Philippines (English: the Philippines Filipino] Picasso lip year 78) or the official name is the Republic of the Philippines (English: Republic of the Philippines Filipino: Thailand State), is a country that consists of 7,107 islands located in a number of Islands, Pacific Ocean, far from the Asian mainland to the Southeast, approximately 1000 km, and is the only one that is a country bordering the maritime contacts among the world's most long-NI Spain (2064-2441), and United States (2441 (1898)-1946) has been the Philippines as a colony for 4 centuries and is the second biggest influence on culture of the Philippines.
The Philippines is one of two Nations in Asia, where the majority Christian population (again, national one is Timor Leste), and is one of the Nations that receive most Western influences as a combination of the West with the Eastern only uniquely Arnold Joseph thoi b. (Joseph Arnold Toynbee), British historian, has stated in his work that the Philippines is a country in Latin America that are borne to the East by the waves of the sea giant.