Guadalajara Metropolitan Area

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The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (officially, in Spanish: Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara) is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the second largest in the country after Greater Mexico City. It includes the core municipality of Guadalajara and the surrounding municipalities of Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, El Salto, Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos and Juanacatlán.

Population

The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area had a total population of 4,095,853 in 2005, which had grown to an estimated 4,298,715 in 2008.

{| |- ! No. ||Municipality || Population »Jalisco - Selected population by municipality Retrieved on 2009-05-08.|| Area ||Pop/ha |-bgcolor="f5f5f5" |+ Detailed Guadalajara Metropolitan Area population data by INEGI, 2005 |

1 | Guadalajara |align="right"| 1.600.940 |align="right"|187,91 |align="right"|158,6 |-bgcolor="#EFEFEF" |
2 | Zapopan |align="right"| 1.155.790 |align="right"|893,15 |align="right"|115,9 |- |
3 | Tlaquepaque |align="right"| 563.006 |align="right"|270,88 |align="right"|128,8 |-bgcolor="#EFEFEF" |
4 | Tonalá |align="right"| 408.729 |align="right"|119,58 |align="right"|137,3 |- |
5 | Tlajomulco de Z. |align="right"| 220.630 |align="right"|636,93 |align="right"|74,7 |-bgcolor="#EFEFEF" |
6 | El Salto |align="right"| 111.436 |align="right"|41,5 |align="right"|66,0 |- |
7 | Ixtlahuacán de los M. |align="right"| 23.420 |align="right"|184,25 |align="right"|45,5 |-bgcolor="#EFEFEF" |
8 | Juanacatlán |align="right"| 11.902 |align="right"|89,08 |align="right"|51,4 |- |
- | Total GMA |align="right"| 4.095.853 |align="right"|2.734,0 |align="right"|133,2 |}


{| |-bgcolor="f5f5f5" |+Total population and growth rate (INEGI, 2005) ! rowspan="2" align="center" style= "width: 15em" | Data ! colspan="4" align="auto" |Year |-bgcolor="f5f5f5" ! align="center" style="width: 06em"|1990 ! align="center" style="width: 06em"|1995 ! align="center" style="width: 06em"|2000 ! align="center" style="width: 06em"|2005 |- |align="left"|Total population of the GMA |align="center"|3.003.868 |align="center"|3.482.417 |align="center"|3.699.136 |align="center"|4.095.853 |-"f0f0f0" |align="right"|Average annual growth rate |align="center"|2,7% |align="center"|1,4% |align="center"|1,8% |align="center"|1,7% |}


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