Mexico Ceety

Mexico Ceety (Spaingie: Ciudad de México) is the caipital an mucklest ceety in Mexico as well as the mucklest ceety in North Americae an ane o the mucklest ceeties in the warld. Mexico Ceety is the seat o the federal govrenment, a federal entity athin Mexico that isnae pairt o ony o the 31 Mexican states but belangs tae the federation as a hale. Mexico Ceety is the maist important poleetical, cultural, an financial centre in the kintra.

Mexico Ceety
Ceety
Ciudad de México Ceety o Mexico
Clockwise frae top: skyline o Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico Ceety Metropolitan Cathedral, Skyline o Polanco, Palacio de Bellas Artes, The Naitional Pailace, Aungel o Unthirldom an Torre Latinoamericana
Banner Seal
Motto(s):  La Ciudad de los Palacios (Ceety o Palaces)
México Ceety athin Mexico
Coordinates: 19°26′N 99°8′W
Kintra	Mexico
Entity	Federal Destrict
Subdiveesions	Burghs •Álvaro Obregón •Azcapotzalco •Benito Juárez •Coyoacán •Cuajimalpa •Cuauhtémoc •Gustavo A. Madero •Iztacalco •Iztapalapa •Magdalena Contreras •Miguel Hidalgo •Milpa Alta •Tláhuac •Tlalpan •Venustiano Carranza •Xochimilco
Foondit	13 Mairch 1325: Tenochtitlan[1] 13 August 1521: Ciudad de México[2] 18 November 1824: Distrito Federal[3]
Govrenment
• Heid o Govrenment	Marcelo Ebrard
• Senators[4]	Pablo Gómez René Arce Federico Döring
• Deputies[5]	Federal Deputies •Armando Báez Pinal •Marco Antonio García •Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez •Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada •Roberto Rebollo •Leticia Robles •Claudia Ruiz Massieu •Agustín Castilla •Gabriela Cuevas •César González •Paz Gutiérrez •Valdemar Gutiérrez •Kenia López •César Nava •Rosi Orozco •Silvia Pérez Ceballos •Ezequiel Rétiz •Esthela Damián •Luis Felipe Eguía •Alejandro Encinas •Agustín Guerrero •Francisco Hernández •Héctor Hernández •Teresa Incháustegui •Ramón Jiménez •Vidal Llerenas •Avelino Méndez •Eduardo Mendoza •Nazario Norberto •Leticia Quezada •Rigoberto Salgado •Arturo Santana •Emilio Serrano •Mauricio Toledo •Enoé Uranga •Balfre Vargas •Araceli Vázquez •Jesús Zambrano •Rosario Brindis •Pablo Escudero •Clara Salinas Sada •Jaime Cárdenas •Itzel Castillo •Mario di Costanzo •Gerardo Fernández •Ifigenia Martínez •Porfirio Muñoz Ledo •Víctor Hugo Círigo •Laura Piña Olmedo • •Gerardo Del Mazo •María Quiñones
Area [6][b]
• Total	1485 km2 (573 sq mi)
	Rankit 32nt
Elevation	2420 m (7,940 ft)
Highest elevation [7]	3930 m (12,890 ft)
Population  (2010)
• Total	8,851,080
• Rank	2nt
• Density	6,000/km2 (15,000/sq mi)
• Density rank	1st
Demonym(s)	Capitalino (a) Defeño (a) Mexiqueño (a) Chilango (a)
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal code	00–16
Area code	Area codes • 55
ISO 3166 code	MX-DFE
HDI	0.922 Very High Ranked 1st
GDP	1.527 trillion pesos[8]
Website	Offeecial Wab Steid
^ b. Area o the Federal Destrict that includes nan-urban areas at the sooth

As an "alpha" global ceety, Mexico Ceety is ane o the maist important financial centers in Americae that is locatit in the Glen o Mexico, a muckle glen in the heich plateaus at the centre o Mexico, at an altitude o 2,240 metres (7,350 ft). The ceety consists o saxteen burghs.

