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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…

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…

La Coruña · A Coruna

A Coruña is a port city on an Atlantic promontory in Galicia, northwestern Spain — the capital of the province…

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 —…

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…

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,…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 —…

Bacolor · Municipality of Bacolor

Bacolor, officially the Municipality of Bacolor, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, located within the Central Luzon (Region…

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…

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…

Balangiga · Municipality of Balangiga

Balangiga, officially the Municipality of Balangiga, is a municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, located within the Eastern Visayas…

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…

Municipality of Banisilan · Banisilan, Cotabato

Banisilan, officially the Municipality of Banisilan, is a first-class municipality in the province of Cotabato (historically North Cotabato) on the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Manila Baywalk

The Baywalk is the two-kilometer seaside promenade along Roxas Boulevard in Manila, running along the shore of Manila Bay from…

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…

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 —…

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…

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…

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…

Bulacan · Province of Bulacan

Bulacan Province, officially the Province of Bulacan, is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines, located immediately…

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…

balangay · balangai

The Butuan balangay finds are the eleven precolonial plank boats recovered since 1976 from an old river channel at Sitio…

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…

Cavite · Province of Cavite

Cavite Province, officially the Province of Cavite, is a province in the CALABARZON region of the Philippines, situated on the…

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…

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 · 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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.…

Daniel Hudson Burnham

Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner, the director of…

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,…

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…

Sikatuna · Katuna

Datu Sikatuna (also spelled Catunao; in the Filipino mononym tradition addressed by the sole name Katuna) was a Bohol chieftain…

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…

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…

Diliman District · Barangay Diliman

Diliman is the district at the geographic and civic center of Quezon City, the Philippines' most populous city — the…

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).…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Flood forecast · Flood prediction

Flood forecasting is the process of predicting the occurrence, magnitude, timing, and duration of floods in a specific area, using…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Iloilo · Province of Iloilo

Iloilo Province, officially the Province of Iloilo, is a province in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, occupying 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…

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…

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…

District of Jaro · Jaro, Iloilo City

Jaro, Iloilo is the largest of the seven districts of Iloilo City in the Western Visayas — 42 barangays across…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

KVO · KVO-LCC

The Kanlaon Volcano Observatory (KVO) is the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) monitoring observatory for Kanlaon Volcano on…

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 Kawit · Kawit Cavite

Kawit, officially the Municipality of Kawit, is a municipality in the province of Cavite, located within the CALABARZON (Region IV-A),…

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…

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…

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…

Land Transportation Office · LTO

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is a regulatory agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Transportation. The LTO…

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…

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 Leyte · Leyte Leyte

Leyte, officially the Municipality of Leyte, is a municipality in the province of Leyte, located within the Eastern Visayas (Region…

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…

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…

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…

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),…

Malate · Malate District

Malate is a historic district of Manila on the shore of Manila Bay, immediately south of Ermita — the district…

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…

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 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…

Dolomite Beach

The Manila Dolomite Beach — officially the Manila Baywalk Dolomite Beach — is an artificial white-sand beach laid along the…

The Manila massacre is the documented record of mass killings of Filipino civilians by Japanese forces during the Battle of…

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…

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),…

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…

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…

Bulkang Mayon · Mt Mayon

Mayon Volcano is an active stratovolcano famous for its exceptionally symmetrical 'perfect cone' shape, located in the province of Albay…

Metropolitan Cebu · Kalakhang Cebu

Metro Cebu, officially known as the Metropolitan Cebu area (Cebuano: Metropolitanong Sugbo; Tagalog: Kalakhang Cebu), is the primary urban, commercial,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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…

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 Wealth · Raw Materials

Natural Resources are materials and components (such as mineral reserves, water, forest lands, agricultural soil, and marine life) that occur…

NIR

The Negros Island Region (NIR) is the administrative region of the Philippines comprising Negros Occidental (including Bacolod City), Negros Oriental,…

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…

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…

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…

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),…

Olango Island Group

The Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected wildlife sanctuary on Olango Island, the low coralline island and its satellite…

One Ayala is a mixed-use, transit-oriented development of Ayala Land, Inc. at the corner of Ayala Avenue and EDSA in…

Pag-asa

Pag-asa (Filipino for "hope"; hatched January 15, 1992, died January 6, 2021) was a male Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) and…

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…

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…

Panay · Panay Island

Panay Island is a salient entity in the Philippines...

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 —…

Panglao

Panglao Island is a coralline limestone island off the southwestern coast of Bohol in the Philippines' Central Visayas, lying across…

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…

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…

PITX · Southwest Integrated Terminal Exchange

The Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX) is the Philippines' first integrated, multimodal land transport terminal — promoted by its operator…

Pearl Farm Beach Resort is a luxury island resort occupying the islands of Samal and Malipano, just off the coast…

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…

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…

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 Highway System — the Philippine highway network in its standard encyclopedic designation — is the country's network of…

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…

Benham Rise · Talampas ng Pilipinas

The Philippine Rise — known from its identification until 2017 as Benham Rise — is a submerged plateau in the…

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…

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 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…

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…

Quezon City Circle · Quezon Memorial Shrine

The Quezon Memorial Circle — also called the Quezon City Circle and known locally simply as "the Circle" — is…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Panatag Shoal · Bajo de Masinloc

Scarborough Shoal is a triangular atoll — a chain of reefs and rocks enclosing a lagoon — located in the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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 —…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Basulta

The Sulu Archipelago is a chain of islands in the southwestern Philippines — centered near 6°N 121°E — that stretches…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 —…

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…

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…

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…

Yolanda · Typhoon Yolanda

Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines by its local name Yolanda, was one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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