Mexico
Mexico (officially United Mexican States) is a country in North America, with its capital at Mexico City, and is home to roughly 130.9M people.
Spanish is the official language; the currency in circulation is Mexican peso ($); people from here are called Mexican.
- »Mexico City is built on the drained bed of Lake Texcoco and is sinking by several centimetres a year.
- »Mexico is the origin of maize, tomatoes, chocolate, vanilla and chillies.
- »It has more speakers of Spanish than any other country.
Mexico straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
Mexico touches three neighbours: Belize to the southeast, Guatemala to the southeast and United States to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Mexico City is built on the drained bed of Lake Texcoco, where the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán stood on an island. The soft lakebed means the city is sinking, and colonial buildings visibly tilt.
1,964,255 km² (758,403 sq mi), 12th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Saudi Arabia.
Population 130,861,007, 11th of 198 on file. That averages 67 per km² (173 per sq mi).
The eagle devouring a snake atop a prickly pear is the Aztec founding legend of Tenochtitlán, the sign the Mexica were told to look for. Green for hope, white for unity, red for the blood of heroes.
Easily confused with Italy and France.
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