Question

What is the origin of the name of Mexico?

Answer 1

Most historians believe that the word “Mexico” came from the Nahuatl for “place of the Mexica,” who were the nomadic peoples who found their way into the Valley of Mexico from a mythical northern land called Aztlán, the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

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Answer 2

The country of Mexico was named after its capital city, Mexico City. During the time of the Aztecs, their capital city was Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Today's capital city was built on top of the ruins of the Aztec capital. ... This god got his name from the word metztli, which meant moon, and xictli, which meant navel.