mindanao, Philippines, and one of the largest flowers on…
Panay rafflesia · Giant flower of Sibalom
Rafflesia speciosa is a parasitic flowering plant endemic to the island of Panay in the Philippines, described as a species…
Rafflesia verrucosa is a species of Rafflesia endemic to eastern Mindanao, Philippines, first identified and characterized during a small-mammal survey…
Ragang Volcano, also known as Mount Ragang or the "Blue Mountain," is a large, active stratovolcano in Lanao del Sur,…
Municipality of Ragay · Ragay Camarines Sur
Ragay, officially the Municipality of Ragay, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Ragay Gulf is a large gulf on the western side of the Bicol Peninsula in Luzon, Philippines, forming part of…
The Great Raid · Rescue at Camp Pangatian
The Raid at Cabanatuan was a rescue operation carried out on the night of January 30, 1945 by United States…
Liberation of Los Baños · Los Baños internment camp rescue
The Raid at Los Baños, carried out on the morning of February 23, 1945, was a combined airborne-amphibious assault that…
Rail transportation in the Philippines
Rail transport in the Philippines is the national sector comprising every common-carrier railway on the archipelago — from the Ferrocarril…
The rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta), known in the Philippines as bagras, is a fast-growing rainforest tree famed for its trunk,…
Municipality of Rajah Buayan · Rajah Buayan Maguindanao
Rajah Buayan, officially the Municipality of Rajah Buayan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Raia Colambu (Pigafetta's spelling) · Rajah Kolambu (spelling used on the 1950 Limasawa historical marker)
Rajah Colambu — also spelled Rajah Kolambu, and recorded by the chronicler Antonio Pigafetta as "Raia Colambu" — was the…
Rajah of Cebu — the conventional designation · Rajah of Sugbu — the polity's own name for Cebu, in the later chronicles
Rajah Humabon was the chieftain of Cebu at Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in 1521 — the ruler of the archipelago's principal…
Lakan Dula · Rajah Lakandula
Rajah Lakandula, more properly Lakan Dula, was the ruler of Tondo, the principal trading polity on the northern shore of…
Ache — the personal name in the earliest Spanish records, as "Rája Aché" or "Raxa Ache" · Raja Ache el Viejo — "King Ache the Old," the Spanish styling
Rajah Matanda (born before 1521 – died August 1572) was the elderly paramount rajah of Maynila, the Muslim-linked trading polity…
Rajah Sikatuna National Park (former designation) · RSPL
Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape is a protected area of more than ten thousand hectares of forested hills at the center…
Rajah Sulayman III — the numbered styling used when the Maynila rulers are counted · Sulayman III
Rajah Sulayman — styled in some accounts Rajah Sulayman III, and Solimán in the Spanish records — was the last…
Rajah Tupas was the last Rajah of Sugbu (Cebu), succeeding his father Rajah Humabon and ruling the chiefdom when the…
Zula — spelling in both the Stanley (1874) and Robertson (1906) translations of Pigafetta · "Zula, a chief of the island of Matan" — Robertson's designation
Zula — popularly styled Rajah Zula or Datu Zula — is the Visayan chieftain recorded in Antonio Pigafetta's chronicle of…
The Rajahnate of Butuan was a precolonial Indianised polity at the mouth of the Agusan River in northeastern Mindanao, centred…
The Rajahnate of Cebu was a pre-colonial Philippine polity on Cebu island centered on the settlement of Singhapala (in today's…
Maynila (historical polity) · Kingdom of Maynila
The Rajahnate of Maynila was a pre-colonial Tagalog polity on the southern bank of the Pasig River delta at the…
Municipality of Ramon · Ramon Isabela
Ramon, officially the Municipality of Ramon, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Ramon Q. Avanceña — the styling used in the Supreme Court's own roster · Ramón Avanceña y Quiosay — the full Spanish-style name
Ramón Avanceña y Quiosay (April 13, 1872 – June 12, 1957) was a Filipino jurist who served as the fourth…
The Incorruptible — the nickname earned heading the presidential anti-graft agency in the 1960s · Ramon D. Bagatsing — the initials styling of official records
Ramon Bagatsing (August 19, 1916, Fabrica, Sagay, Negros Occidental – February 14, 2006, Muntinlupa) was a Filipino lawyer, policeman, war…
Ramon Barba (1939–2021) was a Filipino horticulturist and plant physiologist hailed as the architect of the Philippine mango industry's year-round…
Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr. (August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957) was a Filipino statesman, seventh President of the…
Ramon Magsaysay · President Magsaysay
Ramon Magsaysay (Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay; August 31, 1907, Iba, Zambales – March 17, 1957, Mount Manunggal, Balamban, Cebu) was…
The Magsaysay Award — the common short form · The RM Award — the styling used by the foundation's own website
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is the prize established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, with…
Ramon Magsaysay is a third-income-class municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, within the Zamboanga Peninsula. It spans 113.70 square kilometres…
Monching Mitra — the nickname styling of his entire public career · Ramon V. Mitra Jr. — the initialized formal styling, carried by the Batasang Pambansa building named for him
Ramon Mitra Jr. (Ramon Villarosa Mitra Jr.; February 4, 1928, Iwahig Penal Colony, Puerto Princesa, Palawan – March 20, 2000,…
Bong Revilla (screen and ballot name) · Jose Mari Mortel Bautista (birth name)
Ramon Revilla Jr. (born Jose Mari Mortel Bautista on September 25, 1966, in Manila; name legally changed in 2009 to…
José Acuña Bautista — birth name, also used on his 1987 Senate bid · Ramon Bautista Revilla Sr. — formal styling at the article head
Ramon Revilla Sr. (born José Acuña Bautista, March 8, 1927, Imus, Cavite — died June 26, 2020, Taguig), formally styled…
RSA · Ramon See Ang (full name)
Ramon See Ang (born January 14, 1954), widely known by his initials RSA, is a Filipino businessman, mechanical engineer, and…
Ramón Valera (Spanish-style spelling) · Master Valera
Ramon Valera (1912-1970) was a Filipino fashion designer honored as the country's first and only National Artist for fashion design.…
Municipality of Ramos · Ramos Tarlac
Ramos, officially the Municipality of Ramos, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Ramsar Convention · Convention on Wetlands
The Ramsar Convention — formally the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, now usually called the…
Rappler.com · Rappler Inc. (operating company)
Rappler is a Filipino digital news organization based in Pasig, Metro Manila, founded in 2012 by Maria Ressa — the…
Municipality of Rapu-Rapu · Rapu-Rapu Albay
Rapu-Rapu, officially the Municipality of Rapu-Rapu, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Raspberry Ketone · Rheosmin
Raspberry Ketones are natural phenolic compounds that give red raspberries (Rubus idaeus) their distinct aromatic scent. In the wellness and…
Datagnon (variant spelling in older ethnographic literature) · Latagnun (spelling variant)
The Ratagnon people are one of the eight ethnolinguistic groups collectively known as the Mangyan of Mindoro island. They inhabit…
Raul Sevilla Manglapus — full name · Raul S. Manglapus — the initial styling of his books and official records
Raul Manglapus (Raul Sevilla Manglapus; October 20, 1918, Ermita, Manila – July 25, 1999, Muntinlupa) was a Filipino statesman, composer,…
Raul Roco · Raul S. Roco
Raúl Sagarbarria Roco (October 26, 1941 – August 5, 2005) was a Filipino lawyer and politician — constitutional convention delegate,…
1. Definition An raw land (or undeveloped land) is undeveloped real estate that lacks basic infrastructure, utilities (such as electricity,…
Vacant land · Lot only (Filipino real estate term)
Raw land (also called raw lot, vacant land, or lot only) in Philippine real estate refers to a parcel of…
Raymundo Angulo Melliza — the full record name (maternal surname Angulo, paternal surname Melliza) · Don Raymundo Melliza — the styling of Molo's elite record
Raymundo Melliza — in full Raymundo Angulo Melliza (March 15, 1854, Molo, Iloilo – November 11, 1945, Molo, aged 91)…
Ready for Occupancy · RFO
Ready for Occupancy (RFO) refers to real estate properties in the Philippines that are fully constructed, finished, and ready for…
Municipality of Real · Real Quezon
Real, officially the Municipality of Real, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Real Audiencia de Manila · Royal Audiencia of Manila
The Real Audiencia of Manila (Spanish: Real Audiencia de Manila) was the Real Audiencia — the high court of the…
Real Property · Immovable Property
Real Estate is a legal, financial, and economic term referring to land and any permanent, man-made structures attached to it,…
Real Estate Valuer · Property Valuator
Real Estate Appraiser, in the Philippines, is a licensed professional who estimates the fair market value of real property (land,…
Local Real Estate Boards · PAREB Member Boards
Real Estate Boards in the Philippines are local, member-based professional associations composed of licensed real estate brokers, appraisers, assessors, and…
Licensed Broker · Real Estate Agent
Real Estate Broker, in the Philippines, is a licensed professional who acts as an agent in real estate transactions, facilitating…
Real Estate Brokers Association of the Philippines · REBAP
The Real Estate Brokers Association of the Philippines, Inc. (REBAP) is one of the oldest and most prominent professional organizations…
1. Definition The Real Estate Brokers Association of the Philippines (REBAP) is a prominent national professional association of licensed real…
Real estate counselor · Property consultant (licensed)
A Real Estate Consultant is a licensed professional in the Philippines who offers expert advice, analysis, and strategic recommendations on…
Real Estate Lending · Housing Finance
Real Estate Finance and Financing Modalities refers to the methods and structures used to secure capital for real estate acquisitions,…
1. Definition A real estate investment refers to the purchase, ownership, management, rental, or sale of real estate properties for…
Real Estate Investment Trust · REIT
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), in the Philippines, is a publicly-listed stock corporation that owns, operates, or finances income-generating real…
BS REM · Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Management
Real Estate Management in the Philippines (often referring to the professional discipline and the academic degree Bachelor of Science in…
Real Estate Agent · Property Consultant
Real Estate Salesperson, in the Philippines, is an accredited individual who performs real estate marketing, sales, or leasing activities under…
Real Estate Service Act (RESA) · RESA Law
Real Estate Service in the Philippines refers to the professional practice of facilitating, valuing, assessing, and advising on transactions involving…
RESA Law · Republic Act No. 9646
Real Estate Service Act (officially Republic Act No. 9646, commonly known as the RESA Law) is a Philippine legislation enacted…
RPT · Amillaramiento (historical Spanish-derived term)
Real Property Tax (commonly known in the Philippines as amillaramiento or RPT) is an annual ad valorem tax imposed by…
Real estate agency · Realty firm
A Realty Brokerage (or real estate brokerage) is a business entity in the Philippines that acts as an intermediary between…
RealtyOS Philippines · RealtyOS Platform
RealtyOS is a specialized real estate software platform and database operating system in the Philippines designed to streamline property listings,…
RealtyOS KB · RealtyOS Help Center
The RealtyOS Knowledge Base (also known as RealtyOS KB) is a centralized digital repository of articles, legal terms, tax calculators,…
The Recto Bank incident of 2019 refers to the sinking of the Filipino fishing boat F/B Gem-Ver 1 after a…
Civil Code Article 1484 · Installment Sales Law (Personal Property)
The Recto Law (codified as Articles 1484 to 1486 of the Civil Code of the Philippines) is a national consumer…
Red Horse (short form) · Red Horse "International" — the 8% ABV export variant
Red Horse Beer is an extra-strong beer — an amber lager — brewed by San Miguel Brewery Inc., the brewery…
Red Lauan (Shorea negrosensis, recently placed in the genus Rubroshorea) is a large dipterocarp tree endemic to the Philippines, named…
Red Ribbon
Red Ribbon Bakeshop is a Philippine bakeshop chain founded in Quezon City in 1979, known for its layer cakes, ensaymada,…
Red-striped flowerpecker (descriptive name)
The Red-keeled flowerpecker (Dicaeum australe) is a tiny endemic songbird of the Philippines, widespread on Luzon, Mindanao, and many larger…
The red-vented cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia), known in the Philippines as katala or kalangay, is a small white cockatoo endemic to…
Right of Redemption · Period of Redemption
The redemption period is the legally mandated timeframe during which a mortgagor (borrower) whose property has been foreclosed has the…
Mobula alfredi (scientific name) · Prince Alfred's manta ray
The reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) is a huge but harmless plankton-feeding ray with a winglike disc reaching about three…
Reel Time (TV program) · GMA News TV Reel Time
Reel Time was a Philippine television documentary program produced by GMA News and Public Affairs, broadcast on GMA News TV…
RAM — the standard acronym throughout the Marcos and Aquino years · Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang Makabansa (Revolutionary Nationalist Alliance) — the name adopted in 1990, retaining the RAM acronym
The Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) is the organization of reformist and later mutinous officers of the Armed Forces…
Jura Regalia · State Ownership of Public Lands
The Regalian Doctrine (Latin: Jura Regalia), in Philippine constitutional law, is a fundamental legal principle stating that all lands of…
Region 1 · Ilocos Region
Region I (officially designated as the Ilocos Region) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the northwestern section…
Region 2 · Cagayan Valley
Region II (officially designated as Cagayan Valley) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the northeastern section of…
Region 3 · Central Luzon
Region III (officially designated as Central Luzon) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the central plains of…
Region 4 · Southern Tagalog Region
Region IV (officially designated as Southern Tagalog) is a former, historic administrative region of the Philippines that encompassed the provinces…
Region 4-A · CALABARZON
Region IV-A (officially designated as CALABARZON) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the southwestern portion of Luzon,…
Region 4-B · MIMAROPA
Region IV-B (officially designated as MIMAROPA) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the southwestern portion of Luzon.…
Region 9 · Zamboanga Peninsula
Region IX (officially designated as the Zamboanga Peninsula) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the western portion…
Region 5 · Bicol Region
Region V (officially designated as the Bicol Region) is an administrative region of the Philippines occupying the southern peninsula of…
Region 6 · Western Visayas
Region VI (officially designated as Western Visayas) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the western portion of…
Region 7 · Central Visayas
Region VII (officially designated as Central Visayas) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the central portion of…
Region 8 · Eastern Visayas
Region VIII (officially designated as Eastern Visayas) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the eastern portion of…
Region 10 · Northern Mindanao
Region X (officially designated as Northern Mindanao) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the northern portion of…
Region 11 · Davao Region
Region XI (officially designated as the Davao Region) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the southeastern portion…
SOCSARGEN · Cotabato region
Region XII (officially designated as SOCCSKSARGEN) is an administrative region of the Philippines located in the central-southern portion of Mindanao.…
RTC — the universal abbreviation · Panrehiyong Hukuman sa Paglilitis — the Filipino designation carried in the article of record
The Regional Trial Court (RTC; Filipino Panrehiyong Hukuman sa Paglilitis) is the general-jurisdiction trial court of the Philippines — the…
Transfer of Title Registration Fee · Registry of Deeds Fee
Registration Fee (specifically Real Estate Registration Fee) is a mandatory government service charge paid to the Registry of Deeds (RD)…
Register of Deeds · RD
The Registry of Deeds (RD) is a government office in the Philippines responsible for registering, maintaining, and archiving all public…
1. Definition Rehabilitation, in healthcare, is a multi-disciplinary process designed to restore physical, sensory, cognitive, or mental functions lost due…
RFC · Rehabilitation Finance Corporation (Philippines)
The Rehabilitation Finance Corporation (RFC) was the Philippine government corporation created by Republic Act No. 85 — approved on October…
Municipality of Reina Mercedes · Reina Mercedes Isabela
Reina Mercedes, officially the Municipality of Reina Mercedes, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan…
1. Definition A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a corporation that owns, operates, or finances income-generating real estate in…
Municipality of Remedios T. Romualdez · Remedios T. Romualdez Agusan del Norte
Remedios T. Romualdez, officially the Municipality of Remedios T. Romualdez, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Norte,…
Remittances are the money and in-kind support that migrant workers send home to their families — in the World Bank's…
The Remontado people are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group living in the Sierra Madre foothills of Rizal and Quezon provinces in…
Ren (horticultural abbreviation)
Renanthera, abbreviated Ren in horticultural trade, is a genus of large scrambling monopodial orchids found from China and the Himalayas…
Renato Constantino · Author of "A Past Revisited"
Renato Constantino (1919-1999) was a Filipino nationalist historian and public intellectual whose works, including "The Miseducation of the Filipino" and…
Renato C. Corona · Chief Justice Corona
Renato C. Corona (October 15, 1948 – April 29, 2016) was a Filipino jurist who served as the 23rd Chief…
Renault S.A. · Groupe Renault
Renault (Renault S.A.) is a French automobile manufacturer founded on February 25, 1899, as the Société Renault Frères by the…
Renault-Nissan Alliance · The Alliance
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance is the Franco-Japanese automotive partnership between Renault Group of France, Nissan Motor Company of Japan, and Mitsubishi…
Mama Renee · Ambassador of Philippine Fashion
Renee Salud (often referred to as Mama Renee or the "Ambassador of Philippine Fashion") is a prominent Filipino fashion designer,…
RE Act · Renewable Energy Act
The Renewable Energy Act of 2008, formally Republic Act No. 9513 — "An Act Promoting the Development, Utilization and Commercialization…
Rent Control Act of 2009 · Republic Act No. 9653
Rent Control Act, officially Republic Act No. 9653 (Rent Control Act of 2009), is the primary law regulating residential rentals…
1. Definition The Rent Control Act of 2009 (RA 9653) is the national law that regulates the renting of residential…
Lease-purchase agreement · Lease-to-own
Rent-to-Own (also known as lease-to-own or rent-to-buy) is a real estate transaction structure in the Philippines that allows a tenant…
RSF · Reporters sans frontières (original French name)
Reporters Without Borders (French: Reporters sans frontières, RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization headquartered in Paris, founded in…
Republic Act No. 10354 — the statutory designation · RA 10354 — the standard short citation
The Reproductive Health Act of 2012, officially Republic Act No. 10354, "An Act Providing for a National Policy on Responsible…
The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354) guarantees universal access to reproductive health information…
Republic Act 11036 · RA 11036
Republic Act No. 11036, officially designated as the Mental Health Act, is a Philippine national law signed in 2018. The…
1. Definition Republic Act 11201 is the legislation that created the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) in…
Republic Act 11332 · RA 11332
Republic Act No. 11332, officially designated as the Mandatory Reporting of Communicable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern…
1. Definition Republic Act No. 11510, known as the Alternative Learning System (ALS) Act, is the Philippine law signed in…
Republic Act 3720 · RA 3720
Republic Act No. 3720, officially designated as the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, is the foundational health product safety law…
1. Definition Republic Act No. 4726, known as the Condominium Act, is the Philippine law approved in 1966 that governs…
Republic Act 5680 · RA 5680
Republic Act No. 5680, officially designated as the Philippine Physical and Occupational Therapy Law, is the national law that regulates…
1. Definition Republic Act 7279 (RA 7279), officially known as the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (UDHA), is…
1. Definition Republic Act No. 8423, known as the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA) of 1997, is the Philippine…
1. Definition Republic Act No. 9155, known as the Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001, is the Philippine law…
Republic Act 9482 · RA 9482
Republic Act No. 9482, officially designated as the Anti-Rabies Act of 2007, is a Philippine national law enacted to control,…
1. Definition Republic Act 9711 (RA 9711), officially designated as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Act of 2009, is…
1. Definition Republic Act 9994 (RA 9994), officially known as the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010, is a Philippine…
National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009 · Cultural Heritage Act
Republic Act No. 10066, the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, is the principal Philippine statute for the protection and…
Philippine DRRM Act of 2010 · RA 10121
Republic Act No. 10121, the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010, is the national statute that created…
Data Privacy Act of 2012 · DPA
Republic Act No. 10173, the Data Privacy Act of 2012, is the Philippines' comprehensive law governing the processing of personal…
Cybercrime Prevention Act · Cybercrime Law
Republic Act No. 10175, the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, is the principal Philippine statute defining and penalizing offenses committed…
Reproductive Health Law · RH Law
Republic Act No. 10354, the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012, is the Philippine law guaranteeing universal access…
HR Victims Reparation Act · RA 10368
Republic Act No. 10368, the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013, is a Philippine law that recognizes…
Republic Act No. 10535, the Philippine Standard Time Act of 2013, is the law that established a single reference time…
Republic Act No. 10592 (2013) amended Articles 29, 94, 97, 98, and 99 of the Revised Penal Code to expand…
Expanded Good Conduct Time Allowance Law · GCTA Law
Republic Act No. 10592, signed in 2013, expanded the system of time allowances that reduce the prison terms of persons…
SK Reform Act of 2016 · RA 10742
Republic Act No. 10742, the Sangguniang Kabataan Reform Act of 2016, is the Philippine law that reformed the Sangguniang Kabataan…
RA 10754 · Expanded PWD Benefits Act
Republic Act No. 10754, enacted in 2016, expanded the benefits and privileges of persons with disability in the Philippines. It…
RA 10817 · Halal Export Act
Republic Act No. 10817, officially the "Philippine Halal Export Development and Promotion Act," is the Philippine statute that established the…
Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act · Free Tuition Law
Republic Act No. 10931, the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, is the 2017 Philippine law that made tuition…
TRAIN Law · TRAIN
Republic Act No. 10963, the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act (TRAIN), is the first package of the Philippines'…
Republic Act No. 11032, the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018, replaced the 2007…
Republic Act No. 11036, the Philippine Mental Health Act, was signed into law in June 2018 as the country's first…
Mental Health Act of 2018 · RA 11036
Republic Act No. 11036, the Philippine Mental Health Act, is the principal legislation establishing a national mental health policy for…
RA 11199 · Social Security Act of 2018
Republic Act No. 11199, officially the "Social Security Act of 2018," is the Philippine statute that modernized and expanded the…
RA 11201 · DHSUD Act
Republic Act No. 11201 (commonly known as the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Act) is a Philippine law…
Republic Act No. 11223, the Universal Health Care Act, was signed in February 2019 to enroll every Filipino automatically in…
The Road Board Abolition Act — the statute's subject shorthand · An Act Abolishing the Road Board — the long-title opening
Republic Act No. 11239, long-titled "AN ACT ABOLISHING THE ROAD BOARD AND PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE…
Republic Act No. 11313, the Safe Spaces Act, is a Philippine law penalizing gender-based sexual harassment in streets and public…
Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 · Terrorism Law
Republic Act No. 11479, the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, is the Philippine law that replaced the Human Security Act of…
RA 11576 — the standard abbreviation, itself an alias in the structured record · RA 11576 of 2021 — the year-qualified form that distinguishes it in citation
Republic Act No. 11576 — formally "An Act Further Expanding the Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts…
RA 1160 · The NARRA Act — the functional shorthand of land-reform literature
Republic Act No. 1160 is the Philippine statute approved on June 18, 1954, "An Act to Further Implement the Free…
The Department of Migrant Workers Act — Section 1's own short title · RA 11641
Republic Act No. 11641 — approved December 30, 2021, Rizal Day, by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, long title "AN ACT…
Maharlika Investment Fund Act of 2023 · Maharlika Investment Fund Act
Republic Act No. 11954, the Maharlika Investment Fund Act of 2023, is the statute — approved on July 18, 2023…
New Government Procurement Act · NGPA
Republic Act No. 12009, officially titled "An Act Revising Republic Act No. 9184, otherwise known as the 'Government Procurement Reform…
Republic Act No. 12078 · RA 12078
Republic Act No. 12078, officially "An Act Amending Republic Act No. 8178 or the 'Agricultural Tariffication Act', as Amended by…
Forfeiture of Unlawfully Acquired Property Act — the descriptive designation used for the statute in Philippine legal literature and in this wiki's related entries · The forfeiture law / the forfeiture statute — the short designations used in discussions of the anti-graft framework
Republic Act No. 1379, approved on June 18, 1955 and titled "An Act Declaring Forfeiture in Favor of the State…
Land Reform Act of 1955 · RA 1400 — the statutory abbreviation
Republic Act No. 1400, the Land Reform Act of 1955, is the statute "An Act Defining a Land Tenure Policy,…
Rizal Law · RA 1425
Republic Act No. 1425, commonly called the Rizal Law, is the 1956 Philippine statute that mandates the teaching of Jose…
An Act Creating a Bureau of Investigation, Providing Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes — the long title · The Bureau of Investigation Act — the descriptive styling
Republic Act No. 157, long-titled "AN ACT CREATING A BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," was…
The Rice and Corn Industry Act — the Supreme Court's styling in Purina Philippines, Inc. v. Flores ([LawPhil — Purina](https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/sep2015/gr_180323_2015.html "Purina Philippines, Inc. v. Flores, G.R. No. 180323 (September 16, 2015) — The LawPhil Project")) · An Act Limiting the Right to Engage in the Rice and Corn Industry to Citizens of the Philippines, and for Other Purposes — the long title
Republic Act No. 3018, long-titled "AN ACT LIMITING THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN THE RICE AND CORN INDUSTRY TO CITIZENS…
Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act · RA 3019
Republic Act No. 3019, the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, is the foundational Philippine statute penalizing corruption by public officers.…
RA 311 — the standard short citation form · An Act Abolishing the People's Court and the Office of Special Prosecutors — the descriptive short title drawn from the long title's opening clause
Republic Act No. 311, approved on June 19, 1948, is the statute conventionally cited by its long title, "An Act…
RA 3452 · An Act to Adopt a Program to Stabilize the Price of Palay, Rice and Corn, to Provide Incentives for Production, and to Create a Rice and Corn Administration to Implement the Same, and to Provide Funds Therefor — the long title
Republic Act No. 3452 — long title "An Act to Adopt a Program to Stabilize the Price of Palay, Rice…
RA 3844 — the statutory abbreviation · The Agricultural Land Reform Code of 1963
Republic Act No. 3844, the Agricultural Land Reform Code, is the statute "An Act to Ordain the Agricultural Land Reform…
RA 422 — the docket styling · An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Reorganize Within One Year the Different Executive Departments, Bureaus, Offices, Agencies and Other Instrumentalities of the Government — the long-title styling
Republic Act No. 422 is the five-section statute — approved January 6, 1950 — titled "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT…
RA 4726 · The Condominium Act
Republic Act No. 4726 (commonly known as The Condominium Act) is a Philippine law enacted on June 18, 1966, that…
1. Definition Republic Act No. 5680 (commonly known as the Philippine Physical and Occupational Therapy Law) is the regulatory act…
An Act To Develop and Improve the Rice and Corn Industries, To Stabilize the Price of Rice and To Promote the Social and Economic Conditions of the People Engaged in the Production of These Staple Foods — the long title · The NARIC revival act of 1951 — the descriptive styling
Republic Act No. 663 — long title "AN ACT TO DEVELOP AND IMPROVE THE RICE AND CORN INDUSTRIES, TO STABILIZE…
Ombudsman Act of 1989 · RA 6770
Republic Act No. 6770, long-titled "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION OF THE OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN…
RA 7279 · Urban Development and Housing Act
Republic Act No. 7279 (commonly known as the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 or UDHA) is a comprehensive…
NCCA Law · National Commission for Culture and the Arts Act
Republic Act No. 7356, signed on 3 April 1992, created the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the…
National Integrated Protected Areas System Act · NIPAS Act
Republic Act No. 7586, the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992, is the statute "An Act Providing for…
Child Protection Act of 1992 · RA 7610
Republic Act No. 7610, the Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act, is the foundational Philippine statute…
RA 7691 — the standard short form · RA 7691 of 1994 — the year-qualified citation form
Republic Act No. 7691 — formally "An Act Expanding the Jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts, and…
Higher Education Act of 1994 · CHED Law
Republic Act No. 7722, the Higher Education Act of 1994, is the law that created the Commission on Higher Education…
TESDA Act of 1994 · Technical Education and Skills Development Act
Republic Act No. 7796, the TESDA Act of 1994, is the law that created the Technical Education and Skills Development…
National Health Insurance Act of 1995 · NHIP
Republic Act No. 7875, the National Health Insurance Act of 1995, is the law that established the Philippine Health Insurance…
Republic Act No. 8293, the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, is the principal statute governing intellectual property in the…
EPIRA · Electric Power Industry Reform Act
Republic Act No. 9136, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA), is the law that restructured the Philippine…
Wildlife Act of 2001 · RA 9147
Republic Act No. 9147, the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act, is the principal Philippine statute governing the conservation and…
The Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park (MKNP) Act of 2001 — the Section 1 short title · The Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park Act
Republic Act No. 9154 — the Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park (MKNP) Act of 2001, Section 1's own short title —…
R.A. 9155 · Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001
Republic Act No. 9155, officially known as the Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001, is the primary Philippine statute…
Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act · Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 — the Act's short title under Section 1
Republic Act No. 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, is the principal statute of the Philippines on dangerous…
Government Procurement Reform Act · GPRA
Republic Act No. 9184, the Government Procurement Reform Act, is the Philippine statute "Providing for the Modernization, Standardization and Regulation…
Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003 · OAVA
Republic Act No. 9189, the Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003, is the law that enables qualified Filipinos abroad to…
Republic Act No. 9208, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, criminalized trafficking in persons — recruitment, transport, harboring, or…
RA 9346 — the standard short form · Republic Act No. 9346
Republic Act No. 9346, titled "An Act Prohibiting the Imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines," is the 2006 statute…
Republic Act No. 9513, the Renewable Energy Act of 2008, was signed in December 2008 to accelerate the development of…
RA 9711 · Republic Act No. 9711
Republic Act No. 9711, officially titled the "Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Act of 2009," is the Philippine statute that…
República de Biak-na-Bató (Spanish designation) · The Biak-na-Bato republic — the common descriptive form
The Republic of Biak-na-Bato (Spanish: República de Biak-na-Bató) was the short-lived revolutionary republic established on November 1, 1897 in the…
Cantonal Government of Negros · Republican Canton of Negros (Cantón Republicano de Negros)
The Republic of Negros was the short-lived state raised on the island of Negros after the Negros Revolution of November…
The Republic of Zamboanga was a short-lived revolutionary republic established on 18 May 1899 in Zamboanga after Filipino and allied…
Republic v. Sandoval is a decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, En Banc, promulgated on March 19, 1993,…
1. Definition RESA (commonly standing for the Real Estate Service Act, registered as Republic Act No. 9646) is the central…
Rescission Act of 1946 (Public Law 79-301) · Filipino Veterans Rescission Act
The Rescission Act of 1946 is a United States federal law that withdrew official recognition of the military service of…
RITM
The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) is the Philippines' principal research institution for tropical and infectious diseases, operating as…
ROTC · Military Science training (college)
The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) in the Philippines is a program of institutionalized military training for college students, administered…
Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands — the formal styling of the office in the U.S. House record · Philippine resident commissioner — the descriptive short form in Filipino historiography
The Resident Commissioner of the Philippines (in full, Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands to the United States House of…
1. Definition A residential property is a type of real estate designed and zoned specifically for human habitation, including single-family…
The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354), widely known as the RH Law, guarantees…
The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10554, commonly the RH Law) guarantees universal access…
Retail Space · Retail Space (Philippines)
Retail Space refers to commercial real estate properties in the Philippines designed and leased to businesses for selling goods and…
Retail lease · Storefront
Retail space in Philippine commercial real estate refers to leasable properties used for the sale of goods and services to…
1. Definition Retail trade is the economic sector comprising businesses that sell goods and services directly to consumers for personal,…
RA 8762 (Retail Trade Liberalization Act of 2000) · RA 11595 (2021 amendment)
The Retail Trade Liberalization Act refers to Republic Act No. 8762 of 2000, which opened the Philippine retail trade industry…
Retail trade nationalization was the Philippine policy regime, inaugurated by Republic Act No. 1180 ("An Act to Regulate the Retail…
Republic Act No. 1180 · RA 1180
The Retail Trade Nationalization Act is the conventional name of Republic Act No. 1180, officially "An Act to Regulate the…
LY3437943 · GIP/GLP-1/Glucagon Triple Agonist
Retatrutide is an investigational synthetic peptide that acts as a triple receptor agonist targeting the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), glucagon-like…
Sawa (Filipino) · Malayopython reticulatus (scientific name)
The reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus, formerly Python reticulatus) is the world's longest snake species, a heavyweight constrictor that reliably reaches…
Vitamin A1 · All-trans-retinol
Retinol is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its therapeutic…
Republic Act No. 10349 · RA 10349
The Revised AFP Modernization Act is the working name of Republic Act No. 10349, "An Act Amending Republic Act No.…
Republic Act No. 11232 · RA 11232
The Revised Corporation Code — officially the Revised Corporation Code of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 11232, "An Act Providing…
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines · Act No. 3815
The Revised Penal Code is the Philippines' core criminal statute — Act No. 3815, officially "An Act Revising the Penal…
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines · RPC
The Revised Penal Code of the Philippines is the principal criminal statute of the country, enacted as Act No. 3815…
The Revised Penal Code (RPC), enacted as Act No. 3815 in 1930, is the principal body of general penal law…
DO 001 s. 2022 · Revised Homeschooling Guidelines of 2022
In the Philippine educational landscape, the Revised Policy Guidelines, officially promulgated as DepEd Order No. 001, s. 2022 (DO 001…
Gobierno Revolucionario de Filipinas (Spanish designation) · Pamahalaang Rebolusyonaryo ng Pilipinas (Tagalog rendering)
The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines (Spanish: Gobierno Revolucionario de Filipinas; Tagalog: Pamahalaang Rebolusyonaryo ng Pilipinas) was the provisional government…
Rewind (2023 film)
Rewind is a 2023 Philippine science-fiction romantic drama directed by Mae Cruz-Alviar, written by Enrico C. Santos from a story…
RT&Co. · Reyes Tacandong
Reyes Tacandong & Co. — RT&Co. — is a Philippine audit, tax, and advisory firm formed in May 2010 by…
Nose Job · Nose Reshaping Surgery
Rhinoplasty, commonly referred to as a "nose job," is a surgical procedure performed to alter the shape, size, structure, or…
Facelift · Facelift Surgery
Rhytidectomy, commonly known as a facelift, is a major cosmetic surgical procedure designed to reduce visible signs of aging in…
Ricardo Tito Jamin Vidal — the full name the reference article carries · Ricardo Tito Vidal y Jamín — the Spanish-style form
Ricardo Tito Jamin Vidal (February 6, 1931 – October 18, 2017) was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church…
RCA — the statutory abbreviation used throughout RA 3452 and PD 4 · The rice and corn program administration of RA 3452 — the creating Act's own description
The Rice and Corn Administration (RCA) was the Philippine government agency created by Republic Act No. 3452, approved June 14,…
RACB — the abbreviation of the Board's own name · RICOB — the styling carried in the National Food Authority's record
The Rice and Corn Board (RACB, styled RICOB in its successor's record) was the Philippine regulatory board created by Section…
RCPA · Rice and Corn Production Administration (the full statutory name carried in EO 355's title)
The Rice and Corn Production Administration (RCPA) was a Philippine government agency of the immediate postwar years that administered the…
RCEF · Rice Fund
The Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF), called the Rice Fund in the statute that created it, is the compensating instrument…
Palay production in the Philippines · Philippine rice industry
Rice production in the Philippines is the cultivation of rice — almost entirely Oryza sativa, grown as irrigated or rainfed…
Republic Act No. 11203 · RA 11203
The Rice Tariffication Law is the short title of Republic Act No. 11203, officially "An Act Liberalizing the Importation, Exportation…
RTPC — the abbreviation used in Philippine heritage-management literature · Ifugao Rice Terraces — the collective name in common and legislative use, also the name under which the terraces were declared a National Cultural Treasure
The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras is the UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed in 1995 — reference number 722,…
Easement of Right of Way · Right of Passage
A right of way (specifically a legal easement of right of way under Philippine law) is a type of easement…
Possessory Rights Property · Lupaing Walang Titulo
Rights-Only Property (locally known as rights only or rights properties) refers to land occupied, possessed, or claimed by individuals or…
Breadfruit (English) · Artocarpus altilis (scientific name)
Rimas is the Filipino name for the breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis), a tall milky-sap tree of Pacific origin long grown in…
Rinconada language · Iriga-Buhi dialect cluster
Rinconada Bikol is a group of closely related Bikol language varieties spoken in the Rinconada district of Camarines Sur, around…
The ripeness doctrine — the decisions' own styling in the requisites discussion · Prematurity — the dismissal ground's short name
Ripeness is the justiciability doctrine by which courts decline to adjudicate claims brought before a genuine, immediate controversy has arisen…
Rivermaya band · The "other" big band of the '90s Pinoy rock boom
Rivermaya is a Filipino rock band formed in Manila in 1993, one of the defining acts of the 1990s Pinoy…
Rivers of the Philippines are the archipelago's freshwater watercourses, draining volcanic and mountainous interiors into surrounding seas. The Cagayan River…
Municipality of Rizal · Rizal Zamboanga del Norte
Rizal, officially the Municipality of Rizal, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Republic Act No. 1425 — its statutory citation · RA 1425 — the common short form
The Rizal Law is Republic Act No. 1425, "An Act to Include in the Curricula of All Public and Private…
Rizal Memorial · Rizal Memorial Field
The Rizal Memorial Sports Complex (RMSC) is the national sports complex of the Philippines, occupying the block bounded by Pablo…
Luneta · Liwasang Rizal
Rizal Park, historically known as Luneta and in Filipino as Liwasang Rizal, is a 58-hectare (140-acre) historic urban park in…
Rizal is a landlocked province in Calabarzon, Philippines, immediately east of Metro Manila, named after national hero José Rizal. Created…
Rizalistas · Rizalist movements
Rizalista refers to the collection of Philippine religious movements that venerate the national hero José Rizal as a divine or…
Philippine road safety · road traffic safety in the Philippines
Road Safety in the Philippines is the body of policy, legislation, statistics, and practice by which the country manages deaths…
Robert Flint Chandler, Jr. (full name) · Robert F. Chandler, Jr.
