Mexico Country Info - North America

Description and Basic Information

Mexico with its capital Mexico City is located in North America (Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico). It covers some 1,972,551 square kilometres (slightly less than three times the size of Texas) with 109,955,000 citizens. Spanish is the language used in Mexico. Guatemala, United States and Belize are bordering countries.

Mexico officially the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is a country in North America, lying between the United States of America to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast. Mexico is one of the most popular tourist countries on earth. Much of the tourist industry is centered around the beach resorts as well as the altiplano in the central part of the country. Visiting the northern interior allows visitors to get off the beaten path a bit. American tourists tend to predominate on the Baja peninsula and the more modernized beach resorts (Cancún, Puerto Vallarta), while European tourists congregate around the smaller resort areas in the south like Playa del Carmen and colonial towns San Cristobal de las Casas.

Pictures from Capital (Mexico City)

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About Mexico

The topography featureshigh, rugged mountains with low coastal plains, high plateaus and desert. The average density of population is about 55 per km². The climate in Mexico can be described as varying from tropical to desert. Potential natural disasters are tsunamis along the Pacific coast, volcanoes and destructive earthquakes in the center and south, and hurricanes on the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean coasts.

To reach someone in Mexico dial +52 prior to a number. There are 19,425,000 installed telephones. And there are 83,528,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 1900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".mx". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 127V - 60Hz. The following list are the 32 regions/states in Mexico we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Mexican population grew at a rate of 1.12% (or by 1,257,402 citizens). With 543,225 deaths and 2,180,771 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 1.46%. -380,145 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Mexico: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.