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.
@@joserobertoramirezarevalo4610 Bogota Chaotic ..??? Are you serious , when have you been there the last time ? Ok transmilano is garbage . Besides that it is not that bad
@@joserobertoramirezarevalo4610 - Speaking of chaotic, Ho Chi Minh City4 has them all beat. Fabulous to visit, but definitely would be a challenge to have to live there. Mexico City is tame compared to HCMC.
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.
Me, too. Most videos about cities just mention tourist attractions, and maybe a local bar, in which I have no interest. Geography controls historical human development, including cities, that’s what I want to learn more about.🙂
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).
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.
The name Mexico does not originates from "tenochtitlan", they are two diferent words, tenochtitlan means something like "nopal between stones" and mexico means "in the moons belly buttom", just a little correction 🤓☝️
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.
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
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!
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”
Yeah, if You are inside México ( the country) and You Say i AM going to México , that means You are going to México city, but if You are in any other country and You Say i AM going to México that means You are heading to the country.
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.
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!
The city was planned to look like an European city like Paris, Reforma avenue looks strikingly similar to champs elyseum in Paris for example with lots of trees. And neighborhoods like Roma and Condesa are similar too of what is found in Europe.
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!
@@jamessveinsson6006 Well, it's your loss. I'm a New Englander and I'm partial to my part of the country. Yet, I've been to several parts of the U.S. and enjoyed all of it. Mexican influence in Texas, Arizona, Nevada and California (all places that I've been to multiple times) defines these states in large measure. I've also been to about thirty countries in Europe, Asia the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and South America. Travel is the best education. I hope that you explore the vast and beautiful United States and also get a chance to see some of the world. It seems that you are missing out.
It is not “one of the world’s great cities.” To put it in the same league as London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Singapore & until recently NYC, is woke, PC-inspired nonsense. Mexico City is more in line with perhaps Lagos, Buenos Aires, Jakarta, Mumbai or Cairo. Nice try though.😂
@@Invinoveritas204 Well, it's your opinion. I've been to several of the cities you mentioned. I've lived in NYC off and on and visit frequently. I have relatives in London and have visited more time than I can count. I'm not from Latin America or Hispanic. Yet, I found Mexico City as awe inspiring as Rome or Istanbul. Certainly, better than NYC or London, but perhaps because I know these cities too well. The rats in the NYC MTA and the trash (rubbish) everywhere in London are a turn-off.
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
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
The thing is that as a matter of fact, Yucatán is full of rivers but they are underground and connected the cenotes being places where you can have access to that huge system. Is a very different geography indeed
your map of new spain is really wrong it span all the way to north califronia arizona and texas and it didnt had what now is colombia just central america
Great video! Mexico City is indeed an incredible place, and I hope it will overcome all its problems (of which they unfortunately have plenty). God bless Mexico 🇲🇽 🫶
Would be wonderful for Mexico City, especially its residents - along with any and every city - to overcome their problems and prosper. I think Mexico City has to get smaller and make it attractive for more people to live in other Mexican cities and towns (generally preferred when people live in a country to stay in the same country, if they can) because there is a way to make other towns and cities full of vitality, abundance and prosperity. Imagine Mexican towns and cities use the One Small Town Contributionism philosophy and create community unity, co-ownership and benefits for all the people who contribute, while uplifting their communities to be great places to live and visit. That's what any town can do with the One Small Town platform. If Mexico City 'could be' an abandoned city by 2150, it would be better if there were viable alternative places for millions to go and live, bring Mexico City down to a more manageable few million people and the cultural hub can remain a place many people can visit, but not overload the area with too much infrastructure demand and sink too far down.
The drawing of your map lines in your video are very inaccurate, new Spain and eventually Mexico's land property, amassed the territories of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, parts of Oklahoma, and pretty much all the parts of what now is the South West United States (all the way to Louisiana) Geographical History is important too💡
I caught that too, I don't know where he got the borders for the Viceroyalty of New Spain but those shown weren't accurate at all, also he kept talking about the "Spanish colonizers" as if the way the British and the Spanish managed things on the Americas were equal and the same.
