The Philippines is an archipelago consisting of approximately 7,641 islands. These islands are grouped into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Out of these islands, about 2,000 are inhabited, while more than 5,000 remain unnamed or uninhabited

. There are slight variations in the reported number of islands, with some sources citing around 7,107 islands, but the most widely accepted and recent count is about 7,641 islands