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Source: h*ps://www.gov.ph/about-the-philippines  More islands in the Philippines How many islands are there in the Philippines? While most people would say “7107 islands”, this is no longer the case. The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority...

Source: h*ps://www.gov.ph/about-the-philippines  More islands in the Philippines How many islands are there in the Philippines? While most people would say “7107 islands”, this is no longer the case. The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) has discovered previously unknown islands that have increased the count to 7641. Then Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje announced the discovery during the Philippine Environment Summit in February 2016. How Were The Islands Discovered? The Philippine Islands Measurements Project discovered the “new” islands using the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR), a new high-resolution mapping system. Traditional boat along Loboc river in Bohol island. Once discovered by IFSAR, NAMRIA had to do ground validation on all the islands discovered in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Ground validation is photographing the seabed where the islands are located. It includes taking samples of actual sediments from the islands through shallow digging. Paje said that the new islands were undiscovered for so long due to the technology that they were using at the time. Changing landforms also contributed to the islands remaining “hidden”. What Does This Mean For The Country? The new discoveries mean a couple of things for the country: additional land area and increased coastal economic zone. On one hand, the additional land area presents more opportunities for agricultural and scientific exploration. On the other, the increased coastal economic zone means more locations for ocean exploration and the fishing industry. Benham Rise is one such addition to the Philippine coastal economic zone. The 13 million undersea regions located on the coasts of Isabela and Aurora has increased the country’s territory from 30 million hectares to 43 million hectares. It is also rich in solid methane and natural gas, which would be greatly beneficial to the country. Source: CNN Philippines  Read_Ph Course Outline Topic Course Plan and class orienta@on The Philippines as a unique na@on The Philippine territory and its people Pre-Colonial Philippines Colonial Period Ø The Spanish Era Ø Revolts and struggles for freedom Ø The Philippine Revolu@on Ø The birth of a Na@on Ø The American Rule Ø The Japanese occupa@on The Republic of the Philippines  Colonial Period Spain > 1521 European Contacts; Introduc@on of Chris@anity > 1565 - 1898 Spanish Coloniza@on Bri@sh > 1762 – 1764 America > 1898 Arrival; Spanish-American War; Treaty of Paris > 1901 Beginning of American Rule > 1935 Commonwealth Government > 1946 Recogni@on of Philippine Independence Japan > 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor; Arrival 1942 - 1945  Philippine Republics 1899; 1943; 1946 - 2020 1st Emilio Aguinaldo (1899) 2nd Jose P. Laurel (1943) 3rd Manuel Roxas; Elpidio Quirino; Ramon Magsaysay; Carlos Garcia; Diosdado Macapagal; Ferdinand Marcos (First Term: 1965 – 1969 ; Second Term 1969 – 1973 (supposedly) ; Mar@ally: 1972 – 1981 4th Ferdinand Marcos (1981 – 1986) 5th Corazon Aquino; Fidel V. Ramos; Joseph Estrada; Gloria M. Arroyo; Benigno Aquino III;Rodrigo R. Duterte  Commonwealth Government (American Period) 1935 – 1946 Manuel L. Quezon (1935-1944) (Died in exile in the US) Sergio Osmena (1944-1946) (Assumed the presidency upon the death of Quezon while the Philippine Commonwealth government is in exile in the U.S.) Manuel Roxas April 23, 1946 (became the last president of the Commonwealth and the first president of the Republic (3rd) of the Philippines when it was inaugurated on July 4, 1946).