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Guadalajara was also the venue to the Encuentro Internacional de Promotores y Gestores Culturales in 2005. The 2011 Pan American Games were staged and Guadalajara was named the American Capital of Culture in 2005 as well as the Ciudad Educadora in 2006. Guadalajara has been recognized as Mexico's first Smart City due to its use of developing ...
The native name means "place of snakes and ticks." Chiapas: Nahuatl: Chiapan "Place where the chia sage grows" Chihuahua: Nahuatl: xicuahua [1] The state takes its name from its capital city, Chihuahua City. This name is thought to derive from the Nahuatl Xicuahua, or "dry, sandy place". [1] Coahuila: Nahuatl: coatl + huila: Origin disputed.
This ended with the change in status of Mexico City in 2016. Today it is officially called "Ciudad de México, México" abbreviated CDMX, Mexico. The official name of the country is the "United Mexican States" (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos), since it is a federation of thirty-two states.
The name of the Gulf of Mexico became a subject of dispute in 2025, when US president Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14172, directing the US interior secretary to change its name to the "Gulf of America". However, as of March 2025, the majority of Americans still refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico or otherwise oppose the change.
The Associated Press said in updated guidance that it will use President Trump’s name change for Denali but not the Gulf of Mexico. In an announcement Thursday, Amanda Barrett, the AP’s vice ...
Mexico's best known music, mariachi, is still strongly associated with the state within Mexico, although mariachi bands are popular in many parts of the country. It is a myth that the origin of the name comes from the French word for marriage, as the word existed before the French Intervention in Mexico. Its true origin is unknown but one ...
Trump linked his decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to immigration. "Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country," he said.
Mexico's president rebuffed President-elect Donald Trump's call to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" with a suggestion that the United States ought to be renamed "Mexican America."