Talk:Philippines

North Bormeo
The map of the Philippines should include North Bormeo as they claims to be part of it (see North Borneo dispute) - Jjpachano (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 11:36, 5 March 2023 (UTC)


 * To clarify my understanding of the they and it above, I think it means that the Philippine government claims that a part of North Bprneo is Philippine territory. I haven't gone much beyond reading the lead section of the North Borneo dispute article in attempting to understand this, but that is how I read it. IMO, if this is to become a point of contention in the article, it needs expansion beyond the lead section and supporting sources IAW WP:DUE.
 * Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:01, 5 March 2023 (UTC)


 * It simply isn't due. CMD (talk) 12:59, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Put Sabah aka North Borneo as light green like South Korea article showing North Korea in light green claiming it and vice versa. Sheanobeano (talk) 22:14, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Good point, and how Mainland China is shown in light green in the Taiwan article. Ztimes3 (talk) 06:51, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Remove the part where it said Deforestation reached a record high during the Duterte administration in 2017 because of wrong citation
In the "Biodiversity" portion of this article, it's stated that "Deforestation had reached a record high during the Duterte administration in 2017", with citation 237 entitled, "7M hectares Philippine lands are forested-and that's bad news" by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism on May 12, 2021. I read through that article and the only specific period mentioned was in the portion "Mindoro lost more than 200,000 hectares of forest cover from 2003 to 2015. However, Duterte was elected into office on June 30, 2016. His predecessors, Benigno S. Aquino III (June 30, 2010 to June 30, 2016) and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (January 20, 2001 to June 30, 2010 were in office during the time period mentioned in the citation. The statement is clearly false if the basis is the citation used and should be changed/removed. Chiniwaki (talk) 13:31, 25 August 2023 (UTC)


 * This seems to have been removed already. Howard the Duck (talk) 00:40, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Waves of migration
The migrations mentioned in the lead refer specifically to the Models of migration to the Philippines, which cover the early peopling of the area. It does not refer to all immigration later times, which at any rate is wider than simply later Chinese and Spanish arrivals. CMD (talk) 05:11, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * When talking about "migration waves" since Beyer, scholars mostly have focussed on the formative pre-colonial migrations that shaped the population of the entire archipelago. It is simply wrong chronology to mention later migrations of Chinese and people from the Spanish Empire (both Europeans and Mestizos) in the pre-colonial timeline. Also, these people did not arrive as "Sangleys" and "Filipino Mestizos" (except for New World mestizos), these term refers to groups that emerged locally as a result of intermarriage and cultural convergence. But still, while their "physical" impact is largely restricted to urban centers, their cultural influence has been crucial in the formation of Filipino society (and also the formation of political and economical elites), so a one-sentence mention (obviously placed somewhere after Magellan in the text) in the timeline of the second paragraph is fine IMHO. –Austronesier (talk) 20:21, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * If the aim is to provide demographic and cultural indicators, it would be preferable to create writing obviously within the context of demographics and culture (which the current lead is entirely lacking). CMD (talk) 23:59, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * @Chipmunkdavis 112.210.227.80 (talk) 10:54, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Philippines was south of Japan, how did it move to south of Taiwan?
During World war II, the Imperial Japanese Navy sailed south from Japan to invade Philippines, which was under American occupation. The Japanese Imperial Navy did not sail to Taiwan first before heading towards Philippines. Now, the northernmost Philippine island is almost as close to Taiwan as Taiwan is to China mainland, so how did Philippines move from South of Japan, to South of Taiwan? Thank you for your interest. 2601:647:6881:2060:494:92D8:7A2A:C526 (talk) 02:28, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The answer is: plate tectonics. Since the Pleistocene (at least), the island of Taiwan is to the immediate north of the Philippine Archipelago. You might have been misled by a look at a pseudocylindrical Europe-centered map. In such projections, the Philippines might appear straight below Japan. But a look at longitudinal lines will tell you that the route from Japan to the Philippines goes south-southwest. –Austronesier (talk) 16:45, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The Japanese Imperial Navy did not invade the Philippines by way of Taiwan, and the United States navy did not fire bomb Japan from the Philippines, south of Taiwan. During World War II, the United States island hopped to Japan, and the Philippines was one of those island groups, which was located south of Japan, not south of Taiwan. Also, the Qing Dynasty did not conquer Taiwan and drive away the Ming Dynasty royal court to the Philippines, as it's possible to do so given how close the islands now are. Additionally, the Spanish did not colonize the Philippines for more than three hundred years, south of Taiwan, as the Philippines were located rather farther away from Taiwan. Given how close the Philippines and Taiwan are now, you would expect there would be more cultural and historic exchanges between China and Philippines, but there were not, because Taiwan is scarcely mentioned in Philippine history, just as Philippines are scarcely mentioned in the history of Taiwan. 2601:647:6881:2060:505E:609D:F2A8:43A8 (talk) 02:10, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Philippines area
When did the extra 43,000 sq km area be added to Philippines or annexed from where? 197.250.102.95 (talk) 06:53, 12 March 2024 (UTC)