Robert F. Chandler (Robert Flint Chandler, Jr.; June 22, 1907 – March 23, 1999) was an American horticulturist and science…
Robert Eichelberger · General Eichelberger
Robert L. Eichelberger (March 9, 1886, Urbana, Ohio — September 26, 1961, Asheville, North Carolina) was a general of the…
Robert "Uncle Bob" Stewart · Uncle Bob Stewart
Robert Stewart — Robert La Rue Stewart, born November 19, 1918 in Tucson, Arizona; died April 5, 2006 in Phoenix,…
RLC · Robinsons Land
Robinsons Land Corporation (commonly known as Robinsons Land or RLC) is the real estate arm of JG Summit Holdings, Inc.,…
Robinsons · Robinsons Mall
Robinsons Malls is a major Philippine chain of shopping malls, owned and operated by Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC), the real-estate…
Robusta · Kapeng Manipis (local Tagalog term)
Robusta Coffee refers to coffee made from the beans of the plant Coffea canephora (commonly known as Coffea robusta). In…
RBF
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is an American private philanthropic foundation founded on December 28, 1940 in New York City…
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private philanthropic foundation, chartered in New York on May 14, 1913 by John D.…
ROCK · Rockwell
Rockwell Land Corporation (commonly known as Rockwell Land) is a premier high-end real estate developer in the Philippines, recognized for…
Rodrigo Roa Duterte (full name) · Digong (the standing nickname in Philippine public life)
Rodrigo Duterte (in full Rodrigo Roa Duterte; born March 28, 1945, Maasin, Leyte) is a Filipino lawyer and politician who…
Municipality of Rodriguez · Rodriguez Rizal
Rodriguez, officially the Municipality of Rodriguez, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Ka Lando — the movement name carried in the Bantayog ng mga Bayani record · Rolando M. Olalia — the full name of the Wikidata and Library of Congress records
Rolando M. Olalia (September 3, 1934 – November 13, 1986), known throughout the Philippine labor movement as Ka Lando, was…
Roland Tinio (occasional spelling in early programs)
Rolando Tinio (1937–1997) was a Filipino poet, playwright, director, and designer who was named National Artist of the Philippines for…
Román Basa (d. 1896) was a Filipino revolutionary who served as the second supremo (president) of the Katipunan, leading the…
Archdiocese of Manila · Manila Archdiocese
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (Latin: Archidioecesis Manilensis) is the oldest and the metropolitan see of the Catholic Church…
Catholic Church in the Philippines · Catholic Church in the Philippines — the standard short designation
The Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines is the part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Bishop…
Romblomanon is a Visayan language and its speakers, an ethnolinguistic community native to Romblon province, centered on Romblon Island and…
Romblonon · Romblomanon language and people
Romblomanon People are a Bisayan ethnolinguistic group native to Romblon province in the Philippines, particularly Romblon Island and parts of…
Romblon is an island province of the Philippines in the Mimaropa region (Region IV-B). Its capital is the town of…
Municipality of Romblon · Romblon Romblon
Romblon, officially the Municipality of Romblon, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
The Romblon boobook (Ninox spilonotus) is a small hawk-owl endemic to Tablas Island in Romblon province, central Philippines, recognized as…
Romblon boobook · Ninox spilonota (scientific name)
The Romblon Hawk-Owl (Ninox spilonota), also called the Romblon boobook, is a small endemic owl of the Philippines confined to…
Province of Romblon · Romblon
Romblon, officially the Province of Romblon, is an archipelagic province of the Philippines located in the Mimaropa region. The province…
Rome Statute — the short statutory title · The ICC Statute — the institutional shorthand
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court — adopted in…
Romualdo C. Quimpo — the styling of the Davao provincial and mayoral records · The assemblyman from Davao — his designation in the charter narrative
Romualdo Quimpo — Romualdo C. Quimpo in the fuller styling of the Davao records — was the Philippine legislator of…
Municipality of Ronda · Ronda Cebu
Ronda, officially the Municipality of Ronda, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
A rondalla is an ensemble of plucked string instruments — in the Philippines typically bandurrias, laúds, octavinas, guitars, and a…
Roof Deck · Sky Deck
A roof-deck (commonly referred to as a sky deck or rooftop terrace) is a flat, open-air surface constructed on the…
The Rooming-In and Breastfeeding Act, signed on 2 June 1992, requires hospitals and health institutions in the Philippines to practice…
President Roque López — the styling of the Santa Barbara record · Roque Lopez — the unaccented spelling carried by English-language references
Roque López was an Ilonggo revolutionary statesman of the 1898 rising on Panay — the man elected president of the…
Municipality of Rosales · Rosales Pangasinan
Rosales, officially the Municipality of Rosales, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Highway-junction municipality of Agusan del Sur · Offshoot municipality of San Francisco
Rosario, officially the Municipality of Rosario, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines, within the Caraga…
Rosario · Industrial Town of Northern Cavite
Rosario is a first-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, on the northern coast of Manila Bay. A densely populated, highly urbanized…
Roscoe Barnett Woodruff — full name, as the Library of Congress authority records it · Maj. Gen. Roscoe B. Woodruff — the styling the eastern Mindanao official history uses
Roscoe B. Woodruff (born Roscoe Barnett Woodruff, February 9, 1891, Oskaloosa, Iowa — July 24, 1975, San Antonio, Texas) was…
Rose Bakeshop is a Mindanao bakery chain with neighborhood branches across the Davao Region and Caraga, producing bread and pastry…
Municipality of Roseller Lim · Roseller Lim Zamboanga Sibugay
Roseller Lim, officially the Municipality of Roseller Lim, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the…
Rosquillos are flower-shaped, scallop-edged cookies with a hole in the center, created in Liloan, Cebu in 1907 by Margarita "Titay"…
Rotator cuff injury · Torn shoulder tendon
A Rotator Cuff Tear is an orthopedic injury characterized by a partial or complete tear in one or more of…
Luzon malkoha (descriptive name among birders)
The rough-crested malkoha is a long-tailed cuckoo of the family Cuculidae endemic to Luzon in the Philippines, where it inhabits…
Municipality of Roxas · Roxas Palawan
Roxas, officially the Municipality of Roxas, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Dewey Boulevard · Cavite Boulevard
Roxas Boulevard is the 7.6-kilometer (4.7-mile), eight-lane arterial road that runs north–south along the shore of Manila Bay through the…
Seafood Capital of the Philippines · Capital of Capiz
Roxas City is a highly urbanized city and the capital of Capiz province in Western Visayas, Philippines. Located on Panay…
Davao Night Market · Roxas Avenue Night Market
The Roxas Night Market is a city-managed open-air night market along Roxas Avenue in downtown Davao City, Philippines, operating typically…
Ruby Tower disaster · 1968 Casiguran earthquake building collapse (contextual usage)
The Ruby Tower collapse occurred on August 2, 1968, when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake centered near Casiguran, Aurora struck Luzon…
The rufous coucal (Centropus unirufus) is a large, chestnut-colored species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae, endemic to the Philippines.…
Kalaw · Philippine rufous hornbill
The rufous hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax), widely known in the Philippines as the kalaw, is the largest hornbill species endemic to…
Actenoides lindsayi
The Rufous-collared Kingfisher (Actenoides lindsayi) is a forest kingfisher endemic to Luzon and nearby islands in the Philippines. A quiet,…
The rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni), locally called dulungan, is a large forest hornbill endemic to the West Visayas, surviving mainly…
Winchell's kingfisher · Todiramphus winchelli (scientific name)
The Rufous-lored Kingfisher (Todiramphus winchelli), also called Winchell's kingfisher, is a striking, forest-dwelling kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, where it…
Rula Autoteknik Automotive Care Services · Rula Autoteknik Davao
Rula Autoteknik is an auto shop in Davao City, Philippines, operating on Cabantian Road since 2023. The shop positions itself…
A.M. No. 08-8-7-SC — the docket-style short form · The small claims rule — the practitioners' name
The Rule of Procedure for Small Claims Cases (A.M. No. 08-8-7-SC) is the Philippine Supreme Court's special procedure for the…
Ruperto K. Kangleon · Ruperto Kangleón (accented styling)
Ruperto Cadava Kangleon (March 27, 1890, Macrohon, Leyte – February 27, 1958, Manila) was a Filipino military officer and guerrilla…
Undercoating · Underseal
Rustproofing is the prevention or delay of rusting of iron and steel objects, usually through surface finishing or coating, and…
Ruy Lopez de Villalobos
Ruy López de Villalobos (c. 1500, Málaga, Andalusia — died 1546, Ambon, Moluccas) was a Spanish navigator whose 1542–1543 expedition…
Oral Semaglutide · Rybelsus Tablets
Rybelsus is a brand name for a once-daily oral semaglutide tablet indicated for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.…
"Sa Ugoy ng Duyan" ("The Swing of the Cradle") is a Filipino lullaby composed by Lucio D. San Pedro with…
Sabang is a coastal barangay of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, serving as the gateway to the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River…
Municipality of Sabangan · Sabangan Mountain Province
Sabangan, officially the Municipality of Sabangan, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
Municipality of Sablan · Sablan Benguet
Sablan, officially the Municipality of Sablan, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
SPPF · Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm reservation
The Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm (SPPF) is a prison and agricultural penal colony operated by the Bureau of Corrections…
Sablayan, officially the Municipality of Sablayan, is a municipality in Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, with about 91,406 people per the 2024…
Sabtang Island is one of the three main inhabited islands of Batanes province, Philippines, lying southwest of the provincial capital…
Municipality of Sadanga · Sadanga Mountain Province
Sadanga, officially the Municipality of Sadanga, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
The Safe Spaces Act (Republic Act No. 11313, 2019), popularly called the "Bawal Bastos" Law, penalizes gender-based sexual harassment in…
Safe Spaces Act · Bawal Bastos Law
The Safe Streets and Public Spaces Act (Republic Act No. 11313), popularly called the Bawal Bastos Law, is a Philippine…
Republic Act No. 8800 · RA 8800
The Safeguard Measures Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 8800, an act protecting local industries by providing…
Town of hanging coffins · Echo Valley town
Sagada is a fifth-class municipality in Mountain Province, Philippines, perched about 1,500 meters high in the Cordillera Central. It is…
Municipality of Sagada · Sagada Mountain Province
Sagada, officially the Municipality of Sagada, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
City of Sagay · Sagay
Sagay, officially the City of Sagay, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. Located on the…
Sagayan is a war dance of the Maguindanao and Maranao peoples of Mindanao, Philippines, performed by male dancers wielding kris…
Sagayan war dance · Kampilan dance (informal)
Sagayan is a traditional war dance of the Maguindanao and Maranao peoples of Mindanao, Philippines, performed by male dancers in…
Sagbayan · Municipality of Sagbayan
Sagbayan, officially the Municipality of Sagbayan, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Diwas (bundled form) · Bamboo panpipes
The saggeypo is a set of graduated bamboo pipes of the Kalinga people of the northern Philippines, each pipe closed…
Municipality of Sagñay · Sagñay Camarines Sur
Sagñay, officially the Municipality of Sagñay, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
The sago palm (Metroxylon sagu) is a stout, multi-purpose palm of Southeast Asia and Melanesia whose trunk pith yields sago…
Sago at gulaman · Gulaman at sago
Sago't gulaman is a traditional Philippine cold drink made with sago (small tapioca pearls) and gulaman (jelly, usually agar derived…
Municipality of Saguday · Saguday Quirino
Saguday, officially the Municipality of Saguday, is a municipality in the province of Quirino, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Saguiaran · Saguiaran Lanao del Sur
Saguiaran, officially the Municipality of Saguiaran, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
The EDCA case — the standard shorthand in commentary · Saguisag v. Ochoa, Jr. — styling in some reports
Saguisag v. Ochoa, G.R. Nos. 212426 and 212444 (January 12, 2016), is the en banc decision of the Supreme Court…
Municipality of Saint Bernard · Saint Bernard Southern Leyte
Saint Bernard, officially the Municipality of Saint Bernard, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the…
SLU · San Luis University (colloquial)
Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Catholic university in Baguio City founded in 1911 by Belgian missionaries of the…
The May 2 Uprising — the section title the reference record uses · Sakdal revolt — usage in Philippine historiography
The Sakdal Uprising was the two-day Philippine peasant rising of May 2–3, 1935, in which followers of the Sakdalista movement…
Sakdal · Sakdalista
The Sakdalista movement — formally the Lapiang Sakdal (Sakdal Party), organized in mid-October 1933 — was a left-wing Filipino nationalist…
Sakdal Revolt of 1935 · May 1935 Sakdal uprising
The Sakdalista Uprising was a short-lived armed revolt by members and supporters of the Sakdal movement on the night of…
Saksi: GMA Headline Balita (launch-era title) · Saksi: Liga ng Katotohanan (later full title)
Saksi (Tagalog for "witness") is the Filipino-language late-night newscast of GMA Network, first aired on October 2, 1995 and on…
Filipino ginger tea · Ginger brew
Salabat is Filipino ginger tea, a hot brew of sliced fresh ginger root boiled in water and sweetened with sugar,…
Salad Bowl of the Philippines · Province of Benguet
The term Salad Bowl (specifically the Salad Bowl of the Philippines) is the official agricultural designation for the province of…
Salacot (variant spelling) · Native hat (colonial-era usage)
A salakot is a traditional Philippine wide-brimmed head covering woven from rattan, bamboo, nito vine, palm leaves, or gourd, typically…
Municipality of Salay · Salay Misamis Oriental
Salay, officially the Municipality of Salay, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Salcedo · Salcedo Eastern Samar
Salcedo, officially the Municipality of Salcedo, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
2-Hydroxybenzoic acid · Beta Hydroxy Acid (BHA)
Salicylic Acid is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its…
The Salinas Natural Monument is a protected area of saline springs and forested mountains in the towns of Bambang, Kayapa,…
Municipality of Sallapadan · Sallapadan Abra
Sallapadan, officially the Municipality of Sallapadan, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
A salted duck egg is a preserved food product made by soaking duck eggs in brine or packing each egg…
The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), called buwaya in Filipino, is the world's largest living reptile, males reaching over six meters,…
Salubong (Filipino for "welcome" or "meeting") is the Easter dawn ritual of the Philippines in which statues of the Risen…
Henerala Salud — the styling her commemoration uses · Salud Algabre Generalla — her married name (husband Severo Generalla)
Salud Algabre (born c. 1896, Cabuyao, Laguna — died May 2, 1979, Manila), remembered as "Henerala Salud," was the Filipina…
Municipality of Salug · Salug Zamboanga del Norte
Salug, officially the Municipality of Salug, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Jute mallow · Jews mallow (English trade name)
Saluyot is the Filipino name for Corchorus olitorius, a leafy green vegetable whose mucilaginous cooked leaves are a staple of…
Municipality of Salvador · Salvador Lanao del Norte
Salvador, officially the Municipality of Salvador, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Municipality of Salvador Benedicto · Salvador Benedicto Negros Occidental
Salvador Benedicto, officially the Municipality of Salvador Benedicto, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the…
Salvador "Doy" Laurel — the familiar form by which the era knew him · Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel — full name; the styling carried in the Library of Congress heading
Salvador Laurel (Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel; November 18, 1928, Paco, Manila – January 27, 2004, Atherton, California), known throughout Philippine…
Salvador Ponce Lopez · Salvador Lopez
Salvador P. Lopez (Salvador Ponce Lopez; May 27, 1911, Currimao, Ilocos Norte – October 18, 1993, Manila) was a Filipino…
Bajau Laut · Palauh (in Sulu)
The Sama Dilaut are the sea-based subgroup of the Sama-Bajau peoples of the Philippines, historically living aboard houseboats (lepa) across…
The Sama-Bajau are Austronesian seafaring peoples traditionally living in houseboats and stilt villages across the Sulu Archipelago, coastal Mindanao, Sabah,…
The Sama-Bajau are an Austronesian people of the Sulu archipelago and neighboring seas who were historically boat-dwelling sea nomads, and…
The Samal are an Austronesian ethnolinguistic group of the Sulu Archipelago and Davao Gulf, Philippines, concentrated on the Island Garden…
Samal Island is an island in the Davao Gulf separated from Davao City by a narrow channel, and it constitutes…
The Samal are a Sama-speaking Muslim ethnolinguistic group of the southern Philippines, historically concentrated in the coastal waters of the…
Samaon Sulaiman (1953–2011) was a Maguindanao master of the kutyapi, the two-stringed plucked lute of the Maguindanao and Maranao peoples,…
Visayan cobra (informal regional name) · Southern Philippine spitting cobra (descriptive name)
The Samar cobra (Naja samarensis) is a stocky, mostly dark spitting cobra endemic to the central and southern Philippines, recorded…
Visayan tarictic hornbill · Samar tarictic
The Samar Hornbill (Penelopides samarensis), also known as the Visayan tarictic hornbill, is a medium-sized hornbill endemic to the eastern…
The Samar Island Natural Park is the Philippines' largest terrestrial protected area, covering roughly 333,000 hectares of lowland and upland…
Province of Samar · Samar
Samar, officially the Province of Samar (formerly Western Samar), is a province in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines,…
The Samar Sea is a small sea of the Philippine archipelago between the Bicol Region of Luzon and the Eastern…
Sambali · Zambal
The Sambal are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the Zambales coastal plain and mountains on the western side of Luzon,…
Sambawan Island is a small, rugged island off the coast of Maripipi in Biliran Province, Philippines, known for its forested…
Municipality of Samboan · Samboan Cebu
Samboan, officially the Municipality of Samboan, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Sambong leaves · Ngai camphor
Sambong (Blumea balsamifera L.) is a tropical, aromatic, and hairy shrub native to the Philippines. It is officially recognized as…
Sampaguita Pictures Inc. · Sampaguita Productions
Sampaguita Pictures was one of the major Philippine film studios of the country's first golden age of cinema, operating mainly…
Municipality of Sampaloc · Sampaloc Quezon
Sampaloc, officially the Municipality of Sampaloc, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Lake Sampaloc · Sampalok Lake (variant spelling)
Sampaloc Lake is the largest and most prominent of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, a cluster of volcanic crater…
Tamarind (English) · Sampaloc (Tagalog spelling; also a district of Manila and several barangays named for the tree)
Sampalok is the Filipino name for the tamarind (Tamarindus indica), a large legume tree of African origin long naturalized across…
Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustín — the formal name carried by the UNESCO inscription · Church of Saint Paul of Manila — the original designation of the 1607 structure
San Agustín Church, formally the Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustín and originally named the Church of Saint…
San Agustin Church, Intramuros · Iglesia de San Agustín
San Agustin Church, located inside Intramuros, Manila, is the oldest stone church in the Philippines, completed by the Augustinians in…
San Agustin is a fourth-income class municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 277.28 square kilometers, it has…
Municipality of San Andres · San Andres Catanduanes
San Andres, officially the Municipality of San Andres, is a municipality in the province of Catanduanes, located within the Bicol…
Municipality of San Antonio · San Antonio Northern Samar
San Antonio, officially the Municipality of San Antonio, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the…
Nao San Antonio — her designation in the fleet lists · St. Anthony — the English form used in the Stanley translation of Pigafetta
The San Antonio (often styled the nao San Antonio) was the largest of the five ships with which Ferdinand Magellan's…
San Beda College · El Colegio de San Beda
San Beda University is a private Catholic research university run by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Our Lady…
Municipality of San Benito · San Benito Surigao del Norte
San Benito, officially the Municipality of San Benito, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within…
Estrecho de San Bernardino (Spanish historical name) · Matnog-Allen Passage (ferry-route usage)
The San Bernardino Strait is a narrow sea passage in the Philippines separating the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon from the…
San Carlos City · Lungsod ng San Carlos
San Carlos in the Philippines refers primarily to two distinct, prominent component cities situated in different regions of the archipelago:…
City of San Carlos · San Carlos City Pangasinan
San Carlos, officially the City of San Carlos, is a component city in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. It is…
San Carlos City · San Carlos Bioenergy City
San Carlos is a component city in northeastern Negros Occidental, Philippines, facing the Tanon Strait and the neighboring island of…
Municipality of San Clemente · San Clemente Tarlac
San Clemente, officially the Municipality of San Clemente, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central…
San Antonio (original name as a trading ship, before conversion and renaming in 1600) · The San Diego galleon
The San Diego was a Spanish Manila galleon that sank on December 14, 1600 off Fortune Island, Nasugbu, Batangas, during…
Municipality of San Dionisio · San Dionisio Iloilo
San Dionisio, officially the Municipality of San Dionisio, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western…
Municipality of San Emilio · San Emilio Ilocos Sur
San Emilio, officially the Municipality of San Emilio, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the…
Municipality of San Enrique · San Enrique Negros Occidental
San Enrique, officially the Municipality of San Enrique, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the…
Municipality of San Esteban · San Esteban Ilocos Sur
San Esteban, officially the Municipality of San Esteban, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the…
Municipality of San Fabian · San Fabian Pangasinan
San Fabian, officially the Municipality of San Fabian, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos…
Municipality of San Felipe · San Felipe Zambales
San Felipe, officially the Municipality of San Felipe, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central…
Municipality of San Fernando · San Fernando Bukidnon
San Fernando, officially the Municipality of San Fernando, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern…
Pyestang Tugak · Tugak Festival
The San Fernando Frog Festival, known locally as Pyestang Tugak, is an annual festival in the City of San Fernando,…
City of San Fernando · San Fernando
San Fernando, officially the City of San Fernando, is a component city and the provincial capital of Pampanga, Philippines. It…
Surfing Capital of Northern Luzon (jointly with San Juan, La Union) · Capital City of La Union
San Fernando, officially the City of San Fernando, is a component city and the capital of La Union province in…
Municipality of San Francisco · San Francisco Surigao del Norte
San Francisco, officially the Municipality of San Francisco, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within…
San Francisco is a first-class municipality in Agusan del Sur, Caraga, formed in the 1960s and serving as a trading…
Municipality of San Gabriel · San Gabriel La Union
San Gabriel, officially the Municipality of San Gabriel, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the…
Municipality of San Guillermo · San Guillermo Isabela
San Guillermo, officially the Municipality of San Guillermo, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan…
Municipality of San Ildefonso · San Ildefonso Bulacan
San Ildefonso, officially the Municipality of San Ildefonso, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, located within the Central…
Municipality of San Isidro · San Isidro Surigao del Norte
San Isidro, officially the Municipality of San Isidro, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within…
Municipality of San Jacinto · San Jacinto Masbate
San Jacinto, officially the Municipality of San Jacinto, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol…
Municipality of San Joaquin · San Joaquin Iloilo
San Joaquin, officially the Municipality of San Joaquin, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western…
Municipality of San Jorge · San Jorge Samar
San Jorge, officially the Municipality of San Jorge, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern…
City of San Jose · San Jose City
San Jose, officially the City of San Jose, is a component city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. Located…
Municipality of San Jose de Buan · San Jose de Buan Samar
San Jose de Buan, officially the Municipality of San Jose de Buan, is a municipality in the province of Samar,…
Municipality of San Jose de Buenavista · San Jose de Buenavista
San Jose de Buenavista, officially the Municipality of San Jose de Buenavista, is a first-class municipality and the capital of…
San Jose del Monte City · SJDM
San Jose del Monte is a first-income-class component city in Bulacan province, Philippines, and one of the most populous cities…
Municipality of San Jose · San Jose, Dinagat Islands
San Jose, officially the Municipality of San Jose, is a fourth-class municipality and the capital of the province of Dinagat…
City of San Jose · San Jose City
San Jose, officially the City of San Jose, is a component city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. Located…
Pandurucan (indigenous name) · San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
San Jose is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of Occidental Mindoro in the Mimaropa region of the Philippines. Though…
Municipality of San Juan del Monte (former name) · City of San Juan
San Juan, officially the City of San Juan (Filipino: Lungsod ng San Juan), is a highly urbanized city in Metro…
Municipality of San Juan · San Juan La Union
San Juan, officially the Municipality of San Juan, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the…
Municipality of San Juan · San Juan Southern Leyte
San Juan, officially the Municipality of San Juan, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the…
San Juan River · San Juan Creek (informal usage)
The San Juan River is a heavily urbanized tributary of the Pasig River that drains parts of Quezon City, San…
The San Juanico Bridge is the longest bridge in the Philippines, spanning 2.16 kilometers (1.34 miles) across the San Juanico…
Estrecho de San Juanico — the Spanish designation, carried as the Spanish Wikipedia article's title · The San Juanico channel — the navigational styling
San Juanico Strait (Spanish Estrecho de San Juanico) is the narrow channel of the Eastern Visayas, Philippines, that separates the…
Municipality of San Julian · San Julian Eastern Samar
San Julian, officially the Municipality of San Julian, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the…
Municipality of San Leonardo · San Leonardo Nueva Ecija
San Leonardo, officially the Municipality of San Leonardo, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the…
Municipality of San Lorenzo · San Lorenzo Guimaras
San Lorenzo, officially the Municipality of San Lorenzo, is a municipality in the province of Guimaras, located within the Western…
Municipality of San Lorenzo Ruiz · San Lorenzo Ruiz Camarines Norte
San Lorenzo Ruiz, officially the Municipality of San Lorenzo Ruiz, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Norte, located…
Municipality of San Luis · San Luis Agusan del Sur
San Luis, officially the Municipality of San Luis, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, located within…
Municipality of San Manuel · San Manuel Tarlac
San Manuel, officially the Municipality of San Manuel, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central…
Municipality of San Marcelino · San Marcelino Zambales
San Marcelino, officially the Municipality of San Marcelino, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central…
Municipality of San Mariano · San Mariano Isabela
San Mariano, officially the Municipality of San Mariano, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan…
San Mateo is a first-class agricultural municipality in Isabela province, Philippines, in the Cagayan Valley. Known as one of the…
Municipality of San Mateo · San Mateo Rizal
San Mateo, officially the Municipality of San Mateo, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON…
Municipality of San Miguel · San Miguel Surigao del Sur
San Miguel, officially the Municipality of San Miguel, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, located within…
Ragay Gulf's northern neighbor (informal geographic pairing) · Look ng San Miguel (Filipino usage)
San Miguel Bay is a large, shallow bay on the Pacific side of southeastern Luzon, lying along the boundary between…
San Miguel Pale Pilsen · SMB
San Miguel Beer is the flagship pale lager of the Philippine brewing industry, first brewed in 1890 by La Fábrica…
SMB (PBA basketball team) · The Beermen
San Miguel Beermen is the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) franchise of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) group — the league's…
San Miguel Brewery, Inc. is the Philippines' largest brewery, a subsidiary of San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc. jointly held…
SMB · San Miguel Breweries
San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) is the largest brewer in the Philippines and the operating company behind San Miguel Pale…
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is one of the largest and most diversified conglomerates in the Philippines. Founded in 1890 as…
San Miguel Food and Beverage · SMFB
San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc. (SMFB) is the listed food-and-beverage arm of San Miguel Corporation (SMC), the Philippine conglomerate…
San Miguel Beer (generic common name) · San Miguel (short form)
San Miguel Pale Pilsen is the flagship pale lager of San Miguel Brewery Inc., sold at 5% alcohol by volume…
Municipality of San Narciso · San Narciso Quezon
San Narciso, officially the Municipality of San Narciso, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON…
Municipality of San Nicolas · San Nicolas Batangas
San Nicolas, officially the Municipality of San Nicolas, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON…
City of San Pablo · City of Seven Lakes
San Pablo, officially the City of San Pablo, is a component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. Recognized as…
City of Seven Lakes · San Pablo City
San Pablo is a component city in southern Laguna, Calabarzon, Philippines, known as the "City of Seven Lakes" for the…
Municipality of San Pascual · San Pascual Masbate
San Pascual, officially the Municipality of San Pascual, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol…
1. Definition San Pedro, officially the City of San Pedro, is a component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines.…
Davao Cathedral (the common name and the Wikipedia article title) · Metropolitan Cathedral of San Pedro
San Pedro Cathedral — widely known as the Davao Cathedral and styled the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Pedro — is…
SPC · San Pedro College of Davao
San Pedro College (SPC) is a private, Catholic higher-education institution in Davao City, Philippines, administered under the Dominican tradition and…
The San Pedro Cutud Lenten Rites are an annual reenactment of the Passion of Christ held in Barangay San Pedro…
San Pedro City · "Sampaguita Town" (informal, flower farms)
San Pedro is a first-income-class component city in Laguna, Philippines, at the northernmost tip of Laguna, immediately south of Metro…
Municipality of San Policarpo · San Policarpo Eastern Samar
San Policarpo, officially the Municipality of San Policarpo, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the…
Municipality of San Quintin · San Quintin Pangasinan
San Quintin, officially the Municipality of San Quintin, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos…
Municipality of San Rafael · San Rafael Iloilo
San Rafael, officially the Municipality of San Rafael, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western…
San Ramon Penal Colony · San Ramon Prison
San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm is a prison and penal farm operated by the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) at…
Municipality of San Remigio · San Remigio Cebu
San Remigio, officially the Municipality of San Remigio, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central…
Municipality of San Ricardo · San Ricardo Southern Leyte
San Ricardo, officially the Municipality of San Ricardo, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the…
Municipality of San Roque · San Roque Northern Samar
San Roque, officially the Municipality of San Roque, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the…
San Roque Multipurpose Project (SRMP) · San Roque Hydroelectric Power Plant
San Roque Dam is a 200-meter-high central clay core rockfill dam on the Agno River spanning the municipalities of San…
SRPC — the corporate abbreviation · The San Roque BOT company — the build-operate-transfer styling
San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC) is the Philippine special-purpose company, incorporated in the Philippines in October 1997, that financed, built,…
Municipality of San Sebastian · San Sebastian Samar
San Sebastian, officially the Municipality of San Sebastian, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern…
San Sebastian Basilica · San Sebastian Church (Manila)
The San Sebastián Basilica — officially the Minor Basilica and Parish of San Sebastián, also the Shrine of Our Lady…
The Basilica Minore of San Sebastian is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Quiapo, Manila, Philippines — the only all-steel…
San Sebastian Church, formally the Minor Basilica of San Sebastian, is a Gothic-revival Catholic church in Quiapo, Manila, Philippines, completed…
Municipality of San Simon · San Simon Pampanga
San Simon, officially the Municipality of San Simon, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central…
Municipality of San Teodoro · San Teodoro Oriental Mindoro
San Teodoro, officially the Municipality of San Teodoro, is a municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, located within the…
Municipality of San Vicente · San Vicente Northern Samar
San Vicente, officially the Municipality of San Vicente, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the…
San Vicente Palawan · Home of Long Beach
San Vicente is a municipality on the northwestern coast of Palawan province in the Philippines, known for Long Beach, a…
Municipality of Sanchez-Mira · Sanchez-Mira Cagayan
Sanchez-Mira, officially the Municipality of Sanchez-Mira, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Sandayo is the epic of the Subanon people of the Zamboanga peninsula, chronicling the miraculous birth, sea journeys, battles, and…
The sandfish sea cucumber (Holothuria scabra) is a tropical shallow-water sea cucumber that burrows in sandy flats and seagrass beds,…
Sandigan · Anti-graft court (of the Philippines)
The Sandiganbayan is the Philippines' special collegiate anti-graft court, holding jurisdiction over criminal and civil cases involving graft and corrupt…
The Sandugo was a blood compact (dugo meaning blood) held on March 16, 1565, between the Bohol chieftain Datu Sikatuna…
Sandugo — the Visayan "one blood" ritual from which the festival takes its name · Bohol Sandugo Festival — the styling carried by the organizing Bohol Sandugo Foundation, Inc.
