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Geography and Presidents

🔥GEOGRAPHY & PRESIDENTS

🌍Geography Hall of Fame

♥️Largest Continent:
Asia, 17,212,000 square miles
♥️Smallest Continent:
Australia, 3,132,000 square miles
♥️Highest Mountain:
Mount Everest, Himalayan Mountains, Nepal-Tibet, 29,035 feet above sea level
♥️Lowest Point on Land:
The Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan, water surface 1,349 feet below sea level
♥️Deepest Underwater Trench:
Mariana Trench, 200 miles southwest of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, 36,198 feet below the ocean surface
♥️Largest Sea:
The Mediterranean Sea, 1,144,800 square miles
♥️Highest Lake:
The highest navigable lake is Lake Titicaca in Peru, 12,500 feet above sea level
♥️Lowest Lake:
The Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan, surface of water 1,349 feet below sea level
♥️Largest Lake:
Caspian Sea, 152,239 square miles
♥️Largest Freshwater Lake:
Lake Superior, U.S.-Canada, 31,820 square miles
♥️Deepest Ocean:
Pacific Ocean, average depth 13,215 feet
♥️Largest Ocean:
Pacific Ocean, 60,060,700 square miles
♥️Smallest Ocean:
Arctic Ocean, 5,427,000 square miles
♥️Largest Gulf:
Gulf of Mexico, 615,000 square miles
♥️Largest Bay:
The Bay of Bengal, 1,300,000 square miles
♥️Largest Island:
Greenland, 839,999 square miles
♥️Largest Peninsula:
Arabia, 1,250,000 square miles
♥️Largest Archipelago:
Indonesia, 3,500-mile stretch of 17,000 islands
♥️Largest Gorge:
Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Arizona, U.S., 217 miles long, 4–18 miles wide, 1 mile deep
♥️Deepest Gorge:
Hells Canyon, Snake River, Idaho, 7,900 feet deep
♥️Longest Mountain Range:
The Andes of South America, 5,000 miles
♥️Longest River:
The Nile, Africa, 4,180 miles
♥️Shortest River:
The Roe, Montana, U.S., 200 feet long
♥️Largest River:
The Amazon, South America, basin of 2,500,000 square miles
♥️Longest Estuary:
Ob River, Russia, 550 miles long, up to 50 miles wide
♥️Largest Lagoon:
Lagoa dos Patos, Brazil, 150 miles long, 4,500 square miles
♥️Largest Waterfall:
Angel Falls, Venezuela, 3,212 feet high

🇵🇭Presidents of the Philippines: Their Achievements and Contributions
Updated on March 11, 2018

Since independence in 1898 and the ratification of the Philippine Constitution in the First Republic, there have been 16 presidents. Starting with General Emilio Aguinaldo all the way to current president DU30, this article details each president's particular contributions and achievements while in office.

♥️1. Emilio Aguinaldo 1899-1901
One way to remember the first president of the Philippines First Republic is to look at the five peso coin. Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo's face used to grace the five peso bill (which is not used anymore). The back of the bill shows him holding the Philippine flag at the celebration of the Philippine Independence Day.
Contributions and Achievements:
first (and only) president of the First Republic (Malolo Republic)
signed the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, creating a truce between the Spanish and Philippine revolutionaries
known as the President of the Revolutionary Government
led the Philippines in the Spanish-Philippine War and the American-Philippine War
youngest president, taking office at age 28
longest-lived president, passing away at 94

♥️2. Manuel L. Quezon, 1935-1944
After 34 years of Insular Government under American rule, Philippine voters elected Manuel Luis Quezon first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. He is known as the “Father of National Language” (Ama ng Wikang Pambansa). He died of tuberculosis in Saranac Lake, New York.
Contributions and Achievements:
first Senate president elected as President of the Philippines
first president elected through a national election
first president under the Commonwealth
created National Council of Education
initiated women’s suffrage in the Philippines during the Commonwealth
approved Tagalog/Filipino as the national language of the Philippines
appears on the twenty-peso bill
a province, a city, a bridge and a university in Manila are named after him
his body lies within the special monument on Quezon Memorial Circle