The United Mexican States, commonly known as Mexico is a federation of 31 free and sovereign states forming a union which have jurisdiction over its territories, federal district and Capital City. The Capital is Mexico City and the country operates under a President with governmental structure that is democratic, republican and representative. Each Mexican state has its own constitution, congress, and judiciaries with 6 year term elections for governors and 3 year terms for state congress. Each state is divided into the smallest political entity in the country, a municipality, which is governed by a municipal president or mayor who is elected by their residents.
The country itself has no official religion as the constitution of 1917 guarantees separation of church and state. The dominant religion, however, is Catholicism covering 82.7% of the population as of 2010, with the next largest being Protestant and Mormon accounting for 9.7% of the populous.
Covering the southern end of the United States, Mexico is bordered by the Caribbean Sea, North Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. The population as of 2012 was 120.8 million, a little less than two and half times that of the population of United States in 2012 of 313.9 million. Covering an area of over 761,600 sq. miles (1.973 million km²) about a 5th of the size of the USA at 3.794 million sq. miles and about 3 times the size of State of Texas. This makes Mexico the 5th largest country in America and 14th largest in the world ranking 11th in terms of its population size.
The primary language spoken is Spanish and Mexico has the largest population in the world of Spanish Speakers. Mexico’s government recognizes 68 indigenous Amerindian languages with the primary indigenous language spoken by more than 1 million inhabitants being Nahuatl.
Identity is generally defined by family, which is