LIST OF CITIES

IN NCR

 CALOOCAN CITY

 LAS PIñAS

 MAKATI

 MALABON

 MANDALUYONG

 MANILA
  MARIKINA

 MUNTINLUPA

 NAVOTAS

 PARAñAQUE

 PASAY CITY

 PASIG

 PATEROS

 QUEZON CITY

 SAN JUAN

 TAGUIG

 VALENZUELA

CALOOCAN CITY
Population and Land Areas

Caloocan is a landlocked highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region. The city has

a land area of 55.80 square kilometers or 21.54 square miles. Its population as determined by
the 2015 Census was 1,583,978. This represented 12.30% of the total population of the
National Capital Region.
LAS PIñAS

Las Piñas was one of the earliest fishing settlements on the shores of Manila Bay and was
proclaimed a town either in 1762 or 1797. Its exact date of creation cannot be ascertained
because historical records vary. Cavada, a Spanish historian and Fr. Juan Medina placed it at
1762, while Buzeta recorded the date at 1797.
Population and Land Areas
Las Piñas is a coastal highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region. The cityhas a land
area of 32.69 square kilometers or 12.62 square miles. Its population as determined by the
2015 Census was 588,894. This represented 4.57% of the total population of the National
Capital Region.

MAKATI

Originally founded in 1670 as a visita of Sta. Ana de Sapa under the jurisdiction of the
Franciscans, Makati City was first dismissed as "worthless" swamp land by the Spanish
conquistador Juan Miguel de Legazpi in 1571.
Population and Land Areas
Makati is a landlocked highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region. The city has a land
area of 21.57 square kilometers or 8.33 square miles. Its population as determined by the
2015 Census was 582,602. This represented 4.52% of the total population of the National
Capital Region.

MALABON

According to legend, Malabon got its name from the words “maraming labong” (plenty of
bamboo shoots). This was originally called as Tambobong and was founded by the Augustinian
friars as a “Visita” of Tondo on May 21, 1599. It remained under this administrative jurisdiction
from 1627 to 1688.
Population and Land Areas
Malabon is a landlocked highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region. Thecity has
a land area of 15.71 square kilometers or 6.07 square miles. Its populationas determined by
the 2015 Census was 365,525. This represented 2.84% of the total population of the National
Capital Region.

MANDALUYONG CITY

In memory of the gallant sons and daughters of Mandaluyong, and the dignity of their struggle for liberation and
freedom from oppression.

Population and Land Areas

Mandaluyong is a landlocked highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region.
The city has a land area of 21.26 square kilometers or 8.21 square miles. Its population as
determined by the 2015 Census was 386,276. This represented 3.00% of the total
population of the National Capital Region.
MANILA

The Luneta or 
Rizal Park is
famous
because it has
been the spot
where the
country's
national hero
Jose Rizal was
executed in
front of the
Filipino crowd
during the
Spanish
colonial era.
The history of
the park began in the early 1800's under the Spanish rule.
Population and Land Areas
Area: 38.55 km²
Population: 1.78 million United Nations

MARIKINA
The first recorded foreigners who arrived in the city were the Augustinians, a Catholic religious order,
in the year 1570. They arrived in the spot now known as Chorillo, in Barangka. The Jesuits came
next and established as mission and built a chapel in a place now called Jesus dela Peña. In that
place, the first mass was held in 1680. On April 16, 1630, Fray Pedro de Arce, apostolic ruler of the
Archbishop of Manila, approved the transfer of ecclesiastical control and supervision to the Jesuit,
and settled a place as a town. The town was later called as “Mariquina” in 1787, named after Felix
Berenguer de Marquina who was the governor-general at that time. Later the town was declared a
pueblo under the Spanish colonial government. That year, Don Benito Mendoza became the first
Governadorcillo of Mariquina.
Year 1887, Mariquina emerged as a town of shoemakers through the efforts of Don Laureano
“kapitan Moy” Guevarra. He was said as the Father of Shoe Industry in the Philippines. He was
assisted in this effort by Tiburcio Eustaquio, Ambrocio Sta. Ines and Gervacio Carlos.

Mariquina became the capital of the Province of Manila (which then included Rizal) in 1898, when
the Philippine Revolution broke out.

On June 11, 1901, just after the Americans took possession of the country, the name of the town
“Mariquina” was changed into Marikina. After creation of many provinces and towns, Juan
Chanyungso became the first Mayor in the year 1938.

However, in the year 1942, the Japanese Imperial forces occupied Marikina. And in 1945, the place
was liberated by the combined U.S. and Philippine Commonwealth ground troops who attacked the
Japanese Imperial Army by artillery from Quezon City. There were lots of destruction during this
siege with a number of civilian casualties of 400.

The work ethic of the people led them to continue their shoe making industry after World War II.
Through this, they were prepared for the arrival of heavy industries and was finally named as the
“Shoe Capital of the Philippines”.