Northern Mexico
Chihuahua
Chihuahua Municipality

Chihuahua

Chihuahua is the capital of the state of in . The colonial center of Chihuahua is beautiful and pedestrian friendly. The centro has museums dedicated to Pancho Villa, another museum about the national mint, government palaces, and historic churches as well as luxurious mansions and villas.
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  • Type: City with 926,000 residents
  • Description: state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua
  • Also known as: “Altepetl Chihuahuah”, “Chihuahua City”, “San Felipe del Real de Minas Chihuahua”, and “San Francisco de Cuellar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of Chihuahua.

Church
Photo: Lyricmac, CC BY 2.5.
The Metropolitan Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross, Our Lady of Regla, and St Francis of Assisi is the main ecclesiastical building of the Catholic Church in Chihuahua City, , .

Chihuahua

Latitude
28.6369° or 28° 38′ 13″ north
Longitude
-106.0767° or 106° 4′ 36″ west
Population
926,000
Elevation
1,437 metres (4,715 feet)
IATA airport code
CUU
United Nations Location Code
MX CUU
Open location code
75WMJWPF+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273587922
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4014338
Wiki­data ID
Q61302
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chihuahua” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chihuahua”
  • Arabic: “تشيواوا”
  • Arabic: “شيواوا”
  • Armenian: “Չիուաուա”
  • Asturian: “Chihuahua City”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çiuaua şəhəri”
  • Balinese: “Kota Chihuahua”
  • Basque: “Chihuahua”
  • Belarusian: “Чыўаўа (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Чыўаўа (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Чыўаўа”
  • Bengali: “চিউয়াউয়া”
  • Breton: “Chihuahua”
  • Bulgarian: “Чиуауа”
  • Catalan: “Chihuahua”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Chihuahua (kapital sa estado sa Mehiko)”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Chihuahua”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیواوا”
  • Chinese: “Chihuahua”
  • Chinese: “奇瓦瓦市”
  • Chinese: “契瓦瓦市”
  • Chinese: “芝華華市”
  • Chinese: “赤瓦瓦市”
  • Croatian: “Chihuahua, Chihuahua”
  • Croatian: “Chihuahua”
  • Czech: “Chihuahua”
  • Danish: “Chihuahua”
  • Dutch: “Chihuahua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيهواهوا”
  • Esperanto: “Chihuahua”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉihuahuo”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉiuaŭurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉivavo”
  • Estonian: “Chihuahua”
  • Finnish: “Chihuahua (kaupunki)”
  • Finnish: “Chihuahua”
  • French: “Chihuahua”
  • Galician: “Chihuahua”
  • Georgian: “ჩიუაუა”
  • German: “Chihuahua”
  • Greek: “Τσιουάουα”
  • Gujarati: “ચિહુઆહુઆ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יוואווה”
  • Hebrew: “ציוואווה”
  • Hindi: “चिहुआहुआ”
  • Hungarian: “Chihuahua”
  • Icelandic: “Chihuahua-borg”
  • Iloko: “Chihuahua”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Chihuahua”
  • Indonesian: “Chihuahua”
  • Irish: “Cathair Chihuahua”
  • Irish: “Chihuahua”
  • Italian: “Chihuahua”
  • Japanese: “チワワ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Chihuahua”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಹುವಾಹುವಾ”
  • Korean: “치와와”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Chihuahua”
  • Latvian: “Čivava”
  • Lithuanian: “Čihuahua”
  • Lithuanian: “Čiuaua”
  • Malay: “Chihuahua”
  • Marathi: “चिवावा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chihuahua”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩიუაუა”
  • Moksha: “Чиуауа (ошсь)”
  • Moksha: “Чиуауа”
  • Navajo: “Aʼą́ą́łání”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chihuahua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chihuahua by”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chihuahua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Chihuahua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chihuahua i Chihuahua”
  • Norwegian: “Chihuahua by”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chihuahua (vila)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chihuahua”
  • Ossetian: “Чиуауæ”
  • Persian: “چیئوائوا، چیئوائوا”
  • Persian: “چیئوائوا٬ چیئوائوا”
  • Persian: “چیهواهوا٬ چیهواهوا”
  • Persian: “چی‌واوا (ایالت چی‌واوا)”
  • Persian: “چیواوا٬ چیواوا”
  • Persian: “چی‌واوا”
  • Polish: “Chihuahua”
  • Portuguese: “Chihuahua”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Chihuahua”
  • Quechua: “Chihuahua”
  • Romanian: “Chihuahua, Chihuahua”
  • Romanian: “Chihuahua”
  • Russian: “Чиуауа”
  • Russian: “Чихуахуа”
  • Scots: “Chihuahua, Chihuahua”
  • Scots: “Chihuahua”
  • Serbian: “Чивава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chihuahua, Chihuahua”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chihuahua”
  • Silesian: “Chihuahua”
  • Sinhala: “චින්හුආහුආ”
  • Slovak: “Chihuahua”
  • Slovenian: “Chihuahua”
  • Spanish: “Chihuahua Chihuahua”
  • Spanish: “Chihuahua”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Chihuahua”
  • Spanish: “Villa de San Francisco de Cuellar”
  • Spanish: “Villa de San Francisco de Cuéllar”
  • Swahili: “Chihuahua, Chihuahua”
  • Swahili: “Chihuahua”
  • Swedish: “Chihuahua (delstatshuvudstad)”
  • Swedish: “Chihuahua”
  • Tagalog: “Chihuahua”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Chihuahua”
  • Tamil: “ச்சிஹுவஹுவ”
  • Tatar: “Чивава”
  • Telugu: “చిహ్వహ్వ”
  • Thai: “ชิวาวา”
  • Turkish: “Chihuahua”
  • Ukrainian: “Чіуауа”
  • Urdu: “چہواہوا”
  • Venetian: “Chihuahua”
  • Vietnamese: “Chihuahua”
  • Volapük: “Chihuahua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chihuahua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Chihuahua”
  • Wu Chinese: “奇瓦瓦市”
  • Yue Chinese: “Chihuahua市”
  • Yue Chinese: “芝華華市”
  • “Altepetl Chihuahhua”
  • “Āltepētl Chihuahhua”
  • “Altepetl Chihuahua”
  • “Āltepētl Chihuahua”
  • “Āltepētl Chihuahuac”
  • “Chihuahhua”
  • “Chihuahua”
  • “Chihuahuac”

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