1935

THE NATIONAL TERRITORY

Section 1. The Philippines comprises all the territory ceded to the United States by the Treaty of
Paris concluded between the United States and Spain on the tenth day of December, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, the limits which are set forth in Article III of said treaty, together
with all the islands embraced in the treaty concluded at Washington between the United States
and Spain on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred, and the treaty concluded
between the United States and Great Britain on the second day of January, nineteen hundred
and thirty, and all territory over which the present Government of the Philippine Islands
exercises jurisdiction.

1973
THE NATIONAL TERRITORY
SECTION 1. The national territory comprises the Philippine archipelago, with all the islands and
waters embraced therein, and all the other territories belonging to the Philippines by historic
right or legal title, including the territorial sea, the air space, the subsoil, the sea-bed, the
insular shelves, and the other submarine areas over which the Philippines has sovereignty or
jurisdiction. The waters around, between, and connecting the islands of the archipelago,
irrespective of their breadth and dimensions, form part of the internal waters of the
Philippines.

1987
THE NATIONAL TERRITORY
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. 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.