Nuevo León
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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) |
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governor |
Jaime Rodriguez Calderón (independent) (2015-2021) |
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Federal MPs |
PAN = 5 PES = 3 Partido del Trabajo = 2 Morena = 1 PRI = 1 (12 federal constituencies) |
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Senators |
MC = 2 PAN = 1 |
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ISO 3166-2 | MX-NLE | |
Postal abbreviation | NL | |
Website | www.nl.gob.mx |
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 |
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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
- Nuevo León (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .
- ^ Chongqing Municipal Government
Coordinates: 25 ° 34 ′ N , 99 ° 58 ′ W