Tijuana

Tijuana

Tijuana is the largest city of the Baja California State in Mexico.
As the 6th largest city in Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence in education and politics – across Mexico, in transportation, culture and art, and in manufacturing and as a migration hub – across the North American continent.
Currently one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico, Tijuana maintains a global city status.
As of 2019, the city of Tijuana has a population of nearly 2,000,000. It is an estimation due to the fact that is a huge transit town between the rest of Mexico and southern countries in South America such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador toward the USA.

Tijuana is located on the Gold Coast of Baja California, and is the municipal seat and the cultural and commercial center of Tijuana Municipality (Mexican states are divided into municipalities, rather than counties as in the U.S.).

Tijuana covers 70% of the territory of the municipality and 80% of its population. A dominant manufacturing center of the North American continent, the Tijuana maintains facilities of many multinational conglomerate companies.
In the early 21st century, Tijuana became the medical device manufacturing capital of North America.
Tijuana is also a growing cultural center and has been recognized as an important new cultural world wide center. The city is the most visited border city in the globe; sharing a border of about 24 km (15 mi) with its sister city San Diego.
More than fifty million people cross the border between San Diego and Tijuana every year. This metropolitan crossing makes the San Ysidro Port of Entry to the USA the busiest land border crossing in the world.It is estimated that the 2 borders crossing stations between the cities of San Diego and Tijuana account for 300,000 daily border crossings alone.

The international metropolitan region of Tijuana was estimated at about 5,158,459 in 2016, making it the 3rd largest metropolitan area in the Californias region (California,Baja California and Sur California), 19th largest metropolitan area in the Americas, and the largest bi national conurbation that is shared between US and Mexico. Tijuana is becoming more suburbanized like San Diego.

Tijuana traces its modern history to the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century who were mapping the coast of the Californias. As the American occupation of the Mexican capital ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Tijuana's new international position on the border gave rise to a new economic and political structure. The city was founded on July 11, 1889 as urban development began. Often known by its initials, T.J., and nicknamed Gateway to Mexico, the city has historically served as a tourist center dating back to the 1880s.