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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…

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…

The 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing was a grenade attack on 21 August 1971 against the Liberal Party's election rally at…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A Child of Sorrow is a 1921 novel by Filipino author Zoilo Galang, considered the first Philippine novel written in…

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,…

The Abulog River, also spelled Abulug River, is the ninth-largest river system in the Philippines by watershed size, with an…

Achuete (Bixa orellana), also spelled atsuete and known internationally as annatto or achiote, is a shrub or small tree grown…

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…

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.…

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…

Ayta · Agta

The Aeta (also Ayta or Agta) are indigenous Negrito peoples of Luzon, historically hunter-gatherers and shifting cultivators of the island's…

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,…

Agdangan is a fifth-income-class coastal municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, facing Tayabas Bay. Created on April 1, 1939 when President…

The Agricultural Land Reform Code (Republic Act No. 3844, signed August 8, 1963) is the landmark Philippine statute that abolished…

Aguinid Falls is a multi-tiered waterfall in Barangay Tangbo, Samboan, Cebu, in the Philippines. Rather than a single plunge, it…

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.…

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…

Agyu is the culture hero of the Ilianon Manobo epic tradition of Mindanao, a leader who guides his people through…

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…

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…

Alangalang is a first-class landlocked municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines. Founded in 1748, it comprises 54 barangays and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The alipin was the dependent labouring class of precolonial Tagalog society, occupying the lowest rung of the social ladder below…

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…

Almaciga (Agathis philippinensis, generally included in the Agathis dammara complex) is one of the tallest conifer species native to 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…

Alonzo Saclag is a Kalinga master of traditional performing arts from Lubuagan, Kalinga, awarded the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan…

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…

The Alternative Learning System (ALS) is the Department of Education's non-formal pathway to basic education for out-of-school youth and adults,…

Alugbati is the Filipino name for Basella alba, a fast-growing tropical leafy vine known in English as Malabar spinach, widely…

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…

Amai Pakpak (died 1895) was a Maranao datu remembered as the foremost defender of the Lanao lake country against Spanish…

Ambuklao hydroelectric plant

Ambuklao Dam is a hydroelectric rockfill dam on the upper Agno River in Bokod, Benguet, Philippines. Completed in the 1950s…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"Anak" ("Child") is a song written and first recorded by Filipino singer-songwriter Freddie Aguilar, released in 1978, whose Tagalog verses…

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…

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…

Andrés Novales was a Filipino captain in the Spanish Army in the Philippines who proclaimed himself "Emperor of the Philippines"…

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…

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…

"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…

The Angono Petroglyphs are the oldest known work of art in the Philippines: 127 engraved figures—mostly humanoids in varied postures…

The Animal Welfare Act of 1998 (Republic Act No. 8485, strengthened by Republic Act No. 10631 of 2013) is the…

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…

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…

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. 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…

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-Terrorism Act of 2020 (Republic Act No. 11479) is the Philippines' principal statute defining and penalizing terrorism, replacing the…

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,…

Agimat · Anting

Anting-anting are Filipino amulets or charms believed to protect the bearer from harm, grant supernatural abilities, or attract good fortune.…

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…

Apalit is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, located along the Pampanga River in…

Aparri is a coastal municipality at the northern rim of Cagayan, Philippines, where the Cagayan River, the country's longest, empties…

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…

The Apo myna (Goodfellowia miranda) is a striking starling-relative endemic to the high mountains of Mindanao, named after Mount Apo,…

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 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…

Arayat is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, situated at the southern base of…

Arcadio Maxilom (1846–1924) was a Cebuano schoolteacher who became a general of the Philippine Revolution in Cebu, taking command of…

Areca ipot, the ipot palm, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae endemic to the Philippines,…

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…

The Arisan Maru was a 6,886-ton Japanese freighter used as a hell ship that was torpedoed on 24 October 1944…

Arnis, also called eskrima or kali, is the national martial art and sport of the Philippines, characterized by weapon-based fighting…

Arroz caldo is a Filipino rice porridge (lugaw) cooked with chicken, garlic, onion, and ginger in a savory broth, finished…

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 Rotor (1907–1988) was a Filipino physician, medical researcher, and fiction writer who bridged science and literature. A gastroenterology researcher…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Atsara · Achara

Atchara is the Philippine pickle of shredded unripe green papaya cured in vinegar and sugar with strips of carrot, bell…

The Ati are an indigenous Negrito ethnic group of the Visayas, Philippines, traditionally living in Panay, Negros, and neighboring islands.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Babendil · Babandil gong

The babandil (also spelled babendil) is a single narrow-rimmed Philippine gong used primarily as the timekeeper of the Maguindanao kulintang…

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…

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…

The Immaculate Conception Parish Church, informally called Baclayon Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Baclayon, Bohol,…

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…

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…

The Badjao, more fully the Sama-Bajau or Sama Dilaut, are a sea-based people of Southeast Asia whose Philippine communities are…

Bagasbas Beach is a beach in Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines, regarded as the birthplace of Philippine skimboarding and a noted…

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…

The Bagobo are an indigenous Lumad people of southeastern Mindanao, Philippines, whose ancestral domains center on the slopes of Mount…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Balao-balao, also called burong hipon, is a Filipino condiment of cooked rice and whole raw small shrimp fermented together with…

Balayan is a first-income-class municipality in Batangas, Philippines, formally founded on December 8, 1578. One of the province's oldest settlements,…

Balbacua is a Filipino stew built on oxtail, beef skin, and connective tissue simmered for hours until the collagen melts…

Balbalasang-Balbalan National Park is a protected area in the municipality of Balbalan, Kalinga, in the Cordillera Administrative Region of northern…

Balete is an inland municipality in Aklan province, Western Visayas, Philippines, lying to the east of the provincial capital, Kalibo.…

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…

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…

Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa (BP2) is a Philippine government program launched in 2020 that aims to decongest Metro Manila by…

Balimbing (Averrhoa carambola), the star fruit or carambola, is a small tree grown throughout the Philippines for its distinctive ridged…

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…

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 —…

The balitaw is a traditional Visayan song-and-dance form in triple meter in which a man and a woman exchange extemporaneous,…

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…

Balobok Cave, also called the Balobok Rock Shelter, is a cave and archaeological site in Barangay Lakit-Lakit, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, in…

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…

Balut · Sarangani-Balut Island

Balut Island is a volcanic island, the largest of the Sarangani Islands group, belonging to the municipality of Sarangani in…

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,…

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,…

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 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…

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…

A bangka is a Philippine outrigger boat whose slim wooden hull is stabilized by bamboo outriggers called katig, and which…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Barbaza is an inland municipality in the province of Antique, Western Visayas, Philippines. Situated in the central part of the…

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…

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…

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…

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the energy the body burns at complete rest to sustain vital work — brain, liver,…

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…

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.…

BCDA (common abbreviation)

The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation created by Republic Act No. 7227…

