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The Mexican state of Jalisco is divided into 125 municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, it is the third-most-populous state, with 8,348,151 inhabitants, and the seventh-largest by land area, spanning 78,595.9 square kilometres (30,346.0 sq mi). Municipalities in Jalisco are administratively autonomous of the state, in accordance with the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico. Their legal framework derives from the state constitution. Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) by a plurality-voting system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council (ayuntamiento) responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The largest municipality by population is Zapopan (pictured), with 1,476,491 residents (17.68 percent of the state's total), while the smallest is Santa María del Oro, with 1,815 residents. The largest municipality by land area is Mezquitic, which spans 3,363.60 km2 (1,298.69 sq mi), and the smallest is Techaluta, with 79.20 km2 (30.58 sq mi). (Full list...)