San Luis Potosí (city)

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San Luis Potosí, commonly referred to as San Luis, or by its initials SLP (Otomi: Nmiñ'u), is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. It is the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of San Luis Potosí. The city lies at an elevation of 1,864 metres (6,115 feet). It has an estimated population of 845,941 in the city proper as of the 2020 census, making it Mexico’s 19th-most-populous city. The metropolitan area’s population was 1,221,526, formed with the neighbour city of Soledad de Graciano Sánchez, and other surrounding municipalities, which makes the metropolitan area of Greater San Luis Potosí the 12th-most-populous in Mexico. The city is in the west-central part of the state of San Luis Potosí, at 22.16°N, 100.98°W. The municipality has an area of 1,443.14 square kilometres (557.20 square miles). It is part of the macroregion of Bajío. The city is named after Louis IX of France (also known in Mexico as San Luis Rey de Francia, Saint Louis, King of...

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