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Large gold, silver mine inaugurated in MexicoMexico City, Nov 20 : Canada's Agnico-Eagle Mines has inaugurated a large gold and silver mine in Mexico with an investment of 240 million dollars, the Economy Secretariat said. The Pinos Altos mine is located in the northern town of... In this article: Mexico, Silver, Chihuahua, Agnico-Eagle Mines, Zinc, Copper, Canada, Toronto, Mexico City, and Finland |
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AP Online | 1 day ago
Mexico City's transit improvements on track
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe's largest cities.
In this article: Marcelo Ebrard, Harvard University, World Bank, United Nations, and Mexico
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Mexico City's transit improvements on track
In this article: Marcelo Ebrard, Harvard University, World Bank, United Nations, and Mexico
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TIME | 2 days ago
Do Sex Workers in Mexico City Need Their Own District?
By Ioan Grillo / Mexico City Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 Prostitutes stand around in the La Merced area of Mexico City As twilight falls over Mexico City's Buenavista neighborhood, the traditional night shift begins. A woman in suspenders...
In this article: Buenavista, Roman Catholic Church, Mexico, and Amsterdam
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | November 12, 2009
Harvard honors Mexico City bus system
THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING For decades, Mexico City's 18 million people choked in the fumes of thousands of "peseros,'' the privately owned minibuses that clogged the avenues crisscrossing the capital city. Harvard's...
In this article: Harvard, Marcelo Ebrard, Embarq, Kennedy School of Government, Carbon dioxide, The World Bank, Caterpillar, Global Environment Facility, and Shell
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Edmonton Journal | 4 days ago
Mexicana to drop Edmonton-Mexico City flight in January
...drop Edmonton-Mexico City flight in January EDMONTON a Mexicana Airlines is dropping its non-stop service between Edmonton and Mexico City in January, and adding an extra flight from Calgary. The global economic downturn, and travel...
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Description from Wikipedia:
Mexico City (in Spanish: Ciudad de México, D.F., Distrito Federal, or México) is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008. Greater Mexico City (Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México) incorporates 59 adjacent municipalities of Mexico State and 29 municipalities of the state of Hidalgo, according to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments. Greater Mexico City has a population exceeding 22 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the second largest in the world by population. In 2005, it ranked the eighth in terms of GDP (PPP) among urban agglomerations in the world. Aside from São Paulo it is the only Beta global city with 8 points in Latin America.
According to a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greater Mexico City (with a population of 19.2 million) had a GDP of $315 billion in 2005 (at purchasing power parity), ranking as the eighth-richest urban agglomeration in the world after the greater areas of Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, London and Osaka/Kobe, and the richest in Latin America; in 2020 it is expected to rank seventh with a $608 billion GDP, displacing Osaka/Kobe.
- Name:
- Mexico City
- Local Name:
- Ciudad de México
- Also Known As:
- Ciudad de los Palacios (City of Palaces) (given by Charles Joseph Latrobe), Ciudad de la Esperanza (City of Hope) (given by the politician Andrés Manuel López Obrador)
- Type:
- Cultural
- Region:
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Government type:
- Republic
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1524
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 573.36
- Total Area (km):
- 1485
- Metro Area (km):
- 7854
- Elevation (ft):
- 7349
- Elevation (m):
- 2240
- Time Zone:
- Central Standard Time
- Website:
- http://www.df.gob.mx
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