The Monterrey metropolitan area refers to the surrounding
urban agglomeration
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of
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 ...
,
Nuevo León
Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. Wit ...
. Officially called ''Area Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Monterrey'' or AMM, the metropolitan area is the
2nd-largest in Mexico.
Overview
The Monterrey metropolitan area is composed of the municipalities/cities of:
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Apodaca
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Cadereyta Jiménez
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Escobedo
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García
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Guadalupe
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Juárez
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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 ...
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Salinas Victoria
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San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza, sometimes known only as San Nicolás, is a city and coextensive municipality in the Mexican state of Nuevo León that is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area. It has become primarily a city for residences and family ...
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San Pedro Garza García
San Pedro Garza García ''(''also known as San Pedro or Garza García'')'' is a city-municipality of the Mexican state of Nuevo León and part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. It is a contemporary commercial suburb of the larger metropolitan c ...
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Santa Catarina
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Santiago
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There are three adjacent towns that do not maintain continuous urban development with the core
urban area
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. These towns are considered strategic as the metropolitan area grows and integrates them:
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Ciénega de Flores
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General Zuazua
General Zuazua Municipality is a municipality in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, it is located in the north-central part of the state, which has been called peripheral region because of its proximity to Monterrey metropolitan area. ...
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Pesquería
References
External links
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INEGI - Statistics of the ZMM - 2001* https://www.nuevoleon.gob.mx
Metropolitan areas of Mexico
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