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List of Mexican states by area
Political division of Mexico
The following table presents a listing of Mexico 's 31 federal states (and its Federal District , officially not a state), ranked in order of their surface area.
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Rank State km² % of total Population
1 Chihuahua 244,938 12.6% 3,052,907
2 Sonora 182,052 9.2% 2,216,969
3 Coahuila 149,982 7.7% 2,298,070
4 Durango 123,181 6.3% 1,448,661
5 Oaxaca 93,952 4.8% 3,438,765
6 Jalisco 80,386 4.0% 6,322,002
7 Tamaulipas 79,384 4.1% 2,753,222
8 Chiapas 74,211 3.8% 3,920,892
9 Baja California Sur 73,475 3.8% 424,041
10 Zacatecas 73,252 3.8% 1,353,610
11 Veracruz 71,699 3.7% 6,908,975
12 Baja California 69,921 3.7% 2,487,367
13 Nuevo León 64,924 3.3% 3,834,141
14 Guerrero 64,281 3.3% 3,079,649
15 San Luis Potosí 63,068 3.1% 2,299,360
16 Michoacán 59,928 3.0% 3,985,667
17 Sinaloa 58,328 2.9% 2,536,844
18 Campeche 50,812 2.9% 690,689
19 Quintana Roo 50,212 2.2% 874,963
20 Yucatán 38,402 2.0% 1,658,210
21 Puebla 33,902 1.7% 5,076,686
22 Guanajuato 30,491 1.6% 4,663,032
23 Nayarit 26,979 1.4% 920,185
24 Tabasco 25,267 1.3% 1,891,829
25 México 21,355 1.1% 13,096,686
25 Hidalgo 20,813 1.1% 2,235,591
27 Querétaro 11,449 0.6% 1,404,306
28 Aguascalientes 5,471 0.3% 944,285
29 Colima 5,191 0.3% 542,627
30 Morelos 4,950 0.2% 1,555,296
31 Tlaxcala 4,016 0.2% 962,646
32 Distrito Federal 1,479 0.1% 8,605,239
Population figures per 2000 Census (INEGI )
