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MEXICO

The United Mexican States or Mexico is a country in Central America with a total area of 1,972,550 km2. It was conquered by the Aztecs who founded the city of Mexico in 1325, and the country was discovered in 1517 and conquered by the Spanish under Fernando Cortez. The Mexicans started their struggle for independence in 1810, realising their goal in 1821. The climate varies from tropical to desert and the terrain is high, rugged mountains, low coastal plains, high plateaus, and desert. Natural resources are crude oil, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas and timber. The religion is 97% nominally Roman Catholic and 3% Protestant, the language is Spanish with Nahuati also spoken.

The independence of Mexico was recognized by the United States in March, 1823. A treaty of limits was signed in 1828, with additional articles in 1831 and 1835 and a commercial treaty in 1831. The Mexican War of 1846 was caused by Mexico's resentment over the annexation of their territory of Texas by the United States. After a succession of victories the United States obtained in February, 1848, the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which Mexico was forced to cede California, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico to the United States in consideration of a payment of $15,000,000 by the United States and the assumption of $3,000,000 of unsettled claims against Mexico which were paid by the US Government in 1851.

By the Gadsden Treaty of 1853 a half million of square miles of territory were added to the United States, and rights of transit over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In 1861 an extradition treaty was concluded, and in 1868 a naturalization convention and a convention for the establishment of a claims commission. Claims against Mexico were finally allowed to the amount of about $4,000,000, and against the United States to the amount of about $150,000. A reciprocity convention was concluded in 1883, but is not in operation owing to a failure of the necessary legislation. The boundary between Mexico and the United States was fixed by the Convention of. 1884.
Mexico is a CDP in Miami County, Indiana, USA.
Mexico is a village in Oswego County, New York, USA.
Mexico is a town in Oswego County, New York, USA.
Mexico is a city in Audrain County, Missouri, USA.
Mexico is a town in Oxford County, Maine, USA.
Mexico is a CDP in Oxford County, Maine, USA.
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