What the records say
- When
- 1848
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Mexican Cession
- Coordinates
- 37.00° N, 113.00° W
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 295574
- Area km2
- 1370153
- Gaining
- United States
- Losing
- Mexico
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Mexican Cession
Land the U.S. acquired from Mexico following the war in 1848
The Mexican Cession is the region of territory that Mexico ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. It comprises the states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, and parts of Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming in the present-day Western United States.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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