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The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area ( officially , in Spanish : Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara ) is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the second largest in the country after Greater Mexico City . Mexicans ( Mexicanos ) are the people of the United Mexican States , a multiethnic country in North America . Mexico . The Mexican -- American War ( 1846 -- 48 ) led to the territorial cession of the extensive northern territories to the United States .