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cultural and financial centers of the country and a global city in Latin America. Located in the Valley of Mexico, a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres (7,300 ft), the city consists of sixteen boroughs. Its 2009 estimated population exceeds 8.84 million people, and with a land.
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most densely populated city in the country. It is belived that its high population density is one of the causes of its high crime and pollution rates and the resulting poor quality of life. According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the Mexico City metropolitan area's population is 21.2 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area in the Americas and the third largest agglomeration in the world. The entire metropolitan area had a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $390 billion USD in 2005, making Mexico City the 25th largest economy in the world. It is also ranked as the eighth richest (by the overall GDP of the entire metropolitan area) city in the world. The city was originally built as Tenochtitlan by the Aztecs in 1325 on an island of Lake Texcoco, which was almost completely destroyed in the siege of 1521, and subsequently redesigned and rebuilt in accordance with the Spanish urban standards. In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was.