Country

Philippines

PH
Asia
PHP
.ph

Philippines (PH/PHL) is a country in Asia with its capital at Manila. It covers about 300,000 km² with a population of roughly 117,000,000, uses the PHP, dials on +63, owns the .ph internet domain and keeps its capital on Asia/Manila. It has no land borders.

Identity

Official short namePhilippines

CapitalManila

ContinentAsia

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2PH

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3PHL

Internet TLD.ph

Calling code+63

Currency codePHP

Geography

Approximate centre12.8797, 121.774a representative point, not a calculated centroid

Latitude12.8797° N

Longitude121.774° E

HemisphereNorthern and Eastern

Area300,000 km²115,831 square miles

Land neighboursNone, it has no land borders

Distance from London10,942 kmto the approximate centre of Philippines, not to Manila. ENE, bearing 56.8°

Antipode-12.8797, -58.226the point on the exact opposite side of the Earth

Time

These values depend on today’s date and change daily.

Time zone of the capitalAsia/Manilathe IANA zone for Manila; a large country spans several zones

Standard offsetUTC+08:00

Observes daylight savingNothe offset is the same all year

Offset in JanuaryUTC+08:00

Offset in JulyUTC+08:00

Current offsetUTC+08:00

Local time now10 Sept 2026, 01:13

Hours ahead of UTC8

Population & scale

Population117,000,000≈estimate, 2024 edition. Population figures are latest available national or UN estimates, rounded

Population density390 per km²≈

Share of world population1.444%≈against a world population of about 8.1 billion

Area rank in this dataset38 of 59

Population rank in this dataset13 of 59

About this data

Dataset version2024 edition. Population figures are latest available national or UN estimates, rounded

Time zone sourcethe IANA time zone database, via the platform

Last updated2024-01-01

StabilityISO codes, TLDs and calling codes are stable; population and area are estimates that change

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