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Tlaxcala | |
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Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala | |
Motto(s): Cuna de la Nación (Cradle o the Naition) | |
Anthem: Himno a Tlaxcala | |
State o Tlaxcala athin Mexico | |
Coordinates: 19°25′44″N 98°09′39″W / 19.42889°N 98.16083°W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
Caipital | Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl |
Lairgest Ceety | Vicente Guerrero |
Municipalities | 60 |
Admission | December 9, 1856[1] |
Order | 22nt |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | Mariano González Zarur |
• Senators[2] | Alfonso Sánchez Minerva Hernández Rosalía Peredo |
• Deputies[3] | |
Area | |
• Total | 3991 km2 (1,541 sq mi) |
Rankit 31st | |
Highest elevation | 4420 m (14,500 ft) |
Population (2010)[6] | |
• Total | 1,169,936 |
• Rank | 28t |
• Density | 290/km2 (760/sq mi) |
• Density rank | 3rd |
Demonym(s) | Tlaxcalteca |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
Postal code | 90 |
Aurie code | |
ISO 3166 code | MX-TLA |
HDI | 0.808 High Rankit 23rd |
GDP | US$ 3,601,104.7 th[a] |
Website | Official Web Site |
^ a. The state's GDP wis 46,094,141 thoosan o pesos in 2008,[7] amunt correspondin tae 3,601,104.7 thoosan of dollars, being a dollar wirth 12.80 pesos (value o 3 Juin 2010).[8] |
Tlaxcala (Spaingie: [tɬa(k)sˈkala], Nahuatl: [tɬaʃˈkalːan]), offeecially Free an Sovereign State o Tlaxcala (Spaingie: Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala), is ane o the 31 states which alang wi the Federal Destrict comprise the 32 federative entities o Mexico. It is dividit intae 60 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Tlaxcala.
It is locatit in East-Central Mexico, in the altiplano region, wi the eastren portion dominatit bi the Sierra Madre Oriental.[9] It is bordered bi the states o Puebla tae the north, east an sooth, México tae the wast an Hidalgo tae the northwast. It is the smawest state o the republic, accoontin for anerlie 0.2% o the kintra’s territory.[9]
The state is namit efter its caipital, Tlaxcala, which wis the name o the pre-Hispanic ceety an cultur an aw. The Tlaxcalans alleed thairsels wi the Spaingie tae defeat the Aztecs, wi concessions frae the Spaingie that allouit the territory tae remain maistly intact throughoot 300 years o colonial period.[10] Efter Mexican Unthirldom, Tlaxcala wis declared a federal territory, till 1857 when it wis admittit as a state o the federation.
Maist o the state’s economy is based on agricultur, licht industry an tourism. The tourist industry is ruitit in Tlaxcala’s lang history wi major attractions bein aircheological steids sic as Cacaxtla an colonial constructions in an aroond Tlaxcala ceety.[11]