Local time
Sun, 12:26 PM CSTAmerica/Mexico_CityCityCapital
Mexico City
19.44° N, 99.13° W
- Population
- 19,028,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 106
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 106 cities of Mexico in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Mexico, so this is not a national ranking.
- Time zone
- America/Mexico_City
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Mexico City, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Mexico City have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
The name may derive from one of the Nahuatl (Aztec) names for the capital city, "Metztlixihtlico," which probably meant "the center of the moon." Alternatively, it may come from "Mexica," the original name of the Aztec people.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person