The Sandugo Festival is an annual historical celebration held every July in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, commemorating the sandugo — Visayan…
Sanga-Sanga Airport is a domestic airport serving Bongao, the capital of Tawi-Tawi province, Philippines. Sited on Sanga-Sanga Island just across…
Sanggumay (Dendrobium anosmum) is a large, pendulous epiphytic orchid native to the Philippines and Southeast Asia, prized in Philippine gardens…
The Sangir (also Sangirese) are an Austronesian people native to the Sangir Islands chain straddling the maritime border between Indonesia…
The Sangir (Sangirese) are an Austronesian people originating from the Sangir and Talaud island chain between Mindanao and North Sulawesi,…
sangleys · sangleyes
Sangley (English plural sangleys; Spanish plural sangleyes) is the archaic term used in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era…
First Sangley Rebellion · Sangley Rebellion of 1603
The Sangley Rebellion — also called the First Sangley Rebellion — was the rising of Manila's Chinese residents, the sangleys…
Sangyaw (short form) · Festival of Lights of Tacloban (tourism tag)
The Sangyaw Festival is a religious and cultural festival of Tacloban City held in late June in honor of the…
Sans rival is a Filipino layered cake made of thin meringue wafers—traditionally studded with cashews—stacked with rich French-style buttercream to…
Municipality of Santa · Santa Ilocos Sur
Santa, officially the Municipality of Santa, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Santa Ana is a coastal municipality in northeastern Cagayan province, Philippines, at the mouth of the Cagayan River system facing…
Municipality of Santa Ana · Santa Ana Pampanga
Santa Ana, officially the Municipality of Santa Ana, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central…
Municipality of Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara Iloilo
Santa Barbara, officially the Municipality of Santa Barbara, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western…
Municipality of Santa Catalina · Santa Catalina Negros Oriental
Santa Catalina, officially the Municipality of Santa Catalina, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the…
Municipality of Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, officially the Municipality of Santa Cruz, is a first-class municipality and the provincial capital of Laguna, Philippines. Located…
Northern gateway of Davao del Sur to Davao City · Banana and coconut-processing municipality of the Davao metropolitan fringe
Santa Cruz, officially the Municipality of Santa Cruz, is a first-class municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines,…
Isla de Mayhaligue — the "island of Mayhaligue," the early Spanish-era name of the land awarded to the Jesuits in 1581 ([Wikipedia — Santa Cruz, Manila](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_Manila "Santa Cruz, Manila — Wikipedia")) · Hacienda de Mayhaligue — the estate of roughly two square kilometers granted by King Carlos III on June 24, 1784 to San Lázaro Hospital ([Wikipedia — Santa Cruz, Manila](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_Manila "Santa Cruz, Manila — Wikipedia"))
Santa Cruz is a district of northern Manila, on the right bank of the Pasig River near its mouth —…
Municipality of Santa Elena · Santa Elena Camarines Norte
Santa Elena, officially the Municipality of Santa Elena, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Norte, located within the…
Santa Fe, officially the Municipality of Santa Fe, is the southern gateway municipality of Bantayan Island in the province of…
Santa Fe is a fifth-income-class municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, established as an independent town on 10 October…
Municipality of Santa Ignacia · Santa Ignacia Tarlac
Santa Ignacia, officially the Municipality of Santa Ignacia, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, located within the Central…
Municipality of Santa Josefa · Santa Josefa Agusan del Sur
Santa Josefa, officially the Municipality of Santa Josefa, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, located within…
Municipality of Santa Lucia · Santa Lucia Ilocos Sur
Santa Lucia, officially the Municipality of Santa Lucia, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the…
Municipality of Santa Magdalena · Santa Magdalena Sorsogon
Santa Magdalena, officially the Municipality of Santa Magdalena, is a municipality in the province of Sorsogon, located within the Bicol…
Municipality of Santa Marcela · Santa Marcela Apayao
Santa Marcela, officially the Municipality of Santa Marcela, is a municipality in the province of Apayao, located within the Cordillera…
Municipality of Santa Margarita · Santa Margarita Samar
Santa Margarita, officially the Municipality of Santa Margarita, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern…
Santa Maria, Bulacan · Sta. Maria, Bulacan
Santa Maria is a first-income-class urban municipality in Bulacan province, Philippines, immediately north of Metro Manila along the Valenzuela corridor.…
Municipality of Santa Maria · Santa Maria Davao Occidental
Santa Maria, officially the Municipality of Santa Maria, is a municipality in the province of Davao Occidental, located within the…
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption — the serial listing's name · Minor Basilica and Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Assumption — the current formal title
Santa Maria Church, formally the Minor Basilica and Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Assumption, is the hilltop church…
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (Santa Maria) · Santa Maria Church of the Assumption
Santa Maria Church, formally the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, is a 16th-century…
Municipality of Santa Monica · Santa Monica Surigao del Norte
Santa Monica, officially the Municipality of Santa Monica, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within…
Municipality of Santa Praxedes · Santa Praxedes Cagayan
Santa Praxedes, officially the Municipality of Santa Praxedes, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan…
Municipality of Santa Rita · Santa Rita Samar
Santa Rita, officially the Municipality of Santa Rita, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern…
Sta. Rosa, Laguna · Santa Rosa, Laguna
Santa Rosa, officially the City of Santa Rosa, is a component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. Located 38…
Santa Teresita is a fifth-income-class municipality in Batangas, Philippines, created on December 28, 1961 through Executive Order No. 454 signed…
Santacruzan is a Philippine religious-historical procession held at the climax of Flores de Mayo in May, commemorating the finding of…
Municipality of Santander · Santander Cebu
Santander, officially the Municipality of Santander, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
City of Santiago · Santiago City
Santiago, officially the City of Santiago, is an independent component city in the province of Isabela, Philippines. It is the…
Municipality of Santiago · Santiago Agusan del Norte
Santiago, officially the Municipality of Santiago, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Kidlat ng Apoy — his Katipunan nom de guerre, "Lightning of Fire" (Spanish: Rayo de Fuego) · Apoy — the signature he placed on the Acta de Tejeros and the Naic Military Agreement
Santiago Álvarez (July 25, 1872, Imus, Cavite – October 30, 1930, San Pablo, Laguna) was a Filipino revolutionary general —…
Don Santiago Artiaga — the styling of the UST engineering deans' table · City Engineer Artiaga — his designation in the Manila records
Santiago Artiaga (1878–1962) was a Filipino engineer and colonial-era official — "one of the first pensionados," the American-period state scholars…
Municipality of Santo Domingo · Santo Domingo Albay
Santo Domingo, officially the Municipality of Santo Domingo, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol…
Santo Niño de Cebú · Holy Child of Cebu
The Santo Niño, most famously venerated as the Santo Niño de Cebú, is a historic wooden statue of the Child…
Municipality of Santo Niño · Santo Niño South Cotabato
Santo Niño, officially the Municipality of Santo Niño, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the…
City of Santo Tomas · Santo Tomas Batangas
Santo Tomas, officially the City of Santo Tomas, is a component city in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located at…
Municipality of Santo Tomas · Santo Tomas Davao del Norte
Santo Tomas, officially the Municipality of Santo Tomas, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Norte, located within…
Manila Internment Camp
The Santo Tomas Internment Camp — also recorded as the Manila Internment Camp — was the largest of the Japanese-run…
Cotton fruit · Krathon (Thai)
Santol is the round, baseball-sized fruit of Sandoricum koetjape, a tree of the mahogany family grown across the Philippines for…
Municipality of Santol · Santol La Union
Santol, officially the Municipality of Santol, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Santos Ave · Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA)
In the Philippines, Santos Avenue refers to several major, economically vital transportation corridors named in honor of prominent historical figures.…
Salus Per Aquam · Health Through Water
Sanus Per Aquam, often cited alternatively as Salus Per Aquam or Sanitas Per Aquam, is a Latin phrase translating literally…
Municipality of Sapa-Sapa · Sapa-Sapa Tawi-Tawi
Sapa-Sapa, officially the Municipality of Sapa-Sapa, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Sapad · Sapad Lanao del Norte
Sapad, officially the Municipality of Sapad, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
Municipality of Sapang Dalaga · Sapang Dalaga Misamis Occidental
Sapang Dalaga, officially the Municipality of Sapang Dalaga, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the…
Sapian is a small coastal municipality in Capiz province, Western Visayas, Philippines, lying along the boundary with Aklan and fronting…
Municipality of Sapian · Sapian Capiz
Sapian, officially the Municipality of Sapian, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Sapinsapin · Layered rice cake
Sapin-sapin is a Filipino steamed rice cake made from glutinous rice flour (galapong), coconut milk, and sugar, distinguished by its…
Municipality of Sara · Sara Iloilo
Sara, officially the Municipality of Sara, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Inday Sara — the standing nickname of her Davao years · Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio — full name
Sara Duterte (in full Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio; born May 31, 1978, Davao City; nicknamed Inday Sara) is a Filipino lawyer…
Sarakiki (dance reference) · Calbayog City fiesta festival
The Sarakiki Festival is the fiesta festival of Calbayog City in Samar, Philippines, celebrated in honor of the city's patron,…
Municipality of Sarangani · Sarangani Davao Occidental
Sarangani, officially the Municipality of Sarangani, is a municipality in the province of Davao Occidental, located within the Davao Region…
Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape · SBPS
Sarangani Bay is a deep-water bay located at the southern tip of Mindanao island in the Philippines. Connected to the…
Sarangani Balut Island group (collective usage) · Isla de Sarangani (historical Spanish-era usage)
Sarangani Island is a small island of the Balut and Sarangani group at the southwestern tip of the Davao Region,…
Province of Sarangani · Sarangani
Sarangani, officially the Province of Sarangani, is a province located in the Soccsksargen region of Mindanao, Philippines. The province is…
The Sarangay is a creature of Visayan mythology usually described as a humanoid with the head and horns of a…
Sarao · Sarao Motors, Inc.
Sarao Motors is a Filipino automotive manufacturing company based in Pulang Lupa, Las Piñas, Metro Manila, and the most famous…
SOX · Sarbanes-Oxley
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 — formally Pub. L. 107–204, 116 Stat. 745, enacted July 30, 2002, cited either by…
Sarangani Bay Festival · Sarbay
The Sarbay Festival, short for Sarangani Bay Festival, is the largest beach festival in Mindanao, held annually during the summer…
Muscle Wasting during Weight Loss · Lean Mass Loss
Sarcopenia is a progressive and generalized skeletal muscle disorder characterized by the accelerated loss of muscle mass, strength, and physical…
Philippine sardinella (no widely established common name; marketed together with related species as tamban)
Sardinella pacifica is a species of marine sardine of the herring family Clupeidae, endemic to the waters of the Philippines.…
Sardinella tawilis, commonly called tawilis, is a small freshwater sardine endemic to Taal Lake in Batangas, Philippines, and the only…
Municipality of Sariaya · Sariaya
Sariaya, officially the Municipality of Sariaya, is a first-class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. Situated between Mount Banahaw…
Sariaya is a first-income-class municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, founded in 1599. Known as the "Heritage Town of Quezon" and…
Anahaw (Filipino common name; national leaf symbol) · Round-leaf fountain palm (horticultural English name)
Saribus rotundifolius, commonly called anahaw in the Philippines (and known horticulturally as the round-leaf fountain palm or footstool palm), is…
Bird of fortune · Maranao legendary fowl
The sarimanok is the legendary bird of Maranao art and lore: a flamboyant, fantastical fowl depicted with sweeping tail plumes…
Municipality of Sarrat · Sarrat Ilocos Norte
Sarrat, officially the Municipality of Sarrat, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Sarsiado is a Filipino fish dish in which pan-fried fish is simmered in a savory sauce of tomatoes, onions, garlic…
The sarswela is the Philippine adaptation of the Spanish zarzuela, a lyric-dramatic genre that alternates spoken scenes with sung numbers…
The Sarung Banggi Festival is the annual fiesta of Santo Domingo, Albay, held in May in honor of the town's…
Sasmuan is a fourth income-class coastal municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, situated along Manila Bay at…
Municipality of Sasmuan · Sasmuan Pampanga
Sasmuan, officially the Municipality of Sasmuan, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Appetite regulation · Satiety control
Satiety Regulation is the complex physiological process by which the body controls the sensation of fullness, appetite, and energy intake.…
Satti is a Tausug and Sama dish of small skewers of marinated meat (usually beef or chicken) grilled over coals…
Filipino dipping sauces · Philippine condiments
Sawsawan is the Philippine practice and repertoire of dipping sauces and condiments served alongside cooked food, allowing each diner to…
Liraglutide Injection (Saxenda) · Daily Liraglutide for Weight Management
Saxenda is a brand name for once-daily subcutaneous injectable liraglutide approved for chronic weight management. It is indicated as an…
Sayak Airport is a domestic airport serving Siargao Island, located in Barangay Sayak, Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte, Philippines. The…
Sayaw sa Bangko ("dance on the bench") is a Philippine folk dance in which a couple performs balancing steps, leaps,…
Chayote · Sayote (Sechium edule)
Sayote is the Filipino name for chayote, a green, pear-shaped vegetable of the gourd family widely grown in the Philippine…
Cagayan de Oro-Bukidnon-Davao Road (CDO-Bukidnon Section) · National Route 10 (N10)
The Sayre Highway is a primary national highway in the Philippines that traverses the landlocked, mountainous province of Bukidnon in…
Scale-feathered cuckoo · Cuming's malkoha
The scale-feathered malkoha (Phaenicophaeus cumingi) is a large, striking cuckoo endemic to the Philippines, confined to Luzon, Catanduanes, and Marinduque.…
Panatag Shoal · Bajo de Masinloc
Scarborough Shoal is a triangular atoll — a chain of reefs and rocks enclosing a lagoon — located in the…
Dicaeum retrocinctum (scientific name) · Mindoro flowerpecker (descriptive name)
Scarlet-collared flowerpecker (Dicaeum retrocinctum) is a small bird of the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, about ten centimeters long, endemic to the…
First Philippine Commission — the formal designation, distinguishing it from the Second (Taft) Commission of 1900 · The Schurman Commission — the popular name from its chairman
The Schurman Commission — formally the First Philippine Commission — was the five-member investigative body President William McKinley created by…
The Science and Technology Scholarship Act of 1994, Republic Act No. 7687, established a scholarship program for talented and deserving…
Science City of Muñoz · Muñoz
Muñoz, officially the Science City of Muñoz, is a component city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. It is…
Injection therapy for varicose veins · Vein sclerotherapy
Sclerotherapy is a minimally invasive medical procedure used to treat vascular malformations, primary varicose veins, and reticular or telangiectatic (spider)…
1. Definition A scoliosis brace is a rigid or semi-rigid custom-molded orthopedic device fitted around the torso of a growing…
Balat (Filipino generic name) · Trepang or bêche-de-mer (dried export product)
Sea cucumbers are echinoderms of the class Holothuroidea, soft-bodied, elongated marine animals that live on sea floors worldwide, with the…
Lato (Filipino name) · Ar-arosep (Ilocano name)
Sea grapes (Caulerpa lentillifera), called lato or ar-arosep in the Philippines, is a species of green seaweed from coastal regions…
Seafood Capital of the Philippines · Roxas City
The term Seafood Capital refers to the city of Roxas City, the capital of the province of Capiz in the…
Seamount Philippines · Bingwit (brand/application)
Seamount Philippines Inc. is a Philippine fishing and livelihood venture associated with the Davao City enterprise ecosystem of Dalil Salam…
SEAOIL · Seaoil
Seaoil Philippines (SEAOIL Philippines, Inc.) is widely described as the largest independent fuel company in the Philippines — a position…
SEO · Organic search optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of improving the quantity and quality of traffic to a website from search…
Republic Act No. 8750 · RA 8750
The Seat Belt Use Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 8750, officially the "Seat Belts Use Act…
The Seat Belts Use Act of 1999 is a Philippine traffic safety law that requires drivers and passengers of motor…
Glandula sebacea (plural: glandulae sebaceae) · Oil gland of the skin
Sebaceous Gland refers to a microscopic exocrine gland in the skin that synthesizes and secretes sebum, an oily, waxy mixture…
Sebaste is a coastal municipality occupying the northernmost portion of Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines. Facing the Sulu Sea along…
Municipality of Sebaste · Sebaste Antique
Sebaste, officially the Municipality of Sebaste, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Baste · Baste Duterte
Sebastian Zimmerman Duterte (born November 3, 1987, Davao City), universally known as Baste, is a Filipino politician, the incumbent mayor…
Sebogenesis · Sebum Secretion
Sebum Production refers to the physiological process by which the sebaceous glands synthesize and secrete sebum, a complex lipid mixture…
Description marker: Seco Island is a small uninhabited sandbar island off the coast of Tibiao, Antique, Philippines — its name…
Second Battle of Manila · Ikalawang Labanan sa Kalookan (Filipino)
The Second Battle of Caloocan (22–24 February 1899), sometimes called the Second Battle of Manila, was a Filipino counterattack aimed…
EDSA II — the common shorthand · EDSA Dos — the styling common in Philippine media
The Second EDSA Revolution — EDSA II or EDSA Dos — was the four-day protest uprising of January 16–20, 2001…
The 2026 impeachment of Sara Duterte — its usual date tag · House Resolution No. 989 — the instrument carrying the articles
The Second impeachment of Sara Duterte is the proceeding in which the House of Representatives of the 20th Congress impeached…
Republic of the Philippines — the official name the republic used, the reason the ordinal "Second" is historians' distinguishing label · Japanese-sponsored Republic — the descriptive styling of the occupation-era government
The Second Philippine Republic, officially the Republic of the Philippines, was the Japanese-sponsored state proclaimed at Manila on October 14,…
PCP II · Second Plenary Council
The Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II) was the plenary council of the Catholic Church in the Philippines…
Ayungin Shoal (Philippine name) · Buhanginan ng Ayungin (Filipino)
Second Thomas Shoal, known in the Philippines as Ayungin Shoal (Filipino: Buhanginan ng Ayungin, "sandbank of silver perch"), in China…
Kalihim ng Tanggulang Pambansa (Filipino) · SND — the universal Philippine abbreviation
The Secretary of National Defense (Filipino: Kalihim ng Tanggulang Pambansa) is the head of the Department of National Defense and…
Secularization movement in the Philippines · Secularization of parishes
The Secularization Movement was the campaign, running from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth, by which Filipino secular priests…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the Philippine government agency that supervises the corporate sector and the capital markets.…
SEC Philippines (disambiguating usage) · Komisyon sa Sekuridad at Palitan (Filipino rendering)
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the Philippine government agency responsible for regulating the corporate sector, the securities market,…
Security and Exchange Commission Philippines · SEC Philippines
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Philippines is the Philippine government agency responsible for the registration, regulation, and supervision of…
Republic Act No. 8799 — the statute number · Republic Act 8799
The Securities Regulation Code (Republic Act No. 8799, approved July 19, 2000) is the principal Philippine statute governing securities and…
Tenure security · Employment security
Security of Tenure refers to the guarantee that a worker or public officer may not be removed from employment or…
SELECT Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial · Semaglutide Cardiovascular Trial
The SELECT clinical trial (Semaglutide Effects on Cardiovascular Outcomes in People With Overweight or Obesity) is a landmark Phase 3…
Semaglutide (generic / INN) · Ozempic (brand for Type 2 diabetes weekly injection)
Semaglutide is a long-acting human GLP-1 receptor agonist developed by Novo Nordisk (Denmark). It is a synthetic modified peptide that…
Ozempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy (semaglutide brands) · Mounjaro, Zepbound (tirzepatide brands)
Semaglutide and tirzepatide are the two medicines that define the modern era of incretin-based therapy for type 2 diabetes and…
Semantic search optimization · Topical authority building
Semantic SEO is the practice of optimizing content for meaning and intent rather than individual keyword strings. It involves structuring…
Municipality of Sen. Ninoy Aquino · Kulaman (seat-of-government name in local usage)
The Municipality of Sen. Ninoy Aquino is an upland town in the province of Sultan Kudarat, in the SOCCSKSARGEN region…
The Senakulo (from Spanish cenáculo, "upper room") is a Philippine Lenten theatrical tradition dramatizing the passion, death, and resurrection of…
Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations — the formal name in the Senate rules and the official Senate records · Blue Ribbon Committee — the universal shorthand in Philippine media
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, formally the Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations, is the standing committee…
SET — the standard initials in Philippine legal usage · The Senate's Electoral Tribunal — the descriptive styling of the constitutional text
The Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) is the nine-member tribunal that the Constitution makes "the sole judge of all contests relating…
Philippine Senate · Philippine Senate — the common short form in news and official usage
The Senate of the Philippines is the upper chamber of the Congress of the Philippines, a 24-member body elected nationwide.…
Senate of the Philippines v. Ermita, G.R. No. 169777 (April 20, 2006), is the en banc decision of the Supreme…
Senate of the Philippines v. Eduardo R. Ermita · G.R. No. 169777 — lead docket of the consolidated petitions
Senate v. Ermita — Senate of the Philippines, et al. v. Eduardo R. Ermita, etc., G.R. No. 169777, decided En…
Municipality of Senator Ninoy Aquino · Senator Ninoy Aquino Sultan Kudarat
Senator Ninoy Aquino, officially the Municipality of Senator Ninoy Aquino, is a municipality in the province of Sultan Kudarat, located…
Sendai Framework · Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030)
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 is the United Nations agreement that sets the global agenda for preventing…
SHS · Grades 11 and 12
Senior High School (SHS) refers to the final two years of the K to 12 basic education program in the…
SHS · Grades 11 and 12
Senior High School (SHS) refers to the final two years of the K-12 basic education system in the Philippines, comprising…
SHS tracks · SHS strands
Senior High School Strands (SHS Strands) are the specialized academic and technical pathways under the Philippine K–12 basic education curriculum.…
Senna Tea · Laxative Tea
Senna leaf tea is an herbal infusion made from the leaves of plants in the genus Senna, most commonly Senna…
Kick volleyball · Takraw
Sepak takraw, sometimes called kick volleyball, is a Southeast Asian court sport in which teams of three players use their…
Separation of powers doctrine — the Philippine citation form · Separation-of-powers principle — styling in the Supreme Court's decisions
The separation of powers is the constitutional doctrine that allocates the powers of government among distinct departments — legislative, executive,…
Sergio Osmeña y Suico · Sergio Osmeña Sr.
Sergio Osmẽa Sr. (born Sergio Osmeña y Suico; September 9, 1878 – October 19, 1961) was a Filipino statesman who…
Sergio Osmeña Sr. — the styling that distinguishes him from his son, Senator Sergio Osmeña Jr. · Don Sergio — the customary honorific of his Cebuano political base
Sergio Osmeña (September 9, 1878, Cebu – October 19, 1961, Quezon City) was a Filipino statesman, the fourth President of…
Serging Osmeña · Sergio "Serging" Osmeña Jr.
