Also known as: Taguig, Lungsod ng Taguig
Taguig City is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila (NCR), National Capital Region (NCR). Population 1.31M (PSA 2024 census), 38 barangays, land area 47.28 km².
Taguig City is in the National Capital Region (NCR), also called Metro Manila.
Yes. Taguig City is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, officially the National Capital Region (NCR).
Taguig 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, Pasay and Pateros. 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.
Taguig City had 1,308,085 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. This is not like-for-like with 2020 (886,722): the 2024 count includes the 10 Embo barangays transferred from Makati in 2023.
Taguig City covers 47.28 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Taguig City has 38 barangays.
Taguig's planning challenge changed dramatically after the Supreme Court ruling that transferred 10 Embo barangays from Makati to Taguig (Pembo, Comembo, Cembo, etc.). The expanded city now contains the country's premier financial district (BGC, Bonifacio Global City), one of the country's largest informal settlement clusters (Lower Bicutan, Western Bicutan), and the Laguna de Bay shoreline barangays facing chronic flooding (Tipas, Ligid-Tipas, Ibayo-Tipas). The CLUP must absorb the Embo districts while coordinating with the BGC master plan, the Lakeshore master-planned community, and the C5 + C6 expressway alignments. The Taguig riverwalk, Lakeshore reclamation, and Cavite-Tagaytay-Batangas Expressway interchanges all reshape land use simultaneously.
Key industries: Corporate HQ (BGC), BPO, Higher education, Tourism + hospitality, Defense + government
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) continues to transform the former Fort Bonifacio military reservation into Bonifacio Global City — a 240-hectare financial district that generates the bulk of Taguig's tax revenue and attracts hundreds of thousands of daily commuters. The C5 expressway corridor bisects the city and creates a stark development divide: west of C5, BGC's glass towers and premium retail; east of C5, barangays like Napindan, Lower Bicutan, and Western Bicutan where socialized housing and informal settlements reflect Taguig's pre-BGC economic reality. Balancing this wealth gap in a single CLUP is among the most complex zoning challenges in Metro Manila.
Taguig's planning office manages a city where per-hectare property values vary by orders of magnitude across adjacent barangays — a challenge the LGU directory helps contextualize against other NCR cities with similar disparities, such as Pasig and Manila. Officials overseeing the BGC-to-Bicutan zoning continuum can schedule a consultation to explore how Nova Gov's parcel-level analytics surface these inequities in a single compliance dashboard.
More on the regulatory framework: CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / EO 72 / DHSUD) · SGLG explainer (RA 11292) · full glossary.
Taguig is the wealthiest LGU in the country by per-capita budget after the BGC tax base + Embo expansion. Nova Gov's compliance dashboards and BGC-style smart-district coordination directly fit the city's capacity to invest in next-generation operational infrastructure.
West of C5, BGC's glass towers; east of it, Lower and Western Bicutan's socialized housing — plus 10 newly transferred Embo barangays to absorb. A focused demo shows parcel-level analytics surfacing those order-of-magnitude value gaps and Fort Bonifacio land-conversion reclassifications in a single compliance dashboard.
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