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Mexico: map and facts
Mexico is in Central America. It has about 132 million people (2025), the 11th largest population. It covers 1,957,194 km², the 13th largest by area. That is about 67 people per km². Its highest point is Pico de Orizaba, at 5,636 m. The longest river on its map is the Rio Grande, 3,051 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 131,946,900 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 1,957,194 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Mexico City
- Highest point: Pico de Orizaba, 5,636 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 34.2% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Mexico, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Rio Grande: 3,051 km
- Colorado: 2,334 km
- Lerma: 750 km
- Balsas: 724 km
- Usumacinta: 560 km
- Grijalva: 480 km
- Yaqui: 410 km
- Papaloapan: 354 km
- Coatzacoalcos: 325 km
- San Pedro: 230 km
Also on the map: Rio Grande de Santiago, Verde, Panuco, Conchos, Cuilco, Rio Salinas, San Pedro y San Pablo, Moctezuma, Atengo and San Juan.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Pico de Orizaba: 5,636 m (its highest point)
- Volcan Popocatépetl: 5,420 m
- Volcan Tacana: 4,064 m
- Volcan de Colima: 3,850 m
- Cerro Nube Flane: 3,720 m
- Cerro San Rafael: 3,710 m
- Cerro El Viejo: 3,500 m
- Cerro El Jabalín: 3,440 m
Mountain ranges: Sierra Madre del Sur, Sierra Madre Occidental, Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre de Chiapas.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Central America, Mexican Plateau, Baja California Peninsula, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Yucatan Peninsula, Chihuahuan Desert, Sonoran Desert and Revillagigedo Islands.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): open shrubland 24%, grassland 22.9%, savanna 15.8%, wooded savanna 11%, evergreen broadleaf forest 8.3%, farmland 6.5%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 36.8%, hills 32%, plains 20.1%, plateaus 8.9%, high mountains 2.2%.
Forests covered 34.2% of its land in 2024, down from 36.9% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #1 in silver among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in fluorspar among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #5 in zinc among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #5 in molybdenum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in barite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in gold among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in lead among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in gypsum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in salt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in antimony among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Mexico shares land borders with Belize, Guatemala and United States on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
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