- a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946
- (philippine) official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages
- A country in Southeast Asia that consists of an archipelago of over 7,000 islands—the main ones being Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Leyte, Samar, Negros, and Panay—that are separated from the Asian mainland by the South China Sea; pop. 86,241,000; capital, Manila; languages, Filipino (based on Tagalog) and English
- an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands