Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

Internet country code

GRC Country Code

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 17th May 2021

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The official language, Spanish , is spoken as a first language by about 88% of the population. The remaining 12% speak one of 288 other, mainly Indian, languages. A significant proportion of these people do not speak Spanish. The languages with the largest numbers of speakers are Chol (130 000); Maya (700 000); Mazahua (350 000); Nahuatl (in 27 different forms 1 376 898); Otomí (in 9 different forms 220 000); Purépecha (120 000); Totonaca (in 8 different forms 260 000); Tzeltal (in 2 different forms 300 000); Tzotzil (in 6 different forms 265 000); Zapoteco (in 57 different forms 494 000).

   Note: This section last updated 12th February 2017

Each person usually has a given name followed by two family names, that of the father followed by that of the mother, for example:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez

A court ruling of 2017 allowed a baby to be named using the maternal surnames of both parents.

Upon marriage, females may take their husband’s name as a further given name, in this way:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez de Lopez

where the de indicates “(wife) of”. De usually indicates a married female, but may also be part of a name.

Professional people are often referred to by their qualification, followed by the given name and paternal family name (and sometimes the maternal family name):

   C.P.                                   Accountant
   Doctor (m) / Doctora (f) (Dr/Dra)      Doctor, Ph.D.
   Ingeniero (m) / Ingeniera (f) (Ing.)   Engineer
   Licenciado (m) / Licenciada (f) (Lic.) Holder of a university degree

This in turn may be preceded by the honorific in this way:

   Señor Doctor Dávalos

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

   Note: This section last updated 19th April 2019

The following company legal types will be found in Mexican address databases:

   Asociación en Participación (A. & P.) (joint venture)
   Asociación Civil (A.C.) (civil association, non-commercial)
   Fideicomiso (Trust)
   Institución de Asistencia Privada (IAP) (private assistance institution)
   Sociedad Anónima (S.A.) (limited liability stock corporation)
   Sociedad Anónima Bursátil (SAB)
   Sociedad Anónima  de Capital Variable (S.A. de C.V.) (variable capital company)
   Sociedad Anónima Promotora de Inversion (SAPI)
   Sociedad Civil (SC) (civil company)
   Sociedad de Produccion Rural de Responsabilidad Limitada (S.P.R. de R.L.)
   Sociedad de Produccion Rural de Responsabilidad Limitada de Capital Variable (S.P.R. de R.L. de C.V.)
   Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada (S. de R.L.) (limited liability company)
   Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada de Capital Variable (S. de R.L. de C.V.)
   Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada de Microindustrial (S.R.L. de MI)
   Sociedad en Comandita por Acciones (S. en C. por A.) (master limited partnership)
   Sociedad en Comandita Simple (S.C.S.) (limited partnership)
   Sociedad en Nombre Colectivo (S.N.C.) (general partnership)

"de CV" can be added at the end of any of these legal forms to indicate a "capital variable" form.

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 20th March 2018

Addresses are written in the format:

   Name
   {thoroughfare type[ ]}Thoroughfare name[ ]number{[, ]floor etc. indicators}
   Section indicator
   postal code[ ]SETTLEMENT[, ]STATE ABBREVIATION

For example:

The Spanish word for street, calle, is usually not written in the street address line.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

Mexican addresses often contain zonal indicators. These include:

Ampliación	Extension
Barrio	Neighbourhood
Centro	Centre
Ciudad (Cd)	City
Colonia (Col.)	Colony
Congregación	Assembly, meeting
Conjunto Habitacional, Conjunto Residencial	Housing complex, Residential complex
Ejido	Co-operative
Fraccionamiento (Fracc.)	Division, development
Hacienda	Estate, ranch
Parque Industrial	Industrial park
Pueblo	Village, small town
Rancho, Ranchería, Rancho o Ranchería	Ranch, Dairy, Ranch or dairy
Sección (Secc.)	Section
Sector (Sect.)	Sector
Unidad	Unit
Unidad Habitacional	Housing unit
Villa	Town

The indicator itself may or may not be found written:.

   Col. Atlatilco

or

   Atlatilco

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

The state code is written after the settlement name. The abbreviations used are:

State	Abbreviation	Postal code range
Aguascalientes	AGS	20000-20999
Baja California	BC	21000-22999
Baja California Sur	BCS	23000-23999
Campeche	CAM	24000-24999
Ciudad de México (previously Distrito Federal)	CDMX or CMX	01000-16999
Chiapas	CHIS or CHA	29000-30999
Chihuahua	CHIH or CHU	31000-33999
Coahuila de Zaragoza	COAH or COA	25000-27999
Colima	COL	28000-28999
Durango	DGO or DUR	34000-35999
Guanajuato	GTO or GUA	36000-38999
Guerrero	GRO or GUE	39000-41999
Hidalgo	HGO or HID	42000-43999
Jalisco	JAL	44000-49999
México	MÉX	50000-57999
Michoacán de Ocampo	MICH or MIC	58000-61999
Morelos	MOR	62000-62999
Nayarit	NAY	63000-63999
Nuevo León	NL	64000-67999
Oaxaca	OAX	68000-71999
Puebla	PUE	72000-75999
Querétaro Arteaga	QRO or QUE	76000-76999
Quintana Roo	QROO or QR	77000-77999
San Luis Potosí	SLP	78000-79999
Sinaloa	SIN	80000-82999
Sonora	SON	83000-85999
Tabasco	TAB	86000-86999
Tamaulipas	TAMPS or TAM	87000-89999
Tlaxcala	TLAX or TLA	90000-90999
Veracruz	VER	91000-96999
Yucatán	YUC	97000-97999
Zacatecas	ZAC	98000-99999

   This regions/postal code data can be acquired as a data file 

This is written Apartado Postal in Mexico.

Mexican postal codes (Código Postal or CP) consist of a block of 5 digits. Each digit is associated to a geographical area of the country. The first two digits refer to the federal entity, or, in the case of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City), to a neighbourhood. The third digit indicates an important town or city, a municipality or one of the ten areas into which the Distrito Federal is divided. The fourth digit indicates a municipality or suburb or estate within a town. The final digit indicates a group of blocks or the specific street address of a large-user.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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   Note: This section last updated 5th October 2015

Refer to Exonyms in Mexico for full lists of place names in Mexico in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

The abbreviations of Mexico’s 31 states (estados , singular - estado) and 1 district (Distrito Federal) are used in addresses. Please see the section on address formats for further information.

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   Note: This section last updated 18th January 2021

Mexico moved to a closed dialling system in 2019, with all numbers having 10 digits. The country is divided into 8 areas and all numbers, fixed and mobile, are assigned based on these areas. Numbers commence with a digit in the range 2-9. The second number cannot be 0 and no number may commence 911. Service numbers begin with 0 and have three digits.