Pateros

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Pateros (Tagalog: [pɐˈtɛɾos]), officially the Municipality of Pateros (Filipino: Bayan ng Pateros), is the sole municipality of Metro Manila, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 67,319 people. This municipality is famous for its duck-raising industry and especially for producing balut, a Filipino delicacy, which is a boiled, fertilized duck egg. Pateros is also known for the production of red salty eggs and "inutak", a local rice cake. Moreover, the town is known for manufacturing of "alfombra", a locally made footwear with a carpet-like fabric on its top surface. Pateros is bordered by the highly urbanized cities of Pasig to the north, and by Taguig to the east, west and south. Pateros is the smallest municipality in the Philippines by land area, and is the smallest administrative division in Metro Manila by population, but it is the third most densely populated within Metro Manila at around 37,000 inhabitants per square kilometer or 96,000 inhabitants per...

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