@@hobog The fact You assume New Spain or any Viceroy of the Spanish Empire was "subservient" to Madrid and therefore a colony just like the 13 British ones further North were to London makes me think You're not very well versed on how the Spanish Empire worked and how it was vastly different from the British one, which is why the term colonizer aptly defines the latter and not the former, the answer You seek is on the demographics of hispanic and anglo countries, also why do You seem to assume that all europeans and their empires funcioned similarly? Iberians and western germanic peoples are quite different.
Who the heck DRAINS a lake to build a city? Why wouldn't you build AROUND it, and use it's water for farming, gardening, industry, drinking, and bathing. It took 500 years in the draining, but the brilliant Spaniards and Mexicans managed it in the end. 😏😏😏😏😏
Mucha gente que vive en las cercanas Toluca, Cuernavaca, Pachuca y Cuautla... Juntas añaden otros 7 millones a los 22 casi 23 millones de CDMX... Toluca incluso esta a menos de 15 kms de orilla a orilla de ambas ciudades...
If the band "The Tragically Hip" were still making music, they'd be like "Mexico City is sinking, man, and I don't wanna swim". Though this lyric might indeed already exist in a different song of theirs.
Random: the more i hear places have a water problem but desalination plants are way too power hungry.. Why don't we use modern nuclear energy options to power desalination plants in specific areas? We have advanced so much in our understanding of nuclear energy and engineering, material science, technology, safety, different designs, etc. It's nothing like the past when we were just learning about what we were doing.. and i hope humanity as a whole can overcome that to see how truly beneficial it can be for our future.
This city is 700 years old, way older than the USA, has been invaded, raped, destroyed by earthquakes, epidemics,let me tell you this city isn't going anywhere keep trying
This one feels like propaganda and an antiadvert for CDMX, maybe because it dwarfs any other city on North America, in almost every way shape or form and 'muricans don't like getting overshadowed.
For a city that's slowly sinking and which has a history of seismic activity they have built quite a few new high-rises along the Paseo de La Reforma over the past few years.
Just something curious: I know your viewers are mostly English speakers, is just for you to know the Spanish side of the language: the letter “x” in Spanish is pronounced in different ways, for example: the correct pronunciation for “Mexico” is “Mejico” but the “x” in the word: “Texcoco” is pronounced exactly like “Texas” or “tex Mex” greetings my friend.
Love your channel, Geoff, but you really should make a little effort to pronounce foreign names more correctly. I doubt any Mexican, or even Californian, could understand your toponym pronunciation here. Fortunately, you do use captions, but you could do better.
We're all facing an existential crisis. We've pretty much ruined the enviroment and are so hostile due to greed and religious zealotry, thatvit seems feasible we will destroy ourselves. It's damn depressing and pointless.
"Cultural misunderstandings" including opposing views on ritual cardiectomy and other human sacrifices. The Mexicas, also known as the Aztecs, are one of the few historical cultures known to have practiced ritual cardiectomy. They believed in offering the hearts of sacrificial victims to their deities as a form of religious offering. The Aztecs conducted these heart sacrifices as part of their religious ceremonies, and it was a significant aspect of their culture. The primary temple for these rituals was the Templo Mayor in the capital city of Tenochtitlán (present-day Mexico City). These practices were part of their religious beliefs and rituals, and they were performed on a large scale. The Aztec civilization existed in the 14th to 16th centuries. Their practices came to an end with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early 16th century.
Cultural misunderstanding includes colonialism, slavery and rape by the spanish. The spanish believed in the white supremacy of their skin and genocided entire cultures in less than 200 years. The entire extinction of peoples ocurres after the arrival of the Spanish.
Mexico City is a "dry Jakarta", as while both are megacities and are the primate cities of Mexico and Indonesia respectively, and have various geological and environmental hazards (including especially rapid subsidence/sinking), at least Mexico City isn't sinking into an ocean, unlike Jakarta.
Other than what you've said I don't know much for MX City / MX City D.F.... But I do know more for the State of Durango in northern Mexico from all of the Mexican bands I've worked with that came through Chicago.