Sergio Veloso Osmeña Jr. (December 4, 1916 – March 26, 1984), known throughout Philippine politics as Serging, was a Filipino…
Municipality of Sergio Osmeña Sr. · Sergio Osmeña Sr. Zamboanga del Norte
Sergio Osmeña Sr., officially the Municipality of Sergio Osmeña Sr., is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte,…
The Service Charge Act, signed on 22 August 2019, amended the Labor Code to require the full distribution of service…
Mianong — the nickname by which he was commonly known · General Servillano Aquino — his rank and style in the revolutionary service
Servillano Aquino y Aguilar (April 20, 1874 – February 3, 1959), known by his nickname Mianong, was a Filipino general…
Building Setback · Yard Requirements
Setback Regulations are zoning laws that specify the minimum distance a building or other structure must be set back from…
The Seven Lakes of San Pablo are a group of small crater and maar lakes scattered around San Pablo City…
The war of 1756–1763 · The French and Indian War — the North American theatre's own name, the Wiktionary entry's hyponym
The Seven Years' War (May 17, 1756 – February 10, 1763) was the mid-eighteenth century's "global conflict fought by numerous…
Severino Montano (1915-1980) was a Filipino playwright, director, and painter who pioneered institutional theater in the Philippines. Through the Arena…
Lola Basyang (pen name/persona) · Don Binoy
Severino Reyes (1861-1942) was a Filipino writer, playwright, and editor, celebrated as the father of Tagalog drama and immortalized as…
Municipality of Sevilla · Sevilla Bohol
Sevilla, officially the Municipality of Sevilla, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
STP · Wastewater Treatment Plant
A sewage treatment plant (commonly abbreviated as STP in building design) is an industrial facility installed in buildings or estates…
SGV — the universal short form · SyCip, Gorres, Velayo & Co. — the full firm name
SGV & Co. — in full SyCip, Gorres, Velayo & Co., originally W. SyCip & Company — is the largest…
Shakey's Pizza is an American-origin pizza chain franchised in the Philippines by Shakey's Pizza Asia Ventures, known for family-value meals…
Shakoy is a traditional Filipino deep-fried twisted doughnut made from a flour, sugar, salt, and yeast dough that is hand-stretched…
Shang Properties, Inc. · SPI
Shang Properties, Inc. (commonly referred to as Shang Properties) is a leading luxury real estate developer in the Philippines, specializing…
Shang Plaza · Shangri-La Mall
Shangri-La Plaza (commonly known as Shang) is a premium, upscale shopping mall located in Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila,…
Municipality of Shariff Aguak · Shariff Aguak Maguindanao
Shariff Aguak, officially the Municipality of Shariff Aguak, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Province of Shariff Kabunsuan · Shariff Kabunsuan Province
Shariff Kabunsuan was a province of the Philippines that existed from 2006 to 2008 within the Autonomous Region in Muslim…
Municipality of Shariff Saydona Mustapha · Shariff Saydona Mustapha Maguindanao
Shariff Saydona Mustapha, officially the Municipality of Shariff Saydona Mustapha, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within…
Sheikh Karimul Makhdum Mosque (alternate transliteration) · Tubig Indangan Mosque (location-based usage)
The Sheik Karimol Makhdum Mosque in Tubig Indangan, Simunul, Tawi-Tawi, is traditionally regarded as the site of the oldest mosque…
Shell Pilipinas Corporation · Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (PSPC, former corporate name, used 2016–2023)
Shell Philippines is the Philippine downstream business of Britain's Shell plc, operated by Shell Pilipinas Corporation (PSE: SHLPH) — the…
Win Gatchalian · Win
Sherwin Gatchalian (born April 6, 1974) — Sherwin Ting Gatchalian, universally known as Win Gatchalian — is a Filipino politician…
Shinagawa Philippines · Shinagawa Lasik & Aesthetics
Shinagawa Lasik and Aesthetics (officially Shinagawa Lasik & Aesthetics Philippines) is a leading medical center specializing in laser eye surgery…
The Shinyo Maru incident refers to the sinking of the Japanese hell ship Shinyo Maru by the American submarine USS…
Shōji Nishimura · Nishimura Shoji
Shoji Nishimura (November 30, 1889 – October 25, 1944) was a vice admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and commander…
Malling culture in the Philippines · Philippine mall industry
Shopping malls in the Philippines are among the most defining institutions of the country's urban life: the Philippines hosts more…
Shorea almon, the almon tree, is a large dipterocarp endemic to the Philippines and one of the principal red balau…
Shorea guiso, known as guiso, is a large dipterocarp rainforest tree of the red balau timber group, occurring in the…
Red lauan (trade name) · Rubroshorea negrosensis (current combination)
Shorea negrosensis, called red lauan in the timber trade and now often placed in the genus Rubroshorea by modern taxonomists,…
Hypothymis helenae (scientific name)
The short-crested monarch (Hypothymis helenae) is a brilliantly colored bird of the monarch flycatcher family (Monarchidae) endemic to the Philippines,…
Surfing Capital of the Philippines · Cloud 9 Island
Siargao is a tear-shaped tropical island in the province of Surigao del Norte, northeastern Mindanao, Philippines. It faces the Philippine…
Municipality of Siasi · Siasi Sulu
Siasi, officially the Municipality of Siasi, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Siaton · Siaton Negros Oriental
Siaton, officially the Municipality of Siaton, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Municipality of Siay · Siay Zamboanga Sibugay
Siay, officially the Municipality of Siay, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Municipality of Siayan · Siayan Zamboanga del Norte
Siayan, officially the Municipality of Siayan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Municipality of Sibagat · Sibagat Agusan del Sur
Sibagat, officially the Municipality of Sibagat, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, located within the Caraga…
Sibalom is a first-class municipality in Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, immediately inland of the provincial capital, San Jose de…
Municipality of Sibalom · Sibalom Antique
Sibalom, officially the Municipality of Sibalom, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
The Sibalom Natural Park is a protected area in Sibalom, Antique, Philippines, preserving one of the last stands of lowland…
Municipality of Sibonga · Sibonga Cebu
Sibonga, officially the Municipality of Sibonga, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Sibuco · Sibuco Zamboanga del Norte
Sibuco, officially the Municipality of Sibuco, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Sibugay Bay (variant spelling) · Look ng Sibuguey (Filipino usage)
Sibuguey Bay is a bay on the southwestern coast of Mindanao, Philippines, indenting the mainland of Zamboanga Sibugay province and…
Municipality of Sibulan · Sibulan Negros Oriental
Sibulan, officially the Municipality of Sibulan, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Municipality of Sibunag · Sibunag Guimaras
Sibunag, officially the Municipality of Sibunag, is a municipality in the province of Guimaras, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Sibutad is a fourth-income-class coastal municipality in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, facing the Bohol Sea and Murcielagos Bay in the…
Municipality of Sibutu · Sibutu Tawi-Tawi
Sibutu, officially the Municipality of Sibutu, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
The Sibutu Passage is a deep-water channel in the southwestern Philippines separating Sibutu Island (Tawi-Tawi province) from the coast of…
Sibuyan is a crescent-shaped island province of Romblon in the central Philippines, separated from Luzon by the Sibuyan Sea and…
Sibuyan is a crescent-shaped island of Romblon province, Philippines, separated from Luzon and Panay by deep waters and covering roughly…
The Sibuyan Sea is a small sea of the Philippines separating southern Luzon from the central Visayas, its waters embracing…
Sicogon Island is a hilly tropical island barangay of Carles, Iloilo, in northern Panay's island group alongside the better-known Gigantes…
Los Últimos de Filipinas · The Last of the Philippines
The Siege of Baler (1898–1899) was the 337-day encirclement of a small Spanish garrison inside the stone church of San…
Battle of Catubig · Pagkubkob sa Catubig (Filipino)
The Siege of Catubig (15–18 April 1900) was a four-day siege in Northern Samar during the Philippine–American War, in which…
Marawi Siege — the straight-name form · Battle of Marawi — the styling used in much of the military and journalistic literature
The Siege of Marawi (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Marawi; also the Marawi crisis or the Battle of Marawi) was the five-month…
"Highland Town of Eastern Bohol" · Sierra (colloquial)
Sierra Bullones is a fourth-class municipality in the interior uplands of Bohol, Philippines, in the island's central-eastern interior. The name…
Sierra Madre Mountain Range · The Sierra Madre
The Sierra Madre is the longest mountain range in the Philippines, stretching about 540 kilometres (340 mi) along the entire…
The Sierra Madre ground warbler (Robsonius thompsoni) is a small passerine bird in the family Locustellidae, endemic to the island…
Sigarilyas is the Filipino name for the winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), a climbing tropical vine whose pods bear four distinctive…
Municipality of Sigay · Sigay Ilocos Sur
Sigay, officially the Municipality of Sigay, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Sigben · Blood-sucking beast of the Visayas
The sigbin or sigben is a cryptid of Visayan and Mindanao folklore, described as a goat- or dog-like creature with…
Sigma is a third-income-class municipality in Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines. Located about 28 kilometers from Roxas City, it covers 101.71…
Sikaran (foot fighting) · Hari ng Tadyak (king of kicks, sport title)
Sikaran is a Philippine martial art centered on kicking, traditionally associated with the farming town of Baras in Rizal province.…
Municipality of Sikatuna · Sikatuna Bohol
Sikatuna, officially the Municipality of Sikatuna, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Tsokolate (Tagalog generic) · Tsokolate de tablea (formal usage)
Sikwate (from the Spanish "chocolate" via Cebuano adaptation) is the Visayan term for native hot chocolate — a thick, deeply…
Municipality of Silago · Silago Southern Leyte
Silago, officially the Municipality of Silago, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Municipality of Silang · Silang
Silang, officially the Municipality of Silang, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. Located in the eastern…
The Silang Revolt was an uprising in Ilocos from 1762 to 1763 led by Diego Silang, a native of Vigan,…
The Coffee Town of Cavite (historical) · Silang Highlands
Silang is a first-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, on the elevated Tagaytay ridge. Known for its cool climate, rolling terrain,…
City of Silay · Paris of Negrense Culture
Silay, officially the City of Silay, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. Located immediately north…
Silicon Valley · Santa Clara Valley (geographic name)
Silicon Valley is the technology-industry region centered on the Santa Clara Valley in the southern San Francisco Bay Area, California,…
Labuyo chili · Wild chili
Siling labuyo is a small, fiery-red chili pepper of the species Capsicum frutescens, traditionally grown in Philippine gardens and now…
Sylvanna (spelling variant seen in bakeries) · Frozen sans rival (functional description)
A silvana is a Filipino frozen cookie sandwich consisting of two thin, crisp meringue wafers made with cashews (sometimes pistachios…
Silvanas are frozen Filipino sandwich cookies consisting of two thin, crisp cashew-meringue wafers bound together by a rich buttercream filling,…
Alcedo argentata (scientific name) · Northern silvery kingfisher (Luzon subspecies)
The silvery kingfisher (Alcedo argentata) is a small, brilliant blue-and-white kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, where it haunts slow-flowing streams…
Municipality of Silvino Lobos · Silvino Lobos Northern Samar
Silvino Lobos, officially the Municipality of Silvino Lobos, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the…
The SIM Card Registration Act (Republic Act No. 11934) requires all subscribers of prepaid and postpaid SIM cards in the…
SIM Card Registration Act · SIM Registration Act
The SIM Registration Act, officially the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Registration Act and designated Republic Act No. 11934, is the…
SIM Card Registration Act · RA 11934
The SIM Registration Act (Republic Act No. 11934) is the Philippine law, signed on October 10, 2022, that made registration…
The Simala Church — formally the Monastery of the Holy Eucharist, also called the Simala Shrine or Simala Parish Church…
Misa de Gallo (Spanish, "Rooster's Mass") — the historic name for the dawn Masses, applied in one usage to the December 24 conclusion · Night Mass — literal English rendering of the Filipino name
Simbang Gabi — Filipino for "night Mass" — is the Philippine tradition of nine Masses held before dawn from December…
General Simeon Ola · The last holdout general of Bicol
Simeon Ola (1865–1952) was a Filipino revolutionary general from Guinobatan, Albay, remembered as the last general of the Philippine Revolution…
Simeon Toribio (1905–1969) was a Filipino high jumper from Bohol who won the Olympic bronze medal at Los Angeles 1932…
Simón de Anda y Salazar (Spanish full name) · Anda
Simon de Anda (1709-1776), fully Simón de Anda y Salazar, was a Spanish magistrate and governor-general of the Philippines remembered…
Don Simón de Anda y Salazar — the honorific styling of the Spanish record · Lieutenant Governor of the Philippines — the Audiencia's wartime designation
Simón de Anda y Salazar (October 28, 1709, Subijana, Basque Country, Spain — October 30, 1776, Hospital de San Felipe,…
Municipality of Simunul · Simunul Tawi-Tawi
Simunul, officially the Municipality of Simunul, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Republic Act No. 10351 · RA 10351
The Sin Tax Reform Law of 2012 is the popular name of Republic Act No. 10351, formally "An Act Restructuring…
Municipality of Sinacaban · Sinacaban Misamis Occidental
Sinacaban, officially the Municipality of Sinacaban, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Sinait · Sinait Ilocos Sur
Sinait, officially the Municipality of Sinait, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Ilocano papaitan · Bitter-sour offal soup of Ilocos (descriptive)
Sinanglaw is an Ilocano soup of beef or carabao meat and innards — skin, tripe, and intestines among them —…
Sinanglay is a Bicolano dish of whole fish - commonly tilapia - rubbed with salt and ginger, wrapped in leafy…
Gulay na Santol · Santol sa Gata
Sinantol is a traditional Bicolano dish made from the grated flesh of the santol fruit (Sandoricum koetjape) cooked in coconut…
The sinarapan (Mistichthys luzonensis), also called tabyos, is a species of fish in the goby subfamily Gobionellinae and the only…
Sindangan is a first-income-class municipality in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, and the most populous municipality in the entire Zamboanga Peninsula,…
Sineguelas (also spelled singuelas or siniguelas) · Spanish plum
Sineguelas (Spondias purpurea), also called Spanish plum or red mombin, is a small deciduous fruit tree of the cashew family…
Singapore Method · CPA Approach
Singapore Math is a highly structured mathematics instruction curriculum model developed by the Ministry of Education in Singapore. Focused on…
Singkamas is the Filipino name for jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus), a climbing legume vine grown for its large, turnip-shaped tuberous root,…
Singkil is a Philippine folk dance of Maranao origin that depicts a royal maiden gracefully stepping between crisscrossed bamboo poles…
1. Definition A Single-Detached House is a free-standing residential building designed for a single family, standing on its own dedicated…
Spanish plum · Jocote
Siniguelas is the Philippine name for Spondias purpurea, a fruit tree of the cashew family Anacardiaceae native to tropical regions…
Municipality of Siniloan · Siniloan Laguna
Siniloan, officially the Municipality of Siniloan, is a municipality in the province of Laguna, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Grilled pork kinilaw (descriptive name) · Sinuglaw na tuna at baboy
Sinuglaw is a popular appetizer from Mindanao, especially associated with Davao City, that combines two Filipino cooking traditions in one…
Sinulog — the short form, used alike for the dance, the devotion, and the festival · The Sinulog Grand Parade — the climactic Sunday event, often used for the whole festival
The Sinulog Festival is Cebu City's annual religious and cultural festival, held on the third Sunday of January in honor…
Municipality of Siocon · Siocon Zamboanga del Norte
Siocon, officially the Municipality of Siocon, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Shumai (Cantonese original) · Shao mai (Mandarin romanization)
Siomai is the Filipino adaptation of shumai, a traditional Chinese dumpling of ground pork filling wrapped in a thin wonton…
Siopao is the Philippine steamed filled bun—a soft, white, leavened wheat bun steamed and stuffed most classically with asado (sweet-savory…
Sipa (the object itself) · Filipino kick game
Sipa ("kick") is a traditional Philippine game in which players keep a small woven object aloft using any part of…
1. Definition Sipalay, officially the City of Sipalay, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. Positioned…
Municipality of Sipocot · Sipocot Camarines Sur
Sipocot, officially the Municipality of Sipocot, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Municipality of Siquijor · Siquijor Siquijor
Siquijor, officially the Municipality of Siquijor, is a municipality in the province of Siquijor, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Siquijor airstrip · Island of Fire gateway
Siquijor Airport is the only airport on Siquijor Island, serving the island province of Siquijor in the Central Visayas. A…
Province of Siquijor · Siquijor
Siquijor, officially the Province of Siquijor, is an island province in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. It is…
Description marker: Sira-an Hot Spring is a natural hot spring grotto on the coast of Anini-y, Antique, Philippines, where warm…
Municipality of Sirawai · Sirawai Zamboanga del Norte
Sirawai, officially the Municipality of Sirawai, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Sirong war dance festival · Cantilan fiesta festival
The Sirong Festival is an annual war-dance festival in Cantilan, Surigao del Sur, that reenacts the historical raids and battles…
Municipality of Siruma · Siruma Camarines Sur
Siruma, officially the Municipality of Siruma, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Cassandra Rondina · "Sisi" of UST
Sisi Rondina (born Cassandra Lilly Rondina in 1996, Compostela, Cebu) is a Filipino volleyball champion who starred as scoring ace…
Sisig babi · Sísig
Sisig is a Filipino dish of chopped grilled pig's face — jowl and ears (the maskara) — mixed with pig…
Sison is a municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, known for its strategic highway junction location. Established on…
Municipality of Sitangkai · Sitangkai Tawi-Tawi
Sitangkai, officially the Municipality of Sitangkai, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
"Sitsiritsit," fully "Sitsiritsit Alibangbang," is a traditional Tagalog folk song of playful, teasing verses — nonsense refrains, a butterfly (alibangbang)…
Sixth Army — the standard short styling · Alamo Force — the 1943–1944 headquarters designation under which Krueger reported directly to MacArthur
The Sixth United States Army is a field army of the United States Army whose World War II existence —…
The Siyokoy is the male water creature of Philippine folklore, the counterpart of the Sirena mermaid in the classical "lower-body…
Stratum Corneum · Permeability Barrier
The Skin Barrier, clinically termed the stratum corneum or the permeability barrier, represents the outermost layer of the mammalian epidermis.…
SkinStation Philippines · My Sanctuary Wellness Center, Inc.
SkinStation is a major chain of skin care clinics in the Philippines, managed by My Sanctuary Wellness Center, Inc. Founded…
Sky Deck · Rooftop Lounge
A sky lounge is a premium communal lounge or social area located on the top floor, penthouse level, or intermediate…
Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG) · Gastric sleeve surgery
Sleeve Gastrectomy (also known as Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy or VSG) is a restrictive bariatric surgical procedure that permanently reduces the…
Body Wrap · Detox Wrap
A Slimming Body Wrap is a spa and cosmetic treatment where the torso or limbs are wrapped tightly in bandages,…
SM Cinema is the film-exhibition arm of SM Prime Holdings, operating multiplexes inside SM malls including SM City Davao, SM…
SM North EDSA (current official name, adopted 2022) · The SM City North EDSA
SM City North EDSA is a large shopping mall at the corner of EDSA and North Avenue in Quezon City,…
SM Development Corporation · SMDC
SM Development Corporation (SMDC) is the residential real estate development arm of SM Prime Holdings, Inc., one of the largest…
SM Investments Corporation · SMIC
SM Investments Corporation (PSE: SM), widely abbreviated SMIC and also known as the SM Group, is the Philippine holding company…
SM Supermalls · SM City
An SM Mall refers to any of the shopping centers owned and operated by SM Supermalls, a subsidiary of SM…
MOA — the universal short form, used by SM itself in brandings from MOA Eye to MOA Sky · The Mall of Asia — the styling common in early coverage, including the mall's own opening-era materials
SM Mall of Asia (MOA) is the flagship shopping mall of SM Prime Holdings in Bay City, Pasay — a…
Megamall · SM Mega
SM Megamall is a massive shopping mall located in the Ortigas Center business district of Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines.…
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. · SMPH
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (officially registered as SM Prime) is one of the largest integrated property developers in Southeast Asia…
SMPH · SM Prime
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (commonly known as SM Prime) is a major integrated property developer in the Philippines and one…
SM Supermalls, or simply SM, is a chain of shopping malls owned by the Philippine-based SM Prime Holdings, itself part…
Smaller and Smaller Circles is a mystery novel by Filipino novelist F. H. Batacan, widely credited as the first Filipino…
Smart — the consumer brand under which its services are sold · SMART — the acronym styling used in early franchise documents for Smart Information Technologies, Inc.
Smart Communications, Inc. is a Filipino wireless telecommunications company and the wholly owned mobile subsidiary of PLDT Inc., the country's…
Smart Padala by PayMaya · Maya Center
Smart Padala is the Philippine mobile-phone remittance service launched by Smart Communications on August 1, 2004, and described by its…
1. Definition SM Development Corporation (SMDC) is the residential real estate subsidiary of SM Prime Holdings, one of the largest…
Mount Babuyan · Mount Pangas
Smith Volcano, known locally as Mount Babuyan or Mount Pangas, is an active stratovolcano rising about 688 meters on Babuyan…
Smokey Mountain, Tondo · Smoky Mountain dumpsite
Smokey Mountain is the name given to a former garbage dump in Tondo, Manila, which operated for decades and grew…
Outright smuggling (entry of goods without documents or clearance) · Technical smuggling (undervaluation, misclassification, misdeclaration)
Smuggling in the Philippines is the fraudulent introduction of goods into the country outside or against customs law — a…
SNAP · SN Aboitiz Power Group
SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP) is a Philippine hydropower company formed in 2005 as a joint venture between Aboitiz Power Corporation…
SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII) is an administrative region in the south-central part of Mindanao, Philippines. Its name is an acronym for…
1. Definition The Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) is a government-owned and controlled corporation in the Philippines under the Department…
The Social Security System (SSS) is the Philippine state-run social insurance program for private-sector, self-employed, and voluntary members, providing replacement…
SSS · Social Security System
The Social Security System (SSS) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) that administers the country's social security program…
SSS Sickness Benefit · SSS sickness allowance
The Social Security System Sickness Benefit (SSS Sickness Benefit) is a daily cash allowance paid to qualified private sector employees,…
Social Protection · Social Assistance
Social Welfare, in the Philippine context, refers to the organized system of government policies, legislative measures, social services, and community-based…
Partido Sosyalista ng Pilipinas · PSP
The Socialist Party of the Philippines (SPP) — in Filipino, Partido Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PSP) — was a Philippine political…
Socialized Housing · Socialized Housing (Philippines)
Socialized Housing is a housing program in the Philippines established under Republic Act No. 7279 (UDHA) targeting underprivileged and homeless…
Low-cost housing · Affordable housing (broader, often overlapping)
Socialized housing in the Philippines refers to housing programs and projects legally defined under Section 3(t) of Republic Act No.…
Municipality of Socorro · Socorro Surigao del Norte
Socorro, officially the Municipality of Socorro, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Municipality of Sofronio Española · Sofronio Española Palawan
Sofronio Española, officially the Municipality of Sofronio Española, is a local government unit in the province of Palawan, located within…
Municipality of Sofronio Española · Sofronio Española Palawan
Sofronio Española, officially the Municipality of Sofronio Española, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA…
Municipality of Sogod · Sogod Southern Leyte
Sogod, officially the Municipality of Sogod, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Sogod Bay is a large bay in the southern part of Leyte Island, an extension of the Bohol Sea surrounded…
The Sohoton Cove National Park encompasses the cove, caves, and karst islets of Bucas Grande Island in Socorro, Surigao del…
The Sohoton Lagoon (Sohoton Cove) is a system of turquoise lagoons, caves, and islets within Bucas Grande Island, part of…
The Sohoton Natural Bridge is a massive natural stone arch spanning a river gorge within the Sohoton Caves and Natural…
Solaire Resort & Casino · Solaire Resort Entertainment City
Solaire Resort and Casino — branded Solaire Resort & Casino and, since the 2020s, organized as a two-property brand —…
Municipality of Solana · Solana Cagayan
Solana, officially the Municipality of Solana, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Municipality of Solano · Solano, Nueva Vizcaya
Solano, officially the Municipality of Solano, is a first-class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. It is the…
Municipality of Solano · Solano Nueva Vizcaya
Solano, officially the Municipality of Solano, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
Municipality of Solsona · Solsona Ilocos Norte
Solsona, officially the Municipality of Solsona, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Sombrero Island (Concepcion) · Hat Island (translated nickname)
Sombrero Island is a small, hat-shaped island in the Visayan Sea off the coast of Concepcion, Iloilo. Named for its…
Municipality of Sominot · Sominot Zamboanga del Sur
Sominot, officially the Municipality of Sominot, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Mulleripicus funebris (scientific name) · Filipino: "dugtungan" and other regional folk names applied to large woodpeckers
The sooty woodpecker (Mulleripicus funebris) is a large, endemic Philippine woodpecker of sooty-grey to black plumage, found in lowland and…
Filipino macaroni soup · Creamy sopas
Sopas is a Filipino macaroni soup made with elbow macaroni, vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, and celery, and meat like…
Dirty ice cream · Filipino ice cream
Sorbetes is the traditional Filipino ice cream, historically made from carabao's milk or coconut milk and sold by sorbeteros from…
Sorsogonon · Northern Sorsoganon
Sorsoganon is a Bisayan language and its speakers of Sorsogon province at the southeastern tip of the Bicol Peninsula, Philippines.…
City of Sorsogon · Gateway to Southern Philippines
Sorsogon City is a component city and the capital of the province of Sorsogon in the Bicol Region of the…
Province of Sorsogon · Sorsogon
Sorsogon, officially the Province of Sorsogon, is a province in the Bicol Region of the Philippines, forming the southeastern tip…
Sotanghon is the Filipino name for cellophane noodles, translucent threads made from mung bean starch that turn glassy when cooked.…
Sotero Baluyut y Julao · Sotero J. Baluyut
Sotero Baluyut (Sotero Baluyut y Julao; January 3, 1889, San Fernando, Pampanga – January 6, 1975, Manila) was a Filipino…
Sotero Cosme Hidalgo Laurel II — full name · Sotero H. Laurel — the styling of his legal and academic writings
Sotero Laurel — in full Sotero Cosme "Teroy" Hidalgo Laurel II (September 27, 1918, Tanauan, Batangas – September 16, 2009,…
Republic Act No. 53 · RA 53
The Sotto Law is Republic Act No. 53, the Philippine statute that exempts journalists from revealing the sources of confidential…
West Philippine Sea (specifically referring to the eastern portions within the Philippine EEZ) · East Sea (in Vietnam)
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area of approximately 3.5 million…
South China Sea dispute
The South China Sea disputes are the set of overlapping island and maritime claims in the South China Sea among…
Province of South Cotabato · South Cotabato
South Cotabato, officially the Province of South Cotabato, is a province in the Soccsksargen region of the Philippines, located in…
Province of South Cotabato · South Cotabato
South Cotabato, officially the Province of South Cotabato, is a province of the Philippines located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII).…
SLEX · South Superhighway (historical)
The South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), historically the South Superhighway, is a network of controlled-access toll expressways extending south from Metro…
South Luzon Expressway · SLEX
The South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) is a major controlled-access toll expressway in the Philippines, running southward from Metro Manila through…
Municipality of South Ubian · South Ubian Tawi-Tawi
South Ubian, officially the Municipality of South Ubian, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of South Upi · South Upi Maguindanao
South Upi, officially the Municipality of South Upi, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Southeastern Asia · ASEAN Region
Southeast Asia is a geographically and geopolitically distinct region of Asia, situated south of China, east of India, north of…
SEATO · Manila Pact Organization (after its founding treaty)
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was the Cold War collective-defense organization created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty…
Southeast Asia · ASEAN Region
The term Southeast Asian refers to anything pertaining to Southeast Asia, a subregion of Asia consisting of 11 countries located…
SEAFDEC (official acronym) · SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department (for the Philippine-hosted unit)
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is an autonomous intergovernmental body established in 1967 to promote sustainable fisheries and…
SEAPA · Association of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) is a regional coalition of independent press-freedom and journalists' organizations, established in November 1998…
Southern Leyte is a province of the Philippines in the Eastern Visayas region (Region VIII). Its capital is Maasin City.…
Province of Southern Leyte · Southern Leyte
Southern Leyte, officially the Province of Southern Leyte, is a province of the Philippines located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
South Luzon · CALABARZON and Bicol
Southern Luzon is a major socio-economic and geographical macro-region of the Philippines, encompassing the southern portion of the island of…
The Southern Silvery Kingfisher (Ceyx argentatus) is a small, short-tailed kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, recognized when the widespread "silvery…
Spanish bread is a Filipino pastry despite its name: a soft, elongated sweet roll filled with a buttery, sweet filling…
Philippines (1565–1898) history
The Spanish colonial period in the Philippines — conventionally dated 1565 to 1898, with the first European contact thirteen years…
Las Indias Orientales Españolas — the Spanish designation · The Spanish Philippines in the wider Pacific sense — the common shorthand that blurs the territory into its largest component
The Spanish East Indies (Spanish Las Indias Orientales Españolas) were the colonies of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania…
Moro Wars (popular summary term) · Spanish–Moro wars (plural form)
The Spanish–Moro conflict was the protracted series of wars, raids, and naval campaigns fought between the Spanish colonial empire and…
The War of 1898 — the neutral dating designation · The Spanish-American War of 1898 — the date-qualified form of the standard name
The Spanish–American War (April 25 – August 12, 1898, by the United States declaration and the Protocol of Peace) was…
Spathoglottis plicata, the Philippine ground orchid or large purple orchid, is a terrestrial orchid widespread in the Philippines and across…
1. Definition Special Education (Philippines) (commonly abbreviated as SPED) refers to the educational programs, specialized learning facilities, and trained teachers…
The Special Protection of Children Act of 1992, Republic Act No. 7610, provides stronger deterrence and special protection against child…
Philippine property laws · Real estate statutes
Specialized Property Legislation in the Philippines refers to the body of statutes, decrees, and civil codes enacted to govern property…
1. Definition Spinal Motion Restriction (SMR) is a clinical protocol and technique used by emergency medical services and orthopedic professionals…
Narrowing of the spinal canal · Spinal canal stenosis
Spinal Stenosis is a degenerative spinal condition characterized by the abnormal narrowing of the spinal canal, which houses the spinal…
The spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a slender, three-toned oceanic dolphin famous for acrobatic leaps in which it spins lengthwise…
The Spoliarium (1884) — the year-qualified form · Luna's Spoliarium — the artist-fixed styling
The Spoliarium is Juan Luna's oil-on-canvas painting of 1884 — a canvas of 4.22 by 7.675 meters that took one…
Spooner proviso — the styling from its statutory form as a proviso in the appropriations act · Act of March 2, 1901 (ch. 803, 31 Stat. 895, 910) — the statute-citation form of the carrying act
The Spooner Amendment is the popular name of the proviso, carried as a rider on the Army Appropriation Act approved…
Multi-Purpose Court · Basketball Court
A sports court (typically a multi-purpose court or basketball court in the Philippines) is a flat, marked outdoor or indoor…
Sports in the Philippines refers to the organized athletic culture of the country, led by basketball, boxing, billiards, volleyball, football,…
Turnix ocellatus (scientific name) · Luzon spotted buttonquail
The spotted buttonquail (Turnix ocellatus) is a ground-dwelling endemic bird of Luzon in the Philippines, related to but not a…
Ducula carola (scientific name) · "Kulo-kulo" and similar local names applied to imperial pigeons in the central Philippines
The spotted imperial pigeon (Ducula carola) is a medium-large, endemic Philippine fruit pigeon named for the silver, spot-tipped wing coverts…
Spotted kingfisher · Lindsey's kingfisher
The spotted wood kingfisher (Actenoides lindsayi) is a forest kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, occurring on Luzon, Catanduanes, Marinduque, Negros,…
Kalayaan Island Group (Philippine-administered portion) · Nansha Islands (Chinese usage)
The Spratly Islands are a scattered group of reefs, atolls, shoals, cays, and small islands in the South China Sea,…
St. Joseph Parish Church, Las Piñas · Simbahan ng Las Piñas
The St. Joseph Parish Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Las Piñas City, Metro Manila — a stone…
SLMC — the short form used of the Quezon City-based institution itself · St. Luke's Hospital — the institution's name from 1912 to 1984
St. Luke's Medical Center (SLMC) is a private, non-stock, not-for-profit Philippine hospital system operating two tertiary hospitals in Metro Manila…
St. Scho (colloquial) · SSC Manila
St. Scholastica's College is a private Catholic school for girls and women in Malate, Manila, founded in 1906 by the…
Sta. Cruz Chamber of Commerce · Chamber of Sta. Cruz
The Sta. Cruz Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. is a local chamber of commerce based in the municipality of…
Sta. Cruz · Santa Cruz
Sta. Cruz is a first-income-class municipality and the oldest town in Davao del Sur province, located in the Davao Region…
Backup Generator · Gen-set
A standby power generator (commonly referred to as a backup generator or gen-set) is a backup electrical system that automatically…
ABS-CBN Film Productions · Star Cinema Productions, Inc.
