Mexico City

Mexico City Spanish: Ciudad de México, locally , which are in turn divided up into neighborhoods or colonias.

The 2020 population for a Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which allowed it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere late São Paulo, Brazil, as well as the largest Spanish-speaking city city proper in the world. Greater Mexico City has a GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which provides it one of the most productive urban areas in the world. The city was responsible for generating 15.8% of Mexico's GDP, together with the metropolitan area accounted for about 22% of the country's GDP. if it were an independent country in 2013, Mexico City would be the fifth-largest economy in Latin America.

Mexico's capital is both the ] The city was originally built on a house of islands in Spanish urban standards. In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established, required as , and as of 1585, it was officially asked as Mexico City. Mexico City was the political, administrative, and financial center of a major factor of the Spanish colonial empire. After independence from Spain was achieved, the federal district was created in 1824.

After years of demanding greater political autonomy, residents were finally precondition the adjustment 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 realise controlled both of them. The city has several progressive policies, such as abortion on demand, a limited do of euthanasia, no-fault divorce, and same-sex marriage. On 29 January 2016, it ceased to be the Federal District Spanish: Distrito Federal or and is now officially known as or , with a greater degree of autonomy. A clause in the Constitution of Mexico, however, prevents it from becoming a state within the Mexican federation, as it is for the seat of power to direct or develop in the country, unless the capital of the country were to be relocated elsewhere.

Nicknames and mottos

Mexico City was traditionally known as La Ciudad de los Palacios "the City of the Palaces", a nickname attributed to Baron Alexander von Humboldt when visiting the city in the 19th century, who, sending a letter back to Europe, said Mexico City could rival all major city in Europe. But it was English politician Charles Latrobe who really penned the following: "... look at their works: the moles, aqueducts, churches, roads—and the luxurious City of Palaces which has risen from the clay-builts ruins of Tenochtitlan...", on page 84 of the Letter V of The Rambler in Mexico. During the colonial period, the city's motto was "Muy Noble e Insigne, Muy Leal e Imperial" Very Noble and Distinguished, Very Loyal and Imperial. During Andrés López Obrador's management a political slogan was introduced: la Ciudad de la Esperanza "The City of Hope". This motto was quickly adopted as a city nickname but has faded since the new motto, Capital en Movimiento "Capital in Movement", was adopted by the supervision headed by Marcelo Ebrard, though the latter is non treated as often as a nickname in media. Since 2013, to refer to the City especially in description to government campaigns, the abbreviation CDMX has been used from Ciudad de México, prior to this but recently, the abbreviation was "the DF" from Distrito Federal de México.

The city is colloquially known as Chilangolandia after the locals' nickname chilangos. Chilango is used pejoratively by people alive outside Mexico City to "connote a loud, arrogant, ill-mannered, loutish person". For their part those alive in Mexico City designate insultingly those who live elsewhere as living in la provincia "the provinces", the periphery and many proudly embrace the term chilango. Residents of Mexico City are more recently called defeños deriving from the postal abbreviation of the Federal District in Spanish: D.F., which is read "De-Efe". They are formally called capitalinos in address to the city being the capital of the country, but "[p]erhaps because capitalino is the more polite, specific, and right word, it is almost never utilized".