Coahuila

Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza
Capital	Saltillo
surface	151,571 km² ( 3rd place )
population	3,055,395 (Rank 15 )
Population density	20 inhabitants per km² (2010 census)
governor	Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís ( PRI ) (2017–2023)
Federal MPs	Morena = 2 PAN = 2 PRI = 2 PES = 1 (7 federal constituencies)
Senators	Morena = 2 PRI = 1
ISO 3166-2	MX-COA
Postal abbreviation	Coah.
Website	www.coahuila.gob.mx

Coahuila [ koaˈwila ], also Coahuila de Zaragoza [ koaˈwila ðe saɾaˈɣosa ], officially Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( Spanish Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza ), is a Mexican state in the north of the country, on the border with Texas , which the Rio Grande forms in a wide arc. The border is a total of 512 km long. The neighboring Mexican states are Nuevo León in the east, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas in the south and Durango and Chihuahua in the west .

Coahuila de Zaragoza has 3,055,395 inhabitants (2010 census) after strong population growth in recent years (around 2.5 million in 2005, 2.3 million in 2000, 2.2 million in 1995 and 2.0 million in 1990) . This corresponds to about 2.4% of the Mexican population (15th place among the Mexican states). The area of ​​151,571 km² corresponds to about 7.7% of the area of ​​the state of Mexico, from which a mean population density of 20 inhabitants per km² is calculated, well below the Mexican mean of 50 inhabitants per km².

Most of the country consists of desert steppes of the Chihuahua Desert , the Sierra Madre Oriental forms the eastern border with Nuevo León . The capital is Saltillo . Other important cities are Torreón , Monclova , Piedras Negras and Ciudad Acuña , which together make up over 60% of the population. Coahuila is further subdivided administratively into 38 municipalities , the smallest of which has around 1,000 inhabitants.

With a value of 0.791, Coahuila achieved 6th place among the 31 states of Mexico in the human development index in 2015 .

Population development

year	population
1950	720.619
1960	907.734
1970	1,114,956
1980	1,557,265
1990	1,972,340
1995	2,173,775
2000	2,298,070
2005	2,495,200
2010	2,748,391
2015	2,954,915

Web links

Commons : Coahuila  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Coahuila  - Travel Guide

• State website (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 12, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 27 ° 18 ′  N , 102 ° 3 ′  W