The City of Taguig is a 1st-class highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 804,915 people.
Bonifacio Global City, one of the leading financial and lifestyle districts of the country, is located in Taguig.
In old times, the farmer-fishermen of the area were considered skilled at threshing rice after harvest, and this is considered the reason they were referred to as “mga taga-giik” (Tagalog for “rice thresher”) and the settlement as “pook ng mga taga-giik.” Spanish friar Fray Alonso de Alvarado, together with conquistador Ruy López de Villalobos who crossed Pasig River to reach the city’s present site in 1571, found “taga-giik” difficult to pronounce. “Tagui-ig” was later shortened to its current form “Taguig.”
The current mayor of Taguig is Lani Cayetano.
