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On 2015-10-29, the legislature of Quintana Roo unanimously approved the creation of the municipality of Puerto Morelos. This community was separated from the municipality of Benito Juarez. (See source [15]).

A law effective 2016-01-30 changes the official name of Distrito Federal to Ciudad de México.

Quintana Roo is switching to Eastern Time on 2015-02-01 at 2:00 a.m. It will not observe daylight saving time.

Update 5 to Geopolitical Entities and Codes, the successor to FIPS PUB 10-4, was issued on 2011-08-31. It changes the name of Veracruz-Llave to Veracruz.

The formal name of Querétaro state is Querétaro Arteaga, not Querétaro de Arteaga, although a Google search in 2004 found more references to the latter by eleven to one. The Constitution of Veracruz state (source [7]) gives the formal name as "Veracruz-Llave", but the state government website (source [8]) uses the name "Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave". The capital of Veracruz state is sometimes called Jalapa, sometimes Xalapa, sometimes Jalapa Enríquez, and sometimes Xalapa Enríquez. The fashion seems to have turned from Jalapa to Xalapa recently. When I was first investigating it, there were official city websites at www.xalapa.gob.mx and www.jalapa.gob.mx, both of them using the spelling Xalapa. In the 1990s, almost all sources, including Mexican ones, used Jalapa. Source [14] said "Jalapa, formerly Xalapa".

International standard ISO 3166-2 was published on December 15, 1998. It superseded ISO/DIS 3166-2 (draft international standard). For Mexico, the draft standard showed 31 states and one federal district. The final standard shows the same divisions and the same codes, except for the federal district. The code for Distrito Federal was changed from D.F to DIF.

Country overview: 

Short name	MEXICO
ISO code	MX
FIPS code	MX
Language	Spanish (es)
Time zone	Zones
Capital	Mexico City

 

Mexico has been independent during the whole of the 20th century.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Mexico
2. Dutch: Mexico, Verenigde Mexicaanse Staten (formal)
3. English: United Mexican States (formal)
4. Finnish: Meksiko
5. French: Mexique m
6. German: Mexiko n
7. Icelandic: Mexíkó
8. Italian: Messico m
9. Norwegian: De forente stater Mexico (formal) (Bokmål), Dei sameinte statane Mexico (formal) (Nynorsk), Mexico
10. Portuguese: México m, Estados mp Unidos Mexicanos (formal)
11. Russian: Мексика, Мексиканские Соединенные Штаты (formal)
12. Spanish: Méjico m, México m, Estados mp Unidos Mexicanos (formal)
13. Swedish: Mexiko
14. Turkish: Birleşik Meksika Devletleri (formal)

Origin of name: 

from ethnic name, Mexic; said to mean "moon-navel-place" in Aztec

Primary subdivisions: 

Mexico is divided into 31 estados (states) and one distrito federal (federal district).

