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Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Mandaluyong
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Metro Manila (National Capital Region)
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Lone District of Mandaluyong City
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1st class urban
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Neptali "Boyet" Gonzales II
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February 9 , 1994
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1126
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The ( in the
Philippines . It is bordered on the west by the country's capital,
Manila , to the north by the municipality of
San Juan , to the east by
Quezon City and
Pasig City , and by
Makati City to the south. At present, it is widely considered the "Tiger City of the Philippines", "Metro Manila's Heart", and the "
Shopping Mall Capital of the Philippines".
Mandaluyong City is located right at the center of Metro Manila. Among the many attractions in the city is the western half of the
Ortigas Center , one of the major centers of business and commerce in the metropolis (the eastern half is in Pasig City). Found within the Mandaluyong portion of the Ortigas Center is the main headquarters of the
Asian Development Bank and the headquarters of
San Miguel Corporation , the
Southeast Asia's largest food and beverage company. SM Megamall, one of the biggest shopping malls in Asia and the premiere mall of the largest chain of shopping malls in the country, can be found here, as well as the Shangri-la Plaza Mall and Star Mall. Just beside the Shangri-la Plaza Mall is
Lourdes School Of Mandaluyong , a
Franciscan -Marian all boys school. Slightly west of Ortigas Center is the Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club, north of which is the
La Salle Greenhills (LSGH), a famous all-boys high school. The Shaw Boulevard Station of the MRT is a mall in itself, besides the fact that the station is connected to three other malls (Star Mall, Shangri-La Plaza and the newly renovated Edsa Central).
Among locals, Mandaluyong City is often used in jokes pertaining to a person's mental health (e.g., a person whose mental well-being is suspect is often labelled as coming from Mandaluyong, the joke going "''sa loob o sa labas?'', which translated, means "inside or outside?"). This is because the National Center for Mental Health is found in the city. Also found in Mandaluyong is "Welfareville" a large slum-area divided in many "blocks".
Mandaluyong City got its name from the
Tagalog ''mga'' which means many and ''daluy'' which means ''flowing''. This is in reference to the many tall grasses that used to grow in the area, the grasses seemed to 'flow' in the wind.
Mandaluyong formed part of what was once the Kingdom of Sapa of the Great
Majapahit Empire around 1300. More than a century later, around 1470, it expanded and was called the Kingdom of Namayan. The vast kingdom comprised what are now
Quiapo ,
San Miguel ,
Sta. Mesa ,
Paco ,
Pandacan ,
Malate and
Sta. Ana in
Manila , and Mandaluyong,
San Juan ,
Makati ,
Pasay ,
Pateros ,
Taguig ,
Parañaque , and portions of
Pasig and
Quezon City up to
Diliman .
Mandaluyong is politically subdivided into 27
Barangays .
