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The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

state of Yucatán

Yucatán

Yucatán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 106 municipalities and its capital city is Mérida....

is made up of 106 municipios (municipalities
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

), organized into 9 administrative regions. Most of the names of the municipalities come from the Yucatec Maya language, which is still spoken by more of 30% of the population, according to INEGI (2000).

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INEGI National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Data Processing The National Institute of Statistic and Geography is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information of the country... code	Municipality	Municipal Seat	Municipality Population
001	Abalá	Abalá Abala Abala may refer to:Abala, BeninAbala, Congo, a district in the Republic of the CongoAbala, Nigeria, a town in NigeriaAbala, Niger, a town in NigerAbala , a district in EthiopiaAbala, Ethiopia, a town in that district...	5,976
002	Acanceh	Acanceh Acanceh Acanceh is an ancient Maya archaeological site located in Mexico's Yucatán state. The modern town of Acanceh, where the ruins are located, is 21 kilometers from Mérida, the capital of Yucatán. Acanceh means "groan of the deer" in the Yucatec Maya language....	14,312
003	Akil	Akil	9,765
004	Baca	Baca	5,357
005	Bokobá	Bokobá	1,958
006	Buctzotz	Buctzotz	8,379
007	Cacalchén	Cacalchén	6,399
008	Calotmul	Calotmul	3,839
009	Cansahcab	Cansahcab	4,738
010	Cantamayec	Cantamayec	2,283
011	Celestún	Celestún Celestún Celestún is a town in Yucatán, Mexico. It is located in the northwest corner of the state, just north of the border with the state of Campeche, on the Gulf of Mexico coast at....	6,269
012	Cenotillo	Cenotillo	3,540
013	Conkal	Conkal	8,495
014	Cuncunul	Cuncunul	1,503
015	Cuzamá	Cuzamá Cuzamá The Municipality of Cuzamá is one of the 106 municipalities in Yucatán state, Mexico. It is located in the east of the state and approximately 26 kilometers east of the city of Merida with its municipal seat located in the City of Cuzamá....	4,800
016	Chacsinkín	Chacsinkín	2,577
017	Chankom	Chankom	4,340
018	Chapab	Chapab	2,922
019	Chemax	Chemax Chemax The Municipality of Chemax is one of the 106 subdivisions of the State of Yucatán in Mexico. Its municipal seat is located in the City of Chemax.-Location:This municipality is located in the eastern part of the State of Yucatán...	30,023
020	Chicxulub Pueblo	Chicxulub Chicxulub, Yucatán Chicxulub is a town, and surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.At the census of 2005, the town had a population of 5,052 people....	3,848
021	Chichimilá	Chichimilá	7,439
022	Chikindzonot	Chikindzonot	4,045
023	Chocholá	Chocholá	4,339
024	Chumayel	Chumayel	2,937
025	Dzan	Dzan	4,587
026	Dzemul	Dzemul	3,263
027	Dzidzantún	Dzidzantún Dzidzantún Dzidzantún is a town in Mexico in the northeastern Yucatan. Its date of foundation is lost in the past, locked in its history forged by the great men in the majestic church of Santa Clara belonging to the Franciscan Order.- History :...	8,165
028	Dzilam de Bravo	Dzilam de Bravo	2,248
029	Dzilam González	Dzilam González	5,841
030	Dzitás	Dzitás	3,443
031	Dzoncauich	Dzoncauich	2,782
032	Espita	Espita Espita The municipality of Espita is one of the 106 subdivisions of the State of Yucatán in Mexico. Its municipal seat is located in the City of Espita and is located on the Litoral Oriente or Region 1 of the state...	14,432
033	Halachó	Halachó	18,125
034	Hocabá	Hocabá	5,824
035	Hoctún	Hoctún	5,586
036	Homún	Homún	6,951
037	Huhí	Huhí	4,497
038	Hunucmá	Hunucmá Hunucmá The Municipality of Hunucmá is one of the 106 subdivisions of the State of Yucatán in Mexico. Its municipal seat is the City of Hunucmá.-Location:The municipality is located in the metropolitan region of the State of Yucatán...	28,100
039	Ixil	Ixil	3,598
040	Izamal	Izamal Izamal Izamal is a small city in the Mexican state of Yucatán, 72 km east of state capital Mérida. Izamal was continuously occupied throughout most of Mesoamerican chronology; in 2000, the city's estimated population was 15,000 people...	24,334
