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TIL New Mexico was named before the country of Mexico. As early as 1561, Spanish colonial explorers used el Nuevo México to refer to Cíbola, cities of wealth reported to exist far to the north of the recently established New Spain. It became the New Mexico Territory and the state of New Mexico.

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