Chiapas

Chiapas
State
Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas
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Anthem: Himno a Chiapas
State o Chiapas athin Mexico
Coordinates: 16°24′36″N 92°24′31″W / 16.41000°N 92.40861°W / 16.41000; -92.40861
Kintra	Mexico
Caipital	Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Lairgest Ceety	Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Municipalities	118
Admission	14 September 1824[1]
Order	19t[a]
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Juan Sabines Guerrero
• Senators[2]	Manuel Velasco María Elena Orantes Rubén Velázquez
• Deputies[3]	Federal Deputies • Roberto Albores • Sami David • Sergio Lobato • Julián Nazar • Hernán Orantes • César Augusto Santiago • Lucrecia Camacho • Ovidio Cortazar Ramos • Roberto Gil Zuarth • Gloria Luna Ruíz • José Manuel Marroquín • Carlos Martínez • Vladimir Ramos • Olga Espinosa • Ariel Gómez León • Sergio Gutiérrez • Luis Hernández Cruz • Juan Carlos López • Federico Ovalle • Magdalena Torres • Francisco Espinosa
Area [4]
• Total	73289 km2 (28,297 sq mi)
	Rankit 10t
Highest elevation [5]	4080 m (13,390 ft)
Population  (2010)[6]
• Total	4,796,580
• Rank	7t
• Density	65/km2 (170/sq mi)
• Density rank	15t
Demonym(s)	Chiapaneco (a)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Postal code	29 – 30
Aurie code	Aurie codes • 916 • 917 • 918 • 919 • 932 • 934 • 961 • 962 • 963 • 964 • 965 • 966 • 967 • 968 • 992 • 994
ISO 3166 code	MX-CHP
HDI	0.739 Medium Rankit 32nt
GDP	US$ 11,957,977.89 th[b]
Website	Offeecial Wab Steid
^ a. By the will of the people of Chiapas expressed by direct vote for incorporation into the Federation. ^ b. The state's GDP wis 153,062,117 thoosan o pesos in 2008,[7] amoont correspondin tae 11,957,977.89 million o dollars, being a dollar wirth 12.80 pesos (value o 3 Juin 2010).[8]

Chiapas (Spaingie pronunciation: [ˈtʃjapas]), offeecially Free an Sovereign State o Chiapas (Spaingie: Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is ane o the 31 states that, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit in 118 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Tuxtla Gutierrez. Ither important ceeties in Chiapas include San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán, an Tapachula. Locatit in Soothwastren Mexico, it is the soothmaist State o Mexico. It is bordered bi the states o Tabasco tae the north, Veracruz tae the northwast an Oaxaca tae the wast. Tae the east Chiapas borders Guatemala, an tae the sooth the Paceefic Ocean.

Chiapas is hame tae the auncient Mayan ruins o Palenque, Yaxchilán, Bonampak, an Chinkultic. It is hame tae ane o the lairgest indigenous populations in the kintra wi twal federally recognizit ethnicities an aw. Hintle o the state’s history is centred on the subjugation o thir fowks wi occasional rebellions. The last o thir rebellions wis the 1994 Zapatista uprisin, which succeedit in obtainin new richts for indigenous fowk but dividit hintle o the indigenous fowks o the state an aw.

1. ↑ "La diputación provincial y el federalismo mexicano" (in Spanish).CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
2. ↑ "Senadores por Chiapas LXI Legislatura". Senado de la Republica. Retrieved 21 October 2010.
3. ↑ "Listado de Diputados por Grupo Parlamentario del Estado de Chiapas". Camara de Diputados. Archived frae the original on 7 Januar 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
4. ↑ "Resumen". Cuentame INEGI. Archived frae the original on 7 Juin 2007. Retrieved 5 Apryle 2011.
5. ↑ "Relieve". Cuentame INEGI. Archived frae the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
6. ↑ "Mexico en Cifras". INEGI. Retrieved 5 Apryle 2011.
7. ↑ "Chiapas". 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
8. ↑ "Reporte: Jueves 3 de Junio del 2010. Cierre del peso mexicano". www.pesomexicano.com.mx. Archived frae the original on 7 Julie 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2010.