La antigua Tenochtitlán

Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México, Spanish: [sjuˈða(ð) ðe ˈmexiko]; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ) 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 . The city has 16 boroughs or , which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or . The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most rece…