Chiapas | |
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Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas | |
Anthem: Himno a Chiapas | |
![]() State o Chiapas athin Mexico | |
Coordinates: 16°24′36″N 92°24′31″W / 16.41000°N 92.40861°W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
Caipital | Tuxtla Gutiérrez |
Lairgest Ceety | Tuxtla Gutiérrez |
Municipalities | 118 |
Admission | 14 September 1824[1] |
Order | 19t[a] |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | Juan Sabines Guerrero ![]() |
• Senators[2] | Manuel Velasco ![]() María Elena Orantes ![]() Rubén Velázquez ![]() |
• Deputies[3] | Federal Deputies
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Area | |
• Total | 73289 km2 (28,297 sq mi) |
Rankit 10t | |
Highest elevation | 4080 m (13,390 ft) |
Population (2010)[6] | |
• Total | 4,796,580 |
• Rank | 7t |
• Density | 65/km2 (170/sq mi) |
• Density rank | 15t |
Demonym(s) | Chiapaneco (a) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Postal code | 29 – 30 |
Aurie code | Aurie codes
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ISO 3166 code | MX-CHP |
HDI | ![]() |
GDP | US$ 11,957,977.89 th[b] |
Website | Offeecial Wab Steid |
^ a. By the will of the people of Chiapas expressed by direct vote for incorporation into the Federation. ^ b. The state's GDP wis 153,062,117 thoosan o pesos in 2008,[7] amoont correspondin tae 11,957,977.89 million o dollars, being a dollar wirth 12.80 pesos (value o 3 Juin 2010).[8] |
Chiapas (Spaingie pronunciation: [ˈtʃjapas]), offeecially Free an Sovereign State o Chiapas (Spaingie: Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is ane o the 31 states that, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit in 118 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Tuxtla Gutierrez. Ither important ceeties in Chiapas include San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán, an Tapachula. Locatit in Soothwastren Mexico, it is the soothmaist State o Mexico. It is bordered bi the states o Tabasco tae the north, Veracruz tae the northwast an Oaxaca tae the wast. Tae the east Chiapas borders Guatemala, an tae the sooth the Paceefic Ocean.
Chiapas is hame tae the auncient Mayan ruins o Palenque, Yaxchilán, Bonampak, an Chinkultic. It is hame tae ane o the lairgest indigenous populations in the kintra wi twal federally recognizit ethnicities an aw. Hintle o the state’s history is centred on the subjugation o thir fowks wi occasional rebellions. The last o thir rebellions wis the 1994 Zapatista uprisin, which succeedit in obtainin new richts for indigenous fowk but dividit hintle o the indigenous fowks o the state an aw.
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