Sinking is not new, being happening for many years the same way earthquakes happen almost everyday, most cannot be felt by people, many tall building have rollers under there structures also all newer cars are required to have smog devises and are checked as there is in the U.S., New Orleans also has a sinking problem the swaps are always trying to overtake the land, the reason there so many canals and levees and huge pumps to pump out of the city so its does not get flooded.
This guy is WRONG about the geography of Mexico, the country. He totally glosses over the fact that the Mexican territory expanded WAY, way beyond the Rio Grande and the U. S. stole more than half of its territory. But that's the US we've always known...trying to rewrite history to make itself look more humane. 😂😂😂
Mexico only got the territory from its own imperialism, most native groups north of the rio grande hated mexicans for siding with colonziers & invading them in the first place. You can only blame mexico stupid government for losing the states by inviting yt people against texas natives wishes to settle in texas native land.
I understood, perhaps mistakenly so, that the basin of the now-drained lake upon which MC stands, is the caldera of a SuperVolcano, not believed to be 100% extinct? While land subsidence can cause the seizemic activity, couldn't volcanic activity also be a possibility. Please say if this is fact or misinformation? Thx, Paul M Atlanta, GA
@@darthmaul216 Nah, Witch burning was an overwelmingly protestant thing to do and it wasn't common on the Americas under Spain or back on the peninsula.
The appalled Spanish that then enslaved the locals after they didn’t need them anymore to destroy the Aztecs. You’re not doing as good a job as you think you are at sanitizing colonialism.
The region has always have a perfect climate for human settling and development. Which is why it was been a major population center for many centuries. But the actual answer to your question is: It grew massively between the 1940´s and the 1990´s, when the country experienced a major industrialization and economy shifted from agriculture to manufacture. During this period thousands of people from all around the country moved to the area for job opportunities and had very big families.
As a guy from México City,that’s not true it’s not sinking,it was built in a lake in 1391 when it was founded but it’s not sinking,trust me I’m from there
To put Mexico City in the same league as the above cities in terms of “importance” is laughable. Even comparisons with Buenos Aires and Santiago would be a stretch.
Mexico City's gdp is larger than the country of Peru, more than 411 billion USD. It is by far the most influential city in Latin America, and economicly more dominant than Madrid. Santiago and Buenos Aires are tiny in comparison to the ancient aztec capital.
@@guillersl9510Is Mexico City really that dominant when it needs more than 4 times the population of Madrid to have not even twice Madrid’d GDP, though? With the amount of human and natural resources there, it should be competing with NY.
Nonsense. I heard all of this stuff 35 years ago and Mexico City today is far bigger and stronger and more popular than it was back then. Just the usual doom and gloom bullshit that pervades social media - produced by people who want attention. Meanwhile, people like me, who actually know what is really going on in the world because I have spent the past 6 years travelling continuously to over 106 countries on 6 continents, will tell you that the world is actually an awesome place, full of awesome people and that the news media has it basically all wrong. Cut the doom and gloom crap - it isn't reality - or at least it is at best 0.01 percent. The good stuff far, far outweighs the negative anomalies reported by the media. Sorry to be harsh here but I have actually seen the world extensively as opposed to sifting through second hand information. Plus I have lived and thrived through all of the doom and gloom predictions of the past 50 years - they are all basically bullshit.
Brian, I'm totally impressed that you gained such a comprehensive overview while spending less than a month on average in each of those countries! So Mexico City is rising then, instead of sinking-is that what "the usual doom and gloom bullshit" implies?
I lived in England for a year, Japan for 6 years, USA for 2 years, Vietnam for a year, China for two years and 5 years travelling to the others. I didn't say Mexico City wasn't sinking - that's obvious. However - it was sinking 30 years ago, it's nothing new - and yet - Mexico City is more popular and in better shape than it has ever been in the modern era. I have spent three wonderful weeks there in the past year alone. 35 years ago MX City was a dangerous, smog-choked, crime infested kidnapping capital of South America. Much better today - which is my point. @@silversolver7809
True story. Let me rephrase. "35 years ago MX City was a dangerous, smog-choked, crime infested kidnapping capital of Latin America. (obviously Mexico is in North America but culturally it belongs to Latin America, which is Central and South America).@@koiue.g8709
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.
