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Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso
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The second-largest island of the Philippines
area 94,627 sq km/36,526 sq mi towns Davao,
Zamboanga physical mountainous rainforest
features in 1971, an isolated people, the
Tasaday, were reputedly first seen by others
(this may be a hoax). The active volcano Apo
reaches 2,954 m/9,600 ft, and Mindanao is
subject to severe earthquakes. There is a
Muslim guerrilla resistance movement products
pineapples, coffee, rice, coconut, rubber,
hemp, timber, nickel, gold, steel, chemicals,
fertilizer population (1980) 10,905,250.