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Ensenada is a city in Ensenada Municipality, Baja California, situated on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.Located on the Bahía de Todos Santos, the city had a population of 279,765 in 2018, [1] making it the third-largest city in Baja California.
ISO 3166-2:MX is the entry for Mexico in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
San Javier is a town in Loreto Municipality, Baja California Sur. Located in Western Mexico, the village had a population of 155 inhabitants at the census of 2020. [1] San Ignacio is home to Misión San Francisco Javier de Viggé-Biaundó.
La Paz (pronounced [la ˈpas] ⓘ, English: "peace") is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, with a 2020 census population of 250,141 inhabitants, [1] making it the most populous city in the state.
The first two digits identify a state (or part thereof); and assignments are done alphabetically by state name, except for codes in the 01xxx–16xxx range which identify the delegaciones (boroughs) of Mexico City. Postal codes beginning with two zeros are not in use. A map of central Mexicali, Baja California, showing postal code allocations.
This 1562 map Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio by Diego Gutiérrez was the first map to print the toponym California.. Multiple theories regarding the origin of the name California, as well as the root language of the term, have been proposed, [1] but most historians believe the name likely originated from a 16th-century novel, Las sergas de Esplandián.
The North Territory of Baja California was returned to 120°W (8 hours behind GMT) in 1945, [13] changed again to 105°W in 1948, [14] and returned again to 120°W in 1949. [15] After becoming a state, Baja California observed daylight saving time in 1954–1960 and since 1976, usually with the same schedule as the U.S. state of California.