State	HASC	ISO	FIPS	Conv	INEGI	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Tz	Capital	Postcode
Aguascalientes	MX.AG	AGU	MX01	Ags	01	1,184,996	5,471	2,112	-6~	Aguascalientes	20
Baja California	MX.BN	BCN	MX02	BCN	02	3,155,070	69,921	26,997	-8~	Mexicali	21-22
Baja California Sur	MX.BS	BCS	MX03	BCS	03	637,026	73,475	28,369	-7~	La Paz	23
Campeche	MX.CM	CAM	MX04	Camp	04	822,441	50,812	19,619	-6~	Campeche	24
Chiapas	MX.CP	CHP	MX05	Chis	07	4,796,580	74,211	28,653	-6~	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	29-30
Chihuahua	MX.CH	CHH	MX06	Chih	08	3,406,465	244,938	94,571	-6~	Chihuahua	31-33
Ciudad de México	MX.DF	DIF	MX09	DF	09	8,851,080	1,479	571	-6~	(Ciudad de) México	00-16
Coahuila	MX.CA	COA	MX07	Coah	05	2,748,391	149,982	57,908	-6~	Saltillo	25-27
Colima	MX.CL	COL	MX08	Col	06	650,555	5,191	2,004	-6~	Colima	28
Durango	MX.DU	DUR	MX10	Dgo	10	1,632,934	123,181	47,560	-6~	(Victoria de) Durango	34-35
Guanajuato	MX.GJ	GUA	MX11	Gto	11	5,486,372	30,491	11,773	-6~	Guanajuato	36-38
Guerrero	MX.GR	GRO	MX12	Gro	12	3,388,768	64,281	24,819	-6~	Chilpancingo (de los Bravos)	39-41
Hidalgo	MX.HI	HID	MX13	Hgo	13	2,665,018	20,813	8,036	-6~	Pachuca (de Soto)	42-43
Jalisco	MX.JA	JAL	MX14	Jal	14	7,350,682	80,836	31,211	-6~	Guadalajara	44-48
México	MX.MX	MEX	MX15	Méx	15	15,175,862	21,355	8,245	-6~	Toluca (de Lerdo)	50-57
Michoacán	MX.MC	MIC	MX16	Mich	16	4,351,037	59,928	23,138	-6~	Morelia	58-61
Morelos	MX.MR	MOR	MX17	Mor	17	1,777,227	4,950	1,911	-6~	Cuernavaca	62
Nayarit	MX.NA	NAY	MX18	Nay	18	1,084,979	26,979	10,417	-7~	Tepic	63
Nuevo León	MX.NL	NLE	MX19	NL	19	4,653,458	64,924	25,067	-6~	Monterrey	64-67
Oaxaca	MX.OA	OAX	MX20	Oax	20	3,801,962	93,952	36,275	-6~	Oaxaca (de Juárez)	68-71
Puebla	MX.PU	PUE	MX21	Pue	21	5,779,829	33,902	13,090	-6~	(Heroica) Puebla (de Zaragoza)	72-75
Querétaro	MX.QE	QUE	MX22	Qro	22	1,827,937	11,449	4,420	-6~	(Santiago de) Querétaro	76
Quintana Roo	MX.QR	ROO	MX23	QR	23	1,325,578	50,212	19,387	-5	(Ciudad) Chetumal	77
San Luis Potosí	MX.SL	SLP	MX24	SLP	24	2,585,518	63,068	24,351	-6~	San Luis Potosí	78-79
Sinaloa	MX.SI	SIN	MX25	Sin	25	2,767,761	58,328	22,521	-7~	Culiacán (Rosales)	80-82
Sonora	MX.SO	SON	MX26	Son	26	2,662,480	182,052	70,291	-7	Hermosillo	83-85
Tabasco	MX.TB	TAB	MX27	Tab	27	2,238,603	25,267	9,756	-6~	Villahermosa	86
Tamaulipas	MX.TM	TAM	MX28	Tamps	28	3,268,554	79,384	30,650	-6~	Ciudad Victoria	87-89
Tlaxcala	MX.TL	TLA	MX29	Tlax	29	1,169,936	4,016	1,551	-6~	Tlaxcala (de Xicohténcatl)	90
Veracruz	MX.VE	VER	MX30	Ver	30	7,643,194	71,699	27,683	-6~	Xalapa (Enríquez)	91-96
Yucatán	MX.YU	YUC	MX31	Yuc	31	1,955,577	38,402	14,827	-6~	Mérida	97
Zacatecas	MX.ZA	ZAC	MX32	Zac	32	1,490,668	73,252	28,283	-6~	Zacatecas	98-99
32 divisions						112,336,538	1,958,201	756,066
State: Except for Ciudad de México, which is a federal district. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. Conv: Conventional abbreviation. INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informatica uses a two-digit code to represent each state. Most of them are the same as the two digits in the FIPS codes (see note). Population: 2010-05-31 census. Tz: Time zone (hours offset from Greenwich; ~ indicates daylight saving time observed) Capital: Common name is not in parentheses; adding parenthetical parts gives formal name. The English name of Ciudad de México is Mexico City. Postcode: The Mexican postal service has defined a five-digit postal code (Código Postal). The first two digits represent a state, a part of a state, or (in Ciudad de México) a political delegation. The range of postal codes for each state is shown.

