| National Capital Region | |
Location  | |
| State | Philippines |
|---|---|
| Region | Luzon |
| Capital | Manila |
| Surface | 636 km² |
| Inhabitants | 12.877.253 (2015 census) |
| Institutional website | |
National Capital Region (in Filipino: Pambansang Punong Rehiyon; in English: National Capital Region) is the region of the island of Luzon which encloses the metropolitan area of the capital of Philippines, Manila, also called Metro Manila (in Filipino: Kalakhang Maynila).
To know
Territories and tourist destinations
1st district - Includes the city of Manila divided in turn by sixteen districts. Intramuros corresponds to the historic center of the Spanish colonial era.
2nd district - The north-eastern area of the conurbation includes the former capital and the Ortigas Center, a business district with huge shopping centers.
3rd district - A residential area with a proletarian character subject to cadential flooding at the onset of the rainy season.
Urban centers
- Caloocan - Fourth city of Philippines by number of inhabitants, Caloocan was populated by a continuous flow of migrants from the north of the island of Luzon. It was one of the four constituent districts of the National Capital region, along with Quezon City, Pasay City and of course the same Manila.
- Makati - Makati is Manila's first stereotypical business district; glass and steel skyscrapers, luxury hotels, huge shopping and entertainment centers plus a wide range of restaurants able to satisfy any palate.
- Mandaluyong - A district with a high concentration of shopping centers and for this reason nicknamed "Philippine capital of shopping".
- Manila - Capital of Philippines, Manila it is famous for its colonial history, its busy markets, ancient churches, gigantic shopping centers, and an intense nightlife.
- Marikina - A district full of shoe factories and therefore nicknamed Capital of the Shoe of the Philippines. The industry was boosted by Imelda Marcos who owned, by her explicit declaration, 1,006 pairs of shoes. Today the entire collection of the former First Lady ended up in a museum located right in Marikina.
- Pasay - A village that underwent intense urbanization at the time of American rule, then sacked and burned by retreating Japanese troops. The international airport falls partly within its territory.
- Pasig - A city that takes its name from the homonymous river that crosses Manila, before diving into its bay. Pasig is an industrial and commercial district in the "Ortigas Center" area, the second most important commercial district after Makati CBD. The lower Pasig area has a more traditional feel with American colonial period buildings and great restaurants.
- Quezon City - The former capital of the Philippines shares many aspects with thecurrent.
- Taguig - A fishing village that has undergone constant urbanization.
Other destinations
- Alabang - Manila's most upmarket residential neighborhood that developed on the shore of Lago de Bay in the first decade of the 21st century.
- Las Piñas - Located on Manila Bay, Las Piñas used to be a fishing village which later became home to numerous industries such as Sarao Motors' automotive industry. Skyscrapers sprout like mushrooms among the low one-story houses that will soon be just a memory.
- Malabon - Located immediately north of Manila, Malabon is a poor area with a high population density, subject to more and more frequent floods.
- Muntinlupa - Located on the west bank of the Laguna de Bay, Muntinlupa it is the southernmost city in the conurbation.
- Navotas - Nicknamed the fishing capital of the Philippines, due to the high concentration of fish storage factories.
- Parañaque - Fast growing city with numerous food and canning industries.
- Pateros - The only municipality in the metropolitan area of Manila, Pateros it is also the smallest both in terms of surface and population but in terms of population density it is second only to Manila. Its name derives from the Spanish "pathos"(duck) and is still renowned for the intensive breeding of this palmiped.
- Quezon Memorial Circle
- San Juan - The smallest city in greater Manila is famous for being the hotbed of the indigenous uprising against Spanish rule in 1897. San Juan it is informally called "the city of presidents of the Philippines", due to the fact that it was the residence of as many as four presidents, including Ferdinando Marcos (1965–1986).
- Valenzuela - A rural area, which has grown to become the major financial and industrial center in the Manila conurbation.
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