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A Mexican State (Spanish : Estados), officially the Free and Sovereign State (Spanish : Estado libre y soberano), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, government, state governor, and state congress. In the hierarchy of Mexican administrative divisions, states are further divided into municipalities. Currently there are 2,462 municipalities in Mexico.

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Although not formally a state, Mexico City (Spanish : Ciudad de México), the capital city of United Mexican States and formerly designed as the Federal District (Spanish : Distrito Federal), has been made a separate federative entity that has autonomy on par with the states since a constitutional amendment in 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4] Mexico City is divided into 16 boroughs (Spanish : demarcaciones territoriales), similar to other states' municipalities but with different administrative powers. [5]

The current Mexican governmental publications usually lists 32 federative entity (31 states and Mexico City), and 2,478 municipalities (includes the 16 boroughs of Mexico City).

List of federative entities

Mexico City, though not formally a state, is added for comparison.

Federative entities of the United Mexican States
Coat of arms and nameCitiesArea [6] Population
(2023) [7] 		Munici-
palities		Admission to Federation
CapitalLargestkm2sq miOrderDate
Coat of arms of Aguascalientes.svg Aguascalientes Aguascalientes 5,615.72,168.21,465,00011245 Feb 1857 [8]
Coat of arms of Baja California.svg Baja California Mexicali Tijuana 71,450.027,587.03,822,00072916 Jan 1952 [9]
Coat of arms of Baja California Sur.svg Baja California Sur La Paz 73,909.428,536.6759,0005318 Oct 1974 [10]
Coat of arms of Campeche.svg Campeche San Francisco de Campeche 57,484.922,195.0965,000132529 Apr 1863 [11]
Coat of arms of Chiapas.svg Chiapas Tuxtla Gutiérrez 73,311.028,305.55,602,0001241914 Sep 1824 [12]
Coat of arms of Chihuahua.svg Chihuahua Chihuahua Ciudad Juárez 247,412.695,526.53,806,00067186 Jul 1824 [12]
Coat of arms of Coahuila.svg Coahuila de Zaragoza [a] [b] Saltillo 151,594.858,531.13,189,00038167 May 1824 [12]
Escudooficialcolima.jpg Colima [c] Colima Manzanillo 5,626.92,172.6830,000102212 Sep 1856 [14]
Coat of arms of Durango.svg Durango Victoria de Durango 123,364.047,631.11,846,000391722 May 1824 [12]
Coat of arms of Guanajuato.svg Guanajuato Guanajuato León de los Aldama 30,606.711,817.36,205,00046220 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Guerrero.svg Guerrero Chilpancingo de los Bravo Acapulco de Juárez 63,595.924,554.53,556,000852127 Oct 1849 [15]
Coat of arms of Hidalgo.svg Hidalgo Pachuca de Soto 20,821.48,039.23,115,000842616 Jan 1869 [16]
Coat of arms of Jalisco.svg Jalisco Guadalajara Zapopan 78,595.930,346.08,400,000125923 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Mexico State.svg México Toluca de Lerdo Ecatepec de Morelos 22,351.88,630.117,102,000125120 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Mexico City, Mexico.svg Mexico City (Ciudad de México) [d] —1,494.3577.09,305,000163229 Jan 2016
Coat of arms of Michoacan.svg Michoacán de Ocampo Morelia 58,598.722,625.14,736,000113522 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Morelos.svg Morelos Cuernavaca 4,878.91,883.82,016,000362717 Apr 1869 [17]
Coat of arms of Nayarit.svg Nayarit Tepic 27,856.510,755.51,274,000202826 Jan 1917 [18]
Coat of arms of Nuevo Leon.svg Nuevo León [b] Monterrey 64,156.224,770.85,846,00051157 May 1824 [12]
Coat of arms of Oaxaca.svg Oaxaca Oaxaca de Juárez 93,757.636,200.04,096,000570321 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Puebla.svg Puebla Puebla de Zaragoza 34,309.613,247.06,535,000217421 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Queretaro.svg Querétaro Santiago de Querétaro 11,690.64,513.82,404,000181123 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Quintana Roo.svg Quintana Roo Chetumal Cancún 44,705.217,260.81,895,00011308 Oct 1974 [19]
Coat of arms of San Luis Potosi.svg San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí 61,138.023,605.52,815,00059622 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Sinaloa.svg Sinaloa Culiacán Rosales 57,365.422,148.93,015,000202014 Oct 1830 [20]
Coat of arms of Sonora.svg Sonora [e] Hermosillo 179,354.769,249.23,006,000721210 Jan 1824 [12]
Coat of arms of Tabasco.svg Tabasco [f] Villahermosa 24,730.99,548.72,435,00017137 Feb 1824 [12]
Coat of arms of Tamaulipas.svg Tamaulipas [b] Ciudad Victoria Reynosa 80,249.330,984.43,506,00043147 Feb 1824 [12]
Coat of arms of Tlaxcala.svg Tlaxcala Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl San Pablo del Monte 3,996.61,543.11,405,00060239 Dec 1856 [21]
Coat of arms of Veracruz.svg Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave Xalapa-Enríquez Veracruz 71,823.527,731.28,105,000212722 Dec 1823 [12]
Coat of arms of Yucatan.svg Yucatán [g] Mérida 39,524.415,260.52,374,000106823 Dec 1823 [12]
Escudo de armas de la Ciudad y Estado de Zacatecas.svg Zacatecas Zacatecas 75,275.329,064.01,674,000581023 Dec 1823 [12]
Mexico total Mexico City 1,972,550.0761,605.8127,104,0002,478—

