Situated in the southwestern part of mainland North America
and roughly triangular in shape, Mexico stretches more than
3000 km from northwest to southeast. Its width is varied,
from more than 2000 km in the north and less than 220 km at
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the south.
Also see the following cities:
Mexico
City
Guadalajara
Monterrey
Puebla
Tijuana
León
Toluca
Ciudad Juárez
Torreón
Resources.
Mexico is
bordered by the United States to the north, and Belize and
Guatemala to the southeast. Mexico is about one-fourth the
size of the United States. Baja California in the west is an
1,250-km peninsula and forms the Gulf of California. In the
east are the Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Campeche, which
is formed by Mexico's other peninsula, the Yucatán. The
center of Mexico is a great, high plateau, open to the
north, with mountain chains on the east and west and with
ocean-front lowlands lying outside of them. (See list of
mountains in Mexico).
The terrain
and climate vary from rocky deserts in the north to tropical
rain forest in the south. Mexico's major rivers include the
Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande) and the Usumacinta on its
northern and southern borders, respectively, together with
the Grijalva, Balsas, Pánuco, and Yaqui in the interior.
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