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…

Basud, officially the Municipality of Basud, is a municipality in Camarines Norte, Philippines, with about 43,388 people per the 2024…

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…

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…

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…

Batan Island is the main island of Batanes province, the northernmost province of the Philippines. It hosts the provincial capital,…

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…

Batangas lomi is a Filipino noodle dish of thick, soft wheat-egg noodles simmered in a heavily starched pork broth that…

Batangas State University (BatStateU) is a public state university headquartered in Batangas City, Philippines, with roots in a manual training…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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),…

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 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 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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

Bauan is a first-income-class municipality in Batangas, Philippines, and part of the Metro Batangas growth corridor. Founded as an independent…

Bayambang is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines. Located in central Pangasinan,…

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…

Baybay is a component city on the western coast of Leyte, Philippines, facing Camotes Sea and anchored by the Visayas…

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…

A bayong is a traditional Philippine woven bag made from strips of buri palm leaf, pandan, romblon, or rattan, used…

Bayugan City is a fifth-income-class component city in Agusan del Sur province in the Caraga Region (Region XIII), Philippines. It…

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…

Benguet State University (BSU) is a state university in La Trinidad, Benguet, in the Philippines' Cordillera Administrative Region. Its origins…

Bernardo Carpio is a legendary figure of Tagalog folklore, a man of superhuman strength said to be eternally trapped between…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Brazo de Mercedes is a Filipino dessert of soft meringue rolled around a rich egg-yolk custard filling, dusted with sugar.…

Bringhe is a festive Filipino rice dish of glutinous rice slowly cooked in coconut milk with chicken, chorizo, and vegetables,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Buhid writing · Mindoro paleograph

The Buhid script is one of the Philippines' indigenous writing systems, an abugida derived from Brahmic scripts of India and…

Build Build Build was the infrastructure program of the Duterte administration (2016–2022), billed as the "Golden Age of Infrastructure." It…

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 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…

Bulacan State University (BulSU or BSU) is a state university in Malolos, Bulacan, tracing its roots to a trade school…

Bulalo is a Filipino beef soup built around the shank with its marrow bone, simmered for hours until the broth…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) is the Department of Agriculture agency that coordinates, funds, and monitors research and development…

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…

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is the Philippine government agency responsible for assessing and collecting customs duties, taxes, and fees…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Dicaeum hypoleucum (scientific name)

The Buzzing Flowerpecker (Dicaeum hypoleucum) is a small, plainly plumaged flowerpecker endemic to the Philippines, found across most of the…

Caballo Island is one of the small islands guarding the entrance of Manila Bay in the Philippines, lying south of…

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…

The cabeza de barangay was the local headman of a barangay — the smallest territorial unit — during the Spanish…

Caboloan (also spelled Caboloan/Kaboloan, and identified with the Chinese toponym Fengjiaoshan) was a precolonial polity on the Lingayen Gulf coast…

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,…

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…

Cagbalete I · Cagbalete (Mauban)

Cagbalete Island is a barangay island of Mauban, Quezon, lying in Lamon Bay off the coast of southern Luzon. Covering…

Mount Cagua · Cagua Peak

Cagua Volcano is an active stratovolcano in the municipality of Gonzaga, Cagayan province, at the northern end of the Sierra…

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…

CALABARZON (Region IV-A) is an administrative region in the southern part of Luzon, Philippines, composed of five provinces (Cavite, Laguna,…

The Calaguas Islands are an island group in the Philippine Sea off the coast of Vinzons, Camarines Norte, Philippines, famed…

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…

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…

Calatagan is a third-income-class municipality on a peninsula in western Batangas, Philippines, formally founded on January 1, 1912. It is…

Calauag is a first-income-class municipality in southeastern Quezon Province, Philippines, near the boundary with the Bicol Region. Settlement in the…

Calauit Safari Park is a wildlife sanctuary on Calauit Island off the northwest coast of Busuanga, Palawan, Philippines, established in…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Camarines Norte is a province of the Philippines in the Bicol Region (Region V) of Luzon. Its capital is Daet.…

Camarines Sur is a province of the Philippines in the Bicol Region (Region V) of Luzon. Its capital is Pili,…

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…

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,…

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 John Hay is a former rest and recreation base of the United States Armed Forces in Baguio, Philippines, established…

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…

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…

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…

Capalonga, officially the Municipality of Capalonga, is a municipality in Camarines Norte, Philippines, with about 32,800 people per the 2024…

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…

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,…

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 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…

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.…

The Caramoan Peninsula is a rugged limestone projection on the Pacific coast of Camarines Sur, Bicol, comprising the municipality of…

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…

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…

The cariñosa is a Philippine courtship dance of Hispanic-era origin, performed by pairs wielding fans and handkerchiefs (pañuelo) in playful,…

Carlo J. Caparas is a Filipino comics writer and film director whose serialized komiks novels and true-crime "massacre films" made…

Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (1913–1956) was a Filipino American novelist and poet who immigrated to the United States in 1930 and…

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…

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…

Carrascal is a municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines, heavily reliant on large-scale mining. Covering 265.80 square kilometers,…

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…

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…

Casiguran, officially the Municipality of Casiguran, is a municipality occupying the northern stretch of the province of Aurora on Luzon's…

Cassava cake is a beloved Filipino baked merienda dessert made from grated cassava (kamoteng kahoy), coconut milk, eggs, and sugar,…

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…

Catarman Airport (Catarman National Airport) is a domestic airport serving Catarman, the capital of Northern Samar, Philippines. It provides the…

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…

Cauayan, officially the City of Cauayan, is a component city in Isabela, Philippines, and the primary trade and service center…

The Cavite Mutiny of 1872 was a short-lived uprising on 20 January 1872 by Filipino soldiers and arsenal workers at…

Cavite State University (CvSU or CavSU) is a state university headquartered in Indang, Cavite, tracing its origins to a rural…

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…

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…

Cebu Pacific Flight 387 was a scheduled domestic flight from Manila to Cagayan de Oro that crashed into Mount Sumagaya…

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 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is the central personnel agency of the Philippine government, established as an independent constitutional commission…

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…

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. (1890–1960) was a Filipino statesman, constitutionalist, and leading voice of Filipino economic nationalism. President of the…

Claver is a municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, known as a major nickel mining center. Established on…

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…

Cloud 9 is a surf break on the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines, widely regarded as the country's…

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…

The coconut rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) is a large dynastine beetle whose adults bore into the crowns of coconut and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Commercial Structure · Business Property

A Commercial Building is a structure designed, constructed, and utilized primarily for commercial activities, including offices, retail shops, wholesale trade,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino stateswoman, eleventh President of the Philippines (1986–1992)…

The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) is the only landlocked region in the Philippines, located in the northern-central portion of Luzon.…

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…

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…

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…

The Corregidor Island Lighthouse is a historic light station at the highest point of Corregidor Island at the entrance of…

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…

The Cotton Development Administration, known by its abbreviation CODA, was an attached agency of the Philippine Department of Agriculture mandated…

