Geography of Mexico

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The geography of Mexico describes the geographic features of Mexico, a country in the Americas. Mexico is located at about 23° N and 102° W in the southern portion of North America. From its farthest land points, Mexico is a little over 3,200 km (2,000 mi) in length. Mexico is bounded to the north by the United States (specifically, from west to east, by California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas), to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the east by the Gulf of Mexico, and to the southeast by Belize, Guatemala, and the Caribbean Sea. The northernmost constituent of Latin America, it is the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. Mexico is the world's 13th largest country, nearly three times the size of Texas. Almost all of Mexico is on the North American plate, with small parts of the Baja California peninsula in the northwest on the Pacific and Cocos plates. Some geographers include the portion east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec including the Yucatán Peninsula within...

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