Location: Central America
Capital City: Mexico City
Population: 113,420,000
Government: Federal presidential democratic republic with the president as head of state and head of the government. The system is divided into three parts: legislative, executive and judicial.
Currency: Mexican Peso
Main Languages: Spanish and a number of Amerindian languages
Main Religions: Roman Catholic (89%) with the remainder mostly other Christian denominations
Other Facts
The country’s national drink is tequila, and it was historically distilled in home-made stills from the sixteenth century onwards.
Mexico introduced chocolate, maize and chillies to the world.
The border between Mexico and the US is the second longest border in the world, after the US-Canadian border.
Only ten other countries have a larger population than Mexico, and Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world.
