1. Mexico Capital – Mexico City 9 Million people – second largest in the world

2. Physical Geography

3. Physical features West - Sierra Madre Occidental Mts. East – Sierra Madre Oriental Mts. South – Sierra Madre Del Sur Mts North – Rio Grande River Central – Mexican Plateau Southeast – Yucatan Plateau Rio Grande River

5. Copper Canyon Rugged, dry, mountainous Northwest

6. Mayan Ruins in the Yucatan Hot, humid, tropical rainforest

7. Climates From Northwest to Southeast Arid (Baja Peninsula), Semi-arid, highland, tropical wet-dry, tropical humid (Yucatan)

8. Central Mexican Plateau contains Mexico City, highest population density

9. Resources Gold and silver – Mountains Oil – Gulf of Mexico

10. Land Use Livestock raising in Mountains Farming – Commercial in central Subsistence in south