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…

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…

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…

The crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster) is a large, multi-armed starfish covered in venomous spines that feeds on living coral tissue. Widespread…

Cuartero is a third-income-class, landlocked municipality in Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines. Surrounded by Dao, Dumalag, Dumarao, and Maayon, it covers…

Mount Talinis · Talinis Mountains

Cuernos de Negros, "the Horns of Negros," is the volcanic massif rising above the southern end of Negros Island in…

Culasi is a coastal municipality in the northern part of Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, facing the Sulu Sea. It…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Danding Cojuangco (Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., 1935–2020) was a Filipino businessman and politician who controlled San Miguel Corporation, the country's largest…

Danggit is the Filipino term for rabbitfish (Siganus species) that is split, salted, and sun-dried into a crisp breakfast fish,…

Danjugan Island is a 43-hectare, jungle-covered limestone island off the coast of Cauayan in Negros Occidental, Philippines. A marine and…

Dapitan City is a third-income-class component city in Zamboanga del Norte province in the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX), Philippines. It…

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…

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…

The Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173) is the principal Philippine law protecting individual personal information in…

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…

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…

Davao Gulf is a large gulf in southeastern Mindanao, Philippines, bounded by Davao City to the north and the provinces…

The Davao Region (Region XI) is an administrative region in the southeastern part of Mindanao, Philippines. It comprises four provinces…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

Ilocano sisig

Dinakdakan is an Ilocano dish of chopped grilled pig parts — maskara (cheeks and face), ears, tongue, and liver —…

Dinengdeng is an Ilocano vegetable stew soured and salted with bagoong monamon (fermented fish paste), combining seasonal produce such as…

Dingras is a landlocked municipality in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, occupying one of the widest inland plains of the province. Long…

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…

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…

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…

The Dita Tree (Alstonia scholaris), also called the blackboard tree, is a tall evergreen tree of the dogbane family (Apocynaceae)…

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…

Doctors to the Barrios (DTTB) is a program of the Philippine Department of Health that recruits, deploys, and supports licensed…

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…

Don Marcelino is a third-income-class municipality in Davao Occidental, Davao Region (Region XI), Philippines. A coastal municipality, it is bounded…

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…

DOST-PCAARRD, the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development, is one of the sectoral planning councils…

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…

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.…

Dumagat people · Dumagat Agta

The Dumagat are an indigenous Negrito people of the Sierra Madre mountain range in eastern Luzon, found across provinces such…

Dumarao is a second-income-class municipality in Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines. Located about 45 kilometers from Roxas City, it covers 232.56…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Eastern Visayas (Region VIII) is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the eastern portion of the Visayas island group.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 Nido is a first-class municipality at the northern tip of Palawan, Philippines, renowned for its Bacuit Bay seascapes —…

El Salvador City is a fifth-income-class component city in Misamis Oriental province in Northern Mindanao (Region X), Philippines. It had…

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…

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…

Filipino meatloaf · Embutidong baboy

Embutido is the Filipino steamed meatloaf: a roll of ground pork mixed with breadcrumbs or rice, finely diced carrots, bell…

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…

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…

Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is the largest producer of geothermal energy in the Philippines and one of the leading geothermal…

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…

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…

The Enoura Maru was a Japanese hell ship that was bombed and sunk by American aircraft on 9 January 1945…

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…

The environment of the Philippines encompasses the archipelago's megadiverse ecosystems—tropical forests, coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, and mountain watersheds—together with…

Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928), often styled "Don Panyong," was a Filipino scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, and collector celebrated as…

Ernest John Obiena (born 17 November 1995, Manila) is a Filipino pole vaulter, the reigning Asian record holder and the…

Escabeche is a Filipino dish of whole fried fish topped with a sweet-and-sour sauce of vinegar, sugar, ginger, bell peppers,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Everett's Scops Owl (Otus everetti) is a small, nocturnal owl endemic to the southern Philippines. Long treated as part of…

The Expanded Maternity Leave Law (Republic Act No. 11210, signed 20 February 2019) grants all female workers in the Philippines…

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…

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…

Faustino Aguilar (1882–1955) was a Filipino Tagalog novelist, playwright, and journalist regarded as one of the fathers of social realism…

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…

Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, c. 1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organized and led the Spanish expedition that…

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…

Festivals in the Philippines are community celebrations spanning religious feasts, harvest thanksgivings, historical commemorations, and civic fiestas, held year-round across…

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…

Filipiniana carries two linked meanings in Philippine culture. As a mode of dress, it refers to formal attire—most iconically the…

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:…

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 finless porpoise is a small, slender cetacean of coastal Indo-Pacific waters named for the absence of a dorsal fin,…

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…

The First Battle of Bud Dajo (March 5–8, 1906) was a military engagement on the volcanic cone of Bud Dajo…

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…

The First Philippine Assembly was the elected lower house of the Philippine Legislature convened under American colonial rule in 1907,…

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…

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…

Flaviano Yengko y Abad (1874–1897) was a Filipino revolutionary general of the Philippine Revolution, remembered as one of the youngest…

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…

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…

Football in the Philippines is the association-football culture of the country, governed by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF), founded in…

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…

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,…

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…

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 V. Coching (1919–1998) was a Filipino illustrator and writer hailed as one of the grand masters of Philippine komiks,…

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…

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…

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,…

The Furtive Flycatcher (Ficedula disposita) is a small insect-eating bird of the family Muscicapidae, endemic to the island of Luzon…

Gabâ is a Philippine folk concept, especially strong among Visayans, of an imminent, non-divine retribution — a negative karma that…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

1. Definition Garcinia mangostana is the scientific botanical name for the mangosteen tree, a tropical evergreen species indigenous to Southeast…

Gattaran is a municipality in Cagayan, Philippines, in the lower valley north of Tuguegarao, known in the region for cattle…

Gawad Urian · Urian Awards

The Gawad Urian Award is the film award given by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, a circle of Filipino film…

Geminiano T. de Ocampo (1907–1987) was a Filipino physician widely called the Father of Modern Philippine Ophthalmology. He pioneered eye…

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…

General Santos City, widely called GenSan, is a highly urbanized city in South Cotabato within the SOCCSKSARGEN region (Region XII)…

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…

Geography of the Philippines comprises an archipelago of 7,641 islands in Southeast Asia, bounded by the Philippine Sea, Pacific Ocean,…

Gerardo de León (1913–1981), born Gerardo Ilagan, was a Filipino film director regarded as among the greatest in the history…

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…

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 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 —…

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…

Ginebra San Miguel is the Philippines' best-known gin brand and one of the world's largest-selling gins by volume. First produced…

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…

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…

Glan is a first-income-class municipality in Sarangani, Soccsksargen (Region XII), Philippines. Located east of Sarangani Bay, west of Davao Occidental,…

Gumhar · White teak

Gmelina (Gmelina arborea), also called gumhar or white teak, is a fast-growing deciduous tree in the mint family (Lamiaceae) native…

