Baja

Baja California peninsula

The Baja California peninsula is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico. It separates the Gulf of California from the Pacific Ocean. The peninsula extends from Mexicali, Baja California, in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, in the south.

Baja California

Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 70,113 square kilometers (27,071 sq mi) and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, north of the 28th parallel, plus oceanic Guadalupe Island. The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora and the northern Gulf of California, on the south by Baja California Sur, and by the north is the United States with the US States of California to the north and Arizona slightly to the east.

Baja

Proper noun

1. A city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.

Proper noun

1. Ellipsis of Baja California: a peninsula in Mexico, separating the Gulf of California and Sea of Cortez from the Pacific Ocean, on the west coast of North America.