What is Xalapa?
[[Image:Xalapa montage.jpg|thumb|150px|Collage]] [[Image:Escudo de Armas de la ciudad de Xalapa Veracruz.JPG|thumb|90px|Coat of arms]] '''Xalapa''' (often spelled '''Jalapa''', {{IPA-es|xaˈlapa|-|XalapaPronunciation.ogg}}; {{IPAc-en|lang|h|ə|ˈ|l|ɑː|p|ə}};<ref>{{cite web|title=Jalapa|url=http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/INV_JED/JALAPA_XALAPA_or_HALAPA.html|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2018-04-13|archive-date=2014-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029023229/http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/INV_JED/JALAPA_XALAPA_or_HALAPA.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> officially '''Xalapa-Enríquez''' {{IPA-es|xaˈlapa enˈrikes|}}) is the capital city of the [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[States of Mexico|state]] of [[Veracruz]]. In the 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879.<ref>[http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613183420/http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ |date=13 June 2011 }} INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática.</ref> The municipality has an area of 118.45&nbsp;km². Xalapa lies near the geographic center of the state and is the second-largest city in the state after the city of [[Veracruz, Veracruz|Veracruz]] to the southeast. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Capital cities in Mexico]] [[Category:Settlements in Veracruz]] {{North-America-stub}} {{authority control}}