Manila
Manila is the capital of the Philippines and a major attraction in terms of culture and heritage in the country. Sprawling, congested and polluted will likely be the first words to enter your mind when you think of Manila but don't let that impression stop…Photo: TheCoffee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Intramuros
Intramuros is the historic centre and oldest district of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.University Belt
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The University Belt, or the "U-Belt" in short, contains a large cluster of universities and colleges in Manila.
Ermita
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Ermita is a district in Manila, Philippines. Located at the central part of the city, the district is a significant center of finance, education, culture, and commerce.
Destinations
Tondo and San Nicolas
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Tondo is a large, culturally diverse district of Manila.
Quiapo
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Quiapo is a district in the bustling, busy and crowded city of Manila.
Malate
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Malate is a district of Manila, Philippines. Together with the district of Ermita, it serves as Manila's center for commerce and tourism.
Binondo
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Binondo is the "Chinatown" district of Manila. It is the oldest Chinatown in the world and was the country's center of commerce during the American occupation.
Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz is a district in the northern part of the City of Manila on the right bank of the Pasig River near its mouth, bordered by the districts of Tondo, Binondo, Quiapo, and Sampaloc, and Grace Park and La Loma.
Southeast Manila
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The districts of Paco, Pandacan, San Andres Bukid, and Santa Ana form a vast working-class area on the southeast of Manila.
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Notable Places in the Area
Malacañang Palace
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Malacañang Palace, officially known as Malacañan Palace, is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the Philippines.
University of Santo Tomas
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The University of Santo Tomas, officially the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila, is a private, Catholic research university in Manila, Philippines.
Rizal Park
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Rizal Park, also known as Luneta Park or simply Luneta, is a historic urban park located in Ermita, Manila.
Localities in the Area
Pasay
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Pasay is a city in Metro Manila. Just south of Manila, this city houses the Ninoy Aquino International Airport which serves the region, and the Bay City development which hosts SM Mall of Asia, also part of Manila's tourist area.
San Juan
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San Juan, officially the City of San Juan, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines.
Makati
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Makati lies in the heart of the Metro Manila. The city is known for its upscale shopping malls with high fashion brands, restaurants, hotels and is home to many affluent Filipinos.
Manila
- Type: City with 1,780,000 residents
- Description: capital city of the Philippines
- Neighbors: Caloocan, Makati, Mandaluyong, Navotas, Pasay, Quezon City and San Juan
- Categories: highly urbanized city, national capital, big city, million city, second largest city, megacity, metropolis, primate city and locality
- Location: Santa Cruz, Capital District, Metro Manila, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.5906° or 14° 35' 26" northLongitude
120.98° or 120° 58' 48" eastPopulation
1,780,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)IATA airport code
MNLUnited Nations Location Code
PH MNLOpen Location Code
7Q62HXRH+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 198493613OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1701668Wikidata ID
Q1461Manila Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Manila
- Afar: Manila
- Afrikaans: Manila
- Akan: Manila
- Albanian: Manila
- Amharic: ማኒላ
- Amis: Manila
- Arabic: Manila
- Arabic: مانيلا
- Aragonese: Manila
- Armenian: Մանիլա
- Arpitan: Manila
- Asturian: Manila
- Azerbaijani: Manila
- Balinese: Manila
- Banjar: Manila
- Bashkir: Манила
- Basque: Manila
- Batak Toba: Manila
- Belarusian: Маніла
- Bengali: ম্যানিলা
- Bosnian: Manila
- Breton: Manila
- Buginese: Manila
- Bulgarian: Манила
- Burmese: မနီလာမြို့
- Capiznon: Manila
- Catalan: Manila
- Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Manila
- Cebuano: Manila
- Central Bikol: Manila
- Central Kurdish: مانیلا
- Chavacano: Manila
- Chechen: Манила
- Chinese: Manila
- Chinese: 馬尼剌
- Chinese: 馬尼拉
- Chinese: 马尼拉 / 馬尼拉
- Chinese: 马尼拉
- Chinese: 马尼拉市
- Chuvash: Манила
- Crimean Tatar: Manila
- Croatian: Manila
- Czech: Manila
- Dagbani: Manila
- Danish: Manila
- Dimli (individual language): Manila
- Dotyali: मनिला
- Dutch: Manila
- Dutch: Manilla
- Egyptian Arabic: مانيلا
- English: City of Manila
- English: Pearl of the Orient
- English: Queen City of the Pacific and others
- Esperanto: Manilo
- Estonian: Manila
- Faroese: Manila
- Fiji Hindi: Manila
- Fijian: Manila
- Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila
- Filipino: Manila
- Filipino: Maynila
- Finnish: Manila
- French: Manille
- French: Ville de Manille
- Friulian: Manila
- Galician: Manila
- Georgian: მანილა
- German: City of Manila
- German: Manila
- Gorontalo: Manila
- Greek: Μανίλα
- Gujarati: મનિલા
- Haitian: Manyl
- Hakka Chinese: Manila
- Hausa: Manila
- Hebrew: מנילה
- Hiligaynon: Manila
- Hindi: मनीला
- Hindi: मनीला शहर
- Hiri Motu: Manila
- Hungarian: Lungsod ng Maynila
- Hungarian: Manila
- Icelandic: Maníla
- Ido: Manila
- Igbo: Manila
- Iloko: Manila
- Inari Sami: Manila
- Indonesian: Mainilak
- Indonesian: Manila
- Interlingua: Manila
- Interlingue: Manila
- Irish: Mainile
- Irish: Manila
- Italian: Manila
- Jamaican Creole English: Manila
- Japanese: マニラ
- Japanese: マニラ市
- Japanese: 東洋の真珠
- Japanese: 馬尼剌
- Javanese: Manila
- Kannada: ಮನಿಲ
- Kara-Kalpak: Manila
- Kazakh: Манила
- Kazakh: Манила қаласы
- Khmer: ម៉ានីល
- Kikuyu: Manila
- Kinaray-A: Hangbanwa kang Manilà
- Kinaray-A: Manilà
- Kinyarwanda: Manila
- Kirghiz: Манила
- Kongo: Manila
- Korean: 마닐라
- Kurdish: Manila
- Kurdish: Manîla
- Ladino: Manila
- Lao: Manila
- Latin: Manila
- Latvian: Manila
- Ligurian: Manilla
- Limburgan: Manilla
- Lithuanian: Manila
- Livvi: Manila
- Lojban: manilias.