Goa, officially the Municipality of Goa, is a first-class municipality in Camarines Sur, Philippines, with about 71,651 people per the…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Grammatophyllum speciosum, the giant orchid or tiger orchid, is the largest orchid species in the world, producing cane-like pseudobulbs that…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Greenwich, also known as Greenwich Pizza, is a pizza and pasta chain in the Philippines founded in 1971 by Cresida…

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…

Guagua is a first income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines. Historically a major commercial and river-trade…

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…

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…

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,…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Haladaya · Halad kay Datu Daya

The Haladaya Festival is the annual festival of Daanbantayan, Cebu, held in May in thanksgiving and offering — halad —…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 Hermosa Festival, also known as Zamboanga La Hermosa and popularly as Fiesta Pilar, is a month-long festival held every…

Hibok-Hibok (Mount Hibok-Hibok) is the only historically active volcano on Camiguin island province, a 1,332-meter stratovolcano on its northern coast.…

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…

The Hiligaynon people, popularly known as Ilonggos, are one of the largest ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines, native to the…

Hilutangan Channel is a deep-water channel in the Philippines that separates Mactan Island from Olango Island and nearby islets in…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The history of the Philippines is the chronological record of the archipelago and its peoples, spanning the precolonial barangay societies…

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…

Jolen · Jolens

Holen is the traditional Filipino marble game, in which players flick glass marbles with the thumb to strike target marbles…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Aglipayan Church · IFI

The Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church), commonly called the Aglipayan Church after its first supreme bishop Gregorio Aglipay, is…

Igpasungaw Falls is a waterfall in Sebaste, Antique, Philippines, where a stream drops over mossy rock tiers into natural pools…

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…

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…

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…

Ilocos Region (Region I) is an administrative region in the northwest of Luzon, Philippines, comprising four provinces (Ilocos Norte, Ilocos…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Internet in the Philippines connects the archipelago through fiber, mobile-broadband, and satellite networks, with the country's first connection established…

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…

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…

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,…

The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) is a small, snoutless cetacean of coastal and freshwater habitats in South and Southeast Asia,…

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…

Isabela State University (ISU) is a multi-campus state university in Isabela province, Cagayan Valley, established in 1978 with its main…

Isabelo L. Tampinco (1850–1933) was a Filipino sculptor regarded as the foremost Filipino carver of the late Spanish colonial period,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Tinguian (historical exonym) · Itneg

The Itneg people, historically called the Tinguian, are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Abra province in the Cordillera region of…

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…

Jabonga is a third-income class municipality in Agusan del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, situated along Lake Mainit. Covering 293 square…

The jade vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) is a spectacular climbing legume endemic to the rainforests of the Philippines, famous for its…

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…

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…

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…

Javier is a fourth-income-class municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, located along the Leyte Gulf. Founded as a municipality…

Jejemon refers to a Philippine youth subculture and its stylized SMS language that stretches words with mixed capitalization, numbers, and…

Jesús Balmori (1887–1948) was a Filipino poet, playwright, and novelist in the Spanish language, writing under the pen name "Batikuling."…

The Jintotolo Channel is the body of water connecting the Sibuyan Sea with the Visayan Sea, located between the islands…

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…

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…

Jose Abad Santos (February 19, 1886 - May 2, 1942) was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of…

Jose Abad Santos is a first-income-class municipality in Davao Occidental, Davao Region (Region XI), Philippines, and the southernmost municipality on…

José Corazón de Jesús (1896–1932), who wrote under the pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino Tagalog poet acclaimed as…

José Dizon (c. 1838 – 11 January 1897) was a Filipino patriot, Freemason, and co-founder of the Katipunan born in…

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…

Jose Panganiban, officially the Municipality of Jose Panganiban, is a coastal municipality in Camarines Norte, Philippines, with about 60,626 people…

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…

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…

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,…

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 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 de Salcedo (1549-1576) was a Novohispano conquistador who joined the Spanish expedition to the Philippines in 1565 as a…

Juramentado is a historical term from the Philippine-American and Spanish colonial periods referring to a Moro swordsman, typically a Tausug…

The Kaamulan Festival is an ethnic cultural festival held annually in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, from the second half of February…

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…

Kadaugan sa Mactan ("Victory at Mactan") is an annual festival in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, commemorating the 1521 Battle of Mactan…

Kadios baboy langka (Hiligaynon: "kadyos, baboy, kag langka") is a savory Filipino soup from the Western Visayas combining pigeon peas…

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…

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…

Kalantas (Toona calantas) is a large forest tree endemic to the Philippines, the country's representative of the mahogany family's "cedar"…

Kaldereta (from Spanish caldereta, "little cauldron") is a Filipino stew classically made with goat meat simmered in tomato sauce with…

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.…

Kalinga coffee is the highland arabica and robusta coffee grown in the province of Kalinga in the Cordillera Administrative Region,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 —…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Kayangan Lake is a brackish crater-like lake on Coron Island, Palawan, Philippines, set in a limestone basin reached by a…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Kitcharao is a fourth-income class municipality in Agusan del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. Created on June 22, 1963, it covers…

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…

The kora-kora is a traditional outrigger war canoe of maritime Southeast Asia, originating from the Maluku Islands and widely recorded…

The korido is a Philippine metrical romance derived from the Spanish corrido, sung or chanted in eight-syllable lines and recounting…

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…

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…

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…

Kundol is the Filipino name for the winter melon or wax gourd (Benincasa hispida), a large, mild-flavored gourd with a…

The kuratsa is a Waray folk dance of courtship from Eastern Visayas, danced by a couple in lively triple-time with…

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…

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…

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…

La Trinidad is the capital municipality of Benguet province in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of the Philippines. Located immediately…

Labason is a second-income-class coastal municipality in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, lying along the province's northern coast facing the Sulu…

Ladislao Diwa (1863–1930) was a Filipino patriot who, together with his friends Andrés Bonifacio and Teodoro Plata, co-founded the Katipunan,…

Lagonoy Gulf is a large gulf on the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon, opening to the Philippine Sea between the coast…

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…

The Laguna Volcanic Field is a scattered volcanic area on the southern side of Laguna de Bay in Luzon, Philippines,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Coconut vodka · Tuba distillate

Lambanog is a traditional Philippine distilled alcoholic spirit made from the fermented sap of coconut flowers, produced chiefly in the…

Lamberto V. Avellana (1915–1991) was a Filipino stage and film director who became the first National Artist of the Philippines…

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…

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…

The Land Registration Authority (LRA) is the Philippine government agency, attached to the Department of Justice, that issues decrees of…

The Langun-Gobingob Caves are a vast limestone cave system beneath the municipality of Calbiga, Samar, in the Philippines. Regarded as…

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,…

The Lanzones Festival is an annual agri-tourism festival held in Mambajao, Camiguin, during the third week of October, celebrating the…

