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The Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area ( BIMP-EAGA) is a cooperation initiative established in 1994 to spur development in remote and less developed areas in the four participating Southeast Asian countries. [ 1] It is home to ecologically important areas. The Heart of Borneo, which straddles Indonesia ...
North Borneo dispute. The North Borneo dispute, also known as the Sabah dispute, is the territorial dispute between Malaysia and the Philippines over much of the eastern part of the state of Sabah. Sabah was previously known as North Borneo prior to the formation of the Malaysian federation. [ 2]
The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages. It has also been called the " Malay world ," "Nusantara ...
Cebu island satellite image captured by Sentinel-2 in 2016. Cebu Island is the 126th largest island in the world. Cebu Island itself is long and narrow, stretching 196 kilometers (122 mi) from north to south and 32 kilometers (20 mi) across at its widest point. [43] It has narrow coastlines, limestone plateaus, and coastal plains.
The island was later acquired from Ysmael by Edgardo “Ed” Tordesillas, who began to develop it with basic facilities for tourism. Early customers were predominantly Japanese. Today Balesin Island is a property of Alphaland Corporation, [6] a private company majority owned by its Chairman Roberto Ongpin, [7] a prominent Filipino businessman.
A map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named. [2]
The exclusive economic zone of the Philippines (Philippine EEZ ), per the mandate of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), consists of four subzones. [ 1 ] It covers 2,263,816 square kilometers (874,064 sq mi) of sea. The Philippines has 7,641 islands comprising the Philippine archipelago. [ 2 ]
Mapun, officially the Municipality of Mapun ( Tagalog: Bayan ng Mapun ), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 30,038 people. [ 3] It is formerly known as Cagayan de Sulu until 1984, then as Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi until 1988.