Guadalajara metropolitan area

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Guadalajara metropolitan area
Guadalajara – Zapopan – Tlaquepaque - Tonalá - Tlajomulco
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Metropolitan Area
Country Mexico
StateJalisco
Largest cityGuadalajara
Other cities
Area
 • Total2,740 km2 (1,056 sq mi)
Highest elevation
1,870 m (6,131.14 ft)
Lowest elevation
1,050 m (3,442.6 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1][2]
 • Total5,268,642
 • Density1,897.29/km2 (4,914.0/sq mi)

The Guadalajara metropolitan area (officially, in Spanish: Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara)[2] is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the third largest in the country after Greater Mexico City and Monterrey. It includes the core municipality of Guadalajara and the surrounding municipalities of Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, El Salto, Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos and Juanacatlán.[2]

Population[]

Guadalajara metropolitan area

The Guadalajara metropolitan area had a total population of 4,796,603 in 2015,[3] distributed in eight municipalities. (For more up-to-date data see the Spanish version of this article.)

No. Municipality Population
Census 2010[4]		 Population
Census 2015[5]		 Area in
km2		 Inhabitants
per km2 (2015)
Detailed Guadalajara metropolitan area population data by INEGI, 2005
1 Guadalajara 1,495,189 1,460,148 187.91 7,770.5
2 Zapopan 1,243,756 1,332,272 893.15 1,491.7
3 Tlaquepaque 608,114 664,193 270.88 2,452.0
4 Tonalá 478,689 536,111 119.58 4,483.3
5 Tlajomulco de Zúñiga 416,626 549,442 636.93 862.6
6 El Salto 138,226 183,437 41.50 4,420.2
7 Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos 41,060 53,045 184.25 287.9
8 Juanacatlán 13,218 17,955 89.08 201.6
Total GMA 4,434,878 4,796,603 2,734.0 1,754.4
Total population and growth rate (INEGI, 2005)[2]
Data Year
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Total population of the GMA 3,003,868 3,482,417 3,699,136 4,095,853 4,434,878
Average annual growth rate 2,7% 1,4% 29,7% 1,7% 1,55%

References[]

  1. ^ Consejo Nacional de Población, México; Proyecciones de la Población de México 2005-2050 Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2008-10-18.
  2. ^ a b c d Consejo Nacional de Población, México; Delimitación de las zonas metropolitanas de México 2005 Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2008-10-18.
  3. ^ INEGI 2015 census data
  4. ^ http://www.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/TabuladosBasicos/preliminares2010.aspx Censo de Población y Vivienda 2010 Resultados preliminares
  5. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática, México (web).
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