Editing Geography of the Philippines (section)

===CIA Statistics===
Unless otherwise indicated, the information below is taken from CIA Factbook information for the Philippines.<ref name=factbook-ph />

====Area====
:* Total: {{convert|300000|km2|0}}
:**country rank in the world: ''72nd''
:* Land: {{convert|298170|km2|0}}
:* Water: {{convert|1830|km2|0}}

;Area – comparative:
:*Australia comparative: approximately {{sfrac|1|1|3}} times the size of [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]]
:*Canada comparative: approximately {{sfrac|5|8}} the size of the [[Yukon]]
:*United States comparative: slightly larger than [[Arizona]]
:*United Kingdom comparative: approximately {{sfrac|1|1|4}} times the size of the United Kingdom
:*[[European Union|EU]] comparative: slightly smaller than [[Italy]]
====Coastline====
* {{convert|36289|km}}

==== Maritime claims ====
(measured from claimed [[baselines of the Philippines|archipelagic baselines]])
* Continental shelf: to depth of exploitation
* [[Exclusive economic zone]]: {{convert|2,263,816|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} with {{convert|200|nmi|km|lk=in}}
* Territorial sea: irregular polygon extending up to {{convert|100|nmi}} from the coastline as defined by 1898 treaty; since the late 1970s has also claimed the polygonal-shaped area in the South China Sea up to {{convert|285|nmi}} in breadth.

<div style="overflow-y:auto;">{{Oceans and seas in the Philippines location map}}</div>

====Natural resources====
* [[Timber]], [[petroleum]], [[nickel]], [[cobalt]], [[silver]], [[gold]], [[salt]], and [[copper]].

====Land use====
* Arable land: 20%
* Permanent crops: 16.67%
* Other: 64.33% (2005)

====Irrigated land====
* {{convert|15500|km2|0|sp=us}} (2003)

====Natural hazards====
The Philippines sit astride [[typhoon]] belt and are usually affected by 15 and struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year; landslides; active volcanoes; destructive earthquakes; [[tsunami]]s.

====Environment - current issues====
{{main|Environmental issues in the Philippines}}
*Uncontrolled deforestation in watershed areas; soil erosion; air and water pollution in Manila; increasing pollution of coastal mangrove swamps which are important fish breeding grounds; severe water pollution that caused the death of one of the country's major rivers, though there are ongoing efforts at resuscitation.<ref>Cezar Tigno, [http://www.adb.org/water/actions/phi/pasig-river-resuscitating.asp Resuscitating the Pasig River] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707235139/http://www.adb.org/water/actions/phi/pasig-river-resuscitating.asp |date=July 7, 2010 }}, Asian Development Bank, April 2009.</ref>

[[Typhoon Haiyan]] in November 2013 caused major problems.

====Environment - international agreements====
*Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
*Signed, but not ratified: Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, [[Desertification]].