A state (), officially a Free and Sovereign State (), 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.

Although not formally a state, political reforms have enabled Mexico City (), the capital city of the United Mexican States, to have a federative entity status equivalent to that of the states since 29 January 2016.

Current Mexican governmental publications usually lists 32 federative entities (31 states and Mexico City), and 2,478 municipalities (including the 16 boroughs of Mexico City). Third or lower level divisions are sometimes listed by some governmental publications.

List of federative entities Mexico City, though not formally a state, is included for comparison.

+Federative entities of the United Mexican StatesCoat of arms and nameCitiesAreaPopulationMunici-palitiesAdmission to federationCapitalLargestkm2sq mi 2024Q4 2020census Aguascalientes Aguascalientes 11 24th 5 Feb 1857 Baja California Mexicali Tijuana 7 29th 16 Jan 1952 Baja California Sur La Paz 5 31st 8 Oct 1974 Campeche San Francisco de Campeche 13 25th 29 Apr 1863 Chiapas Tuxtla Gutiérrez 124 19th 14 Sep 1824 Chihuahua Chihuahua Ciudad Juárez 67 18th 6 Jul 1824 Coahuila de Zaragoza Saltillo 38 16th 7 May 1824 Colima Colima Manzanillo 10 22nd 12 Sep 1856 Durango Victoria de Durango 39 17th 22 May 1824 Guanajuato Guanajuato León de los Aldama 46 2nd 20 Dec 1823 Guerrero Chilpancingo de los Bravo Acapulco de Juárez 85 21st 27 Oct 1849 Hidalgo Pachuca de Soto 84 26th 16 Jan 1869 Jalisco Guadalajara 125 9th 23 Dec 1823 México Toluca de Lerdo Ecatepec de Morelos 125 1st 20 Dec 1823 Mexico City (Ciudad de México) n/a Iztapalapa 16 32nd 29 Jan 2016 Michoacán de Ocampo Morelia 113 5th 22 Dec 1823 Morelos Cuernavaca 36 27th 17 Apr 1869 Nayarit Tepic 20 28th 26 Jan 1917 Nuevo León Monterrey 51 15th 7 May 1824 Oaxaca Oaxaca de Juárez 570 3rd 21 Dec 1823 Puebla Puebla de Zaragoza 217 4th 21 Dec 1823 Querétaro Querétaro 18 11th 23 Dec 1823 Quintana Roo Chetumal Cancún 11 30th 8 Oct 1974 San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí 59 6th 22 Dec 1823 Sinaloa Culiacán Rosales 20 20th 14 Oct 1830 Sonora Hermosillo 72 12th 10 Jan 1824 Tabasco Villahermosa 17 13th 7 Feb 1824 Tamaulipas Ciudad Victoria Reynosa 43 14th 7 Feb 1824 Tlaxcala Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl San Pablo del Monte 60 23rd 9 Dec 1856 Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave Xalapa-Enríquez Veracruz 212 7th 22 Dec 1823 Yucatán Mérida 106 8th 23 Dec 1823 Zacatecas ZacatecasGuadalupe 58 10th 23 Dec 1823 Mexico total Mexico City 2,478 —

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Historic populations The following table is a list of the 31 federal states of Mexico plus Mexico City, ranked in order of their total population based on data from the last three National Population Censuses in 2020, 2010 and 2000.

Rank State Population (2020) Population (2010) Population (2000)1 16,992,418 15,175,862 13,096,6862 9,209,944 8,851,080 8,605,2393 8,348,151 7,350,682 6,322,0024 8,062,579 7,643,194 6,908,9755 6,583,278 5,779,829 5,076,6866 6,166,934 5,486,372 4,663,0327 5,784,442 4,653,458 3,834,1418 5,543,828 4,796,580 3,920,8929 4,748,846 4,351,037 4,384,47110 4,132,148 3,801,962 3,438,76511 3,769,020 3,155,070 2,487,36712 3,741,869 3,406,465 3,052,90713 3,540,685 3,388,768 3,079,64914 3,527,735 3,268,554 2,753,22215 3,146,771 2,748,391 2,298,07016 3,082,841 2,665,018 2,235,59117 3,026,943 2,767,761 2,536,84418 2,944,840 2,662,480 2,216,96919 2,822,255 2,585,518 2,299,36020 2,402,598 2,238,603 1,891,82921 2,368,467 1,827,937 1,404,306 22 2,320,898 1,955,577 1,658,210 23 1,971,520 1,777,227 1,555,29624 1,857,985 1,325,578 874,96325 1,832,650 1,632,934 1,448,661 26 1,622,138 1,490,668 1,353,61027 1,425,607 1,184,996 944,28528 1,342,977 1,169,936 962,64629 1,235,456 1,084,979 920,18530 928,363 822,441 690,68931 798,447 637,026 424,04132 731,391 650,555 542,627Total 126,014,024 112,336,538 97,483,412

Lists by topic State symbols: State flags of Mexico List of Mexican state name etymologies List of Mexican state demonyms List of Mexican states by date of statehood Mexico State-Abbreviation Codes State governments: Lists of Mexican state governors List of current state governors in Mexico List of Mexican state congresses (with current composition) Other: List of Mexican states by area List of Mexican states by population density List of Mexican states by GDP List of Mexican states by GDP per capita List of Mexican states by HDI

See also

Administrative divisions of Mexico Territorial evolution of Mexico State governments of Mexico Territories of Mexico Postal codes in Mexico

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