| Mexico

Oficial Name	Mexican United States
Surfaces and Limits	Territorial surface: 1 964 375 km2 Continental surface: 1 959 248 km2 Insular surface: 5 127 km2 International limits of the continental territory: 4 301 km2 - United States: 3 152 km2 - Guatemala: 956 km2 - Belize: 193 km2 Line lenght of coast: 11 122 km2
Location of Mexico in the world:	The extreme coordinates that frame the Mexican territory are: North: 32° 43´ 06´´ North latitude, at Monument 206, in the border with the United States of America (3 152,90 kilometers). South: 14° 32´ 27´´ North latitude, in the mouth of the river Suchiate, border with Guatemala (1 149,8 kilometers). East: 86° 42´ 36´´ west longitude, in the Southeastern end of the Isla Mujeres. West: 118° 27´ 24´´ west longitude, in the Roca Elefante Pooint of the Island of Guadalupe, in the Pacific Ocean.
Political Division	Federal Organizations: 32 (Capital: Mexico, Federal District). Municipalities: 2,454
Structure of the continental surface by climates	Total: 100% Warm humid: 4.7% Warm subhumid: 23.0% Humid temperate: 2.7% Subhumid temperate: 20.5% Dry: 28.3% Very dry: 20.8%
Standard time	In the south, east and center, GMT-6 hours (winter), -5 (summer); Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Baja California Sur-7 (winter), -6 (summer); Baja California -8 (winter), -7 (summer).
Population	Total Population (2005): 103,263,388 Men: 50.249.955 Women: 53,013,433 Average rate of annual growth (2000-2005): 1.0% Urban population (2000): 74.6% Density of population (2006): 54.9 Hab/Km2
Life expectancy	68.5, men; 74,7. women
Ethnic composition	60% mestizos; amerindian 30%; European 9%; 1% others
Languages	Spanish (official), more 66 amerindian languages. Speaking population of 5 years and older of indigenous language that does not speak Spanish: 12.0% (2005)
Illiteracy	Illiterate population of 15 years and more (2005): 8.4%
Religion	89,7% catholics; 4,9% protestants; 0,1% Jews; 2.1% others; 3.2% non religious.
Emplyment	Economically active population (EAP), fourth trimester of 2005: 58.3% General rate of open unemployment (32 urban areas), 2005: 3.1% (EAP) Daily minimum wage (1 of January of 2006 to the date): 47.05 Pesos
National Celebration	16 of September: Independence Day.
Natural Resources	Petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas, wood
Monetary Unit	Peso (M$); 1 peso=100 cents
Economic information	The total GDP to prices of market (2005): 8,374,348.5 million pesos The GDP per capita (2005): 78,668,1 pesos by inhabitant GDP total annual real growth (2005): 3.0%
Destiny of the exports	United States (89%); Canada (1.7%); Japan, Spain, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil (2%).
Sources of the imports	United States (74.8%); Germany (3.8%); Japan (3.5%); Canada, Italy, Republic of Korea, France (6.2%)

Source: Inegi 2005