Chihuahua City
Also known as San Francisco de Cuellar, Chihuahua
capital of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico
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Chihuahua City is the capital and largest city of the State of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. As an important regional center, it serves as the political, economic, and cultural hub for the state.
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- Official website
- www.municipiochihuahua.gob.mx
- Image
- Chihuahua montage.jpg
- Dialing code
- 614
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- Edward G. Robinson
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The city of Chihuahua or Chihuahua City (Spanish: Ciudad de Chihuahua [sjuˈða(ð) ðe tʃiˈwawa]; Lipan: Ją’éłąyá) is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2020, the city of Chihuahua had a population of 925,762 inhabitants. while the metropolitan area had a population of 988,065 inhabitants.
Among cities in Mexico, the city of Chihuahua is highly ranked in human and social development. According to a UNDP report on human development, Chihuahua municipality's HDI is 0.842 as of 2020 – among the highest in the country, only after municipalities in the Monterrey and Mexico City areas. IMCO ranks Chihuahua as one of the six cities with very high urban competitiveness The city was named capital of Mexico for a brief amount of time in 1864 by Benito Juarez during the Second French intervention in Mexico.