Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital of the , seat of the federal powers, and the most populous city in the country. The city center is built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, and later came to be the capital of New Spain, which included much of North America.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Centro and Xochimilco.

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The old city center or Histórico of Mexico City, centered on the Plaza de la Constitución, has been the heart of the nation since Aztec times. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.

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is to the south of Mexico City, and gives a glimpse at the effects of rushed urbanization over the years. It's a great place for tourists. Together with the of Mexico City it forms a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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The district of Mexico City is a residential and restaurant area on both sides of Insurgentes avenue between Viaducto Miguel Alemán in the south and Avenida Chapultepec in the north.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Coyoacán and Polanco.

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This relatively large area in the southwest of Mexico City has always been a counterculture hotbed. This is where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived, a few blocks away from Leon Trotsky, and the tranquil residential area, with parks, squares, and cobblestone streets, is now a favourite spot for the bohemia set.

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refers to an area of Mexico City north of Park. It is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Mexico City and commands some of the highest real estate prices, and offers a wide range of upscale boutiques, restaurants and numerous art galleries.

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is Mexico City's principal park, "the green lung of the city". This hill has been important throughout the city's history as the perch of fortresses and palaces, and the manicured forest surrounding it now holds many of Mexico's greatest cultural treasures.

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and Pedregal is a district of Mexico City. is best known as the location of most hospitals in Mexico City and most natural parks. Pedregal is a wealthy residential area built on top of, and using lava rock from, the Xitle volcano.

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is in the eastern part of Mexico City. It is a rough and tumble area that is the most populous borough in the city, as well as the poorest, and most crime-ridden.

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is a business and entertainment district near the center of Mexico City. It is one of the city's most touristy areas, filled with hotels, dance clubs, restaurants, bars and live bands.

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Avenida Insurgentes runs south of the central downtown areas cutting through two large, mostly residential neighborhoods: Colonia and Narvarte.

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is one of the 16 boroughs of Mexico City. It is large in area, but one of the smallest in population with about 250,000 residents, almost all of whom live in the northern third of the district.

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is the second largest borough in Mexico City, but also its most rural, with farms and open spaces instead of crowds, avenues, and a never-ending concrete jungle.

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is in the western area of Mexico City. It is the newest and most modern district of the city, as almost all of it has been developed only in the past twenty years; this puts this district in stark contrast with Mexico City's other districts, especially the .

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San Ángel is an area in the south of Mexico City. It is an upscale neighborhood with wooded hills and an appreciation for the arts. This area includes the Lomas neighborhoods between and the southwestern parts of Chapultepec Park.

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is in the northern part of Mexico City, part of the delegación of Gustavo A. Madero. It is home to the Basílica de Guadalupe complex at the base of Tepeyac Hill, perhaps Roman Catholicism's holiest site in Latin America.

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Desierto de los Leones is a national park that is in the southwest section of Mexico City. It is located in the Sierra de las Cruces mountain range southwest of the city center.

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, or simply "Satelite", is part of the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Although there is a specific borough bearing that name, locals refer to Satelite to a broader area including other boroughs or colonias that are across the city limits into the .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Palacio de Bellas Artes.

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The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, also commonly called the , is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico.

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The is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City. It hosts performing arts events, literature events and plastic arts galleries and exhibitions.

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The Monument to the Revolution is a memorial arch commemorating the Mexican Revolution. It is located in the Plaza de la República, near the heart of the major thoroughfares Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida de los Insurgentes in downtown Mexico City.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colonia Juárez and Condesa.

Neighborhood
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is one of the better-known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. The neighborhood is shaped like a long triangle with the boundaries: Paseo de la Reforma on the north, Avenida Chapultepec on the south, and Eje 1 Poniente on the east.

Neighborhood
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or La is an area in the borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square.

Quarter
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was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the . Its inhabitants, known as the Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century.

