Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 70,113 square kilometers (27,071 sq mi) and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, north of the 28th parallel, plus oceanic Guadalupe Island. The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora and the northern Gulf of California, on the south by Baja California Sur, and by the north is the United States with the US States of California to the north and Arizona slightly to the east.
- Country
- Mexico
- Inception
- 1804
- Website
- http://www.bajacalifornia.gob.mx/
