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Map of Mexico with Mexico City highlighted Despite containing the word "city", it is not governed as a city but as a unit consisting of multiple subdivisions. As a result of the political reforms enacted in 2016, it is no longer designated as a federal district and became a city, a member entity of the Mexican federation, the seat of the Powers ...
San Ángel. In Mexico, the neighborhoods of large metropolitan areas are known as colonias.One theory suggests that the name, which literally means colony, arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when one of the first urban developments outside Mexico City's core was built by a French immigrant colony.
Mexico City is divided into 16 boroughs, officially designated as demarcaciones territoriales or colloquially known as alcaldías in Spanish. Headed by a mayor, these boroughs kept the same territory and name as the former delegaciones , while expanding their local government powers.
The borough is located in the northwest of the Mexico City, just west of the historic center.The borough is divided into eighty one neighborhoods called colonias.The largest of these is Bosques de las Lomas at 3.2km2, and the smallest is Popo Ampliación with only .33km2.
The Mexico City megalopolis, also known as the Megalopolis of Central Mexico (Spanish: Corona regional del centro de México), is a megalopolis containing Greater Mexico City and surrounding metropolitan areas.
Azcapotzalco (Classical Nahuatl: Āzcapōtzalco [aːskapoːˈt͡saɬko] ⓘ; Spanish pronunciation: [askapoˈtsalko] ⓘ; from āzcapōtzalli “anthill” + -co “place”; literally, “In the place of the anthills”) is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City. [3]
Colonia Insurgentes Mixcoac is located in the Benito Juárez borough in southern Mexico City.. The neighborhood is bordered by: [2] [3] Empresa street on the north, across which is Colonia Extremadura Insurgentes and Colonia San Juan
Iztapalapa (modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City, located on the eastern side of the city.The borough is named after and centered on the formerly independent municipality of Iztapalapa (officially Iztapalapa de Cuitláhuac).