National Territory of the Philippines

1. The Philippine archipelago with all the islands and waters embraced therein;

2. All the territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction;

3. the terrestrial, fluvial, areail domains including the territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and other submarine areas thereof; and

4. the internal waters.

Archipelago is a group of islands and the sea around that islands which geographically be considered as an independent whole.

The term "all the territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction" is a cover-all for pending Philippine claim to Sabah, the Spratley islands, and the Marianas islands. The same merely provided for the possibility that said territories might eventually become a part of the Philippines and not settle the question of whether they belong to the Phulippines by historic right or legal title.

The territorial sea is that part of the sea extending 12 nautical miles (19 km.) from the low-watermark. The seabed refers to the land that holds the sea, lying beyondthe seashore, including mineral and natural resources. The subsoil is everything beneath the surface soil and the seabed, including mineral and natural resources. The insular shelves are the submerged portions of a continent or offshore island, which slope gently seaward from the low waterline to a point where a substantial break in grade occurs, at which point of the bottom slopes seaward at a considerable increase in slope until the great ocean depths are reached. Other submarine areas refer to all areas under the territorial sea.