Mexico City megalopolis


The Mexico City megalopolis, also known as the Megalopolis of Central Mexico, is a megalopolis containing Greater Mexico City and surrounding metropolitan areas.
In 1996, the Programa General de Desarollo Urbano del Distrito Federal first proposed the concept of a "Megalopolis of Central Mexico", which was later expanded by PROAIRE, a metropolitan commission on the environment.
A megalopolis is known in Spanish as a circuito regional de ciudades. The Megalopolis of Central Mexico includes the metropolitan areas of Mexico City, Puebla, Cuernavaca, Toluca and Pachuca, which may also form complex subregional rings themselves.
The megalopolis consists of 173 municipalities and the 16 boroughs of the Federal District, with an approximate total population of almost 27 million people.
Some sources include Greater Querétaro city, with a population of over a million, in a Mexico City megalopolis; the city is also part of the fast-growing macroregion of Bajío.

Component metropolitan areas

RankMetropolitan AreaFederative Entity2010 Pop.2000 Pop.Change
1Greater Mexico CityDF, Mexico, Hidalgo--
4Greater PueblaPuebla, Tlaxcala--
5Greater TolucaMexico--
10Greater QuerétaroQuerétaro--
15Greater CuernavacaMorelos--
29Greater PachucaHidalgo--
30Tlaxcala-ApizacoTlaxcala--
32Greater CuautlaMorelos--
47Greater TulaHidalgo--
Total Mexico City megalopolis--