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Definitions for Tijuana
ˌti əˈwɑ nə, tiˈʰwɑ nɑti·jua·na

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Tijuananoun

    a Mexican city just to the south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula; popular among American tourists for racetracks and bullfights

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  1. Tijuananoun

    A city in the northwest of Baja California, Mexico, by the American border with San Diego.

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  1. Tijuana

    Tijuana (US: tee-HWAH-nə, Spanish: [tiˈxwana] (listen)), known also by the initials T.J., is a city and municipal seat of Tijuana Municipality, Baja California, located on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. It is part of the San Diego-Tijuana metro area and the larger Southern California megapolitan area. Tijuana traces its modern history to the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century who were mapping the coast of the Californias. Following the division of the Californias after the American Conquest of California, Tijuana found itself located on an international border, giving rise to a new economic and political structure. The city was incorporated on 11 July 1889 as urban development began. The city has served as a major tourist destination since the 1880s. Tijuana is the 45th largest city in the Americas and is one of the westernmost cities in Mexico. According to the 2015 census, the Tijuana metropolitan area was the fifth-largest in Mexico, with a population of 1,840,710, but rankings vary, the city (locality) itself was 6th largest and the municipality (administrative) 3rd largest nationally. The international metropolitan region was estimated at 5,158,459 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in The Californias, 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 is the second most populous city in Mexico and center of the 6th-largest metro area in Mexico, The city is one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country and rated as a "High Sufficiency" global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. As of September 2019, the city of Tijuana had a population of 1,810,645, with its metropolitan area containing a population of 2,157,853 as of 2020, an estimated 2,002,000 within the urban area.Tijuana is a dominant manufacturing center for North America, hosting facilities of many multinational conglomerate companies. In the early 21st century, Tijuana has emerged as the medical device manufacturing capital of North America and is increasingly recognized as an important cultural Mecca for the border region of The Californias. The city is the most visited border city in the world, sharing a border of about 24 km (15 mi) with its sister city San Diego. More than fifty million people cross the border between these two cities every year. According to Statista in May 2022, Tijuana has the highest homicide rate in the world.

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  1. tijuana

    Tijuana is a bustling city located in Mexico, specifically in the state of Baja California. It's the second-largest city on the U.S.-Mexico border, with San Diego being the largest on the U.S side. Known for its vibrant nightlife, shopping, and its mix of Mexican and American cultural influences, Tijuana has become a major tourist destination. It is also a significant economic hub, with many multinational corporations having manufacturing and assembly plants in the city's industrial areas.

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  1. Tijuana

    Tijuana is the largest city on the Baja California Peninsula and center of the Tijuana metropolitan area, part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. An industrial and financial center of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on economics, education, culture, art, and politics. As the city has become a leading center in the country, so has the surrounding metropolitan area, a major industrial and paramount metropolis in northwestern Mexico. Currently one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico, Tijuana maintains global city status. On the Gold Coast of Baja California, Tijuana is the municipal seat, cultural, and commercial center of Tijuana Municipality, covering 23.5% of the municipality. A dominant manufacturing center of the North American continent, the city maintains facilities of numerous multinational conglomerate companies. The 2000s saw Tijuana become the medical device manufacturing capital of North America. Also a growing cultural center, Tijuana has been recognized as a most important new cultural mecca. The city is the most visited border city in the globe; sharing an approximate 24-kilometre-long border with its sister city San Diego, over fifty million people annually cross the border between these two cities. This metropolitan crossing makes the San Ysidro Port of Entry the busiest land-border crossing in the world. It is estimated that the two border crossing stations between the cities proper of San Diego and Tijuana account for 300,000 daily border crossings alone.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tijuana in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tijuana in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Tijuana in a Sentence

  1. Ada Loera:

    The president says we Mexicans who live in Tijuana are carriers (of the virus), but when the pandemic started, (our bosses) sent us email after email saying we were essential personnel and that we were required to come.

  2. Carmen Rivera:

    I´m excited to know that we have this opportunity, because to return to Mexico, to Tijuana, is very dangerous, thank God, things changed.

  3. Alberto Rivera:

    The problem that has entered and infiltrated Tijuana is the political doctrine of Donald Trump. And the political doctrine of Donald Trump is to divide, to divide between races, cause disturbances, cause problems, tension, hate, and it's sad that some here from Tijuana have taken Trump's bait.

  4. Donald Trump:

    The people of Tijuana will not pay for the stay of these migrants. I will not send Tijuana into debt, just like I have been able to avoid the last two years, we are dealing with a humanitarian crisis and the federal government must step up to its responsibility !!!

  5. Mariel Villarreal:

    They are just being sent back to homelessness in Tijuana.

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