Malabon

Malabon
Highly-Urbanized City
City of Malabon
(From top, left to right): St. James Academy (Malabon) beside the San Bartolome Parish Church of Malabon of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalookan City, City Proper, Commercial Centre, Barangay San Agustin.
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Location within Metro Manila
Malabon Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 14°40′N 120°58′E / 14.66°N 120.96°E / 14.66; 120.96Coordinates: 14°40′N 120°58′E / 14.66°N 120.96°E / 14.66; 120.96
Country	Philippines
Region	National Capital Region
Districts	Lone District of Malabon City
Cityhood	April 21, 2001
Barangays	21
Government
• Mayor	Antolin A. Oreta lll (Liberal)
• Vice mayor	Jeannie Sandoval (Nacionalista)
• Congressman	Federico Sandoval II (NPC)
• Sangguniang Panlungsod	Councilors 1st District: Bernard dela Cruz Ricky Bernardo Jimmy Dumalaog Maricar Torres Payapa Ona Edwin Dimagiba 2nd District: Diosdado Cunanan Edward Nolasco Len Yanga Enzo Oreta Peng Mañalac Sonia Lim ABC President: Paulo Oreta
Area
• Total	15.96 km2 (6.16 sq mi)
Population (2015 census)
• Total	365,525
• Density	23,000/km2 (59,000/sq mi)
ZIP code	1470 - 1480
Dialing code	+63 (0)02
Website	www.malabon.gov.ph

Malabon, officially the City of Malabon (Filipino: Lungsod ng Malabon), is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila in the Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 365,525. Located just north of Manila, it is primarily a residential and industrial town and is one of the most densely populated cities in the metropolis. It has a total land area of 15.96 square kilometers.

Malabon is part of the sub-region of Metro Manila informally called CAMANAVA, which consists of CAloocan, MAlabon, NAvotas, and VAlenzuela cities. Caloocan lies to the south and east, Navotas to the west, and Valenzuela to the north. Malabon also borders the town of Obando in the province of Bulacan to the northwest.

Malabon, per legend, came from the words maraming labong which means "plenty of labong", the edible bamboo shoots. Originally called the town of Tambobong, Malabon was founded as a “Visita” of Tondo by the Augustinian friars on May 21, 1599 and remained under the administrative jurisdiction of the province of Tondo from 1627 to 1688.

Malabon played an important economic role in the late 19th century as evidenced by the establishment of the La Princesa Tabacalera in 1851 and the Malabon Sugar Company in 1878. La Princesa was under the corporate umbrella of Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas which was owned by the King of Spain, while the latter pioneered the refined sugar industry in the Philippines.

The newspaper La Independencia was first printed in Malabon’s Asilo de Huérfanos, where orphaned children due to a plague in 1882 were housed.

Malabon was officially made a municipality of the newly created province of Rizal on June 11, 1901 by virtue of Philippine Commission Act No. 137. When Act No. 942 was promulgated, Malabon was merged with Navotas under a new government. On January 16, 1906, Act No. 1441 separated Malabon from Navotas into two distinct municipalities of the Rizal province. The first Mayor of Malabon was Don Agustin Salamante, a spanish mestizo originally from Cavite.