Too much pollution - spicy on the eyes !
@@krisg3984 that's India dude.
From me chaotic...is NY, L.A, Bogotá, Lima, Moscow, Istanbul, Big cities in África, entire India and another locations in Asia...CDMX is nicer.
@@joserobertoramirezarevalo4610 Bogota Chaotic ..??? Are you serious , when have you been there the last time ? Ok transmilano is garbage . Besides that it is not that bad
@@joserobertoramirezarevalo4610 - Speaking of chaotic, Ho Chi Minh City4 has them all beat. Fabulous to visit, but definitely would be a challenge to have to live there. Mexico City is tame compared to HCMC.
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.
Me, too. Most videos about cities just mention tourist attractions, and maybe a local bar, in which I have no interest. Geography controls historical human development, including cities, that’s what I want to learn more about.🙂
I agree with this comment very much. The tourism videos don't even scratch the surface.
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 While travel is about experiencing a given place, geography is about *studying* that place.
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).
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.
The name Mexico does not originates from "tenochtitlan", they are two diferent words, tenochtitlan means something like "nopal between stones" and mexico means "in the moons belly buttom", just a little correction 🤓☝️
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.
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
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!
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”
Yeah, if You are inside México ( the country) and You Say i AM going to México , that means You are going to México city, but if You are in any other country and You Say i AM going to México that means You are heading to the country.
Same thing with "Québec" within Quebec...often refers to Quebec City and not Quebec as a whole (I live in Montreal).
EXACTLY EVEN THE LOCALS CALL MEXICO CITY JUST MEXICO I HEAR A GUY IN STTE OF MICHOACAN SAID I'M GOING TO MEIXCO(MEXICO CITY) CRAZY
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.
Very interesting 🤔. Thanks for the video 😊
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!
The city was planned to look like an European city like Paris, Reforma avenue looks strikingly similar to champs elyseum in Paris for example with lots of trees. And neighborhoods like Roma and Condesa are similar too of what is found in Europe.
Venice Italy is sinking, too. Have you made a a video about that? It would be interesting to compare the two.
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!
No, thank you there’s too much to see and do United States them to spend money on the Mexican culture
what's there to see in the US? the worst urbanism in the world? transphobia? children built like swiss cheese?@@jamessveinsson6006
@@jamessveinsson6006 Well, it's your loss. I'm a New Englander and I'm partial to my part of the country. Yet, I've been to several parts of the U.S. and enjoyed all of it. Mexican influence in Texas, Arizona, Nevada and California (all places that I've been to multiple times) defines these states in large measure. I've also been to about thirty countries in Europe, Asia the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and South America. Travel is the best education. I hope that you explore the vast and beautiful United States and also get a chance to see some of the world. It seems that you are missing out.
It is not “one of the world’s great cities.” To put it in the same league as London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Singapore & until recently NYC, is woke, PC-inspired nonsense. Mexico City is more in line with perhaps Lagos, Buenos Aires, Jakarta, Mumbai or Cairo. Nice try though.😂
@@Invinoveritas204 Well, it's your opinion. I've been to several of the cities you mentioned. I've lived in NYC off and on and visit frequently. I have relatives in London and have visited more time than I can count. I'm not from Latin America or Hispanic. Yet, I found Mexico City as awe inspiring as Rome or Istanbul. Certainly, better than NYC or London, but perhaps because I know these cities too well. The rats in the NYC MTA and the trash (rubbish) everywhere in London are a turn-off.
Parts of New York City and San Francisco and New Orleans are also sinking.
And the entire state of Florida😂
@@Dynamic241 good riddance
But they are not dumps
All of california’s Central Valley
@Dynamic241 that must be why so many billionaires are buying homes there 🤡🤡🤡
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
Great new series idea. Also, another idea maybe videos on how accents evolved in certain areas.
