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 * width=115 |STATES.
 * width=50 |Area in square kilometres.
 * width=50 |Total population.
 * width=50 |Average number of inhabitants to square kilometre.
 * width=115 |Capitals of the States.
 * width=50 |Number of inhabitants.
 * 1.
 * Aguascalientes
 * 5,776
 * 140,430
 * 24-30
 * Aguascalientes
 * 31,872
 * 2.
 * Lower California(Ter.)
 * 152,847
 * 23,195
 * 0-15
 * La Paz
 * 2,396
 * 3.
 * Campeche
 * 67,539
 * 86,299
 * 1-28
 * Campeche
 * 15,190
 * 4.
 * Coahuila de Zaragoza
 * 152,517
 * 104,131
 * 0-68
 * Saltillo
 * 11,340
 * 5.
 * Colima
 * 7,186
 * 65,827
 * 9-22
 * Colima
 * 28,572
 * 6.
 * Chiapas
 * 43,930
 * 219,735
 * 5-00
 * San Cristóbal de las Casas
 * 8,500
 * 7.
 * Chihuahua
 * 272,716
 * 180,758
 * 0-66
 * Chihuahua
 * 12,116
 * 8.
 * Federal District
 * 231
 * 354,340
 * 1533-94
 * Mexico, cap. of the Rep.
 * 241,110
 * 9.
 * Durango
 * 110,463
 * 190,846
 * 1-73
 * Durango
 * 27,119
 * 10.
 * Guanajuato
 * 20,276
 * 788,202
 * 38-87
 * Guanajuato
 * 56,112
 * 11.
 * Guerrero
 * 68,568
 * 308,716
 * 4-50
 * Chilpancingo de los Bravos.
 * 3,800
 * 12.
 * Hidalgo
 * 21,698
 * 434,096
 * 20-01
 * Pachuca de Guerrero
 * 12,500
 * 13.
 * Jalisco
 * 114,896
 * 994,900
 * 8-66
 * Guadalajara
 * 78,600
 * 14.
 * Mexico
 * 25,245
 * 696,038
 * 27-57
 * Toluca
 * 13,300
 * 15.
 * Michoacan de Ocampo
 * 55,693
 * 648,857
 * 11-65
 * Morelia
 * 20,400
 * 16.
 * Morelos
 * 4,536
 * 154,946
 * 34-16
 * Cuernavaca
 * 16,320
 * 17.
 * Nuevo-Leon
 * 35,156
 * 194,861
 * 5-11
 * Monterey
 * 15,300
 * 18.
 * Oaxaca
 * 70,838
 * 718,194
 * 10-14
 * Oaxaca de Juarez
 * 26,288
 * 19.
 * Puebla
 * 31,120
 * 704,372
 * 22-63
 * Puebla de Zaragoza
 * 64,588
 * 20.
 * Querétaro de Arteaga
 * 8,300
 * 179,915
 * 21-68
 * Querétaro
 * 27,560
 * 21.
 * San Luis Potosí
 * 71,210
 * 506,799
 * 7-12
 * San Luis Potosí
 * 34,300
 * 22.
 * Sinaloa
 * 69,211
 * 167,093
 * 2-41
 * Culiacan
 * 7,878
 * 23.
 * Sonora
 * 209,694
 * 139,140
 * 0-66
 * Ures
 * 9,700
 * 24.
 * Tabasco
 * 32,935
 * 93,887
 * 2-84
 * San Juan Bautista
 * 6,800
 * 25.
 * Tamaulipas
 * 75,191
 * 144,747
 * 1-92
 * Ciudad Victoria
 * 7,800
 * 26.
 * Tlaxcala
 * 8,898
 * 133,498
 * 34-25
 * Tlaxcala
 * 4,300
 * 27.
 * Vera Cruz
 * 71,116
 * 504,970
 * 7-10
 * Jalapa
 * 12,400
 * 28.
 * Yucatan
 * 84,585
 * 258,384
 * 3-37
 * Mérida
 * 32,000
 * 29.
 * Zacatecas
 * 68,596
 * 413,603
 * 6-03
 * Zacatecas
 * 32,000
 * 1,958,912
 * 9,577,279
 * 4-89
 * 854,101
 * }
 * Tlaxcala
 * 4,300
 * 27.
 * Vera Cruz
 * 71,116
 * 504,970
 * 7-10
 * Jalapa
 * 12,400
 * 28.
 * Yucatan
 * 84,585
 * 258,384
 * 3-37
 * Mérida
 * 32,000
 * 29.
 * Zacatecas
 * 68,596
 * 413,603
 * 6-03
 * Zacatecas
 * 32,000
 * 1,958,912
 * 9,577,279
 * 4-89
 * 854,101
 * }
 * 1,958,912
 * 9,577,279
 * 4-89
 * 854,101
 * }
 * 1,958,912
 * 9,577,279
 * 4-89
 * 854,101
 * }
 * 9,577,279
 * 4-89
 * 854,101
 * }
 * }

population of Mexico is divided into four great castes, as follows:

Whites (individuals born in Europe, Spanish Creoles born in America); Indians; negroes; a mixed race (mestizos from whites and Indians, mulattoes from whites and negroes, zambos from Indians and negroes).

The Indians outnumber the other inhabitants. They are variously estimated at from one half to three quarters of the entire population. They are a long-lived race, small