The 2009 estimatit population for the ceety proper wis aroond 8.84 million fowk, an haes a land area o 1,485 square kilometres (573 sq mi). Accordin tae the maist recent definition greed upon bi the federal an state govrenments, the Mexico Ceety metropolitan area population is 21.2 million fowk makkin it the mucklest metropolitan area in the Americaes an the third mucklest agglomeration in the warld.

Mexico Ceety haes a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) o $390 billion USD in 2008, makin Mexico Ceety the aicht richest ceety in the warld. The ceety wis responsible for generatin 21% o Mexico's Gross Domestic Product an the metropolitan area accoontit for 34% o tot naitional GDP. As o 2008, the ceety proper, as opposed tae the metropolitan area, haed a nominal income per caipita o $25,258 USD, on par wi the GDP per capita o Portugal, an significantly abuin kintras lik the Czech Republic.

The ceety wis oreeginally biggit on an island o Loch Texcoco bi the Aztecs in 1325 as Tenochtitlan, that wis amaist completely destroyed in the siege o 1521, an subsequently redesigned an rebuilt in accordance wi the Spaingie urban staundarts. In 1524, the municipality o Mexico Ceety wis established, kent as México Tenustitlán, an as o 1585 it wis offeecially kent as La Ciudad de México (Mexico Ceety). Mexico Ceety served as the poleetical, admeenistrative an financial centre o a major pairt o the Spaingie colonial empire. Efter unthirldom frae Spain wis achieved, the Federal Destrict wis creatit in 1824.

Efter years o demandin greater poleetical autonomy, residents war gien the richt tae directly elect the Heid o Govrenment an the representatives o the unicameral Legislative Assembly bi popular vote in 1997. Iver syne, the left-wing Pairty o the Democratic Revolution (PRD) haes controlled baith o them. In recent years, the local govrenment haes passed a wave o leeberal policies, lik abortion on request tae ony woman up tae 12 weeks intae a pregnancy.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Mexico Ceety is twinned wi:

Athens, Greece Arequipa, Peru Beijing, Cheenae Beirut, Lebanon Berlin, Germany Bogotá, Colombie Buenos Aires, Argentinae Cairo, Egyp Caracas, Venezuela Chicago, Unitit States Ranchi, Indie Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico Cusco, Peru[9] Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico Guatemala Ceety, Guatemala

Houston, Unitit States Istanbul, Turkey[10][11] Kaliningrad, Roushie La Paz, Bolivie Lima, Peru Lisbon, Portugal Los Angeles, Unitit States Madrid, Spain[12] Malmö, Swaden Manila, Philippines Nagoya, Japan Nicosia, Cyprus Panama Ceety, Panama

Paris, Fraunce Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Roum, Italy Santiago, Chile São Paulo, Brazil San Jose, Unitit States San Salvador, El Salvador Seoul, Sooth Korea:[13] Stuttgart, Germany Sydney, Australie Tel Aviv, Israel Toronto, Canadae Washington D.C., Unitit States

Notes

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4. "Senadores por el Distrito Federal LXI Legislatura". Senado de la Republica. Retrieved 21 October 2010.
5. "Listado de Diputados por Grupo Parlamentario del Distrito Federal". Camara de Diputados. Retrieved 20 October 2010.^{[deid airtin]}
6. "Resumen". Cuentame INEGI. Archived frae the original on 30 Januar 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
7. "Relieve". Cuentame INEGI. Archived frae the original on 2 Mairch 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
8. "Distrito Federal". 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
9. "Ciudades Hermanas (Sister Cities of Cusco)" (in Spanish). Municipalidad del Cusco. Archived frae the original on 3 August 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2009.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
10. "Sister Cities of Istanbul". Archived frae the original on 17 Januar 2010. Retrieved 1 Julie 2009.
11. Erdem, Selim Efe (1 Julie 2009). "İstanbul'a 49 kardeş" (in Turkish). Radikal. Archived frae the original on 18 Januar 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2010. 49 sister cities in 2003
12. Madrid city council webpage "Mapa Mundi de las ciudades hermanadas" Check |url= value (help). Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
13. "Sister Cities". Archived frae the original on 10 December 2007. Retrieved 1 November 2010.

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