Name of Mexico piece of legislation to change the country's name officially to simply Mexico. To go into effect, the bill would have to be passed by both houses of Congress, as well as a majority of Mexico's 31 state legislatures. Coming within just a week before Calderón turned power over to then president elect Enrique Peña Nieto, many of the president's critics saw the proposal as nothing more than a symbolic gesture. According to one legend, the war deity and patron of the Mexica Huitzilopochtli possessed "Mexitl" or "Mexi" as a secret name. Mexico would then mean "Place of Mexi" or "Land
Name of Quebec City as a nation within the country of Canada, and has no indication of sovereignty. Name of Quebec City The proper name of Quebec City is Québec (with an acute accent), in both official languages of Canada (Canadian English and Canadian French alike). This name is used by both the federal and provincial governments. The acute accent differentiates between the official English name of the city, Québec, and the constitutional English name of the Province of Quebec, spelled without any diacritics. In unofficial English texts, the accent is often dropped and Québec is informally referred to as "Quebec City". In French,