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Mexico City is the largest city in North America by far at about 22 million people in its metro area. But despite being such an overwhelmingly dominant city, it's facing an existential crisis due to some absolutely god awful geography. So how did Mexico City grow to be so large? And what does its future hold if it can't fix its underlying issues?
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Honestly, I'd be totally on board for more videos about cities. I love learning about countries, states, and regions, but I feel like cities are kinda underrepresented in the YT geography scene. Most videos on cities seem to be from travel-centric channels. I'd like to see more of a geographic angle.
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Tenochtitlan, the city which preceded Mexico City and where the name originates, before colonisation, was by the largest city on the continent. Therefore, Mexico City being the largest in North America is not the exception to history, but the norm.
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I spent part of a planned summer in Mexico City as an 8-year old. But, then a major earthquake hit and turned the city into chaos. We fled to San Miguel de Allende, where my grandparents were staying, a lovely colonial town. I loved Mexico City and San Miguel both (whatever you do, don’t miss a day in the capital’s archaeology museum, it’s fabulous). I had some Spanish already, but my American father, a Spanish teacher, made the journey easy for us all. Nowadays, far more Mexicans understand some English, or are fluent. The Mexican people love children and are very kind. I always wanted to see Greece with my Greek-born father, but alas, we left it too late, life gets in the way sometimes. He’s now 94 and while slim and healthy, intercontinental travel is just too much for anyone that old. He is teaching me modern Greek in preparation (I have some Ancient, Attic, Greek, but it doesn’t help that much).
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Mexico City is a monster. I was there 2 years ago and I felt overwhelmed by its size, culture and economy. More than 411 billion USD is nothing to sniff at.
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On a US level the MSA population of Mexico City is 22 million, but if you use the CSA definition which includes Toluca, Puebla, Cuernevaca, and Pachuca (I.E. the entire region, akin to the bay area) it's well over 30M. Massive city
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Was just there for the second time. What a beautiful city. My favorite part this time were miles of tree lined pedestrian parkways found in Roma and La Condesa. Can’t wait to go back!
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Fun fact: within Mexico, highway signs to Mexico City simply read MEXICO. I always once flew there on a domestic flight within Mexico, and found interesting that the departure board read the destination simply as “Mexico”
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Venice Italy is sinking, too. Have you made a a video about that? It would be interesting to compare the two.
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This question can be simply answered: this city is sinking because of subsidence. In this case, it was essentially built on artificial islands in a lake. Even it it did have a geologic foundation, which it really doesn’t, it would be the soft, saturated, recent deposits at the bottom of this lake.
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Geoff, I have been very sick for 3 days. Your videos and voice are comforting to me for some reason, and I just wanted to thank you for helping me through this time. Keep up the good work!
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Mexico City is one of the world's great cities. I was there in the 1990s. It is full of amazing people, cultures, history and cuisine. Things to visit include the Anthropological Museum, Folklorica Balleta, Chapultepec Park and the Zocalo (the center of Mexico both figuratively and literally). To emphasize that sinking feeling that Mexico City has, the floor of the Metropolitan Cathedral in the Zocalo is at an angle from the ground shifting and if one put a ball on the floor, it would roll without any help.
There are plenty of great day trips from Mexico City including San Juan Teotihuacan (where the Temples of the Sun and the Moon are), Tepoztlan, Tepotzotlan, Cuernavaca, Puebla and the volcanoes (Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl). Try to catch all of these places before it's too late!
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I found it crazy to learn that the Yucatan peninsula has no fresh water river's. They have the underground water holes cenoteas (i spelled that wrong, sorry) but i found that insane! How that area can be like that and vast amounts of people lived there in the past and now. I can't even imagine not having any river's? Here in Oregon, that's one thing we have in abundance. To think of none or near none baffles my mind
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Mexico City is a 22 million people City, it is growing at a rate of almost 300k every year and many american and europeans are now moving to live in Mexico City
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Very interesting 🤔. Thanks for the video 😊
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Great new series idea. Also, another idea maybe videos on how accents evolved in certain areas.
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Excellence as always. One of my favorite YouTube channels and creators.❤
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Parts of New York City and San Francisco and New Orleans are also sinking.
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Fenomenal video, thank you vey much 🙏🏻
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Great video, thank you!😊
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@bryanCJC2105
6 months ago
Yes, it is the political, economic, religious, academic, and cultural heart and soul of the country. This is one reason why so many people live there. This is also the reason why the city has such incredible vitality and is one of the most vibrant cities in the world. It is the center of the Spanish-speaking world with Mexico City itself holding half as many people as the entire country of Spain. Whereas NYC is famous for its rough attitudes, and Tokyo for its orderliness and politeness, Mexico City is famous for its rhythmic chaos and the warmth and generosity of its people.
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