baja
geographical name(Ba-ja California)
peninsula 760 miles (1216 kilometers) long in northwestern Mexico between the Pacific and the Gulf of California; divided into the states of Baja California (to the north; capital Mexicali area 27,071 square miles, or 70,114 square kilometers, population 3,155,070) and Baja California Sur (to the south; capital La Paz area 28,447 square miles, or 73,678 square kilometers, population 637,026)