Muntinlupa

Muntinlupa is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines and the southernmost city of Metro Manila, which is why it is called the Gateway to Calabarzon. Laguna de Bay, the country's largest lake, forms its eastern border, while Taguig lies to the north, Parañaque and Las Piñas to the northwest and west, Bacoor and Dasmariñas to the southwest and San Pedro to the south. Its terrain is flat to gently sloping toward the lake, with rolling hills in the west rising to about 60 meters. Large green patches earned it the nickname Emerald City. Before the 1930s relocation of the New Bilibid Prison, the national penitentiary, it was mainly a fishing and farming area, and Ayala Alabang Village is one of the country's largest residential communities. It became an independent municipality in 1917 and a city on 1 March 1995, and the 2024 census counted 552,225 residents.