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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
54. Mexico
verfasst von : C. J. Campbell
Erschienen in: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
Mexico covers an area of almost 2 million km2, being bordered by the United States to the north and Guatemala and Belize to the south. A central plateau, between 1,000 and 2,000 m above sea-level, is flanked by two branches of the Sierra Madre mountain chain, which is capped by volcanic peaks rising to almost 6,000 m above sea-level. Baja California forms a long peninsula on the Pacific margin in the northwest of the country, while the Yucatan Peninsula in the southeast flanks the Gulf of Mexico, being made up, in part, of inhospitable limestone karst country. Much of Mexico is arid, except for the coastal areas and the highlands of the south. The population has risen sevenfold since 1900 to 115 million, of whom about 21 million live in Mexico City, one of the World’s largest and most polluted capitals. An additional seven million Mexicans live in the United States, some illegally.