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,…

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…

Las Piñas, officially the City of Las Piñas, is a highly urbanised first-income-class city in southern Metro Manila within the…

Lasam is an inland agricultural municipality in Cagayan, Philippines, northwest of Tuguegarao, farming rice, corn, and livestock on land between…

Laswa is a simple boiled vegetable soup of the Hiligaynon-speaking regions of the Philippines, particularly Iloilo and the rest of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Leyte Geothermal Production Field is the largest geothermal resource field in the Philippines, spanning the Tongonan and Mahanagdong sectors…

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…

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…

Libon, officially the Municipality of Libon, is a first-class municipality in Albay, Philippines, covering 222.76 square kilometres with about 72,135…

Licerio Geronimo (1855–1924) was a Filipino general of the Revolutionary Army best remembered for the Battle of San Mateo on…

The Liga ng mga Barangay is the national association of all punong barangays (village chiefs) in the Philippines, organized by…

The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation under the Department of Transportation, created on…

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…

Liloy is a second-income-class agricultural municipality in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, occupying the northwestern side of the Zamboanga Peninsula and…

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…

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…

Linapacan is an island municipality of Palawan situated between El Nido and the Calamianes group, composed of Linapacan Island and…

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.…

A lingling-o is a penannular or double-headed pendant and amulet associated with Late Neolithic to Iron Age Austronesian cultures of…

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…

Lipote is a common Philippine name for several closely related trees bearing clusters of edible dark-purple berries, chiefly Syzygium curranii…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Lualhati Torres Bautista (1945–2023) was a Filipina novelist, essayist, and activist known for socially committed fiction in Tagalog. Her best-known…

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…

Lucban sausage · Longganisang Lucban

Lucban longganisa is a small native Filipino sausage from Lucban, Quezon, distinguished by an assertive blend of garlic, black pepper,…

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"…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

The Luna Awards are the film awards presented by the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP), honoring outstanding achievements in…

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"…

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…

Mabalacat is a first income-class component city in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, converted from a municipality through…

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…

Macabebe is a third income-class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines, located along the Pampanga River delta…

Macahambus Cave is a scenic cave and gorge area in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, set within a patch of…

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…

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…

Madalag is an inland municipality in Aklan province, Western Visayas, Philippines, occupying a forested mountain valley in the province's interior.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Magat Salamat was a sixteenth-century Tagalog noble of Tondo, a son of Rajah Lakandula, who became one of the principal…

Magdalena Gamayo is an Ilocano master weaver of inabel cloth from Pinili, Ilocos Norte, awarded the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng…

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'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…

The magnificent sunbird is a small nectar-feeding bird of the sunbird family endemic to the Philippines, occurring in the Visayan…

"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…

Maguindanao (also spelled Maguindanaon) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maguindanao people of the Cotabato region of Mindanao, Philippines…

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…

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…

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…

Mahayag is a first-income-class agricultural municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, located within the Zamboanga Peninsula. It covers 194.90 square…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Malapascua Island is a small island barangay of Daanbantayan, Cebu, renowned in the global diving community as one of the…

Malay is a first-income-class municipality in Aklan, Western Visayas, Philippines. It is the northernmost town on Panay island and is…

Malcapuya Island is an island in the Calamian group off Coron, Palawan, Philippines, known for its long white sand beach,…

Malimono is a fifth-income class coastal municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 80.13 square kilometers, it has…

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,…

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…

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…

The Mamanwa are an indigenous Negrito people of northeastern Mindanao, Philippines, traditionally inhabiting the mountains and interior areas of Surigao…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

LRT · LRTA

The Manila Light Rail Transit System is the primary urban rapid transit network of Metro Manila, comprising two lines: LRT…

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,…

Manila Ocean Park is a marine themed park behind the Quirino Grandstand at Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines — the country's…

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.…

The Manila Times, founded on October 11, 1898, is the oldest existing English-language newspaper in the Philippines. Founded in the…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Mantigue Island is a small protected island about four kilometers off the southern coast of Camiguin, Philippines, fringed with white…

Manuel Tinio (17 June 1877 – 22 February 1924) was a Filipino revolutionary general and public official from Aliaga, Nueva…

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…

Mapandan is a third income-class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Ilocos Region (Region I), Philippines. Located in central Pangasinan…

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,…

Maquinit Hot Spring is a saltwater hot spring on the coast of Coron, Palawan, Philippines — among the rare hot…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) is a state university headquartered in Batac, Ilocos Norte, created in 1978 and named after…

Marihatag is a third-income class municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 312.50 square kilometers, it has 12…

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…

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…

Martín Teófilo Delgado (1858–1918) was a Filipino revolutionary general and statesman from Iloilo who led Visayan forces against Spain in…

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,…

Masareal is a traditional Filipino candy from Cebu made from ground roasted peanuts and sugar, cooked into a stiff paste,…

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…

Masino Intaray was a Palaw'an master musician and epic chanter from Brooke's Point, Palawan, honored in 1993 among the first…

Masungi Georeserve is a karst conservation area in Baras, Rizal province, Philippines, protecting limestone formations, caves, and forested ridges in…

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…

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…

Mauban is a first-income-class municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, founded on July 15, 1583. One of the oldest municipalities in…

Mayari is the goddess of the moon in Tagalog and Kapampangan mythology, widely told of as one of the daughters…

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…

Mayoyao is a fourth-class municipality in the province of Ifugao, Cordillera Administrative Region, whose stone-walled rice terraces constitute one of…

McGregor's cuckooshrike, also called the sharp-tailed cuckooshrike, is a bird of the cuckooshrike family (Campephagidae) endemic to the island of…

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…

Media of the Philippines comprises print, broadcast, and digital platforms serving a multilingual public. Major broadsheets include the Philippine Daily…

Medinilla magnifica, known in the Philippines as kapa-kapa, is an epiphytic shrub endemic to Philippine rainforests, celebrated for its drooping…

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…

Mental health in the Philippines refers to the state of psychological well-being of Filipinos and to the country's policies, services,…

The Mercedes Group of Islands is a cluster of small rocky islands off the coast of Mercedes, Camarines Norte, Philippines…

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…

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of interrelated metabolic abnormalities that together raise the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"Mickey Mouse money" is the popular Filipino nickname for the fiat currency issued by the Japanese occupation government in the…

Miguel Malvar y Carpio (1855–1911) was a Filipino general from Santo Tomas, Batangas, who fought in both the Philippine Revolution…

The milkfish (Chanos chanos), known in the Philippines as bangus, is the country's national fish and the single most important…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Misa de Gallo, Spanish for "Rooster's Mass," is the dawn or midnight Mass celebrated in Catholic tradition on Christmas Eve…

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…

Moalboal is a municipality of about 38,000 people (2024 census) on Cebu's southwestern peninsula, bordered to the west by the…

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…

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…

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…

Monay is a dense, chewy Filipino bread roll distinguished by its split top and moist crumb, made from an enriched…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Mutya ng Pilipinas ("Muse of the Philippines") is a Philippine national beauty pageant established in the late 1960s that crowns…

