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Manila (/ m ə ˈ n ɪ l ə / mə-NIL-ə; Filipino: Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines, after Quezon City. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is classified as a highly urbanized city.
Name used in the default map caption; image = Manila (proper) location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 14.6434 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 14.5495 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 120.9205 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 121.0343 ...
This province of New Spain overlapped in part with the current U.S. state of Texas, but its territory was substantially different.The land consisted of the region north of the Medina and Nueces rivers, in what is now South-Central Texas; i.e., only the Central-Northern part of the current state overlaps with the territory of the New Philippines.
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Name used in the default map caption; image = Metro Manila location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 14.79 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 14.338 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 120.9 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 121.145 Longitude ...
Map of ancient Manila in 1570. The polity of Maynila shown in yellow.. Manila, to the extent that it has this placename, was likely founded in the Middle Ages, in the early 16th century [13] due to the Sanskrit origin of the component "nila" in its name which refers to "indigo", [14] and the prevalence of the placename during the rule of Rajah Matanda, the old king of Maynila, who was born ...
With a population of 12,877,253 in 2015, Metro Manila is the largest metropolitan area in the Philippines, and the tenth most populous metropolitan area in Asia. Its total area is 619.57 square kilometres (239.22 sq mi), smaller than Philippine cities Davao City , Puerto Princesa , Zamboanga City and Butuan , and Southeast Asian city propers ...