City Details: Tlalnepantla

A few alternate names for Tlalnepantla are: Tlalnepantla, Tlalnepantla de Comonfort, Tlalnepantla de Galeana, Tlalnepantla de baz, Tlanepantla de baz, te la er nei pan te la, tlal ni phæn tla, torarunepantora, Тлалнепантла, ตลัลนีแพนตลา

Tlalnepantla de Baz is one of 125 municipalities of the state of Mexico, north of Mexico City. The municipal seat and largest city in the municipality is the city of Tlalnepantla. Tlalnepantla comes from the Náhuatl words tlalli (land) and nepantla (middle) to mean the middle land. The city was known in prior times as Tlalnepantla de Galeana and Tlalnepantla de Comonfort, to honor Hermenegildo Galeana and Ignacio Comonfort, respectively. The current addition of Baz comes from the last name of Gustavo Baz Prada, an important politician and soldier of Emiliano Zapata's army during the Mexican Revolution. After the Revolution, Baz Prada became Governor of the State of Mexico and President of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It is located in the northeastern part of the state of Mexico, in the Valley of Mexico north of Mexico City proper. Tlalnepantla de Baz has an exclave to the west, divided by Gustavo A. Madero. Together with Atizapán, it comprises the dense Region X…