The Most Fascinating Facts about Mexico

Tomas Pueyo
5 min readJul 18, 2024
  1. Mexico is huge! It’s hard to comprehend. You can fit 30 European countries in Mexico and still have room to spare.

Here it is, compared to Greenland:

2. As big as Mexico is now, it used to be much bigger.

In the 1846–48 war with the US, the US took 55% of Mexico’s land!

3. Mexico has by far the most Spanish speakers in the world.

The US has more Spanish speakers than Spain!

4. It’s been invaded six times through Veracruz! Three of these times, the invaders managed to reach Mexico City, making Veracruz Mexico’s Achilles Heel.

Google, edited by me

5. It does not have a single big city on the coast! The biggest one is Acapulco, which is the 27th…

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Tomas Pueyo
Tomas Pueyo

Written by Tomas Pueyo

2 MSc in Engineering. Stanford MBA. Ex-Consultant. Creator of applications with >20M users. Currently leading a billion-dollar business @ Course Hero