page_title: Muntinlupa
section_title: Cityscape
hierarchical_section_title: Muntinlupa / Geography / Cityscape
caption_attribution_description: English: FIlinvest City as seen from Commerce Avenue at Alabang, Muntinlupa City
context_page_description: Muntinlupa, officially the City of Muntinlupa, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in Metropolitan Manila, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 504,509 people.
  Classified as a highly urbanized city, it is bordered on the north by Taguig; to the northwest by Parañaque; by Las Piñas to the west; to the southwest by Bacoor and Dasmariñas; by San Pedro and Laguna de Bay to the east, the largest lake in the country. It is given the nickname "Emerald City" by the tourism establishment and also known as the "Gateway to Calabarzon" as it is the southernmost city of the National Capital Region.
  Muntinlupa is known as the location of the national insular penitentiary, the New Bilibid Prison, where the country's most dangerous criminals were incarcerated, as well as the location of Ayala Alabang Village, one of the country's biggest and most expensive residential communities, where many of the wealthy and famous live.
context_section_description: Alabang is the business district of the city where the tallest structures in the city are located. It used to be the location of Alabang Stock Farm. Land reclamation is also done along the Laguna Lake for further developments in the city. During the dry season, the water level in the lake subsides, exposing the soil that is then used for farming.
caption: Filinvest skyline at night as seen from Commerce Avenue at Alabang, Muntinlupa City
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