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Key facts
- Capital
- Morelia
- Largest city
- Morelia (743,275)
- Population
- 4,868,274 (2025)
- Area
- 58,604 km² (22,627 sq mi)
- Municipalities of Michoacán
- 113
- Most populous municipality
- Morelia (920,863)
- Largest municipality by area
- Arteaga, 3,434 km² (1,326 sq mi)
About Michoacán
Michoacán has 113 municipalities and about 4,868,274 people (2025) on 58,604 km² (22,627 sq mi). Morelia is both the capital and the largest city, with 743,275 people (2020). It borders Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Querétaro and State of Mexico.
Morelia is the most populous municipality (920,863 people) and Zináparo the least (3,029); Arteaga is the largest by area (3,434 km²) and Aporo the smallest (58 km²).
Largest cities in Michoacán
The 25 most populous cities and towns. All 146 are on the map above: switch on Towns and zoom in to see them.
| # | City | Municipality | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morelia | Morelia | 743,275 |
| 2 | Uruapan | Uruapan | 299,523 |
| 3 | Zamora de Hidalgo | Zamora | 154,546 |
| 4 | Apatzingán de la Constitución | Apatzingán | 102,362 |
| 5 | La Piedad de Cabadas | La Piedad | 87,042 |
| 6 | Heróica Zitácuaro | Zitácuaro | 86,901 |
| 7 | Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas | Lázaro Cárdenas | 83,637 |
| 8 | Ciudad Hidalgo | Hidalgo | 71,528 |
| 9 | Sahuayo de Morelos | Sahuayo | 70,042 |
| 10 | Jacona de Plancarte | Jacona | 61,510 |
| 11 | Pátzcuaro | Pátzcuaro | 60,811 |
| 12 | Zacapu | Zacapu | 55,287 |
| 13 | Los Reyes de Salgado | Los Reyes | 49,940 |
| 14 | Las Guacamayas | Lázaro Cárdenas | 39,613 |
| 15 | Maravatío de Ocampo | Maravatío | 39,425 |
| 16 | Puruándiro | Puruándiro | 32,333 |
| 17 | Nueva Italia de Ruiz | Múgica | 32,328 |
| 18 | Tacámbaro de Codallos | Tacámbaro | 30,519 |
| 19 | La Orilla | Lázaro Cárdenas | 27,291 |
| 20 | Yurécuaro | Yurécuaro | 26,691 |
| 21 | Jiquilpan de Juárez | Jiquilpan | 24,662 |
| 22 | Huetamo de Núñez | Huetamo | 23,836 |
| 23 | Paracho de Verduzco | Paracho | 21,215 |
| 24 | Ario de Rosales | Ario | 18,097 |
| 25 | Peribán de Ramos | Peribán | 17,652 |
Populations are INEGI's Encuesta Intercensal 2025 estimates for 15 October 2025 of the people living in private dwellings; the 113 municipalities add up to the state's 4,868,274. The state's total on the Mexico map, 4,889,574, also counts the 21,300 people INEGI estimates in collective dwellings and without a dwelling, which it publishes only for the whole state. Towns are INEGI's localities with their 2020 Census population: every municipal seat and every other locality of 5,000 people or more.
Municipalities of Michoacán
All 113 municipalities. Select one to show it on the map.
| Acuitzio del Canje | 11,886 | 176 | |
| Aguililla | 11,557 | 1,397 | |
| Álvaro Obregón | 20,238 | 160 | |
| Angamacutiro de la Unión | 14,334 | 240 | |
| Mineral de Angangueo | 9,540 | 77 | |
| Apatzingán de la Constitución | 116,883 | 1,640 | |
| Aporo | 3,248 | 58 | |
| Aquila | 24,014 | 2,267 | |
| Ario de Rosales | 36,372 | 695 | |
| Arteaga | 21,259 | 3,434 | |
| Briseñas de Matamoros | 13,654 | 68 | |
| Buenavista Tomatlán | 48,139 | 922 | |
| Carácuaro de Morelos | 8,993 | 918 | |
| Charapan | 13,873 | 234 | |
| Charo | 24,217 | 323 | |
| Chavinda | 9,451 | 152 | |
| Cherán | 23,669 | 222 | |
| Chilchota | 45,523 | 305 | |
| Villa Victoria | 3,939 | 1,022 | |
| Chucándiro | 4,606 | 192 | |
| Churintzio | 5,448 | 229 | |
| Churumuco de Morelos | 12,851 | 1,109 | |
| Coahuayana de Hidalgo | 15,616 | 366 | |
| Coalcomán de Vázquez Pallares | 18,484 | 2,826 | |
| Coeneo de la Libertad | 21,699 | 394 | |
| Cojumatlán de Régules | 10,349 | 131 | |
| Contepec | 30,596 | 379 | |
| Copándaro de Galeana | 10,223 | 173 | |
| Cotija de la Paz | 16,501 | 505 | |
| Cuitzeo del Porvenir | 30,812 | 254 | |
| Ecuandureo | 11,362 | 304 | |
| Epitacio Huerta | 16,507 | 424 | |
