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México - Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos o comunmente México, es un país localizado en Norteamérica. Limita con Estados Unidos de América al norte, al sureste con Guatemala y Belice, al este con el golfo de México y el mar Caribe y al oeste con el océano Pacífico. En extensión territorial ocupa la quinta posición en el continente americano, y el décimo quinto a nivel mundial. Con una poblacion aproximada de 106 millones, México es el segundo pais mas poblado de Latinoamérica y al mismo tiempo, el que tiene la mayor población indígena del continente americano. La sede de los poderes de la Federación y capital del país es México, Distrito Federal.
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Mexico - United Mexican States
The United Mexican States or commonly Mexico is a country located in North America, bordered at the north by the ► United States, and at the south by Central America with ► Guatemala and ► Belize. To the west from Mexico ► Cuba and ► Jamaica are located. Its capital is Mexico City which is one of the largest cities on earth. Covering almost 2 million km² Mexico is one of the largest countries in America and the 15th in the world. It is also the 11th most populous country with approximately 106 million people and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world.
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| Short name |
Mexico |
| Official name |
United Mexican States |
| Status |
Independent country since 1810, recognized 1821 |
| Location |
North America |
| Capital |
Mexico City |
| Population |
108,700,000 inhabitants |
| Area |
1,972,550 km² |
| Major languages |
Spanish and 62 indigenous Amerindian languages, among others Nahuatl[1] |
| Major religions |
Roman Catholicism |
| More information |
Mexico, Geography of Mexico, History of Mexico and Politics of Mexico |
| More images |
Mexico - Mexico (Category). |
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Map of Mexico |
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History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Mexico, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Mexico.
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Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.
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Mexico in 1847 |
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Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
- ↑ The most spoken idigenous language
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