Star Cinema is the trade name of ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc., the film production and distribution arm of the Philippine…
Southern Tagalog Arterial Road · STAR Tollway
STAR Tollway, officially the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (designated as E2 of the Philippine expressway network), is a 42-kilometer (26…
Starlite Ferries, Inc. · Starlite
Starlite Ferries is a Philippine domestic shipping company based in Batangas City, incorporated on January 9, 1995 by the Cusi…
SONA · Talumpati sa Kalagayan ng Bansa
The State of the Nation Address (SONA) is the annual address by which the President of the Philippines reports to…
SALN · Statement of assets and liabilities — the Republic Act No. 3019 era's styling
The Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN) is the annual sworn declaration of wealth that every de jure…
STEP Program · Semaglutide Weight Loss Trials
The STEP clinical trials (Semaglutide Treatment Effect in People with obesity) comprise a comprehensive Phase 3 clinical development program sponsored…
Stevan Javellana (1918–1977) was a Filipino lawyer and novelist from Iloilo whose single novel, "Without Seeing the Dawn" (1947), broke…
Stonehill scandal · Stonehill case
The Stonehill Affair (also called the Stonehill scandal) was the 1962 corruption scandal that began with the government raid on…
Storm tide (loosely; strictly the surge plus the astronomical tide) · Storm flood (Wikidata alternative label)
A storm surge is the abnormal rise of coastal sea level above the predicted astronomical tide that a low-pressure weather…
Estrecho de Magallanes — the Spanish designation and map label · Estrecho de Todos los Santos (Strait of All Saints) — Magellan's own name, from the November 1 entry
The Strait of Magellan (Spanish: Estrecho de Magallanes) is the 570-kilometer (350-mile) navigable passage at the southern tip of South…
composite volcano
A stratovolcano — also known as a composite volcano — is a conical volcano built up by many alternating layers…
Hypsipetes siquijorensis (scientific name) · Siquijor bulbul
The Streak-Breasted Bulbul (Hypsipetes siquijorensis) is a songbird of the bulbul family Pycnonotidae endemic to the Philippines, where it is…
SRNH · Philippine Nautical Highway System
The Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH) is an integrated network of highways and vehicular roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) ferry routes that links…
The Student Fare Discount Act, signed in 2019, grants students a twenty percent discount on regular fares in public utility…
Municipality of Sual · Sual Pangasinan
Sual, officially the Municipality of Sual, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Sual Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant (CFTPP) — the formal designation of the operator record · Sual power plant — the everyday Philippine news usage
The Sual Power Station — the Sual Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant (CFTPP) — is a coal-fired power station of roughly…
The Subanen (also spelled Subanon, Subanun) are the largest indigenous, traditionally non-Islamized ethnic group of the Zamboanga Peninsula in western…
Subanen · Subanun
The Subanon (also Subanen or Subanun) are the largest non-Islamized indigenous ethnolinguistic group of the Zamboanga Peninsula in western Mindanao,…
Superficial Fat · Under-the-Skin Fat
Subcutaneous Fat is adipose tissue that is stored directly beneath the dermis of the skin, overlying the muscle fascia throughout…
Subdivision · Subdivision (Philippines)
Subdivision, in the Philippines, refers to a parcel of land divided into smaller residential lots for sale, typically featuring shared…
Subdivision and condominium buyers protection refers to the Philippine legal framework — anchored on Presidential Decree No. 957 and governed…
Land developer · Real estate developer
A Subdivision Developer is an individual or a corporate entity engaged in the business of acquiring raw land, subdividing it…
Residential Lot · Subdivision Lot (PD 957)
A Subdivision Lot in the Philippines refers to a specific parcel of land that has been partitioned from a larger…
Subdivision project · Subdivision development
A subdivision in Philippine real estate is a tract of land divided into two or more residential lots for sale…
Municipality of Subic · Subic Zambales
Subic, officially the Municipality of Subic, is a municipality in the province of Zambales, located within the Central Luzon (Region…
Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) · Former US Naval Base Subic Bay
Subic Bay is a natural deep-water harbor on the west coast of Luzon, in Zambales, adjoining the city of Olongapo.…
Subic Freeport · SBFZ
The Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) is a special economic and freeport zone occupying the site of the former United…
SBMA — the standard acronym · The Subic Authority — the act's own shorthand in Section 14
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is the government-owned corporation that governs and administers the Subic Bay Freeport Zone —…
U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay · Naval Base Subic Bay
The Subic Bay Naval Base — the U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, in its own era's styling — was the…
SCTEX · Tipo Toll Road (former segment)
The Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) is a 93.77-kilometer, four-lane toll expressway in Central Luzon linking the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in…
SCTEX · Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway
The Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway (commonly abbreviated as SCTEX) is a 93.77-kilometer four-lane toll expressway in the Central Luzon region of the…
Subli is a Filipino ceremonial dance and devotional performance from Batangas province honoring the Mahal na Poong Santa Cruz, the…
Sublian sa Batangas · Subli Festival
The Sublian Festival is a cultural festival in Batangas City, Philippines, held around the city's foundation anniversary in July, celebrating…
Subdivision Home · Horizontal Development
A Suburban Home, in the context of the Philippine real estate market, refers to a single-family residential dwelling located in…
Municipality of Sudipen · Sudipen La Union
Sudipen, officially the Municipality of Sudipen, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Sugar industry of the Philippines
The sugar industry in the Philippines is the national industry of growing sugarcane and milling it into raw and refined…
SRA — the universal abbreviation · Sugar Center — the shorthand for the agency's Quezon City headquarters
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is the Philippine government corporation that regulates the country's sugar industry — the agency of…
The sugar-apple (Annona squamosa), known in the Philippines as atis, is a small tropical fruit tree bearing knobby, heart-shaped green…
Municipality of Sugbongcogon · Sugbongcogon Misamis Oriental
Sugbongcogon, officially the Municipality of Sugbongcogon, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Giant tiger prawn · Black tiger prawn
Sugpo is the Filipino name for the giant tiger prawn, one of the largest shrimp species in the world and…
Municipality of Sugpon · Sugpon Ilocos Sur
Sugpon, officially the Municipality of Sugpon, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Sulat · Sulat Eastern Samar
Sulat, officially the Municipality of Sulat, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Solibao · Bontoc drum
The sulibao (also spelled solibao) is a conical tenor drum of the Bontoc and Ibaloy peoples of the Cordillera region…
Inland farming municipality of southern Davao del Sur · Hinterland supplier to the Malalag-Padada market area
Sulop, officially the Municipality of Sulop, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines, within Region XI…
The sulphur-bellied bulbul is a songbird of the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae) endemic to Palawan in the Philippines. It combines olive-brown…
The sulphur-billed nuthatch (Sitta oenochlamys) is a small songbird endemic to the Philippines, notable for its distinctive yellow bill and…
Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation · Sulpicio Lines, Inc. — the incorporated name, abbreviated SLI
Sulpicio Lines (incorporated as Sulpicio Lines, Inc., SLI) was a Philippine domestic shipping company established on September 1, 1973, in…
Municipality of Sultan Dumalondong · Sultan Dumalondong Lanao del Sur
Sultan Dumalondong, officially the Municipality of Sultan Dumalondong, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within…
The Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque, widely called the Grand Mosque of Cotabato, is the largest mosque in the Philippines.…
Municipality of Sultan Kudarat · Sultan Kudarat Maguindanao
Sultan Kudarat, officially the Municipality of Sultan Kudarat, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Province of Sultan Kudarat · Sultan Kudarat
Sultan Kudarat, officially the Province of Sultan Kudarat, is a province of the Philippines located in the Soccsksargen region in…
Municipality of Sultan Mastura · Sultan Mastura Maguindanao
Sultan Mastura, officially the Municipality of Sultan Mastura, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Sultan Naga Dimaporo · Sultan Naga Dimaporo Lanao del Norte
Sultan Naga Dimaporo, officially the Municipality of Sultan Naga Dimaporo, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte,…
Municipality of Sultan sa Barongis · Sultan sa Barongis Maguindanao
Sultan sa Barongis, officially the Municipality of Sultan sa Barongis, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within…
Municipality of Sultan Sumagka · Sultan Sumagka Maguindanao
Sultan Sumagka, officially the Municipality of Sultan Sumagka, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro…
Maguindanao Sultanate · Sultanate of Mindanao (historical usage)
The Sultanate of Maguindanao was a Muslim sultanate in the island of Mindanao, founded around 1515 by Sharif Muhammad Kabungsuwan…
Sultanato de Joló (Spanish designation) · Sulu (Sultanate) — authorized form in the Library of Congress name authority file
The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim maritime polity centered on the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines, which at…
Basulta
The Sulu Archipelago is a chain of islands in the southwestern Philippines — centered near 6°N 121°E — that stretches…
The Sulu bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba menagei) is a ground dove endemic to the Sulu archipelago in the far south of the…
Ninox reyi (scientific name) · Sulu hawk-owl (older name)
The Sulu boobook (Ninox reyi) is a small brown owl endemic to the Sulu archipelago — Tawi-Tawi and neighboring islands…
The Sulu Hawk-owl (Ninox reyi), also called the Sulu boobook, is a small owl endemic to the Sulu archipelago in…
The Sulu hornbill (Anthracoceros montani) is a small, mostly slate-black hornbill endemic to the Sulu Archipelago in the far southwestern…
Province of Sulu · Sulu
Sulu, officially the Province of Sulu, is an archipelagic province of the Philippines located in the southern Sulu Sea, within…
The Sulu pygmy woodpecker (Yungipicus ramsayi) is a small woodpecker endemic to the Sulu archipelago in the southwestern Philippines, drumming…
Dagat Sulu (Filipino) · Sea of Sulu
The Sulu Sea is a large inter-island body of water in the southwestern Philippines, bordered by Palawan to the northwest,…
The Sulu woodpecker (Yungipicus ramsayi, also placed in Dendrocopos), known in recent taxonomy as the Sulu pygmy woodpecker, is a…
Panay-Bukidnon · Tumandok
The Suludnon, also known as the Panay-Bukidnon, Pan-ayanon, or Tumandok, are a Visayan-speaking people residing in the mountainous Capiz-Antique-Iloilo interior…
Sumaguing Cave is the best-known limestone cave of Sagada, Mountain Province, and the most popular caving destination in the Cordillera…
Suman is a Philippine steamed rice cake made of glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk (often with salt or sugar),…
Suman is a Filipino steamed rice cake made from glutinous (malagkit) rice cooked in coconut milk or plain water and…
Site of the Sumilao agrarian-reform dispute · Corn-farming municipality of northern Bukidnon
Sumilao, officially the Municipality of Sumilao (Bukid and Higaonon: Banuwa ta Sumilao), is a second-class municipality in the province of…
Municipality of Sumisip · Sumisip Basilan
Sumisip, officially the Municipality of Sumisip, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Sumlang Lake is a small lake in Barangay Sumlang in the municipality of Camalig, Albay, Philippines, at the foot of…
The Sumuroy Revolt was a major Filipino uprising against Spanish colonial rule that began in June 1649 in Palapag, on…
Sun Wen · Sun Yixian
Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925; school name Sun Wen, art name Sun Yixian, best known in…
The Sunduan is a civic-cultural festival of Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines, named after the Tagalog word for "fetching" or…
The Sunken Cemetery is a submerged burial ground off the coast of Camiguin island, Philippines, resting beneath the sea after…
Sunblock (informal; the term is prohibited on US labels as overclaiming) · Sun cream
Sunscreen is a topical product formulated to protect the skin from ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting, or scattering it, applied…
Suntrust Properties, Inc. · Suntrust
Suntrust Properties, Inc. (SPI) is a major real estate developer in the Philippines, operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Megaworld…
Ptilinopus superbus (scientific name) · Purple-crowned fruit dove
The Superb Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus superbus), also called the purple-crowned fruit dove, is a medium-sized, colourful fruit dove in the…
Supreme Court of the Philippines · Kataas-taasang Hukuman ng Pilipinas
The Supreme Court of the Philippines (Filipino: Kataas-taasang Hukuman ng Pilipinas) is the highest judicial body in the Philippines, established…
Municipality of Surallah · Surallah South Cotabato
Surallah, officially the Municipality of Surallah, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Surigao City is a second-income-class component city and capital of Surigao del Norte province in the Caraga Region (Region XIII),…
Province of Surigao del Norte · Surigao del Norte
Surigao del Norte, officially the Province of Surigao del Norte, is a province in the Caraga region of Mindanao, Philippines.…
Province of Surigao del Norte · Surigao del Norte
Surigao del Norte, officially the Province of Surigao del Norte, is a province of the Philippines located within the Caraga…
Province of Surigao del Sur · Surigao del Sur
Surigao del Sur, officially the Province of Surigao del Sur, is a province in the Caraga region of Mindanao, Philippines,…
Province of Surigao del Sur · Surigao del Sur
Surigao del Sur, officially the Province of Surigao del Sur, is a province of the Philippines located within the Caraga…
The Surigao Strait is the passage in the southern Philippines connecting the Bohol Sea with Leyte Gulf and the Philippine…
Surigaonon is a Bisayan language spoken in the Surigao provinces of northeastern Mindanao, Philippines — centered on Surigao City and…
The Surigaonon people are the native ethnolinguistic group of northeastern Mindanao, occupying Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur, the Dinagat…
SURPASS Clinical Development Program · Tirzepatide Type 2 Diabetes Trials
The SURPASS clinical trials comprise a landmark global Phase 3 clinical development program sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company to…
Jesusa Purificación Levy Sonora · Jesusa Sonora
Susan Roces — born Jesusa Purificación Levy Sonora in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, on July 28, 1941; died in San Juan,…
Municipality of Suyo · Suyo Ilocos Sur
Suyo, officially the Municipality of Suyo, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
Suzuki · Suzuki Loom Works
Suzuki Motor Corporation is the Japanese multinational mobility manufacturer headquartered in Takatsuka, Chūō-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, which began in 1909 when…
Suzuki Philippines Inc. (SPI — ambiguous with Shang Properties) · Suzuki Philippines Incorporated
Suzuki Philippines, Inc. (SPI) is the wholly owned Philippine subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Corporation, the Japanese mobility manufacturer headquartered in…
Bekimon · Beki language
Swardspeak is the Tagalog-based argot of the Philippine gay community, an inventive in-group code that bends Tagalog, English, Spanish, and…
Pool · Lap Pool
A swimming pool is an artificial water-filled structure designed for swimming, recreation, or training. In the context of Philippine real…
Sylvia La Torre de Bocobo (married name) · Queen of Kundiman
Sylvia La Torre (1918-2022) was a Filipino singer and actress whose career of more than eight decades earned her the…
Pteroptyx fireflies (scientific name) · Firefly trees (phenomenon name)
Synchronous fireflies are fireflies of the genus Pteroptyx, insects in the beetle subfamily Luciolinae found across Southeast Asia, including the…
Municipality of T'boli · T'boli South Cotabato
T'boli, officially the Municipality of T'boli, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
T'nalak is the traditional cloth of the T'boli people of South Cotabato, woven exclusively by women from resist-dyed abacá threads…
The T'nalak Festival is an annual cultural festival held every July in Koronadal, South Cotabato, celebrating the province's founding anniversary…
T'nalak is the sacred abaca cloth of the T'boli people of Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, Philippines, woven on a backstrap…
Taal · Municipality of Taal
Taal, officially the Municipality of Taal, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Basilica of Saint Martin of Tours · Taal Church
The Taal Basilica, formally the Basilica of Saint Martin of Tours, is a minor basilica in Taal, Batangas, Philippines, widely…
Lawang Taal (Filipino) · Lake Taal
Taal Lake is a large freshwater crater lake in the province of Batangas, Luzon, Philippines, occupying the caldera of an…
Bulkang Taal (Filipino) · Smallest Active Volcano
Taal Volcano is a complex volcanic system in Batangas, Luzon, Philippines. It consists of a large caldera holding Taal Lake,…
Yellow Lake (historical) · Main Crater Lake of Taal
The Taal Volcano Main Crater Lake, historically known as Yellow Lake, is the lake occupying the main crater of Taal…
Crab fat paste · Aligue (Kapampangan term)
Taba ng talangka is a Filipino condiment made from the fat and roe of small brackish-water crabs called talangka, salted…
City of Tabaco · Tabaco City
Tabaco, officially the City of Tabaco, is a component city in the province of Albay, Philippines. Positioned along the eastern…
Municipality of Tabango · Tabango Leyte
Tabango, officially the Municipality of Tabango, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Tabina · Tabina Zamboanga del Sur
Tabina, officially the Municipality of Tabina, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Tablas is the largest island of Romblon province in the Philippines, situated in the Sibuyan Sea between Mindoro and Panay.…
Tablas Strait is a deep sea channel in the Philippines separating Mindoro Island from the Tablas, Romblon and Panay island…
Tablea (also spelled tableya) are pure, unsweetened tablets of ground roasted cacao used in the Philippines to make thick traditional…
Municipality of Tabogon · Tabogon Cebu
Tabogon, officially the Municipality of Tabogon, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Tabon Cave Man · Tabon Man of Palawan
Tabon Man refers to the fossilized human remains, most famously a mandible, recovered in 1962 from the Tabon Caves at…
The Tabon Scrubfowl (Megapodius cumingii), called the Philippine megapode in formal checklists, is a medium-sized ground bird of the megapode…
Tabon-Tabon is a tropical tree (Atuna excelsa subsp. racemosa) prized in the Philippines for its fruit, whose grated white pulp…
Tabontabon is a fifth-income-class municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, and one of the smallest towns in the province…
Municipality of Tabuan-Lasa · Tabuan-Lasa Basilan
Tabuan-Lasa, officially the Municipality of Tabuan-Lasa, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Tabuelan · Tabuelan Cebu
Tabuelan, officially the Municipality of Tabuelan, is a municipality in the province of Cebu, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
City of Tabuk · Tabuk City
Tabuk, officially the City of Tabuk, is a component city and the capital of the landlocked province of Kalinga, Philippines.…
Gateway to Eastern Visayas · Capital of Leyte
Tacloban, officially the City of Tacloban, is a highly urbanized city and the capital of Leyte province in the Eastern…
The Tacloban Metropolitan Arena is an indoor sports and events arena in Tacloban City, Philippines, serving Eastern Visayas as the…
City of Tacurong · Tacurong
Tacurong, officially the City of Tacurong, is a component city in the province of Sultan Kudarat, Philippines. Located in the…
Municipality of Tadian · Tadian Mountain Province
Tadian, officially the Municipality of Tadian, is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, located within the Cordillera Administrative…
Tadlac Lake, colloquially known as Crocodile Lake, is a freshwater volcanic maar lake located in Barangay Tadlac in the municipality…
Task Unit 77.4.3 · TU 77.4.3
Taffy 3 was the United States Navy radio call sign of Task Unit 77.4.3, the northernmost of the three escort-carrier…
Municipality of Taft · Taft Eastern Samar
Taft, officially the Municipality of Taft, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Taft Avenue · Avenida Taft
Taft Avenue is a major ten-lane national primary road and transit corridor stretching through the heart of Manila and Pasay…
Second Philippine Commission — the formal designation, distinguishing it from the Schurman Commission of 1899 · Philippine Commission — the institutional name the body carried to 1916, used in this wiki's entry of that title
The Taft Commission is the popular name of the Second Philippine Commission, the five-member body President William McKinley created on…
Bagobo-Tagabawa · Tagabawa Bagobo
The Tagabawa are an indigenous people of the southern slopes of Mount Apo in Mindanao, Philippines, whose territory spans municipalities…
Tagakaolo · Tagakolu
The Tagakaulo (also spelled Tagakaolo or Tagakolu) are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of southern Mindanao, Philippines, traditionally living in the…
The Tagalog people are an Austronesian ethnolinguistic group native to the Philippines, particularly Metro Manila, the Calabarzon regions, and Marinduque…
The Tagalog Republic (Haring Bayang Katagalugan, "Sovereign Nation of the Tagalog People") is the name used by the Katipunan revolutionary…
Municipality of Tagana-an · Tagana-an Surigao del Norte
Tagana-an, officially the Municipality of Tagana-an, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Municipality of Tagapul-an · Tagapul-an Samar
Tagapul-an, officially the Municipality of Tagapul-an, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Character City of the Philippines · Second Summer Capital of the Philippines (informal)
Tagaytay, officially the City of Tagaytay, is a component city in Cavite province, Philippines, perched on a ridge overlooking Taal…
Lungsod ng Tagaytay — the Filipino designation · The City of Tagaytay — the official long form
Tagaytay City — officially the City of Tagaytay (Filipino: Lungsod ng Tagaytay) — is a component city of Cavite province…
Tagaytay–Nasugbu Road · Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway
Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway, officially the Tagaytay–Nasugbu Road (designated as Route 410 of the Philippine highway network), is a 43.6-kilometer (27.1 mi)…
Tagbanua · Calamian Tagbanwa
The Tagbanwa (also Tagbanua) are one of the oldest documented ethnolinguistic groups of the Philippines, indigenous to central Palawan and…
Surat Tagbanwa · Apurahuano (southern variety)
The Tagbanwa script is an indigenous Philippine syllabary used by the Tagbanwa people of Palawan: an abugida in which each…
City of Tagbilaran · Tagbilaran
Tagbilaran City, officially the City of Tagbilaran, is a component city and the provincial capital of Bohol, Philippines. It is…
Municipality of Tagbina · Tagbina Surigao del Sur
Tagbina, officially the Municipality of Tagbina, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, located within the Caraga…
Municipality of Tagkawayan · Tagkawayan Quezon
Tagkawayan, officially the Municipality of Tagkawayan, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Tago · Tago Surigao del Sur
Tago, officially the Municipality of Tago, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, located within the Caraga…
Municipality of Tagoloan · Tagoloan Misamis Oriental
Tagoloan, officially the Municipality of Tagoloan, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Tagoloan II · Tagoloan II Lanao del Sur
Tagoloan II, officially the Municipality of Tagoloan II, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within…
Tago-tago · Tago ng tago
Taguan is the Philippine version of hide-and-seek, in which one player — the taya or "it" — covers their eyes…
Municipality of Tagudin · Tagudin Ilocos Sur
Tagudin, officially the Municipality of Tagudin, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, located within the Ilocos Region…
City of Taguig · Taguig City
Taguig, officially the City of Taguig, is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. The city is a premier…
City of Tagum · Palm City of the Philippines
Tagum, officially the City of Tagum, is a component city and the provincial capital of Davao del Norte, Philippines. Located…
Kurita Takeo · Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita
Takeo Kurita (April 28, 1889 – December 19, 1977) was a vice admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the…
Takijiro Onishi
Takijirō Ōnishi (June 2, 1891 – August 16, 1945) was a vice admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy commonly credited…
Talahundan (old variant) · Bukidnon Talaandig
The Talaandig are one of the seven indigenous Lumad groups of Bukidnon province in Northern Mindanao, Philippines, residing principally around…
The Talaandig are an indigenous Lumad people of Bukidnon province in Mindanao, Philippines, whose traditional territory centers on the slopes…
Riverside municipality of the Agusan River · River-port town of Agusan del Sur
Talacogon, officially the Municipality of Talacogon, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines, within the Caraga…
Municipality of Talaingod · Talaingod Davao del Norte
Talaingod, officially the Municipality of Talaingod, is a municipality in the province of Davao del Norte, located within the Davao…
Municipality of Talakag · Talakag Bukidnon
Talakag, officially the Municipality of Talakag, is a municipality in the province of Bukidnon, located within the Northern Mindanao (Region…
Municipality of Talalora · Talalora Samar
Talalora, officially the Municipality of Talalora, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Talavera · Talavera Nueva Ecija
Talavera, officially the Municipality of Talavera, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Talayan · Talayan Maguindanao
Talayan, officially the Municipality of Talayan, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Talibon · Talibon Bohol
Talibon, officially the Municipality of Talibon, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Isla Talicud · Talikud Island
Talicud Island is a small island at the southern mouth of Davao Gulf in the Philippines, administratively part of the…
Talikud (official island name) · Part of the Island Garden City of Samal
Talikud Island is the smaller island south of Samal in Davao del Norte, administratively part of the Island Garden City…
Municipality of Talipao · Talipao Sulu
Talipao, officially the Municipality of Talipao, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Municipality of Talisay · Talisay Camarines Norte
Talisay, officially the Municipality of Talisay, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Norte, located within the Bicol Region…
The Lechon-producing town of south Metro Cebu (informal) · Talisay City, Cebu
Talisay, officially the City of Talisay (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Talisay; Filipino: Lungsod ng Talisay), is a component city in the…
Municipality of Talisay · Talisay
Talisay, officially the Municipality of Talisay, is a third-class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located along the northern…
Talisay City is a fourth-class component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. It lies on the northeastern coast…
Talisay City · The Ruins (heritage landmark)
Talisay is a component city in Negros Occidental, Philippines, immediately north of Bacolod City and part of Metropolitan Bacolod. It…
Municipality of Talisayan · Talisayan Misamis Oriental
Talisayan, officially the Municipality of Talisayan, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Talugtug · Talugtug Nueva Ecija
Talugtug, officially the Municipality of Talugtug, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Taluksangay Colorful Mosque (tourism usage)
The Taluksangay Mosque is a vividly painted, traditionally built mosque standing on stilts over the waters of Rio Hondo off…
Municipality of Talusan · Talusan Zamboanga Sibugay
Talusan, officially the Municipality of Talusan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Auto repair shop · Repair workshop
Talyer is a Tagalog noun borrowed from Spanish taller — itself from French atelier — meaning a workshop or repair…
Tamales (Filipino-style, as menus note) · Cavite tamales (renowned regional style)
Philippine tamales are the local adaptation of the Mesoamerican tamal: a savory steamed packet of rice-flour dough enriched with coconut…
Tamarao · Tamarau (the spelling authorized by the Library of Congress subject heading)
The tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) is a small dwarf buffalo endemic to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines — the…
Tamblot Uprising · Tamblot Revolt of 1621
Tamblot was a babaylan (native priest) of Bohol who in 1621 led one of the first recorded uprisings in the…
Tamblot uprising — the standard historical designation · Tamblot revolution — the styling used in some Philippine textbook traditions
The Tamblot Revolt — also styled the Tamblot uprising or Tamblot revolution — was the religious uprising led by Tamblot,…
Tamblot Revolt · Tamblot Religious Uprising of 1621
The Tamblot Uprising was a religious revolt against Spanish colonial and missionary rule mounted in 1621 on the island of…
Tambulig is a second-income-class agricultural municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, within the Zamboanga Peninsula. It covers 130.65 square kilometres…
Woodworm · Mangrove worm
Tamilok is the Filipino culinary name for woodworms or shipworms — saltwater bivalve mollusks of the family Teredinidae — that…
Municipality of Tampakan · Tampakan South Cotabato
Tampakan, officially the Municipality of Tampakan, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Municipality of Tamparan · Tamparan Lanao del Sur
Tamparan, officially the Municipality of Tamparan, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Tampilisan · Tampilisan Zamboanga del Norte
Tampilisan, officially the Municipality of Tampilisan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, located within the Zamboanga…
Tañada and Macapagal v. Cuenco — the full-party caption styling · The Senate Electoral Tribunal case of 1957 — descriptive shorthand
Tañada v. Cuenco (G.R. No. L-10520, decided February 28, 1957) is the decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines,…
Tañada vs. Tuvera (variant style of the case title) · The publication-of-laws case (doctrinal shorthand)
Tañada v. Tuvera (G.R. No. L-63915) is the decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, rendered en banc on…
The tanaga is a traditional Tagalog poetic form consisting of four lines of seven syllables each, traditionally bound by a…
City of Tanauan · Tanauan City
Tanauan, officially the City of Tanauan, is a component city in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Bordering Santo Tomas and…
City of Tanauan · Tanauan
Tanauan, officially the City of Tanauan, is a component city in the province of Batangas, Philippines. Located along the western…
Tanay, Rizal · Gateway to the Sierra Madre (Rizal)
Tanay is a first-income-class municipality in Rizal province, Philippines, and the largest municipality in the province by land area. Located…
Municipality of Tanay · Tanay Rizal
Tanay, officially the Municipality of Tanay, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
San Ildefonso Parish Church of Tanay (formal name) · San Ildefonso de Toledo Church (historical usage)
The Tanay Church, formally the San Ildefonso de Toledo Parish Church in Tanay, Rizal, is an eighteenth-century stone church regarded…
Tandag City is a fifth-income-class component city and capital of Surigao del Sur province in the Caraga Region (Region XIII),…
Dambana ni Melchora (Tandang Sora) Aquino — the Filipino name · Tandang Sora Shrine
The Tandang Sora National Shrine is the national shrine in Quezon City honoring Melchora "Tandang Sora" Aquino (1812–1919), the "Grand…
Tandok treatment · Carabao horn suction
Tandok is a traditional folk healing practice in the Philippines that utilizes a hollowed animal horn (typically from a water…
Municipality of Tandubas · Tandubas Tawi-Tawi
Tandubas, officially the Municipality of Tandubas, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
The Tanduyong Festival is the annual harvest festival of San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, held in April in thanksgiving for…
Municipality of Tangalan · Tangalan Aklan
Tangalan, officially the Municipality of Tangalan, is a municipality in the province of Aklan, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Tangcal · Tangcal Lanao del Norte
Tangcal, officially the Municipality of Tangcal, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte, located within the Northern…
The National Theater — the English rendering of the name · The CCP Main Theater / CCP Main Building — the common designations since the rehabilitation began
The Tanghalang Pambansa (English: National Theater), formerly the Theater of Performing Arts, is the flagship theater building of the Cultural…
Tangile red meranti · Philippine mahogany (trade grouping)
Tangile (Shorea polysperma) is a large endemic Philippine tree in the dipterocarp family (Dipterocarpaceae), harvested historically as one of the…
Tanglad International
Tanglad International Inc. is a Philippine consumer-products venture in the wellness segment, associated with the Davao City enterprise ecosystem of…
City of Tangub · Tangub City
Tangub, officially the City of Tangub, is a component city in the province of Misamis Occidental, Philippines. Located along the…
Tangub City is a fourth-income-class component city in Misamis Occidental province in Northern Mindanao (Region X), Philippines. It had a…
Tangile · Red lauan (tanguile group)
Tanguile is a large Philippine dipterocarp tree, scientifically Shorea polysperma (reclassified in recent taxonomy as Rubroshorea polysperma), and the name…
City of Tanjay · Tanjay City
Tanjay, officially the City of Tanjay, is a component city in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. Located in the…
Municipality of Tantangan · Tantangan South Cotabato
Tantangan, officially the Municipality of Tantangan, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Municipality of Tanudan · Tanudan Kalinga
Tanudan, officially the Municipality of Tanudan, is a municipality in the province of Kalinga, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Tanza · Tanza
Tanza, officially the Municipality of Tanza, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. Located along the northwestern…
Tanza · Santa Cruz de Malabon (former name)
Tanza is a first-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, inland and along Manila Bay. A fast-growing residential, commercial, and industrial municipality,…
The Taong Putik Festival ("Mud People Festival") is an annual observance in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija every 24 June, feast of…
Beef tapa · Tapsilog base (colloquial)
Tapa is Filipino cured meat, classically thin slices of beef rubbed with salt and seasonings and dried or simply marinated,…
Municipality of Tapaz · Tapaz Capiz
Tapaz, officially the Municipality of Tapaz, is a municipality in the province of Capiz, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Television and Production Exponents Inc. · Television and Production Exponents, Inc.