Mexico City

Latitude
19.4326° or 19° 25′ 57″ north
Longitude
-99.1332° or 99° 7′ 60″ west
Population
9,210,000
Elevation
2,240 metres (7,349 feet)
Abbreviation
“Cdmx”
IATA airport code
MEX
United Nations Location Code
MX MEX
Open location code
76F2CVM8+2P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 62270270
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3530597
Wiki­data ID
Q1489
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Mexico City” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Banda Meksiko”
  • Afrikaans: “Meksikostad”
  • Albanian: “Meksika”
  • Albanian: “Meksiko”
  • Albanian: “Qyteti i Meksikës”
  • Amharic: “ሜክሲኮ ከተማ”
  • Arabic: “مدينة المكسيك”
  • Arabic: “مدينة مكسيكو”
  • Arabic: “ميكسيكو سيتي”
  • Arabic: “ميهكو سيتي”
  • Aragonese: “Ciudat de Mexico”
  • Armenian: “Մեխիկո”
  • Assamese: “মেক্সিকো চিটি”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá de Méxicu”
  • Atikamekw: “Mexico”
  • Avaric: “Мехико”
  • Aymara: “Mïxiku marka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mexiko”
  • Balinese: “Kota Méksiko”
  • Banjar: “Kuta Meksiko”
  • Bashkir: “Мехико”
  • Basque: “Mexiko Hiria”
  • Bavarian: “Mexiko Stod”
  • Bavarian: “Mexiko-Stod”
  • Belarusian: “Мехіка”
  • Belarusian: “Мэхіка”
  • Bengali: “মেক্সিকো শহর”
  • Bengali: “মেক্সিকো সিটি”
  • Bengali: “মেক্সিকো”
  • Bhojpuri: “मैक्सिको सिटी”
  • Bosnian: “Ciudad de México”
  • Bosnian: “Mexico City”
  • Breton: “Kêr-Vec’hiko”
  • Bulgarian: “Мексико”
  • Burmese: “မက္ကဆီကိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ciudad de México”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Mèxic”
  • Catalan: “Mèxic D.F.”
  • Catalan: “Mèxic DF”
  • Catalan: “México D.F.”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Mehiko”
  • Cebuano: “Mexico City”
  • Central Bikol: “Mexico”
  • Central Bikol: “Syudad nin Mehiko”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەکسیکۆ سیتی”
  • Chavacano: “CDMX”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad de Méjico”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad de Mexico”
  • Chechen: “Мехико”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏂᏍᏆᏂ ᎦᏚᎲᎢ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏂᏍᏆᏂ”
  • Chinese: “México Chhī”
  • Chinese: “墨西哥城”
  • Chuvash: “Мехико”
  • Cornish: “Cita Meksiko”
  • Cornish: “Cita Mexico”
  • Corsican: “Cità di Messicu”
  • Corsican: “Cità di u Messicu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Mehiko”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Ciudad de Mexico”
  • Croatian: “Ciudad de México”
  • Croatian: “Grad Mexico”
  • Croatian: “Mexico”
  • Czech: “Ciudad de México”
  • Danish: “Mexico City”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meksiko City”
  • Dotyali: “मेक्सिको सिटी”
  • Dutch: “Mexico-stad”
  • Dutch: “Mexico-Stad”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мехико”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميكسيكو سيتى”
  • Erzya: “Мехико”
  • Esperanto: “Meksik-urbo”
  • Esperanto: “Meksiko”
  • Esperanto: “Meksikurbo”
  • Estonian: “México”
  • Extremaduran: “Ciá de Méjicu”
  • Extremaduran: “Ciá de Méxicu”
  • Faroese: “Meksikobýur”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mexico City”
  • Fijian: “Siti o Mekisiko”
  • Finnish: “Ciudad de México”
  • Finnish: “México”
  • French: “Cité de Mexico”
  • French: “Cité du Mexique”
  • French: “Ciudad de México”
  • French: “Mexico”
  • French: “Ville du Mexique”
  • Galician: “Cidade de México”
  • Galician: “Ciudad de México”
  • Galician: “México, D.F.”
  • Georgian: “მეხიკო სიტი”
  • Georgian: “მეხიკო”
  • German: “Ciudad de México”
  • German: “DF”
  • German: “Distrito Federal”
  • German: “Mexico City”
  • German: “Mexiko-Stadt”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mexico City”
  • Gilaki: “مکزيکؤسيتي”
  • Gilaki: “مکزیکو سیتی”
  • Greek: “Πόλη του Μεξικού”
  • Guarani: “Méjiko táva”
  • Guarani: “Táva Méhiko”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Mexico”
  • Gujarati: “મેક્સિકો શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “મેક્સિકો સિટી”
  • Haitian: “Meksiko”
  • Hakka Chinese: “México Sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Mexico”
  • Hawaiian: “Kūlanakauhale ʻo Mekiko”
  • Hawaiian: “Mēkiko D.F.”
  • Hebrew: “מכסיקו סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “מקסיקו סיטי”
  • Hindi: “मेक्सिको नगर”
  • Hindi: “मेक्सिको सिटी”
  • Hindi: “मैक्सिको शहर”
  • Hungarian: “Ciudad de México”
