Manila Day in the Philippines

Manila tops the list of the most densely populated cities in the world with around 1.6 million people jampacked in an area of 16.56 sqm.

There are many hearsays about Manila’s origin but what most Filipinos believe in is the folk story about beautiful flowers which is very simple. According to the story, there were beautiful white and yellow flowers that grew in the newly built walls of Intramuros which were called by natives as “Nilad.” However, there was a time that a woman couldn’t explain where she got those white and yellow flowers so she just told her neighbors “Sa mga may Nilad”. Since then, locals started to call that area “Sa may Nilad” and after a while it already became “Sa Maynila” or “Manila.”

Measuring 8.5”x 14,” the largest banknote in the world was issued by the Central Bank of the Philippines in Manila in 1998. The 100,000 peso bill was released to celebrate the 100 years of Philippine independence from Spanish colonial rule.