List of Cities in Mexico by Population (All 453 Cities)

List of cities in Mexico. Unlike other pages, this list includes all 453 cities in Mexico.

The definition of a city varies by country. Mexico has 2,462 municipalities, but only a fraction of those count as cities. In Mexico, a place’s status is defined by its population: if a place has more than 15,000 residents, it is called a city in the country’s official National Urban System.

This list of cities in Mexico generator includes all 453 Mexican cities with over 15,000 residents. The cities and data on their populations come from the most recent 2020 census statistics, released in 2024.

While pages like Wikipedia have their own lists of Mexican cities, these pages only limit their lists to the biggest cities. As far as I know, no other page lists all the cities in an easily readable format. The list includes the cities, their states and populations in decreasing order. The names of the cities link to the cities on Google Maps.

All the cities also appear in my random Mexican city generator.

List of Cities in Mexico with over 1,000,000 People

Mexican Cities with 500,000–1,000,000 People

Mexican Cities with 100,000–500,000 People

Mexican Cities with 50,000–100,000 People

List of Cities in Mexico with Population between 25,000 and 50,000

List of Cities in Mexico with less than 25,000 People

My Own Travels in Mexico

I once spent over three months traveling through Mexico on public transport. As I traveled from town to town, I ended up seeing many smaller places with very few tourists. I started the journey by crossing the border in Nogales and traveled all the way to Yucatán.

One of my favorite memories from that journey is staying with my local Couchsurfing hosts in Hermosillo, Sonora. My hosts told me they wanted to meet me just to ask why on earth I was in Hermosillo!

My journey through Mexico was part of a longer journey. At the time, I was on a mostly flightless two-year trip around the world.

About This List of Cities in Mexico

Originally, this website focused on my own mostly flightless travels. However, I have later created over 100 random destination generators for different countries all over the world. As I created a random city generator for Mexico, I ended up creating a list of all Mexican cities sorted by population.

As I did not see such a list of cities in Mexico available elsewhere, I decided to post the data here to see if others will discover it and find it useful.