Filipino people

Manila's native population

Filipino people are the inhabitants or natives of the Philippines, an archipelago nation in Southeast Asia.

The term encompasses over a hundred ethnolinguistic groups united by shared history and citizenship.

Filipino also functions as an adjective: Filipino cuisine, Filipino culture.

The people are sometimes called Filipinos collectively: Filipinos abroad send billions in remittances home each year.

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