List of cities in Mexico facts for kids

Mexico is a big country with many cities! This list shows the 100 largest cities in Mexico based on how many people live there. This information comes from the 2020 Mexican National Census.

Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) says that a "locality" is any place with homes, whether people live in them or not, that has a name. Urban localities are places with more than 2,500 residents. These can be called cities, villages, or towns, depending on the rules of each state. In 2018, a group called CONAPO identified 401 urban places in Mexico with over 15,000 residents as "cities."

This list counts only the people living within the official city limits. It does not include the population of larger areas that might surround a city, known as metropolitan areas. If you want to see population numbers for these larger city areas, check out Metropolitan areas of Mexico.

Mexico's Top 100 Cities

Only one state in Mexico, Tlaxcala, does not have any cities on this list of the Top 100. Mexico City is special because its official area includes both city parts and some smaller, rural areas. All the map links in the table below show the same size area.

Here's a guide to the colors in the table:

‡ These cities are so large that they spread across more than one municipality (a type of local government area).

How Cities Are Distributed

Here's how the Top 100 cities were spread out in the 2020 Census:

The total population of these 100 cities is 57,930,969 people. This is about 46% of Mexico's entire population!

The average population for a city on this list is 579,310 people. The city in the middle of the list, when ordered by population, is Villahermosa.

From 2010 to 2020, the average growth for these cities was about 20.77%. This is higher than the national growth rate of 12.17%. The city in the middle of the list, when ordered by population growth, is Ixtapaluca.

See Also

In Spanish: Anexo:Ciudades más pobladas de México para niños

• List of most populous cities in Mexico by decade
• List of municipalities in Mexico by population
• Metropolitan areas of Mexico
• Demographics of Mexico