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The State of Mexico, [a] officially just Mexico, [b] [c] is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico.Commonly known as Edomex (from Estado de México), to distinguish it from the name of the whole country, it is the most populous state and the second most densely populated.
ISO 3166-2, International Organization for Standardization - ISO 3166 Codes Mexico. ISO 3166 Country Codes, International Organization for Standardization. Accessed on line October 21, 2007. States of Mexico, statoids.com. Last updated April 23, 2007; accessed on line October 21, 2007.
Ecatepec (Spanish: ⓘ), officially Ecatepec de Morelos, is a municipality in the State of Mexico situated in the north of the Greater Mexico City urban area. The municipal seat is San Cristóbal Ecatepec.
A Mexican State (Spanish: Estados), officially the Free and Sovereign State (Spanish: Estado libre y soberano), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, government , state governor , and state congress .
The Museo de la Acuarela (Watercolor Museum) was founded in 1993 and is one of the few museums in the world dedicated to watercolors. It has rooms dedicated to Mexican artists like Pastor Velázquez, Vicente Mendiola, Edgardo Coghlan, Ignacio Barrios and Ángel Mauro. It also has a Estado de México room with pieces which have won national ...
Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, Cuernavaca's second bishop (1898–1911), wrote Tamoanchan—El Estado de Morelos y El Principio de la Civilizacion en Mexico in 1911. In it, he proposes that the first agriculturally based settlements in Mexico appeared around 1500 B.C. in a place called Tamoanchan which he associates with Morelos.
Tlalnepantla de Baz (Otomi: Ndemhāi) [citation needed] is one of 125 municipalities of the state of Mexico, north of Mexico City. The municipal seat and largest city in the municipality is the city of Tlalnepantla. Tlalnepantla comes from the Náhuatl words tlalli (land) and nepantla (middle) to mean the middle land.
A highway linking the city with the southern part of Mexico State and the state of Morelos has generated significant controversy since it was proposed. Critics state that the Lerma-Tres Marias Highway threatened forests in the southern part of Mexico State. These critics have included Greenpeace and the Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental.