GENERAL INFORMATION ON MEXICO
Basic Information
Official Name:
United States of Mexico
Surfaces and Boundaries:
• Total area: 1,964,375 km2
• continental area: 1,959,248 km2
• insular area: 5127 km2
• International boundaries of mainland: 4301 km
• United States: 3152 km2
• Guatemala: 956 km2
• Belize: 193 km2
• Length of coastline: 11 122 km2
Location of Mexico in the world.
The outer coordinates Mexican territory are:
• North: 32 ° 43' 06' north on Monument 206, on the border with the United States of America (3 152.90 kilometers).
• South: 14 ° 32' 27'north, at the mouth of Suchiate River border with Guatemala (1 149.8 kilometers).
• East: 86 ° 42 'west longitude 36'', at the southeastern tip of Isla Mujeres.
• West: 118 ° 27 'west longitude 24'' in Punta Roca Elefante Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean.
Political Division
• Federal Entities: 32 (Capital: Mexico, Distrito Federal).
• Municipalities: 2,454
Structure of the continental surface climates
• Total: 100%
• Warm moist: 4.7%
• Warm humid: 23.0%
• Moist Temperate: 2.7%
• Temperate subhumid: 20.5%
• Dry: 28.3%
• Very dry: 20.8%
• Current Weather Forecast.
official time
• In the south, east and center, GMT-6 hours (winter), -5 (summer); Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Baja California Sur -7 (winter), -6 (summer); -8 Baja California (winter), -7 (summer).
• Current time center
population
• Total Population (2005): 103,263,388
• Men: 50249955
• Women: 53013433
• Average annual growth (2000-2005): 1.0%
• Urban population (2000): 74.6%
• Population density (2006): 54.9 Bed / Km2
Lifespan
• 68.5 men
• 74.7, women
ethnic Composition
• 60% mestizos
• 30% Amerindian
• 9% European
• 1% other
languages
• Spanish (official), Amerindian languages 66 More.
• Population 5 years and over indigenous language speakers who do not speak Spanish: 12.0% (2005)
religion
• 89.7% Catholic
• 4.9% Protestants
• 0.1% Jewish
• 2.1% other
• 3.2% non-religious
Jobs
• Economically active population (PEA), fourth quarter 2005: 58.3%
• General rate of open unemployment (32 urban areas), 2005: 3.1% (PEA)
• General Minimum Wage day (January 1, 2006 to date): 47.05
National Day
• September 16: Independence Day.
Natural Resources
• Oil
• silver
• copper
• gold
• lead
• zinc
• natural gas
• wood
Monetary Unit
• Weight (M $); 1 peso = 100 centavos
economic Information
• Total GDP at market prices (2005): 8,374,348.5 million pesos
• GDP per capita (2005): 78668.1 pesos per capita
• Real annual growth of total GDP (2005): 3.0%
Destination of exports
• United States (89%)
• Canada (1.7%); Japan, Spain, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil (2%)
Sources of imports
• United States (74.8%)
• Germany (3.8%)
• Japan (3.5%)
• Canada, Italy, South Korea, France (6.2%) etc.
Mexico at a Glance: 2005 (INEGI)
