Editing Yucatán (section)

== Demography ==

===Largest cities===
{{Largest cities
| country = Yucatán
| stat_ref = Source:<ref name=YUCATANINEGI>{{cite web |url=https://inegi.org.mx/contenidos/programas/ccpv/2020/tabulados/cpv2020_b_yuc_01_poblacion.xlsx |title=Censo Yucatán 2020 |access-date=June 6, 2023 |archive-date=June 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606075032/https://inegi.org.mx/contenidos/programas/ccpv/2020/tabulados/cpv2020_b_yuc_01_poblacion.xlsx |url-status=live }}</ref>
| list_by_pop =
| div_name = 
| div_link = Municipalities of Yucatán{{!}}Municipality
| city_1 = Mérida, Yucatán{{!}}Mérida| div_1 = Mérida Municipality{{!}}Mérida| pop_1 = 921,771 | img_1 = UADY.jpg
| city_2 = Kanasín | div_2 =Kanasín Municipality{{!}}Kanasín| pop_2 = 139,753| img_2 = Kanasín,_Yucatán_(04).JPG
| city_3 =Valladolid, Yucatán{{!}}Valladolid| div_3 =Valladolid Municipality, Yucatán{{!}}Valladolid| pop_3 = 56,494| img_3 = Monastery_of_San_Bernardino_de_Siena,_Valladolid,_Mexico.jpg
| city_4 = Umán| div_4 = Umán Municipality{{!}} Umán| pop_4 =56,409|img_4 = Umán,_Yucatán_(02).jpg
| city_5 = Tizimín| div_5 = Tizimín Municipality{{!}}Tizimín| pop_5 =52,593
| city_6 = Progreso, Yucatán{{!}}Progreso| div_6 =Progreso Municipality, Yucatán{{!}}Progreso| pop_6 = 41,965
| city_7 = Ticul| div_7 = Ticul Municipality{{!}}Ticul| pop_7 = 35,183
| city_8 = Tekax{{!}}Tekax de Álvaro Obregón| div_8 =Tekax Municipality{{!}}Tekax| pop_8 = 28,461
| city_9 = Hunucmá| div_9 =Hunucmá Municipality{{!}}Hunucmá| pop_9 = 28,412
| city_10 = Oxkutzcab| div_10 = Oxkutzcab Municipality{{!}}Oxkutzcab| pop_10 = 26,175
}}
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{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote =
|1895<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geohive.com/cntry/subspop/mx-pop.aspx |title=Mexico: extended population list |publisher=GeoHive |access-date=2011-07-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311141056/http://www.geohive.com/cntry/subspop/mx-pop.aspx |archive-date=March 11, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> | 298569
|1900 | 309652
|1910 | 339613
|1921 | 358221
|1930 | 386096
|1940 | 418210
|1950 | 516899
|1960 | 614049
|1970 | 758355
|1980 | 1063733
|1990 | 1362940
|1995 | 1556622
|2000 | 1658210
|2005 | 1818948
|2010 | 1955577
|2015 | 2097175
|2020<ref name="México en cifras"/> | 2320898
}}

=== Languages ===
[[File:WIKITONGUES- Manuel speaking Yucatecan.webm|thumb|A Yucatec Maya speaker]]
The most widespread indigenous language of Yucatán is [[Yucatec Maya]], spoken natively by approximately 800,000 people in Yucatán and adjacent Quintana Roo and Campeche, especially in rural areas. The Spanish spoken in Yucatán has lexical and some phonological borrowing from Mayan and employs many words of Mayan origin, such as ''{{lang|myn|purux}}'' ("fat"), ''{{lang|myn|tuch}}'' ("navel") and ''{{lang|myn|wixar}}'' ("urinate").

=== Korean immigration ===
In 1905, 1,003 Korean immigrants – 802 men and 231 women and children – departed from the port of [[Incheon|Chemulpo]], Incheon, aboard the ship ''Ilford'' to Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. The journey took 45 days, after which they took a train to [[Coatzacoalcos (municipality)|Coatzacoalcos]], Veracruz. At Coatzacoalcos, another boat was taken to the port of [[Progreso Municipality, Yucatán|Progreso]], with the final destination being the city of Mérida.<ref>{{Citation |last=CorMexCamp |title=Inmigración coreana a México |date=2010-01-19 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUHhp7pATt8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/YUHhp7pATt8 |archive-date=2021-11-07 |url-status=live |access-date=2016-06-14}}{{cbignore}}</ref> They arrived in May 1905, with previously signed contracts for four years' work as indentured laborers on the Yucatán [[Agave fourcroydes|henequen]] haciendas. Many of these Koreans were distributed throughout Yucatán in 32 henequen haciendas.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Yucatecos en Cuba: Etnografía de una migración |last=Novelo |first=Victoria |publisher=CIESAS/Conaculta/Instituto de Cultura de Yucatán/La Casa Chata, Serie Antropológicas. |year=2009 |location=Yucatan,Mexico}}</ref> The town of [[Motul, Yucatán|Motul]], Yucatán, located in the heart of the henequen zone, was a destination for many of the Korean immigrants. Subsequently, in 1909, at the end of their contracts, they began a new stage in which they scattered even further.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dávila Valdés |first=Claudia |date=2015 |title=Socio-Economic Trajectory and Geographical Mobility of Lebanese and Koreans: From Motul to Mérida |url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-89062015000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es |journal=Migraciones Internacionales |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=103–131 |access-date=June 13, 2016 |archive-date=August 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810111545/http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-89062015000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es |url-status=live }}</ref> Thus, the majority of those who came were single men who made or remade their family lives with Yucatecan especially Maya women. While Korean girls were much more subject to marriages arranged by Korean parents, males had greater freedom when it came to making a family. This rapid intermarriage by Koreans, coupled with geographic dispersal, prevented the establishment of close social networks among these migrants and therefore provided the basis for Korean descendants across the Yucatán Peninsula.<ref name=":0" /> After that 1905 ship, no further entries of Koreans into Mexico were recorded until many years later, leading to a new community of Koreans with completely different characteristics from those who entered in 1905.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hyong-Ju |first=Kim |date=2003 |title=La experiencia migratoria de la nueva comunidad coreana en México |journal=Second Meeting on Korean Studies in Latin America, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, Korea Foundation/Colmex/UBA}}</ref>