| Erongarícuaro | 16,393 | 244 | |
| Lombardía | 20,528 | 367 | |
| Ciudad Hidalgo | 123,880 | 1,143 | |
| Huandacareo | 11,348 | 96 | |
| Huaniqueo de Morales | 7,201 | 201 | |
| Huetamo de Núñez | 45,881 | 2,057 | |
| Huiramba | 9,120 | 79 | |
| Indaparapeo | 16,737 | 176 | |
| Irimbo | 16,920 | 127 | |
| Ixtlán de los Hervores | 14,123 | 124 | |
| Jacona de Plancarte | 71,241 | 119 | |
| Villa Jiménez | 12,460 | 194 | |
| Jiquilpan de Juárez | 38,512 | 243 | |
| Pastor Ortiz | 24,464 | 220 | |
| Benito Juárez | 15,003 | 141 | |
| Jungapeo de Juárez | 19,186 | 265 | |
| La Huacana | 29,272 | 1,952 | |
| La Piedad de Cabadas | 103,402 | 285 | |
| Lagunillas | 5,011 | 73 | |
| Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas | 204,693 | 1,153 | |
| Los Reyes de Salgado | 82,911 | 481 | |
| Villa Madero | 19,240 | 1,020 | |
| Maravatío de Ocampo | 90,773 | 698 | |
| San José de Gracia | 14,886 | 233 | |
| Morelia | 920,863 | 1,192 | |
| Villa Morelos | 8,280 | 183 | |
| Nueva Italia de Ruiz | 45,092 | 378 | |
| Nahuatzen | 38,515 | 304 | |
| Nocupétaro de Morelos | 8,216 | 546 | |
| Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro | 20,840 | 235 | |
| Nuevo Urecho | 9,189 | 330 | |
| Numarán | 9,787 | 77 | |
| Ocampo | 28,626 | 142 | |
| Pajacuarán | 22,525 | 170 | |
| Panindícuaro | 16,107 | 289 | |
| Paracho de Verduzco | 41,445 | 244 | |
| Parácuaro | 25,603 | 503 | |
| Pátzcuaro | 97,052 | 439 | |
| Penjamillo de Degollado | 15,121 | 371 | |
| Peribán de Ramos | 32,985 | 332 | |
| Purépero de Echáiz | 17,590 | 193 | |
| Puruándiro | 69,341 | 719 | |
| Queréndaro | 13,485 | 235 | |
| Quiroga | 31,806 | 213 | |
| Sahuayo de Morelos | 78,840 | 128 | |
| Santa Clara del Cobre | 55,918 | 488 | |
| San Lucas | 17,325 | 468 | |
| Santa Ana Maya | 11,817 | 104 | |
| Senguio | 20,215 | 250 | |
| Susupuato de Guerrero | 7,230 | 268 | |
| Tacámbaro de Codallos | 70,496 | 787 | |
| Tancítaro | 34,368 | 714 | |
| Santiago Tangamandapio | 31,829 | 316 | |
| Tangancícuaro de Arista | 33,430 | 385 | |
| Tanhuato de Guerrero | 16,657 | 228 | |
| Taretan | 15,953 | 185 | |
| Tarímbaro | 112,910 | 256 | |
| Tepalcatepec | 21,576 | 798 | |
| Tingambato | 16,723 | 190 | |
| Tingüindín | 15,603 | 173 | |
| Tiquicheo | 12,408 | 1,493 | |
| Tlalpujahua de Rayón | 28,778 | 197 | |
| Tlazazalca | 6,821 | 204 | |
| Tocumbo | 12,539 | 506 | |
| Tumbiscatío de Ruiz | 4,293 | 2,063 | |
| Turicato | 32,309 | 1,546 | |
| Tuxpan | 29,045 | 243 | |
| Tuzantla | 10,342 | 1,018 | |
| Tzintzuntzan | 14,072 | 184 | |
| Tzitzio | 7,788 | 941 | |
| Uruapan | 378,667 | 1,013 | |
| San Pedro Cahro | 23,953 | 228 | |
| Villamar | 15,410 | 350 | |
| Vista Hermosa de Negrete | 21,273 | 148 | |
| Yurécuaro | 38,553 | 174 | |
| Zacapu | 84,948 | 455 | |
| Zamora de Hidalgo | 210,099 | 335 | |
| Zináparo | 3,029 | 113 | |
| Zinapécuaro de Figueroa | 53,157 | 596 | |
| Ziracuaretiro | 20,491 | 160 | |
| Heróica Zitácuaro | 147,913 | 513 |
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Sources
- Municipalities and states: INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía), Marco Geoestadístico of the Encuesta Intercensal 2025; areas measured from these boundaries.
- Populations: INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal 2025, population in private dwellings by municipality at 15 October 2025 (main results by locality, open data); the state's total population: INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal 2025.
- Towns and municipal seats: INEGI, Catálogo Único de Claves de Áreas Geoestadísticas Estatales, Municipales y Localidades (AGEEML), with each locality's population in the Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.
- Federal highways: INEGI, Red Nacional de Caminos 2025 (with the SICT and the Mexican Institute of Transportation).
- Rivers: INEGI, Red Hidrográfica Digital de México 1:250 000, edition 1.0; lakes and reservoirs: INEGI, Red Hidrográfica 1:50 000, edition 2.0.