Mexico

Mexico is a nation of the Western Hemisphere, sharingcommon border throughout its northern extent with the United States of America. Mexico is bounded to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the east by the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and to the southeast by Guatemala and Belize. Mexico also administers such islands and archipelagoes as the Tres Marias in the Pacific and Cozumel and Mujeres off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Physiography

• Mexico can be divided into nine major physiographic regions: Baja California, the Pacific Coastal Lowlands, the Mexican Plateau, the Sierra Madre Oriental, ....