📍Mexico City 🇲🇽 is the capital of the incredible country of Mexico. The scale of this city is immense: it is one of the largest cities in the world, with around 22 million inhabitants.
⛰ The city is situated on a plateau at an elevation of about 2,200 meters and is surrounded by high mountains on three sides, including two snow-capped volcanoes: Iztaccíhuatl (5,286 meters) and the well-known Popocatépetl (5,452 meters).
Mexico City was built on the site of the ancient Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, which was one of the largest and most advanced cities in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries.