Mexico City

Definitions

1. The capital city of Mexico.
2. Mexico (a country in North America)
3. State of Mexico, Mexico State (a state of Mexico; capital: Toluca)
4. Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)

Equivalents

Examples

“I went to Mexico City on April 15, 1966, to unveil a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who had been a contemporary of Mexican leader Benito Juarez and was revered in Mexico, as in so many other nations.”

“The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s cloisters, haciendas and humble country buildings, which he translated in his own⟳ work⟳ as austere, inscrutable volumes of stucco.”

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