Ethnic groups in the Philippines in the context of "Filipinos"

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 112 million, it is the world's fourteenth-most-populous country.

The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south. It shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan and the Korean Peninsula to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. It has diverse ethnicities and a rich culture. Manila is the country's capital, and its most populated city is Quezon City. Both are within Metro Manila.

Indigenous Philippine folk religions are the distinct native religions of various ethnic groups in the Philippines, where most follow belief systems in line with animism. These indigenous folk religions include a set of local worship traditions that are devoted to the anito or diwata (and their variables), terms which translate to gods, spirits, and ancestors. Many of the narratives within the indigenous folk religions are orally transmitted to the next generation, but many have traditionally been written down as well. The Spanish colonizers have claimed that the natives did not have religious writings, but records show otherwise. Accounts, both from Chinese and Spanish sources have explicitly noted the existence of indigenous religious writings. There are also Spanish records of indigenous religious books and scrolls, along with indigenous statues of gods, being burned by colonizers. In some sources, the Spanish claim that no such religious writings exist, while within the same chronicle, they record such books being burned on their own order. The writings were written on native reeds and leaves using iron points and other local pens, similar to how things are written on a papyrus, and fashioned either as scrolls or books. Some were written on bamboos. 0.23% of the population of the Philippines are affiliated with the Indigenous Philippine folk religions according to the 2020 national census, an increase from the previous 0.19% from the 2010 census.

The profusion of different terms arises from the fact that these Indigenous religions mostly flourished in the pre-colonial period before the Philippines had become a single nation. The various peoples of the Philippines spoke different languages and thus used different terms to describe their religious beliefs. While these beliefs can be treated as separate religions, scholars have noted that they follow a "common structural framework of ideas" which can be studied together. The various Indigenous Philippine religious beliefs are related to the various religions of Oceania and the maritime Southeast Asia, which draw their roots from Austronesian beliefs as those in the Philippines.

The culture of the Philippines is characterized by great ethnic diversity. Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers. In more recent times, Filipino culture has also been influenced through its participation in the global community.

This is a list of lists of contemporary ethnic groups.

• List of contemporary ethnic groups of Asia
• List of contemporary ethnic groups of Europe
• List of contemporary ethnic groups of North America
• List of contemporary ethnic groups of Oceania
• List of contemporary ethnic groups of South America
• List of Indigenous peoples
• List of diasporas
• List of stateless nations

• African people
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  • Indigenous people of Africa
  • Ethnic groups in Algeria
  • Ethnic groups in Botswana
  • Ethnic groups in Burundi
  • Ethnic groups in Chad
  • List of ethno-linguistic groups in Eritrea
  • List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia
  • List of ethnic groups in Nigeria
    • List of ethnic groups in Rivers State
  • Ethnic groups in Rwanda
  • List of ethnic groups in Tanzania
  • Ethnic groups in Senegal
  • Ethnic groups in Sierra Leone
  • List of ethnic groups in South Sudan
  • List of ethnic groups in Zambia
• Asian people
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  • Ethnic groups in Northern Asia
    • List of ethnic groups in Russia
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    • List of ethnic groups in China
    • List of ethnic groups in Japan
    • List of ethnic groups in North Korea
    • List of ethnic groups in South Korea
    • List of ethnic groups in Taiwan
      • List of indigenous peoples of Taiwan
  • South Asian ethnic groups
    • Ethnic groups in Nepal
    • Ethnic groups in Pakistan
      • Demographics of Sindh
  • Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia
    • Ethnic groups in Indonesia
    • List of ethnic groups in Laos
    • Ethnic groups in Malaysia
    • List of ethnic groups in Myanmar
    • Ethnic groups in the Philippines
    • List of ethnic groups in Vietnam
  • Ethnic groups in the Middle East
• European people
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  • Peoples of the Caucasus
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  • List of contemporary ethnic groups of South America
  • Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Oceanian people
  • List of contemporary ethnic groups of Oceania
  • List of Indigenous Australian group names
  • List of Melanesian ethnic groups
    • List of New Guinean ethnic groups
  • List of Micronesian ethnic groups
  • List of Polynesian ethnic groups
• Ethnoreligious group
• Ethnic groups by country

The Tagalog people are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Philippines, particularly the Metro Manila and Calabarzon regions and Marinduque province of southern Luzon, and comprise the majority in the provinces of Bulacan, Bataan, Nueva Ecija, Aurora, and Zambales in Central Luzon and the island of Mindoro.