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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 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.

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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.

Tabasco

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”
  • Arabic: “تاباسكو”
  • Arabic: “ولاية تاباسكو”
  • Aragonese: “Tabasco”
  • Armenian: “Տաբասկո”
  • Asturian: “Tabasco”
  • Aymara: “Tabasco Istadu”
  • 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: “Tabasco Chiu”
  • Chinese: “塔巴斯科州”
  • Chinese: “塔瓦斯科州”
  • Cornish: “Tabasco”
  • Corsican: “Tabasco”
  • Croatian: “Tabasco”
  • Czech: “Tabasco”
  • Danish: “Tabasco”
  • Danish: “Tobasco”
  • Dutch: “Tabasco”
  • Esperanto: “Tabasco”
  • Esperanto: “Tabasko”
  • Estonian: “Tabasco osariik”
  • Estonian: “Tabasco”
  • Finnish: “Tabasco”
  • French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco”
  • French: “État de Tabasco”
  • French: “MX-TAB”
  • French: “Tabasco”
  • Galician: “Tabasco”
  • Georgian: “ტაბასკო”
  • Georgian: “ტაბასკოს შტატი”
  • German: “MX-TAB”
  • German: “Tabasco (Bundesstaat)”
  • German: “Tabasco”
  • Greek: “Ταμπάσκο”
  • Gujarati: “તાબાસ્કો”
  • Hebrew: “טבסקו”
  • Hindi: “टबैस्को”
  • Hungarian: “Tabasco”
  • Icelandic: “Tabasco”
  • Iloko: “Tabasco”
  • Indonesian: “Tabasco”
  • Interlingua: “Tabasco”
  • Irish: “Tabasco”
  • Italian: “Tabasco”
  • Japanese: “タバスコ州”
  • Kannada: “ಟಬಾಸ್ಕೋ”
  • Kannada: “ತಬಾಸ್ಕೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tabasko”
  • Korean: “타바스코”
  • Korean: “타바스코주”
  • Ladino: “Tabasco”
  • Ladino: “Tabasko”
  • Latin: “Tabasca”
  • Latin: “Tabascum”
  • Latvian: “Tabasko”
  • Lithuanian: “Tabaskas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tabasko valstija”
  • Macedonian: “Табаско”
  • Malagasy: “Tabasco”
  • Malay: “Tabasco”
  • Malayalam: “Tabasco”
  • Malayalam: “ടബാസ്കോ”
  • Marathi: “टबॅस्को”
  • Marathi: “ताबास्को”
  • Mazanderani: “تاباسکو ایالت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tabasco Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tabasco (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tabasco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tabasco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tabasco i Mexico”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tabasco”
  • Norwegian: “Tabasco”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tabasco”
  • Ossetian: “Табаско”
  • Pampanga: “Tabasco”
  • Persian: “ایالت تاباسکو”
  • Persian: “تاباسکو”
  • Piemontese: “Tabasco”
  • Polish: “Estado de Tabasco”
  • Polish: “Tabasco”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Tabasco”
  • Portuguese: “Tabasco”
  • Quechua: “Tabasco suyu”
  • Romanian: “Tabasco”
  • Romansh: “Tabasco”
  • Russian: “Табаско”
  • Sardinian: “Tabasco”
  • Sardinian: “Tabascu”
  • Scots: “Tabasco”
  • Serbian: “Estado de Tabasco”
  • Serbian: “Tabasco”
  • Serbian: “Држава Табаско”
  • Serbian: “Табаско”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tabasco”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tabasko”
  • Sinhala: “ටබස්කෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ටැබස්කෝ ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Tabasco”
  • Slovenian: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco”
  • Slovenian: “MX-TAB”
  • Slovenian: “Svobodna in suverena država Tabasco”
  • Slovenian: “Tabasco”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Tabasco”
  • Spanish: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco”
  • Spanish: “Tabasco”
  • Swahili: “Tabasco”
  • Swedish: “Tabasco”
  • Tagalog: “Tabasco”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Табаско”
  • Tamil: “டபாஸ்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Табаско”
  • Telugu: “టబాస్కో”
  • Thai: “Tabasco”
  • Thai: “เขตบุลลิซา”
  • 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 Panjabi: “ٹابسکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔巴斯科州”
  • Yue Chinese: “塔巴斯科州”
  • “Chontalpan”
  • “Onohualco”
  • “Onōhualco”
  • “Onōhuālco”
  • “Tabasco”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tabasco”. Photo: Alfonsobouchot, CC0.