Television and Production Exponents Inc. (TAPE Inc.) is a Philippine television production company founded on July 7, 1981 in Loyola…
Wrap skirt (generic English gloss) · Pinilian tapis (for specific Ilocano weave usage in some contexts)
The tapis is a traditional Philippine wraparound skirt or, more precisely, a piece of cloth wrapped over another garment as…
Tappiyah Falls · Batad Waterfall
Tappiya Falls is a tall cascade located below the village of Batad in Banaue, Ifugao, at the edge of the…
Tapa-sinangag-itlog · Beef tapa silog
Tapsilog is a Filipino rice meal combining tapa (cured or fried beef), sinangag (garlic fried rice), and itlog (fried egg),…
Municipality of Tapul · Tapul Sulu
Tapul, officially the Municipality of Tapul, is a municipality in the province of Sulu, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Tapuey · Bayah (in some Ifugao usage)
Tapuy (also spelled tapuey or tapoy) is the traditional Philippine rice wine of the Cordillera highlands, brewed by Igorot peoples…
Municipality of Taraka · Taraka Lanao del Sur
Taraka, officially the Municipality of Taraka, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Tarangban Falls is a multi-tiered waterfall in Calbayog, Samar, Philippines, cascading through forest near the city's upland barangays. The falls…
Tarangnan is a fourth-income-class coastal municipality on the western coast of Samar province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, facing the Samar Sea…
The tarictic hornbill (Penelopides panini), also called the Visayan hornbill, is a medium-sized hornbill endemic to the Western Visayas, occurring…
TC (the agency's own abbreviation) · Commission (the term defined in the CMTA and the trade remedy statutes to mean the Tariff Commission)
The Tariff Commission (TC) is the Philippine government agency responsible for tariff research, tariff classification, and trade remedy adjudication —…
Tarik Sulayman, also spelled Tarik Soliman, is the most popular of several names attributed by Kapampangan historians to the chieftain…
Melting Pot of Central Luzon · Crossroads of the North
Tarlac is a landlocked Philippine province in the Central Luzon region (Region III). Its capital, Tarlac City, is a regional…
City of Tarlac · Tarlac City
Tarlac City, officially the City of Tarlac, is a component city and the provincial capital of Tarlac, Philippines. It is…
Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway · TPLEX
The Tarlac Expressway, officially known as the Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway (TPLEX), is an 89.21-kilometer (55.43-mile) four-lane closed-system toll expressway in…
Bulao River (local naming in some upland reaches) · Tarlac-Bulao system (hydrological usage)
The Tarlac River is the principal river of Tarlac province in Central Luzon, Philippines. Rising on the eastern slopes of…
Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway · TPLEX
Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway (TPLEX) is an 88.85-kilometer (55.21 mi) four-lane toll expressway in northern Luzon, Philippines. It connects the Subic–Clark–Tarlac…
Municipality of Tarragona · Tarragona Davao Oriental
Tarragona, officially the Municipality of Tarragona, is a municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, located within the Davao Region…
Tarsiers — the common plural for the family's members · Tarsiidae Gray, 1825 — the formal family name, with Tarsius (Storr, 1780) as type genus
The tarsiers are the family Tarsiidae — small, nocturnal, wholly carnivorous primates of island Southeast Asia, and the only living…
Tasaday people
The Tasaday are a small group of Filipino forest-dwellers from the rainforests near Lake Sebu in what is now South…
TFDP · Task Force Detainees
The Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) is a Philippine human-rights organization, founded in 1974 by the Association of…
Tatad v. Secretary of the Department of Energy · The Tatad case
Tatad v. Secretary of the Department of Energy, G.R. No. 124360 (November 5, 1997), is the Supreme Court's En Banc…
The Tau't Bato ("people of the rock") are a small indigenous Palaw'an subgroup living in the Singnapan Valley below Mount…
Tausug is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tausug people of the Sulu archipelago — Jolo and neighboring islands —…
The Tausug are an ethnolinguistic group of the Sulu Archipelago in the southwestern Philippines, centered in Sulu province with communities…
Euphorbia hirta · Asthma Plant
Tawa-Tawa is a hairy annual herb of the spurge family (Euphorbia hirta) that grows abundantly in tropical countries, including throughout…
TNT · Purico Amateur Hour
Tawag ng Tanghalan — Filipino for "Call of the Stage" — is a Philippine amateur singing competition and one of…
Tawi-Tawi is an island province of the Philippines within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Its capital is…
Province of Tawi-Tawi · Tawi-Tawi
Tawi-Tawi, officially the Province of Tawi-Tawi, is a province of the Philippines located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim…
Sardinella tawilis (scientific name) · Freshwater sardinella
The tawilis (Sardinella tawilis) is a small, silvery freshwater sardine found only in Taal Lake in Batangas, and it is…
Declaration of Real Property · Tax Dec
A Tax Declaration (officially a Declaration of Real Property) is a municipal property record in the Philippines issued by the…
TRAIN Law · Republic Act No. 10963
The Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN), officially Republic Act No. 10963, is the first package of the Philippine…
TRAIN Law · TRAIN
The Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law, officially Republic Act No. 10963 (TRAIN), is the first package of the…
City of Tayabas · Tayabas
Tayabas, officially the City of Tayabas, is a component city in the province of Quezon, Philippines. Located at the southeastern…
Look ng Tayabas (Filipino usage)
Tayabas Bay is a bay on the southern coast of Luzon island, bounded by Quezon province's mainland and the Bondoc…
Province of Tayabas · Provincia de Tayabas
Tayabas Province (Spanish: Provincia de Tayabas) was the historical Philippine province of southeastern Luzon — the Spanish-era and American-era predecessor…
Tayabas Regiment Mutiny · Tayabas Regiment Revolt
The Tayabas Regiment mutiny was the revolt of a regiment of Filipino soldiers — men recruited from Tayabas province (now…
Municipality of Tayasan · Tayasan Negros Oriental
Tayasan, officially the Municipality of Tayasan, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Municipality of Taysan · Taysan Batangas
Taysan, officially the Municipality of Taysan, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Taytay · Taytay Palawan
Taytay, officially the Municipality of Taytay, is a municipality in the province of Palawan, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Municipality of Taytay · Taytay
Taytay, officially the Municipality of Taytay, is a first-class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. Located immediately east of…
Municipality of Tayug · Tayug Pangasinan
Tayug, officially the Municipality of Tayug, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Municipality of Tayum · Tayum Abra
Tayum, officially the Municipality of Tayum, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
TBA
TBA Studios is a Philippine independent film production and distribution company founded in 2017 and based in Quezon City, Metro…
The Tboli (also spelled T'boli) are an indigenous Lumad people of southern Mindanao in the Philippines, concentrated around Lake Sebu…
Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET) · Tech-Voc Education
Technical Education, often referred to in the Philippines as Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET), is a structured educational system focused…
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is the Philippine government agency responsible for technical-vocational education and skills certification.…
The Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) is the country's premier state university for technological and engineering education, founded in…
Tecson v. Commission on Elections · The FPJ citizenship cases
Tecson v. COMELEC (G.R. Nos. 161434, 161634 and 161824, March 3, 2004) is a decision of the Supreme Court of…
Philippine teak · Malabayabas (local name)
Tectona philippinensis, the Philippine teak or locally malabayabas, is a small to medium hardwood tree endemic to the Philippines and…
Tejeros Assembly (common variant) · Convention of Tejeros
The Tejeros Convention was an assembly of Katipunan leaders held on March 22, 1897 at an estate building in Tejeros,…
The Telecommuting Act, signed on 20 December 2018, governs work-from-home arrangements in the private sector. Republic Act No. 11165 provides…
Share tenancy — the classic arrangement, and the thing the abolition statutes abolished · Kasamá — the Tagalog term for the share tenant and his arrangement
Tenancy in the Philippines is the landlord-tenant system of agricultural production — the body of arrangements under which the person…
Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos (full name) · Doña Teodora
Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos (1826 to 1911) was the mother of Jose Rizal and his first teacher. An educated…
Teodoro Andal Agoncillo — full name · National Scientist Agoncillo — the 1985 posthumous honor
Teodoro Agoncillo (Teodoro Andal Agoncillo; November 9, 1912 – January 14, 1985) was a Filipino historian, the leading figure of…
Teodoro Trinidad Evangelista — the full name carried by the portrait record ([Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teodoro_Trinidad_Evangelista.jpg "File: Teodoro Trinidad Evangelista — Wikimedia Commons")) · Secretary Evangelista — the address in President Quirino's own messages of the era ([Messages of the President](https://archive.org/stream/MOP-Vol3-Elpidio-Quirino/4HD%20-%20EQ_djvu.txt "Messages of the President: Elpidio Quirino, Volume 3 — Official Gazette compilation (Internet Archive full text)"))
Teodoro Evangelista — Teodoro Trinidad Evangelista in the portrait record — was a Filipino public official and educator whose place…
Teodoro M. Kalaw (1884–1940) was a Filipino lawyer, journalist, essayist, legislator, and scholar regarded as one of the finest English-…
Teodoro Plata (1866 – 6 February 1897) was a Filipino patriot and clerk who co-founded the Katipunan, the secret society…
Teodoro Rafael Yangco y Argüelles — the full name in the record · Theo Yangco — the nickname the record carries
Teodoro R. Yangco — in full, Teodoro Rafael Yangco y Argüelles, nicknamed "Theo" (November 9, 1861, San Antonio, Zambales –…
Teodoro Sandiko y Santa Ana · Secretary of the Interior Sandiko (First Philippine Republic)
Teodoro Sandiko y Santa Ana (March 31, 1860 – October 19, 1939) was a Filipino propagandist, revolutionary general, cabinet secretary,…
Teofilo Garcia is a Filipino farmer and craftsman from San Quintin, Abra, named a Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (National…
Teofilo Sison — the unaccented article-title spelling · Teófilo Leuterio Sison — full name
Teófilo Sison — in full Teófilo Leuterio Sison (February 29, 1880, Dagupan, Pangasinan – April 13, 1975, Marikina, Rizal) —…
Teofilo Yldefonso (1903–1942) was a Filipino breaststroke swimmer remembered as the first Filipino and first Southeast Asian to win an…
Teresa, Rizal · Brick-making town of Rizal
Teresa is a second-income-class municipality in Rizal province, Philippines. An inland town along the Marikina-Infanta highway corridor, it lies between…
Municipality of Teresa · Teresa Rizal
Teresa, officially the Municipality of Teresa, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Teresa Magbanua y Ferraris — the full record name · Nanay Isa
Teresa Magbanua y Ferraris (October 13, 1868, Pototan, Iloilo – August 1947, Pagadian, Zamboanga), nicknamed Nanay Isa and celebrated as…
Ternate, Cavite · Home of the Merdicas
Ternate is a coastal municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines, situated along the shorelines of Manila Bay and the…
Ternate · Home of Chavacano Ternateño (informal)
Ternate is a fourth-income-class municipality in Cavite, Philippines, on the southwestern coast facing Manila Bay and the South China Sea.…
Butterfly-sleeve dress · Filipiniana gown (in common usage)
The terno is the Philippine women's formal dress distinguished by its dramatically extended butterfly sleeves and its one-piece construction, evolved…
territorial waters
The territorial sea is the belt of sea, up to 12 nautical miles wide, measured from a coastal state's baselines,…
The 1872 Terror · The repression of 1872
The Terror of 1872 is the conventional name for the repression that Governor-General Rafael de Izquierdo's administration visited on Manila…
Terrorist attacks in the Philippines · Philippine terrorism
Terrorism in the Philippines is the documented record of terrorist violence and state counterterrorism in the Philippine archipelago — a…
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority · Tesda
TESDA (officially the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority) is the Philippine government agency responsible for managing and supervising technical…
Tesla Motors · Tesla, Inc.
Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle (EV) and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Producing electric cars, battery…
Aivee Clinic · The Aivee Group
The Aivee Clinic is a prestigious medical aesthetic and dermatological clinic chain in the Philippines. Co-founded in 2009 by dermatologist…
Manila Times · The Times — the common short styling
The Manila Times is an English-language broadsheet published in Manila and the oldest extant English-language newspaper in the Philippines —…
TMC · Professional Services Inc. — the corporate name, with TMC as its operating brand
The Medical City (TMC) is the health institution operated by Professional Services Inc., a Philippine hospital group whose flagship is…
The New You · The New You Cebu
The New You (registered business name per the clinic's published footer; sometimes referred to as The New You Cebu) is…
The Osias readers — the schoolroom identification, from the author · The Philippine Readers, Revised Edition (1932) — the form in which the standard edition is catalogued
The Philippine Readers is the graded reading-textbook series written by Camilo Osías and published by Ginn and Company of Boston…
Rosales Saga
The Rosales Saga is the five-novel cycle of the Filipino novelist F. Sionil José — The Pretenders (1962), My Brother,…
El Verdadero Decalogo · El Verdadero Decálogo
The True Decalogue (Spanish El Verdadero Decálogo) is a short ethical-political tract written by Apolinario Mabini and dated June 24,…
"The Woman Who Had Two Navels" (1961) is the only novel of Filipino writer Nick Joaquin, a work of English-language…
The World Tonight Weekend (its weekend edition, launched after the 1992 revamp and replaced by The Weekend News in 1996) · TWT Report (a segment designation carried in the program's record)
The World Tonight is a Philippine English-language television newscast produced by ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, first broadcast on November…
President Roosevelt — the styling of the 1901–1909 years · T.R. — the standard contemporary abbreviation
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858, New York City – January 6, 1919, Sagamore Hill, New York) was the twenty-sixth president…
Monopolar Radiofrequency Skin Tightening · Thermage FLX
Thermage is a non-invasive aesthetic treatment that utilizes monopolar radiofrequency (RF) energy to tighten and contour the skin, reduce the…
The Thick-billed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum agile) is a small, plain olive-and-gray flowerpecker with a characteristically stout bill, resident in the Philippines…
Third Philippine Republic · Postwar Republic of the Philippines
The Third Republic of the Philippines is the designation for the republican government established when the United States recognized Philippine…
The Thirteen Martyrs of Cavite were Filipino patriots executed by Spanish firing squad on September 12, 1896, at the Cavite…
13th month pay · Thirteenth-month pay
Thirteenth month pay — commonly written 13th month pay — is the year-end benefit that Philippine law requires private employers…
Thomas Sprague · Thomas Lamison Sprague
Thomas Lamison Sprague (October 2, 1894 – September 17, 1972) was a United States Navy naval aviator and vice admiral…
Thomasite teachers — the descriptive styling · The American teachers — the usage in Philippine school histories of the era
The Thomasites were the American teachers sent to the Philippines at the start of the American colonial period — named,…
TLSO · TLSO Spinal Brace
A Thoraco–Lumbo–Sacral Orthosis (commonly abbreviated as TLSO) is a rigid spinal brace designed to immobilize and support the thoracic, lumbar,…
Non-Surgical Face Lift · Suture Lift
Thread Lift is a minimally invasive, non-surgical cosmetic procedure designed to lift, tighten, and rejuvenate sagging facial and neck tissues.…
Alopias / pelagic thresher · Fox shark (common name abroad)
Thresher sharks (family Alopiidae) are large sharks instantly recognizable by the greatly elongated upper lobe of their tails, which they…
Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III · Ali vs. Frazier III
The Thrilla in Manila — formally billed as Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III — was the third and final…
Municipality of Tiaong · Tiaong Quezon
Tiaong, officially the Municipality of Tiaong, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
Municipality of Tibiao · Tibiao Antique
Tibiao, officially the Municipality of Tibiao, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
The Tibiao River is a river system in the province of Antique, Philippines, flowing from the Cordillera-like highlands of central…
Kapampangan milk pudding · Tibok tibok
Tibok-tibok is a creamy pudding of Pampanga cuisine made from carabao's milk, cornstarch, and sugar, traditionally topped with latik (caramelized…
Isla de Ticao (historical Spanish-era usage) · Ticao
Ticao Island is an island in Masbate province, Philippines, lying between the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon and the main island…
Ticao Pass is the strait separating Ticao Island from the Bicol Peninsula in the Philippines. It connects Burias Pass to…
Duko — an old name of the sultanate carried in the historical record · Tidore Islands City — the English rendering of Kota Tidore Kepulauan, the modern Indonesian city
Tidore is a volcanic island, and the city spanning it, in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia — the southward…
Canistel · Eggfruit
Tiesa is the Filipino name for the canistel, Pouteria campechiana, a fruit tree of Central American origin grown throughout the…
Tigaon, officially the Municipality of Tigaon, is a municipality in Camarines Sur, Philippines, with about 61,790 people per the 2024…
Municipality of Tigbao · Tigbao Zamboanga del Sur
Tigbao, officially the Municipality of Tigbao, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, located within the Zamboanga…
Municipality of Tigbauan · Tigbauan Iloilo
Tigbauan, officially the Municipality of Tigbauan, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
The tiger orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum), also called the giant orchid, is the largest orchid species in the world, producing cane-like…
Galeocerdo cuvier (scientific name)
The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a large solitary predator of tropical and temperate seas, the only living species of…
Tigmamanukin · Omen bird of the Tagalogs
The tigmamanukan is a sacred omen bird of pre-colonial Tagalog mythology, usually identified with a blue-and-black passerine bird, whose appearance…
Tigbalang · Tigbanua (Visayan cognates)
The tikbalang is a creature of Philippine folklore with the head and hooves of a horse and the body of…
Earl Timothy Cone — the full given name the linked-data record carries · Coach Tim — the standard Philippine sports-press styling
Tim Cone — Earl Timothy Cone, born December 14, 1957 — is an American-born professional basketball coach, a Philippine resident…
The timawa were the class of free commoners of precolonial Philippine society. In the Visayas they ranked below the tumao…
Academic Learning Time Research · Student Engagement Time Studies
Time-on-task research refers to educational studies investigating the correlation between the amount of time students spend actively engaged in learning…
Tina Monzón-Palma (alternate accenting) · María Cristina Mapa Monzón (birth name)
Tina Monzon-Palma (birth name María Cristina Mapa Monzón; born March 29, 1951, Malate, Manila) is a Filipino broadcast journalist whose…
The Tinagba Festival is Iriga City's annual harvest-offering festival in Camarines Sur, held in February, in which farmers pile the…
Tinago Falls is a waterfall on the Agus River between the cities of Iligan and Linamon in Lanao del Norte,…
Maguindanaon rice crisp · Ramadan crisp of central Mindanao (descriptive)
Tinagtag is a Maguindanaon crisp delicacy made by drizzling a thin batter of ground rice and sugar into hot oil…
Municipality of Tinambac · Tinambac Camarines Sur
Tinambac, officially the Municipality of Tinambac, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, located within the Bicol Region…
Smoked fish (English rendering) · Tinapang bangus (when made from milkfish)
Tinapa is the Philippine method and product of smoking fish, most commonly milkfish (bangus) and round scad (galunggong). The fish…
Tindalo (Afzelia rhomboidea) is a large legume-family tree of the Philippines and neighboring parts of Southeast Asia, prized for its…
Municipality of Tineg · Tineg Abra
Tineg, officially the Municipality of Tineg, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
The Tingguian (endonym Itneg) are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Abra province and adjacent parts of the Ilocos region and…
Itneg (endonym) · Tinguian (Spanish-era spelling)
The Tingguian, who call themselves Itneg, are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Abra province and adjacent uplands of Ilocos Sur…
Municipality of Tinglayan · Tinglayan Kalinga
Tinglayan, officially the Municipality of Tinglayan, is a municipality in the province of Kalinga, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Tingloy · Tingloy Batangas
Tingloy, officially the Municipality of Tingloy, is a municipality in the province of Batangas, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
The Tinguian people, more properly called the Itneg, are an Austronesian ethnolinguistic people of the uplands of Abra and adjacent…
Municipality of Tinoc · Tinoc Ifugao
Tinoc, officially the Municipality of Tinoc, is a municipality in the province of Ifugao, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Tinolang manok · La uya
Tinola is a classic Filipino ginger-and-broth soup in which chicken pieces are simmered with sliced ginger, garlic, onions, and fish…
Niagara Falls of the Philippines · Tinuyan Falls (alternate spelling)
Tinuy-an Falls is a multi-tiered curtain waterfall on the Borboanon River in Bislig, Surigao del Sur, Philippines. Commonly described as…
Municipality of Tipo-Tipo · Tipo-Tipo Basilan
Tipo-Tipo, officially the Municipality of Tipo-Tipo, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
The Tiruray (also spelled Teduray) are an indigenous ethnic group of southwestern Mindanao, Philippines, living in the uplands and river…
Tirzepatide (generic / INN) · Mounjaro (brand for Type 2 diabetes)
Tirzepatide is a synthetic 39-amino-acid peptide medication developed by Eli Lilly and Company that acts as a dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic…
Municipality of Titay · Titay Zamboanga Sibugay
Titay, officially the Municipality of Titay, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Vicente Castelo Sotto III · Vicente Sotto III
Tito Sotto — Vicente Castelo Sotto III, born August 24, 1948, in Manila — is a Filipino politician, songwriter, and…
Tiyula Itum (variant spelling) · Black soup of Sulu
Tiula Itum is a prized black soup of Tausug cuisine from Sulu, in the southern Philippines, made with chicken or…
Tiulah itum (tiyula itum) is a Tausug beef soup from the Sulu archipelago distinguished by its deep black broth, colored…
Municipality of Tiwi · Tiwi Albay
Tiwi, officially the Municipality of Tiwi, is a municipality in the province of Albay, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Tianak (older spelling) · Impakto (related child-demon usage)
The tiyanak is a creature of Philippine folklore that takes the form of a baby or small child, typically heard…
Black soup of the Tausug · Tiyula itum itum
Tiyula itum is a savory black soup of Tausug cuisine from Sulu and the wider Sulu Archipelago. Its defining dark…
Pepsi Hotshots (1990–1992) · 7/Up Uncolas (1992–1993)
TNT Tropang 5G is the current name of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) franchise owned by Smart Communications, the mobile-telecoms…
Estanco de Tabacos · Estanco
The Tobacco Monopoly (Spanish estanco de tabaco) was the system established under Spanish rule by which the colonial government of…
The Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 is the principal Philippine statute governing the manufacture, sale, and use of tobacco products.…
Tobias Fornier is a coastal municipality in Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, located in the southern part of the province…
Municipality of Tobias Fornier · Tobias Fornier Antique
Tobias Fornier, officially the Municipality of Tobias Fornier, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western…
Municipality of Toboso · Toboso Negros Occidental
Toboso, officially the Municipality of Toboso, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Tocino is a Filipino sweet-cured meat, most commonly pork shoulder or loin strips marinated in a mixture of sugar, salt,…
Tokneneng is a Filipino street food of seasoned chicken or duck eggs coated in an orange-tinted batter and deep-fried until…
The Mining City of Cebu · City of Toledo
Toledo, officially the City of Toledo (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Toledo; Filipino: Lungsod ng Toledo), is a component city on the…
TRB · Toll Regulatory Board of the Philippines
The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) is the Philippine government agency that regulates all toll roads and toll facilities in the…
Tolosa is a fifth-income-class municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, facing the Leyte Gulf on the island's eastern coast.…
Tomás Lluisma Cabili — full name · Tomas Cabili — the unaccented article-title spelling
Tomás Cabili — in full Tomás Lluisma Cabili (March 7, 1903, Iligan, Misamis – March 17, 1957, Balamban, Cebu), known…
Tomás Claudio (Spanish spelling) · Private Tomas Claudio
Tomas Claudio was a Filipino soldier from Morong, Rizal, remembered as the first Filipino to die in combat in World…
Don Tomás Mapúa — the honorific styling of his later years · Tomás B. Mapúa — the conventional short name
Tomás Bautista Mapúa (December 21, 1888, Binondo, Manila – December 22, 1965, Manila) was a Filipino architect, educator, businessman, and…
Municipality of Tomas Oppus · Tomas Oppus Southern Leyte
Tomas Oppus, officially the Municipality of Tomas Oppus, is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, located within the…
Tomás Pinpin was a printer, writer, and publisher from Abucay, Bataan, celebrated as the first Filipino printer and honored as…
The Tiger of Malaya — the sobriquet earned by the 1942 Malayan campaign · Yamashita Tomoyuki — the Japanese name order
Tomoyuki Yamashita (November 8, 1885 – February 23, 1946) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army whose career spanned…
Tundun — the Old Tagalog name recorded in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription of 900 · Kingdom of Tondo — modern designation for the pre-colonial polity on the Pasig River delta
Tondo is the largest district of Manila by both area and population — 8.65 square kilometers holding an estimated 637,942…
Tondo was a precolonial polity and trading settlement on the north bank of the Pasig River delta on Manila Bay,…
The Tondo Conspiracy of 1587-1588 was the earliest documented large-scale plot by Filipino datus to overthrow Spanish colonial rule in…
Tongits · Tung-its
Tong-its is a three-player Filipino card game played with a standard 52-card deck, in which players try to shed their…
Kalinga bamboo stamping tube · Bamboo stamping tube
The tongatong is a percussion instrument of Kalinga province in the northern Philippines consisting of bamboo tubes of various lengths.…
Tongits (also tong-it) is a Filipino card game of the rummy family played by three players with a standard 52-card…
The Tongonan Geothermal Power Plant is a geothermal facility in Kananga and Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines, drawing steam from the Leyte…
Tony Tan Caktiong (born 1960) is a Filipino-Chinese entrepreneur who founded Jollibee, turning a 1975 Cubao ice-cream parlor into Jollibee…
Petersianthus quadrialatus (scientific name) · Philippine rosewood (commercial usage, loose)
Toog (Petersianthus quadrialatus) is a giant rainforest tree of the Philippines and one of the tallest flowering trees in the…
Toona calantas is a species of tree in the mahogany family (Meliaceae) found in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand, and…
TGP · TopGear.com.ph (digital edition)
Top Gear Philippines (TGP) is the Philippine edition of the BBC's Top Gear motoring media brand, launched by Summit Media…
Maranao royal house · Ancestral house of the Lanao nobility
The torogan is the great ancestral house of Maranao royalty and nobility around Lake Lanao in Mindanao: a vast single-hall…
Torre Lorenzo Development Corporation · Torre Lorenzo
Torre Lorenzo Development Corporation (TLDC) is a prominent boutique real estate developer in the Philippines. Headquartered in Makati City, the…
Torrens land registration · Torrens title system
The Torrens System is a system of land registration used in the Philippines where the government records and guarantees land…
The Philippine Torrens system · Title by registration — the principle the system operates on
The Torrens system in the Philippines is the country's system of land title by registration — the scheme under which…
Municipality of Torrijos · Torrijos Marinduque
Torrijos, officially the Municipality of Torrijos, is a municipality in the province of Marinduque, located within the MIMAROPA (Region IV-B),…
Eggplant omelette · Torta talong (short form)
Tortang talong, also known as eggplant omelette, is a Filipino omelette or fritter made by pan-frying a whole grilled eggplant…
TIEZA · Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority
The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) attached to the Department of…
Townhome · Row house (especially US usage)
A townhouse (also called townhome or row house) is a residential property type characterized by attached, multi-storey dwellings sharing one…
Republic Act No. 6969 · RA 6969
The Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990, officially Republic Act No. 6969, is the statute…
Toyota Super Corollas · Komatsu Komets — the 1973 founding name
The Toyota Comets were the founding-era Philippine Basketball Association dynasty owned by Delta Motors Corporation (now defunct) under Ricardo C.…
Toyota Kijang Innova — the Indonesian market name, its generations counted there as the fifth through seventh of the Kijang line ([Wikipedia — Toyota Innova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Innova "Toyota Innova — Wikipedia")) · Kijang Innova Reborn and Kijang Innova Zenix — the Indonesian nicknames of the second and third generations ([Wikipedia — Toyota Innova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Innova "Toyota Innova — Wikipedia"))
The Toyota Innova is a multipurpose vehicle developed under Toyota's IMV project — the "Innovative International Multi-purpose Vehicle" program —…
Toyota Utility Vehicle (TUV) — the internal Toyota designation for the multi-market program ([Wikipedia — Toyota Kijang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Kijang "Toyota Kijang — Wikipedia")) · Toyota Tamaraw / Tamaraw FX — the Philippine-market name, 1976 onward ([Wikipedia — Toyota Kijang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Kijang "Toyota Kijang — Wikipedia"))
The Toyota Kijang is a family of rear-wheel-drive, body-on-frame utility vehicles developed by Toyota beginning in 1972 — the engineering…
Toyota · TMC
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer incorporated on August 28, 1937, by Kiichiro Toyoda as a…
TMP · Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation
Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation (TMP) is the largest automotive manufacturer and distributor in the Philippines. Incorporated on August 3, 1988,…
Toyota Tamaraw FX Revo (launch designation) · Revo (usual short form)
The Toyota Revo — marketed at launch as the Tamaraw FX Revo — is a body-on-frame Asian Utility Vehicle assembled…
Toyota Tamaraw FX (third generation, 1991–2002) · Toyota Tamaraw FX Revo / Toyota Revo (fourth generation, 1998–2005)
The Toyota Tamaraw is the Philippine-market name for a line of body-on-frame utility vehicles derived from the Toyota Kijang family,…
Toyota Yaris sedan (Americas, Middle East, and other markets) · Toyota Yaris Ativ (Thailand)
The Toyota Vios is a subcompact sedan developed for Southeast Asian and adjacent markets, sold in the Philippines since June…
TUCP — the universal short form · Katipunan ng Manggagawang Pilipino (KMP) — the native name carried in the center's own record
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP; native name Katipunan ng Manggagawang Pilipino) is the largest labor center in…
TAMA — the standard abbreviation in Philippine health policy usage · TAMA of 1997 — the statutory short title's dating
The Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA), formally Republic Act No. 8423, the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997,…
Alternative Medicine Philippines · TAMA (Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act)
Traditional Medicine in the Philippines refers to the diverse body of indigenous healing knowledge, cultural beliefs, and botanical practices utilized…
Traditional medicine in the Philippines refers to indigenous healing practices, herbal remedies, and complementary therapies developed across generations. It includes…
Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act · Republic Act No. 10963
The TRAIN Law, officially designated as Republic Act No. 10963 (the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act), is a…
Trans Asia Shipping Lines · TASLI
Trans-Asia Shipping Lines, Inc. (TASLI) is a Cebu-based Philippine shipping company operating roll-on/roll-off passenger-cargo (RoPax) ferries and freighters across the…
TCT · Land Title
A Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) is the official, legally binding document issued by the Land Registration Authority (LRA) through…
TDR · Development Rights Transfer
Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) is a market-based planning tool that allows property owners to sell the development rights (allowable…
Local Transfer Tax · Real Property Transfer Tax
Transfer Tax is a local tax imposed on the sale, donation, barter, or any other mode of transferring real property…
Transport service cooperative — the formal descriptor used in program documents and cooperative names · Transportation cooperative — the styling used in the older executive orders governing the sector
A transport cooperative — in Philippine regulatory usage, a transport service cooperative — is a cooperative organized and owned by…
TNVS (the standard initialism in LTFRB issuances and media) · Transportation Network Vehicle Service (the order's full phrasing)
Transport Network Vehicle Service (TNVS) is the Philippine regulatory classification for vehicles that offer "pre-arranged transportation services for compensation" —…
Transportation in the Philippines encompasses the road, rail, air, and maritime networks that connect an archipelago of 7,641 islands. The…
The Traslación is the annual procession of the image of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo through the streets of Manila…
Feast of the Black Nazarene — the feast-day designation of which the Traslación is the principal rite · The January 9 procession — the date-based styling
The Traslación of the Black Nazarene is the January 9 procession of the Black Nazarene — the dark wooden image…
TAMAC · Flagship TAMAC
Travel Agency Management Accreditation Course (marketed under its official acronym TAMAC) is the flagship training program of Xenials Business Solutions…
Article 114 of the Revised Penal Code — the statutory citation form · The crime of treason against the Philippines
Treason is the gravest of the crimes against national security in Philippine law, defined and punished by Article 114 of…
Treaty of General Relations — the official short title in Philippine and American treaty practice · Treaty of General Relations and Protocol — the full formal styling
The Treaty of Manila, formally the Treaty of General Relations (and Protocol) between the United States of America and the…
Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain — formal title · Paris Peace Treaty of 1898
The Treaty of Paris (1898), formally the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, was the agreement signed…
Tratado de Tordesillas (Spanish and Portuguese designation) · The Tordesillas line / the line of demarcation
The Treaty of Tordesillas (Spanish and Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesillas) is the agreement signed on June 7, 1494 at Tordesillas,…
Tratado de Zaragoza — the Spanish designation · Capitulation of Zaragoza — the styling this wiki's Spanish East Indies entry carries
The Treaty of Zaragoza (Spanish Tratado de Zaragoza; styled the Capitulation of Zaragoza in this wiki's Spanish East Indies entry)…
1. Definition Trece Martires, officially the City of Trece Martires, is a component city and the de facto seat of…
Municipality of Trento · Trento Agusan del Sur
Trento, officially the Municipality of Trento, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, located within the Caraga…
All-trans retinoic acid · ATRA
Tretinoin is a biologically active chemical compound widely utilized in both clinical dermatology and commercial skincare formulations for its therapeutic…
Estrada plunder case · Sandiganbayan Criminal Case No. 26558
The Trial of Joseph Estrada refers to the plunder and perjury proceedings brought against Joseph Ejercito Estrada, the 13th President…
Motorized tricycle · Traysikel
Tricycle in the Philippine context — Filipino traysikel — is a motorized public transport vehicle consisting of an imported motorcycle…
Taklobo (Philippine name) · Giant clam
Tridacna gigas, the giant clam and taklobo in the Philippines, is the largest living bivalve mollusk, growing more than a…
Trifocal Education Governance Model · Philippine Education Three-Agency Structure
The trifocalized education system is the organizational structure of education governance in the Philippines. It divides administrative authority into three…
Stenosing tenosynovitis · Trigger thumb
Trigger Finger (stenosing tenosynovitis) is a painful orthopedic condition where a finger or thumb becomes stuck in a bent position…
Municipality of Trinidad · Trinidad Bohol
Trinidad, officially the Municipality of Trinidad, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
The capitana — her role as flagship of the five-ship fleet · Nao Trinidad — her designation as a nao, or carrack
The Trinidad was a Spanish nao (carrack) of 100 to 110 tonels — roughly 120 to 132 toneladas — and…
T. H. Pardo de Tavera — his standard scholarly signature · Trinidad Hermenegildo José María Juan Francisco Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho — full baptismal name
Trinidad Pardo de Tavera — in full Trinidad Hermenegildo José María Juan Francisco Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho (April 13,…
Mother of Biak-na-Bato · Mother of Biak na Bato
Trinidad Perez Tecson (November 18, 1848 – January 28, 1928) was a Filipina revolutionary of the Katipunan, born in San…
Triangle North of Manila · North Triangle Commercial Center (construction-era name)
TriNoma (a syllabic abbreviation of "Triangle North of Manila") is a large shopping mall of the Ayala Malls chain —…
Troides plateni, common name Dr. Platen's birdwing, is a large birdwing butterfly endemic to the Philippines, recorded from Palawan, Balabac,…
Troides rhadamantus, the golden birdwing, is one of the largest butterflies of the Philippines and is endemic to the country.…
Tropical Cyclone Naming (the practice of assigning names, treated as a topic in its own right) · Tropical cyclone names / Storm naming (variants of the naming topic)
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level circulation, strong winds,…
PAGASA tropical cyclone naming (the domestic scheme) · Typhoon Committee naming scheme / ESCAP-WMO list (the international scheme)
Tropical cyclone naming is the practice of assigning short, familiar names to individual tropical cyclones so that warnings, news reports,…
TCWS · Wind signals
Tropical Cyclone Wind Signals (TCWS) — in Filipino usage simply "signal numbers" or bagyong signal — are the numbered public…
Southeast Asian Tropical Fruits · Regional Botanical Fruits
Tropical Fruits of Southeast Asia refers to the diverse group of fruit-bearing plant species native to or widely cultivated in…
TMA · Truck Manufacturers Association, Inc.
