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Cancún
City
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Location of Cancún
Coordinates: 21°09′38″N 86°50′51″W / 21.16056°N 86.84750°W / 21.16056; -86.84750
Country	Mexico
State	Quintana Roo
Municipality	Benito Juárez
Foundation	April 20, 1970
Government
• Type	Ayuntamiento
• Mayor	Francisco Antonio Alor Quezada (PRI)
Elevation	0−10 m (0−33 ft)
Population  (2005)
• Total	526,701
• Demonym	Cancunense
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
Postal code	77500
Area code	998
Website	www.cancun.gob.mx

Cancún (pronounced as IPA: [kanˈkun]) is a coastal city in Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula. About 573,000 people live in Cancún, but over 4,000,000 tourists visit Cancún every year on vacation. At present it is, with Acapulco, the Mexican resort best known in the world.

The resort is entirely artificial: few lived here before 1970. The first hotels were funded by the government.^[1] February to May is wonderful weather most of the time,^[2] and there are stunning white sand beaches. Even the sea is warm. There is now an airport, and bus connections to the rest of the Yucatán. The Yucatán has many Mayan sites, and some villages which are still mostly Mayan.

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