Quezon City

Quezon City is the largest city in the and is one of the constituent cities of . Commonly called QC or Kyusi, it has a population of almost 3 million people in 2020.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Cubao and Quezon Memorial Circle.

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is the commercial heart of Quezon City, at the intersection of EDSA and Aurora Boulevard. While long overshadowed by North EDSA with its large malls, the districts's status as the traditional shopping center of Quezon City refuses to die; the Araneta family, who owns Araneta City, has begun a redevelopment project for the area to return it to its former glory.

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The is a national park and shrine in Quezon City, , . The park is a family-friendly attraction of the city.

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The Triangle Area and Scout Area of Quezon City forms the heart of the city's government center, entertainment industry, and nightlife. On the four avenues forming the Triangle Area, you may either find yourself in a row of government offices, shopping malls, residential areas, and commercial strips.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Northern Quezon City and Diliman and Katipunan.

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Commonwealth Avenue is Quezon City's second major thoroughfare, with its notorious traffic and contrasting areas, with a mix of opulence and poverty. Lying to the north of the Commonwealth Area is Fairview and Lagro areas, both mid-class communities to the north, centered on three malls facing each other along Quirino Highway.

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Avenue are the two university towns of Quezon City, housing two major rivalling universities, the University of the Philippines Diliman and the Ateneo de Manila University.

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The western parts of Quezon City is mostly a suburban residential area lying west of the Scout Area, along Quezon Avenue. While this is mostly dismissed as part of the city's sprawling environment, it does have spots worth visiting such as the Chinatown around Banawe Street, the lechon restaurants of La Loma, and the haunted Balete Road.

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, despite being primarily residential, has much to offer for those passing by.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology and Quezon Avenue station.

Government office
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The is a Philippine national institution dedicated to provide information on the activities of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, as well as other specialized information and services primarily for the protection of life and property and in support of economic, productivity, and sustainable development.

Railway station
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is an elevated Metro Rail Transit station located on the MRT Line 3 system in Diliman, Quezon City. It is named after Quezon Avenue, one of the major thoroughfares of the city.

Garden
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The Bantayog ng mga Bayani, sometimes simply referred to as the Bantayog, is a monument, museum, and historical research center in Quezon City, , which honors the martyrs and heroes of the struggle against the dictatorship of the 10th Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Juan and Marikina.

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, officially the City of , is a Component city in the of the . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 134,312 people.

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City known as the shoe capital of the Philippines because of the booming industry of shoe factories in the city. It is home to the world's largest pairs of shoes, and has a museum that contains collections of shoes owned by famous celebrities and personalities, notably that of the former first lady, Imelda Marcos.

Quarter
is a barangay of Quezon City. According to the 2020 Census, it has a population of 35,254 people.

