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Mexico
Capital: Mexico City
- Mexico has 68 co-official Indigenous languages alongside Spanish, reflecting the many peoples who have lived there for centuries.
- Mexico is one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries and ranks fifth in natural biodiversity.
- Parts of Mexico City have sunk as much as nine metres, and in places the ground still drops up to about 50 cm a year.
- Teotihuacan, founded around 100 BCE, grew into a city of around 100,000 people at its height, with some of the largest pyramids in the Americas.
- In 2022 Mexico had 42.2 million international arrivals, making it the sixth most visited country in the world.