Notes:

  1. ↑ Joined the federation with the name of Coahuila y Tejas.
  2. 1 2 3 The states of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Coahuila became independent de facto in 1840 to form the República del Río Grande (English: Republic of the Rio Grande); never consolidated its independence because independent forces were defeated by the centralist forces. [13]
  3. ↑ Includes the remote Revillagigedo Islands, which are federally administered.
  4. ↑ Mexico City was a Federal District until 29 January 2016, when this status was abolished.
  5. ↑ Joined the federation with the name of Estado de Occidente, also recognized as Sonora y Sinaloa.
  6. ↑ The State of Tabasco seceded from Mexico on two occasions: first on 13 February 1841, rejoining again on 2 December 1842; and the second from 9 November 1846 to 9 December 1846.
  7. ↑ Joined the federation as República Federada de Yucatán [22] (English: Federated Republic of Yucatán) formed by the current states of Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo. Became independent in 1841 constituting the second Republic of Yucatán and definitively rejoined in 1848.

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  2. ↑ El Diario de México. "La Ciudad de México no será estado, sino entidad federal autónoma" (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Artículo 43 de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "DF no es el estado 32, aclaran legisladores". Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "Constitution of Mexico City" (PDF) (in Spanish). Gobierno de la Ciudad de México. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "México en cifras - Medio Ambiente - Superficie continental" (in Spanish). INEGI. January 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2022 - SCITEL" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "Historical Summary of Aguascalientes" (in Spanish). Gobierno del estado de Aguascalientes. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "Transformación Política de Territorio Norte de la Baja California a Estado 29" (in Spanish). Gobierno de Baja California.
  10. ↑ "44 Years Ago, Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo became States" (in Spanish). Gobierno de México. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  11. ↑ "156th Anniversary of Campeche's Statehood" (in Spanish). INAFED. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Las Diputaciones Provinciales" (PDF) (in Spanish). p. 15.
  13. ↑ "República de Río Grande, el País que no pudo ser" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 January 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  14. ↑ "Universidad de Colima". Archived from the original on 10 August 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  15. ↑ "Commemorating the 169th Anniversary of Guerrero's Statehood" (in Spanish). Gobierno de México. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  16. ↑ "History of the state of Hidalgo" (in Spanish). INAFED. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  17. ↑ "History of Morelos" (in Spanish). Gobierno del estado de Morelos. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  18. ↑ "Anniversary of Nayarit's Statehood" (in Spanish). Gobierno de México. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  19. ↑ "Historia de Quintana Roo" (in Spanish). Gobierno del Estado de Quintana Roo. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  20. ↑ "500 años de México en documentos" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Garay.
  21. ↑ "History of Tlaxcala" (in Spanish). Congreso del estado de Tlaxcala. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  22. ↑ "La historia de la República de Yucatán".
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