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POPULATION OF MEXICO.
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try, as has already been pointed out, has never yet been brought under the rule of civil authority. A census, however, taken in 1879 and officially published in the "Annales del Ministerio de Fomento" reported the population as 9,908,011;* but by some
*Table showing the Population and Area in Square Miles of each of the States of Mexico, according to the Census of 1879.
| Order of density of population. |
NAME OF STATE. | Area in square miles. |
Number of population. |
Population per square mile. |
| 1 | The Federal District (city of Mexico) |
463 | 351,804 | 759 |
| 2 | State of Mexico | 7,840 | 710,579 | 90 |
| 3 | ""Morelos | 1,776 | 159,160 | 89 |
| 4 | ""Tlaxcala | 1,622 | 138,958 | 85 |
| 5 | ""Guanajuato | 11,413 | 834,845 | 73 |
| 6 | ""Puebla | 12,019 | 784,466 | 65 |
| 7 | ""Querétaro | 3,205 | 203,250 | 63 |
| 8 | ""Hidalgo | 8,161 | 427,350 | 52 |
| 9 | ""Agual Calientes | 2,897 | 140,430 | 48 |
| 10 | ""Michoacan | 23,714 | 661,534 | 27 |
| 11 | ""Jalisco | 39,174 | 983,484 | 25 |
| 12 | ""Oaxaca | 33,582 | 744,400 | 22 |
| 13 | ""Vera Cruz | 26,535 | 542,928 | 20 |
| 14 | ""San Luis Potosi | 27,503 | 516,486 | 18 |
| 15 | ""Zacatecas | 22,999 | 422,506 | 18 |
| 16 | ""Colima | 3,746 | 65,827 | 17 |
| 17 | ""Chiapas | 16,048 | 205,362 | 12 |
| 18 | ""Guerrero | 24,552 | 295,590 | 12 |
| 19 | ""Yucatan | 29,569 | 302,315 | 10 |
| 20 | ""Tabasco | 11,849 | 104,747 | 8 |
| 21 | ""Nuevo Leon | 23,637 | 203,284 | 8 |
| 22 | ""Sinaloa | 36,220 | 186,491 | 5 |
| 23 | ""Tamaulipas | 27,916 | 140,137 | 5 |
| 24 | ""Durango | 42,511 | 190,846 | 4 |
| 25 | ""Campeachy | 25,834 | 90,413 | 3 |
| 26 | ""Chihuahua | 83,751 | 225,541 | 2 |
| 27 | ""Coahuila | 50,904 | 130,026 | 2 |
| 28 | ""Sonora | 79,020 | 115,424 | 1 |
| 29 | Territory of Lower California | 61,563 | 30,208 | ½ |
| Total for the Republic | 739,700 | 9,908,011 | 13·4 |
