north america • MEX
Mexico
Location marker · geographic overview
23° N / 102° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Mexico City
- Population
- 130,861,007 2024
- Area
- 1,964,375 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Spanish
- Currency
- Mexican peso (MXN)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México) is known for its cuisine, art, archaeology, history, pyramids, music, museums, haciendas, 9,600 km (6,000 mi) of shoreline, superb architecture, weather from snow-capped mountains in the Sierras to rainy jungles in the southeast and desert in the northwest, many golf courses and excellent fishing.
Landscape & landmarks
Many travelers come to see Mexico's natural wonders, including: […] Copper Canyon - ride the train through an enormous canyon system in the northwestern mountains […] Mesoamerican Barrier Reef - scuba dive the coral reefs in the warm waters of the Mexican Caribbean […] Sea of Cortez - see migrating whales, sea lions, dolphins and more […] Volcano Belt - climb Mexico's highest mountain peaks […]Read the see section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-19. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- North America
- Calling code
- +52
- Internet domain
- .mx
- Land border codes
- BLZ, GTM, USA
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .mx. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.