State of Mexico

Tlaxcala

Tlaxcala is a state of Mexico. It covers about 3,870 km² (1,500 mi²), the 31st largest of the 32 states in Natural Earth’s file for Mexico, and about the same size as Cape Verde. About 1.3 million people live there (Wikidata, 2015).

In area0.99×the size ofCape Verde3,930 km² In people1.01×as many people asMauritius1.3 million

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Area, measured	3,870 km²1,500 mi²
Official area	3,990 km²Wikidata · 3.0% above our measure
Share of Mexico	0.2%of the area of the 32 states
Rank by area	31st of 32states of Mexico
Population	1.3 millionWikidata, 2015
Density	329 people per km²
Capital	Tlaxcala de Xicoténcatl
Latitude range	19°N to 20°N
Type	StateMX-TLA

What the numbers say about Tlaxcala

Tlaxcala covers 0.2% of the area of Mexico and ranks 28th of 32 by population, against 31st by area.
It would take 506 states the size of Tlaxcala to cover Mexico.
The largest, Chihuahua, is 64.0× the size of Tlaxcala; the smallest, Mexico City, is 36% of it.
Closest in size within Mexico: Morelos (5,080 km², 1.31×) and Aguascalientes (5,550 km², 1.43×).
Counted as a country, Tlaxcala would be larger than 63 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 177th by area, between South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (3,920 km²) and French Polynesia (3,340 km²).
With 1.3 million people it would rank 159th of 238 by population.
Tlaxcala has 329 people per km², about the density of Japan, which has 331 per km².
That makes Tlaxcala the 4th most densely populated of the 32 states, 5.35× the average for Mexico (61 per km²).
Tlaxcala lies at 19°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, Tlaxcala stretches about 70 km north to south and 115 km east to west.
Our measured 3,870 km² is 3.0% below Wikidata's official figure of 3,990 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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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 Tlaxcala

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Where Tlaxcala sits in Mexico

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What the numbers say about Tlaxcala

About the same size as

About as many people as

Beside the regions of other countries

Where Tlaxcala sits in Mexico

Ranked within Mexico

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