Manila

Country: Philippines
City: Manila
Population: 1,846,513
Area: 1,873 km²

Mayor: Maria Sheilah Honrado

Maria Sheilah Honrado "Honey" Lacuna–Pangan, MD, FPDS (born May 6, 1965) is a Filipina physician and politician who has served as the Mayor of Manila since 2022. The first woman to serve as the city's Mayor, Lacuna previously served as the city's Vice Mayor from 2016 to 2022, as Officer-In-Charge of the Manila Department of Social Welfare from 2013 to 2015, and as a member of the Manila City Council from 2004 to 2013. She is a child of the former Vice Mayor Danilo Lacuna.

Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is classified as a highly urbanized city. As of 2019, it is the world’s most densely populated city proper. It was the first chartered city in the country and was designated as such by the Philippine Commission Act No. 183 on July 31, 1901. It became autonomous with the passage of Republic Act No. 409, “The Revised Charter of the City of Manila”, on June 18, 1949. Manila is considered to be part of the world’s original set of global cities because its commercial networks were the first to extend across the Pacific Ocean and connect Asia with the Spanish Americas through the galleon trade; when this was accomplished, it was the first time an uninterrupted chain of trade routes circling the planet had been established.