Tlalnepantla de Baz

Tlalnepantla de Baz
Municipality
Municipal hall of Tlalnepantla
Nickname:  Tlalne or Tlane
Motto(s):  Culture, Work and Progress
Location of Tlalnepantla in the State of Mexico
Coordinates: 19°32′12″N 99°11′41″W / 19.53667°N 99.19472°W / 19.53667; -99.19472
Country	Mexico
State	State of Mexico
Region	Tlalnepantla
Metro area	Greater Mexico City
Municipal Seat	Tlalnepantla
Government
• Type	Ayuntamiento
• Municipal President	Raciel Pérez Cruz
Area
• Total	83.48 km2 (32.23 sq mi)
• Land	77.17 km2 (29 sq mi)
• Water	1.10 km2 (3.28 sq mi)
Elevation	2,250 m (7,380 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	672,202[1]
Time zone	UTC−06:00 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−05:00 (CDT)
Postal code (of seat)	54000
Area code	55
Demonym	Tlalnepantlense
Website	Official website (in Spanish)

Tlalnepantla de Baz (Otomi: Ndemhāi)^{[citation needed]} 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.^[2] Together with Atizapán, it comprises the dense Region XII of Mexico State.