Mexico: Federal States & Major Metropolitan Areas - Statistics & Maps on City Population

Federal States

	Name	Abbr.	Status	Capital	A-L (km²)	C 1990-03-12	C 1995-11-05	C 2000-02-14	C 2005-10-17	Cf 2010-05-31
i	Aguascalientes	AGS	FSt	Aguascalientes	5,589	719,659	862,720	944,285	1,065,416	1,184,996
i	Baja California	BCF	FSt	Mexicali	70,113	1,660,855	2,112,140	2,487,367	2,844,469	3,155,070
i	Baja California Sur	BCS	FSt	La Paz	73,677	317,764	375,494	424,041	512,170	637,026
i	Campeche	CAM	FSt	Campeche	51,833	535,185	642,516	690,689	754,730	822,441
i	Chiapas	CHS	FSt	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	73,887	3,210,496	3,584,786	3,920,892	4,293,459	4,796,580
i	Chihuahua	CHI	FSt	Chihuahua	247,087	2,441,873	2,793,537	3,052,907	3,241,444	3,406,465
i	Coahuila (de Zaragoza)	COA	FSt	Saltillo	151,571	1,972,340	2,173,775	2,298,070	2,495,200	2,748,391
i	Colima	COL	FSt	Colima	5,455	428,510	488,028	542,627	567,996	650,555
i	Distrito Federal	D-F	FDist	Ciudad de México	1,499	8,235,744	8,489,007	8,605,239	8,720,916	8,851,080
i	Durango	DGO	FSt	Durango	119,648	1,349,378	1,431,748	1,448,661	1,509,117	1,632,934
i	Guanajuato	GTO	FSt	Guanajuato	30,589	3,982,593	4,406,568	4,663,032	4,893,812	5,486,372
i	Guerrero	GRO	FSt	Chilpancingo	63,794	2,620,637	2,916,567	3,079,649	3,115,202	3,388,768
i	Hidalgo	HGO	FSt	Pachuca	20,987	1,888,366	2,112,473	2,235,591	2,345,514	2,665,018
i	Jalisco	JAL	FSt	Guadalajara	80,137	5,302,689	5,991,176	6,322,002	6,752,113	7,350,682
i	México {Mexico}	MEX	FSt	Toluca	21,461	9,815,795	11,707,964	13,096,686	14,007,495	15,175,862
i	Michoacán (de Ocampo) {Michoacan}	MIC	FSt	Morelia	59,864	3,548,199	3,870,604	3,985,667	3,966,073	4,351,037
i	Morelos	MOR	FSt	Cuernavaca	4,941	1,195,059	1,442,662	1,555,296	1,612,899	1,777,227
i	Nayarit	NAY	FSt	Tepic	27,621	824,643	896,702	920,185	949,684	1,084,979
i	Nuevo León {Nuevo Leon}	NLN	FSt	Monterrey	64,555	3,098,736	3,550,114	3,834,141	4,199,292	4,653,458
i	Oaxaca	OAX	FSt	Oaxaca	95,364	3,019,560	3,228,895	3,438,765	3,506,821	3,801,962
i	Puebla	PUE	FSt	Puebla	33,919	4,126,101	4,624,365	5,076,686	5,383,133	5,779,829
i	Querétaro (de Arteaga) {Queretaro}	QRO	FSt	Querétaro	11,769	1,051,235	1,250,476	1,404,306	1,598,139	1,827,937
i	Quintana Roo	QTR	FSt	Chetumal	50,350	493,277	703,536	874,963	1,135,309	1,325,578
i	San Luis Potosí {San Luis Potosi}	SLP	FSt	San Luis Potosí	62,848	2,003,187	2,200,763	2,299,360	2,410,414	2,585,518
i	Sinaloa	SIN	FSt	Culiacán	58,092	2,204,054	2,425,675	2,536,844	2,608,442	2,767,761
i	Sonora	SON	FSt	Hermosillo	184,934	1,823,606	2,085,536	2,216,969	2,394,861	2,662,480
i	Tabasco	TAB	FSt	Villahermosa	24,661	1,501,744	1,748,769	1,891,829	1,989,969	2,238,603
i	Tamaulipas	TAM	FSt	Ciudad Victoria	79,829	2,249,581	2,527,328	2,753,222	3,024,238	3,268,554
i	Tlaxcala	TLA	FSt	Tlaxcala	3,914	761,277	883,924	962,646	1,068,207	1,169,936
i	Veracruz (-Llave)	VER	FSt	Xalapa-Enríquez	72,815	6,228,239	6,737,324	6,908,975	7,110,214	7,643,194
i	Yucatán {Yucatan}	YUC	FSt	Mérida	39,340	1,362,940	1,556,622	1,658,210	1,818,948	1,955,577
i	Zacatecas	ZAC	FSt	Zacatecas	75,040	1,276,323	1,336,496	1,353,610	1,367,692	1,490,668
	Mexico	MEX		Ciudad de México	1,967,183	81,249,645	91,120,433	97,483,412	103,263,388	112,336,538

Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática, Mexico (web).

