Administrative divisions of Metro Manila
City / Municipality Population ( 2015 ) Density ( pop/km² ) ( 2015 ) Area ( km² )
Manila 1,780,148 71,263 42.88
Caloocan 1,583,978 28,000 53.33
Las Piñas 588,894 18,000 32.02
Makati 582,602 27,000 27.36
Malabon 365,525 23,000 15.96
Mandaluyong 386,276 18,000 11.06
Marikina 450,741 21,000 22.64
Muntinlupa 504,509 13,000 41.67
Navotas 249,463 23,000 11.51
Parañaque 664,822 14,000 47.28
Pasay 416,522 30,000 18.31
Pasig 755,300 24,000 31.46
Pateros 63,840 36,000 1.76
Quezon City 2,936,116 18,000 166.20
San Juan 122,180 21,000 5.87
Taguig 804,915 15,000 45.18
Valenzuela 620,422 13,000 45.75
Independent cities and municipality
The seventeen local government units of Metro Manila are administratively equal to provinces . They are composed of sixteen independent cities , classified as highly urbanized cities , and one independent municipality : Pateros . Primary local government units of Metro Manila , 2012
Metro Manila, the capital region of the Philippines, is a large metropolitan area that has several levels of subdivisions. Administratively, the region is divided into seventeen primary local government units with their own separate elected mayors and councils who are coordinated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, a national government agency headed by a chairperson directly appointed by the Philippine president. The cities and municipality that form the region's local government units are further divided into several barangays or villages (formerly called barrios) which are headed by an elected barangay captain and barangay council. The region as a whole is geographically divided into four districts, of which the first district is the central capital City of Manila, the second and third districts located to the east and north of the City, respectively, and the fourth district covering the remaining areas of the region south of the City and the Pasig River.