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Manila

Manila is the capital of the 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…
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Intramuros and University Belt.

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, also known as the Ciudad Murada because of its most famous feature: a nearly 5-km-long circuit of massive stone walls and fortifications that almost completely surrounds the entire district, is the historic centre and oldest district of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.

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The , or the "U-Belt" in short, contains a large cluster of universities and colleges in Manila. The universities in this district draws locals, other Filipinos, and some foreign students.

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Tondo is a large, culturally diverse district of Manila. Being near to Binondo, many Filipino-Chinese roam around this area, and also have different kinds of businesses situated in this area.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ermita and Quiapo.

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is a district in central Manila, . It is a significant center of finance, education, culture, and commerce. serves as the civic center of Manila, bearing the seat of city government and a large portion of the area's employment, business, and entertainment activities.

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is a district in the bustling, busy and crowded city of Manila. gets it name from a floating plant named; "Kiapo" that grew abundantly around that area.

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is a district of Manila, . Together with the district of Ermita, it serves as Manila's center for commerce and tourism.

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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.

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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.

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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. Though they have become homes for the lower class, the districts maintain their history and culture.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Malacañang Palace and San Agustin Church.

Government office
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, officially known as Malacañán Palace, is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the Philippines. It is located in the Manila district of , along Jose Laurel Street, though it is commonly associated with nearby Mendiola Street.

Church
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The Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation and Cincture, also known as the Church of Saint Augustine and Immaculate Conception Parish, is a Roman Catholic church under the auspices of the Order of Saint Augustine located inside the historic walled city of Intramuros in Manila, Philippines.

Park
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, also known as Luneta Park or simply Luneta, is a historic located in , Manila. It is considered one of the largest urban parks in the Philippines, covering an area of 58 hectares.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pasay and San Juan.

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is a city in . Just south of Manila, this city houses the which serves the region, and the Bay City development which hosts SM Mall of Asia, also part of Manila's tourist area.

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, officially the City of , is a highly urbanized city in the of the . According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 126,347 people.

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lies in the heart of the . The city is known for its upscale shopping malls with high fashion brands, restaurants and hotels, and is home to many affluent Filipinos.

Manila

Latitude
14.5904° or 14° 35′ 26″ north
Longitude
120.9804° or 120° 58′ 49″ east
Population
1,780,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
MNL
United Nations Location Code
PH MNL
Open location code
7Q62HXRJ+54
Open­Street­Map ID
node 198493613
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1701668
Wiki­data ID
Q1461
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Manila” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Manila”
  • Afrikaans: “Manila”
  • Albanian: “Manila”
  • Amharic: “ማኒላ”
  • Amis: “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: “马尼刺”
  • 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”
  • Esperanto: “Manilo”
  • Estonian: “Manila”
  • Extremaduran: “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 शहर”
  • Hindi: “मनीला”
  • Hiri Motu: “Manila”
  • Hungarian: “Lungsod ng Maynila”
  • Hungarian: “Manila”
  • Iban: “Manila”
  • Icelandic: “Maníla”
  • Ido: “Manila”
  • Igbo: “Manila”
  • Iloko: “Manila”
  • Inari Sami: “Manila”
  • 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”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Manila”
  • Kannada: “ಮನಿಲ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Manila”
  • Kazakh: “Манила қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Манила”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ានីល”
  • Kikuyu: “Manila”
  • Kinaray-A: “Hangbanwa kang Manilà”
  • Kinaray-A: “Manilà”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Manila”
  • Kirghiz: “Манила”
  • Komering: “Manila”
  • Kongo: “Manila”
  • Korean: “마닐라”
  • Kurdish: “Manila”
  • Kurdish: “Manîla”
  • Ladino: “Manila”
  • Lao: “ມະນິລາ”
  • 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 Bokmål: “Manila”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Manila”
  • Norwegian: “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: “Ma-ni-la”
  • Sakizaya: “Manila”
  • Samoan: “Manila”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱱᱤᱞᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Manila”
  • Scots: “Manila”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Manila”
  • Serbian: “Бисер Оријента”
  • Serbian: “Град Манила”
  • Serbian: “Манила”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Manila”
  • Shona: “Manila”
  • Sicilian: “Manila”
  • Silesian: “Manila”
  • Sindhi: “منيلا”
  • Sinhala: “මැනිලා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Manila”
  • Slovak: “Manila”
  • Slovenian: “Manila”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مانیل”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مانیلا”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de Manila”
  • Spanish: “Manila”
  • Sundanese: “Manila”
  • Swahili: “Manila”
  • Swedish: “Manila”
  • Swedish: “Manilla”
  • Swiss German: “Manila”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Maynila”
  • Tagalog: “Maynila”
  • Tagalog: “Maynilà”
  • Tahitian: “Manila”
  • Tajik: “Манила”
  • Talysh: “Manila”
  • Tamil: “மணிலா”
  • Tamil: “மனிலா”
  • Tatar: “Манила”
  • Telugu: “మనీలా నగరం”
  • Telugu: “మనీలా”
  • 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: “Mã Ni La”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma Ní”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma-ni-la”
  • 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: “מאנילא”
  • Yiddish: “מאַנילע”
  • Yoruba: “Manila”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬尼拉”
  • Zulu: “i-Manila”
  • “Manila”
  • “Manillan”
  • “Manillan Altepetl”

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