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Mexico City
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English
Etymology
en es-MX Ciudad de México.
Pronunciation
en /ˈmɛk.sɪ.kəʊ sɪti/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Mexico City.wav Southern England
en /ˈmɛk.sɪ.koʊ sɪɾi/ US
Proper noun
Mexico city
en Q1489en capital city c/Mexico.
en Mexico<q:rare>
en 1971 w:Lyndon Johnson The New Age of Regionalism w:The Vantage Point https://archive.org/details/vantagepointpers00john/ w:Holt, Reinhart & Winston 0-03-084492-4 74-102146 1067880747 348 https://archive.org/details/vantagepointpers00john/page/348/ 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.
en Michael Snyder A Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers w:The New York Times Style Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/t-magazine/locals-guide-guadalajara-mexico.html 2023-11-17 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251107032622/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/t-magazine/locals-guide-guadalajara-mexico.html 7 November 2025
en metonym The Mexican government.
Derived terms
en Mexico City policy
Descendants
he מֶקְסִיקוֹ סִיטִי meksiko siti 1
ja メキシコシティ Mekishiko Shiti 1
ko 멕시코시티 1
th เม็กซิโกซิตี้ mék-sí-goo-sí-dtii 1
Translations
capital of Mexico
Afrikaans: af Meksikostad
Albanian: sq Meksiko
Amuzgo:
Guerrero Amuzgo: amu Sndá'
Arabic: ar مَكْسِيكُو m, ar مَدِينَة مَكْسِيكُو f, ar مِكْسِيكُو سِيتِي m
Armenian: hy Մեխիկո
Assamese: as মেক্সিকো চহৰ
Asturian: ast Ciudá de México, ast Ciudá de Méxicu
Azerbaijani: az Mexiko
Basque: eu Mexiko Hiria
Belarusian: be Ме́хіка m, be Мэ́хіка m
Breton: br Mec'hiko
Bulgarian: bg Ме́ксико m
Catalan: ca Ciutat de Mèxic f, ca Mèxic m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 墨西哥城 mak6 sai1 go1 sing4
Mandarin: cmn 墨西哥城 Mòxīgēchéng
Corsican: co Cità di u Messicu f
Czech: cs Mexiko n
Danish: da Mexico City
Dutch: nl Mexico n, nl Mexico-Stad n
Esperanto: eo Meksikurbo
Estonian: et México
Farefare: gur Mehiko-gãn
Faroese: fo Meksikobýur m
Finnish: fi México, fi Mexico City
French: fr Mexico f cf. fr Ville de Mexico f
Galician: gl Cidade de México f
Georgian: ka ქალაქი მექსიკა, ka მეხიკო
German: de Mexiko-Stadt n, de Mexiko n dated
Greek: el Πόλη του Μεξικό f
Hebrew: he מקסיקו סיטי f meksiko siti
Hindi: hi मेक्सिको नगर
Hungarian: hu Mexikóváros
Interlingua: ia Mexico, ia citate de Mexico
Irish: ga Cathair Mheicsiceo f
Italian: it Città del Messico f
Japanese: ja メキシコ市 Mekishiko-shi, ja メキシコシティ Mekishiko-shiti, ja 墨都 Bokuto
Kazakh: kk Мехико
Korean: ko ^멕시코시티
Kyrgyz: ky Мехико
Lakota: lkt Spaóla Otȟúŋwahe Mexican's city
Latin: la Mexicopolis, la Mexicum
Latvian: lv Mehiko
Lithuanian: lt Meksikas m
Macedonian: mk Mexico m Мексико
Malay: ms Kota Mexico
Maltese: mt Belt tal-Messiku il-Belt tal-Messiku
Matlatzinca: mat Imtojáti
Mixtec:
Alcozauca Mixtec: xta Kǒ'yo
Nahuatl:
Central Huasteca Nahuatl: nch Mexkoaltepetl
Central Nahuatl: nhn Altepetl Mexihco
Classical Nahuatl: nci Altepetl Mexihco
Western Huasteca Nahuatl: nhw Mexkoaltepetl
Navajo: nv Naakaii Bikin Haalʼá
Norman: nrf Vile du Mexique f, nrf Vile du Messique f, nrf Messico m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Mexico by
Nynorsk: nn Mexico by
Occitan: oc Ciutat de Mexic f
Persian: fa مکزیکوسیتی mekziko-siti
Polish: pl Meksyk m-in, pl Miasto Meksyk n
Portuguese: pt México m, pt Cidade do México f
Romanian: ro Mexico
Russian: ru Ме́хико m-in
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Мексико, sh Мексико Сити m
Latin: sh Meksiko, sh Meksiko Siti m
Sicilian: scn Cità dû Mèssicu f
Slovak: sk Mexiko n
Slovene: sl Meksiko m
Spanish: es México m, es Ciudad de México f
Swahili: sw mji wa Meksiko
Swedish: sv Mexico City n
Tagalog: tl Lungsod ng Mehiko
Tajik: tg Мехико
Thai: th เม็กซิโกซิตี้ mék-sí-goo-sí-dtii
Turkish: tr Meksika Kenti, tr Meksika Şehri, tr Meksiko
Turkmen: tk Mehiko
Ukrainian: uk Ме́хіко m
Uzbek: uz Mexiko
See also
en chilango
Danish
Proper noun
da proper noun Mexico City
da capital city c/Mexico Mexico City
Swedish
Proper noun
n Mexico City
sv capital city c/Mexico Mexico City