{"id":14004,"date":"2017-03-11T14:21:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=14004"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T06:26:02","slug":"total-number-of-philippine-islands-is-now-7641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/03\/11\/total-number-of-philippine-islands-is-now-7641\/","title":{"rendered":"Total number of Philippine Islands is now 7,641"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You now have 534 new reasons to visit the Philippines!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14005\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/kayangan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0NOW 7,641. Philippines now has 534 new islands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a speech delivered by Environment Secretary Ramon Paje at the Philippine Environment Summit, a project by the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) tells that the Philippines now has 7,641 islands for official count.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the country was known to have 7,107 but the research showed that there are over 500 new islands through a mapping system used by NAMFRIA. According to a report from CNN Philippines, Paje said that some of the islands were not on the Philippine map before. He then enumerated the reasons about this newly-found islands, such as the old technology used before to detect land masses, changing land forms, and improved detection through a high resolution data.<\/p>\n<p>Following this new information which was made possible by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, a new map that includes the new islands and islets shall be released.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/videos\/2016\/02\/20\/More-islands-more-fun-in-PH.html\">CNN Philippines<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.namria.gov.ph\/\">NAMFRIA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You now have 534 new reasons to visit the Philippines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1402,119],"class_list":["post-14004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-island","tag-philippines"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/kayangan-e1489040668424.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14008,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions\/14008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}