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MEXICO

Mexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country and the second-largest Roman Catholic nation in the world. It extends from the 14th to the 32d parallel north of the equator in southern North America. Brazil and Argentina are the only Latin American countries larger in area. The United States borders Mexico on the north, while Guatemala and Belize are on the southeast, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west and south. The name is taken from the Mexica, one of seven Nahuatl tribes that inhabit the central highland.