Department of the Gulf north. On November 3, 1863, the northern boundary was extended to latitude 33° north. On July 25, 1863, the department/district was transferred to the Department of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana. It remained in that department only until January 28, 1864, when it was transferred to the Department of Alabama and Eastern Mississippi. Upon being transferred, the department/district boundaries were redefined as beginning at the mouth of the Pearl River, running north to latitude 32° north, east to the Georgia State line and south to the Gulf of Mexico. On May 8, 1864, the boundary was again modified to define the
State of Mexico the west of Mexico City and a panhandle that extends around the north and east of this entity. The state name is simply "México" according to the 1917 Constitution of the United Mexican States, but to distinguish it from both the city and the country it is most often called "Estado de México". The demonym used to refer to people and things from the state is "mexiquense", distinct from "mexicano" ("Mexican"), which describes the people or things from the country as a whole. "Mēxihco" was originally the Nahuatl name for the Valley of Mexico where the cities of the Mexica