Mexico City (in
Spanish: Ciudad de México, México, D.F. or simply México) is the
capital city of
Mexico.Mexico City is the most important economic, industrial and cultural center in the country, and the most populous city with 8,720,916 inhabitants in 2005.
Greater Mexico City (Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México) incorporates 58 adjacent municipalities of the
State of Mexico and 1 municipality of the
state of Hidalgo, according to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments. In 2005 Greater Mexico City had a population of 19.2 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in the
western hemisphere and the
second largest in the world. In 2005, it ranked as the eighth richest urban agglomeration GDP in the world.
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