The Truck Manufacturers Association, Inc. (TMA) is the Philippine industry association of manufacturers, assemblers, and distributors of trucks, buses, and…
Dulaglutide Injection (Trulicity) · Once-Weekly Dulaglutide for Diabetes
Trulicity is a brand name for once-weekly subcutaneous injectable dulaglutide, a long-acting glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist. It is indicated…
Forest tea · Wild tea
Tsaang Gubat (Carmona retusa Vahl., also known as Ehretia microphylla), commonly known as forest tea, is an erect, highly branched…
Tsokolate is the traditional Philippine hot chocolate drink made from tablea or tablets of roasted, finely ground cacao nibs, cooked…
Municipality of Tuao · Tuao Cagayan
Tuao, officially the Municipality of Tuao, is a municipality in the province of Cagayan, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Tuasan Falls is a waterfall in the uplands of Camiguin island, Philippines, where a strong stream drops into a natural…
Municipality of Tuba · Tuba Benguet
Tuba, officially the Municipality of Tuba, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Coconut toddy · Tuba (Philippine palm wine)
Tuba is the traditional Philippine palm wine made from the fermented sap of coconut or nipa inflorescences. Sap is collected…
Municipality of Tubajon · Tubajon Dinagat Islands
Tubajon, officially the Municipality of Tubajon, is a municipality in the province of Dinagat Islands, located within the Caraga (Region…
Municipality of Tubao · Tubao La Union
Tubao, officially the Municipality of Tubao, is a municipality in the province of La Union, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Tubaran · Tubaran Lanao del Sur
Tubaran, officially the Municipality of Tubaran, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
Municipality of Tubay · Tubay Agusan del Norte
Tubay, officially the Municipality of Tubay, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Tubbataha Natural Park · Tubbataha Reef
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park is a marine protected area and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the middle of the…
Tubigon Port · "The Port Town of Bohol"
Tubigon is a first-class municipality on the northwestern coast of Bohol, Philippines, and the principal seaport gateway of the province.…
Municipality of Tublay · Tublay Benguet
Tublay, officially the Municipality of Tublay, is a municipality in the province of Benguet, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Tubo · Tubo Abra
Tubo, officially the Municipality of Tubo, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Tubod · Tubod Surigao del Norte
Tubod, officially the Municipality of Tubod, is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, located within the Caraga…
Municipality of Tubungan · Tubungan Iloilo
Tubungan, officially the Municipality of Tubungan, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Tuburan · Tuburan Basilan
Tuburan, officially the Municipality of Tuburan, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Tuburan, officially the Municipality of Tuburan, is a northwestern coastal municipality of Cebu province facing the Tañon Strait, home to…
Tudaya Falls is a waterfall on the Sibulan River in Davao del Sur, Philippines, dropping into a gorge within the…
Municipality of Tudela · Tudela Misamis Occidental
Tudela, officially the Municipality of Tudela, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Occidental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Tugaya · Tugaya Lanao del Sur
Tugaya, officially the Municipality of Tugaya, is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, located within the Bangsamoro…
City of Tuguegarao · Tuguegarao
Tuguegarao, officially the City of Tuguegarao, is a component city and the capital of the province of Cagayan, Philippines. It…
Tukuran is a second-income-class coastal municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, sitting on the isthmus of the Zamboanga Peninsula along…
The Tullahan River is a river north of Manila in the Philippines, approximately 27.1 kilometers long. It rises at the…
Municipality of Tulunan · Tulunan Cotabato
Tulunan, officially the Municipality of Tulunan, is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII),…
Tumalog Falls is a tall curtain-style waterfall in Barangay Tumalog, Oslob, Cebu, where water fans down a wide, mossy limestone…
The Tumandok (also Tumandok, "native" or "first inhabitants"; ethnographic literature: Sulod or Suludnon, also Panay-Bukidnon) are an indigenous Visayan people…
Municipality of Tumauini · Tumauini Isabela
Tumauini, officially the Municipality of Tumauini, is a municipality in the province of Isabela, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
San Matias Parish Church (formal parish name) · Tumauini Baroque Church (descriptive usage)
The Tumauini Church, formally the San Matias Parish Church in Tumauini, Isabela, is a late-eighteenth-century Baroque church celebrated as a…
Tumbang Preso ("knock down the can" or "down the prisoner") is a traditional Filipino children's game in which players throw…
GenSan Tuna Festival · General Santos Tuna Festival
The Tuna Festival is the annual festival of General Santos City, Philippines, held every September in celebration of the city's…
GenSan Tuna Festival · Tuna Festival
The Tuna Festival is a week-long annual festival held in General Santos City during the first week of September, celebrating…
Municipality of Tunga · Tunga Leyte
Tunga, officially the Municipality of Tunga, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Tungawan · Tungawan Zamboanga Sibugay
Tungawan, officially the Municipality of Tungawan, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula…
Municipality of Tupi · Tupi South Cotabato
Tupi, officially the Municipality of Tupi, is a municipality in the province of South Cotabato, located within the SOCCSKSARGEN (Region…
Tinupig · Intemtém
Tupig is a Filipino native delicacy made from glutinous rice flour mixed with coconut milk or young coconut strips and…
Turon is a Philippine street snack of saba banana slices (often with jackfruit) rolled in spring-roll wrapper, coated in brown…
Municipality of Turtle Islands · Turtle Islands Tawi-Tawi
Turtle Islands, officially the Municipality of Turtle Islands, is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, located within the Bangsamoro…
The Turtle Islands Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the municipality of Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi, in the Sulu Sea…
The Turumba Festival is a distinctive Marian religious festival in Pakil, Laguna, honoring the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de…
Trumpo · Turumpo game
Turumpo is the Filipino whipping top, a pointed wooden spindle fitted with a nail tip that players launch spinning by…
Tuslobbuwa · Tuslob-buwa
Tuslob buwa is a Cebuano street food that originated in the coastal barangays of Pasil and Suba in Cebu City,…
Tuwaang is a Manobo epic hero celebrated in sung tales across Mindanao, famous for episodes such as "Tuwaang Attends a…
Tuy is a fourth-income-class agricultural municipality in central Batangas, Philippines, established on August 12, 1866. It is known primarily for…
TV Patrol · TV Patrol World (2004–2010 title)
TV Patrol is the flagship Filipino-language evening television news broadcast of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, launched on March 2,…
TV5 · 5
TV5 Network, Inc. is a Philippine media company and commercial broadcast network, known on-air as TV5 (historically Channel 5 or…
TVJ Productions, Inc. · TVJ Productions Inc.
TVJ Productions, Inc. is a Philippine television production company incorporated on June 7, 2023 by the noontime trio Tito Sotto,…
The Twin Lagoons are two connected brackish lagoons on Coron Island, Palawan, Philippines, separated by a narrow limestone gap that…
Philippine Independence Act — the statute's formal short title · Public Law 73-127 — the United States legal citation
The Tydings-McDuffie Act, formally the Philippine Independence Act (Public Law 73-127, 48 Stat. 456), is the United States statute approved…
T2DM · Type 2 diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from insulin resistance and progressive decline…
Bagyo (Filipino generic term for tropical cyclone) · Hurricane (equivalent Atlantic and Northeast Pacific term)
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the Northwestern Pacific basin — the region between 100°E and…
Typhoon Rosing (PAGASA local name) · Super Typhoon Angela
Typhoon Angela, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Rosing, was an intense November 1995 typhoon that slashed through Bicol and…
Typhoon Loleng (PAGASA local name) · Typhoon 11W (Joint Typhoon Warning Center designation)
Typhoon Babs, known locally as Typhoon Loleng, was a powerful October 1998 typhoon that struck Catanduanes and the Bicol region…
Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pablo, was a Category 5 super typhoon that struck Mindanao in early…
Halsey's Typhoon · Typhoon of 1944
Typhoon Cobra — also known in the historical record as the Typhoon of 1944 and Halsey's Typhoon, after the admiral…
Typhoon Reming (Philippine name) · Super Typhoon Reming
Typhoon Durian (Philippine name Reming) was a powerful typhoon that struck the Philippines from November 26 to December 1, 2006,…
Typhoon Frank, internationally designated Typhoon Fengshen (2008), was a severe tropical cyclone that crossed the central Philippines in June 2008,…
Typhoon Lawin (PAGASA local name) · Super Typhoon Haima
Typhoon Haima, known locally as Typhoon Lawin, was a super typhoon that struck northern Luzon in October 2016. Peaking at…
Yolanda · Typhoon Yolanda
Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines by its local name Yolanda, was one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever…
Typhoon Nitang (Philippine name)
Typhoon Ike (Philippine name Nitang) was an intense typhoon that struck the Philippines in late August and early September 1984,…
Typhoon Rita (1978) — the international-name styling · Typhoon Rita — the basin name carried through its life
Typhoon Kading — international name Rita, the October 1978 typhoon of the Northwestern Pacific — was a Category 5-equivalent super…
Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was a catastrophic tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon…
Typhoon Lando (PAGASA local name) · Typhoon 24W (Joint Typhoon Warning Center designation)
Typhoon Koppu, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Lando, was a slow-moving typhoon that inundated large areas of Luzon in…
Typhoon Mike, named Ruping by PAGASA, was the strongest typhoon to strike the Philippines since Irma in 1981 and Nina…
Typhoon Pedring (PAGASA local name) · Typhoon 20W (Joint Typhoon Warning Center designation)
Typhoon Nesat, known locally as Typhoon Pedring, was a large September 2011 typhoon that struck Luzon with a wide wind…
Typhoon Karding (PAGASA local name) · Super Typhoon Noru
Typhoon Noru, locally named Typhoon Karding, was a rapidly intensifying tropical cyclone that struck Luzon in September 2022. After exploding…
Typhoon Rai · Rai
Typhoon Odette (international name Rai) was the December 2021 super typhoon that crossed the central Philippines from Siargao to Palawan…
Typhoon Ompong, internationally designated Typhoon Mangkhut, was the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2018 and the strongest to make Philippine…
Typhoon Ketsana · Tropical Storm Ondoy
Typhoon Ondoy — internationally Typhoon Ketsana, Japan Meteorological Agency designation 0916 — was the cyclone whose September 26, 2009 deluge…
Typhoon Bopha (international name) · Super Typhoon Pablo
Typhoon Pablo (international name Bopha) was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike the Philippine island of Mindanao at…
Typhoon Paeng, internationally designated Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae (2022), was a slow-moving tropical cyclone that lashed the Philippines in late…
Typhoon Ursula (PAGASA local name) · Typhoon 29W (Joint Typhoon Warning Center designation)
Typhoon Phanfone, known locally as Typhoon Ursula, was a December 2019 typhoon that crossed the central Philippines on Christmas week,…
Typhoon Odette (PAGASA local name) · Super Typhoon Rai
Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines in…
Typhoon Glenda (PAGASA local name) · Typhoon 09W (Joint Typhoon Warning Center designation)
Typhoon Rammasun, locally named Typhoon Glenda, was a powerful July 2014 typhoon that battered Southern Luzon and Metro Manila. After…
Typhoon Reming, internationally designated Typhoon Durian (2006), was a powerful typhoon that struck the Bicol region in late November and…
Typhoon Goni · Super Typhoon Rolly
Typhoon Rolly (international name Typhoon Goni) was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines in late October and…
Typhoon Rosing, internationally designated Typhoon Angela, was one of the most intense and deadliest typhoons to hit the Philippines in…
Typhoon Ruby, internationally designated Typhoon Hagupit (2014), was a strong typhoon that struck Eastern Samar in December 2014, barely a…
Typhoon Sendong, internationally named Tropical Storm Washi, struck northern Mindanao on the night of 16–17 December 2011, unleashing flash floods…
Typhoon Vamco · Vamco
Typhoon Ulysses — internationally Typhoon Vamco, the international name contributed by Vietnam after the Vàm Cỏ river, and recorded in…
Typhoon Ulysses, internationally designated Typhoon Vamco (2020), was a typhoon that crossed Luzon on 11–12 November 2020 and triggered the…
Typhoon Ulysses · Typhoon Ulysses (2020)
Typhoon Vamco, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ulysses, was the November 2020 tropical cyclone that battered Luzon with a…
Typhoon Xangsane, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Milenyo, was a strong and deadly typhoon of the 2006 Pacific typhoon…
Typhoon Diding — the PAGASA name under which the storm entered the Philippine record · T9105 — the international cyclone designation
Typhoon Yunya (international designation T9105; JTWC designation 05W; PAGASA name Diding) was the June 1991 typhoon whose Luzon landfall coincided,…
Municipality of Ubay · Ubay Bohol
Ubay, officially the Municipality of Ubay, is a municipality in the province of Bohol, located within the Central Visayas (Region…
Ube jam · Halayang ube
Ube halaya is a Filipino dessert made by grating purple yam (ube, Dioscorea alata) and slowly cooking it with milk,…
Purple yam ice cream · Ube flavored ice cream
Ube ice cream is a Filipino frozen dessert flavored with ube — the purple yam (Dioscorea alata) — giving it…
Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American ride-hailing and delivery company founded in March 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick…
Udenna (standard shorthand in Philippine business media) · Udenna Corp. (form used in news reports and corporate statements)
Udenna Corporation is a holding company and conglomerate based in Davao City, Philippines, founded on March 19, 2002 by the…
Okoy · Filipino shrimp fritters
Ukoy (also spelled okoy) is a Filipino dish of crispy deep-fried fritters made from small shrimp — often cooked whole…
The Ulalim is the epic cycle of the Kalinga people of the Cordillera region in northern Luzon, chanted in Kalinga…
Pansit-pansitan · Shiny bush
Ulasimang Bato (Peperomia pellucida L.), commonly known as pansit-pansitan or shiny bush, is an annual, shallow-rooted herb native to the…
Microfocused Ultrasound with Visualization (MFU-V) · Ulthera
Ultherapy is a non-invasive, FDA-cleared aesthetic procedure that utilizes microfocused ultrasound with visualization (MFU-V) to lift and tighten the skin…
Ultrasonic Cavitation · Lipo Cavitation
Ultrasound Cavitation (also known as ultrasonic cavitation or lipocavitology) is a non-invasive body contouring procedure that utilizes low-frequency ultrasound waves…
Municipality of Umingan · Umingan Pangasinan
Umingan, officially the Municipality of Umingan, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
UH
Unang Hirit — Tagalog for "first strike," the idiom of the one who moves first — is a Philippine television…
Undas is the Filipino observance of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day (November 1–2), when families across the Philippines…
Undercoating Davao City · undercoatingdavao.com
Undercoating Davao is an automotive undercoating, rust-proofing, and underbody-protection service operating in Davao City, Philippines, published at undercoatingdavao.com. The business…
World Heritage Site · UNESCO Heritage Landmark
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a landmark or area designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization…
Philippine World Heritage Sites · The Philippines' World Heritage List inscriptions
The UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Philippines are the six properties of the country inscribed on the World Heritage…
Municipality of Ungkaya Pukan · Ungkaya Pukan Basilan
Ungkaya Pukan, officially the Municipality of Ungkaya Pukan, is a municipality in the province of Basilan, located within the Bangsamoro…
North Avenue Joint Station · Quezon City Transit Hub
The Unified Grand Central Station (officially the North Avenue Joint Station) is a massive state-of-the-art transit hub under construction in…
Unioil Petroleum Philippines, Inc. (corporate name) · Unioil (retail brand)
Unioil (Unioil Petroleum Philippines, Inc.) is a family-founded independent fuel retailer that has built its brand around a "cleaner fuels"…
Union Obrera Democratica Filipina · UOD
The Unión Obrera Democrática (UOD) was the first labor federation of the Philippines — "the first-ever modern trade union federation…
Municipality of Unisan · Unisan Quezon
Unisan, officially the Municipality of Unisan, is a municipality in the province of Quezon, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…
BBM–Sara tandem · Marcos–Duterte tandem
The UniTeam was the Philippine electoral alliance formed in November 2021 to contest the May 9, 2022 national elections behind…
UCPB · Cocobank
The United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) was a Philippine universal bank that began in 1963 as a small commercial bank…
UNIDO — the acronym by which the coalition is known throughout the literature · United Democratic Opposition — the coalition's name from its January 1980 founding to its April 1982 renaming
The United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO) was the principal opposition coalition of the late Marcos era — the electoral umbrella…
UN — the standard abbreviation · The UN — the everyday designation
The United Nations (UN) is the intergovernmental organization founded by the United Nations Charter, drawn up at the San Francisco…
UNCLOS · UNCLOS 1982
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), adopted in 1982 at the conclusion of the Third…
UNDRIP · DOTROIP
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a comprehensive international human-rights instrument adopted by the…
United States of America · USA
The United States, officially the United States of America (abbreviated as USA or U.S.), is a federal republic primarily located…
The Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (Republic Act No. 10931, 2017) established free tuition and other fees for…
1. Definition Universal design is the design of products, environments, and buildings to be usable by all people, to the…
1. Definition Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on cognitive neuroscience research that guides the development…
Republic Act 11223 · RA 11223
The Universal Health Care Act (officially designated as Republic Act No. 11223) is a landmark health reform law in the…
UMC · Universal Motors
Universal Motors Corporation (UMC) is a Filipino-owned automotive assembly and distribution company based in Makati City, established on April 2,…
UAAP — the universal abbreviation in Philippine sports usage · The UAAP — the definite-article styling of broadcast and reportorial usage
The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) is the Philippines' premier collegiate athletic association, established on September 27, 1938,…
The University of Eastern Philippines (UEP) is a public state university in Catarman, Northern Samar, Philippines. Established in the 1960s…
USC · San Carlos — the colloquial Cebu styling
The University of San Carlos (USC) is a private Catholic research university in Cebu City, administered by the Society of…
UST — the standard abbreviation in Philippine education reporting · Unibersidad ng Santo Tomás — the Filipino name of the university
The University of Santo Tomas (abbreviation UST; Filipino Unibersidad ng Santo Tomás) is a private Catholic research university in Sampaloc,…
UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery · USTFMS
The University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (USTFMS) is the medical school of the University of Santo…
UST Hospital — the standard abbreviation · USTH — the initialism of Philippine medical reporting
The University of Santo Tomas Hospital (UST Hospital or USTH) is the private, non-stock, non-profit Catholic teaching hospital of the…
The University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP) is a state university in the Davao Region, with its main campus in the…
UP — the universal short form, styled "U.P." in the university's formal usage · Unibersidad ng Pilipinas — the Filipino name
The University of the Philippines (Filipino: Unibersidad ng Pilipinas; universally UP) is the national university of the Philippines — a…
The University of the Philippines Baguio (UP Baguio or UPB) is the smallest constituent university of the UP System, located…
The University of the Philippines Cebu (UP Cebu) is the oldest constituent unit of the UP System outside Luzon, located…
UP Diliman · UPD
The University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman, UPD) is the flagship campus and largest constituent university of the University…
UPLB (standard initialism) · UP Los Baños
The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) is a public research university and autonomous constituent university of the University…
The University of the Philippines Manila (UP Manila) is the health-sciences constituent university of the University of the Philippines System,…
The University of the Philippines Mindanao (UP Mindanao or UPMin) is the constituent university of the UP System serving Mindanao,…
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) is the constituent university of the UP System mandated to deliver distance…
UP System
The University of the Philippines System is the national university system of the Philippines — the whole of the University…
The University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) is the constituent university of the UP System specializing in fisheries, marine sciences,…
1. Definition Unschooling is a form of learner-centered, interest-driven education where children learn through their natural life experiences, play, household…
Municipality of Upi · Upi Maguindanao
Upi, officially the Municipality of Upi, is a municipality in the province of Maguindanao, located within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region…
Upo is the Filipino name for the bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), one of humanity's oldest cultivated plants, grown in the…
Uptown Bonifacio · Uptown BGC
Uptown Bonifacio is a 15.4-hectare master-planned mixed-use township development located in the northern portion of Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City,…
Arrowroot cookies · Araro
Uraro (also spelled araro) are delicate Philippine cookies made from arrowroot starch, butter or margarine, sugar, eggs, and milk, piped…
Municipality of Urbiztondo · Urbiztondo Pangasinan
Urbiztondo, officially the Municipality of Urbiztondo, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Urdaneta is a first income-class component city in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines. Centrally located in…
USAFFE — the United States Army Forces in the Far East — was the combined military command created by President…
Usog is a Filipino folk belief in which the gaze or greeting of a visitor or stranger, especially one said…
Municipality of Uson · Uson Masbate
Uson, officially the Municipality of Uson, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
CVE-70 · CVHE-70
USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy — one of fifty mass-produced "jeep…
USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) · Gambier Bay (CVE-73)
USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy, built by the Kaiser Company at…
MCM-5 · Guardian
USS Guardian (MCM-5) was a United States Navy Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship — a 68-meter minesweeper with a wooden hull…
USS Hoel (DD-533) · Hoel (DD-533)
USS Hoel (DD-533) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at San…
USS Johnston (DD-557) · Johnston (DD-557)
USS Johnston (DD-557) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant John V. Johnston, an American…
USS Maine (ACR-1) — later U.S. Navy designation · USS Maine (1889) — Encyclopedia-title form distinguishing her from later ships of the name
USS Maine (later designated ACR-1) was a United States Navy second-class battleship, also styled an armored cruiser — ordered on…
Mighty Mo — the ship's documented nickname · Muddy Mo — a variant nickname recorded after her 1950 grounding
The USS Missouri (BB-63) — nicknamed "Mighty Mo" — is an Iowa-class battleship of the United States Navy, the last…
Olympia (C-6) — protected-cruiser designation · Cruiser No. 6 — pre-1920 hull-numbering style
The USS Olympia (C-6) is a protected cruiser of the United States Navy, built at the Union Iron Works in…
Samuel B. Roberts · USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, built by Brown…
USS Chapin Bay · USS Midway (CVE-63)
USS St. Lo (CVE-63) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy, built by the Kaiser shipyard at…
Usufructuary Right · Usufruct Agreement
Usufruct, in the Philippines, is a real property right established under the Civil Code of the Philippines (Articles 562 to…
Utang na loob, literally "debt of the inner self," is a core Filipino value describing a deep, open-ended obligation of…
FX (the 1990s generic term, from the Toyota Tamaraw FX) · FX taxi
UV Express — short for Utility Vehicle Express — is the Philippine regulatory classification and common name for a shared-taxi…
Municipality of Uyugan · Uyugan Batanes
Uyugan, officially the Municipality of Uyugan, is a municipality in the province of Batanes, located within the Cagayan Valley (Region…
Ivatan headdress · Vakul headgear
The vakul is the traditional headdress worn by Ivatan women of Batanes province, woven from the fibers of the voyavoy…
Valderrama is an inland municipality in Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, lying along the interior of the province away from…
Municipality of Valderrama · Valderrama Antique
Valderrama, officially the Municipality of Valderrama, is a municipality in the province of Antique, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Valencia · Valencia Negros Oriental
Valencia, officially the Municipality of Valencia, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
City of Valencia · Valencia
Valencia City, officially the City of Valencia, is a component city in the province of Bukidnon, Philippines. Located in the…
Valentín Díaz (1 November 1845 – 11 December 1916) was a Filipino patriot from Paoay, Ilocos Norte who was among…
The Industrial Hub of Northern Metro Manila · City of Valenzuela
Valenzuela, officially the City of Valenzuela (Filipino: Lungsod ng Valenzuela), is a highly urbanized first-class city in the northern part…
Vallacar Transit — the operating company, a distinct entry in this wiki · Vallacar Transit, Inc. (VTI)
Vallacar Transit, Inc. (VTI) is a Filipino bus company headquartered in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, and the operator…
Municipality of Valladolid · Valladolid Negros Occidental
Valladolid, officially the Municipality of Valladolid, is a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, located within the Western Visayas…
Municipality of Vallehermoso · Vallehermoso Negros Oriental
Vallehermoso, officially the Municipality of Vallehermoso, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
West Valley Fault · Valley Fault System (VFS) — the PHIVOLCS designation
The Valley Fault System (VFS) is a dominantly right-lateral (dextral) strike-slip fault system in Luzon, Philippines, traversing Metro Manila and…
Real estate VAT · 12% VAT on property
Value-Added Tax (Real Estate) is a consumption tax imposed in the Philippines on the sale, lease, or transfer of real…
Vanda lamellata is an orchid species native to the Philippines and parts of Micronesia, prized for its waxy, long-lasting flowers…
Luzon vanda (English trade name)
Vanda luzonica is a large, fragrant orchid species endemic to Luzon island in the Philippines, named after its island home.…
The Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act (Republic Act No. 11900) is the Philippine law regulating the manufacture, importation,…
Varanus bitatawa, the northern Sierra Madre forest monitor, is a large, brightly colored, fruit-eating monitor lizard endemic to the forests…
Large-scaled water monitor (English common name) · Philippine water monitor (informal usage)
Varanus nuchalis, the large-scaled water monitor, is a heavy-bodied monitor lizard endemic to the central Philippine islands, including Panay, Negros,…
1. Definition The VARK questionnaire is a widely used diagnostic tool developed by Neil Fleming in 1987 that categorizes individual…
Vatica mangachapoi, the mangachapoi, is a dipterocarp tree endemic to the Philippines whose durable timber was historically prized — including…
Vatica odorata is a dipterocarp tree endemic to the Philippines, one of the archipelago's many Vatica hardwoods, named for the…
1. Definition The VCIS Homestudy Program is a DepEd-accredited Christian homeschool program offered by Victory Christian International School (VCIS) in…
Velez College · Velez
Velez College is a private, non-sectarian college in Cebu City, Philippines, specializing in allied health sciences education — particularly Medical…
Isla Verde · Verde Island barangay (Batangas City)
Verde Island is a small volcanic island in the Verde Island Passage between the provinces of Batangas and Oriental Mindoro,…
VIP (standard initialism) · The center of the center (scientific nickname)
The Verde Island Passage (VIP) is the strait separating the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines, linking the…
Veritas Newsweekly was a Philippine weekly newsmagazine of the anti-Marcos "alternative press," launched in November 1983, weeks after the assassination…
Vermosa · Vermosa Cavite
Vermosa is a 700-hectare master-planned mixed-use estate development located in the cities of Imus and Dasmariñas in Cavite, Philippines. Developed…
1. Definition Vertis North is a 45-hectare mixed-use estate developed by Ayala Land, Inc. in partnership with the National Housing…
Municipality of Veruela · Veruela Agusan del Sur
Veruela, officially the Municipality of Veruela, is a municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, located within the Caraga…
VLCD · Medical Crash Diet
A very low-calorie diet (VLCD) is a clinically supervised dietary intervention that restricts energy intake to 800 calories (3,350 kilojoules)…
Marvic Valentin Castelo Sotto · Marvic Sotto
Vic Sotto — Marvic Valentin Castelo Sotto, born April 28, 1954, in Manila — is a Filipino actor, comedian, singer,…
Pangalawang Pangulo ng Pilipinas — the Filipino designation · VP of the Philippines — the common abbreviation
The Vice President of the Philippines (Filipino: Pangalawang Pangulo ng Pilipinas) is the second-highest elective office of the Philippines —…
Vicente Gregorio Baltazar Lava Sr. · Dr. Vicente Lava
Vicente Lava (December 24, 1894 – September 16, 1947), in full Vicente Gregorio Baltazar Lava Sr., was a Filipino chemist…
Vicente Lukban (1860–1916) was a Filipino revolutionary general and legislator from Camarines Sur who fought in both the Philippine Revolution…
Vicente Silva Manansala (full name; Silva is the maternal middle name) · "Mang Enteng" (familial press appellation)
Vicente Manansala (January 22, 1910 – August 22, 1981) was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator, born in San Roque,…
Don Vicente Rama — the honorific styling of Cebu usage · Nyor Inting — the Cebuano familiar styling
Vicente Rama (June 6, 1887, Cebu – December 24, 1956, Cebu City) was a Filipino legislator, journalist, and publisher —…
Vicente Yap Sotto — the given-name order used in Cebu commemoration · Vicente Sotto y Yap — the full Spanish-style styling
Vicente Sotto y Yap (April 18, 1877 – May 28, 1950), also styled Vicente Yap Sotto, was a Cebuano journalist,…
VSMMC · Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center
The Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) is a tertiary government hospital in Cebu City, Philippines, and the largest government…
Victoria Torres Morales-Reyno — her full married name, styling the paternal surname Morales and the married surname Reyno · Victoria Torres Morales — her maiden name in full
