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National Capital Region (NCR)

National Capital Region is a special administrative area of the Philippines.

Metro Manila

Metropolitan Manila or simply Metro Manila, is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the Philippines. It is composed of 16 cities, namely Manila, Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Pasay, Pasig, Parañaque, Quezon City, San Juan, Taguig, and Valenzuela, and the Municipality of Pateros.

Metro Manila is the total urban area that  is composed of different cities and  the surrounding urban fringe. The proper city Manila is only one of the big cities of this urban agglomeration. Metro Manila, or the 'National Capital Region'  as they say in the Philippines, is a real metropolitan area. On 636 square kilometer live almost 12 million inhabitants. The biggest city in this metropolitan area is Quezon city, with more than 2.7 million inhabitants. Manila, as the second biggest city within Metro Manila, counts 1,652,171 million inhabitants in 2010.

The name 'Manila' has a special meaning. The original name was "MayNilad". It was the name of the pre-colonial Moslem settlement. Already before the Spaniards came to May Nilad, the place was a small but prosperous trading port. The name means: 'where the blossoming water plants grow'

Soon after  the Spaniards conquered May Nilad, they decided to build a fortified settlement to protect their trade in the Orient. Spanish style house, monasteries, churches and schools were build within  walls.  Seven gates  were the connection with 'the outside world'. Though the Japanese army ruined  90 percent of the urban area, there are still some remnants of the medieval walled city of Intramuros 

As the city of Manila grew and other cities in the surrounding region got bigger, all these places grew together to the huge metropolitan area of today, Metro Manila!

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