Also known as: Pasay, City of Pasay, Lungsod ng Pasay
Pasay City is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila (NCR), National Capital Region (NCR). Population 453K (PSA 2024 census), 201 barangays, land area 13.97 km².
Pasay City is in the National Capital Region (NCR), also called Metro Manila.
Yes. Pasay City is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, officially the National Capital Region (NCR).
Pasay City is in the Fourth District of the National Capital Region, also known as the Southern Manila District, together with Las Piñas, Makati, Muntinlupa, Parañaque, 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.
Pasay City had 453,186 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.
Pasay City covers 13.97 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Pasay City has 201 barangays.
Pasay's census land area is 13.97 km², but a broader figure of 18.64 km² is sometimes cited locally — a wider jurisdictional measure that additionally factors in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport / Villamor Air Base complex and existing Manila Bay reclamation alongside the built urban core, rather than a competing census figure. Either way, it's a reminder that a small footprint on paper still has to plan around one of the busiest airports in Southeast Asia and an active reclamation frontier. Pasay is also organized into 201 numbered barangays rather than named ones, a numbering convention it shares with only a handful of other Philippine cities, which means barangay-level coordination happens at a much finer grain here than in most of Metro Manila.
Key industries: Aviation (NAIA), Gaming and integrated resorts, Tourism and hospitality, Retail (SM Mall of Asia), Conventions and events
Pasay's Bay City reclamation area is home to SM Mall of Asia, the Philippine International Convention Center, and Resorts World Manila/Newport City next to NAIA Terminal 3 — a concentration of tourism and gaming infrastructure that also sits on some of the city's most flood- and liquefaction-exposed ground. PHIVOLCS lists Pasay among the NCR cities with very high liquefaction potential, a risk reclaimed and coastal land carries regardless of how it's zoned. See the Pasay flood safety guide on Nova Citizen for barangay-level advisories.
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Pasay manages 201 numbered barangays plus airport- and reclamation-adjacent hazard zones inside a compact footprint — a level of record-keeping granularity most CLUP systems aren't built for. Nova Gov's compliance tooling is built to help planning offices manage barangay-level zoning and hazard-overlay data at that scale without relying on manual spreadsheets. Nova Citizen is designed to route flood and liquefaction-risk advisories to residents by barangay, however finely subdivided the city is.
201 numbered barangays inside 13.97 km², next to an international airport and an active reclamation zone — Pasay's planning office manages more moving pieces per square kilometer than almost any other Philippine city. Nova Gov's pilot program is built for that density of coordination.
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