Official name: United Mexican States

Size: 761,606 square miles (1,972550 square kilometers); almost three times the size of Texas

Population: 108,700,891 as of July 2007

Capital: Mexico City

Languages: Spanish, Mayan, Nahuatl and others

Currency: Mexican Peso

Climate: Tropical to desert

Products: Corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, chemicals, iron, petroleum, textiles

Did you know?:

• Mexico City is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Western Hemisphere.
• Admirers of Mexican Revolution leader Pancho Villa linked him to Robin Hood.
• Each autumn, millions of monarch butterflies migrate from the U.S. and Canada to central Mexico. They travel up to 2,000 miles to get there.