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North America > Mexico

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Background:

The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. The elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON.

Borders:

Belize 250 km, Guatemala 962 km, US 3,141 km

Population:

109,955,400

GDP per capita:

$8,051.92 per capita

Capital with population:

Mexico City - 8,735,400

Largest city with population:

Mexico City - 8,735,400

Alternative names:

Mexico, ma*a(c)xico, United Mexican States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos


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Mexico City, 1972
Mexico City, 1972
The Viceroyalty of New Spain 1786-1821
The Viceroyalty of New Spain 1786-1821
The Major Movements of Texan and Mexican Military Forces, February - April, 1836
The Major Movements of Texan and Mexican Military Forces, February - April, 1836
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General Map of Mexico
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Jack
3rd August 2005
Slavs aren't Caucasians of Mediterranean origin. Therefore, they don't have Mediterranean heritage.
jose guerrero
8th June 2005
Mexico is part of N.America
Gabriel Perú
5th June 2005
To "a little fact about Mexico"
Edria Murray
Staff Editor

3rd June 2005
In response to Juan

The terms first second and third world became commonly used during the cold war era. At that time the "first world" referred to the United States and its allies. The term "second world" referred to the communist bloc countries (although this term was seldom used) and the term "third world referred to those countries which were not aligned with the capitalist or communist powers.



Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the term 'second world' ceased to be used, The term 'first world' referred to all developed nations and 'third world' referred to countries with poor infrastructure. Third world countries typically have high birth rates, low life expectency low per capita GDPand a low level of development on the human development index. Some analysts also use the term 'fourth world' to refer to the very poorest of the third world countries.

iskinder
16th May 2005
the first university in Mexico was founded in 1551, and was the second built in the Americas -- The first one was founded by the Spaniards in the Caribbean island of La Hispañola, now Dominican Republic/Haiti.
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14th May 2005
The Yucatán Peninsula and everything parallel to that is in Central America. But the rest of Mexico is part of North America.
Steven Colosi
28th March 2005
To me "Latin America" is a misnomer. 1st of all Latins live mainly in Cyprus and Italy. Secondly, "Iberian America" fits better. Visit: http://www.portuguesefoundation.org/hispanic.htm
Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor

12th March 2005
National borders are politically decided and continental borders have traditionally been decided by the identification of continental plates, a geological formation. In recent years, there has been some debate on the definition of a 'Continent', some arguments being politically motivated; for example, Russia and other CIS countries are now keen to be seen as being part of Europe because of the advantages of being associated with the EU, whereas two centuries back, the countries of what is now called Western Europe were happy to acknowledge the geological fact that this (Western European) region is technically a vast peninsula of the Eurasian land mass that extends west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains and is the sixth-largest continent.

One clear explanation of 'geopolitics' that I found is by Greg Cruey at: http://goasia.about.com/od/countriesaz/a/asiadefined.htm, where he says: "Geopolitical units have replaced continents in the public mind. The Middle East, for example, extending from Iran through the Arabian Peninsula and across North Africa, is not a continent. Algeria is in the Middle East, and on the continent of Africa. Iran is also in the Middle East, but on the continent of Asia. The middle East is not unique in this; terms like "Central America" and "Latin America" are both intended to replace geographic categories by using criteria other than just geography. And until after WWII, Southeast Asia was an unthought of idea: Burma and Thailand were "Greater India" and Vietnam and Cambodia were Indo-China. Geography may not change much, but time and politics seem to change how we interpret it."

Maria
1st March 2005
Geographically speaking, not too much of Mexico is part of North America. actually wait a minute, about half of it is.
Angel
2nd February 2005
The main religion in my country is Catholicism. I am not certain if it is included under "Christianity", but because of the importance of that religion here, it should be mentioned.
Pablo
11th December 2004
Do you have a limit on how long should the comments be? Mine's from yesterday was edited.
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