14/07/2023
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT MEXICO 🇲🇽:
🇲🇽 His official name is not Mexico, but the United Mexican States.
🇲🇽 Although his flag was created in 1821 it took 147 years to become official 1968.
🇲🇽 Home of the largest pyramid, did you think the pyramids of Egypt were unbeatable? The Great Pyramid of Cholula measures 450 meters by 450 meters, rising 55 meters above the plain where construction began around the year 300 BC.
🇲🇽 Spanish-speaking country with more inhabitants, logic would say that Spain is where Spanish is spoken the most. But with a population of more than 120 million, Mexico beats any other country.
🇲🇽 There are 68 recognized languages, One of Mexico's most unknown curiosities is that there are 68 native languages and 364 recognized linguistic variants in the country in addition to Spanish. Surprisingly, Mexico has no official language.
🇲🇽 Largest beer exporter in the world, the Crown brand is the most known in other countries.
🇲🇽 Coca-Cola is the favorite soft drink, Mexico is the country with the highest consumption of Coca-Cola on the entire planet. Devotion reaches so far that in the people of San Juan Chamula, Coca-Cola is literally considered a holy drink.
🇲🇽 Chocolate was a Mexican discovery. We have to thank the Olmec, Aztec, Toltec, and Maya civilizations!
🇲🇽Impressive rituals, One of the most impressive Aztec rituals was to sacrifice between 10,000 and 50,000 people every year. They believed the world would end if there wasn't human blood flowing.
🇲🇽The biggest university in the world is Mexican.
UNAM has over 360,000 students enrolled. With those figures, it’s the largest in the world. It was founded in 1551, also earning the record for being the oldest university in North America.
🇲🇽 "In its form, Mexico is a country like no other in the world: With its two peninsulas and its two gulfs, it swings on both sides of the Tropico de Cancer.
To the north, it unfolds deserts and drought, to the south it envelops in jungles and humidity.
🇲🇽 Mexico is like an enormous wrinkled paper, full of mountain ranges, saws, plateaus, volcanoes, and plains, where all climates exist and concentrate one-tenth of the plants and animals on the planet.
🇲🇽We are lucky to live in one of the most beautiful countries in the World 🌍
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