 

Notes on codes:

In the 1960s, the U.S. and Canadian postal authorities developed two-letter state and province codes, with care to avoid overlap. That is, no state code was the same as any province code. Computer systems very frequently used these sets of codes. Many companies and government agencies have to deal with data from all of North America. The Mexican authorities never got around to deciding on an official set of two-letter state codes, so anyone who wanted to use such a set, made up their own. It's not very hard to find a set of two-letter, mnemonic state/province codes for all three countries with no overlap, so some groups did just that; others didn't care about the overlap, because they were using a combination of state and country code to identify a particular division. I recently did a search and found a dozen different systems of state codes or abbreviations for Mexico, most of which were two-letter codes. They were used by industry groups (railroads, airlines) and governments (state police departments, military), among others. No two of them were identical. The 'C' states were especially mixed, so that in different systems, CP might represent Campeche or Chiapas, CH might mean Chiapas, Chihuaha, or Coahuila, etc.

A new problem has recently arisen. Almost all code systems use NL for Nuevo León. In 2002, as a result of Newfoundland changing its official name to Newfoundland and Labrador, the Canadian postal service changed the official abbreviation from NF to NL. Now, maintainers of computer systems that use two-letter codes as a primary key for the states and provinces of North America are in a quandary. If they leave the code for Newfoundland unchanged, they're no longer in compliance with Canadian postal standards. If they change it to NL to comply with Canada, they will also have to change their code for Nuevo León. If there are old archived records that don't get updated, they will have incorrect data when they are retrieved.

"Postal addressing systems" is a document available online from the Universal Postal Union. Its entry for Mexico has a list of states and their codes. Most of the codes are the same as the conventional abbreviations, converted to all capitals, unaccented. Exceptions are BC for Baja California, CAM for Campeche, and QROO for Quintana Roo.

Both the FIPS codes and the INEGI codes number the states from 01 to 32 in alphabetical order. Now, historically, the digraph "ch" was treated as single letter in Spanish, falling between "c" and "d" in alphabetical order. (Likewise, "ll" was a letter between "l" and "m.") Sorting names by computer required special handling for "ch" and "ll" words. In 1994, the international academy responsible for the Spanish language, the Real Academia Española, decreed that "ch" words would henceforth be sorted between "cg" and "ci," and "ll" between "lk" and "lm." INEGI doesn't seem to have gotten the message, because they're still (2014) listing Chiapas after Colima.

Further subdivisions:

See the Municipalities of Mexico page.

The states are divided into municipios (municipalities), and the federal district is divided into delegaciones (delegations). There are also uninhabited islands (about 5,073 sq. km.) that are directly owned by the federal government.

Territorial extent: 

1. The states of Coahuila and San Luis Potosí make contact along a border a little over a kilometer long, not apparent on small-scale maps.
2. Baja California includes Islas Angel de la Guarda, Montague, San Lorenzo, Salsipuedes, Smith, and other islands in the Gulf of California; and Cedros and Guadalupe in the Pacific Ocean.
3. Baja California Sur includes Islas El Carmen, San José, Cerralvo, Espíritu Santo, San Marcos, and other islands in the Gulf of California; and Santa Margarita and Magdalena in the Pacific Ocean.
4. Campeche includes Isla del Carmen, and some isolated cays up to Cayo Arcas.
5. Colima includes the Revillagigedo Islands (Socorro, Clarión, San Benedicto, and Roca Partida).
6. Jalisco broke into two separate parts, the smaller one containing Colotlán, when Nayarit split off in 1917. A few years later, some territory was annexed to form a corridor between the two.
7. Nayarit includes the Islas Marías, or Tres Marías Islands, consisting of Isla María Madre, Isla María Magdalena, and Isla María Cleofas, named for the three women who stood by the cross in the Gospel of John; as well as Islas San Juanito, Isabela, and the Marietas.
8. Quintana Roo includes Islas Cozumel, Mujeres, Holbox, Contoy, Tamalcas, Cayo Chelén, and the Banco Chinchorro (a ring of islands, including Cayos Lobos and Norte, around Cayo Centro).
9. Sinaloa includes a number of barrier islands, of which the largest are Islas Talchichilte, de Altamura, Santa Maria, and San Ignacio.
10. Sonora includes Islas Tiburon, San Esteban, Pelicano, Lobos, and other islands in the Gulf of California.
11. Tamaulipas includes a series of barrier islands, such as Barras Soto la Marina and Los Americanos.
12. Veracruz includes some small barrier islands and reefs. Isla El Idolo is behind a sandspit.
13. Yucatán includes the Arrecife Alacran, a group of islands of which Isla Pérez is the largest; and Cayo Arenas.

