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Mexico City, capital city of Mexico, has a long and fascinating past, an intriguing present and an exciting future. Many of the area's pre-colonial capitals were based here, the last being the Aztec, Tenochtitlan, which in the 14th-century was the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Nowadays, Mexico city is a massive urban settlement of color, people, noise, entertainments, business and contrast.

Mexico City City Facts
Mexico City Population: 19,013,000 (Source: UN Population Estimate Revision 2003)
Mexico Population: 106,385,000 (Source: UN Population Estimate Revision 2003)
Currency: Mexican New Peso (MXP)
Time Zone: GMT -6 (-5 from the first Sunday in April to the second-to-last Sunday in October)
Language: Spanish