Chiapas
Chiapas is a state in southern Mexico. Chiapas is about as far south as you can get in Mexico. It borders Guatemala on the southeast, the Pacific on the southwest, and the states of Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Tabasco from west to northeast.Popular Destinations
Palenque
Palenque is in Chiapas, Mexico famous for the ruins of a Mayan city dating from about 600 to 800 CE. Photo: Ulises00, Public domain.Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Tuxtla Gutiérrez is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeast state of Chiapas. Photo: eduardorobles, CC BY 2.0.San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Cristóbal de las Casas is in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Photo: doctoraw, CC BY 2.0.Tapachula
Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez or simply Tapachula is a city of 197,000 people in Chiapas. Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.Destinations
Toniná
Tonina is an ancient Maya city near Ocosingo in Chiapas. Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0.Comitán
Comitán is the fourth-largest city in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Photo: Macetas10, CC BY-SA 3.0.Catazajá
Catazajá is a small and sleepy village in Chiapas, Mexico close to Palenque. Photo: Leonardsaers, CC BY-SA 3.0.Cañón del Sumidero
Sumidero Canyon is a deep natural canyon located just north of the city of Chiapa de Corzo in the state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. Photo: Tjeerd Wiersma from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0.Chiapas
- Location: Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
- Population: 5,220,000
- Latitude of center: 16.5° or 16° 30' north
- Longitude of center: -92.5° or 92° 30' west
- Elevation: 1365 meters (4478 feet)
- Neighbors: Oaxaca, Tabasco and Veracruz
- GeoNames ID: 3531011
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Chiapas
- Arabic: تشياباس
- Aragonese: Chiapas
- Armenian: Չիապաս
- Asturian: Chiapas
- Aymara: Chiapas Istadu
- Basque: Chiapas
- Belarusian: Ч’япас
- Belarusian: штат Ч'япас
- Bengali: চিয়াপাস
- Bosnian: Chiapas
- Breton: Chiapas
- Bulgarian: Чиапас
- Catalan: Chiapas
- Cebuano: Estado de Chiapas
- Cheyenne: Chiapas
- Chinese: 恰帕斯州
- Cornish: Chiapas
- Croatian: Chiapas
- Czech: Chiapas
- Danish: Chiapas
- Dutch: Chiapas
- Esperanto: Chiapas
- Estonian: Chiapas
- Estonian: Chiapase osariik
- Finnish: Chiapas
- French: Chiapas
- Galician: Chiapas
- Georgian: ჩიაპასი
- German: Chiapas
- Greek: Τσιάπας
- Gujarati: ચીઆપાસ
- Hebrew: צ'יאפס
- Hindi: चियापास
- Hungarian: Chiapas
- Iloko: Chiapas
- Indonesian: Chiapas
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Chiapas
- Irish: Chiapas
- Italian: Chiapas
- Japanese: チアパス州
- Kannada: ಚಿಯಾಪಾಸ್
- Korean: 치아파스 주
- Korean: 치아파스주
- Kurdish: Chiapas
- Ladino: Chiapas
- Latin: Chiapae
- Latvian: Čjapasa
- Lithuanian: Čiapasas
- Macedonian: Чијапас
- Malagasy: Chiapas
- Malay: Chiapas
- Marathi: च्यापास
- Mazanderani: چیاپاس
- Min Nan Chinese: Chiapas Chiu
- Northern Frisian: Chiapas (Bundesstoot)
- Norwegian: Chiapas
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chiapas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chiapas
- Occitan (post 1500): Chiapas
- Persian: چیاپاس
- Piemontese: Chiapas
- Polish: Chiapas
- Portuguese: Chiapas
- Quechua: Chiapas suyu
- Romanian: Chiapas
- Romansh: Chiapas
- Russian: Чьяпас
- Sardinian: Tziapas
- Scots: Chiapas
- Serbian: Чијапас
- Serbo-Croatian: Chiapas
- Sinhala: චියපාස්
- Slovak: Chiapas
- Spanish: Chiapas
- Swahili: Chiapas
- Swedish: Chiapas
- Tagalog: Chiapas
- Tajik: Чяпас
- Tamil: சியாபாஸ்
- Tatar: Чьяпас
- Telugu: చియాపస్
- Thai: รัฐเชียปัส
- Turkish: Chiapas
- Ukrainian: Чіапас
- Urdu: چیاپاس
- Uzbek: Chyapas
- Vietnamese: Chiapas
- Waray (Philippines): Chiapas
- Welsh: Chiapas
- Western Panjabi: چیاپاز
- Wu Chinese: 恰帕斯州
- Yue Chinese: 恰帕斯州
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