The UN LOCODE page  for Mexico lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Origins of names: 

States:

1. Aguascalientes: Spanish aguas: waters, calientes: hot, for thermal springs near the city
2. Baja California: the 1824 Constitution created the territories of Alta and Baja California (Spanish for Upper and Lower California). Alta California was later acquired by the United States. See the United States entry for the derivation of California.
3. Campeche: after the Mayan domain of Ah Kin Pech
4. Chiapas: from Nahuatl for "in the Chía River"
5. Chihuahua: native word for dry or sandy spot
6. Ciudad de México: Spanish for city of Mexico
7. Coahuila (de Zaragoza): after the ethnic name Coahuiltec, and General Ignacio Zaragoza (1829-1862)
8. Colima: from native name Colliman, meaning that which our ancestors conquered
9. Durango: after the city, which was named by Francisco de Ibarra in 1563 for Durango, Spain
10. Guanajuato: from Tarasco quanas: frogs, huato: mountainous, i.e. high place with many frogs
11. Guerrero: after Vicente Guerrero (1783-1831), fighter for independence (it happens that guerrero is Spanish for "warrior").
12. Hidalgo: after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811), Mexican founding father. Incidentally, Hidalgo is a Spanish word for nobleman. It originated as a contraction of the sarcastic phrase "hijo de algo" (son of something).
13. Jalisco: native word for "over the sand"
14. México: see country name
15. Michoacán (de Ocampo): after Melchor Ocampo (1814-1861), statesman
16. Morelos: after José Maria Morelos y Pavón (1765-1815), fighter for independence
17. Nayarit: named for Nayar, a Cora chief and priest
18. Nuevo León: after the kingdom of León in Spain (nuevo: new)
19. Oaxaca: from Aztec huaxyacac: at the point of the robinia trees
20. Puebla: for the city, originally Ciudad de Puebla de los Angeles (city of the village of the angels)
21. Querétaro (Arteaga): from Tarasco for "place where they play ball", and General José María Arteaga (1827?-1865)
22. Quintana Roo: after Andrés Quintana Roo, a Yucatec fighter for Mexican independence
23. San Luis Potosí: after Potosí in Bolivia, in the hope that it, too, would have rich mines
24. Sonora: Spanish for sonorous, to note the sound made by local marble when struck
25. Tabasco: probably named for Tabscoob, native chief
26. Tamaulipas: native word for "high mountains"
27. Tlaxcala: after the ethnic name Tlaxcaltec
28. Veracruz(-Llave): for its largest city, originally Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz (rich city of the true cross), and the governor, General Ignacio de la Llave (1818-1863). Incidentally, llave is Spanish for key.
29. Zacatecas: Nahuatl for "where zacate grass grows"

Intendencia:

1. Guadalajara: named for its capital, which was named for the birthplace in Spain of its founder, Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán, in 1531. The Spanish name, in turn, comes from Arabic wadi al-hijarah: river of stones.

Change history: 

The Mexican government's archive site (source [11]) had a series of maps showing changes in the country's administrative subdivisions. Source [2] has a similar series of historical maps. The information below was put together from both sources. The Mexican archives are now at source [12], but I haven't been able to navigate the site with either Firefox or Internet Explorer.

