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, 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, simply known as Tapachula, is a city and municipality located in the far southeast of the state of Chiapas in Mexico, near the Guatemalan border and the Pacific Ocean. 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
- Type: State
- Description: state of Mexico
- Category: state of Mexico
- Location: Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
- Neighbors: Oaxaca, Tabasco and Veracruz
Latitude of center 16.5° or 16° 30' north | Longitude of center -92.5° or 92° 30' west |
Population 4,250,000 | Abbreviation CHP |
Abbreviation Chis | Elevation 1365 metres (4478 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 305626894 | GeoNames ID 3531011 |
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Chiapas
- Arabic: Chiapas
- Arabic: تشياباس
- Arabic: ولاية تشياباس
- Aragonese: Chiapas
- Aragonese: Estato de Chiapas
- Armenian: Չիապաս
- Armenian: Չյապաս
- Asturian: 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
- Galician: Chiapas
- Galician: 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
- 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: Chiapas
- Marathi: चियापास
- Marathi: च्यापास
- Mazanderani: چیاپاس
- Min Nan Chinese: Chiapas Chiu
- Northern Frisian: Chiapas (Bundesstoot)
- Northern Frisian: Chiapas
- Norwegian: Chiapas
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chiapas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chiapas
- Occitan (post 1500): Chiapas
- Pampanga: Chiapas
- Persian: چیاپاس
- Piemontese: Chiapas
- Polish: Chiapas
- Portuguese: Chiapas
- Quechua: Chiapas suyu
- Romanian: Chiapas
- Romansh: 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
- Sinhala: චියපාස්
- Slovak: Chiapas
- Spanish: Chiapas
- Spanish: Estado de Chiapas
- Swahili: 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
- 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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