Mexico is a Northern American country located north of Belize and Guatemala and south of the United States. Its geography is composed of high, rugged mountains, low coastal plains, high plateaus, and deserts. Weather may vary from a very tropical weather to a desert climate.
The population of Mexico is mostly composed of mestizos, or Amerindian-Spanish, taking up to 60%. Another 30% of the population is composed of predominantly Amerindians, 9% are white-Caucasians, and the remaining 1% belong to other ethnic groups. As for religions, the most practiced is the Roman Catholic with a leading percentage of 76.5%, Protestant religion with 6.3%, other religions take up 0.3%, unspecified 13.8%, and the remaining population with no religion take up 3.1%.
92.7% of the people in Mexico speak Spanish only, 5.7% speak Spanish and indigenous languages, 0.8% indigenous languages only, such as Mayan and Nahuatl, among other regional languages, and finally, 0.8% of the Mexican population have an unspecified language. More than eighty-six percent of the Mexican population fifteen and over can read and write.
Mexico declared its independence in the 19th century, on September 16th, 1810. It is now a federal republic with administrative divisions of thirty-one states and one federal district. Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas are all of the thirty-one states that compose the country of Mexico. Mexico City is the only federal district in the country and it is also the capital. The legal system in Mexico is a mixture of the United Sates constitutional theory, civil law system, and judicial review of legislative acts. The Mexican constitution was signed on the February 5, 1917. Suffrage in Mexico is given to those citizens who are eighteen years of age or older and is not enforced.
Most Mexicans are proud of their country and wave their flag shamelessly. The flag is described as three vertical bands of green on the hoist side, white in the middle, and red on the far right end. Mexico's coat of arms, which is an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus, is placed on the white band. Green signifies hope, joy, and love, while white represents peace and honesty, and red stands for hardiness, bravery, strength, and valor.
Mexico is rich in resources and has a rapidly increasing economy. Some agriculture products are corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes, beef, poultry, dairy products, and wood products. Many of the industries in Mexico provide a good economic boost. Some of these industries include food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, and most importantly, tourism.
Although Mexico's economy is now increasing, it has had a history of it being very unstable. The unemployment rate is of 5.6% and the population below poverty line is of 18.2%, using a food-based definition of poverty.
Mexico is quickly becoming one of the largest economically growing countries in America and perhaps the world...
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