041	Kanasín	Kanasín Kanasín Kanasín is one of the 106 municipalities located in the state of Yucatán in Mexico. It is in the west-central part of state and to the east of the municipality of Mérida, the state capital, and is a part of the Mérida metropolitan area....	51,774
042	Kantunil	Kantunil	5,362
043	Kaua	Kaua	2,556
044	Kinchil	Kinchil	5,964
045	Kopomá	Kopomá	2,217
046	Mama	Mama	2,697
047	Maní	Maní Maní, Yucatán Maní is a small city and surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is about 100 km to the south south-east of Mérida, Yucatán, some 16 km east of Ticul....	4,867
048	Maxcanú	Maxcanú Maxcanú Maxcanú is a large town in the western part of the Mexican state of Yucatán; it also functions as the seat for the Municipality of Maxcanú. It is located on Federal Highway 180, approximately 62 km south of Mérida....	20,830
049	Mayapán	Mayapán Mayapan Mayapan , is a Pre-Columbian Maya site a couple of kilometers south of the town of Telchaquillo in Municipality of Tecoh, approximately 40 km south-east of Mérida and 100 km west of Chichen Itza; in the state of Yucatán, Mexico...	2,972
050	Mérida	Mérida Mérida, Yucatán Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about from the Gulf of Mexico coast...	781,146
051	Mocochá	Mocochá	2,915
052	Motul	Motul de Carrillo Puerto	31,547
053	Muna	Muna Muna, Yucatán Muná is a small city in Yucatán state, Mexico, to the south of the state capital of Mérida at 20.48°N, 89.72°W. Muná had an estimated population of about 11,000 people in 2003. Muna is north of the Maya ruins of Uxmal....	11,763
054	Muxupip	Muxupip	2,627
055	Opichén	Opichén	5,619
056	Oxkutzcab	Oxkutzcab	27,084
057	Panabá	Panabá Panabá Panabá is one of 106 municipalities in the state of Yucatán, Mexico.It is located in the eastern region of the Yucatán Peninsula's northern coast. Panabá is also the name of the municipality's largest township that is its municipal seat...	7,543
058	Peto	Peto Peto, Yucatán Peto is one of 106 municipalities in Yucatán state, Mexico. It has a municipal seat of the same name and is located in the centre-south portion of the Mexican state of Yucatán, 135 km to the south-east of state capital Mérida.-Communities:...	22,386
059	Progreso	Progreso Progreso, Yucatán Progreso is a port city in the Mexican state of Yucatán, located on the Gulf of Mexico in the north-west of the state some 30 minutes north of state capital Mérida by highway. As of the Mexican census of 2005, Progreso had an official population of 35,519 inhabitants, the fifth-largest community...	49,454
060	Quintana Roo	Quintana Roo	965
061	Río Lagartos	Río Lagartos Río Lagartos Río Lagartos is a town in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. The town lies 42 kilometres north of Tizimín. Mérida is approximately 230 kilometres further....	3,272
062	Sacalum	Sacalum	4,272
063	Samahil	Samahil	4,764
064	Sanahcat	Sanahcat	1,526
065	San Felipe	San Felipe San Felipe, Yucatán The Municipality of San Felipe is one of the 106 subdivisions of the State of Yucatán in Mexico. Its municipal seat is located in the port town of San Felipe and is located on the north coast of the state, on the Gulf of Mexico...	1,838
066	Santa Elena	Santa Elena Santa Elena, Yucatán The Municipality of Santa Elena is one of the 106 municipalities in Yucatán state, Mexico. Its municipal seat is located in the City of Santa Elena.The municipality borders to the north the municipality of Muna, to the south Oxkutzcab and east Ticul, and to the west Halacho.-Communities:The...	3,617
067	Seyé	Seyé	8,997
068	Sinanché	Sinanché	2,972
069	Sotuta	Sotuta	8,081
070	Sucilá	Sucilá	3,714
071	Sudzal	Sudzal	1,560
072	Suma	Suma	1,768
073	Tahdziú	Tahdziú	3,891
074	Tahmek	Tahmek	3,501
075	Teabo	Teabo	5,602
076	Tecoh	Tecoh Tecoh Tecoh is one of 106 municipalities in Yucatán state, Mexico., located 40 km south-east of Mérida, Yucatán. It has a municipla capital of the same name. As of 2003, the city Tecoh had a population of about 8,500 people. Most of the population is Maya. A number of buildings in the town were built...	15,438
077	Tekal de Venegas	Tekal de Venegas	2,464
078	Tekantó	Tekantó Tekantó Tekantó is a small municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatan...	3,780
