🇲🇽 Cities in Mexico — API & JSON data

Geomelon's Mexico coverage: 140,742 cities across 32 regions, with name translations in 28 languages — start with Greater Mexico City, the country's largest city at 21,905,000 people.

Data updated: 2026-07-14

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Type to search Mexico cities…

Top 10 cities by population

City	Region	Population
Greater Mexico City	State of Mexico	21,905,000
Mexico City	—	9,209,944
Tijuana	Baja California	1,964,788
San Cristóbal Ecatepec	State of Mexico	1,655,015
León de Los Aldama	Guanajuato	1,579,803
Puebla City	Puebla	1,434,062
Guadalajara	Jalisco	1,385,621
Ciudad Juárez	Chihuahua	1,321,004
Zapopan	Jalisco	1,257,547
Monterrey	Nuevo León	1,142,952

Sample API response

GET /cities/search?countryCode=mx&sort=population_desc&limit=3

[
  {
    "id": "a4d22645-25cb-4f48-86d1-2996e16b9acd",
    "name": "Greater Mexico City",
    "population": 21905000,
    "countryName": "Mexico",
    "countryCode": "MX",
    "countryEmoji": "🇲🇽",
    "regionName": "State of Mexico"
  },
  {
    "id": "a4a0b5f1-a180-469f-951c-e04717932fe0",
    "name": "Mexico City",
    "population": 9209944,
    "countryName": "Mexico",
    "countryCode": "MX",
    "countryEmoji": "🇲🇽",
    "regionName": null
  },
  {
    "id": "9877962c-f730-439e-be87-73619cbbe0d6",
    "name": "Tijuana",
    "population": 1964788,
    "countryName": "Mexico",
    "countryCode": "MX",
    "countryEmoji": "🇲🇽",
    "regionName": "Baja California"
  }
]

Try it

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://geomelon.p.rapidapi.com/cities/search?countryCode=mx&sort=population_desc&limit=10' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: geomelon.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

const res = await fetch(
  'https://geomelon.p.rapidapi.com/cities/search?countryCode=mx&sort=population_desc&limit=10',
  {
    headers: {
      'x-rapidapi-host': 'geomelon.p.rapidapi.com',
      'x-rapidapi-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    },
  },
)
const cities = await res.json()

Multilingual city names

City names in Mexico are available in 28 languages.

en: Greater Mexico City
zh: 大墨西哥城都會區
ja: バジェ・デ・メヒコ

Free dataset

Prefer a static file? Download 356 Mexico cities as JSON (54 KB, no API key) from the Mexico cities dataset page.

FAQ

How many cities in Mexico does the API return?

Geomelon currently has 140,742 cities in Mexico across 32 regions. Results are paginated, up to 100 per request.

Is there a free tier?

Yes. RapidAPI's free tier covers a fixed number of requests per month with no credit card required. There is also a free, no-key city-autocomplete endpoint (the demo above) for prefix search.

Can I get Mexico city names in other languages?

Yes — city names in Mexico are available in 28 languages. Pass the languages you want via the preferredLanguages parameter, most-preferred first.

Do I need an API key?

The main search and lookup endpoints require a free RapidAPI key. The prefix-search autocomplete endpoint used in the demo above is public and does not require a key.

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