	Name	Adm.	A Cf 2010-05-31
1	Ciudad de México	D-F	20,116,842
2	Guadalajara	JAL	4,434,878
3	Monterrey	NLN	4,089,962
4	Puebla	PUE	2,668,437
5	Toluca	MEX	1,846,116
6	Tijuana	BCF	1,751,430
7	León	GTO	1,609,504
8	Ciudad Juárez	CHI	1,332,131
9	Torreón	COA	1,215,817
10	Querétaro	QRO	1,097,025
11	San Luis Potosí	SLP	1,040,443

Metropolitan Areas

	Name	Adm.	A C 1990-03-12	A C 1995-11-05	A C 2000-02-14	A C 2005-10-17	A Cf 2010-05-31
i	Acapulco (de Juárez)	GRO	653,973	754,782	791,558	786,830	863,431
i	Acayucan	VER	91,323	104,662	102,992	105,552	112,996
i	Aguascalientes	AGS	547,366	655,139	727,582	834,498	932,369
i	Campeche	CAM	150,518	178,160	190,813	211,671	220,389
i	Cancún {Cancun}	QTR	187,431	320,446	431,128	586,288	677,379
i	Celaya	GTO	214,856	251,724	277,750	310,413	340,387
i	Chetumal (Othón P. Blanco)	QTR	94,158	115,152	121,602	136,825	151,243
i	Chihuahua	CHI	551,868	651,402	696,495	784,882	852,533
i	Chilpancingo (de los Bravo)	GRO	97,165	123,475	142,746	166,796	187,251
i	Ciudad Acuña {Ciudad Acuna}	COA	52,983	79,211	108,159	124,232	134,233
i	Ciudad del Carmen	CAM	83,806	114,360	126,024	154,197	169,466
i	Ciudad de México [Mexico City] {Ciudad de Mexico}	D-F	15,563,795	17,297,539	18,396,677	19,239,910	20,116,842
i	Ciudad Juárez {Ciudad Juarez}	CHI	798,499	1,011,786	1,218,817	1,313,338	1,332,131
i	Ciudad Obregón (Cajeme) {Ciudad Obregon}	SON	219,980	244,028	250,790	270,992	298,625
i	Ciudad Valles	SLP	91,402	102,226	105,721	116,261	124,644
i	Ciudad Victoria	TAM	194,996	230,304	249,029	278,455	305,155
i	Coatzacoalcos	VER	271,825	300,025	307,724	321,182	347,257
i	Colima	COL	211,733	247,083	275,677	294,828	334,240
i	Córdoba {Cordoba}	VER	237,706	264,928	276,553	293,768	316,032
i	Cuauhtémoc {Cuauhtemoc}	CHI	69,895	80,428	85,387	98,725	114,007
i	Cuautla Morelos	MOR	279,697	344,361	372,256	383,010	434,147
i	Cuernavaca	MOR	549,998	685,896	753,510	802,371	876,083
i	Culiacán {Culiacan}	SIN	415,046	505,518	540,823	605,304	675,773
i	Delicias	CHI	87,412	94,001	98,615	108,187	118,071
i	Durango	DGO	348,036	397,687	427,135	463,830	518,709
i	Ensenada	BCF	169,426	192,550	223,492	260,075	279,765
i	Fresnillo	ZAC	75,118	89,338	97,023	110,892	120,944
i	Guadalajara	JAL	3,003,868	3,482,417	3,699,136	4,095,853	4,434,878
i	Guaymas	SON	175,109	183,232	180,316	184,816	203,430
i	Hermosillo	SON	406,417	504,009	545,928	641,791	715,061
i	Hidalgo del Parral	CHI	88,197	96,267	98,976	101,147	104,836
i	Iguala (de la Independecia)	GRO	83,412	98,276	104,759	110,390	118,468
i	Irapuato	GTO	265,042	299,604	319,148	342,561	380,941
i	La Paz	BCS	137,641	154,314	162,954	189,176	215,178
i	La Piedad (de Cabadas)	MIC	219,004	229,716	229,372	229,289	249,512
i	León {Leon}	GTO	983,050	1,173,659	1,269,179	1,425,210	1,609,504
i	Los Mochis (Ahome)	SIN	162,659	188,349	200,906	231,977	256,613
i	Manzanillo	COL	67,697	80,568	94,893	110,728	130,035
i	Matamoros	TAM	303,293	363,487	418,141	462,157	489,193
i	Mazatlán {Mazatlan}	SIN	262,705	302,808	327,989	352,471	381,583
i	Mérida {Merida}	YUC	629,506	738,545	803,920	897,740	973,046
i	Mexicali	BCF	601,938	696,034	764,602	855,962	936,826
i	Minatitlán {Minatitlan}	VER	311,407	341,906	323,389	330,781	356,137
i	Monclova	COA	261,412	275,509	282,853	294,191	317,313
i	Monterrey	NLN	2,666,809	3,100,633	3,374,361	3,738,077	4,089,962
i	Morelia	MIC	526,772	614,698	659,940	735,624	807,902
