DID You Know
The Philippines gets its name from Philip II, who was the King of Spain during the Spanish colonisation of the islands in the 16th century. As the country was under Spanish rule for over 300 years and under US tutelage for another five decades, the Philippines has many cultural affinities with the West. This is why the Philippines (behind India) is the second most-populous Asian country that has English an official language and is one of the only two predominantly Roman Catholic countries in Asia