- Lombard: Manila
- Lower Sorbian: Manila
- Luxembourgish: Manila
- Macedonian: Манила
- Maithili: मनिला
- Malagasy: Manila
- Malagasy: Manille
- Malay: Mainilak
- Malay: Manila
- Malayalam: മനില
- Maltese: Manila
- Maori: Manila
- Maori: Manira
- Marathi: मनिला
- Mazanderani: مانیلا
- Min Dong Chinese: Manila
- Min Nan Chinese: Manila
- Min Nan Chinese: 岷里拉
- Min Nan Chinese: 馬尼拉
- Minangkabau: Manila
- Mingrelian: მანილა
- Mirandese: Manila
- Moksha: Манила
- Mongolian: Манила
- Moroccan Arabic: مانيلا
- Nauru: Manila
- Nepali: मनिला
- Newari: मनिला
- Northern Frisian: Manila (stääd)
- Northern Frisian: Manila
- Northern Sami: Manila
- Norwegian: Manila
- Norwegian Bokmål: Manila
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Manila
- Novial: Manila
- Occitan (post 1500): Manila
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Manila
- Oriya: ମାନିଲା
- Oromo: Manila
- Ossetian: Манилæ
- Paiwan: Manila
- Pampanga: Menila
- Pampanga: Menílâ
- Pangasinan: Manila
- Panjabi: ਮਨੀਲਾ
- Papiamento: Manila
- Persian: مانیل
- Picard: Manille
- Piemontese: Manila
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Manila
- Polish: Manila
- Portuguese: Manila
- Pushto: مانيلا
- Pushto: مانیلا
- Quechua: Manila
- Rinconada Bikol: Manila
- Romanian: Manila
- Russia Buriat: Манила
- Russian: Манила
- Sakizaya: Manila
- Samoan: Manila
- Santali: ᱢᱟᱱᱤᱞᱟ
- Sardinian: Manila
- Scots: Manila
- Scottish Gaelic: Manila
- Serbian: Град Манила
- Serbian: Манила
- Serbo-Croatian: Manila
- Shona: Manila
- Sicilian: Manila
- Silesian: Manila
- Sinhala: මැනිලා
- Skolt Sami: Manila
- Slovak: Manila
- Slovenian: Manila
- South Azerbaijani: مانیل
- South Azerbaijani: مانیلا
- Spanish: Manila
- Spanish: ciudad de Manila
- Sundanese: Manila
- Swahili: Manila
- Swedish: Manila
- Swedish: Manilla
- Swiss German: Manila
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Maynila
- Tagalog: Maynila
- Tagalog: Maynilà
- Tahitian: Manila
- Tajik: Манила
- Tamil: மணிலா
- Tamil: மனிலா
- Tatar: Манила
- Telugu: మనీలా
- Telugu: మనీలా నగరం
- Tetum: Manila
- Thai: มนิลา
- Thai: มะนิลา
- Tibetan: མ་ནི་ལ།
- Tok Pisin: Manila
- Tosk Albanian: Manila
- Turkish: Manila
- Turkmen: Manila
- Udmurt: Манила
- Uighur: مانىلا
- Ukrainian: Маніла
- Upper Sorbian: Manila
- Urdu: منیلا
- Uzbek: Manila
- Venetian: Manila
- Veps: Manil
- Vietnamese: Manila
- Volapük: Maynila
- Võro: Manila
- Waray (Philippines): Manila
- Welsh: Manila
- Western Armenian: Մանիլա
- Western Frisian: Manilla
- Western Panjabi: منیلا
- Wu Chinese: 马尼拉
- Xhosa: Manila
- Yakut: Манила
- Yiddish: מאַנילע
- Yiddish: מאנילא
- Yoruba: Manila
- Yue Chinese: 馬尼拉
- Zulu: Manila
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