MX3 · MX3 Mangosteen

MX3 Philippines is a brand of natural dietary health supplements and beverages produced, distributed, and marketed by DMI Medical Supply…

N.V.M. Gonzalez (Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez, 1915–1999) was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, conferred the National…

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…

Nabua, officially the Municipality of Nabua (Rinconada Bikol: Banwāan ka Nabua), is a first-class municipality in Camarines Sur, Philippines, with…

The Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery is a 19th-century burial complex in Nagcarlan, Laguna, Philippines, whose baroque chapel stands above a crypt…

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…

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…

Namayan was one of the major precolonial polities of the Pasig River basin around Manila Bay — alongside Tondo and…

The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) is the central mapping agency of the Philippine government, attached to the…

Napoleones is a Bacolod City signature pastry: a rectangular stack of crisp puff pastry layers filled with soft custard cream…

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…

Nasipit is a municipality in Agusan del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, and the primary seaport gateway of the province. Established…

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…

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…

The National Cultural Heritage Act (Republic Act No. 10066) is the principal Philippine statute for the protection and conservation of…

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…

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF) is a coalition of revolutionary organizations founded in 1973, aligned with the…

The National Housing Authority (NHA) is a government-owned and controlled corporation responsible for providing decent, affordable housing to low-income and…

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,…

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 Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) is a Philippine government agency under the Department of Agriculture (DA) tasked with the…

The National Planetarium is an astronomy museum and domed theater within Rizal Park, Manila, operated by the National Museum of…

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…

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is the Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Information and Communications Technology that…

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…

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…

Naujan Lake is a large freshwater lake in the northeastern part of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, within the municipalities of Naujan,…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

NCC · Clark Green City

New Clark City (NCC), also known as Clark Green City, is a planned city under development in Capas, Tarlac, Philippines,…

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…

New Washington is a coastal municipality in Aklan province, Western Visayas, Philippines, situated on a peninsula along the Sibuyan Sea…

Nicanor Abelardo (1893–1934) was a Filipino composer, pianist, and teacher widely honored as the father of the Filipino art song,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

The Northern Negros Natural Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in the northern mountainous forest region of…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Nueva Era is an upland municipality in southeastern Ilocos Norte, Philippines, where the province meets its highland neighbors toward Abra…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

Occidental Mindoro is a province of the Philippines in the Mimaropa region (Region IV-B). Its capital is Mamburao. Occupying the…

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,…

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…

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…

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 (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…

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…

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…

The Ombudsman of the Philippines, formally the Office of the Ombudsman (Filipino: Tanggapan ng Tanodbayan), is an independent constitutional body…

Onok Island is a small stilt-village island in the municipality of Balabac, at the southern end of Palawan, Philippines, inhabited…

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…

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…

Oriental Mindoro is a province of the Philippines in the Mimaropa region (Region IV-B). Its capital is Calapan. Occupying the…

Ormoc Bay is a large bay on the island of Leyte in the Philippines, an extension of the Camotes Sea.…

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…

The Oryoku Maru (Ōryoku Maru) was a Japanese passenger-cargo ship that became infamous as a "hell ship" when it was…

The OsRox Mission of 1931 was the independence mission to the United States led by Senate President pro tempore Sergio…

Otap (also spelled otapi) is a Philippine oval-shaped puff pastry biscuit coated in sugar, produced by repeatedly folding and rolling…

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…

Ozamiz City is a second-income-class component city in Misamis Occidental province in Northern Mindanao (Region X), Philippines. It had a…

The Ozone Disco Fire was the deadliest fire in Philippine history, killing 162 people—most of them high school and college…

Pabasa ("reading" or "passion chanting") is a Filipino Catholic Lenten devotion in which the Pasyon, a long Tagalog verse narrative…

Pachyrhynchus is a genus of flightless weevils celebrated as the "easter egg weevils" for the brilliant metallic scale patterns that…

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world's five oceans, covering approximately 165 million square kilometers—larger than…

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…

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…

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-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),…

Pagbilao is a first-income-class municipality in Quezon Province, Philippines, established on August 29, 1730. A coastal town bordering Lucena City,…

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,…

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…

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…

The Pahiyas Festival is an annual harvest thanksgiving celebration held every 15 May in Lucban, Quezon, in honor of San…

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…

Maranao palapa · Sakurab relish

Palapa is a traditional Maranao condiment from the Lake Lanao region centered on Marawi, made by pounding sakurab (native shallot…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Panay monitor lizard (Varanus mabitang), known locally as mabitang, is a large, rare lizard endemic to the island of…

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,…

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…

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…

Pandaka pygmaea, the dwarf pygmy goby, is a tiny freshwater and brackish-water fish endemic to the island of Luzon in…

Pandan is a coastal municipality in northern Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, widely recognized as the province's leading tourist destination.…

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.…

Pangalay is a traditional dance form of the Sulu archipelago, associated with the Tausug, Sama, and Bajau peoples, characterized by…

The Pangasinan people are an ethnolinguistic group of the central Luzon plains and coast, concentrated in Pangasinan province and speaking…

Pangasinan State University (PSU) is a public, multi-campus state university in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines, with its main campus…

Panitan is an agricultural municipality in Capiz province, Western Visayas, Philippines, located inland to the north of Roxas City. It…

Taal River · Ilog Pansipit

The Pansipit River is a short but historically important river in Batangas, Philippines, the sole surface outlet of Taal Lake,…

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…

Pantar is a fifth-income-class municipality in Lanao del Norte, Northern Mindanao, Philippines. Located near the northern shores of Lake Lanao,…

Panyalam is a Filipino deep-fried rice cake made from ground glutinous rice, sugar, and grated coconut, shaped into flat round…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,"…

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…

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…

Pasma is a Filipino folk illness attributed to an imbalance between hot (init) and cold (lamig) states of the body,…

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…

The Pasyon is a Philippine narrative chant that recounts the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, performed publicly…

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…

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…

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…

Patnongon is a coastal municipality in the southern part of Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, facing the Sulu Sea. It…

Patola is the Filipino term for the ridged luffa or angled gourd (Luffa acutangula), a fast-climbing vine cultivated for its…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Peñablanca Protected Landscape · PPLS

The Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape is a protected area in Peñablanca, Cagayan, Philippines, safeguarding the limestone karst country northeast…

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 —…

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 —…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

The Philippine collared dove (Streptopelia dusumieri) is a bird in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae, long treated as a…

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…

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…

The Philippine coucal (Centropus viridis) is a large, long-tailed cuckoo endemic to the Philippines, widespread from Luzon to Mindanao in…

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…

The Philippine deer (Rusa marianna), also called the Philippine brown deer or sambar, is a small brown deer endemic to…

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.…

The Philippine eagle-owl (Bubo philippensis) is a large owl species endemic to the Philippines, found in forested lowlands across Luzon,…

