A Mexican State (Spanish: Estado), officially the Free and Sovereign State (Spanish: Estado libre y soberano), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico.
In the hierarchy of Mexican administrative divisions, states are further divided into municipalities.
Although not formally a state, Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México), the capital city of United Mexican States and formerly designed as the Federal District (Spanish: Distrito Federal), has been made a separate federative entity that has autonomy on par with the states since a constitutional amendment in 2016.
[1][2][3][4] Mexico City is divided into 16 boroughs (Spanish: demarcaciones territoriales), similar to other states' municipalities but with different administrative powers.
[5] The current Mexican governmental publications usually lists 32 federative entity (31 states and Mexico City), and 2,478 municipalities (includes the 16 boroughs of Mexico City).