Gulf Coast of the United States Pensacola, St. Petersburg, Tampa, and increasingly, Sarasota. All are the centers of their respective metropolitan areas and contain large ports. (Baton Rouge is relatively far from the Gulf of Mexico; its port is on the Mississippi River, as is the port of New Orleans.) The Gulf Coast is made of many inlets, bays, and lagoons. The coast is also intersected by numerous rivers, the largest of which is the Mississippi River. Much of the land along the Gulf Coast is, or was, marshland. Ringing the Gulf Coast is the Gulf Coastal Plain which reaches from Southern Texas to the western
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