Philippine epic poetry refers to the long narrative poems and chanted tales composed and transmitted by the country's ethnolinguistic communities…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

The Philippine mouse-deer (Tragulus nigricans), commonly called pilandok, is a tiny, forest-dwelling hoofed mammal endemic to Balabac and nearby small…

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 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…

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…

Malintong · Gintong-pilipit

The Philippine pangolin (Manis culionensis), known locally as gintong-pilipit or malintong, is a scaly, anteating mammal endemic to the Palawan…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary in Corella, Bohol is a government-declared forest reserve dedicated to the protection of the Philippine tarsier…

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…

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…

Philippines AirAsia is a Philippine low-cost airline based at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay, Metro Manila, operating domestic and…

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…

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…

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…

Physical therapy (PT) is a health profession that uses exercise, manual techniques, electrotherapy, and education to restore movement and function…

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…

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…

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…

Piddig is a hilly municipality in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, east of Laoag City, remembered as the cradle of the Basi…

The pigeon orchid (Dendrobium crumenatum) is a small, epiphytic orchid widespread in the Philippines and tropical Asia, celebrated for its…

Filipino hopscotch · Pikô

Piko is the Filipino version of hopscotch and one of the most widely played traditional children's games in the Philippines.…

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…

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…

"Pilipinas Kong Mahal" ("My Beloved Philippines") is one of the most popular patriotic songs of the Philippines, with music by…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The pis syabit is the traditional woven headcloth of the Tausug people of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines — a small,…

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…

Placer is a fourth-income class municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines. Located on the northeastern tip of Mindanao…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Pulboron · Polvorones (Spanish plural)

Polvoron is a Filipino confection of toasted flour, powdered milk, sugar, and butter or shortening, mixed dry and pressed into…

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…

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…

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…

Port Barton is a coastal village and bay in the municipality of San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines, known for its laid-back…

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…

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 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…

The Presidential Management Staff (PMS) is the technical and managerial arm of the Office of the President of the Philippines,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"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 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…

Pugad Baboy ("Pig's Nest") is a landmark Philippine comic strip created by Apolinio "Pol" Medina Jr., debuting in 1988 in…

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…

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…

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…

The purple-throated sunbird (Leptocoma sperata) is a small nectar-feeding bird in the family Nectariniidae found in the Philippines and on…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 · 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…

Quirino is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cagayan Valley region (Region II) of Luzon. Its capital is…

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…

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…

Rafael M. Salas (1928-1987) was a Filipino public servant and international civil servant who served as Executive Secretary under President…

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,…

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…

The rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta), known in the Philippines as bagras, is a fast-growing rainforest tree famed for its trunk,…

Lakan Dula · Rajah Lakandula

Rajah Lakandula, more properly Lakan Dula, was the ruler of Tondo, the principal trading polity on the northern shore of…

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 Tupas was the last Rajah of Sugbu (Cebu), succeeding his father Rajah Humabon and ruling the chiefdom when the…

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…

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 is a third-income-class municipality in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, within the Zamboanga Peninsula. It spans 113.70 square kilometres…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354) guarantees universal access to reproductive health information…

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…

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…

Republic Act No. 11223, the Universal Health Care Act, was signed in February 2019 to enroll every Filipino automatically in…

Republic Act No. 11313, the Safe Spaces Act, is a Philippine law penalizing gender-based sexual harassment in streets and public…

Rizal Law · RA 1425

Republic Act No. 1425, commonly called the Rizal Law, is the 1956 Philippine statute that mandates the teaching of Jose…

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…

Republic Act No. 8293, the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, is the principal statute governing intellectual property in the…

Republic Act No. 9208, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, criminalized trafficking in persons — recruitment, transport, harboring, or…

Republic Act No. 9513, the Renewable Energy Act of 2008, was signed in December 2008 to accelerate the development of…

The Republic of Zamboanga was a short-lived revolutionary republic established on 18 May 1899 in Zamboanga after Filipino and allied…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A rondalla is an ensemble of plucked string instruments — in the Philippines typically bandurrias, laúds, octavinas, guitars, and a…

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…

Rosquillos are flower-shaped, scallop-edged cookies with a hole in the center, created in Liloan, Cebu in 1907 by Margarita "Titay"…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Salinas Natural Monument is a protected area of saline springs and forested mountains in the towns of Bambang, Kayapa,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

San Agustin is a fourth-income class municipality in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region, Philippines. Covering 277.28 square kilometers, it has…

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 · San Carlos Bioenergy City

San Carlos is a component city in northeastern Negros Occidental, Philippines, facing the Tanon Strait and the neighboring island of…

Pyestang Tugak · Tugak Festival

The San Fernando Frog Festival, known locally as Pyestang Tugak, is an annual festival in the City of San Fernando,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

San Mateo is a first-class agricultural municipality in Isabela province, Philippines, in the Cagayan Valley. Known as one of the…

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…

San Miguel Brewery, Inc. is the Philippines' largest brewery, a subsidiary of San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc. jointly held…

San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is one of the largest and most diversified conglomerates in the Philippines. Founded in 1890 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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

The Sandugo was a blood compact (dugo meaning blood) held on March 16, 1565, between the Bohol chieftain Datu Sikatuna…

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,…

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…

Santa Ana is a coastal municipality in northeastern Cagayan province, Philippines, at the mouth of the Cagayan River system facing…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Sapian is a small coastal municipality in Capiz province, Western Visayas, Philippines, lying along the boundary with Aklan and fronting…

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…

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,…

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,…

The Sarangay is a creature of Visayan mythology usually described as a humanoid with the head and horns of a…

Sarangani Bay Festival · Sarbay

The Sarbay Festival, short for Sarangani Bay Festival, is the largest beach festival in Mindanao, held annually during the summer…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

Sebaste is a coastal municipality occupying the northernmost portion of Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines. Facing the Sulu Sea along…

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…

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,…

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…

Kick volleyball · Takraw

Sepak takraw, sometimes called kick volleyball, is a Southeast Asian court sport in which teams of three players use their…

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…

The Seven Lakes of San Pablo are a group of small crater and maar lakes scattered around San Pablo City…

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…

Shakoy is a traditional Filipino deep-fried twisted doughnut made from a flour, sugar, salt, and yeast dough that is hand-stretched…

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…

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…

The Shinyo Maru incident refers to the sinking of the Japanese hell ship Shinyo Maru by the American submarine USS…

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…

Sibalom is a first-class municipality in Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, immediately inland of the provincial capital, San Jose de…

The Sibalom Natural Park is a protected area in Sibalom, Antique, Philippines, preserving one of the last stands of lowland…

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…

Sibutad is a fourth-income-class coastal municipality in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, facing the Bohol Sea and Murcielagos Bay in the…

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…

"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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

The SIM Card Registration Act (Republic Act No. 11934) requires all subscribers of prepaid and postpaid SIM cards in the…

