Tabasco

Tabasco is a state in southeastern . Tabasco receives the nickname of the Eden of Mexico, for the exuberance of its flora, the variety of its fauna and its quantity of natural beauties.
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is the capital city of the state of Tabasco. This city is both a modern city and one of the oldest in Mexico, with a rich history dating back to the early 1500s.

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is a small city in the Gulf coast area of Tabasco, . It is a very old Maya community known as the westernmost city-state of the Yucatán Maya civilization.

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is a small city of about 35,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Tabasco. It is best known as the source of a traditional dance called el Pocho.

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is a city of 80,000 people in Tabasco. Cárdenas is a progressive city, a vital center for the oil, sugar, rice and chocolate industries; as well as an important communications hub inside and outside the state, as it is crossed by federal highway 180, which connects the Southeast region with the center of the country.

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is a city of 26,000 people in Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico. Much of the area is traditionally dedicated to fishing and agriculture. Today, it is also an oil-producing area with the mostly oil-dedicated port of Dos Bocas.

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is a small city of about 14,000 people in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the . The town saw upheaval and conflict through the colonial era with the local Maya community resisting Spanish invaders.

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is a small city of less than 30,000 people in the southern Mexico state of Tabasco. People visit for its colonial architecture and heritage and for its natural attractions including scenic rocky rivers, rolling hills, natural baths, and underground caves.

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is a scenic small town in Mexico's southern state of Tabasco. Buildings are all painted white with red trim and have red roofs. Surrounded by jungle, abundant natural scenery invites hiking and exploration.

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is a protected wetlands environment in the state of Tabasco in southern . It is the largest swamp in North America and encompasses the deltas of both the Usamacinta River and the Grijalva River.

Tabasco

  • Type: State with 2,400,000 residents
  • Description: state of Mexico
  • Also known as: “Chontalpan”, “Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco”, “État de Tabasco”, “MX-TAB”, “Onohualco”, “Onōhualco”, “Onōhuālco”, “Svobodna in suverena država Tabasco”, “Tab.”, “Tabasco (Bundesstaat)”, “Tabasco State”, “Tabasko valstija”, “Tobasco”, “Држава Табаско”, “ტაბასკო”, “ولاية تاباسكو”, “टबॅस्को”, “เขตบุลลิซา”, “타바스코”, and “塔瓦斯科州”
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: state of Mexico and locality
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
17.9999° or 17° 59′ 60″ north
Longitude of center
-92.6682° or 92° 40′ 5″ west
Population
2,400,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Abbreviation
“TAB”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305626607
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3516458
Wiki­data ID
Q80914
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tabasco” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tabasco”
  • Amharic: “ታባስኮ”
  • Arabic: “تاباسكو”
  • Aragonese: “Tabasco”
  • Armenian: “Տաբասկո”
  • Asturian: “Tabasco”
  • Aymara: “Tabasco Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tabasko”
  • Balinese: “Tabasco”
  • Basque: “Tabasco”
  • Belarusian: “Табаска”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Табаска”
  • Bengali: “তাবাসকো”
  • Breton: “Tabasco”
  • Bulgarian: “Табаско”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Tabasco”
  • Catalan: “Tabasco”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Tabasco”
  • Chechen: “Табаско”
  • Cherokee: “ᏔᏆᏍᎪ”
  • Cheyenne: “Tabasco”
  • Chinese: “塔巴斯科州”
  • Cornish: “Tabasco”
  • Corsican: “Tabasco”
  • Croatian: “Tabasco”
  • Czech: “Tabasco”
  • Danish: “Tabasco”
  • Dutch: “Tabasco”
  • Esperanto: “Tabasco”
  • Estonian: “Tabasco osariik”
  • Estonian: “Tabasco”
  • Finnish: “Tabasco”
  • French: “Tabasco”
  • Galician: “Tabasco”
  • Georgian: “ტაბასკოს შტატი”
  • German: “Tabasco”
  • Greek: “Ταμπάσκο”
  • Gujarati: “તાબાસ્કો”
  • Hausa: “Tabasko”
  • Hebrew: “טבסקו”
  • Hindi: “टबैस्को”
  • Hindi: “ताबास्को”
  • Hungarian: “Tabasco”
  • Icelandic: “Tabasco”
  • Iloko: “Tabasco”
  • Indonesian: “Tabasco”
  • Interlingua: “Tabasco”
  • Irish: “Tabasco”
  • Italian: “Tabasco”
  • Japanese: “タバスコ州”
  • Javanese: “Tabasco”
  • Kannada: “ಟಬಾಸ್ಕೋ”
  • Kannada: “ತಬಾಸ್ಕೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tabasko”
  • Kazakh: “Табаско”
  • Kirghiz: “Табаско”
  • Korean: “타바스코주”
  • Ladino: “Tabasco”
  • Ladino: “Tabasko”
  • Latin: “Tabasca”
  • Latin: “Tabascum”
  • Latvian: “Tabasko”
  • Lithuanian: “Tabaskas”
  • Macedonian: “Табаско”
  • Malagasy: “Tabasco”
  • Malay: “Tabasco”
  • Malayalam: “ടബാസ്കോ”
  • Marathi: “ताबास्को”
  • Mazanderani: “تاباسکو ایالت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tabasco Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tabasco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tabasco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tabasco i Mexico”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tabasco”
  • Norwegian: “Tabasco”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tabasco”
  • Oromo: “Tabaaskoo”
  • Ossetian: “Табаско”
  • Pampanga: “Tabasco”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਬਾਸਕੋ”
  • Persian: “ایالت تاباسکو”
  • Piemontese: “Tabasco”
  • Pipil: “Tabasco”
  • Polish: “Tabasco”
  • Portuguese: “Tabasco”
  • Pushto: “تاباسکو”
  • Quechua: “Tabasco suyu”
  • Romanian: “Tabasco”
  • Romansh: “Tabasco”
  • Russian: “Табаско”
  • Sardinian: “Tabasco”
  • Sardinian: “Tabascu”
  • Scots: “Tabasco”
  • Serbian: “Табаско”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tabasco”
  • Sinhala: “ටබස්කෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ටැබස්කෝ ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Tabasco”
  • Slovenian: “Tabasco”
  • Somali: “Tabasco”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Tabasco”
  • Spanish: “Tabasco”
  • Swahili: “Tabasco”
  • Swedish: “Tabasco”
  • Tagalog: “Tabasco”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Табаско”
  • Tamil: “டபாஸ்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Табаско”
  • Telugu: “టబాస్కో”
  • Thai: “รัฐตาบัสโก”
  • Tumbuka: “Tabasco”
  • Turkish: “Tabasco”
  • Ukrainian: “Табаско”
  • Urdu: “تاباسکو”
  • Uzbek: “Tabasko”
  • Venetian: “Tabasco (stato)”
  • Venetian: “Tabasco”
  • Vietnamese: “Tabasco”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tabasco”
  • Welsh: “Tabasco”
  • Western Frisian: “Tabasco”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹابسکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔巴斯科州”
  • Yue Chinese: “塔巴斯科州”
  • “ma Tapako”
  • “Tabasco”

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