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Mexico States Quiz

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Mexico States Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered federal entity.Answer key

  1. Aguascalientes
  2. Baja California
  3. Baja California Sur
  4. Campeche
  5. Chiapas
  6. Chihuahua
  7. Coahuila
  8. Colima
  9. Durango
  10. Guanajuato
  11. Guerrero
  12. Hidalgo
  13. Jalisco
  14. Mexico City
  15. Michoacán
  16. Morelos
  17. Nayarit
  18. Nuevo León
  19. Oaxaca
  20. Puebla
  21. Querétaro
  22. Quintana Roo
  23. San Luis Potosí
  24. Sinaloa
  25. Sonora
  26. State of Mexico
  27. Tabasco
  28. Tamaulipas
  29. Tlaxcala
  30. Veracruz
  31. Yucatán
  32. Zacatecas

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Each federal entity is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a federal entity is answered.

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Northern Mexico 11

  1. Baja California Capital: Mexicali. The largest city is Tijuana. There the Pacific coast meets the US border. It became a state on January 16, 1952.
  2. Baja California Sur Capital: La Paz. It and Quintana Roo are the two newest states. Both were admitted on October 8, 1974. Only Colima has fewer people.
  3. Chihuahua Capital: Chihuahua. The largest state, 247,412.6 square kilometers. It has the longest stretch of the US border. The largest city is Ciudad Juárez, and Copper Canyon is in the southwest.
  4. Coahuila Capital: Saltillo. The official name is Coahuila de Zaragoza. It is the third largest state, on the US border, and it joined in 1824 as Coahuila y Tejas.
  5. Durango Capital: Durango. The city's full name is Victoria de Durango. It is the fourth largest state, admitted on May 22, 1824.
  6. Nuevo León Capital: Monterrey. It has the shortest stretch of the US border. Six states are on that border. It joined on May 7, 1824.
  7. San Luis Potosí Capital: San Luis Potosí. The city and the state share a name. It was admitted on December 22, 1823.
  8. Sinaloa Capital: Culiacán. The city's full name is Culiacán Rosales. One of four states on the Gulf of California. It joined on October 14, 1830.
  9. Sonora Capital: Hermosillo. The second largest state. It is on the US border and the Gulf of California. It joined on January 10, 1824 under the name Estado de Occidente.
  10. Tamaulipas Capital: Ciudad Victoria. The largest city is Reynosa. It is the only state on both the US border and the Gulf of Mexico.
  11. Zacatecas Capital: Zacatecas. The city and the state share a name. It was admitted on December 23, 1823.

Central Mexico 13

  1. Aguascalientes Capital: Aguascalientes. The city and the state share a name. It became a state on February 5, 1857.
  2. Colima Capital: Colima. It has the fewest people of any state. It had 731,391 in the 2020 census. The largest city is Manzanillo.
  3. Guanajuato Capital: Guanajuato. The largest city is León. It was admitted on December 20, 1823, second in the order of admission.
  4. Hidalgo Capital: Pachuca. The city's full name is Pachuca de Soto. It became a state on January 16, 1869.
  5. Jalisco Capital: Guadalajara. Only one state, the State of Mexico, has more people. Lake Chapala, the largest freshwater lake in the country, lies on the border with Michoacán.
  6. Mexico City Not formally a state. It is the national capital, and reforms that took effect on January 29, 2016 gave it more autonomy and a standing close to that of the states. Until then it was the Federal District. 9,209,944 people in the 2020 census
  7. Michoacán Capital: Morelia. The official name is Michoacán de Ocampo. It shares Lake Chapala, the largest freshwater lake in the country, with Jalisco.
  8. Morelos Capital: Cuernavaca. The second smallest state. The volcano Popocatépetl, 5,393 meters, lies partly here and partly in Puebla and the State of Mexico.
  9. Nayarit Capital: Tepic. It became a state on January 26, 1917.
  10. Puebla Capital: Puebla. The city's full name is Puebla de Zaragoza. Pico de Orizaba, the highest mountain in Mexico at 5,636 meters, stands on the border with Veracruz.
  11. Querétaro Capital: Querétaro. The city and the state share a name. It was admitted on December 23, 1823.
  12. State of Mexico Capital: Toluca. It has the most people of any state. It had 16,992,418 in the 2020 census. It was first in the order of admission, on December 20, 1823. The largest city is Ecatepec.
  13. Tlaxcala Capital: Tlaxcala. The city's full name is Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl. It is the smallest state, 3,996.6 square kilometers. Only Mexico City is smaller on this map.

