page_title: Guadalajara metropolitan area
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Guadalajara metropolitan area / Population
context_page_description: The Guadalajara metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the second largest in the country after Greater Mexico City. It includes the core municipality of Guadalajara and the surrounding municipalities of Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, El Salto, Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos and Juanacatlán.
context_section_description: The Guadalajara metropolitan area had a total population of 4,796,603 in 2015, distributed in eight municipalities. (For more up-to-date data see the Spanish version of this article.)
caption: Guadalajara metropolitan area