1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Philippines
Compare this sourced profile of Manila, 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 Manila—1,600,000, 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.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of the Philippines.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Manila is GeoNames ID 1701668. Its recorded administrative path is Capital District → National Capital Region → Philippines, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Manila 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 2025-09-16; 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, Manila ranks 285 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected Philippines entries it ranks 4; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 166. Its 1,600,000 population value is 2.01 times the 797,334 median for the country cohort and 1.59 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Manila falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Philippines population cohort. Manila's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Manila's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Caloocan at 5.271 km with 1,712,945 recorded people; Makati City at 8.092 km with 510,383 recorded people; Pasig City at 8.737 km with 853,050 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 3.466 km. Compared with Caloocan, Manila's recorded population is 0.93 times as large. Against Manila, Caloocan follows Northern Manila District → National Capital Region → Philippines in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Philippines cohort, uses the shared Asia/Manila identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Manila's. Against Manila, Makati City 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 second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Manila's. Against Manila, Pasig City follows Eastern 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 second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Manila's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 55 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Manila'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 1701668, the coordinate pair 14.6042 / 120.9822, country rank 4 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1720151 at 5.271 km bind Manila to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Manila's reference point is 14.6042° north and 120.9822° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Manila is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Manila's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Manila's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Manila's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Manila, 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
Manila's closest other entries in this atlas are Caloocan (5.271 km), Makati City (8.092 km), Pasig City (8.737 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-16; 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.