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
Cenotes are fucking huge tho
The thing is that as a matter of fact, Yucatán is full of rivers but they are underground and connected the cenotes being places where you can have access to that huge system. Is a very different geography indeed
Excellence as always. One of my favorite TH-cam channels and creators.❤
your map of new spain is really wrong it span all the way to north califronia arizona and texas and it didnt had what now is colombia just central america
At one point New Spain controlled 2/3 of the US when French Louisiana was Spanish, as well as most of the Caribbean Islands and even the Philippines.
All are administered by Mexico City the capital of New Spain.
Great video! Mexico City is indeed an incredible place, and I hope it will overcome all its problems (of which they unfortunately have plenty).
God bless Mexico 🇲🇽 🫶
Would be wonderful for Mexico City, especially its residents - along with any and every city - to overcome their problems and prosper.
I think Mexico City has to get smaller and make it attractive for more people to live in other Mexican cities and towns (generally preferred when people live in a country to stay in the same country, if they can) because there is a way to make other towns and cities full of vitality, abundance and prosperity.
Imagine Mexican towns and cities use the One Small Town Contributionism philosophy and create community unity, co-ownership and benefits for all the people who contribute, while uplifting their communities to be great places to live and visit. That's what any town can do with the One Small Town platform.
If Mexico City 'could be' an abandoned city by 2150, it would be better if there were viable alternative places for millions to go and live, bring Mexico City down to a more manageable few million people and the cultural hub can remain a place many people can visit, but not overload the area with too much infrastructure demand and sink too far down.
The drawing of your map lines in your video are very inaccurate, new Spain and eventually Mexico's land property, amassed the territories of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, parts of Oklahoma, and pretty much all the parts of what now is the South West United States (all the way to Louisiana) Geographical History is important too💡
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I caught that too, I don't know where he got the borders for the Viceroyalty of New Spain but those shown weren't accurate at all, also he kept talking about the "Spanish colonizers" as if the way the British and the Spanish managed things on the Americas were equal and the same.
@@BN.ja05what's better than "colonizer"? Colonies can be self sufficient like pre-USA, and they can be completely subservient like those of New Spain
@@hobog The fact You assume New Spain or any Viceroy of the Spanish Empire was "subservient" to Madrid and therefore a colony just like the 13 British ones further North were to London makes me think You're not very well versed on how the Spanish Empire worked and how it was vastly different from the British one, which is why the term colonizer aptly defines the latter and not the former, the answer You seek is on the demographics of hispanic and anglo countries, also why do You seem to assume that all europeans and their empires funcioned similarly? Iberians and western germanic peoples are quite different.
The main reason it's so huge is because the central highlands are incredibly fertile and corn is very nutricious.
Who the heck DRAINS a lake to build a city? Why wouldn't you build AROUND it, and use it's water for farming, gardening, industry, drinking, and bathing. It took 500 years in the draining, but the brilliant Spaniards and Mexicans managed it in the end. 😏😏😏😏😏
The water supply come from rivers, lake and underground...genius.
Thank you, Jose.@@joserobertoramirezarevalo4610
Tell that to the Spanish
European people really can't think right 😂
Mucha gente que vive en las cercanas Toluca, Cuernavaca, Pachuca y Cuautla... Juntas añaden otros 7 millones a los 22 casi 23 millones de CDMX... Toluca incluso esta a menos de 15 kms de orilla a orilla de ambas ciudades...
Hey if the city sinks past the water table, they could always turn it into the new Venice :)
3:18 New Spain (Mexico) without Texas, funny. Fake map of the Spanish Empire. But well, we're not here to learn, right? It's just entertaining.
last time i was this early, it was Tenochtitlan
Last time I was this early the elephant had slipped off of the turtles back.
@@alohathaxted last time I was this early the disc was still a sphere
Wow! Sinking rate of about a foot per year is CRAZY.
Great video, thank you!😊
Fenomenal video, thank you vey much 🙏🏻
Thank you for always including both sides of history in your presentations
If the band "The Tragically Hip" were still making music, they'd be like "Mexico City is sinking, man, and I don't wanna swim". Though this lyric might indeed already exist in a different song of theirs.
