Also known as: Parañaque, Paranaque, Lungsod ng Parañaque
Parañaque City is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila (NCR), National Capital Region (NCR). Population 703K (PSA 2024 census), 16 barangays, land area 46.57 km².
Parañaque City is in the National Capital Region (NCR), also called Metro Manila.
Yes. Parañaque City is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, officially the National Capital Region (NCR).
Parañaque City is in the Fourth District of the National Capital Region, also known as the Southern Manila District, together with Las Piñas, Makati, Muntinlupa, Pasay, Pateros and Taguig. The Philippine Statistics Authority groups Metro Manila's cities and its one municipality into four such districts. They are a statistical and administrative grouping, not congressional districts.
Parañaque City had 703,245 residents in the 2024 census (PSA 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN 2024), reference date July 1, 2024). That is the most recent official count. There is no 2026 census result, so any 2026 population figure is an estimate.
Parañaque City covers 46.57 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Parañaque City has 16 barangays.
Parañaque's 46.57 km² covers two very different planning realities. Along the coast, reclaimed land in Bay City has become Entertainment City and the Aseana City business district — a gaming, BPO, and real-estate growth corridor that shares its northern edge with Ninoy Aquino International Airport, which straddles the Parañaque-Pasay boundary. Just south of that growth corridor sits the Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area, a mangrove and wetland sanctuary recognized as a Ramsar site of international importance since March 2013. Reconciling continued reclamation and high-rise development with a legally protected wetland that also serves as a natural flood buffer is one of the more distinctive planning tensions in Metro Manila, and it plays out inside a CLUP covering only 16 barangays.
Key industries: Gaming and integrated resorts, BPO and business services, Aviation-adjacent logistics (NAIA), Retail (Duty Free), Real estate and reclamation development
Parañaque's coastal barangays — Don Galo, La Huerta, Baclaran, San Dionisio, Moonwalk, and Sto. Niño among them — are also its most flood-exposed, sitting where inland waterways like the Parañaque River meet Manila Bay's storm surge and high tide. A July 2025 flood event required evacuating well over a thousand families across the city, a reminder that reclamation and drainage planning are directly connected here. See the Parañaque flood safety guide on Nova Citizen for a barangay-level breakdown.
Officials managing Parañaque's zoning challenges can compare approaches with other NCR cities profiled in the LGU directory, including neighboring Taguig City, which shares the same Southern Manila growth corridor. Planning teams evaluating digital compliance tools can explore the pilot program or schedule a consultation.
More on the regulatory framework: CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / EO 72 / DHSUD) · SGLG explainer (RA 11292) · full glossary.
Parañaque's CLUP has to hold two opposite land uses — active reclamation growth and a legally protected Ramsar wetland — inside the same 16-barangay footprint. Nova Gov's compliance tooling is built to give planning offices a single source of truth for zoning categories and protected-area overlays like LPPCHEA, instead of scattered permits and maps. Nova Citizen is designed to route flood and storm-surge alerts to residents in the barangays closest to that risk.
Parañaque is trying to grow its reclamation and gaming corridor while protecting a Ramsar-listed wetland a few kilometers away. Nova Gov's pilot program is built to help planning offices keep those competing land uses straight.
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