Baja California Sur, officially called the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, is one of the thirty-one states that, together with Mexico City, make up the United Mexican States. Its capital and most populated city is La Paz. It is located to the south of the peninsula of Baja California, in the northwest region of the country, bounded on the north by Baja California, on the east by the Sea of Cortez and on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. With 712,029 habs.
In 2015 it is the second least populated state -before Colima-, with 73,922 km², the ninth most extensive -behind Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, Durango, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas, Jalisco and Zacatecas- and with 8.62 inhabitants / km², the least densely populated. It is, along with Quintana Roo, the youngest in the country, being both promoted from Federal Territory to Free and Sovereign State, on October 8,1974.