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The Veracruz metropolitan area (Zona metropolitana de Veracruz, ZMV) is a metropolitan area in Veracruz (state), Mexico formed by the city of Veracruz and its Veracruz municipality and five other municipalities.
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 Census in 2020, 2010 and 2000.
The largest municipality by population is Veracruz, with 607,209 residents (7.53% of the state's total), while the smallest is Landero y Coss with 1,543 residents. [2] The largest municipality by land area is Las Choapas which spans 3,508.90 km 2 (1,354.79 sq mi), and the smallest is Oteapan with 4.60 km 2 (1.78 sq mi). [3]
With a population of 7,110,214 (2005), Veracruz is the third most populous entity in the country, after the Federal District of Mexico City and the State of Mexico. Population growth has slowed in the state in the last decades, due to lower birthrates and the exodus of migrants, mostly men. Women outnumber men.
One of the first studies on a methodology to define and quantify the metropolitan areas in Mexico was published by El Colegio de México in 1978. In Luis Unikel's book "Urban Development in Mexico: Diagnosis and Future Implications", a metropolitan area was designated as "the territorial area that includes the political and administrative units from a central city, and any contiguous, urban ...
It is the state's most populous city, with a population that is greater than the municipality's population, as part of the city of Veracruz extends into the neighboring municipality of Boca del Río. At the 2020 census, Veracruz Municipality had a population of 607,209 inhabitants.
Currently there are 2,462 municipalities in Mexico. Although not formally a state, Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México), the capital city of United Mexican States and formerly designed as the Federal District (Spanish: Distrito Federal), has been made a separate federative entity that has autonomy on par with the states since a ...
In the 2020 census the city reported a population of 443,063 and the municipality of which it serves as municipal seat reported a population of 488,531. [3] The municipality has an area of 118.45 km 2. Xalapa lies near the geographic center of the state and is the second-largest city in the state after the city of Veracruz to the southeast.