A constellation of cities. (Satellite images of the Philippines at night)

Here's the same cities but this time, superimposed on a terrain map.

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The Philippines is mostly maritime and mountainous...

Its geography is mostly like Japan's too which is also filled with islands and mountains.

Do you think that the Philippines can develop large metropolitan areas in its plains too, like with Japan and its main metropolitan areas on the Kanto, Osaka and Nobi plains?

The Philippines is slowly growing to be, Japan-like, population wise, since we are already at a 100 Million citizens and we have a similar terrain environment to Japan too.

Currently, asides from Metro Manila, Philippine cities are quite small and underdeveloped compared to Japan which has multiple metropolitan areas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...areas_in_Japan

Plus, the urbanization rate of Japan is quite high, at 94% while the Philippines' is at 45%. It will take along time before we can catch up to Japan which has the largest and richest cities in the world.

But I'm glad that were using Japan as model to emulate now. Manila used to have Los Angeles as a model city and currently we are suffering gridlock traffic because of it. Had we moddeled ourselves after Tokyo which has alot of mass transit we wouldn't have had transportation problems.

Well the good thing with our lower urbanization rate is that we can probably plan for better settlements once our rate increases.

All the Metropolitan Clusters of East Asia are close to each other, therefore it is easier to trade with one another...