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Rizal
Rizal province, central Luzon, the Philippines. The capital is Pasig. The province, which horseshoes around Manila and includes Quezon City and Pasay, has had a huge population increase since the 1970s.
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Tagalog
Tagalog or Tagal , dominant people of Luzon, the Philippines, and the second largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. They number about 16 million. Most of the population is Christian. Tagalog, a Malayo-Polynesian language that had a written standard form before the coming of the Spanis...
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Luzon
Luzon , island (1990 pop. 30,797,458), 40,420 sq mi (104,688 sq km), largest, most populous, and most important of the Philippine Islands.
Land and People
The irregular coastline of Luzon provides several fine bays, most notably Manila Bay, which is considered the best natural harbor in E ...
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The Philippines
The Philippines , officially Republic of the Philippines, republic (2005 est. pop. 87,857,000), 115,830 sq mi (300,000 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Malay Archipelago off the SE Asia mainland. It comprises over 7,000 islands and rocks, of which only c.400 are permanently inhabited. The 11 largest islan...
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Quezon
Quezon province (1990 pop. 1,372,445), E central Luzon, the Philippines. Lucena is the capital. A long, narrow province bordering on the Philippine Sea and containing in part the rugged Sierra Madre Mts., it is an excellent source of timber. It produces coconuts and copra and has plywood mills and ...
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diamond
diamond mineral, one of two crystalline forms of the element carbon (see allotropy ), the hardest natural substance known, used as a gem and in industry.
Properties
Diamonds crystallize in the isometric system (see crystal ) commonly as transparent to translucent white, colorless, yel...
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diamond
diamond mineral, one of two crystalline forms of the element carbon (see allotropy ), the hardest natural substance known, used as a gem and in industry.
Properties
Diamonds crystallize in the isometric system (see crystal ) commonly as transparent to translucent white, colorless, yel...
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Formosa
Formosa. So-called by the Portuguese who visited it in 1590 (Port. formosa, beautiful), this island off the China coast, with a five-million population, had been ceded to Japan by China in 1895. At the start of the China incident the Japanese launched attacks against the Chinese mainland from it, ...
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Miguel López de Legaspi
Miguel López de Legaspi , d. 1572, Spanish navigator, conqueror of the Philippines. In 1545 he went to Mexico and was later chosen by the viceroy to head an expedition for the conquest of the Philippines. He sailed in 1563, occupied the Ladrone Islands (the present-day Northern Mariana Island...
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Quezon City
Quezon City city (1990 pop. 1,669,776), former capital of the Republic of the Philippines, central Luzon, a part of the Manila metropolitan area. A suburb of Manila, taken separately it would be the most populous city in the Philippines. It is chiefly residential but has some diversified light indu...
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