Nuevo León

Nuevo León, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León), is one of the thirty-one states which, with Mexico City, compose the thirty-two Federal Entities of Mexico.

It is divided into fifty-one municipalities and its capital city is Monterrey.

Located in Northeastern Mexico, it is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west.

To the north, Nuevo León has a fifteen kilometer (nine mile) stretch of the U.S.–Mexico border adjacent to the U.S. state of Texas.

The state is named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which was itself named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León.

Besides its capital, other important cities are Guadalupe, Santa Catarina, San Nicolás de los Garza, and San Pedro Garza García, all of which are part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area.