MEXICO
The United Mexican States (Spanish:
Estados Unidos Mexicanos), or simply Mexico (Spanish: México), is a
country located in North America, bounded on the north by the United
States; on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; on the
southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east
by the Gulf of Mexico.
The United Mexican States comprise a
constitutional republican federation of thirty-one states and a federal
district, Mexico City, one of the most populous cities on Earth.
Covering almost 2 million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth-largest
country in the Americas by total area and 14th largest in the world.
With a population of almost 109 million, it is the 11th most populous
country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world.
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Cancún is a coastal city in Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana
Roo.
It is the municipal seat of Benito Juárez municipality and a
world-renowned tourist resort with modern beachfront hotels surrounded
by Isla Mujeres ("Women Island"), the Caribbean Sea, and the Nichupte
and Bojórquez lagoons. The mainland downtown commercial section (Cancún
City), connected to the island by two bridges, has broad avenues lined
with shops, restaurants, and hotels.
The older section of the city, which follows the original master plan,
consists of neighborhoods called supermanzanas (superblocks) that are
formed by the intersections of the boulevards. They are characterized by
winding streets with cul-de-sacs that tend to keep out the main flow of
traffic, and usually have one or more parks and other green spaces.
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