The Use of Spanish Language in the Philippine Current Diplomacy

Abstract

The Philippines is an archipelago of 7,107 islands off the southeast coast of the Asian mainland. Spanning 1,854 kilometers from north to south and 1,110 kilometers from east to west, it has a total land area of 300,000 sq.km. It is bounded on the north by the Bashi Channel, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the west by the South China Sea, and on the south by Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea. The archipelago is divided into three major island groups: Luzon, the largest island, in the north; Visayas, a cluster of smaller islands including Samar, the third largest island, in the middle; and Mindanao, the second largest island, in the south.