079	Tekax	Tekax de Álvaro Obregón	37,454
080	Tekit	Tekit	9,163
081	Tekom	Tekom Tekom Tekom Technologies, Inc. is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company, founded in 1996. Its headquarters are in Taipei, and it has an office in Shanghai and a factory in Guangdong....	2,933
082	Telchac Pueblo	Telchac	3,404
083	Telchac Puerto	Telchac Puerto Telchac Puerto This port town is located about one hour north east of the City of Merida and 30 minutes from Progreso, making it just far enough away from the denser population areas so that it maintains a laid-back feeling....	1,626
084	Temax	Temax	6,764
085	Temozón	Temozón Temozón The Municipality of Temozón is one of the 106 subdivisions of the State of Yucatán in Mexico. Its municipal seat is located in the City of Temozón.-Location:This municipality is located in the eastern region of the state...	14,008
086	Tepakán	Tepakán	2,091
087	Tetiz	Tetiz	4,468
088	Teya	Teya	1,968
089	Ticul	Ticul Ticul Ticul is one of 106 municipalities in Yucatán state, Mexico. It is located in the western part of the state at 100 km south of the state capital city of Mérida. The municipality, which has an area of 355.12 km² , in the 2005 census reported 25,621 inhabitants...	35,621
090	Timucuy	Timucuy	6,351
091	Tinúm	Tinúm	9,960
092	Tixcacalcupul	Tixcacalcupul	6,173
093	Tixkokob	Tixkokob Tixkokob Tixkokob is a town in the Mexican state of Yucatán, located in the north central part of the state. It is the seat of the municipality of Tixkokob and is located about 24 miles east of the city of Mérida...	16,151
094	Tixméhuac	Tixméhuac	4,329
095	Tixpéhual	Tixpéhual	5,001
096	Tizimín	Tizimín Tizimín Tizimín is one of the 106 municipalities of Yucatan with a municipal seat of the same name. The municipality is located in the north-east of the Mexican state of Yucatán, and it is the largest municipality in the state with a territory that is 11% of the total area of the state...	69,553
097	Tunkás Municipality of Tunkás Tunkás is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The municipal seat is a town of the same name, and there are various outlying settlements which also are a part of the municipality...	Tunkás	3,421
098	Tzucacab	Tzucacab Tzucacab The Municipality of Tzucacab is one of the 106 subdivisions of the State of Yucatán in Mexico. Its municipal seat is located in the City of Tzucacab.-Location:...	13,564
099	Uayma	Uayma Uayma Uayma is a town of 2300 inhabitants located in the center of the Yucatán Peninsula, about 15 kilometers north and west of Valladolid. In colonial times Uayma was a major stop on the El Camino Real between Mérida and Valladolid ....	2,997
100	Ucú	Ucú UCU UCU may stand for:Uganda Christian University, church-based university near Kampala, UgandaUkrainian Catholic University, Catholic university in Lviv, Ukraine*University College Utrecht, international Honors College of Utrecht University, Netherlands...	3,057
101	Umán	Umán Umán The Municipality of Umán is one of the 106 municipalities in Yucatán state, Mexico. Its municipal seat is located in the City of Umán.Umán is located at, just southwest of the state capital in Mérida, and is part of the Mérida metropolitan area....	53,268
102	Valladolid Valladolid Municipality Valladolid Municipality has its seat in Valladolid, Yucatán in the southeastern part of the Mexican state of Yucatán.Valladolid is in the inland eastern part of the state at....	Valladolid Valladolid, Yucatán Valladolid is a small city in Valladolid Municipality in the southeastern part of the Mexican state of Yucatán. Valladolid is in the inland eastern part of the state....	68,863
103	Xocchel	Xocchel	2,935
104	Yaxcabá	Yaxcabá Yaxcabá The Municipality of Yaxcabá is one of the 106 subdivisions of the State of Yucatán in Mexico. Its municipal seat is located in the City of Yaxcabá.Yaxcabá means place of green earth.-Location:...	13,909
105	Yaxkukul	Yaxkukul	2,656
106	Yobaín	Yobaín	2,056

The nine administrative regions of Yucatán are as follows:
Región 1 Litoral Orente
Región 2 Orente
Región 3 Litoral Centro
Región 4 Centro
Región 5 Centro Sur
Región 6 Influencia Metropolitana
Región 7 Litoral Poniente
Región 8 Sur Poniente
Región 9 Sur

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