Nuevo León

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Nuevo León
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Vereinigte Staaten Guatemala Belize Honduras El Salvador Baja California Baja California Sur Sonora Chihuahua Sinaloa Durango Coahuila Nuevo Léon Tamaulipas Zacatecas Nayarit Colima Colima Aguascalientes Guanajuato Michoacán Mexiko-Stadt Tlaxcala Morelos Guerrero Michoacán Hidalgo Puebla Querétaro México Jalisco San Luis Potosí Veracruz Oaxaca Tabasco Campeche Chiapas Quintana Roo Campeche Yucatánmap
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Capital Monterrey
surface 64,924 km² ( 13th place )
population 5.040.970 (Rank 8 )
Population density 64.7 inhabitants per km²
(2014 census)
governor Jaime Rodriguez Calderón (independent)
(2015-2021)
Federal MPs PAN = 5
PES = 3
Partido del Trabajo = 2
Morena = 1
PRI = 1
(12 federal constituencies)
Senators MC = 2
PAN = 1
ISO 3166-2 MX-NLE
Postal abbreviation NL
Website www.nl.gob.mx
Monterrey

Nuevo León [ ˈnweβo leˈon ], officially Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León ( Spanish Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León ), is a state in northern Mexico and borders the states of Tamaulipas in the east, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí in the south and on Coahuila in the west and shares a 15 km border with the US state of Texas . It has 5 million inhabitants on 64,924 km². The capital and only major urban center is Monterrey . Nuevo León is subdivided into 51 Municipios .

history

King Philip II of Spain authorized Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva in 1582 to found a new independent colony in New Spain ( Nueva España , then Mexico), which was to be called Nuevo Reino de León . Carvajal landed in New Spain with a hundred Portuguese Jews converted to Catholicism on board the Santa Catarina . He founded the settlement of San Luis Rey de Francia , today's Monterrey . Nuevo León became a province in the viceroyalty of New Spain ; a governor was at the head of the administration. From 1822 the province became part of the Mexican Empire as a federal state . After Santa Anna came to power, Nuevo León's rights as a state were restricted. In 1840 Nuevo León was part of the short-lived Rio Grande Republic . After the abolition of this state, Nuevo León became a province of Mexico again.

Since the 1980s, the Nuveo León State Prison there has repeatedly made negative headlines.

Population development

year population
1950 740.191
1960 1,078,848
1970 1,694,689
1980 2,513,044
1990 3,098,736
1995 3,550,114
2000 3,834,141
2005 4,199,292
2010 4,653,458
2015 5,119,504

Economy and development

The state benefits from the economically strong metropolitan region of Monterrey and its proximity to the United States , which is why it is one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in the country.

With a value of 0.799, Nuevo León reached 2nd place among the 31 states of Mexico in the human development index in 2015 .

Partnerships

Nuevo León has had a partnership with the city of Chongqing , People's Republic of China , since 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Nuevo León  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ Chongqing Municipal Government

Coordinates: 25 ° 34 ′  N , 99 ° 58 ′  W