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.
Photo: Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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, usually just called Tuxtla, is the capital of Chiapas, and a busy government, commercial and services-oriented city. 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 320,000 people in Chiapas. Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.- Type: State
- Description: state of Mexico
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
- Neighbors: Oaxaca, Tabasco and Veracruz
Destinations
Toniná
Toniná is an ancient Maya city near Ocosingo in Chiapas. Photo: Simon Burchell, 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.San Juan Chamula
San Juan Chamula is a town in Chiapas. San Juan Chamula is the main town of the indigenous Chamula people who live in the area. Photo: diego cue, CC BY-SA 3.0.Catazajá
Catazajá is a small and sleepy village of 17,000 people in Chiapas, Mexico close to Palenque. Photo: José coliaza, CC BY-SA 4.0.Ocosingo
Ocosingo is a city of 48,000 people in Chiapas. Ocosingo is also known as the "Gateway to the Lacandon Jungle", and has several archaeological sites. Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0.Chiapas
Latitude of center
16.5° or 16° 30' northLongitude of center
-92.5° or 92° 30' westPopulation
4,250,000Elevation
1,365 metres (4,478 feet)Abbreviation
CHPAbbreviation
ChisOpenStreetMap ID
node 305626894GeoNames ID
3531011Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Chiapas
- Arabic: Chiapas
- Arabic: تشياباس
- Arabic: ولاية تشياباس
- Aragonese: Chiapas
- Aragonese: Estato de Chiapas
- Armenian: Չիապաս
- Armenian: Չյապաս
- Asturian; Bable: Chiapas
- Aymara: Chiapas Istadu
- Basque: Chiapas
- Belarusian: Ч'япас
- Belarusian: Ч’япас
- Belarusian: штат Ч'япас
- Bengali: চিয়াপাস
- Bosnian: Chiapas
- Breton: Chiapas
- Bulgarian: Чиапас
- Catalan: Chiapas
- Catalan: Estat de Chiapas
- Cebuano: Estado de Chiapas
- Cheyenne: Chiapas
- Chinese: Chiapas Chiu
- Chinese: 恰帕斯
- Chinese: 恰帕斯州
- Cornish: Chiapas
- Croatian: Chiapas
- Czech: Chiapas
- Danish: Chiapas
- Dutch: Chiapas
- Esperanto: Chiapas
- Esperanto: Ĉiapaso
- Esperanto: Ĉiapo
- Estonian: Chiapas
- Estonian: Chiapase osariik
- Finnish: Chiapas
- French: Chiapas
- French: État de Chiapas
- Gallegan: Chiapas
- Gallegan: Estado de Chiapas
- Georgian: ჩიაპასი
- German: Chiapas
- Greek: Τσιάπας
- Gujarati: ચીઆપાસ
- Hebrew: צ'יאפס
- Hebrew: צ'יאפס בפנורמה הלאומית
- Hindi: चियापास
- Hungarian: Chiapas
- Ido: Chiapas
- Iloko: Chiapas
- Inari Sami: Chiapas
- Indonesian: Chiapas
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Chiapas
- Irish: Chiapas
- Italian: Chiapas
- Japanese: チアパス
- Japanese: チアパス州
- Japanese: チャパス州
- Kannada: ಚಿಯಾಪಾಸ್
- Korean: 치아파스
- Korean: 치아파스 주
- Korean: 치아파스주
- Kurdish: Chiapas
- Ladino: Chiapas
- Lao: Chiapas
- Latin: Chiapa
- Latin: Chiapae
- Latvian: Čjapasa
- Lithuanian: Čiapas
- Lithuanian: Čiapasas
- Lithuanian: Čiapaso valstija
- Macedonian: Чијапас
- Malagasy: Chiapas
- Malay (generic): Chiapas
- Marathi: चियापास
- Marathi: च्यापास
- Mazanderani: چیاپاس
- Min Nan Chinese: Chiapas Chiu
- Northern Frisian: Chiapas (Bundesstoot)
- Northern Frisian: Chiapas
- Northern Sami: Chiapas
- Norwegian: Chiapas
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chiapas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chiapas
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Chiapas
- Pampanga: Chiapas
- Persian: چیاپاس
- Piemontese: Chiapas
- Polish: Chiapas
- Portuguese: Chiapas
- Quechua: Chiapas suyu
- Raeto-Romance: Chiapas
- Romanian: Chiapas
- Russian: Чиапас
- Russian: Чьяпас (Мексика)
- Russian: Чьяпас
- Russian: штат Чьяпас
- Sardinian: Chiapas
- Sardinian: Tziapas
- Scots: Chiapas
- Serbian: Chiapas
- Serbian: Estado de Chiapas
- Serbian: Држава Чиапас
- Serbian: Чиапас
- Serbian: Чијапас
- Serbo-Croatian: Chiapas
- Serbo-Croatian: Čijapas
- Serbo-Croatian: Čjapas
- Sinhalese: චියපාස්
- Skolt Sami: Chiapas
- Slovak: Chiapas
- Spanish: Chiapas
- Spanish: Estado de Chiapas
- Swahili (generic): Chiapas
- Swedish: Chiapas
- Tagalog: Chiapas
- Tajik: Чяпас
- Tamil: சியாபாஸ்
- Tatar: Чьяпас
- Telugu: చియాపస్
- Thai: Chiapas
- Thai: Chiapaz
- Thai: รัฐเชียปัส
- Turkish: Chiapas
- Ukrainian: Чьяпас
- Ukrainian: Чіапас
- Urdu: چیاپاس
- Uzbek: Chiapas
- Uzbek: Chyapas
- Venetian: Chiapas
- Vietnamese: Chiapas
- Waray (Philippines): Chiapas
- Welsh: Chiapas
- Western Panjabi: چیاپاز
- Wu Chinese: 恰帕斯州
- Yue Chinese: 恰帕斯州
- Chiapan
- Chiapān
- Chiyapan
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