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Source: BBC
Thousands of people have been evacuated as Mount Mayon, a volcano in the Philippines, has started spewing lava.
The Philippines is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia, in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 7,641 islands which are broadly categorized into three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. It is bounded by the Philippine Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the south, the Sulu Sea to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the north. It sits at the convergence zone of the Eurasian Plate, Philippine Sea Plate, and Indo-Australian Plate.
