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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Mexico
Mexico (
i
/
ˈ
m
ɛ
k
s
ɨ
k
oʊ
/
;
Spanish
:
México
[ˈmexiko]
(
listen
)
), officially the United Mexican States (
Spanish
:
Estados Unidos Mexicanos
(
help
·
info
)
),
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
is a
federal republic
in
North America
.
It is bordered
on the north by the
United States of America
; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by
Guatemala
,
Belize
, and the
Caribbean Sea
; and on the east by the
Gulf of Mexico
.
[13]
Covering almost two million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi),
[12]
Mexico is the fifth largest country in the
Americas
by total area and the
13th largest independent nation in the world
. With an estimated population of over 113 million,
[14]
it is the
eleventh most populous
and the
most populous Spanish-speaking
country in the world and the second most populous country in
Latin America
. Mexico is a federation comprising
thirty-one states
and a
Federal District
, the capital city.
More at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico
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