population. 



those bordering on Gautemala and Belize ; Gulf, Caribbean Sea, and 

 Pacific States, those bordering on their respective waters ; and Central 

 States those which do not belong to any of the above denominations, 

 although I do not consider this a proper classification, because the 

 State of Tamaulias included among the Northern States, and the States 

 of Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan among the Southern States, are 

 all on the Gulf of Mexico, and are, therefore, Gulf States, the latter 

 being also washed on their southern side by the Caribbean Sea, and 

 the State of Sonora, classified as a Northern State, borders on the 

 Pacific ; the State of Chiapas, included among the Southern States, also 

 borders on the Pacific, and, therefore, is, like Sonora, also a Pacific 

 State. 



Our last official census, taken in 1895, gives the following results 

 by States, which I compared with the census of 1879. 



AREA AND POPULATION OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES. 



