Philippines was named after King Philip of Spain to honor him when Spaniards came to the island. Philippines is an island situated in Southeast Asia with an estimate of 300,000 sq.m. land mass and consists of more than 7ooo islands. Philippines is also called Pilipinas or Pinas in short.

The Inhabitants (natives of different regions, the minority, called Pilipino or Filipino in general)
During pre-spanish conquest there were local inhabitants, the natives already living and settling in the Philippines. They have their own language, culture, livelihood, technology, community and leadership through the head or chieftain called datu of a barangay. There were various systems or laws to abide by the people. Men and women have equality of rights in many ways. The people were living in a communal system wherein the people has each rights to whatever the community owns. There is no sense of personal ownership. Not until the colonization of Spaniards began in the Philippines.

Climate
The Philippines is a tropical country, it experiences DRY and WET season only. Summer starts beginning March and ends usually at the middle of May where rainy season is about to pour. Starting May 'til September is rainy and October usually when tyhoons starts to strike. There were times Filipinos experience typhoon even at the start of December.

Language
The Philippines is divided into three big regions, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. There are regional languages used Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bisaya, Bikolano, Cebuano, Kapangpangan, Waray, Pangasinan, Tagalog.
The official national language before was Tagalog. But there were regional issues concerned and Pilipinos from different regions protested and questioned the use of Tagalog as the national language wherein there were only few people came from Katagalugan region who technically refered to as Tagalogs. As a result from Tagalog it was changed to Pilipino as the national language since people living in the Philippines were called Pilipino citizen regardless of their native origin. The issue then was solved coming up with a general or more common term for Philippine official langauge. But later on it was changed to Filipino, changing the P to F by adapting new letters of the alphabet like C, F, J, Q, V, X, Z. Adapting these new letters to the Pilipino alphabet A,B,K,D, was in view of accepting the fast changing environment. It is an indication of opening the Philippines to the globalization. There were new ideas, information, gadgets, technology, food, materials, and many other things that came from other countries that is widely accepted and used in the contemporary Philippine society. For instance, machinery and technology in medicine like x-rays, medical terminologies, scientific names, and other foreign things and names were being used in study was hard to translate in Pilipino language. In terms of food, Spaghetti, lasagna, macaroni is now a part of Filipino birthdays, pancit, lechon, siomai, siopao came from Chinese, there were terms that is hard to translate in Pilipino. That is why the national language was changed to Filipino, using F as manifestation of the new changes not only in the alphabet but also in the Contemporary Philippine Society.