  • Hungarian: “Mexikóváros”
  • Iban: “Nengeri Mexico”
  • Icelandic: “Mexíkóborg”
  • Ido: “México”
  • Ido: “Mexiko”
  • Igbo: “Mézíkọ city”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Mehiko”
  • Indonesian: “Ciudad de México”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Meksiko”
  • Indonesian: “Mexico City”
  • Indonesian: “Mexico D.F.”
  • Ingush: “Мехико”
  • Interlingua: “Citate de Mexico”
  • Interlingue: “Cité de Mexico”
  • Irish: “Cathair Mheicsiceo”
  • Italian: “Città del Messico”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Mexiko Siti”
  • Japanese: “メキシコシティ”
  • Japanese: “メキシコ市”
  • Japanese: “宮殿の都市”
  • Japanese: “希望の都市”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Mèksiko”
  • Javanese: “Mexico City”
  • Kabardian: “Мехико”
  • Kabiyè: “Mɛkisiikoo”
  • Kabyle: “Meksiku”
  • Kabyle: “Miksiku”
  • Kabyle: “Tamdint n Meksiku”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mexico City”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಕ್ಸಿಕೋ ನಗರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mexiko”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Мехико”
  • Kazakh: “Мехико қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Мехико”
  • Kikuyu: “Mexico City”
  • Kirghiz: “Мехико”
  • Komering: “Kota Meksiko”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Мехико”
  • Komi: “Мехико”
  • Korean: “멕시코 시”
  • Korean: “멕시코시티”
  • Kurdish: “Meksîko”
  • Ladin: “Zitá dl Mexico”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Meksiko”
  • Latin: “Mexicopolis”
  • Latin: “urbs Mexicum”
  • Latvian: “CDMX”
  • Latvian: “Mehiko”
  • Lezghian: “Мехико”
  • Ligurian: “Çittæ do Mescico”
  • Ligurian: “Çittæ do Méscico”
  • Limburgan: “Mexico-stad”
  • Lingala: “Mbóka ya Mexiko”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Site Mexico”
  • Literary Chinese: “墨西哥城”
  • Lithuanian: “Meksikas”
  • Livvi: “Mehiko”
  • Lojban: “mexygu’e tcadu”
  • Lombard: “Cità del Messich”
  • Low German: “Mexiko-Stadt”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mexiko-Stad”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Meksiko (cãsãbã)”
  • Macedonian: “Град Мексико”
  • Macedonian: “Мексико Сити”
  • Macedonian: “Мексико”
  • Malagasy: “Mexico City”
  • Malagasy: “Mexico”
  • Malay: “Bandar Raya Mexico”
  • Malayalam: “മെക്സിക്കോ സിറ്റി”
  • Maltese: “Belt tal-Messiku”
  • Manx: “Ard-valley Veksico”
  • Manx: “Caayr Veksico”
  • Manx: “Meksico”
  • Marathi: “मेक्सिको शहर”
  • Marathi: “मेक्सिको सिटी”
  • Mazanderani: “مکزیکوسیتی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “México Chê”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “México Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Meksiko”
  • Mingrelian: “მეხიკო”
  • Mixtepec Mixtec: “Nkoyo”
  • Moksha: “Мэхика”
  • Moksha: “Мэхико”
  • Mongolian: “Мехико Хот”
  • Mongolian: “Мехико”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميكسيكو”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߍߞߛߌߞߏ߫ ߛߏ”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߍߞߛߌߞߏ߫”
  • Navajo: “Naakaii Bikin Haalʼá”
  • Neapolitan: “Città ddò Messeco”
  • Neapolitan: “Città ddò Messico”
  • Newari: “मेक्सिको सहर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Meksiko Stääd”
  • Northern Luri: “مکزیکوسیتی”
  • Northern Sami: “Meksiko gávpot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mexico by”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mexico by”
  • Norwegian: “Mexico by”
  • Novial: “Mexiko Urbe”
  • Nyanja: “Mexico City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “CDMX”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat de Mexic”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Meaxceaster”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mexicoburg”
  • Oriya: “ମେକ୍ସିକୋ ସହର”
  • Ossetian: “Мехико”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੈਕਸੀਕੋ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Ciudad di Mexico”
  • Papiamento: “Siudat di México”
  • Persian: “مکزیکو سیتی”
  • Persian: “مکزیکو”
  • Persian: “مکزیکوسیتی”
  • Picard: “Méssico”
  • Piemontese: “Sità dël Méssich”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Meksikoe Sitii”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Meksikoe”
  • Polish: “Meksyk”
  • Portuguese: “CDMX”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do México”
  • Portuguese: “Ciudad de México”
  • Pushto: “مکسیکو ښار”
  • Quechua: “Mihiku llaqta”
  • Quechua: “Mishiku llaqta”
