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Mexico in a nutshell: eight friendly questions about the essentials that many people already half know. Everyone can play, young and old.
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Mexico City lies high up in a valley, about 2,240 metres above sea level. Because so much water is pumped up from under the ground, the city is slowly sinking: some parts have dropped by as much as nine metres since the early 1900s.
Photo: Gobierno CDMX, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
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Mexico has more Spanish speakers than any other country in the world, more than double the number in any other. Many Mexicans also speak one of the country's native languages, such as Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, which gave the world words like chocolate and tomato.
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Mexico's flag has three upright stripes in green, white and red, with a picture in the middle: an eagle on a cactus eating a snake, from an old Aztec legend. Without that picture it would look almost exactly like the flag of Italy, which uses the same three colours.
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Mexico grows about a quarter of all the world's avocados, most of them in the state of Michoacán, and plenty end up mashed into guacamole. Botanists count the avocado as a berry: one big berry with a single large seed inside. India grows the most bananas.
Photo: B.navez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The Maya built great cities such as Uxmal, with its tall Pyramid of the Magician, and they were among the first people in the world to write a sign for zero. More than 6 million Maya still live in the region today, speaking over 28 Mayan languages. The Inca lived far to the south, in the Andes.
Photo: Sybz, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The Chihuahua is the smallest recognised dog breed in the world, yet it shares its name with Mexico's biggest state, which is slightly larger than the whole United Kingdom. The Pomeranian is named after Pomerania, a region in Germany and Poland.
Photo: Bonnie van den Born, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Maize, also called corn, was bred from a wild grass called teosinte, whose tiny ears held only five to ten hard seeds. Today Mexicans eat it in tortillas, tamales and much more. Potatoes were first farmed far away, in the Andes mountains of South America.
Photo: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Piñatas are often made of papier-mâché, and the traditional Mexican kind is a star with seven points. The name probably comes from the Italian 'pignatta', a clay cooking pot, because early piñatas in Spain were plain clay pots. Maracas are rattles that you shake to make music.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. JEDIKNIGHT1970 assumed (based on copyright, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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