The Maya civilization extended throughout the present-day southern Mexican states of Chiapas , Tabasco , and the Yucatán Peninsula states of Quintana Roo , Campeche and Yucatán .
The area covered what we now call the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco , and the Yucatán Peninsula states of Quintana Roo , Campeche and Yucatán .