| Official name | United Mexican States |
| Name in local language | Estados Unidos Mexicanos (es) |
| Continent | Americas |
| Subcontinent | North America |
| Population (ranking: 10e) | 129,100,565 inhabitants (2020) |
| Population growth | 1.40 % / year |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² |
| Density | 65.72 inhabitants / km² |
| GDP (ranking: 15e) | 1,258.287 billions $USD (2019) |
| GDP/capita (ranking) | 9,863 $USD (2019) |
| GDP growth | -0.10 % / year (2019) |
| Life expectancy (ranking) | 75.00 years (2018) |
| Birth rate | 19.00 ‰ (2016) |
| Fertility rate | 2.20 children / woman (2016) |
| Death rate (ranking) | 5.00 ‰ (2016) |
| Infant mortality rate (ranking) | 13.00 ‰ (2016) |
| Literacy rate | 95.14 % (2015) |
| Official languages | Spanish |
| Currency | Peso (MXN) |
| HDI (ranking: 107e) | 0.767 / 1 (2018) |
| EPI (ranking) | 59.69 (2018) |
| Government | Federal presidential constitutional republic |
| Head of State | President Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| National Day | 16 September (independence of 1810) |
| ISO Codes | MX, MEX |
| Demonym | Mexican |
| Tourists (ranking) | 45,024,453 people (2019) |
Mexico is a federal republic composed of 32 states straddling North America and Central America (Isthmus of Tehuantepec). His full name is United States of Mexico. It shares borders with the United States to the north, Belize and Guatemala to the south.
Its capital, Mexico City, is one of the largest cities in the world, with 21 million inhabitants. In recent years, the growth of this huge agglomeration has slowed down, but the health situation in most neighborhoods is deplorable. The vast urban area of Mexico City, from Toluca in the west to Puebla in the east, has a population of about 32 million.
Colima volcano in eruption, Mexico. Photo: Sergio Tapiro
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Urban areas (2020)
| Urban areas | Population |
|---|---|
| México | 21,634,279 inhabitants |
| Guadalajara | 5,265,099 inhabitants |
| Monterrey | 5,228,659 inhabitants |
| Puebla-Tlaxcala | 3,169,357 inhabitants |
| Toluca | 2,408,412 inhabitants |
| San Diego - Tijuana (Mexican part) | 1,981,301 inhabitants |
| León | 1,942,677 inhabitants |
| Querétaro | 1,519,622 inhabitants |
| El Paso - Ciudad Juárez (Mexican part) | 1,455,923 inhabitants |
| Brownsville - McAllen - Matamoros - Reynosa (Mexican part) | 1,438,035 inhabitants |
| La Laguna - Torreón | 1,410,660 inhabitants |
| San Luis Potosí | 1,261,799 inhabitants |
| Mérida | 1,237,458 inhabitants |
| Aguascalientes | 1,175,495 inhabitants |
| Saltillo | 1,045,009 inhabitants |
| Cuernavaca | 1,043,800 inhabitants |
| Mexicali | 1,038,837 inhabitants |
| Veracruz | 1,015,432 inhabitants |
| Hermosillo | 1,010,273 inhabitants |
| Morelia | 1,006,877 inhabitants |
| Chihuahua | 989,312 inhabitants |
| Tampico | 982,856 inhabitants |
| Culiacán | 951,443 inhabitants |
| Acapulco | 909,373 inhabitants |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez | 899,203 inhabitants |
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Administrative divisions
| States (federal entities) | Population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Aguascalientes | 1,312,544 inhabitants | 5,618 km² |
| Baja California | 3,578,561 inhabitants | 71,446 km² |
| Basse-Californie du Sud | 712,029 inhabitants | 73,475 km² |
| Campeche | 899,931 inhabitants | 57,925 km² |
| Chiapas | 5,217,908 inhabitants | 73,289 km² |
| Chihuahua | 3,765,325 inhabitants | 247,455 km² |
| Coahuila | 2,954,915 inhabitants | 151,563 km² |
| Colima | 711,235 inhabitants | 5,625 km² |
| Durango | 1,754,754 inhabitants | 123,451 km² |
| Guanajuato | 5,853,677 inhabitants | 30,608 km² |
| Guerrero | 3,533,251 inhabitants | 63,621 km² |
| Hidalgo | 2,858,359 inhabitants | 20,842 km² |
| Jalisco | 7,844,830 inhabitants | 78,609 km² |
| Mexico (État) | 16,187,608 inhabitants | 22,357 km² |
| Michoacán | 4,584,471 inhabitants | 58,643 km² |
| Morelos | 1,903,811 inhabitants | 4,893 km² |
| Nayarit | 1,181,050 inhabitants | 27,815 km² |
| Nouveau León (Nuevo León) | 5,119,504 inhabitants | 64,220 km² |
| Oaxaca | 3,967,889 inhabitants | 93,793 km² |
| Puebla | 6,168,883 inhabitants | 34,290 km² |
| Querétaro | 2,038,372 inhabitants | 11,684 km² |
| Quintana Roo | 1,501,562 inhabitants | 42,361 km² |
| San Luis Potosí | 2,717,820 inhabitants | 60,982 km² |
| Sinaloa | 2,966,321 inhabitants | 57,377 km² |
| Sonora | 2,850,330 inhabitants | 179,503 km² |