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Mexico is located in the south of the North American
subcontinent, Mexico shares border by the north with the United States and to
the south-east with Central America, particularly with Guatemala and Belize. Its
surface is of 1.964.375 km ², with a continental surface of 1.959.248 km ² and
one insular of 5,127 km ². To this it locates it extension in the fourteenth
place between the countries of the world with greater territory. The length of
its continental coasts is of 11,122 km, thus occupies the second place in
America, after Canada, distributed in two slopes: to the West, the Pacific Ocean
and the gulf of California; and to the east, the gulf of Mexico and the
Caribbean Sea, that comprise of the river basin of the Atlantic Ocean.
Distributed in their territorial sea are numerous islands, between which they
emphasize the archipelagoes of Revillagigedo (Aid, Clarion, San Benedicto,
Divided Rock), and the islands Maria, in the Pacific; those of Guadalupe,
Cedars, Angel of Guarda, Crowned, Rocks Contrabands, Island of the Shark, Island
of the Carmen, in front of the peninsula of Baja California and the coast of
Sonant; and those of City of the Carmen, Cozumel, Women, and the reef Scorpions,
in the Atlantic river basin. Altogether they add a surface of 5,073 km ²
Mexico 1 - Mexico 2