United+Mexican+States+(Mexico)+2nd+version

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General Information
** Official country name: ** United Mexican States ** Year that country joined the UN: ** Mexico united in 1945

People
People in Mexico are called Mexicans. The official lenguage in Mexico is Spanish. English is also spoken, and in a nacional way, they also spoke indigenous languages. The most practiced religion in Mexico is Catholitism. The nacional sport, that is also de most practiced is the Charrería. the most practiced and internacional sport inMexico is football.
 * 1.What are the people from the country called?**
 * 2.What is the official language? What other languages do people speak?**
 * 3.What is the most-practiced religion?**
 * 4.What is the most practiced sport?**

Government
The name of the leader of Mexico is Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa. The type of government that ruled over Mexico is Federal Republic. The main political parties are: PAN, that means National action party, PRI, that means Institutional revolutionary party and Party od the democratic revolution. Mexico was colonized of Spain, and they declared it independence in the war of Mexican War Independence (1810-1821).
 * 1.What is the name of the leader of the country?**
 * 2.What type of government is the country ruled by?**
 * 3.What are the main political parties of the country?**
 * 4.Was your country ever a colony? If so, when did it gain its independence?**

Geography
Mexico is located in Central America bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico is bordered by the United States at the north and Belize and Guatemala at the south. The terrain in Mexico is caracterized by the high, rugged and desertic it is, in some areas also are typical the low coastal plains and the high plateaus. The highest mountain in Mexico is the Volcano Pico de Orizaba with 5,700 m.
 * 1.Where is the country?(i.e. continent and region ,for example Central Europe or North Africa)**
 * 2.What other nations border the country?**
 * 3.What kind of landscape does the country have?**
 * 4.Which is the highest point in the country?**

Economy
The most common sector is services with a 62,9% followed by industry with a 23,4% and for last agriculture with a 13,7%. Only 5,6 in 2010. The actual external debt is $212.5 billion.Mexico occupied the 29 position in the most indebted countries.
 * 1.What is the most common sector of employment in the country?(i.e. business, agriculture and farming, government jobs, etc)**
 * 2.What is the unemployment rate in your country by percentage)?**
 * 3.What is the external debt from mexico?**