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Mexiko-Stadt (spanisch Ciudad de México [sjuˈða(ð) ðe ˈmexiko], kurz: CDMX; bis 2016 México D.F.) ist die Hauptstadt der Vereinigten Mexikanischen Staaten. Sie gehört zu keinem Gliedstaat, sondern bildet eine eigene Gebietskörperschaft, in der 9,2 Millionen Menschen (2020) leben.
- 9.209.944 (2020)
- 13. August 1521
- Mexiko-Stadt
- Mexiko
Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas and one of two founded by Indigenous people. [c] The city was originally built on a group of islands in Lake Texcoco by the Mexica around 1325, under the name Tenochtitlan.
- 2,240 m (7,350 ft)
- Latin America and the Caribbean
It covers 1,972,550 km 2 (761,610 sq mi), [11] making it the world's 13th-largest country by area; with a population of almost 130 million, it is the 10th-most-populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country. [12] Mexico is organized as a federal constitutional republic comprising 31 states and Mexico City, its capital.
- Federal presidential republic
- Overview
- Character of the city
Mexico City is the capital of Mexico and is synonymous with the country’s Federal District. The term Mexico City can also apply to the capital’s metropolitan area, which includes the Federal District but extends beyond it to the west, north, and east. It is called México in Nahuatl and Ciudad de México in Spanish.
Why was Mexico City chosen as the capital?
After Hernán Cortés defeated the Aztecs at their island-capital of Tenochtitlán in 1521, New Spain was created. The capital of New Spain, Mexico City, was built atop the razed island-capital and remained the capital after the country gained independence in 1821.
What is Mexico City’s significance?
Mexico City is one of the most important political, cultural, educational, and financial centres in North America. Mexico City’s leading position can be attributed to its origins in a rich and diverse environment, its long history as a densely populated area, and the central role that its rulers have defined throughout the ages.
Why is Mexico City sinking?
Mexico City is a metropolis of contrasts, a monument to a proud and industrious country also faced with many problems. Some observers have fixated on the city’s dangers, horrors, and tragedies—views that were reinforced by the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes when he called the city “the capital of underdevelopment.” In the late 20th century the writer Jonathan Kandell retorted, “To its detractors (and even to a few admirers), Mexico City is a nightmare, a monster out of control.…And it just keeps growing.” Others have acknowledged the capital’s drawbacks while holding that it is a true home to millions—a bustling mosaic of avenues, economic interests, and colonias (neighbourhoods) that are buttressed by extended family networks, reciprocity, and respect.
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By itself the Federal District (the city proper) is comparable in many ways to New York City, Mumbai, and Shanghai. But the capital’s huge metropolitan population constitutes some one-fifth of Mexico’s total, representing one of the world’s most significant ratios of capital-to-national population. The country’s next largest city, Guadalajara, is only a fraction of its size. Moreover, its dense population has yielded an unparalleled concentration of power and wealth for its urban elite, though not for the denizens of its sprawling shantytowns and lower-working-class neighbourhoods.
The city’s rich heritage is palpable on the streets and in its parks, colonial-era churches, and museums. On the one hand it includes quiet neighbourhoods resembling slow-paced rural villages, while on the other it has bustling, overbuilt, cosmopolitan, heavy-traffic areas. Its inhabitants have sought to preserve the magnificence of the past, including the ruins of the main Aztec temple and the mixture of 19th-century French-style mansions and department stores that complement its graceful colonial palaces and churches.
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Definition. The phenomenon of conurbation in Mexico is relatively recent, starting in the 1940s. Mexico City became the first metropolitan area in the country when its urban core spread beyond the borders of the Federal District into the municipality of Naucalpan in the State of Mexico. [6] .
Mexiko ( spanisch México [ ˈmexiko ], in Spanien auch Méjico, [5] Nahuatl Mexihco [ meː'ʃiʔko ]; amtlich Vereinigte Mexikanische Staaten, spanisch Estados Unidos Mexicanos) ist eine Bundesrepublik in Nordamerika. Sie umfasst 32 Gliedstaaten, 31 Bundesstaaten und die Bundeshauptstadt Mexiko-Stadt.
Mexiko-Stadt (spanisch: Ciudad de México ⓘ, kurz CDMX), ist die Hauptstadt von Mexiko und seit Anfang 2016 ein Bundesland wie alle anderen Bundesländer auch. Davor war sie ein Bundesdistrikt mit dem Namen Distrito Federal, kurz D. F. Die gesamte Metropolregion hat über 22 Mio.
