WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The largest and most densely populated region is the inland Mexican Plateau, which is flanked by the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental. The plateau consists of the vast Mesa del Norte (Northern Plateau) and the smaller but heavily populated Mesa Central (Mesa de Anáhuac).

Detailed explanation-2: -The historic region of Mesoamerica comprises the modern day countries of northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and central to southern Mexico.

Detailed explanation-3: -Southern Mexico The states making up the southern region of Mexico include: Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Yucatan. Southern Mexico begins south of the Altiplano Central, covering northern and central portions of the country.

Detailed explanation-4: -The regions of Mexico differ in many ways. Some are urban and some are rural, meaning the countryside. Two of the regions are peninsulas (the Baja and the Yucatan), which are pieces of land extending into water but still connected to the mainland.

Detailed explanation-5: -On its south, Mexico shares an 871 kilometer border with Guatemala and a 251-kilometer border with Belize. Mexico has a 9, 330-kilometer coastline, of which 7, 338 kilometers face the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, and the remaining 2, 805 kilometers front the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.