[3] It is bordered on the north by Taguig, to the northwest by Parañaque, by Bacoor and Las Piñas to the west, to the southwest by Dasmariñas, by San Pedro to the south, and by Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the country, to the east.

Muntinlupa is known as the location of the national insular penitentiary, the New Bilibid Prison, where the country's most dangerous criminals are incarcerated.

[5] Ayala Alabang Village, one of the country's biggest and most expensive residential communities,[citation needed] is also located in Muntinlupa.

In an effort by the Spanish Government to bring under closer administrative control the people living in the contiguous sitios, as well as those in Alabang, Tunasan, Sucat, and Cupang, the municipality was created upon the recommendation of Don Eduardo de Canizares.

On August 6, 1898, the town supported the Philippine Revolution against the Spaniards and formally joined the revolutionary government headed by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo.

[11] Muntinlupa residents protested this Executive Act, and through their town head, Marcelo Fresnedi, filed a formal petition to the Governor for the return of the municipality to the province of Rizal.

[12][13] On December 19, 1917, Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison signed Executive Order 108, which made Muntinlupa an independent municipality, separating it from Taguig.

[5] On November 12, 1963, in the early morning of election day, Nacionalista mayoralty candidate Maximino A. Argana was talking to his bodyguards at his home when he managed to avoid bullets that were fired at him by unknown gunmen.

[15] On November 7, 1975, Muntinlupa was transferred from the Province of Rizal to the newly formed Metropolitan Manila by virtue of Presidential Decree No.

[16] June 13, 1986, following the EDSA Revolution in February of that year, President Corazón C. Aquino appoints Ignacio R. Bunye as Officer-in-Charge of Muntinlupa as part of a nationwide revamp of local government units.

On January 31, 1988, protesters of the 1988 Muntinlupa election results who barricaded in front of the Muntinlupa town hall the past two days began storming the premises, with supporters of the two leading mayoral candidates confronting each other and causing injury to former mayor Santiago Carlos Jr. and barangay official Florante Torres among others.

[17][18] By February 17, a grenade that failed to explode was found to have been thrown onto the roof of mayor-elect Bunye's house in Alabang.

[24] It is bordered on the north by Taguig, to the northwest by Parañaque, to the west by Las Piñas, to the southwest by the cities of Bacoor and Dasmariñas in Cavite, to the south by the city of San Pedro in Laguna, and to the east by Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the country.

Gentle rolling hills occupy the western part of the city, with elevation increasing up to 60 meters (200 ft) and above towards its southwest portion.

[30] The West Valley Fault is capable of producing large scale earthquakes on its active phases with a magnitude of 7 or higher.

[31] The 1st legislative district includes barangays Bayanan, Putatan, Poblacion and Tunasan in the southern half of the city, while the 2nd legislative district are barangays Alabang, Buli, New Alabang Village, Cupang and Sucat in the northern portion of the city.

[33] Additionally, Sitio Pagkakaisa in barangay San Martin de Porres, Parañaque is mistakenly regarded as part of Sucat.

The development of two large-scale commercial real estate projects namely; the Filinvest Corporate City and Ayala Land's Madrigal Business Park, changed the landscape of Muntinlupa from what was once vast fields of cow pasture in the late 1980s, into a supercity that houses new residential, business, industrial and commercial establishments.

The 18.7-hectare (46-acre), PEZA registered IT zone is designed, mastered-planned and built around the needs of technology-based companies engaged in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), education, learning and firm, software design and multimedia, call centers, e-commerce, banking and financial services, as well as other IT support businesses and the like.

Amkor Technology is a semiconductor product packaging and test services provider that established its first Philippine plant in Cupang.

Muntinlupa is also home to 19 East, a premier live music venue that features the country's top artists.

The operation and maintenance of the Laguna Lake Drinking Water Treatment Plant was awarded by MWS to Acciona, CEO José Díaz-Caneja, and D.M Consulting Inc.-DMCI Holdings, Inc.

It woiuld process 150 million liters (40×10^6 U.S. gal) of drinking water a day from Laguna de Bay.

[62][63] Majority of the land-line connection is provided by phone carrier Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company.

Muntinlupa can be accessed through private vehicles, buses, jeepneys, taxis, tricycles, and UV Express vans.

Jeepneys routes to General Mariano Alvarez, Calamba, and Pasay, including express services, also use the terminals at Alabang.

[64] "Electric-Jeepney Ride for Free," launched by the City Government of Muntinlupa on March 30, 2015, with an initial fleet of 10 e-jeepneys produced in the Philippines.

PNR operations have been suspended since 2024 to give way to the construction of the elevated North–South Commuter Railway, which will have stations at Sucat, Alabang, and Muntinlupa (Poblacion).

Daang Hari Road, opened in 2003, lies on the boundary with Las Piñas near Ayala Alabang, Katarungan Village, and New Bilibid Prisons.

The "Iskolar ng Bayan" program has been able to give financial assistance to 3,567 students with an allocated budget of ₱13 million.