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Distrito Federal

American  
[dees-tree-taw fe-the-rahl] / disˈtri tɔ ˌfɛ ðɛˈrɑl /

noun

Spanish.
  1. Federal District. D.F.


Distrito Federal British  
/ disˈtritu fedeˈral /

noun

  1. a district in S central Brazil, containing Brasília: detached from Goiás state in 1960. Pop: 2 145 839 (2002). Area: 5815 sq km (2245 sq miles)

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Like Iñárritu, I still lived in Mexico City, then known as Distrito Federal, when “Amores Perros” was released.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Piquet, who did not reply to a request for comment from The Associated Press, will have 15 days to state his case to judge Felipe Costa da Fonseca Gomes of the Distrito Federal court.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Visiting Distrito Federal never failed to remind him of the delicate, capricious cascade of events that had shaped the geopolitical fortunes of the Americas.

From The Verge • Dec. 17, 2017

The O.H.C.H.R. called on the Mexican government to “redouble its efforts in investigating the case, both in the Distrito Federal and in the state of Veracruz, exhausting every possible line of investigation.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 14, 2015

Range.—Central and eastern Jalisco south into Michoac�n, east through Guanajuato, Quer�taro, thence into Estado M�xico, and Distrito Federal, and west-central Veracruz, see Figure 11.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

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