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Mexico (México)
United Mexican States
Mexico (in Spanish Estados Unidos Mexicanos, “United States of Mexico”) is a northern American country, located south of the United States (from which it is partly separated by the Rio grande, also called the Rio Bravo by Mexicans) and bordering Guatemala and Belize south of the country. Its official name is Mexican United States or United States of Mexico. With more than a 100 million inhabitants, including 20 in the capital city Mexico, it is the most populated of the spanish speaking countries. After Brazil and Argentina, this american country is the third Latin American in size and the second in population. The word “Mexico” comes from nahuatl M?xihco (API : /me?.?i?.ko/)which exact meaning is uncertain but could be place of the Mexi divinity or the navel of the moon in a word to word translation.
For more than three thousand years Mexico has been home to advanced civilisations like the Olmecas, the Mexicas and the Mayas amongst many others.
Mexico is a federal republic composed of 31 States and a Federal District.
Mexico has numerous coastal lines (10 143 km) with the Pacific Ocean and the Californian Golf (7338 km) in the West and with the Carabean Sea and the Golf of Mexico (2805 km) in the East. Mexico is crossed by to main mountain ranges : the Eastern and Western Sierra Madre. The Eastern Sierra Madre is the prolongation of the Californian Sierre Nevada and the Western Sierra Madre in the West is the prolongation of the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico and Texas. Between these two mountain ranges lies the Mexican plain.
During the 19th Century, the Mexican population has only doubled. This tendency will continue during the two first decades of the 20th Century. In 1920 we have noticed a loss of two million inhabitants. This can be explained by the 1920 to 1930 Mexican revolution.
The Mexican Constitution considers Spanish and more than 60 other indigenous langages spoken by 7% of the population as national langages. Even though there is no lagal decrete stating Spanish as the official langage, it is used for all the official documents and spoken by almost every Mexican. The indigenous langages are spoken by more than 2 million people living in South East Mexico right through to Honduras.
Most Mexicans (89%) are Catholics and 6% are protestants and are mostly concentrated in Mexico. Judaism has been present in Mexico for centuries.
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