  • Romanian: “Ciudad de México”
  • Romanian: “Mexico City”
  • Romanian: “Mexico”
  • Romansh: “Citad da Mexico”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мехико хото”
  • Russian: “Мехико”
  • Rusyn: “Мексіко Сіті”
  • Sakizaya: “Muo-si-ke-cen”
  • Samoan: “Mexico Siti”
  • Samogitian: “Meksėks”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱮᱠᱥᱤᱠᱚ ᱥᱤᱴᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱮᱠᱥᱤᱠᱚ ᱱᱟᱜᱟᱨ”
  • Saraiki: “میکسیکو شہر”
  • Sardinian: “Tzitade de su Mèssicu”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mexiko-Stääd”
  • Scots: “Ceety o Mexico”
  • Scots: “Mexico Ceety”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Meagsago”
  • Serbian: “Meksiko Siti”
  • Serbian: “Мексико Сити”
  • Serbian: “Мексико”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ciudad de Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ciudad de México”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ciudad Mexico”
  • Shona: “Mexico City”
  • Sicilian: “Cità dû Messicu”
  • Sicilian: “Cità dû Mèssicu”
  • Silesian: “Meksyk”
  • Sindhi: “ميڪسيڪو سٽي”
  • Sindhi: “ميڪسيڪو شهر”
  • Sinhala: “මෙක්සිකෝ නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Mexiko”
  • Slovenian: “Ciudad de Mexico”
  • Slovenian: “Ciudad de México”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مکزیکو سیتی”
  • Southern Altai: “Мехико”
  • Southern Sotho: “Mexico City”
  • Spanish: “Cd Méx”
  • Spanish: “CDMX”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Méjico”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de México”
  • Spanish: “D. F.”
  • Spanish: “DF”
  • Spanish: “Distrito Federal”
  • Spanish: “Mexico D. F.”
  • Spanish: “Mexico D.F.”
  • Spanish: “Mexico DF”
  • Spanish: “México DF”
  • Spanish: “México Distrito Federal”
  • Spanish: “México, D. F.”
  • Spanish: “México”
  • Spanish: “Valle de México”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵉⴽⵙⵉⴽⵓ”
  • Swahili: “Mexico”
  • Swedish: “Mexico City”
  • Swiss German: “Mexiko-Stadt”
  • Tachelhit: “Miksiku”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Mehiko”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng México”
  • Tagalog: “México”
  • Tajik: “Мехико”
  • Tajik: “Шаҳри Мексика”
  • Talysh: “Meksiko”
  • Talysh: “Mexiko”
  • Tamil: “மெக்சிகோ நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “மெக்சிக்கோ நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “மெக்ஸிகோ நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “மெக்ஸிகோ ஸிடி”
  • Tatar: “Мехико”
  • Telugu: “మెక్సికో నగరం”
  • Telugu: “మెక్సికో సిటీ”
  • Thai: “Mexico City”
  • Thai: “เม็กซิโกซิตี”
  • Tibetan: “མེག་སི་ཀོ་གྲོང་།”
  • Tigrinya: “ከተማ ሜክሲኮ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kolo Mekisikou”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mexiko-Stadt”
  • Turkish: “Ciudad de Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Meksiko”
  • Turkmen: “Mehiko”
  • Twi: “Ciudad de México”
  • Tyap: “A̱gba̱ndang A̱keang Mikziko”
  • Tyap: “A̱keang Mikziko”
  • Tyap: “Mikziko (a̱keang)”
  • Udmurt: “Мехико”
  • Uighur: “مېكسىكا شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Мехіко”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mexiko-město”
  • Urdu: “میکسیکو شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Mexiko shahri”
  • Venetian: “CDMX”
  • Venetian: “Ciudad de México”
  • Venetian: “Sità del Mèsego”
  • Veps: “Mehiko”
  • Vietnamese: “Ciudad de Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Mễ Tây Cơ”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố México”
  • Vlax Romani: “Mexico City”
  • Volapük: “Ciudad de México”
  • Võro: “México”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Mehiko”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Mecsico”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Mexico”
  • Western Armenian: “Մեքսիքօ Սիթի”
  • Western Armenian: “Մեքսիքօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Meksiko-Stêd”
  • Western Mari: “Мехико”
  • Western Panjabi: “میکسیکو شہر”
  • Wu Chinese: “墨西哥城”
  • Yakut: “Мехико”
  • Yiddish: “מעקסיקא שטאט”
  • Yiddish: “מעקסיקע שטאט”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlú Mẹ́ksíkò”
  • Yue Chinese: “墨西哥城”
  • Zeeuws: “Mexico-Stad”
  • Zulu: “i-Mexico City”
  • “Cetate d’u Messeche”
  • “ma tomo Mesiko”
  • “Meksėks”
  • “Meksiko”
  • “México”
  • “Mexihko Altepetl”
  • “Mexko Altepetl”
  • “Sità dal Mèsic”
  • “मैक्सिको सिटी”

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