Manila
Capital District
San Nicolas

Binondo

Binondo is the "Chinatown" district of . It is the oldest Chinatown in the world and was the country's center of commerce during the American occupation.
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  • Type: Suburb with 20,500 residents
  • Description: district of Manila, Philippines
  • Also known as: “Binondo, Manila”, “Chinatown, Manila”, and “Ongpin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Santiago and Manila Cathedral.

Fort
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, built in 1571, is a citadel or castle built by Spanish navigator and governor Miguel López de Legazpi for the newly established city of in the .

Church
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The Minor Basilica and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, commonly known as the , is a Roman Catholic basilica and cathedral church of the .

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Intramuros and Quiapo.

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

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is a district in the northern part of the City of 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.

Binondo

Latitude
14.59992° or 14° 35′ 60″ north
Longitude
120.97403° or 120° 58′ 27″ east
Population
20,500
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PH BND
Open location code
7Q62HXXF+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1080105341
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1724936
Wiki­data ID
Q1903520
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Waray—“Binondo” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բինոնդո”
  • Asturian: “Binondo”
  • Bulgarian: “Бинондо”
  • Catalan: “Binondo”
  • Cebuano: “Binondo”
  • Central Bikol: “Binondo”
  • Chinese: “岷伦洛”
  • Chinese: “岷伦洛区”
  • Chinese: “岷倫洛”
  • Chinese: “岷倫洛區”
  • Dutch: “Binondo”
  • French: “Binondo”
  • German: “Binondo”
  • Iloko: “Binondo”
  • Indonesian: “Binondo”
  • Italian: “Binondo”
  • Italian: “Chinatown (Manila)”
  • Japanese: “ビノンド (マニラ)”
  • Japanese: “ビノンド”
  • Malay: “Binondo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Binondo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “岷倫洛”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “岷倫洛區”
  • Pampanga: “Binondo”
  • Russian: “Бинондо”
  • Spanish: “Binondo”
  • Tagalog: “Binondo, Maynila”
  • Tagalog: “Binondo”
  • Vietnamese: “Binondo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Binondo”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Binondo”. Photo: Krauser levyl, CC BY-SA 4.0.