State of Mexico

Querétaro

Querétaro is a state of Mexico. It covers about 11,700 km² (4,520 mi²), the 27th largest of the 32 states in Natural Earth’s file for Mexico, and 1.05× the size of Qatar. About 2.0 million people live there (Wikidata, 2015).

In area1.05×the size ofQatar11,200 km² In people1.01×as many people asGabon2.0 million

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Facts

Area, measured	11,700 km²4,520 mi²
Official area	11,700 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Mexico	0.6%of the area of the 32 states
Rank by area	27th of 32states of Mexico
Population	2.0 millionWikidata, 2015
Density	174 people per km²
Capital	Santiago de Querétaro
Latitude range	20°N to 22°N
Type	StateMX-QUE

What the numbers say about Querétaro

Querétaro covers 0.6% of the area of Mexico and ranks 22nd of 32 by population, against 27th by area.
It would take 167 states the size of Querétaro to cover Mexico.
The largest, Chihuahua, is 21.2× the size of Querétaro; the smallest, Mexico City, is 12% of it.
Closest in size within Mexico: Hidalgo (21,300 km², 1.82×) and State of Mexico (21,800 km², 1.87×).
Counted as a country, Querétaro would be larger than 77 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 163rd by area, between Vanuatu (12,300 km²) and Falkland Islands (11,600 km²).
With 2.0 million people it would rank 147th of 238 by population.
Querétaro has 174 people per km², about the density of Guatemala, which has 159 per km².
That makes Querétaro the 8th most densely populated of the 32 states, 2.83× the average for Mexico (61 per km²).
Querétaro lies at 21°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
Laid out flat, Querétaro stretches about 190 km north to south and 159 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 11,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 11,700 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2015. Mexico’s units share the 2015 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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What the numbers say about Querétaro

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Where Querétaro sits in Mexico

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What the numbers say about Querétaro

About the same size as

About as many people as

Beside the regions of other countries

Where Querétaro sits in Mexico

Ranked within Mexico

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