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Malabon, officially the City of Malabon (), is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila in the Philippines. According to the , it has a population of .〔 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 15.714 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. ==History== 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.〔( manilastandardtoday.com, Malabon City: A sight of progress )〕〔( wikimapia.org, Malabon City Hall )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Act Extending the Provisions of the Provincial Government Act to the Province of Rizal )〕 When Act No. 942 was promulgated, Malabon was merged with Navotas under a new government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Act Reducing the Thirty-two Municipalities of the Province of Rizal to Fifteen )〕 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 Vicente Villongco. For 70 years, Malabon was a municipality of Rizal, until November 7, 1975, by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 824, when Malabon became a part of Metropolitan Manila or the National Capital Region. Malabon became a city on April 21, 2001, under Republic Act No. 9019 when Malabon was 407 years old. Former Mayor Tito Oreta, who died in office in 2012, was credited with building some of Malabon's most important modern infrastructure projects, including the new eleven-story Malabon City Hall, the Oreta Sports Complex Building and a Government Center Annex. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malabon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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