“Mexico covers 1.96 million square kilometers (about 757,000 square miles), making it the 13th-largest country in the world. It once stretched over a far greater area and included six modern U.S. states, including the vast forests, mountains and deserts of California. To understand how Mexico occupied the West Coast of North America, we need to understand the geography of the continent.”
Bob Pateman, Writer
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