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Baja California

(hä kä′lē fôrnyä)

peninsula in Mexico, between the Pacific & the Gulf of California: divided into a northern state (), 27,071 sq mi (70,114 sq km), pop. 1,661,000, cap. Mexicali; and a southern state (), 28,447 sq mi (73,677 sq km), pop. 318,000, cap. La Paz
also Informalthe Baja

Origin: Sp, lit., lower California

See Baja California in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A mountainous peninsula of western Mexico extending south-southeast between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California south of the U.S. border. It was first explored by the Spanish in the 1530s.

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