20% live there? There’s 130 million people in Mexico so is like 15%
Great video, I am very happy that you talk about the capital of my country, please talk more about other megacities
Random: the more i hear places have a water problem but desalination plants are way too power hungry.. Why don't we use modern nuclear energy options to power desalination plants in specific areas? We have advanced so much in our understanding of nuclear energy and engineering, material science, technology, safety, different designs, etc. It's nothing like the past when we were just learning about what we were doing.. and i hope humanity as a whole can overcome that to see how truly beneficial it can be for our future.
Very informative
Nothing can be "very unique," because unique means one of a kind. You can't be "very" one of a kind.
This city is 700 years old, way older than the USA, has been invaded, raped, destroyed by earthquakes, epidemics,let me tell you this city isn't going anywhere keep trying
How did Mexico City replace the name Tenochtitlan?
They were called the mexico poeple. So they basically called the city (city kf the mexico poeple)
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@@tomvlogs8463 Mexica people, minor correction, pronounced Meh-she-kuh
@@charleskummerer yeah sorry. Thx for correcting me!
colonization
That excess population is going to drift north, closer to the border with their customers.
North Mex weather and cartels are much rougher
@@hobog Jobs though.
let's hope not
The pay is higher in the northern states but the weather is not as nice as Central Mexico.
There are 2.5 million Americans in Mexico which about 1.2 million of them are undocumented in Mexico, up of a 150% increase
In Nahuatl, the letter "x" is pronounced like English "sh". So Mexihca is /meʃiʔka/
This one feels like propaganda and an antiadvert for CDMX, maybe because it dwarfs any other city on North America, in almost every way shape or form and 'muricans don't like getting overshadowed.
True I disliked the video the city is older than the USA so it's not going anywhere
NEWSFLASH: The letter 'x' can sometimes make an "SH" sound.
For a city that's slowly sinking and which has a history of seismic activity they have built quite a few new high-rises along the Paseo de La Reforma over the past few years.
And the volcanoes give off air pollution in ash and sulfur compounds
4:50 wtf is that pronounciation?
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7:51 Geology by Geoff!
Hydrogeology by Geoff
Just something curious: I know your viewers are mostly English speakers, is just for you to know the Spanish side of the language: the letter “x” in Spanish is pronounced in different ways, for example: the correct pronunciation for “Mexico” is “Mejico” but the “x” in the word: “Texcoco” is pronounced exactly like “Texas” or “tex Mex” greetings my friend.
First View.
I Enjoy your videos @Geoff
Love your channel, Geoff, but you really should make a little effort to pronounce foreign names more correctly. I doubt any Mexican, or even Californian, could understand your toponym pronunciation here. Fortunately, you do use captions, but you could do better.
They could add Mountain soil to cover those large wales! Or other dry materials!
We're all facing an existential crisis. We've pretty much ruined the enviroment and are so hostile due to greed and religious zealotry, thatvit seems feasible we will destroy ourselves. It's damn depressing and pointless.
Try spell-check next time: Environment: E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T.
"Cultural misunderstandings" including opposing views on ritual cardiectomy and other human sacrifices.
The Mexicas, also known as the Aztecs, are one of the few historical cultures known to have practiced ritual cardiectomy. They believed in offering the hearts of sacrificial victims to their deities as a form of religious offering. The Aztecs conducted these heart sacrifices as part of their religious ceremonies, and it was a significant aspect of their culture.
The primary temple for these rituals was the Templo Mayor in the capital city of Tenochtitlán (present-day Mexico City). These practices were part of their religious beliefs and rituals, and they were performed on a large scale.
The Aztec civilization existed in the 14th to 16th centuries. Their practices came to an end with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early 16th century.
Cultural misunderstanding includes colonialism, slavery and rape by the spanish. The spanish believed in the white supremacy of their skin and genocided entire cultures in less than 200 years.
The entire extinction of peoples ocurres after the arrival of the Spanish.
Just do add, Bengaluru temperatures are mild as well
Sinking, but not underwater like Miami
Several other cities in México have been built on the ruins of Native cities.
