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Philippines Flag


This Philippines Flag is comprised with two equal sized horizontal bands of colors and a parallel white triangle on the left hand part of the ensign fronting the middle.

Philippines Flag
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The red stripe signifies gallantry and the blood shed, while the blue band signifies justice and nationalism and white triangle denotes equality.
In the central part of the triangle a large golden yellow sun is encircled by three five pointed golden yellow star placed in each nook of the triangle.The three stars in Philipines Flag picture symbolize the regions of Philippines as Visayas, Luzon and Mindanao. The sun represents freedom and its eight beams personify the eight states of Philippine rebelling against Spanish ruling.

Official Name: Republika of Pilipines.

Capital: Manila.

Location: the Phillippines is an archipelago in the pacific consisting of more than 7,000 islands of which only about 800 are inhabited. The 11 largest islands (namely Luzon, Mindanao Samar Negroes, Palwan Panay Mindoro Leyte Cebu Bohol and Masbate)

Area: 300, 000 Sq. km.

Official Languages: Philippine (Filipino) based on Tagalong English Lingua Franca throughout the archipelago is also used officially.

National Flag: Horizontally blue over red with a white triangle based on the hoist bearing a Gold sun of 8 rays and 3 stars.

Flag Ratio: 1:2

National Anthem: Lupang Hinirang Beloved Land (1898).