Mexico's General Information

 

Official name: Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos / English: United Mexican States.

Popular name: México.

Localization: Located in North America, sharing borders  with USA at North (3000 km aprox.), The Pacific Ocean at the West, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea at East and  with Guatemala and Belize to the South.

Population: 128,649,565 (2020).

Territorial area: 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi). 

 

Political division: Consist of 31 autonomous States and a Federal District

Aguascalientes

Durango

Nayarit

Sonora

Baja California

Estado de México

Nuevo León

Tabasco

Baja California Sur

Guanajuato

Oaxaca

Tamaulipas

Campeche

Guerrero

Puebla

Tlaxcala

Chiapas

Hidalgo

Querétaro

Veracruz

Chihuahua

Jalisco

Quintana Roo

Yucatán

Coahuila

Michoacán

San Luis Potosí

Zacatecas

Colima

Morelos

Sinaloa

 

 

Religion: No official religion. 90 % Catholics aprox.

Capital: Mexico City (México D.F.)  (21 million inhabitant aprox.).

Other cities: Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Querétaro.

Official Language: No official language, most of the mexicans speaking spanish but various languages spoken by indigenous populations. 

Currency: Mexican Peso (23.0289 pesos = 1.00 Euro,  Feb. 2022) Source: Banxico.

Tourist visitors: In 2019, Mexico was ranked number 7 worldwide, and by 2020 it is estimated that it will occupy the 3rd position in the UNWTO World Ranking. Source: SECTUR

Main tourist destinations: Acapulco, Cancún, Cozumel, Manzanillo, Los Cabos, Mazatlán, Veracruz, México City, Oaxaca and a wide range of pre-Columbine sites and colonial buldings.