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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000700270001-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: MAP

PHILIPPINES
M ORE THAN 7,000 ISLANDS and islets rise
from a partly submerged mountain
chain to form the Philippines. Largely trop-
ical wilderness, 90 percent of the islands are
uninhabited, 60 percent unnamed. Two-
thirds of the population lives on the two
largest islands, Luzon and Mindanao.
Predominantly of Malay origin, Filipinos
trace their origins as far back as 3000 B.C.,
to the first immigrants from Indonesia and
Malaya- Hillsides terraced with rice fields
bear witness to ancient engineering skills.
In the 14th century Arab missionaries
brought Islam to the
Sulus and other
southern islands.
The Christian influ-
ence datesfrom 1521,
when Magellanland-
ed on Cebu, opening the way for Spanish
colonization in 1565. Spain's rule lasted 333
years, ending with the Spanish-American
War. The United States guided the Philip-
pines during the next 48 years, leaving a
heritage of language and liberty. The nation
became fully independent on July 4, 1946.
GOVERNMENT: Republic. LAND AREA: 115,830
square miles, about the size of Arizona, extending
1,Is0 miles north and south, the sweep of Wash-
ington, Oregon, and California combined. POPU-
LATION: 32,600,000, mainly of Malay stock. LAN-
GUAGE: Officially' Filipino (Tagalog); English
Isloken by 40%). Spanish, SO-odd native dialects.
RELIGION: 83% Roman Catholic; Aglipayan Ian
independent Christian sect), Moslem, Protestant
ryinorities. ECONOMY: Copra, sugar, abaca, lum-
ber, fishing, gold, lead, manganese, iron, copper,
chromite. CITIES: Manila, port, industrial center
ipop. I,3.39,IN101; Quezon City (Manila suburb),
capital; Baguio. summer capital Fasay; Cebu.
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