Las Piñas

Las Piñas is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines, in the south of Metro Manila. It is bounded by Parañaque on the northeast, Muntinlupa on the southeast, Bacoor and Dasmariñas in Cavite on the west and southwest, and Manila Bay on the northwest, and its land falls into three zones: the bay, the coastal margin and the Guadalupe Plateau. It began as one of the earliest fishing settlements on the shores of Manila Bay and was proclaimed a province of Manila in either 1762 or 1797, depending on which historian is followed. The name is explained by two traditions, one about pineapples shipped here for sale and one about a stone quarry whose original name meant the rocks, and the old bell of Saint Joseph Parish Church, founded by the priest Diego Cera, is kept in its museum. The city has 20 barangays and 615,549 residents in the 2024 census.