Municipalities of Mexico

Municipality
*Municipio* (Spanish)
Municipality ; Municipio (Spanish)
	Municipalities of Mexico
Category	Municipio / Municipality
Location	Mexico
Found in	Mexican states
Number	2,462 (as of December 2024)
Populations	Smallest:; 81 (Santa Magdalena Jicotlán, Oax.); Largest:; 1,922,523 (Tijuana, B.C.)
Areas	Smallest:; 2.2 km2 (0.85 sq mi) (Natividad, Oax.); Largest:; 32,953.3 km2 (12,723.3 sq mi) (Mulegé, B.C.S.)
Government	Municipal council (Ayuntamiento);
Subdivisions	Localities;

Municipalities (Spanish: Municipios) are the administrative divisions under the states of Mexico according to the constitution. Municipalities are considered as the second-level administrative divisions by the federal government. However, some state regulations have designed intrastate regions to administer their own municipalities. Municipalities are further divided into localities in the structural hierarchy of administrative divisions of Mexico. As of December 2024, there are 2,462 municipalities in Mexico.^[1]

In Mexico, municipalities should not be confused with cities (Spanish: ciudades). Cities are locality-level divisions that are administered by the municipality. Although some larger cities are consolidated with its own municipality and form a single level of governance. In addition, the 16 boroughs of Mexico City are considered municipality equivalent, this makes the total number of municipality-level divisions to be 2,478.

The internal political organization and their responsibilities are outlined in the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution^[2] and detailed in the constitutions of the states to which they belong. Municipalities are distinct from cities, a form of Mexican locality, and are divided into colonias (neighborhoods); some municipalities can be as large as full states, while cities can be measured in basic geostatistical areas or city blocks.

^ https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/03/27/estos-son-los-municipios-de-mas-reciente-creacion-en-mexico-se-encuentran-en-guerrero/
^ Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (Article 115) (in Spanish). 1917. Retrieved January 5, 2018.

[1] ttps://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/03/27/estos-son-los-municipios-de-mas-reciente-creacion-en-mexico-se-encuentran-en-guerrero/

[2] Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (Article 115) (in Spanish). 1917. Retrieved January 5, 2018.

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