Mexico (Concert of Europe)

Mexico (Spanish: México), officially known as the Mexican Empire (Spanish: Imperio Mexicano) is a sovereign country in : it borders the to its east, the  to its northeast,  to its north,  to its northwest, the  to its west, and  to its south. It is the largest state of the region both by area and by population.

The land of Mexico is the ancestral homeland of two of the most famous pre-Columbian civilizations of the America, the Mayans and the Aztecs (whose languages, Mayan and Nahuatl, are still spoken in and in several areas of central Mexico respectively). It was later settled by and achieved independence in the early 19th century. After a short turbulent period in which several governments overthrew their predecessors, an intervention led by installed Maximilian I of Habsburg-Lorraine on the throne, thus turning Mexico into the only monarchy of. Throughout the decades, the empire lost some of its northern territories (mostly to Deseret and California, to which the Mexicans sold Baja California) before being reduced into its current borders.

Mexico is a large and diverse country, occupied by tall mountains and large massifs, mesas and deserts in the arid north, and hills and jungles in the tropical south. All the population speaks Spanish, but many native groups still use their own language. Its economy is large and prosperous, dominated by manufacturing and oil extraction. The empire is subdivided into 18 administrative provinces, some of which have a special statute and are more independent from the central government than the others.