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try, as has already been pointed out, has never yet been brought under the rule of civil authority. A census, however, taken in 1879 and officially published in the "Annales del Ministerio de Fomento" reported the population as 9,908,011;* but by some

*Table showing the Population and Area in Square Miles of each of the States of Mexico, according to the Census of 1879.

Order of density of population.	NAME OF STATE.	Area in square miles.	Number of population.	Population per square mile.
1	The Federal District (city of   Mexico)	463	351,804	759
2	State of Mexico	7,840	710,579	90
3	""Morelos	1,776	159,160	89
4	""Tlaxcala	1,622	138,958	85
5	""Guanajuato	11,413	834,845	73
6	""Puebla	12,019	784,466	65
7	""Querétaro	3,205	203,250	63
8	""Hidalgo	8,161	427,350	52
9	""Agual Calientes	2,897	140,430	48
10	""Michoacan	23,714	661,534	27
11	""Jalisco	39,174	983,484	25
12	""Oaxaca	33,582	744,400	22
13	""Vera Cruz	26,535	542,928	20
14	""San Luis Potosi	27,503	516,486	18
15	""Zacatecas	22,999	422,506	18
16	""Colima	3,746	65,827	17
17	""Chiapas	16,048	205,362	12
18	""Guerrero	24,552	295,590	12
19	""Yucatan	29,569	302,315	10
20	""Tabasco	11,849	104,747	8
21	""Nuevo Leon	23,637	203,284	8
22	""Sinaloa	36,220	186,491	5
23	""Tamaulipas	27,916	140,137	5
24	""Durango	42,511	190,846	4
25	""Campeachy	25,834	90,413	3
26	""Chihuahua	83,751	225,541	2
27	""Coahuila	50,904	130,026	2
28	""Sonora	79,020	115,424	1
29	Territory of Lower California	61,563	30,208	½
	Total for the Republic	739,700	9,908,011	13·4