Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Manila
- Region
- Asia, South-Eastern Asia
- Population
- 116,786,962 (2025)
- Area
- 300,000 km²
- Currency
- Philippine peso (PHP)
- Languages
- Tagalog, English, Filipino, Cebuano, Iloko
- Calling code
- +63
- Internet domain
- .ph
- ISO codes
- PH, PHL, 608
- Time zone
- UTC+8:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- #### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
The Philippines covers about 300,000 square kilometres. By area it ranks 74th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Italy and a little larger than Burkina Faso. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 13° north, 122° east, in the northern hemisphere.
People
About 117 million people live in the Philippines (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 14th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 1.4 percent of the world's people. On average there are 389 people to each square kilometre. About 56 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 70 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Tagalog, English, Filipino, Cebuano, Iloko, Hiligaynon, Waray (Philippines), Pampanga. A person from the Philippines is called Filipino.
Money and economy
The currency is the Philippine peso (code PHP, symbol ₱). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 487 billion (2025), which is about US$ 4,171 for each person (2025).
Time
The Philippines uses one time zone, UTC+8:00 (Asia/Manila). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Quezon City | 3,084,270 |
| Davao | 1,848,947 |
| Caloocan | 1,712,945 |
| Manila | 1,600,000 |
| Taguig | 1,308,085 |
| Budta | 1,273,715 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South-Eastern Asia
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.