1. Prior to 1776: The virreinato (viceroyalty) of Nueva España was divided into México (reino), Nueva Galicia (reino), Nueva Vizcaya (gobernación), Yucatán (gobernación), and Provincias Septentrionales, as well as other divisions outside of Mexico. These in turn were subdivided into provinces. México consisted of the provinces of Antequera de Oaxaca, México, Michoacán, Puebla de los Ángeles, and Tlaxcala. Nueva Galicia had Colima, Xalisco, and Zacatecas. Nueva Vizcaya had Chihuahua and Guadiana (or Durango). Yucatán had Campeche, Mérida de Yucután, and Tabasco. The Provincias Septentrionales (northern provinces) were Colonia del Nuevo Santander (Provincia de los Tamaulipas), Nuevo Reino de León, Provincia de Coahuila (Nueva Extremadura), Provincia de la Nueva California, Provincia de la Vieja California, Provincia de los Tejas (Nueva Filipinas), Provincia de Nuevo México de Santa Fe, Provincia de San José de Nayarit (Nuevo Reino de Toledo), Provincia de Sinaloa, and Provincia de Sonora. The provinces of Chiapas and Soconusco, part of modern Mexico, were then included in the Audiencia of Guatemala.
2. 1776: A higher-ranking political entity, named Gobierno Superior y Comandancia General de las Provincias Internas, was created within but independent of Nueva España. It consisted of the provinces of Nuevo México, Nueva Vizcaya, and Sonora y Sinaloa ("provincias internas de occidente", or western internal provinces), and Coahuila, Nuevo Reino de León, Nuevo Santander, and Tejas ("provincias internas de oriente", or eastern). Among the former northern provinces, only Nueva California and Vieja California - and, according to the map, San José de Nayarit - remained directly subject to the viceroyalty. Comparison of the pre-1776 and post-1776 maps in the Atlas Porrúa indicates that the part of Sonora north of roughly 32° was transferred to Nueva California; Sinaloa was merged with the remainder of Sonora, forming "Gobierno de las Provincias de Sonora y Sinaloa"; Chihuahua and Durango provinces disappeared, apparently making Nueva Vizcaya a single entity; the westernmost part of Tejas was transferred to Nueva Vizcaya; the northern part of Michoacán is marked off as "part of the intendency of San Luis Potosí". On the map, each of the provincias internas is labeled a "gobierno" (government).
3. 1788: Mexico reorganized into twelve intendencias (intendencies) named Arispe, Durango, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Mérida, México, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Valladolid, Veracruz, and Zacatecas. (Archive site)
4. 1796: Compared to the archive site, the Atlas Porrúa shows and describes the following differences: each intendency has a capital shown, with the same name as the intendency; there are also four gobiernos which were not subject to any intendent but were directly subordinate to the viceroyalty. The four gobiernos are Nueva California, Nuevo México, Tlaxcala, and Vieja California. All of these fall outside the area shown on the archive site, except Tlaxcala, which is within Puebla. Some names are different: Arizpe, Santa Fe de Guanajuato, Mérida de Yucután, Antequera de Oaxaca, and Valladolid de Michoacán (the correspondence should be obvious).
5. 1824-10-04: Under the Constitution of 1824, the official name of the country became Estados Unidos Mexicanos. It comprised 19 states (Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila y Tejas, Durango, Guanajuato, México, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla de los Ángeles, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora y Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Xalisco, Yucatán, and Zacatecas) and four territories (Alta California, Baja California, Colima, and Santa Fé de Nuevo México). Alta California was the former Nueva California, and Baja was the former Vieja.
6. 1824-11-18: Distrito Federal split from México state by decree.
7. 1824-11-24: Tlaxcala territory split from Puebla state.
8. 1825: Soconusco split from Chiapas state and became neutral territory.
9. 1830-10-13: Sonora y Sinaloa state split into Sinaloa and Sonora states.
10. 1835-05-23: Aguascalientes provisional territory split from Xalisco state.
11. 1836-03-02: Republic of Texas (formerly part of Coahuila y Tejas state) declared independence from Mexico.
12. 1842-09-11: Soconusco merged with Mexico and with Chiapas state again.
13. 1848-02-02: By the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded land approximately equivalent to its territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México (New Mexico) and the northern part of Sonora to the United States.
14. 1850-04-25: Two partidos (secondary administrative divisions), named Norte and Sur, created within Baja California territory.
15. 1853-12-30: Gadsden Purchase (known as La Mesilla to Mexicans) transferred from Mexico to the United States, becoming part of New Mexico territory.
16. 1857-02-05: Constitution of 1857 took effect. Comparing the list of states and territories under this constitution to the previous situation, it appears that Nuevo León state was incorporated into Coahuila; Aguascalientes, Colima, and Tlaxcala changed status from territories to states; Guerrero state was formed from parts of México, Michoacán, and Puebla.
17. 1863-04-29: Campeche state split from Yucután. Campeche had been provisionally created on 1862-02-19.
18. 1864-02-26: Nuevo León state split from Coahuila.
19. 1869-01-15: Hidalgo state split from México state.
20. 1869-04-16: Morelos state split from México state.
21. 1884-12-12: Tepic territory split from Jalisco state.
22. 1887-12-14: Status of the two partidos of Baja California changed to distritos (districts).
23. 1902-11-24: Quintana Roo territory split from Yucatán state. Its de facto capital was Campamento General Vega.
24. 1904-02-27: Santa Cruz de Bravo became official capital of Quintana Roo.
25. 1915-06: Capital of Quintana Roo moved to Payo Obispo.
26. 1916-02-03: Name of capital of Tabasco state changed from San Juan Bautista (de Villahermosa de Tabasco) to Villahermosa.
27. 1917-02-05: Under the Constitution of 1917, Tepic territory became Nayarit state. (The constitution also provides, in Article 44, that if the seat of government should move to some other place, Distrito Federal would become the state of Valle de México.)
28. 1931-02-07: Baja California territory (capital La Paz) split into Baja California Norte and Baja California Sur territories. They had previously been districts of Baja California territory. The official names were Territorio Norte (Sur) de la Baja California.
29. 1936-09-28: Name of capital of Quintana Roo territory changed from Payo Obispo to Chetumal.
30. 1953-08-16: Baja California Norte territory became Baja California state. (Federal constitution changed on 1952-01-16; Diario Oficial announced the formation of the new state on 1952-11-21; constitution of Baja California state promulgated on 1953-08-16.)
31. 1974-10-08: Status of Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo changed from territories to states.
32. 2015-10-29: In Quintana Roo, the new municipality of Puerto Morelos was separated from the municipality of Benito Juarez.
33. 2016-01-30: Name of Distrito Federal changed to Ciudad de México.

