1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Philippines
Compare this sourced profile of Makati City, Philippines before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Makati City—510,383, Asia/Manila, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Makati City is GeoNames ID 1703417. Its recorded administrative path is Southern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Makati City occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2017-12-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Makati City ranks 1,119 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 19; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 589. Its 510,383 population value is 0.64 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 0.51 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Makati City sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Philippines entries. Makati City's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Makati City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pasig City at 5.113 km with 853,050 recorded people; Taguig at 5.779 km with 1,308,085 recorded people; Paranaque City at 7.813 km with 703,245 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 2.7 km. Compared with Pasig City, Makati City's recorded population is 0.60 times as large. Against Makati City, Pasig City follows Eastern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Makati City's. Against Makati City, Taguig follows Southern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Makati City's. Against Makati City, Paranaque City follows Southern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries third-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Makati City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 49 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Makati City's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1703417, the coordinate pair 14.5503 / 121.0327, country rank 19 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 7290466 at 5.113 km bind Makati City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Makati City's reference point is 14.5503° north and 121.0327° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Makati City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Makati City's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Makati City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Makati City, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Makati City's closest other entries in this atlas are Pasig City (5.113 km), Taguig (5.779 km), Paranaque City (7.813 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2017-12-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.