The states are the first-level administrative divisions of Mexico, which is officially named the United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate entity that is not formally a state).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

States are further divided into municipalities. Mexico City is divided into boroughs, officially designated as demarcaciones territorialesoralcaldías, similar to other states' municipalities but with different administrative powers.^[5]

List[edit]

Mexico's post agency, Correos de México, does not offer an official list of state name abbreviations, and as such, they are not included below. A list of Mexican states and several versions of their abbreviations can be found here.

Federal Entities
State	Official name^[a]	Capital	Largest city	Area (1,972,550 km² total)^[6]	Population (February 2023; 127,104,000 total)^[7]	Municipalities	Order of Admission to Federation	Date of Admission to Federation
Aguascalientes	Aguascalientes	Aguascalientes		5,615.7 km² (2,168.2 sq mi)	1,465,000	11	24	February 5, 1857^[8]
Baja California	Baja California	Mexicali	Tijuana	71,450.0 km² (27,587.0 sq mi)	3,822,000	6	29	January 16, 1952^[9]
Baja California Sur	Baja California Sur	La Paz		73,909.4 km² (28,536.6 sq mi)	759,000	5	31	October 8, 1974^[10]
Campeche	Campeche	San Francisco de Campeche		57,484.9 km² (22,195.0 sq mi)	965,000	13	25	April 29, 1863^[11]
Chiapas	Chiapas	Tuxtla Gutiérrez		73,311.0 km² (28,305.5 sq mi)	5,602,000	124	19	September 14, 1824^[12]
Chihuahua	Chihuahua	Chihuahua	Ciudad Juárez	247,412.6 km² (95,526.5 sq mi)	3,806,000	67	18	July 6, 1824^[12]
Coahuila^[b]^[c]	Coahuila de Zaragoza	Saltillo		151,594.8 km² (58,531.1 sq mi)	3,189,000	38	16	May 7, 1824^[12]
Colima^[d]	Colima	Colima	Manzanillo	5,626.9 km² (2,172.6 sq mi)	830,000	10	23	September 12, 1856^[14]
Durango	Durango	Victoria de Durango		123,364.0 km² (47,631.1 sq mi)	1,846,000	39	17	May 22, 1824^[12]
Guanajuato	Guanajuato	Guanajuato	León de los Aldama	30,606.7 km² (11,817.3 sq mi)	6,205,000	46	2	December 20, 1823^[12]
Guerrero	Guerrero	Chilpancingo de los Bravo	Acapulco de Juárez	63,595.9 km² (24,554.5 sq mi)	3,556,000	81	21	October 27, 1849^[15]
Hidalgo	Hidalgo	Pachuca de Soto		20,821.4 km² (8,039.2 sq mi)	3,115,000	84	26	January 16, 1869^[16]
Jalisco	Jalisco	Guadalajara		78,595.9 km² (30,346.0 sq mi)	8,400,000	125	9	December 23, 1823^[12]
México	México	Toluca de Lerdo	Ecatepec de Morelos	22,351.8 km² (8,630.1 sq mi)	17,102,000	125	1	December 20, 1823^[12]
Mexico City^[e]	Ciudad de México	Mexico City		1,494.3 km² (577.0 sq mi)	9,305,000	16 (boroughs)	32	January 29, 2016
Michoacán	Michoacán de Ocampo	Morelia		58,598.7 km² (22,625.1 sq mi)	4,736,000	113	5	December 22, 1823^[12]
Morelos	Morelos	Cuernavaca		4,878.9 km² (1,883.8 sq mi)	2,016,000	36	27	April 17, 1869^[17]
Nayarit	Nayarit	Tepic		27,856.5 km² (10,755.5 sq mi)	1,274,000	20	28	January 26, 1917^[18]
Nuevo León^[c]	Nuevo León	Monterrey		64,156.2 km² (24,770.8 sq mi)	5,846,000	51	15	May 7, 1824^[12]
Oaxaca	Oaxaca	Oaxaca de Juárez		93,757.6 km² (36,200.0 sq mi)	4,096,000	570	3	December 21, 1823^[12]
Puebla	Puebla	Puebla de Zaragoza		34,309.6 km² (13,247.0 sq mi)	6,535,000	217	4	December 21, 1823^[12]
Querétaro	Querétaro	Santiago de Querétaro		11,690.6 km² (4,513.8 sq mi)	2,404,000	18	11	December 23, 1823^[12]
Quintana Roo	Quintana Roo	Chetumal	Cancún	44,705.2 km² (17,260.8 sq mi)	1,895,000	11	30	October 8, 1974^[19]
San Luis Potosí	San Luis Potosí	San Luis Potosí		61,138.0 km² (23,605.5 sq mi)	2,815,000	58	6	December 22, 1823^[12]
Sinaloa	Sinaloa	Culiacán Rosales		57,365.4 km² (22,148.9 sq mi)	3,015,000	18	20	October 14, 1830^[20]
Sonora^[f]	Sonora	Hermosillo		179,354.7 km² (69,249.2 sq mi)	3,006,000	72	12	January 10, 1824^[12]
Tabasco^[g]	Tabasco	Villahermosa		24,730.9 km² (9,548.7 sq mi)	2,435,000	17	13	February 7, 1824^[12]
Tamaulipas^[c]	Tamaulipas	Ciudad Victoria	Reynosa	80,249.3 km² (30,984.4 sq mi)	3,506,000	43	14	February 7, 1824^[12]
Tlaxcala	Tlaxcala	Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl	San Pablo del Monte	3,996.6 km² (1,543.1 sq mi)	1,405,000	60	22	December 9, 1856^[21]
Veracruz	Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	Xalapa-Enríquez	Veracruz	71,823.5 km² (27,731.2 sq mi)	8,105,000	212	7	December 22, 1823^[12]
Yucatán^[h]	Yucatán	Mérida		39,524.4 km² (15,260.5 sq mi)	2,374,000	106	8	December 23, 1823^[12]
Zacatecas	Zacatecas	Zacatecas		75,275.3 km² (29,064.0 sq mi)	1,674,000	58	10	December 23, 1823^[12]

