Ciudad Frontera is a town in the northern
Mexican
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state of
Coahuila
Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico.
Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...
. It is in the east-central part of the state, just west of the city of
Monclova. It is located in the state's central region ''(Región Centro)''.
There were 65,606 inhabitants in the city as of the 2005 census, making it the state's sixth-largest community. The city serves as municipal seat of its
surrounding municipality, which had a population of 70,160 and includes numerous small outlying communities such as
Ocho de Enero. The municipality is part of the Monclova-Frontera
metropolitan area
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.
References
Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
External links
(in Spanish)
Populated places in Coahuila
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