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MEXICO
XA-XI
OFFICIAL NAME:United Mexican States.
LOCATION:Southern North America.
LAT/LONG:22N/100W
CONTINENT:North America.
ZONES-ITU:10 CQ:6
TIME:East of states of Sonora, Sinaloa, and Nayarit:-6 Hrs; Sonora,
Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Baja California (south of 28N):-7 Hrs; Baja
California (north of 28N):-8 Hrs.
AREA:761,602 Sq.M. 1,972,550 Sq.Km.
POPULATION:81,860,566 DENSITY:107/Sq.M. (41/Sq.Km.) AAGR:2.09%
LIFE EXPECTANCY:65.4
LITERACY RATE:88.1%
TYPE OF GOVERNMENT:federal republic, operating under a centralized
government.
CAPITAL:Mexico City.
LANGUAGE:Spanish.
RELIGIONS:97% Roman Catholic, 3% Protestant.
CURRENCY:peso.
GDP:$147.2 billion ($1,870 per capita) REAL GROWTH RATE:2.7%
AVERAGE INFLATION RATE:58% (1985).
MAJOR INDUSTRIES:processing of food, beverages, and tobacco; chemicals,
basic metals and metal products, petroleum products, mining, textiles
and clothing, transport equipment.
AGRICULTURE:corn, cotton, wheat, coffee, sugar cane, sorghum, oilseeds,
pulses, vegetables.
EXPORTS:cotton, coffee, nonferrous minerals (including lead and
zinc), shrimp, petroleum, sulphur, salt, cattle and meat, fresh fruit,
tomatoes, machinery and equipment. ($21.866 billion).
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:6.41 million telephones; 650 AM, 109 FM, 120 TV (and
about 180 relay stations); 120 domestic satellite terminals, and 2
Atlantic Ocean satellite ground antennas.
COMMERCIAL POWER:127/220V; 60Hz.
NATIONAL HOLIDAY:16 September (Independence Day).
MISC:Mexico City is Latin America's largest city and the oldest capital
in the Americas. Mexico is subject to earthquakes in the center and
south; natural water resources scarce in the north, inaccessible and of
poor quality in the center and extreme southeast. It is divided into 31
states and a Federal District. Member of UN since 1945. Member of OAS.
Uses metric system.
(FOR US OPS-3rd party:yes ROA:no)