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San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico; colonial city founded 1555 to protect the Royal Inland Road, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008 with the Atotonilco Sanctuary, major expat and tourism center facing water and gentrification pressures.
San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza, a municipality of Nuevo León in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Mexico; created 16 December 1830; 412,199 residents in 2020, almost fully urbanized, metal-industry economy.
Santa Catarina, Nuevo León
Santa Catarina is a municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico, 9 km west of Monterrey, founded in 1596 by land grant to Captain Lucas García; population 306,322 (2020), home of the 1856 La Fama textile factory, the paused Tesla gigafactory site, and the protected Río Santa Catarina.
Soledad de Graciano Sánchez
Soledad de Graciano Sánchez is a municipality in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, on the eastern side of the San Luis Potosí metropolitan area, with a 2020 population of 332,072.
Tampico
Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico: port city on the Pánuco River, repopulated 12 April 1823 as Santa Anna Tampico, declared a maritime port 12 November 1824; metro population 927,379 (2020).
Tamuín
Tamuín is a municipality in the eastern Huasteca of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, best known for two pre-Hispanic Huastec cities on the Río Tampaón: Tamohí and Tamtoc.
Tapachula
Tapachula, formally Tapachula de Córdova y Orduñez, is a city and municipality in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatemala border, and the main city on Mexico's southern border.
Taximaroa
Taximaroa is the colonial name of a town in Michoacán, Mexico, known since 1922 as Ciudad Hidalgo, where the Tarascans defeated the Aztecs in 1478.
Tehuacán
Tehuacán is a city and municipality in southeastern Puebla, Mexico, second most populous in the state (327,312 in 2020), seat of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, a 2018 UNESCO mixed World Heritage site noted for early plant domestication and ancient irrigation.
Tepeaca
Tepeaca is a city and municipality in Puebla, Mexico, known for its ancient market and founded by Hernán Cortés as Villa de Segura de la Frontera in 1520.
Tepeapulco
Tepeapulco is a town and municipality in Hidalgo, Mexico, whose name in Nahuatl means "next to the great hill"; it is known for the Xihuingo archaeological zone and for Bernardino de Sahagún's 16th-century fieldwork there.
Tepic
Tepic, capital of Nayarit, Mexico; formerly the name of the whole territory before 1917 statehood. Municipality of 425,924 (2020), 86.72% of the Tepic-Xalisco metro zone; agricultural export hub.
Tepoztlán
Tepoztlán, Morelos, a Pueblo Mágico below the Sierra del Tepozteco; former Xochimilca señorío (1200–1220), conquered 1452, home of the pulque-god sanctuary El Tepozteco and the Ex Convento de la Natividad.
Tijuana
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, founded 1889 across from San Diego; major border manufacturing and medical-tourism city of about 968,740 (2020 census) facing a cross-border sewage crisis.
Tlalnepantla, México
Tlalnepantla de Baz, a municipality in the State of Mexico in the Mexico City metropolitan area; 672,202 inhabitants (2020), seat at 2,250 m, renamed de Baz in 1978 for Gustavo Baz Prada, mayor Raciel Pérez Cruz 2025–2027.
Tlaquepaque
Tlaquepaque (San Pedro Tlaquepaque), Jalisco municipality in the Guadalajara metropolitan area; Pueblo Mágico since 2018, famed for pottery, petatillo ceramics, blown glass, El Parian, and the Regional Ceramics Museum; 687,127 residents in 2020.
Tlaxiaco
Tlaxiaco, called Ndisi Ndu in Mixtec, is a city and municipality in the Mixteca Alta of northwestern Oaxaca, Mexico, and the seat of its district; an Aztec garrison was established there after 1451.
Toluca
Toluca, formally Toluca de Lerdo, is the capital of the State of Mexico, about 57 km west of Mexico City and known for its high altitude.
Tonalá, Jalisco
Tonalá, Jalisco (Tonallán): municipality in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Mexico; Jalisco's principal pottery and craft center with its Thursday and Sunday tianguis; 591,800 inhabitants (2025 estimate); municipal recognition by acuerdo 366 of 17 September 1873.
Torreón
Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico: city founded around 1850 as Rancho del Torreón, named for Leonardo Zuloaga's Nazas dam watchtower; Villa 1893, city 1907; about 808,000 inhabitants (2025 estimate).
Tulancingo
Tulancingo, formally Tulancingo de Bravo, is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, the state's second city, on the route between the Central Plateau and the Gulf coast.
Tuxtla, Chiapas
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, capital city of Chiapas, Mexico, in the Central Depression at ~600 m on the Sabinal River; 604,147 inhabitants (2020), fast unplanned growth, recurrent flooding, urban heat island, commerce and services economy.
Uruapan
Uruapan, municipality and city in Michoacán, Mexico; Purépecha name meaning "eternal spring"; founded by fray Juan de San Miguel around 1533; second most populous Michoacán municipality (356,786 in 2020) and center of the avocado industry; mayor Carlos Manzo assassinated in 2025.
Veracruz (city)
Veracruz (city), Gulf of Mexico port in Veracruz state, Mexico; founded by Hernán Cortés April 22, 1519 as Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, first town council of New Spain; walled colonial port, Four Times Heroic City (1825, 1838, 1847, 1914), about 600,000 inhabitants.
Victoria de Durango
Victoria de Durango, commonly called Durango, is the capital of the Mexican state of Durango, founded 8 July 1563 by Francisco de Ibarra in the Guadiana Valley; named for Guadalupe Victoria, first president of Mexico; population 616,068 (2020).
Villahermosa, Tabasco
Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco state, Mexico, seat of Centro municipality on the Grijalva River; formerly San Juan Bautista until the 1916 renaming; metro area of 833,907 people (2020) with Centro and Nacajuca.
Xalapa
Xalapa (Xalapa de Enríquez) is the capital of Veracruz, Mexico, since 1885, with 488,531 municipal residents in 2020, a Nahuatl name meaning "sandy water", coffee and citrus exports, and a cool highland climate.
Xico, México
San Miguel Xico (Xico) is a city in the State of Mexico, municipal seat of Valle de Chalco Solidaridad; a former island in drained Lake Chalco with a volcanic hill, Noriega-era hacienda history, and ejido origins. Distinct from Xico, Veracruz.
Xicotepec
Xicotepec, officially Xicotepec de Juárez, is a town and municipality in the Sierra Norte of Puebla, Mexico, known for coffee production and designated a Pueblo Mágico.
Yanhuitlan
Yanhuitlan, known in Mixtec as Yodzocahi, is a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, that was one of the most powerful señoríos of the Mixteca Alta and is best known for the Codex Yanhuitlan.