Quezon City

Latitude
14.6511° or 14° 39′ 4″ north
Longitude
121.0486° or 121° 2′ 55″ east
Population
2,960,000
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Inception
October 12th, 1939
Named after
Manuel L. Quezon
United Nations Location Code
PH QZT
Open location code
7Q63M22X+CF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 14446670
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1692192
Wiki­data ID
Q1475
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Quezon City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Quezon Stad”
  • Amis: “Quezon City”
  • Arabic: “كيزون”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كيزون”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá Quezon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Keson”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quezon”
  • Balinese: “Quezon City”
  • Banjar: “Quezon City”
  • Basque: “Quezon Hiria”
  • Batak Toba: “Quezon City”
  • Belarusian: “Кесан-Сіці”
  • Bengali: “কেসোন”
  • Buginese: “Quezon City”
  • Bulgarian: “Кесон Сити”
  • Capiznon: “Dakbanwa Quezon”
  • Capiznon: “QC”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat Quezon”
  • Catalan: “Quezon City”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayang Quezon”
  • Central Bikol: “Siyudad Quezon”
  • Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Quezon”
  • Central Bikol: “Syudad Quezon”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad de Quezon”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad Quezon”
  • Chechen: “Кесон-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Quezon Chhī”
  • Chinese: “奎松”
  • Chinese: “奎松城”
  • Chinese: “奎松市”
  • Chinese: “蒂利曼”
  • Chinese: “計順市”
  • Chinese: “计顺市/奎松市”
  • Croatian: “Quezon City”
  • Czech: “Quezon City”
  • Dagbani: “Quezon City”
  • Danish: “Quezon City”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Quezon City”
  • Dutch: “Quezon City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيوزون”
  • Esperanto: “Ciudad Quezon”
  • Esperanto: “Dakbayang Quezon”
  • Esperanto: “Kezonurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Kvezono”
  • Esperanto: “Lungsod Quezon”
  • Estonian: “Quezon City”
  • Fijian: “Quezon City”
  • Filipino: “Lungsod Quezon”
  • Filipino: “Quezon”
  • Finnish: “Quezon City”
  • French: “Quezon City”
  • Galician: “Cidade Quezon”
  • Galician: “Quezón”
  • Georgian: “კესონ-სიტი”
  • German: “Quezon City”
  • German: “Quezon-Stadt”
  • Gorontalo: “Quezon City”
  • Greek: “Κουεζόν”
  • Greek: “Πόλη της Κουεζόν”
  • Gujarati: “ક્વેઝોન શહેર”
  • Hausa: “Quezon City”
  • Hebrew: “קזון סיטי”
  • Hiligaynon: “Dakbanwa Quezon”
  • Hiligaynon: “QC”
  • Hindi: “कुएजों सिटी”
  • Hindi: “क़ेज़ॉन सिटी”
  • Hindi: “क्विज़ोन शहर”
  • Hiri Motu: “Quezon City”
  • Hungarian: “Quezon City”
  • Iban: “Nengeri Quezon”
  • Ido: “Quezon City”
  • Igbo: “Quezon City”
  • Iloko: “Siudad a Quezon”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Quezon”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Quezon”
  • Interlingua: “Quezon”
  • Interlingue: “Quezon City”
  • Irish: “Quezon City”
  • Italian: “Città Quezon”
  • Italian: “Quezon City”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Quezon City”
  • Japanese: “ケソンシチー”
  • Japanese: “ケソンシティ”
  • Japanese: “ケソン市”
  • Javanese: “Quezon City”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kakadayan Quezon”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆಝೋನ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಜೊನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವೆಝೋನ್ ಸಿಟಿ”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងកេហ្ស៊ុន”
  • Kinaray-A: “Hangbanwa Quezon”
  • Kirghiz: “Кесон-Сити”
  • Kongo: “Quezon City”
  • Korean: “케손시티”
  • Latin: “Urbs Cesonensis”
  • Latin: “Urbs Quezon”
  • Latvian: “Kesonsitija”
  • Literary Chinese: “奎松市”
  • Lithuanian: “Keson Sitis”
  • Lithuanian: “Kesonas”
  • Macedonian: “Кесон”
  • Malagasy: “Quezon City”
  • Malay: “Bandar Quezon”
  • Malayalam: “കിസോൺ സിറ്റി”
  • Maltese: “Quezon City”
  • Maori: “Quezon City”
  • Marathi: “केझॉन शहर”
  • Marathi: “क्वेझॉन शहर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Quezon Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “計順市”
  • Minangkabau: “Quezon City”
  • Mingrelian: “კესონ-სიტი”
  • Mongolian: “Кесон”
  • Nauru: “Quezon City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Quezon by”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Quezon City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Quezon”
  • Norwegian: “Quezon City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Quezon City”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Quezon City”
  • Oromo: “Quezon City”
  • Ossetian: “Кесон-Сити”
  • Paiwan: “Quezon City”
  • Pampanga: “Lacambaleng Quezon”
  • Pampanga: “Lakambaleng Quezon”
  • Pampanga: “Lakanbaleng Quezon”
  • Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Quezon”
  • Pangasinan: “Siyudad ya Quezon”
  • Papiamento: “Quezon City”
  • Persian: “کزون سیتی”
  • Polish: “Quezon City”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Quezon”
  • Quechua: “Quezon llaqta”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Siyudad Quezon”
  • Romanian: “Quezon City”
  • Russian: “Кесон-Сити”
  • Sakizaya: “Quezon City”
  • Samoan: “Quezon City”
  • Scots: “Quezon Ceety”
  • Scots: “Quezon City”
  • Serbian: “QC”
  • Serbian: “Кезон Сити”
  • Serbian: “Кесон”
  • Serbian: “Сијудад Кесон”
  • Silesian: “Quezon City”
  • Sinhala: “කේසෝන් සිටි”
  • Sinhala: “ක්වෙසන් නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Quezon City”
  • Slovenian: “QC”
  • Slovenian: “Quezon City”
  • Slovenian: “Quezon”
  • Spanish: “Cd. Quezon”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Quezon”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Quezón”
  • Sundanese: “Quezon City”
  • Swahili: “Quezon City”
  • Swedish: “Quezon City”
  • Tagalog: “Kiyusi”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Quezon”
  • Tahitian: “Quezon City”
  • Tajik: “Кесон-Сити”
  • Tamil: “குவிசோன் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “யூஸ்ன் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Кесон-Сити”
  • Telugu: “క్వెజాన్ నగరం”
  • Telugu: “క్వెజాన్ సిటీ”
  • Thai: “เกซอนซิตี”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเกซอนซิตี-มาไลทาม”
  • Tok Pisin: “Quezon City”
  • Turkish: “Quezon City”
  • Ukrainian: “Кесон-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “کویزون سٹی”
  • Urdu: “کویزون شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Keson-siti”
  • Uzbek: “Keson-Siti”
  • Venetian: “Sità Quezon”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Quezon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad Quezon”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Quezon”
  • Wu Chinese: “奎松市”
  • Xhosa: “Quezon City”
  • Yiddish: “ק״ש”
  • Yiddish: “קעסאָנשטאָט”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlú Quezon”
  • Yoruba: “Quezon City”
  • Yue Chinese: “奎松”
  • Zulu: “Quezon City”
  • “ma tomo Keson”
  • “Quezon City”

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