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Free & Sovereign State of Baja California
Mexicali Municipality

Mexicali

Mexicali is the capital of the state of Baja California in , directly across the border from , , . Its proximity to the United States has made it a very popular tourist destination, especially for day-trippers.
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  • Type: City with 854,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the State of Baja California, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Mexihcali”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Farmacias Sta. Mónica and Auditorio PSF.

Stadium
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, is a in Mexicali, . It is primarily used for baseball and has a capacity of 20,000 seated spectators. It serves as the home stadium for the Águilas de Mexicali of the Mexican Pacific League.

Sports venue
is an indoor arena in Mexicali, Mexico. It is primarily used for basketball and is the home arena of the Soles de Mexicali. It can seat 4,779 people.It is located in the "Ciudad Deportiva" of Mexicali, known as the sport center of the city, where it also holds the Nido de Los Aguilas, and the Home of the Halcones.

Library
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The is a Carnegie library located at 420 Heber Ave. in , …

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Calexico.

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is a city in in , located just across the U.S.-Mexican border from Mexicali.

Mexicali

Latitude
32.6245° or 32° 37′ 28″ north
Longitude
-115.4526° or 115° 27′ 9″ west
Population
854,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
MXL
United Nations Location Code
MX MXL
Open location code
8546JGFW+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 213601095
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3996069
Wiki­data ID
Q199440
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mexicali” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mexicali”
  • Arabic: “Mexicali”
  • Arabic: “مكسيكالي”
  • Armenian: “Մեքսիկալի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mexikali”
  • Basque: “Mexicali”
  • Belarusian: “Мехікалі”
  • Belarusian: “Мэхікалі”
  • Bengali: “মেক্সিক্যালি”
  • Bulgarian: “Мексикали”
  • Bulgarian: “Мехикали”
  • Catalan: “Mexicali”
  • Cebuano: “Mexicali (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Mexicali”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەکسیکالی”
  • Chinese: “Mexicali”
  • Chinese: “未市卡利”
  • Chinese: “墨西加利”
  • Chinese: “墨西卡利”
  • Czech: “Mexicali”
  • Danish: “Mexicali”
  • Dutch: “Mexicali”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكسيكالى”
  • Esperanto: “Mexicali”
  • Esperanto: “Mexicalo”
  • Estonian: “Mexicali”
  • Finnish: “Mexicali”
  • French: “Mexicali”
  • Galician: “Mexicali”
  • Georgian: “მეხიკალი”
  • German: “Mexicali”
  • Greek: “Μεξικάλι”
  • Gujarati: “મેક્સિકેલી”
  • Hebrew: “מקסיקלי”
  • Hindi: “मेक्सिकाली”
  • Hungarian: “Mexicali”
  • Icelandic: “Mexicali”
  • Ido: “Mexicali”
  • Iloko: “Mexicali”
  • Indonesian: “Mexicali”
  • Interlingua: “Mexicali”
  • Irish: “Mexicali”
  • Italian: “Mexicali”
  • Japanese: “メヒカリ (バハ・カリフォルニア州)”
  • Japanese: “メヒカリ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mexicali”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಕ್ಸಾಕಲಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mexikali”
  • Kazakh: “Мехикали”
  • Korean: “메히칼리”
  • Korean: “멕시칼리”
  • Ladino: “Mexicali”
  • Latin: “Mexicali”
  • Latvian: “Mehikali”
  • Latvian: “Meksikali”
  • Lithuanian: “Mechikalis”
  • Lithuanian: “Meksikalis”
  • Lithuanian: “Mexicali”
  • Lombard: “Mexicali”
  • Malay: “Mexicali”
  • Malayalam: “മെക്സിക്കാലി”
  • Marathi: “मेक्‍सिकली”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mexicali”
  • Mingrelian: “მეხიკალი”
  • Navajo: “Tsézhiintóńlį́ (Naakaii Bikéyah)”
  • Navajo: “Tsézhiintóńlį́”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mexicali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mexicali”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mexicali i Baja California”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mexicali”
  • Norwegian: “Mexicali”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Meaxcælburg”
  • Ossetian: “Мехикали”
  • Persian: “مخیکالی٬ باخا کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “مخیکالی”
  • Polish: “Mexicali”
  • Portuguese: “Mexicali”
  • Quechua: “Mexicali”
  • Romanian: “Mexicali, Baja California”
  • Russian: “Мехикали”
  • Scots: “Mexicali”
  • Serbian: “Mehikali”
  • Serbian: “Mexicali”
  • Serbian: “Мексикали”
  • Serbian: “Мехикали”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mexicali, Mexicali”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mexicali”
  • Silesian: “Mexicali”
  • Sinhala: “මෙක්සිකාලි”
  • Slovak: “Mexicali”
  • Slovenian: “Mexicali”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مکسیکالی”
  • Spanish: “Mexicali”
  • Swahili: “Mexicali, Baja California”
  • Swedish: “Mexicali (delstatshuvudstad)”
  • Swedish: “Mexicali”
  • Tagalog: “Mexicali”
  • Tamil: “மேக்ஸிக்காளி”
  • Tatar: “Мехикали”
  • Telugu: “మేక్షికాలి”
  • Thai: “เมคีกาลี”
  • Thai: “เมฆิกาลิ”
  • Thai: “เมฮิกาลิ”
  • Turkish: “Mexicali”
  • Twi: “Mexicali”
  • Ukrainian: “Мехікалі”
  • Urdu: “میکسیکالی”
  • Uzbek: “Mexikali”
  • Venetian: “Mexicali”
  • Vietnamese: “Mexicali”
  • Volapük: “Mexicali”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mexicali, Baja California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mexicali”
  • Wu Chinese: “墨西加利”
  • Yue Chinese: “墨西加利”
  • “Mēxihcali”

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