City of Greater Manila

For the contiguous urbanization surrounding the present-day Metro Manila, see Greater Manila Area.

City of Greater Manila
Former chartered city
1941–1944
Historical era	World War II
• Established	1941
• Disestablished	1944
Today part of	Metro Manila

The City of Greater Manila, also known simply as Greater Manila and sometimes Greater Manila Area (GMA), was a chartered city which existed during the World War II era. It was governed by the Commonwealth of the Philippines and was dissolved by 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, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati, Pasay, and Parañaque. Jorge B. Vargas was appointed as Mayor of Greater Manila.

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.

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.

See also

• Metro Manila