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Mexico City (Spanish: México, Ciudad de México or CDMX) is Mexico's capital and the newest of the 32 states of Mexico. Prior to receiving statehood in 2016 it was also known as the Distrito Federal or D.F.
The city center is built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, and later came to be the capital of New Spain, which included much of North America. The city has grown fast in the 20th century and is today North America's largest city (and the world's largest Spanish-speaking city) with 8.9 million inhabitants in the city proper, and more than 20 million in the urban area.
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