Santa Ana Chiautempan is a city in
Chiautempan Municipality Chiautempan Municipality is one of the municipalities of Tlaxcala, Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It i ...
in the south-central part of the
Mexican state
The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...
of
Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala (; , ; from nah, Tlaxcallān ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 60 municipaliti ...
. The city serves as the municipal seat of the municipality, which covers an area of 66.21 km² (25.56 sq mi). At the 2005 census it had a population of 46,776 inhabitants, the fourth-largest community in the state in population (after
Villa Vicente Guerrero
San Pablo del Monte (formerly Villa Vicente Guerrero) is the largest city in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, and is the municipal seat of the municipality of San Pablo del Monte. It is located at the southernmost point in the state, near the border ...
,
Apizaco
Apizaco is a city in Apizaco Municipality located near the geographic center of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, approximately 25 minutes by car from the state's capital city of Tlaxcala. The city gets its name from the Nahuatl language words "ā ...
, and
Huamantla
Huamantla () is a small city in Huamantla Municipality located in the eastern half of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. The area has a long indigenous history, but the city itself was not founded until the early colonial period, in the 1530s. It is mo ...
). The city lies at the extreme western end of the municipality, which had a census population of 63,300 inhabitants.
Its largest other communities are the towns of
San Bartolomé Cuahuixmatlac,
San Pedro Tlalcuapan de Nicolás Bravo, and
San Pedro Muñoztla.
Sister cities
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Nampo
Nampo (North Korean official spelling: Nampho; ), also spelled Namp'o, is the second largest city by population and an important seaport in North Korea, which lies on the northern shore of the Taedong River, 15 km east of the river's mouth. ...
, North Korea
References
External links
Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
''(Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México)''
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Populated places in Tlaxcala