City of Greater Manila

The City of Greater Manila, also known as simply Greater Manila and sometimes Greater Manila Area (GMA)[1], is a former chartered city[2] which existed during the World War II era. It was governed by the Philippine Commonwealth and was dissolved by the Japanese occupation forces.

Greater Manila was formed as an emergency measure by President Manuel L. Quezon as a merger of the cities of Manila and Quezon City with the towns of Caloocan, Las Piñas, Malabon, Mariquina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, San Pedro de Macati, San Felipe Neri, Parañaque, Pasay, Pasig, San Juan del Monte, and the Taguig-Pateros area. Jorge B. Vargas was appointed as Mayor of Greater Manila.[3]

Mayors of the towns and cities that comprised Greater Manila became vice mayors of their respective localities and was under the Mayor of Greater Manila.[3]

The Japanese dissolved Greater Manila, and the area which formed the city was governed by the Philippine Executive Commission, which also administrate other Japanese occupied territories in the Philippines during the war.[3]