Southern Mexico and the Yucatan 8

  1. Campeche Capital: Campeche. The city's full name is San Francisco de Campeche. One of three states on the Guatemala border, with Tabasco and Chiapas.
  2. Chiapas Capital: Tuxtla Gutiérrez. One of three states on the Guatemala border. The others are Tabasco and Campeche. The Pacific coast of Mexico ends here, near Tapachula.
  3. Guerrero Capital: Chilpancingo. The city's full name is Chilpancingo de los Bravo. The largest city is Acapulco. It became a state on October 27, 1849.
  4. Oaxaca Capital: Oaxaca. The city's full name is Oaxaca de Juárez. It is the fifth largest state, admitted on December 21, 1823.
  5. Quintana Roo Capital: Chetumal. The largest city is Cancún. It is the state on the Belize border, which mostly follows the Hondo River. Admitted on October 8, 1974.
  6. Tabasco Capital: Villahermosa. It borders Guatemala. The Usumacinta and Grijalva rivers join in its Centla wetlands.
  7. Veracruz Capital: Xalapa. The official name is Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave. The largest city is also called Veracruz. Pico de Orizaba, 5,636 meters, stands on the border with Puebla.
  8. Yucatán Capital: Mérida. It shares its peninsula with Campeche and Quintana Roo. It joined on December 23, 1823 as the Federated Republic of Yucatán.

How this list was compiled: State names, capitals, largest cities, areas, 2020 census populations and admission dates written for this site and checked on 2026-09-19 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_Mexico. Official long names checked the same day against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:MX. The standing of Mexico City (not formally a state, more autonomy since the reforms of January 29, 2016, counted as one of 32 federal entities) follows the list of states and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City, read on 2026-09-19. Border states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala%E2%80%93Mexico_border and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize%E2%80%93Mexico_border. Coasts and the peninsula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_California, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n_Peninsula and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_of_Mexico. Landmarks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_de_Orizaba, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chapala, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Canyon and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Mexico, all read on 2026-09-19. Neighbors and coasts named in the hints were worked out from the drawing itself. The three groups are this site's own, made for zooming, and are not an official division of Mexico. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 102°W, standard parallels 17.5°N and 29.5°N. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

Mexico has 31 states, and this Mexico states quiz adds Mexico City to make 32 shapes on a blank map. Mexico City and Tlaxcala are too small to tap, so each has a numbered ring set off to the northeast.

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Start with one region, not all 32

The hard part of any Mexican states quiz is the crowded center. The sets under Start from cut a round down to Northern Mexico (11 states), Central Mexico (12 states and Mexico City) or Southern Mexico and the Yucatan (8 states), and the map zooms in to match. A wrong tap shows the right state. After the round, Practise the ones you missed replays only those.

Capitals are shown, not asked

After each answer a detail line names the state capital and one checked fact. The capital is often not the largest city: Tijuana is larger than Mexicali, and Cancún is larger than Chetumal. Print blank turns the Mexico states map quiz into a worksheet: a numbered map with 32 answer lines.

  • Learn the six states on the US border from west to east: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.
  • Keep the three places named Mexico apart. Typing only Mexico is marked wrong for both the State of Mexico and Mexico City.
  • The big peninsula in the southeast is three states: Campeche on the west, Yucatán at the northern tip and Quintana Roo on the Caribbean side.

Questions and answers

Does Mexico have 31 states or 32?

It has 31 states. Mexico City, the 32nd shape here, is the national capital and not formally a state. Reforms that took effect in 2016 brought its standing close to a state's, so official counts list 32 federal entities, the term this page's counter uses.

Can I use this Mexican states map quiz in class?

Yes. It runs in a browser with no sign-up, on a projector or a phone. Typed answers forgive missing accents, so Michoacan and Yucatan count, as do Estado de Mexico and the short form CDMX. The labeled print works as the answer key.

What else would a Mexico geography quiz ask?

Usually borders and landmarks, and the detail lines cover both. Six states touch the United States, three touch Guatemala, and Quintana Roo is the one on the Belize border. Pico de Orizaba, the country's highest mountain at 5,636 meters, stands between Puebla and Veracruz.

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