Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México, locally [sjuˈða(ð) ðe ˈmexiko] (listen); abbreviated as CDMX; Nahuatl languages: Āltepētl Mēxihco) is the funding and also largest city of Mexico and one of the most populated city in The United States and Canada. Mexico City is among one of the most vital social and also financial facilities in the globe. It is situated in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus in the facility of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 meters (7,350 ft). The city has actually 16 neighborhoods referred to as districts or demarcaciones territoriales. The 2020 populace for the city correct was 9,209,944, with a land location of 1,485 square kilometers (573 sq mi). According to one of the most current interpretation set by the federal and also state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, that makes it the second-largest urban area in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), the eleventh-largest pile (...