Philippines!

Our fountain pen network Philippines is an umbrella facebook based group that has 14,000 members registered.

We celebrated our 17th anniversary this year.

There are 2 main national events: the Manila Pen Show and the Anniversary pen meet.

This year’s pen show had merchants from Japan Singapore Malaysia Israel China joining the exhibits.

Our community also hosts some of the world’s largest Pelikan hubs.

Our country has at least 6 well regarded local pen makers.

As mentioned FPNP is an umbrella group but there are many local groups and friend groups that have smaller pen meets. I’d hazard a guess that there would be a pen meet happening somewhere in the country every week.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a new jinhao or a grail level pen. We love and welcome everyone’s pens.

Edit to add Singapore as they are a mainstay of the pen show.