List of states of Mexico

The states are the first-level administrative divisions of Mexico and are 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]

Gulf of
Mexico

Pacific
Ocean

Central
America

United States of America

Mexico City

AG

Baja
California

Baja
California
Sur

Campeche

Chiapas

Chihuahua

Coahuila

Colima

Durango

Guanajuato

Guerrero

HD

Jalisco

EM

Michoacán

MO

Nayarit

Nuevo
León

Oaxaca

Puebla

Querétaro

Quintana
Roo

San Luis
Potosí

Sinaloa

Sonora

Tabasco

Tamaulipas

TL

Veracruz

Yucatán

Zacatecas

Main article: Administrative divisions of Mexico

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

List

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]	Coat of arms	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	5 February 1857[8]
Baja California	Baja California		Mexicali	Tijuana	71,450.0 km2 (27,587.0 sq mi)	3,822,000	6	29	16 January 1952[9]
Baja California Sur	Baja California Sur		La Paz		73,909.4 km2 (28,536.6 sq mi)	759,000	5	31	8 October 1974[10]
Campeche	Campeche		San Francisco de Campeche		57,484.9 km2 (22,195.0 sq mi)	965,000	13	25	29 April 1863[11]
Chiapas	Chiapas		Tuxtla Gutiérrez		73,311.0 km2 (28,305.5 sq mi)	5,602,000	124	19	14 September 1824[12]
Chihuahua	Chihuahua		Chihuahua	Ciudad Juárez	247,412.6 km2 (95,526.5 sq mi)	3,806,000	67	18	6 July 1824[12]
Coahuila[b][c]	Coahuila de Zaragoza		Saltillo		151,594.8 km2 (58,531.1 sq mi)	3,189,000	38	16	7 May 1824[12]
Colima[d]	Colima		Colima	Manzanillo	5,626.9 km2 (2,172.6 sq mi)	830,000	10	23	12 September 1856[14]
Durango	Durango		Victoria de Durango		123,364.0 km2 (47,631.1 sq mi)	1,846,000	39	17	22 May 1824[12]
Guanajuato	Guanajuato		Guanajuato	León de los Aldama	30,606.7 km2 (11,817.3 sq mi)	6,205,000	46	2	20 December 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	27 October 1849[15]
Hidalgo	Hidalgo		Pachuca de Soto		20,821.4 km2 (8,039.2 sq mi)	3,115,000	84	26	16 January 1869[16]
Jalisco	Jalisco		Guadalajara		78,595.9 km2 (30,346.0 sq mi)	8,400,000	125	9	23 December 1823[12]
México	México		Toluca de Lerdo	Ecatepec de Morelos	22,351.8 km2 (8,630.1 sq mi)	17,102,000	125	1	20 December 1823[12]
Mexico City[e]	Ciudad de México		Mexico City		1,494.3 km2 (577.0 sq mi)	9,305,000	16 (boroughs)	32	29 January 2016
Michoacán	Michoacán de Ocampo		Morelia		58,598.7 km2 (22,625.1 sq mi)	4,736,000	113	5	22 December 1823[12]
Morelos	Morelos		Cuernavaca		4,878.9 km2 (1,883.8 sq mi)	2,016,000	36	27	17 April 1869 [17]
Nayarit	Nayarit		Tepic		27,856.5 km2 (10,755.5 sq mi)	1,274,000	20	28	26 January 1917[18]
Nuevo León[c]	Nuevo León		Monterrey		64,156.2 km2 (24,770.8 sq mi)	5,846,000	51	15	7 May 1824[12]
Oaxaca	Oaxaca		Oaxaca de Juárez		93,757.6 km2 (36,200.0 sq mi)	4,096,000	570	3	21 December 1823[12]
Puebla	Puebla		Puebla de Zaragoza		34,309.6 km2 (13,247.0 sq mi)	6,535,000	217	4	21 December 1823[12]
Querétaro	Querétaro		Santiago de Querétaro		11,690.6 km2 (4,513.8 sq mi)	2,404,000	18	11	23 December 1823[12]
Quintana Roo	Quintana Roo		Chetumal	Cancún	44,705.2 km2 (17,260.8 sq mi)	1,895,000	11	30	8 October 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	22 December 1823[12]
Sinaloa	Sinaloa		Culiacán Rosales		57,365.4 km2 (22,148.9 sq mi)	3,015,000	18	20	14 October 1830[20]
Sonora[f]	Sonora		Hermosillo		179,354.7 km2 (69,249.2 sq mi)	3,006,000	72	12	10 January 1824[12]
Tabasco[g]	Tabasco		Villahermosa		24,730.9 km2 (9,548.7 sq mi)	2,435,000	17	13	7 February 1824[12]
Tamaulipas[c]	Tamaulipas		Ciudad Victoria	Reynosa	80,249.3 km2 (30,984.4 sq mi)	3,506,000	43	14	7 February 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	9 December 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	22 December 1823[12]
Yucatán[h]	Yucatán		Mérida		39,524.4 km2 (15,260.5 sq mi)	2,374,000	106	8	23 December 1823[12]
Zacatecas	Zacatecas		Zacatecas		75,275.3 km2 (29,064.0 sq mi)	1,674,000	58	10	23 December 1823[12]

Notes:

1. (except Mexico City):
   Estado Libre y Soberano de ("Free and Sovereign State of")
2. Joined the federation with the name of Coahuila y Tejas.
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]
4. Includes the remote Revillagigedo Islands, which are federally administered.
5. Mexico City was a Federal District until 29 January 2016, when this status was abolished.
6. Joined the federation with the name of Estado de Occidente, also recognized as Sonora y Sinaloa.
7. 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.
8. 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.

See also

• Mexico portal

• Administrative divisions of Mexico
• List of current state governors in Mexico
• List of Mexican state congresses (with current composition)
• List of Mexican state demonyms
• List of Mexican state governors
• List of Mexican state name etymologies
• List of Mexican states by area
• List of Mexican states by GDP
• List of Mexican states by GDP per capita
• List of Mexican states by HDI
• List of Mexican states by population
• List of Mexican states by date of statehood
• Postal codes in Mexico
• State flags of Mexico
• State governments of Mexico
• Territories of Mexico
• Territorial evolution of Mexico

References

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