page_title: Municipalities of Mexico
section_title: By area
hierarchical_section_title: Municipalities of Mexico / Ranking of municipalities / By area
caption_attribution_description: English: The port of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Español: El puerto ensenadense. Français&#160;: Le port d'Ensenada, en Basse-Californie (Mexique).
context_page_description: Municipalities are the second-level administrative divisions of Mexico, where the first-level administrative division is the state. As of the establishment of two new municipalities in Chiapas in September 2017, there are 2,448 municipalities in Mexico, not including the 16 delegaciones of Mexico City. The internal political organization and their responsibilities are outlined in the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution and detailed in the constitutions of the states to which they belong. Municipalities are distinct from cities, a form of Mexican locality; some municipalities as large as states, while cities can be measured in city blocks.
context_section_description: Data from Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial by the Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal.
  Please note that on February 12th, 2020, the congress of the state of Baja California unanimously voted for the incorporation of the municipality of San Quintín, wholly from the southern part of the municipality of Ensenada, first place in the table below. The official population and area figures of this new municipality, as well as the reduced municipality of Ensenada might be published later in 2020 as part of the 2020 census data, or else it will be made known later in the decade, even as late as the next Intercensal Survey to be taken in 2025.
caption: Ensenada
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