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Show ID. ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS The Philippine Islands consist of approximately 7,083 islands which form a broken chain about 500 miles off the southeast coast of Asia. They extend north and south about 1152 miles and east and west about 688 miles, the shape of the group being about that of an isosceles and their triangle land area 115,600 square miles. The northernmost Island, Y'ami, is 65 miles from Formosa, while the southernmost, saluang, is 30 miles east of British Borneo. In . lying a geographical they form part of the archipelago of the East Indies. Philippines are generally recognized as belonging to the Indomalayan sub the Oriental Region and have been provisionally separated into five subdivisions on of their fauna and flora as well as on that of geography and climate: Biologically region of the basis 1. 3. the Mindanao group: Sea. 2. sense the most southerly islands separated from Celebes by the Celebes The Sulu Sea separates them from Palawan; and the Mindanao Sea separates them from Negros and Samar. Palawan group: near Borneo, the Balabac Strait separates them from it, the Sulu Sea lying between them and Mindanao, and the Mindoro Strait separates them from Mindoro, with the South China Sea lying between them and China. Samar group: danao and the on the Pacific Ocean Side, the Mindanao Sea separates them from Min Visayan Sea separates them from Negros. 4. Negros group: the central islands are separated by the Mindanao Sea from Mindanao, by the Visayan Sea from Samar, and by the Sibuyan Sea from Mindoro. 5. Luzon group: the most northerly islands are separated by the San Bernadino Strait from Samar, by the Sibuyan Sea from Penay, Negros; by the Mindoro Strait from Pala wan; by the Baschi Strait from Formosa. 4 |