Other names of subdivisions: 

1. There are two Baja Californias. If the name Baja California is used without either Norte or Sur, Norte is usually meant. There are three Méxicos: the country, the state, and the city. When it's necessary to distinguish the latter two, Estado de México and Ciudad de México are used.
2. Baja California: Baixa Califórnia Norte (Portuguese); Baja California Norte (variant); Bassa California del Nord (Italian); Basse-Californie du Nord (French); Lower California (variant); Niederkalifornien (German); Territorio Norte (obsolete)
3. Baja California Sur: Baixa Califórnia Sul (Portuguese); Bassa California del Sud (Italian); Basse-Californie du Sud (French); Territorio Sur (obsolete)
4. Campeche: Campeachy (obsolete); Campêche (French-variant)
5. Ciudad de México: Distretto Federale (Italian); Distrito Federal (obsolete); Federal District (obsolete); Mexico City (English)
6. Coahuila: Coahuila de Saragoza (variant); Coahuila de Zaragoza (formal)
7. México: Edo. de Mexico, Estado de México (variant)
8. Michoacán: Michoacán de Ocampo (formal)
9. Nayarit: Tepic (obsolete)
10. Nuevo León: Neu-Leon (German); Nouveau-Léon (French)
11. Querétaro: Querétaro Arteaga (formal)
12. Veracruz: Veracruz-Llave, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (formal)

Population history:

