Mérida

A short distance — yet seemingly a world away — from the rowdy, touristy beach resorts of and that make up the of cliché, Mérida is the cultural center of southern Mexico, boasting a panoply of excellent museums and attractions, a vibrant street life, and a wealth of historic colonial-era architecture that's second only to on the national scene.
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  • Type: City with 922,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Yucatan, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Ciudad Blanca”, “Ciudad de Mérida”, “La blanca Mérida”, “ma tomo Melita waso”, “ma tomo waso”, “Mérida i Mexico”, “Merida Yucatan”, “Mérida, México”, “Mérida, Yucatán”, “Ti’ho”, “Тіхо”, and “मेरिदा, मेक्सिको”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Cathedral of Mérida, Yucatán and Palacio de la Música.

Church
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The Mérida Cathedral in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, is one of the oldest cathedrals in the Americas.

Museum
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is a museum.

Museum
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The …

Mérida

Latitude
20.9671° or 20° 58′ 2″ north
Longitude
-89.6237° or 89° 37′ 26″ west
Population
922,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
MID
UN/LOCODE
MX MID
Open location code
76GGX98G+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269908858
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3523349
Wiki­data ID
Q165204
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yucateco—“Mérida” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “መሪዳ”
  • Arabic: “ماردة”
  • Aragonese: “Mérida”
  • Armenian: “Մերիդա”
  • Asturian: “Mérida”
  • Azerbaijani: “Merida”
  • Basque: “Mérida”
  • Bavarian: “Mérida”
  • Belarusian: “Мерыда”
  • Belarusian: “Мэрыда”
  • Bengali: “মেরিডা”
  • Breton: “Mérida”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерида”
  • Catalan: “Mérida”
  • Cebuano: “Mérida (kapital sa estado sa Mehiko, Estado de Yucatán, Mérida)”
  • Cebuano: “Mérida”
  • Central Kurdish: “مێریدا”
  • Chinese: “梅里达”
  • Chinese: “梅里達”
  • Croatian: “Mérida”
  • Czech: “Mérida”
  • Danish: “Mérida”
  • Dutch: “Mérida”
  • Dzongkha: “མེ་རི་ཌ།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارده”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميريدا يوكاتان”
  • Esperanto: “Mérida”
  • Estonian: “Mérida (Mehhiko)”
  • Estonian: “Mérida”
  • Finnish: “Mérida”
  • French: “Mérida”
  • Galician: “Mérida”
  • Georgian: “მერიდა”
  • German: “Merida”
  • German: “Mérida”
  • Greek: “Μέριδα”
  • Gujarati: “મેરિડા”
  • Hausa: “Merida”
  • Hebrew: “מרידה”
  • Hindi: “मेरिडा”
  • Hindi: “मेरिदा”
  • Hungarian: “Mérida”
  • Ido: “Mérida, Mexikia”
  • Ido: “Mérida”
  • Iloko: “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Iloko: “Mérida”
  • Indonesian: “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Indonesian: “Mérida”
  • Irish: “Mérida”
  • Italian: “Mérida”
  • Japanese: “メリダ”
  • Javanese: “Merida”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mérida”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆರಿಡಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Мерида”
  • Kirghiz: “Мерида”
  • Korean: “메리다”
  • Ladino: “Mérida”
  • Latin: “Emerita”
  • Latvian: “Merida”
  • Lithuanian: “Merida”
  • Macedonian: “Мерида”
  • Malay: “Mérida, Mexico”
  • Malay: “Merida”
  • Malay: “Mérida”
  • Maltese: “Mérida”
  • Marathi: “मेरिडा”
  • Marathi: “मेरिदा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mérida”
  • Mingrelian: “მერიდა (მექსიკა)”
  • Mingrelian: “მერიდა”
  • Moksha: “Мэрида”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mérida i Yucatán”
  • Norwegian: “Mérida”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mérida”
  • Oromo: “Merida”
  • Ossetian: “Меридæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੇਰੀਡਾ”
  • Persian: “مریدا، یوکاتان”
  • Persian: “مریدا”
  • Polish: “Merida”
  • Polish: “Mérida”
  • Portuguese: “Mérida”
  • Pushto: “میریدا”
  • Quechua: “Mérida”
  • Romanian: “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Romanian: “Mérida”
  • Russian: “Мерида”
  • Scots: “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Scots: “Mérida”
  • Serbian: “Merida”
  • Serbian: “Мерида”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mérida”
  • Sicilian: “Mérida”
  • Silesian: “Mérida”
  • Sinhala: “මෙරිඩා”
  • Slovak: “Mérida”
  • Slovenian: “Mérida, Mehika”
  • Slovenian: “Mérida”
  • Somali: “Merida”
  • Spanish: “Mérida”
  • Swahili: “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Swahili: “Merida”
  • Swahili: “Mérida”
  • Swedish: “Mérida”
  • Tagalog: “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Tagalog: “Mérida”
  • Tajik: “Мерида”
  • Tamil: “மெறிடா”
  • Tatar: “Мерида (Миксикә)”
  • Tatar: “Мерида”
  • Telugu: “మెరిడా”
  • Thai: “เมริดา”
  • Tumbuka: “Mérida”
  • Turkish: “Mérida, Meksika”
  • Turkish: “Merida”
  • Turkish: “Mérida”
  • Twi: “Mérida”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерида”
  • Ukrainian: “Меріда”
  • Urdu: “میریڈا، یوکاتان”
  • Urdu: “میریڈا”
  • Uzbek: “Merida”
  • Uzbek: “Mérida”
  • Venetian: “Mérida”
  • Vietnamese: “Mérida”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mérida, Yucatán”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mérida”
  • Welsh: “Merida”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅里达 (墨西哥)”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅里达（墨西哥）”
  • Yucateco: “Jo‘”
  • “ma tomo Melita”
  • “ma tomo Melita lon ma Mesiko”
  • “Mérida”

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