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Ciudad Victoria

American  
[syoo-thahth beek-taw-ryah] / sjuˈðɑð bikˈtɔ rjɑ /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Tamaulipas state, in NE Mexico.


Ciudad Victoria British  
/ siuˈðað bikˈtorja /

noun

  1. a city in E central Mexico, capital of Tamaulipas state. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They are sent off to the forensic lab in the state capital Ciudad Victoria, where boxes of paper bags wait their turn along with others.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2022

AP writer Alfredo Peña in Ciudad Victoria contributed to this report.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2022

Standing beside him in the photo was a young woman, wearing the uniform of an ice cream shop two hours away in Ciudad Victoria.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2020

Napolitano, 80, was born Graciela Flores in Brownsville, Tex., to a mother from Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and a father of Mexican heritage from north Texas.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2017

The three specimens of P. l. texanus from 12 kilometers north and four kilometers west of Ciudad Victoria were trapped in a line of 110 traps set near tree stumps.

From The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Alvarez, Ticul

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