A large expanse of fertile ground for doing business.  Mexico has a territorial area of almost 2 million km2 which, together with the expanse of sea over which it has special rights for exploration and development of resources (known as the Exclusive Economic Zone), constitutes a total area of more than 5 million km2, which places it as one of the countries with the greatest territorial extension in the world. In addition, Mexico has 11,000 kilometers of coastline, connecting it to the west with Asia and to the east with Europe.

Mexico?s political division is made up of 32 federative entities and its capital is the Federal District, the seat of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches.

Together with Canada and the United States, a country to which is has access across a border that extends for more than 3,000 km, Mexico forms part of North America. The country has 52 border crossing points to the United States, which are concentrated in six of its 32 federative entities (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas).

To the south, Mexico borders on Guatemala and Belize, its doors of access to Central and South America, regions with whose countries it comprises Latin America and maintains close cultural relations, as well as growing trade links.

Mexico City is close to:

•Los Angeles: 2.5 hours

•Atlanta: 2.5 hours

•New York City: 4 hours

•Sao Paulo: 8 hours

•Buenos Aires: 9 hours

•London: 10 hours

•Madrid: 10 hours

•Tokyo: 12.5 hours

•Beijing: 14 hours

 

1 It is estimated that the US has a 303.7 million population (March 2008), Canada has a 33.2 million population (November 2007), and Mexico has a 106.7 million population (CONAPO, 2008).