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Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México, locally [sjuˈða(ð) ðe ˈmexiko] (listen); abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: Āltepētl Mēxihco) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of 2,240 meters (7,350 ft). The city has 16 boroughs or demarcaciones territoriales, which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or colonias.

The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of 1,495 square kilometers (577 sq mi). According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere, and the largest Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world.

Mexico's capital is both the oldest capital city in the Americas and one of two founded by Indigenous people. The Mexica (Aztec) originally built the city Tenochtitlan on a group of islands in Lake Texcoco in around 1325. The Spanish laid siege to Tenochtitlan in 1521, almost completely destroying the city before finally conquering it. The Spanish subsequently redesigned and rebuilt in accordance with their own urban standards. In 1524, the Spanish established the municipality of México Tenochtitlán. As of 1585, it was officially known as Ciudad de México (Mexico City). Mexico City was the political, administrative, and financial center of a major part of the Spanish colonial empire. After Mexico achieved independence from Spain, the new Mexican government created the federal district of Mexico City in 1824.

After years of demanding greater political autonomy, residents were finally given the right to elect both a head of government and the representatives of the unicameral Legislative Assembly by election in 1997. Ever since, left-wing parties (first the Party of the Democratic Revolution and later the National Regeneration Movement) have controlled both of them.

Mexico City in Broadway Revival[]

In late 2078, David Greenbaum consulted a number of doctors in Mexico City about a "hypothetical" course of treatment for George Gershwin to prevent the brain tumor that killed him. Greenbaum claimed to be an author named "Dennis Bradshaw", and that he was researching a book on Gershwin. He gathered the various medications the doctors suggested before he went back in time.[1]

Mexico City in The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump[]

Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Empire of Aztecia.

Mexico City in "Eyewear"[]

Upon his arrival in Mexico City in 1536, Estevánico was sold to Vicreroy Antonio de Mendoza, who assigned Estevánico to the Coronado Expedition.

While waiting for the expedition to get underway, Estevánico escaped a pair of Aztecs by hiding in a filthy canal, upon the advice of his magical eyewear.

Mexico City in Southern Victory[]

Mexico City was the capital of the Empire of Mexico.[2] During the three major conflicts involving the Empire in the 20th century, Mexico City was never occupied or attacked.[3]

Mexico City in Through Darkest Europe[]

Tenochtitlan was one of several cities across the world attacked by Aquinists in AH 1439.

Mexico City in Worldwar[]

Mexico City was the capital of the Mexico, a country recognized as a Race colony by the Peace of Cairo in 1944.

In 1963, Rance Auerbach and Penny Summers were transferred from Monterrey to Mexico City after they were arrested by the Race for ginger-smuggling.[4] They were then sent to German-occupied France to help nab another smuggler, rather than face prison. When German officials arrested them, the Race arranged for the two to be extradited back to Mexico City.[5]

References[]

  1. Broadway Revival, pg. 17, loc. 266.
  2. How Few Remain, pg. 45, mmp.
  3. This is necessary speculation, as there is no reference to Mexico City specifically after How Few Remain.
  4. Second Contact, pg. 422, MMP.
  5. Ibid., pg. 528.
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