MEXICO LAND GEOGRAPHY Mexico is found on the North American Plate, with the Pacific on its West and the Atlantic on the East and bordered by the US in the North and Belize and Guatemala in the South. It is the 13th largest country in the world and has 31 federal states. The country features a series of mountain ranges, […]
MEXICO – COUNTRY
MEXICO COUNTRY NAME The derivation of the name Mexico is, to this day, still debated. One possible explanation is that it is an ethnonym; a proper noun referring to an ethnic group. In this case, the word is derived from Mexica, the rulers of the Aztec empire. Another suggests that it’s derived from metzli; moon, and xictli; navel, meaning that […]
MEXICO – PEOPLE
MEXICO PEOPLE POPULATION With a population of around 126 million, most of the country’s people are known as Mestizos; an ethnicity referring to a mix of indigenous American and European ancestry, with other minority groups including Afro-Mexicans, White Mexicans and people from all over the world. That said, the majority of its people are united under the same national identity, […]