Capital: Mexico (Distrito Federal)

Languages: Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages

Currency: Mexican peso (MXN)

Timezones: General GMT-6, Baja California GMT-8, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Nayarit & Sinaloa GMT-7, Sonora GMT-7

This diverse land is made up of 31 individual states (Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal*, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas) and one federal district (Distrito federal).

Depending on where you are, the atmosphere can be hot and humid with the backdrop of a blue-green ocean and tropical terrain, hot and dry with sand dunes, scorpions and dust storms, or cold and dry with a view of towering mountains.