The count · Philippines
Philippines has 577 beaches.
We counted.
That’s 577named, mapped beaches — real OpenStreetMap geometry, deduplicated, nothing under 1,500 m² of actual sand. The true number is higher (unnamed coves don’t count themselves), so treat this as the verifiable floor. Combined mapped sand: roughly 12.6 km².
The widest of them
Manlawi Sandbar — 274.6 m of sand, on average