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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.

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