Mexico

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.

Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Mexico. Mexico is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 47 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 121.3°W to 83.8°W and 12.9°N to 34.3°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Mexico is filled. The 7 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Mexico. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

47 parts of Mexico in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 23.6°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 121.3°W–83.8°W, 12.9°N–34.3°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Mexico. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    4 sources from Mexicoin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Reforma (Portada)
    • El Financiero
    • El Informador
    • Mexico News Daily

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    Chamber of Deputies ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    12 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Mexico City, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:25 AM · sunset 6:34 PM12h 09m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    MEXcited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    127 Vcited
    Capital
    Mexico Citycited
    Official languages
    Spanish, Yucatec Maya, nahuatlcited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    No source assessed yet

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Mexico: the UN's 2025 estimate is 131,946,900 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 2.1 more a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    131,946,900 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    130,861,007 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 2.1 more a minute (1,086,614 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    131,946,9002025
    GDP
    1,832,641,364,7762025
    GDP per capita
    13,8892025
    Life expectancy at birth
    75.3 years2024
    Exports
    39.6%2025
    Imports
    40.3%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  9. World Heritage Sites

    35 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Sian Ka'an · inscribed 1987
    2. Palenque · inscribed 1987
    3. Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco · inscribed 1987
    4. Teotihuacan · inscribed 1987
    5. Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán · inscribed 1987
    6. Historic Centre of Puebla · inscribed 1987
    7. Chichen Itza · inscribed 1989
    8. Historic Centre of Morelia · inscribed 1991
    9. Tajín Veracruz · inscribed 1992
    10. El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro · inscribed 1993 · shared with United States
    11. Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino · inscribed 1993
    12. Historic centre of Zacatecas · inscribed 1993
    13. Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco · inscribed 1993
    14. Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl · inscribed 1994
    15. Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro · inscribed 1996
    16. Hospicio Cabañas · inscribed 1997
    17. Casas Grandes · inscribed 1998
    18. Tlacotalpan · inscribed 1998
    19. Historic Fortified Town of Campeche · inscribed 1999
    20. Xochicalco · inscribed 1999
    21. Calakmul · inscribed 2002
    22. Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda · inscribed 2003
    23. Luis Barragán House and Studio · inscribed 2004
    24. Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California · inscribed 2005
    25. Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila · inscribed 2006
    26. Ciudad Universitaria · inscribed 2007
    27. Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco · inscribed 2008
    28. Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve · inscribed 2008
    29. Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca · inscribed 2010
    30. El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve · inscribed 2013
    31. Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque · inscribed 2015
    32. Revillagigedo Islands · inscribed 2016
    33. Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve · inscribed 2018
    34. Huichol route to Huiricuta · inscribed 2025
    35. Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 911

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    MXN

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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