an official map of the country that reflects the West Philippine Sea, after President Benigno Aquino III signed Administrative Order (AO) No. 29 officially renaming South China Sea to the “West ...

The maritime areas on the western side of the Philippine archipelago are hereby named as the West Philippine Sea," President Aquino said in Administrative ... charts and maps of the Philippines ...

“These features appeared and were clearly identified in the administrative maps of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period, including the 1734 Murillo Velarde Map of the Philippines ...