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Tabasco Map
Every municipality, city and town in Tabasco on one zoomable map, with its main highways, rivers and lakes. Switch on towns and municipalities above the map and zoom in for every name; tap a municipality to see its population, area and largest towns.
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Tabasco municipalities map
Key facts
- Capital
- Villahermosa
- Largest city
- Villahermosa (340,060)
- Population
- 2,521,237 (2025)
- Area
- 24,738 km² (9,551 sq mi)
- Municipalities of Tabasco
- 17
- Most populous municipality
- Centro (704,777)
- Largest municipality by area
- Huimanguillo, 3,718 km² (1,436 sq mi)
About Tabasco
Tabasco has 17 municipalities and about 2,521,237 people (2025) on 24,738 km² (9,551 sq mi). Villahermosa is both the capital and the largest city, with 340,060 people (2020). It borders Campeche, Chiapas, Veracruz and Guatemala.
Centro is the most populous municipality (704,777 people) and Emiliano Zapata the least (31,488); Huimanguillo is the largest by area (3,718 km²) and Jalpa de Méndez the smallest (370 km²).
Largest cities in Tabasco
The 25 most populous cities and towns. All 63 are on the map above: switch on Towns and zoom in to see them.
| # | City | Municipality | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villahermosa | Centro | 340,060 |
| 2 | Cárdenas | Cárdenas | 80,454 |
| 3 | Comalcalco | Comalcalco | 43,035 |
| 4 | Tenosique de Pino Suárez | Tenosique | 34,946 |
| 5 | Pomoca | Nacajuca | 31,592 |
| 6 | Macuspana | Macuspana | 31,435 |
| 7 | Teapa | Teapa | 29,068 |
| 8 | Huimanguillo | Huimanguillo | 27,182 |
| 9 | Paraíso | Paraíso | 25,555 |
| 10 | Frontera | Centla | 23,024 |
| 11 | Playas del Rosario (Subteniente García) | Centro | 22,934 |
| 12 | Emiliano Zapata | Emiliano Zapata | 22,469 |
| 13 | Cunduacán | Cunduacán | 21,003 |
| 14 | Ocuiltzapotlán | Centro | 17,972 |
| 15 | Jalpa de Méndez | Jalpa de Méndez | 16,679 |
| 16 | Benito Juárez (San Carlos) | Macuspana | 14,400 |
| 17 | Balancán | Balancán | 13,944 |
| 18 | Macultepec | Centro | 11,848 |
| 19 | Nacajuca | Nacajuca | 10,956 |
| 20 | Tecolutilla | Comalcalco | 10,734 |
| 21 | Parrilla II | Centro | 10,427 |
| 22 | Anacleto Canabal 3ra. Sección | Centro | 10,066 |
| 23 | Parrilla | Centro | 10,036 |
| 24 | Vicente Guerrero | Centla | 9,354 |
| 25 | Bosque de Saloya | Nacajuca | 9,160 |
Populations are INEGI's Encuesta Intercensal 2025 estimates for 15 October 2025 of the people living in private dwellings; the 17 municipalities add up to the state's 2,521,237. The state's total on the Mexico map, 2,527,009, also counts the 5,772 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 Tabasco
All 17 municipalities. Select one to show it on the map.
| Balancán | 60,055 | 3,577 | |
| Cárdenas | 248,833 | 2,050 | |
| Frontera | 120,373 | 2,698 | |
| Villahermosa | 704,777 | 1,718 | |
| Comalcalco | 218,111 | 768 | |
| Cunduacán | 148,150 | 599 | |
| Emiliano Zapata | 31,488 | 592 | |
| Huimanguillo | 212,490 | 3,718 | |
| Jalapa | 38,870 | 592 | |
| Jalpa de Méndez | 100,493 | 370 | |
| Jonuta | 32,876 | 1,645 | |
| Macuspana | 170,217 | 2,429 | |
| Nacajuca | 153,126 | 535 | |
| Paraíso | 113,994 | 409 | |
| Tacotalpa | 47,651 | 735 | |
| Teapa | 54,507 | 421 | |
| Tenosique de Pino Suárez | 65,226 | 1,882 |
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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.