Kuhusu asili ya jina Philipines you are not 100% percent correct. Philipinnes was truly named after king Phillip of Spain by the spanish explorer Ruy Lopez de Villalobos who landed in the islands of Homonhon. Later on another Spanish explorer named Fredrick Magellan claimed to have there before Lopez and that he should be recognized as the discoverer of those Islands. About the number of Islands, Phillipines has between 7200 to 7700 islands, and this is because of the ocean tide (rising and falling of sea level).