History
Quezon City was created on October 12, 1939 by virtue of Commonwealth Act 502. It became the capital of the Philippines with the enactment of Republic Act No. 333 on July 17, 1948. In 1975, Quezon City became part of the larger urban governance scheme that is Metro Manila, with the creation of the Metropolitan Manila Commission by virtue of Presidential Decree 824. On July 24, 1976, then President Ferdinand E, Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 940, conferring the role of the nation’s capital to Metro Manila, hence the name National Capital Region.
President Quezon himself served as the city’s first Mayor and he later appointed Tomas Morato to the position. A long line of distinguished Mayors succeeded Morato in the stewardship of the city, among them: Ponciano Bernardo, Nicanor Roxas, Ignacio Santos Diaz, Norberto Amoranto, Adelina Rodriguez, Brigido Simon Jr., Ishmael Mathay Jr., current House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. and the incumbent, Herbert Bautista.
Population
Among the 16 highly urbanized cities and one municipality in the National Capital Region, the most populated was Quezon City with 23.2 percent share to the total population, according to the 2007 Census of Population and Housing by the National Statistics Office.
Composed of four political districts, more than half (54 percent) of the population resided in the Second District. The First and Fourth District both constituted 17 percent each while the Third District was the least populous at 12 percent in 2000.
Also in 2000, Barangay Commonwealth, under Second District, was the biggest barangay in terms of population size, accounting for 5.6 percent of the total population of the city. The least populous was Mangga, under Third District, with only 494 persons.
Tourism