i	Moroleón {Moroleon}	GTO	94,901	96,545	100,063	99,828	108,648
i	Navojoa	SON	82,618	94,837	98,187	103,312	113,836
i	Nogales (Heroica Nogales)	SON	105,873	131,578	156,854	189,759	212,533
i	Nuevo Laredo	TAM	219,468	275,060	310,915	355,827	384,033
i	Oaxaca (de Juárez)	OAX	350,269	428,224	489,562	543,721	593,658
i	Ocotlán {Ocotlan}	JAL	101,905	115,021	125,027	133,157	141,375
i	Orizaba	VER	316,275	347,417	367,021	381,086	410,508
i	Pachuca (de Soto)	HGO	276,512	330,838	375,022	438,692	512,196
i	Piedras Negras	COA	115,100	136,650	151,149	169,771	180,734
i	Playa del Carmen	QTR	...	17,621	43,613	100,383	149,923
i	Poza Rica de Hidalgo	VER	445,934	467,936	467,258	481,389	513,518
i	Puebla	PUE	1,735,657	2,016,775	2,220,533	2,470,206	2,668,437
i	Puerto Vallarta	JAL	151,288	196,953	244,536	304,107	379,886
i	Querétaro {Queretaro}	QRO	579,597	706,566	816,481	950,828	1,097,025
i	Reynosa	TAM	376,676	437,426	524,692	633,730	727,150
i	Río Verde {Rio Verde}	SLP	121,212	127,273	128,935	126,997	135,452
i	Salamanca	GTO	123,190	135,874	137,000	143,838	160,169
i	Salina Cruz	OAX	123,789	142,793	145,567	150,281	161,337
i	Saltillo	COA	486,580	583,326	637,273	725,259	823,128
i	San Cristóbal de las Casas {San Cristobal de las Casas}	CHS	73,388	99,254	112,442	142,364	158,027
i	San Francisco del Rincón {San Francisco del Rincon}	GTO	114,034	132,048	145,017	159,127	182,365
i	San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec	OAX	62,788	77,467	84,199	94,209	101,810
i	San Juan del Río {San Juan del Rio}	QRO	61,652	84,532	99,483	120,984	138,878
i	San Luis Potosí {San Luis Potosi}	SLP	658,712	781,964	850,828	957,753	1,040,443
i	San Luis Río Colorado {San Luis Rio Colorado}	SON	95,461	115,596	126,645	138,796	158,089
i	Tampico	TAM	648,598	705,302	746,417	803,196	859,419
i	Tapachula	CHS	138,858	163,253	179,839	189,991	202,672
i	Tecomán {Tecoman}	COL	110,481	119,051	127,863	123,089	141,421
i	Tehuacán {Tehuacan}	PUE	164,636	202,176	240,507	279,409	296,899
i	Tepic	NAY	268,185	327,375	342,840	379,296	429,351
i	Tijuana	BCF	798,938	1,100,817	1,352,035	1,575,026	1,751,430
i	Tlaxcala (de Xicotencatl)	TLA	303,779	367,037	408,401	457,655	499,567
i	Toluca	MEX	1,061,065	1,272,301	1,471,146	1,633,052	1,846,116
i	Torreón (La Laguna) {Torreon}	COA	878,289	958,886	1,007,291	1,110,890	1,215,817
i	Tula de Allende	HGO	140,438	159,293	169,901	184,691	205,812
i	Tulancingo (de Bravo)	HGO	147,137	176,784	193,638	204,708	239,579
i	Tuxtla Gutiérrez {Tuxtla Gutierrez}	CHS	340,751	444,960	494,763	576,872	640,977
i	Uriangato	GTO	94,901	96,545	100,063	99,828	108,669
i	Uruapan (del Progreso)	MIC	187,623	215,449	225,816	238,975	264,439
i	Veracruz	VER	551,494	641,518	677,851	741,234	801,295
i	Villahermosa	TAB	437,567	533,598	600,580	644,629	755,425
i	Xalapa-Enríquez (Jalapa) {Xalapa-Enriquez}	VER	431,539	508,421	554,990	595,043	666,535
i	Zacatecas	ZAC	191,326	226,265	232,965	261,422	298,167
i	Zamora de Hidalgo	MIC	185,445	214,938	216,048	230,777	250,113

Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática, Mexico (web).
Boundaries of the metropolitan areas according to the 2005 census. They consist of municipalities, i.e. they also include some rural population.
For isolated cities, the population of the corresponding locality is depicted in italics.

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