Mexico City is a "dry Jakarta", as while both are megacities and are the primate cities of Mexico and Indonesia respectively, and have various geological and environmental hazards (including especially rapid subsidence/sinking), at least Mexico City isn't sinking into an ocean, unlike Jakarta.
Other than what you've said I don't know much for MX City / MX City D.F.... But I do know more for the State of Durango in northern Mexico from all of the Mexican bands I've worked with that came through Chicago.
It used to be D.F but no longer, now it's just Mexico City.
For the next video, could you talk about São Paulo? The largest city in all of the Americas? (By population)
cdmx is the largest, saõ paulo is 2nd
Good video, can you please clarify, why you think CDMX will go down the tube in 150 years?
Don't listen to him he doesn't know the future .
Spain, you gotta lot a splaining to do.
The Aztecs had it coming, as we all do...
And they call Boston bean town.
Sinking is not new, being happening for many years the same way earthquakes happen almost everyday, most cannot be felt by people, many tall building have rollers under there structures also all newer cars are required to have smog devises and are checked as there is in the U.S., New Orleans also has a sinking problem the swaps are always trying to overtake the land, the reason there so many canals and levees and huge pumps to pump out of the city so its does not get flooded.
Gentrify, gentrify, gentrify...
This guy is WRONG about the geography of Mexico, the country. He totally glosses over the fact that the Mexican territory expanded WAY, way beyond the Rio Grande and the U. S. stole more than half of its territory. But that's the US we've always known...trying to rewrite history to make itself look more humane. 😂😂😂
Mexico only got the territory from its own imperialism, most native groups north of the rio grande hated mexicans for siding with colonziers & invading them in the first place.
You can only blame mexico stupid government for losing the states by inviting yt people against texas natives wishes to settle in texas native land.
I Know they play victim good like a chick going through a divorce
@@BoxingSavedMe KARMA is coming. It never fails.
"Butt first" - - Geoff
I understood, perhaps mistakenly so, that the basin of the now-drained lake upon which MC stands, is the caldera of a SuperVolcano, not believed to be 100% extinct? While land subsidence can cause the seizemic activity, couldn't volcanic activity also be a possibility.
Please say if this is fact or misinformation?
Thx,
Paul M
Atlanta, GA
Misinformation. MC is in a volcanic area indeed but is not a supervolcano. It is well studied and the volcanos shift places but is not that dangerous
If your videos weren't about geography I'd let those incorrect maps of New Spain and Republic of Mexico pass.
En el año 2000 fue conaiderada la ciudad mas grande del mundo
How dumb to drain the lake, it could be beautiful today. Or it could be all polluted, a dump.
I grew up in Mexico City and left in 1970. Best move I ever made!
Good for u 😂no one misses you
No one cares bro 🐒
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Pocho 🫵
This city never sleep.manyrhings happen there.unbelievable.
Poor mexico😂😂❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Yo, infographic show stole your video dude about the empty West Coast, title and everything.
Subsidence
Great video as always I think however its pronounced "Clay - eee" :)
I think every Coastal City in the world is sinking also, or is looking like it is by global warming and rising Ocean and Sea water.
Fun fact the city wouldn't be sinking if the Spaniards didn't drain lake texcoco
Gracious me!
"Cultural misunderstandings" = The Spanish being appalled at the public human sacrifices taking place en masse.
You mean like witch burning? Oh wait the Spanish did that
@@darthmaul216 Witch burning? The northern and central europeans did that.
@@BN.ja05 yes, They did that as well
@@darthmaul216 Nah, Witch burning was an overwelmingly protestant thing to do and it wasn't common on the Americas under Spain or back on the peninsula.
The appalled Spanish that then enslaved the locals after they didn’t need them anymore to destroy the Aztecs. You’re not doing as good a job as you think you are at sanitizing colonialism.
But the weather.
Yes
...but how did Mexico city grow so large?
The region has always have a perfect climate for human settling and development. Which is why it was been a major population center for many centuries. But the actual answer to your question is: It grew massively between the 1940´s and the 1990´s, when the country experienced a major industrialization and economy shifted from agriculture to manufacture. During this period thousands of people from all around the country moved to the area for job opportunities and had very big families.
