It tells the boundaries of our country so that we and the other nations would know the boundaries of our country.

1. THE 1987 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION
Prepared by: JOSEPHINE C. LIBAN
College Instructor
Prepared by: JOSEPHINE C. LIBAN
ISU Angadanan

2. SECTION 1.
The national territory comprises the
Philippine archipelago, with all the islands
and waters embraced therein, and all other
territories over which the Philippines has
sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting of its
terrestrial, fluvial, and aerial domains,
including its territorial sea, the seabed, the
subsoil, the insular shelves, and other
submarine areas.
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ISU Angadanan

3. The waters around, between, and connecting
the islands of the archipelago, regardless of
their breadth and dimensions, form part of
the internal waters of the Philippines.
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ISU Angadanan

4. It has been defined as a sea or part of a
sea studded with islands, or as a large group
of islands in an extensive body of water such
as a sea.
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ISU Angadanan

5. 1. Terrestrial – land mass
2. Fluvial - inland/external water
3. Aerial – airspace above the land
and water
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ISU Angadanan

6. (1) Inland/Internal/National Waters.
- they are parts of the sea within the land
territory
(2) Territorial Sea.
- it is the belt of water outside and parallel
to the outer limits of the inland/internal
waters.
(3) High/Open Seas.
- waters that lie seaward of the territorial
sea.
Prepared by: JOSEPHINE C. LIBAN
ISU Angadanan

7. Prepared by: JOSEPHINE C. LIBAN
ISU Angadanan