Mexico is a country in North America. The United States is north of Mexico. Guatemala and Belize are south of Mexico. Mexico is between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
People living in Mexico or who are from there are called Mexicans. Most Mexican people speak Spanish. There are also Mexicans who speak Native languages, like Nahuatl, Maya, and Zapotec. The capital of Mexico is Mexico City.
Mexico is in the southern part of North America and is roughly shaped like a triangle. Mexico is more than 3000 km (1,850 miles) long from northwest to southeast. Mexico is between two large seas: the Pacific Ocean in the West and the Gulf Mexico and the Caribeann Sea in the East. Mexico has two large peninsulas.
Baja California in the Northwest, and Yucatan in the Southeast. In central and western Mexico are the Sierra Madre mountains. In the Sierra Madre is the Pico de Orizaba, the highest mountain of Mexico. In central Mexico there are also a few volcanoes like the Popocatépetl and the Iztaccihuatl.
The Pico de Orizaba is also a volcano. In the north of Mexico are deserts, in the south are tropical rainforest. Some rivers in Mexico are the Rio Bravo (known in the US as the Rio Grande), the Rio Grijalva, the Rio Balsas, the Rio Panuco, and the Rio Yaqui.