Notes:

^ (except Mexico City):
Estado Libre y Soberano de ("Free and Sovereign State of")

^ Joined the federation with the name of Coahuila y Tejas.

^ ^a ^b ^c 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]

^ Includes the remote Revillagigedo Islands, which are federally administered.

^ Mexico City was a Federal District. On 29 January 2016, its status as the Federal District ceased.

^ Joined the federation with the name of Estado de Occidente, also recognized as Sonora y Sinaloa.

^ The State of Tabasco seceded from Mexico on two occasions: first on February 13, 1841, rejoining again on December 2, 1842; and the second from November 9, 1846 to December 9, 1846.

^ 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.

References[edit]

^ Agren, David (29 January 2015). "Mexico City officially changes its name to – Mexico City". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

^ El Diario de México. "La Ciudad de México no será estado, sino entidad federal autónoma" (in Spanish). Retrieved February 29, 2016.

^ "Artículo 43 de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos" (PDF).

^ "DF no es el estado 32, aclaran legisladores". Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.

^ "Constitution of Mexico City" (PDF) (in Spanish). Gobierno de la Ciudad de México. Retrieved 2021-02-08.

^ "México en cifras - Medio Ambiente - Superficie continental" (in Spanish). INEGI. January 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2021.

^ "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2022 - SCITEL" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-26.

^ "Historical Summary of Aguascalientes" (in Spanish). Gobierno del estado de Aguascalientes. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

^ "Transformación Política de Territorio Norte de la Baja California a Estado 29" (in Spanish). Gobierno de Baja California.

^ "44 Years Ago, Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo became States" (in Spanish). Gobierno de México. Retrieved 2021-02-06.

^ "156th Anniversary of Campeche's Statehood" (in Spanish). INAFED. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s "Las Diputaciones Provinciales" (PDF) (in Spanish). p. 15.

^ "República de Río Grande, el País que no pudo ser" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2010-01-22. Retrieved 2015-06-16.

^ "Universidad de Colima". Archived from the original on 2010-08-10. Retrieved 2015-06-16.

^ "Commemorating the 169th Anniversary of Guerrero's Statehood" (in Spanish). Gobierno de México. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

^ "History of the state of Hidalgo" (in Spanish). INAFED. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

^ "History of Morelos" (in Spanish). Gobierno del estado de Morelos. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

^ "Anniversary of Nayarit's Statehood" (in Spanish). Gobierno de México. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

^ "Historia de Quintana Roo" (in Spanish). Gobierno del Estado de Quintana Roo. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

^ "500 años de México en documentos" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Garay.

^ "History of Tlaxcala" (in Spanish). Congreso del estado de Tlaxcala. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

^ "La historia de la República de Yucatán".

States of Mexico

v t e Indicators of Mexican states
Ranked	Area Growth rate Population Population density
Social	Fertility Rate HDI Homicides Infant mortality Life expectancy Literacy rate
Political	Capitals Governors Statehood
Economy	GDP GDP per capita Poverty rate Unemployment
Other	Coats of arms Flags Indigenous-speaking Irreligion

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