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Mexico, officially called the Free and Sovereign State of Mexico, commonly called the State of Mexico to differentiate it from the country, is one of the thirty-one states that, together with Mexico City, make up the United Mexican States. Its capital is Toluca de Lerdo and its most populated city is Ecatepec de Morelos. It is located in the center of the country, bordering the north with Querétaro, northeast with Hidalgo, east with Tlaxcala, southeast with Puebla, south with Morelos and Mexico City, southwest with Guerrero and west with Michoacán. With 16 187 608 habs.

In 2015 it is the most populated state, with 22,357 km², the seventh least extensive - ahead of Hidalgo, Queretaro, Colima, Aguascalientes, Morelos and Tlaxcala, the least extensive - and with 678.80 inhabitants / km², the most densely populated. It was founded on March 2,1824. It is one of the founding states of the federation. To distinguish its inhabitants from the citizens of the country, called Mexicans, its name is Mexiquense. In the territory of the extinct Mexica Empire are the origins of the state that maintained a political division of New Spain during the Spanish colonial period. Mexico City was chosen as the capital of the new nation after Independence. Outside the state its territory was separated. Parts of the state were separated to form the states of Hidalgo, Guerrero and Morelos years later. These territorial separations have conferred on the state the size and shape it has.

With the Valley of Toluca, west of Mexico City and a salient that extends to the north and east of this entity. With its more than fifteen million inhabitants, it is the Mexican entity with the greatest number of inhabitants, of which more than two thirds are concentrated in the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico. In 125 municipalities it is divided. Toluca de Lerdo is its capital. The State of Mexico contributes 9.8% of the national GDP and is one of the most industrialized entities in Mexico and Latin America. It was the state with the highest number of people in poverty at the national level in contrast to 2012 to 2014.

It faces a critical situation of public security, being the state of the country with the highest rate of violence with high impact crimes above the national average in 20 years and concentrate eight of the most insecure municipalities in the country Among these criminal behaviors highlight the femicides, having eleven of its municipalities an alert of active gender violence declared by the Ministry of Interior of the country since 2015.