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.
  • City with about 854,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code MXL
  • …is also known as “Mexihcali”
  • Description: capital of the State of Baja California, Mexico

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Calexico.
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Latitude
32.6393° or 32° 38′ 21″ north
Longitude
-115.4747° or 115° 28′ 29″ west
UN/LOCODE
MX MXL
Open location code
8546JGQG+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mexicali” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mexicali”
  • Amharic: “ሜክሲካሊ”
  • Arabic: “Mexicali”
  • Arabic: “مكسيكالي”
  • Armenian: “Մեքսիկալի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Meksikali”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mexikali”
  • Basque: “Mexicali”
  • Belarusian: “Мехікалі”
  • Belarusian: “Мэхікалі”
  • Bengali: “মেক্সিকালি”
  • Bengali: “মেক্সিক্যালি”
  • Bulgarian: “Мексикали”
  • Bulgarian: “Мехикали”
  • Catalan: “Mexicali”
  • Cebuano: “Mexicali (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Mexicali”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەکسیکالی”
  • Chinese: “未市卡利”
  • Chinese: “墨西加利”
  • Chinese: “墨西卡利”
  • Czech: “Mexicali”
  • Danish: “Mexicali”
  • Dutch: “Mexicali”
  • Dzongkha: “མེ་སི་ཀ་ལི།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكسيكالى”
  • Esperanto: “Mexicali”
  • Esperanto: “Mexicalo”
  • Estonian: “Mexicali”
  • Finnish: “Mexicali”
  • French: “Mexicali”
  • Galician: “Mexicali”
  • Georgian: “მეხიკალი”
  • German: “Mexicali”
  • Greek: “Μεξικάλι”
  • Greek: “Μεχικάλι”
  • Gujarati: “મેક્સિકેલી”
  • Hausa: “Mexicali”
  • Hebrew: “מקסיקלי”
  • Hindi: “मेक्सिकली”
  • Hindi: “मेख़िकाली”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Mexicali”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mexicali”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಕ್ಸಾಕಲಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mexikali”
  • Kazakh: “Мехикали”
  • Kirghiz: “Мексикали”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Mexicali”
  • Ossetian: “Мехикали”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੈਕਸੀਕਾਲੀ”
  • Persian: “مخیکالی٬ باخا کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “مخیکالی”
  • Polish: “Mexicali”
  • Portuguese: “Mexicali”
  • Pushto: “مکسيکالي”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Mexicali”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مکسیکالی”
  • Spanish: “Mexicali”
  • Swahili: “Mexicali, Baja California”
  • Swahili: “Mexicali”
  • Swedish: “Mexicali (delstatshuvudstad)”
  • Swedish: “Mexicali”
  • Tagalog: “Mexicali”
  • Tajik: “Мексикали”
  • Tamil: “மேக்ஸிக்காளி”
  • Tatar: “Мексикали”
  • Tatar: “Мехикали”
  • Telugu: “మేక్షికాలి”
  • Thai: “เมคีกาลี”
  • Thai: “เมฆิกาลิ”
  • Thai: “เมฮิกาลิ”
  • Tumbuka: “Mexicali”
  • Turkish: “Mexicali”
  • Twi: “Mexicali”
  • Ukrainian: “Мехікалі”
  • Urdu: “میکسیکالی”
  • Uzbek: “Meksikali”
  • 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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