Division	1879	1900-10-28	1930-05-15	1940-03-06	1950-06-06	1960-06-08	1970-01-28	1980-06-04	1990-03-12	2000-02-14	2010-05-31
Aguascalientes	140,000	102,416	132,900	161,693	188,075	243,363	338,142	519,439	719,650	940,778	1,184,996
Baja California N	30,000	47,624	48,327	78,907	226,965	520,165	870,421	1,177,886	1,657,927	2,746,010	3,155,070
Baja California S			47,089	51,471	60,864	81,594	128,019	215,139	317,326	418,962	637,026
Campeche	90,000	86,542	84,630	90,460	122,098	168,219	251,556	420,553	528,824	687,572	822,441
Chiapas	205,000	360,799	529,983	679,885	907,026	1,210,870	1,569,053	2,084,717	3,203,915	3,912,081	4,796,580
Chihuahua	226,000	327,784	491,792	623,944	846,414	1,226,793	1,612,525	2,005,477	2,439,954	3,037,366	3,406,465
Ciudad de México	352,000	541,516	1,229,576	1,757,530	3,050,442	4,870,876	6,874,165	8,831,079	8,236,960	8,550,170	8,851,080
Coahuila	130,000	296,938	436,425	550,717	720,619	907,734	1,114,956	1,557,265	1,971,344	2,287,816	2,748,391
Colima	66,000	65,115	61,923	78,806	112,321	164,450	241,153	346,293	424,656	536,650	650,555
Durango	191,000	370,294	404,364	483,829	629,874	760,836	939,208	1,182,320	1,352,156	1,440,899	1,632,934
Guanajuato	835,000	1,061,724	987,801	1,046,490	1,328,712	1,735,490	2,270,370	3,006,110	3,980,204	4,648,460	5,486,372
Guerrero	296,000	479,205	641,690	732,910	919,386	1,186,716	1,597,360	2,109,513	2,622,067	3,063,380	3,388,768
Hidalgo	427,000	605,051	677,772	771,818	850,394	994,598	1,193,845	1,547,493	1,880,632	2,226,763	2,665,018
Jalisco	983,000	1,153,891	1,255,346	1,418,310	1,746,777	2,443,261	3,296,586	4,371,998	5,278,987	6,293,460	7,350,682
México	711,000	934,463	990,112	1,146,034	1,392,623	1,897,851	3,833,185	7,564,335	9,815,901	13,058,570	15,175,862
Michoacán	662,000	935,808	1,048,381	1,182,003	1,422,717	1,851,876	2,324,226	2,868,824	3,534,042	3,959,772	4,351,037
Morelos	159,000	160,115	132,068	182,711	272,842	387,264	616,119	947,089	1,195,381	1,545,775	1,777,227
Nayarit		150,098	167,724	216,698	290,124	389,929	544,031	726,120	816,112	910,241	1,084,979
Nuevo León	203,000	327,937	417,491	541,147	740,191	1,078,848	1,694,689	2,513,044	3,086,466	3,812,758	4,653,458
Oaxaca	744,000	948,633	1,084,549	1,192,794	1,421,313	1,727,266	2,015,424	2,369,076	3,021,513	3,419,524	3,801,962
Puebla	784,000	1,021,133	1,150,425	1,294,620	1,625,830	1,973,837	2,508,226	3,347,685	4,118,059	5,054,788	5,779,829
Querétaro	203,000	232,389	234,058	244,737	286,238	355,045	485,523	739,605	1,044,227	1,398,148	1,827,937
Quintana Roo			10,620	18,752	26,967	50,169	88,150	225,985	493,605	870,918	1,325,578
San Luis Potosí	516,000	575,432	579,831	678,779	856,066	1,048,297	1,281,996	1,673,893	2,001,966	2,290,332	2,585,518
Sinaloa	186,000	296,701	395,618	492,821	635,681	838,404	1,266,528	1,849,879	2,210,766	2,522,862	2,767,761
Sonora	115,000	221,682	316,271	364,176	510,607	783,378	1,098,720	1,513,731	1,822,247	2,192,455	2,662,480
Tabasco	105,000	159,834	224,023	285,630	362,716	496,340	768,327	1,062,961	1,501,183	1,883,620	2,238,603
Tamaulipas	140,000	218,948	344,039	458,832	718,167	1,024,182	1,456,858	1,924,484	2,244,208	2,735,624	3,268,554
Tlaxcala	139,000	172,315	205,458	224,063	284,551	346,699	420,638	556,597	763,683	957,705	1,169,936
Veracruz	543,000	981,030	1,377,293	1,619,338	2,040,231	2,727,899	3,815,422	5,387,680	6,215,142	6,883,273	7,643,194
Yucatán	302,000	309,652	386,096	418,210	516,899	614,049	758,355	1,063,733	1,363,540	1,650,949	1,955,577
Zacatecas	423,000	462,190	459,047	565,437	665,524	817,831	951,462	1,136,830	1,278,279	1,347,186	1,490,668
Totals	9,908,000	13,607,259	16,552,722	19,653,552	25,791,017	34,924,129	48,225,238	66,846,833	81,140,922	97,284,967	112,336,538

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