The Guadalajara metropolitan area (officially, in es, Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara)
is the most populous
metropolitan area of the
Mexican state
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of
Jalisco
Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal ...
and the third largest in the country after
Greater Mexico City and
Monterrey
Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is ancho ...
. It includes the core
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
of
Guadalajara and the surrounding municipalities of
Zapopan,
Tlaquepaque,
Tonalá,
Tlajomulco de Zúñiga,
El Salto,
Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos and
Juanacatlán.
Population
The Guadalajara metropolitan area had a total population of 4,796,603 in 2015,
INEGI 2015 census data
/ref> distributed in eight municipalities. (For more up-to-date data see the Spanish version of this article.)
References
{{Largest metropolitan areas of Mexico
Geography of Jalisco
Metropolitan areas of Mexico