The Simala Church — formally the Monastery of the Holy Eucharist, also called the Simala Shrine or Simala Parish Church…

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…

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…

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…

Spanish plum · Jocote

Siniguelas is the Philippine name for Spondias purpurea, a fruit tree of the cashew family Anacardiaceae native to tropical regions…

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…

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…

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…

Description marker: Sira-an Hot Spring is a natural hot spring grotto on the coast of Anini-y, Antique, Philippines, where warm…

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…

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…

Sison is a municipality in Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines, known for its strategic highway junction location. Established on…

"Sitsiritsit," fully "Sitsiritsit Alibangbang," is a traditional Tagalog folk song of playful, teasing verses — nonsense refrains, a butterfly (alibangbang)…

The Siyokoy is the male water creature of Philippine folklore, the counterpart of the Sirena mermaid in the classical "lower-body…

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…

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…

SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII) is an administrative region in the south-central part of Mindanao, Philippines. Its name is an acronym for…

The Social Security System (SSS) is the Philippine state-run social insurance program for private-sector, self-employed, and voluntary members, providing replacement…

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…

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…

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…

Sotanghon is the Filipino name for cellophane noodles, translucent threads made from mung bean starch that turn glassy when cooked.…

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…

Southeastern Asia · ASEAN Region

Southeast Asia is a geographically and geopolitically distinct region of Asia, situated south of China, east of India, north of…

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…

Southern Leyte is a province of the Philippines in the Eastern Visayas region (Region VIII). Its capital is Maasin City.…

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…

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…

Spathoglottis plicata, the Philippine ground orchid or large purple orchid, is a terrestrial orchid widespread in the Philippines and across…

The spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a slender, three-toned oceanic dolphin famous for acrobatic leaps in which it spins lengthwise…

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,…

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…

Stevan Javellana (1918–1977) was a Filipino lawyer and novelist from Iloilo whose single novel, "Without Seeing the Dawn" (1947), broke…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

The sugar-apple (Annona squamosa), known in the Philippines as atis, is a small tropical fruit tree bearing knobby, heart-shaped green…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Surigao City is a second-income-class component city and capital of Surigao del Norte province in the Caraga Region (Region XIII),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Tadlac Lake, colloquially known as Crocodile Lake, is a freshwater volcanic maar lake located in Barangay Tadlac in the municipality…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

The tanaga is a traditional Tagalog poetic form consisting of four lines of seven syllables each, traditionally bound by a…

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…

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),…

The Tanduyong Festival is the annual harvest festival of San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, held in April in thanksgiving for…

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…

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…

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,…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Tasaday people

The Tasaday are a small group of Filipino forest-dwellers from the rainforests near Lake Sebu in what is now South…

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…

Tawi-Tawi is an island province of the Philippines within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Its capital is…

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…

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…

The Tboli (also spelled T'boli) are an indigenous Lumad people of southern Mindanao in the Philippines, concentrated around Lake Sebu…

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…

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 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…

Teofilo Garcia is a Filipino farmer and craftsman from San Quintin, Abra, named a Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (National…

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…

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…

The Thick-billed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum agile) is a small, plain olive-and-gray flowerpecker with a characteristically stout bill, resident in the Philippines…

The Thirteen Martyrs of Cavite were Filipino patriots executed by Spanish firing squad on September 12, 1896, at the Cavite…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The timawa were the class of free commoners of precolonial Philippine society. In the Visayas they ranked below the tumao…

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…

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…

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…

The Tinguian people, more properly called the Itneg, are an Austronesian ethnolinguistic people of the uplands of Abra and adjacent…

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…

The Tiruray (also spelled Teduray) are an indigenous ethnic group of southwestern Mindanao, Philippines, living in the uplands and river…

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…

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…

Tobias Fornier is a coastal municipality in Antique province, Western Visayas, Philippines, located in the southern part of the province…

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…

Tolosa is a fifth-income-class municipality in Leyte province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines, facing the Leyte Gulf on the island's eastern coast.…

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…

Tomás Pinpin was a printer, writer, and publisher from Abucay, Bataan, celebrated as the first Filipino printer and honored as…

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…

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…

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…

Traditional medicine in the Philippines refers to indigenous healing practices, herbal remedies, and complementary therapies developed across generations. It includes…

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…

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…

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.…

Tsokolate is the traditional Philippine hot chocolate drink made from tablea or tablets of roasted, finely ground cacao nibs, cooked…

Tuasan Falls is a waterfall in the uplands of Camiguin island, Philippines, where a strong stream drops into a natural…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Twin Lagoons are two connected brackish lagoons on Coron Island, Palawan, Philippines, separated by a narrow limestone gap that…

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…

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…

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 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 Ompong, internationally designated Typhoon Mangkhut, was the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2018 and the strongest to make Philippine…

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 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…

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…

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…

Undas is the Filipino observance of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day (November 1–2), when families across the Philippines…

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 University of Eastern Philippines (UEP) is a public state university in Catarman, Northern Samar, Philippines. Established in the 1960s…

Upo is the Filipino name for the bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria), one of humanity's oldest cultivated plants, grown in the…

Arrowroot cookies · Araro

Uraro (also spelled araro) are delicate Philippine cookies made from arrowroot starch, butter or margarine, sugar, eggs, and milk, piped…

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…

Utang na loob, literally "debt of the inner self," is a core Filipino value describing a deep, open-ended obligation of…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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,…

Vicente Lukban (1860–1916) was a Filipino revolutionary general and legislator from Camarines Sur who fought in both the Philippine Revolution…

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,…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

Visita Iglesia is a Filipino Roman Catholic devotion in which the faithful visit and pray before the Blessed Sacrament in…

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…

The Waling-waling (Vanda sanderiana) is an epiphytic orchid endemic to Mindanao and neighboring islands in the southern Philippines, renowned for…

Wao is a municipality in Lanao del Sur, BARMM, Philippines, notable as the only Christian-majority municipality in the province. It…

The Waray are the ethnolinguistic group of Eastern Visayas, Philippines, speaking the Waray-Waray language across Samar, Biliran, and eastern Leyte,…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero (1917-1995) was a Filipino playwright, director, and teacher who led the University of the Philippines theater tradition…

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…

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…

Women in the Philippines make up roughly half of the population and enjoy, on paper and in many indices, one…

Worcester's buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri) is a small, quail-like ground bird endemic to Luzon in the Philippines and one of the…

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…

Mangkono · Philippine ironwood

Xanthostemon verdugonianus, known locally as mangkono, is a tree endemic to the Philippines and widely called the Philippine ironwood because…

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…

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…

The Yogad are an ethnolinguistic group of the southern Cagayan Valley, concentrated in and around Echague in Isabela province, Luzon,…

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…

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…

The Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) is an administrative region in the western part of Mindanao, Philippines. It comprises three provinces…

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.…

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…

Zoilo Mercado Galang was a Filipino writer from Pampanga credited as one of the pioneering Filipino authors to work in…

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