Geography

A portion of the western North Pacific Ocean, the Sulu Sea (Filipino: Dagat Sulu; Tausug: Dagat sin Sūg; Chavacano: Mar de Sulu; Cebuano: Dagat sa…

National parks and wildlife sanctuaries are protected natural habitats, declared by the government of a country according to the regulations from the IUCN (The World…

Ganjnameh (Persian: گنجنامه‎, romanized: Ganjnāme, Literally: Treasure Book) is so named because it was once believed that its cuneiform rock carvings were mysterious clues leading…

Coron Island, which is the third-largest island in the Calamian Islands, is situated in North Palawan in the Philippines. The island belongs to the greater…

The lithosphere is the solid, outer part of the Earth. It is made up of the brittle crust and the top part of the upper…

Culion, officially an island of the Municipality of Culion (Tagalog: Bayan ng Culion), one of the Calamian Group, west-central Philippines. In the province of Palawan,…

Zayandeh River or ‘Zayanderud’ (Persian: Zāyanderud, from زاینده‎ (zɑːjændɛ) “life-giver” and رود‎ (rʊːd) “river”), also spelled as ‘Zayandeh-Rood’ or ‘Zayanderood’, is the largest river in…

The Apo Reef is the largest atoll-type reef in the Philippines, found in the western waters of the Occidental Mindoro province in the Mindoro Strait,…

Santa Isabel, also known as Isabel, Ysabel, and Mahaga, island, central Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean, 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Guadalcanal. It is…

Mount Balbi, also known by local people as Tutue, is a Holocene stratovolcano (active volcano) situated in the northern part of Bougainville Island, Papua New…

New Ireland (Tok Pisin: Niu Ailan) or Latangai, an island of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It takes its name from…

Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil), Papua New Guinea’s easternmost island, in the Solomon Sea, in the Pacific Southwest. It formed the principal landmass of the…