Vicky Morales (Victoria Torres Morales-Reyno; born July 10, 1969, in Manila) is a Filipino broadcast journalist and television presenter who…
Vicor · Vicor Music Corporation
Vicor Music is the trade name of the Vicor Music Corporation, a Filipino record label founded in 1966 by the…
Municipality of Victoria · Victoria Northern Samar
Victoria, officially the Municipality of Victoria, is a municipality in the province of Northern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…
Nao Victoria — the Spanish designation carried by the replicas · The first ship to circumnavigate the globe — the descriptive title in Spanish commemorations
The Victoria was a Spanish carrack (nao) of 85 tonels — roughly 51 English shipping tons — built in the…
Vicki Belo · Vicki Belo-Henares
Dr. Victoria "Vicki" Gonzalez Belo-Henares (born January 25, 1956) is a prominent Filipino aesthetic dermatologist, entrepreneur, and media personality. She…
City of Victorias · Victorias
Victorias, officially the City of Victorias, is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. It is famous…
Victorino Montaño Mapa · Victorino M. Mapa
Victorino Mapa (Victorino Montaño Mapa; February 25, 1855, Kalibo, Capiz – April 12, 1927, Manila) was a Filipino jurist, the…
Victory Liner Inc
Victory Liner — legally Victory Liner Inc. — is one of the largest provincial bus companies in the Philippines, operating…
Liraglutide Injection (Victoza) · Daily Liraglutide for Diabetes
Victoza is a brand name for once-daily subcutaneous injectable liraglutide approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. It…
Municipality of Viga · Viga Catanduanes
Viga, officially the Municipality of Viga, is a municipality in the province of Catanduanes, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
City of Vigan · Vigan
Vigan, officially the City of Vigan, is a component city and the capital of the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines.…
Ilocos empanada · Empanada Ilokana
The Vigan empanada is a deep-fried street-food pastry associated with Vigan, Ilocos Sur, made with a rice-flour crust tinted orange…
Vigan longganisa is a small, plump Filipino pork sausage from Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, distinguished by an assertive garlic, salt,…
Municipality of Villaba · Villaba Leyte
Villaba, officially the Municipality of Villaba, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Villanueva · Villanueva Misamis Oriental
Villanueva, officially the Municipality of Villanueva, is a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, located within the Northern Mindanao…
Municipality of Villareal · Villareal Samar
Villareal, officially the Municipality of Villareal, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
Municipality of Villasis · Villasis Pangasinan
Villasis, officially the Municipality of Villasis, is a municipality in the province of Pangasinan, located within the Ilocos Region (Region…
Municipality of Villaverde · Villaverde Nueva Vizcaya
Villaverde, officially the Municipality of Villaverde, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, located within the Cagayan Valley…
Municipality of Villaviciosa · Villaviciosa Abra
Villaviciosa, officially the Municipality of Villaviciosa, is a municipality in the province of Abra, located within the Cordillera Administrative Region…
Municipality of Vincenzo A. Sagun · Vincenzo A. Sagun Zamboanga del Sur
Vincenzo A. Sagun, officially the Municipality of Vincenzo A. Sagun, is a municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur,…
Lepa-lepa (regional) · Sakayan (regional)
A vinta is a traditional Philippine outrigger boat with a colorful rectangular sail bearing vertical bands of red, white, blue,…
Municipality of Vintar · Vintar Ilocos Norte
Vintar, officially the Municipality of Vintar, is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, located within the Ilocos Region…
Municipality of Vinzons · Vinzons Camarines Norte
Vinzons, officially the Municipality of Vinzons, is a municipality in the province of Camarines Norte, located within the Bicol Region…
Virac Catanduanes · Capital of Catanduanes
Virac is a first-income-class municipality and the capital of Catanduanes in the Bicol Region of the Philippines. Located on an…
Municipality of Virac · Virac Catanduanes
Virac, officially the Municipality of Virac, is a municipality in the province of Catanduanes, located within the Bicol Region (Region…
Virac Airport is a domestic airport serving Virac, the capital of Catanduanes province, Philippines. Situated on the island's capital town,…
Virgilio Senadren Almario, better known by his pen name Rio Alma (born 1944), is a Filipino poet, critic, translator, editor,…
VCO · Virgin Coconut Oil
Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is a category of coconut oil obtained from the fresh, mature kernel of the coconut (Cocos…
Sarcophanops samarensis (scientific name) · Samar broadbill (older English name)
The Visayan broadbill (Sarcophanops samarensis) is a small, striking passerine endemic to the islands of Samar, Leyte, and Bohol in…
Rhipidura samarensis
The Visayan Fantail (Rhipidura samarensis) is a small insectivorous songbird endemic to the central Philippines, occurring on Samar and neighboring…
Tarictic hornbill · Tarictic
The Visayan hornbill (Penelopides panini), known locally as the tarictic, is a hornbill species endemic to the Visayas region of…
The Visayan leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis rabori) is a small spotted wild cat native to the Visayan islands of the…
The Visayan Shama (Copsychus superciliaris) is a small songbird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, endemic to the islands…
The Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi), also called the Philippine spotted deer, is a small, endangered deer endemic to the…
The Visayan warty pig (Sus cebifrons) is a small, critically endangered pig species endemic to the Visayan Islands of the…
The Visayan Wrinkled Hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni), also called Walden's hornbill, is a large, critically endangered hornbill endemic to the Western…
Visayan Islands — the Library of Congress form and the older English styling · Bisayas — the Spanish-era form still current in historical writing
The Visayas is the island group of the central Philippines, one of the country's three principal geographical divisions along with…
Intra-Abdominal Fat · Organ Fat
Visceral Fat, clinically known as intra-abdominal adipose tissue, is body fat that is stored within the abdominal cavity, surrounding internal…
Visita Iglesia is a Filipino Roman Catholic devotion in which the faithful visit and pray before the Blessed Sacrament in…
VFA · RP–US Visiting Forces Agreement
The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) is the 1998 agreement between the Philippines and the United States — formally the Agreement…
VLL · Vista Land
Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc. (commonly known as Vista Land or Vistaland) is the largest homebuilder in the Philippines, recognized…
Vizconde case · Vizconde killings
The Vizconde massacre was the killing of Estrellita Vizconde, 49, and her daughters Carmela, 19, and Anne Marie Jennifer, 7,…
Volkswagen Philippines (VW Philippines) · Automobile Central Enterprise, Inc. (ACEI)
Volkswagen Philippines is the name given to the Philippine distribution operation of the German marque Volkswagen, whose most recent and…
VST & Co. · VST and Company
VST & Company (also styled VST & Co.) was a Filipino disco band from Manila, active from 1978 to 1983,…
Ustadz Wahab M. Akbar · Wahab M. Akbar
Ustadz Wahab M. Akbar (April 16, 1960, Lantawan, Basilan – November 13, 2007, Quezon City) was a Filipino politician who…
Waist Cincher · Corset
A Waist Trainer is a high-compression shaping undergarment worn around the midsection, typically constructed from thick latex, neoprene, or heavy…
Wakwak · Night bird of prey (folk description)
The wak-wak is a vampiric creature of Visayan and Mindanao folklore, usually imagined as a woman who transforms into a…
Wak-wak · Visayan night flyer
The wakwak is a vampire-like creature in Philippine folklore, especially in the Visayas, that severs itself and flies through the…
Visayan wrinkled hornbill · Dulungan (local Visayan name)
Walden's Hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni), also called the Visayan wrinkled hornbill or dulungan, is a large forest hornbill endemic to the…
1. Definition Waldorf education (also known as Steiner education) is an alternative educational philosophy founded by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner…
The Waling-waling (Vanda sanderiana) is an epiphytic orchid endemic to Mindanao and neighboring islands in the southern Philippines, renowned for…
General Walter Krueger — the post-March 1945 styling · Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger — the Sixth Army-era styling
Walter Krueger (January 26, 1881, Flatow, West Prussia — August 20, 1967, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) was a general of the…
Wang Chuanfu · Chairman Wang
Wang Chuanfu is a Chinese chemist, entrepreneur, and billionaire who is the founder, chairman, and CEO of BYD. Under his…
Wao is a municipality in Lanao del Sur, BARMM, Philippines, notable as the only Christian-majority municipality in the province. It…
Philippine drug war — the standard reference-work title · Oplan Tokhang — the everyday name, from the knock-and-plead house visits
The War on Drugs in the Philippines is the anti-narcotics campaign that President Rodrigo Duterte launched with his inauguration on…
The Waray are the ethnolinguistic group of Eastern Visayas, Philippines, speaking the Waray-Waray language across Samar, Biliran, and eastern Leyte,…
Washington Sycip — his son, the SGV founder, a distinct entry in this wiki · Washington Z. SyCip — full name, the styling of the firm he founded
Washington Sycip — in full Washington Z. SyCip (June 30, 1921, Manila – October 7, 2017), Chinese name Xue Huacheng…
The water crisis in Metro Manila refers most concretely to the March 2019 supply emergency in the eastern half of…
Bayawak (Filipino) · Varanus salvator (scientific name)
The water monitor (Varanus salvator), called bayawak in the Philippines, is one of the world's largest lizards — a muscular,…
MWSS privatization · 1997 MWSS concession split
Water privatization in Metro Manila is the transfer, beginning in 1997, of the water and used-water operations of the state-owned…
Metro Manila water supply and sanitation · The MWSS concession system (descriptive)
Water supply in Metro Manila is the piped-water system of the National Capital Region and adjacent areas — a supply…
The Wattled Broadbill (Eurylaimus steerii) is a small, striking bird of the broadbill family Eurylaimidae, endemic to the islands of…
Montalban Dam · Wawa River Dam
Wawa Dam is an arched gravity dam of the American colonial era built in 1909 across the Marikina River at…
The weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), known in Filipino as hantik, is a slender orange-red tree ant of tropical Asia and…
Semaglutide Injection (Wegovy) · Once-Weekly Semaglutide for Obesity
Wegovy is a brand name for once-weekly subcutaneous injectable semaglutide approved for chronic weight management. It is indicated as an…
Philippine weight loss industry · Obesity management Philippines
Weight Management in the Philippines refers to the clinical, commercial, and behavioral landscape of obesity treatment and healthy weight maintenance…
Philippine Wellness Tourism · Health and Wellness Tourism Philippines
Wellness Tourism Philippines refers to the travel sector within the Philippine tourism industry focused on attracting domestic and international visitors…
Wenceslao Vinzons (1910–1942) was a Filipino lawyer, orator, and politician from Camarines Norte who became the youngest delegate to the…
Wendell Welby Fertig — full name · The "Colonel" — the rank MacArthur's headquarters allowed, against the stars Fertig wore
Wendell Fertig (born Wendell Welby Fertig, December 16, 1900, La Junta, Colorado — died March 24, 1975, Wheat Ridge, Colorado)…
Major General Wesley Merritt (rank held in 1898) · General Wesley Merritt
Wesley Merritt (June 16, 1836 – December 3, 1910) was a career United States Army cavalry officer — a Civil…
The West Philippine Sea is the designation under Philippine law for the portions of the South China Sea within the…
Western Mindanao State University (WMSU) is a public state university in Zamboanga City, Philippines, tracing its origins to 1904, which…
Western Visayas (Region VI) is an administrative region in the central Philippines, comprising the provinces of Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras,…
Whang-od Oggay, also known as Maria Oggay, is a tattoo artist from the mountain village of Buscalan in Tinglayan, Kalinga,…
1. Definition Whiplash Injury is a non-medical term used to describe a neck injury resulting from a sudden, rapid back-and-forth…
The whiskered flowerpecker (Pachyglossa propria) is a small songbird in the family Dicaeidae, endemic to the island of Mindanao in…
Erythropitta kochi (scientific name) · Koch's pitta (historic usage)
The whiskered pitta (Erythropitta kochi) is a colorful, secretive bird endemic to Luzon in the Philippines. It has a reddish…
The whiskered treeswift (Hemiprocne comata) is a small, slender aerial bird of the treeswift family Hemiprocnidae, found across Southeast Asia…
White Island is an uninhabited white sandbar about two kilometers off the northern shore of Camiguin island, Philippines. Shaped like…
Phaseolus vulgaris Extract · Phaseolamin
White kidney bean extract is a dietary ingredient derived from the seeds of the common bean plant (Phaseolus vulgaris), belonging…
White lauan (trade name) · Shorea contorta (scientific name)
White Lauan (Shorea contorta) is a large forest tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae native to the Philippines, and one of…
The White-bellied Woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis) is a large, striking black-and-white woodpecker of South and Southeast Asia whose Philippine population, an…
Copsychus luzoniensis (binomial name) · Luzon shama
The white-browed shama (Copsychus luzoniensis) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, endemic to the…
The White-cheeked Bullfinch (Pyrrhula leucogenis) is a small finch of the family Fringillidae found in the mountain forests of the…
Phapitreron leucotis (scientific name) · White-eared dove (shortened usage)
The White-eared Brown Dove (Phapitreron leucotis) is a medium-sized brown dove endemic to the Philippines, associated principally with Luzon and…
Vauriella albigularis (scientific name) · Rhinomyias albigularis (former name)
The white-throated jungle flycatcher (Vauriella albigularis, formerly Rhinomyias albigularis) is a small, unobtrusive forest bird endemic to the Philippines, marked…
The white-vented shama (Copsychus niger) is a medium-sized songbird endemic to the Philippines, occurring in forest on Mindanao and neighboring…
Homeyer's whistler · Southern Philippine whistler
The white-vented whistler (Pachycephala homeyeri) is a songbird of the whistler family Pachycephalidae occurring in the southern Philippines and a…
The white-winged cuckooshrike (Coracina ostenta) is a small endemic Philippine passerine of the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae, restricted to the islands…
The white-winged flying fox (Desmalopex leucopterus) is a large fruit bat endemic to Luzon and neighboring islands in the Philippines,…
Aerodramus whiteheadi · Whitehead's cave swiftlet
Whitehead's swiftlet (Aerodramus whiteheadi) is a little-known swift endemic to the Philippines, named after the British explorer and collector John…
WPRO · WHO WPRO
The WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) is the Manila-headquartered regional office of the World Health Organization —…
WBC · Cryotherapy
Whole Body Cryotherapy (WBC) is a non-invasive wellness treatment where the entire body is exposed to extreme cold temperatures, ranging…
WESM (usual initialism in the power industry and in EPIRA) · Wholesale Electricity Spot Market of the Philippines
The Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) is the Philippines' spot market for electricity, created by Section 30 of the Electric…
Wigberto "Ka Bobby" Ebarle Tañada Sr. — the full styling of the public record · Ka Bobby — the familiar address carried in his own styling
Wigberto Tañada (Wigberto "Ka Bobby" Ebarle Tañada Sr.; born August 13, 1934, Gumaca, Tayabas, now Quezon) is a Filipino lawyer…
Philippine wildlife · Philippine biodiversity
The wildlife of the Philippines comprises the country's animals, plants, and other organisms, forming one of the world's richest but…
Republic Act No. 9147 · RA 9147
The Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act is the short title of Republic Act No. 9147, officially "An Act Providing…
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero (1917-1995) was a Filipino playwright, director, and teacher who led the University of the Philippines theater tradition…
William A. Jones — the styling of the bridge's official name and of his own pamphlets · Congressman Jones — the usage of Governor-General Forbes's 1913 "Reply to Jones"
William Atkinson Jones (March 21, 1849 – April 17, 1918) was the Virginia lawyer and Democratic congressman — a member…
W. Cameron Forbes · Governor Forbes
William Cameron Forbes (May 21, 1870 – December 24, 1959) was an American investment banker, colonial administrator, and diplomat —…
William Edward Parsons — the full name of the record · William E. Parsons — the styling under which his Philippine work is catalogued
William Edward Parsons (June 1872, Akron, Ohio – December 17, 1939, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American architect who served…
Bull Halsey · William Frederick Halsey Jr.
William Frederick Halsey Jr. (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959), known to the American press as "Bull" Halsey, was…
Civil Governor Taft — his styling during the Philippine governorship, 1901–1903 · Governor Taft — the common short form in American-period Philippine records
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was an American lawyer, judge, and statesman who organized the…
President McKinley — the standard styling of his era · The twenty-fifth president — his ordinal designation
William McKinley (January 29, 1843, Niles, Ohio – September 14, 1901, Buffalo, New York) was the twenty-fifth president of the…
William Padolina is a Filipino chemist and science administrator who served as Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology…
Rufous-lored kingfisher · Blue-and-white forest kingfisher
Winchell's kingfisher is a small forest kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, treated by major references as part of the rufous-lored…
Car Tint · Auto Tint
Window tinting is the application of a thin laminate film — today typically polyethylene terephthalate (PET), chosen for clarity, tensile…
Capiz shell · Kapis
The windowpane oyster, known in the Philippines as kapis or capiz shell, is a flat, translucent bivalve mollusk of the…
Sigarilyas / segidillas (Filipino, from Spanish) · Goa bean, four-angled bean, asparagus bean (English names)
The winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), called sigarilyas in the Philippines, is a climbing tropical legume grown for its four-angled pods…
Creditable Withholding Tax (CWT) · Expanded Withholding Tax (EWT)
Withholding Tax (specifically Creditable Withholding Tax on Real Estate, or CWT) is a tax system in the Philippines where the…
Republic Act No. 6981 · RA 6981
The Witness Protection and Security Benefit Act (Republic Act No. 6981), enacted in 1991, created the Philippine Witness Protection, Security…
Women in the Philippines make up roughly half of the population and enjoy, on paper and in many indices, one…
Wood-Forbes Mission — the hyphenated styling · Wood–Forbes Commission — the designation carried in the Forbes record
The Wood–Forbes Mission (March 1921 – October 1921) was the fact-finding commission sent to the Philippine Islands by the newly…
Worcester's buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri) is a small, quail-like ground bird endemic to Luzon in the Philippines and one of the…
World Bank Group · International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The World Bank is the international financial institution created with the International Monetary Fund at the Bretton Woods Conference of…
WHA · Health Assembly — the shorter form used in WHO's own constitutional language
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, described as the world's highest health…
WHO · World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations specialized agency for international public health, established on 7 April 1948…
1. Definition The World Health Organization Essential Medicines and Devices frameworks (including the Model Lists of Essential Medicines and the…
World War II in the Philippines · Second World War
World War II (WWII) was a global conflict that transpired from 1939 to 1945, involving the vast majority of the…
Wrist brace · Wrist splint
A Wrist-Hand Orthosis (WHO, commonly referred to as a wrist brace or splint) is an orthopedic device designed to support,…
A.M. No. 07-9-12-SC — the Rule's administrative-matter citation · The Rule on the Writ of Amparo — the instrument's formal title
The writ of amparo — from the Spanish for "protection" — is the protective remedy institutionalized in Philippine law by…
A.M. No. 08-1-16-SC — the Rule's administrative-matter citation · The Rule on the Writ of Habeas Data — the instrument's formal title
The writ of habeas data — Latin for "you should have the data" — is a Philippine judicial remedy instituted…
The writ of kalikasan is a Philippine legal remedy introduced by the Supreme Court's Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases…
Rhyticeros leucocephalus (scientific name) · Aceros leucocephalus (former scientific name)
The Writhed Hornbill (Rhyticeros leucocephalus), formerly placed in the genus Aceros, is a large forest hornbill endemic to the Philippines,…
The Writhed-billed Hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni), also called Walden's hornbill and known locally in the Philippines as dulungan, is a large…
X Corps · Tenth Corps — the numeral styling
X Corps is a corps of the United States Army — activated on May 15, 1942 at Sherman, Texas, under…
Xanthone · 9H-xanthen-9-one (IUPAC systematic name)
Xanthones are a class of organic compounds with the basic chemical structure C₁₃H₈O₂ — a tricyclic aromatic ring system containing…
Mangkono · Philippine ironwood
Xanthostemon verdugonianus, known locally as mangkono, is a tree endemic to the Philippines and widely called the Philippine ironwood because…
Xenials Business Solutions Inc. · XenialsPH (social-media handle)
Xenials (Xenials Business Solutions Inc.) is a Philippine training and business-solutions company serving aspiring and existing travel-agency owners, based in…
Xenials Booking System · Xenials B2B Airline & Hotel Booking Portal
Xenials Booking Portal is a business-to-business (B2B) flight-and-hotel booking platform operated by Xenials Business Solutions Inc. (xenials.com), the Department of…
Orlistat 120mg · Roche Xenical
Xenical is the pioneer brand name of an anti-obesity medication containing orlistat (120 mg). It is classified as a gastrointestinal…
XIV Army Corps — the designation carried from the January 1, 1941 redesignation through the war · Fourteenth Corps — the numeral styling
XIV Corps was a corps-sized formation of the United States Army whose Pacific war ran from the final drive on…
Yakal is a large hardwood tree endemic to the Philippines, Shorea astylosa, family Dipterocarpaceae, and also the common name of…
Yakal, scientifically named Shorea astylosa, is a large hardwood tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae endemic to the Philippines. Its dense,…
Yakan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Yakan people, the principal indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Basilan island in the…
The Yakan are an indigenous people of Basilan island in the southern Philippines, with communities also in Zamboanga City and…
Yakan weaving is the traditional backstrap loom textile craft of the Yakan people of Basilan province, Philippines, most associated with…
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. — the formal corporate name · Yamaha Motor — the styling the company uses for its global brand and news releases
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is the Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles, marine engines, power products and industrial machinery, incorporated on July…
YMPH · Yamaha Motor Philippines, Inc.
Yamaha Motor Philippines, Inc. (YMPH) is the wholly owned Philippine subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., engaged in the local…
Yamashita treasure · The Marcos gold (in conspiracy accounts)
Yamashita's gold is the popular name for a legendary cache of gold, gems, and other valuables said to have been…
Yaw-Yan, popularly rendered "Sayaw ng Kamatayan" (Dance of Death), is a Filipino martial art founded in 1972 by Napoleon A.…
Ptilinopus occipitalis (scientific name) · Balorinay (local name)
The Yellow-Breasted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus occipitalis), known locally as balorinay, is a species of bird in the dove family Columbidae…
The Yellow-faced Flameback (Chrysocolaptes xanthocephalus) is a large woodpecker endemic to the Philippine islands of Negros and Panay, and extinct…
Varanus cumingi (scientific name) · Mindanao water monitor
The yellow-headed water monitor (Varanus cumingi), also called the Mindanao water monitor, is a large lizard endemic to Mindanao and…
Pycnonotus goiavier (scientific name) · Philippine garden bulbul (informal)
The yellow-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier) is a common, cheerful garden bird of the Philippines and Southeast Asia, easily told by…
Pycnonotus urostictus (scientific name) · Yellow-vented Philippine bulbul (descriptive English name)
The yellow-wattled bulbul (Pycnonotus urostictus) is an endemic Philippine bulbul of slate-and-olive plumage set off by a bright yellow vent…
Thunnus albacares (scientific name) · Yellowfin (trade usage)
The yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) is a fast-swimming pelagic tuna of tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide, metallic dark blue above…
Philippine bulbul (older collective name for the complex)
The Yellowish bulbul (Hypsipetes philippinus) is a rowdy, olive-and-yellow songbird endemic to the Philippines, absent only from Palawan, where it…
The yellowish white-eye (Zosterops flavus) is a small olive-and-yellow songbird of the white-eye family, endemic to the Philippines, where it…
Yema candy · Custard candy
Yema is a Filipino candy made from egg yolks and condensed milk cooked into a thick custard, shaped into pyramids…
Philippine mint · Creeping mint
Yerba Buena (Clinopodium douglasii Benth., also known as Mentha cordifolia Opiz.), commonly known as Philippine mint, is an aromatic, creeping…
The Yogad are an ethnolinguistic group of the southern Cagayan Valley, concentrated in and around Echague in Isabela province, Luzon,…
Yohimbine HCl · Pausinystalia johimbe Extract
Yohimbine is an indole alkaloid derived from the bark of the evergreen tree Pausinystalia johimbe (formerly Pausinystalia yohimbe), belonging to…
YSA Skin Care Center · YSA Skin and Body Experts
Ysa Skin and Body Center (officially YSA Skin and Body Experts, currently rebranding to Ysa Luxe) is a major aesthetic…
関行男
Yukio Seki (August 29, 1921 – October 25, 1944) was a lieutenant and naval aviator of the Imperial Japanese Navy…
Zambales Range · Cabusilan Mountains (southern section, in some usages)
The Zambales Mountains are a mountain range running along the western side of Luzon island in the Philippines, paralleling the…
Province of Zambales · Zambales
Zambales, officially the Province of Zambales, is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines, facing the South…
Ixos rufigularis (scientific name) · Brown-eared bulbul of Zamboanga (descriptive usage)
The Zamboanga bulbul (Ixos rufigularis) is a songbird endemic to the southwestern Philippines, occurring on the Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindanao…
Zamboanga City is a highly urbanized city in the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) of western Mindanao, Philippines. It is the…
Zamboanga siege · Zamboanga standoff
The Zamboanga City Crisis of September 2013 was a three-week armed conflict in Zamboanga City, Philippines, between government forces and…
Province of Zamboanga del Norte · Zamboanga del Norte
Zamboanga del Norte, officially the Province of Zamboanga del Norte, is a province in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of Mindanao,…
Province of Zamboanga del Norte · Zamboanga del Norte
Zamboanga del Norte, officially the Province of Zamboanga del Norte, is a province of the Philippines located within the Zamboanga…
Province of Zamboanga del Sur · Zamboanga del Sur
Zamboanga del Sur, officially the Province of Zamboanga del Sur, is a province in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of the…
Province of Zamboanga del Sur · Zamboanga del Sur
Zamboanga del Sur, officially the Province of Zamboanga del Sur, is a province of the Philippines located within the Zamboanga…
The Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) is an administrative region in the western part of Mindanao, Philippines. It comprises three provinces…
Province of Zamboanga Sibugay · Zamboanga Sibugay
Zamboanga Sibugay, officially the Province of Zamboanga Sibugay, is a province in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of Mindanao, Philippines. Its…
Province of Zamboanga Sibugay · Zamboanga Sibugay
Zamboanga Sibugay, officially the Province of Zamboanga Sibugay, is a province of the Philippines located within the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region…
Chavacano people (colloquial) · Zamboangueños of Zamboanga City
The Zamboangueño people are a creole ethnolinguistic group originating in Zamboanga City and neighboring coastal areas of the southern Philippines.…
Municipality of Zamboanguita · Zamboanguita Negros Oriental
Zamboanguita, officially the Municipality of Zamboanguita, is a municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, located within the Central Visayas…
Zapote River bridge — the 1899 engagement is formally the Battle of Zapote River · The Las Piñas–Bacoor crossing on the old Manila–Cavite provincial road
Zapote Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge crossing the Zapote River at the boundary between Las Piñas (Metro Manila)…
Municipality of Zaragoza · Zaragoza Nueva Ecija
Zaragoza, officially the Municipality of Zaragoza, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, located within the Central Luzon…
Municipality of Zarraga · Zarraga Iloilo
Zarraga, officially the Municipality of Zarraga, is a municipality in the province of Iloilo, located within the Western Visayas (Region…
Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates spoken and sung scenes with dance. Introduced to the Philippines in the…
Geopelia striata (scientific name) · Bato-bato (Filipino, broadly applied to ground doves)
The zebra dove (Geopelia striata) is a slim, long-tailed ground dove of Southeast Asia, finely barred in black-and-white stripes over…
Stegostoma tigrinum (current scientific name) · Leopard shark (adult coloration; shared confusingly with an unrelated American species)
The zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum), long familiar under the name Stegostoma fasciatum, is a nocturnal carpet shark of Indo-Pacific coral…
Tirzepatide (generic name) · Mounjaro (brand name for Type 2 Diabetes)
Zepbound is the brand name for tirzepatide, a novel dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist,…
Zoilo Mercado Galang was a Filipino writer from Pampanga credited as one of the pioneering Filipino authors to work in…
BIR Zonal Valuation · Tax Zonal Value
The zonal value is the internal real property valuation established by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the Philippines…
Zoning Regulations · Land Use Zoning
Zoning (specifically municipal zoning in the Philippines) is the regulatory division of land within a city or municipality into zones…
City Planning and Development Office · Municipal Planning and Development Office
A Zoning Office (commonly operating as the City Planning and Development Office or Municipal Planning and Development Office - CPDO/MPDO)…
Local zoning law · LGU zoning code
A Zoning Ordinance is a local statute enacted by a municipal or city council (Sangguniang Bayan or Panlungsod) in the…
Zuellig Pharma Corporation · F. E. Zuellig, Inc.
Zuellig Pharma is a leading integrated healthcare-solutions company serving Asia, established in the Philippines in 1922, which grew from a…
Municipality of Zumarraga · Zumarraga Samar
Zumarraga, officially the Municipality of Zumarraga, is a municipality in the province of Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…
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