You're pronouncing subsidence incorrectly.
Thanks for the warning. If I ever move to Mexico then I won't move to Mexico City. Looks less stable geologically than Los Angeles.
US led geographic comments are a disaster! Mexico needs to recognise this US led propoganda
As a guy from México City,that’s not true it’s not sinking,it was built in a lake in 1391 when it was founded but it’s not sinking,trust me I’m from there
It is sinking . Stupid
it's pronounced meSHIca
Karma is a bitch…
It looks like good effort has gone into this video but you lose credibility when the voiceover mispronounces important terms
كانا مساحة المكسيك 4 مليون كلم مربع. بقيت منها 1,97 مليون 🇲🇽. لِصالح الولايات المتحدة
Full of incorrect pronunciations, but still interesting.
Man bun Pshh!
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Blame the indegious people for picking a crappy crazy spot for starting a capital
To put Mexico City in the same league as the above cities in terms of “importance” is laughable. Even comparisons with Buenos Aires and Santiago would be a stretch.
Mexico City's gdp is larger than the country of Peru, more than 411 billion USD. It is by far the most influential city in Latin America, and economicly more dominant than Madrid. Santiago and Buenos Aires are tiny in comparison to the ancient aztec capital.
@@guillersl9510Mexico, Bueno Aires and Sao Paulo have all similar economic outputs. That s a fact. And Sao Paulo ranks first among these
@@guillersl9510Is Mexico City really that dominant when it needs more than 4 times the population of Madrid to have not even twice Madrid’d GDP, though? With the amount of human and natural resources there, it should be competing with NY.
Take a visit. Mexico City shats on everyone.
Are you stupid or something?😂😂😂not even historically Santiago or Buenos Aires compares to Mexico city
You entirely gloss over the human sacrifice aspect of the Aztecs. 🤦🏼♀️ The major reason why Cortez was so determined to overthrow them.
The major reason was to take their gold. He covered that. This isn't a video about the Aztecs and their religious practices.
no, the main reason was power
Imagine kissing the asses of conquistadors this hard.
Bish this isn't a history video
Viva España desde México 🇲🇽
It grew so big because they love breeding. Rooting, rooting and then some more rooting. Nek minit, plebs everywhere. 🙄
Nonsense. I heard all of this stuff 35 years ago and Mexico City today is far bigger and stronger and more popular than it was back then. Just the usual doom and gloom bullshit that pervades social media - produced by people who want attention. Meanwhile, people like me, who actually know what is really going on in the world because I have spent the past 6 years travelling continuously to over 106 countries on 6 continents, will tell you that the world is actually an awesome place, full of awesome people and that the news media has it basically all wrong. Cut the doom and gloom crap - it isn't reality - or at least it is at best 0.01 percent. The good stuff far, far outweighs the negative anomalies reported by the media. Sorry to be harsh here but I have actually seen the world extensively as opposed to sifting through second hand information. Plus I have lived and thrived through all of the doom and gloom predictions of the past 50 years - they are all basically bullshit.
Brian, I'm totally impressed that you gained such a comprehensive overview while spending less than a month on average in each of those countries!
So Mexico City is rising then, instead of sinking-is that what "the usual doom and gloom bullshit" implies?
I lived in England for a year, Japan for 6 years, USA for 2 years, Vietnam for a year, China for two years and 5 years travelling to the others. I didn't say Mexico City wasn't sinking - that's obvious. However - it was sinking 30 years ago, it's nothing new - and yet - Mexico City is more popular and in better shape than it has ever been in the modern era. I have spent three wonderful weeks there in the past year alone. 35 years ago MX City was a dangerous, smog-choked, crime infested kidnapping capital of South America. Much better today - which is my point. @@silversolver7809
@@BrianBaileyedtechMexico city isn't on south America
True story. Let me rephrase. "35 years ago MX City was a dangerous, smog-choked, crime infested kidnapping capital of Latin America. (obviously Mexico is in North America but culturally it belongs to Latin America, which is Central and South America).@@koiue.g8709
@@BrianBaileyedtech?? Mexico City is in North America 🤔
Need to improve on the pronounciation