Cancún (Spanish pronunciation: ) is a coastal metropolis in Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula. As a rapidly rising metropolis with a rapidly changing skyline, the estimated population for Cancún is 705,000 in 2010, a 20% increase from the census in 2005. Cancún is located on the Yucatan Channel that separates Mexico from the island of Cuba in the Larger Antilles. The Cancún area is usually generally known as the Mexican Caribbean or the Mayan Riviera.

Cancún is the municipal seat of the Benito Juárez municipality and a world-renowned balneario and tourist resort. The town middle is positioned on the mainland which connects the Nichupté and lagoons to a narrow 7-shaped island the place the trendy beachfront accommodations are located in the tourist centric resort zone.

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