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POPULATION
Population: 100,300,000
Area: 1,972,000 square km
Languages: Spanish and more than 50 indigenous dialects
Religion: 90% Catholic, 6% Protestant, plus a wide
variety of native religions
Tourism: Mexico has 16.5 million tourists a year.
Student population: The illiteracy rate today is
less than 10% of the population. Registration in higher
education has increased more than 46% in the last few years
to 1.4 million students. Higher education in Mexico employs
114,724 professors in 1,309 universities and technical schools,
public and private (1995 figures from the Ministry of Public
Education).
Capital: Mexico City, or Mexico D.F. (Federal District),
with its 22 million inhabitants, is the world's second largest
city and largest urban agglomeration!
Principal cities: Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara,
León, Tijuana
Chief university cities: Mexico City, Monterrey,
Guadalajara.
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