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Can you locate all 23 provinces of Argentina, and its capital city?
Can you locate all 10 provinces and 3 territories of Canada?
Can you locate all 26 states of Brazil, and the Federal District?
Mexico is a federation of 31 states and one federal entity, Mexico City, and it runs about three thousand kilometres from the Rio Grande to the Guatemalan border. The map is easier than the count suggests: the north is a handful of big blocks, the middle is a crowd of small states packed around the capital, and the south is a run of coastal states from the Pacific to the Yucatan. This page is the whole set, and the game asks you to put each name where it belongs.
An estado is a member of the Mexican federation. Each one elects its own governor and legislature and has its own constitution, and 31 of them cover the country between them.
The thirty-second is Mexico City. It was the Distrito Federal until 2016, a district run by the national government, and a reform made it a federal entity with its own constitution and legislature, which puts it at the same level as the states for this quiz. It is also the hardest target on the map: a small patch of the central highlands, wrapped by the State of Mexico on three sides and by Morelos to the south.
The State of Mexico is the other trap. It is a state of its own, around the capital, and it is not the country. Its name is written Estado de México here for that reason.
Names to watch, because they sit close together: Baja California and Baja California Sur split the peninsula at the 28th parallel, Coahuila and Chihuahua are both big northern states with a similar ending, and Nuevo León and León are different things, since León is a city in Guanajuato.
Mexico has no single official grouping of its states, so these are the five regions most school geography and weather forecasts use. They are a way to cut the map into drills rather than a level of government, and each group can be played on its own from the start dialog. The Northeast is a three question warm-up and the South and Southeast is a real one.
The smallest target here by a wide margin. It held the national government as the Distrito Federal until 2016, and has the standing of a state in everything this game asks. The capital is a tight fit inside the State of Mexico, and the quickest way to find it is to look for Morelos below it.
The largest state in the country, bigger than the United Kingdom, taking up most of the northern border and the Sierra Madre behind it. People place it too far west, because Sonora is the one against the Gulf of California.
The eastern edge of the Yucatán Peninsula, and the only state with a Caribbean coast apart from the sliver of Yucatán. It became a state in 1974, and Cancún and Cozumel are both inside it.
31, plus Mexico City, which became a federal entity of its own in 2016 after being the Distrito Federal. Mexicans count 32 federal entities, and this game asks about all 32.
Chihuahua, in the north, which is bigger than the United Kingdom. Sonora is second, and the smallest entity is Mexico City, with Tlaxcala the smallest state.
No. The State of Mexico is a separate state that wraps around the capital on three sides, and its capital is Toluca. Mexico City is its own federal entity, and the two are the commonest pair to mix up.
Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo, which both became states in 1974 after being federal territories. Mexico City is the newest entity, with its own constitution since 2016.
Landscape first: desert and cactus mean the north, pine and volcanoes the central plateau, jungle the south. After that, the area code on a shopfront is the best tell, and the plate is the other one, since every state issues its own.
Mexico has a second map on the site, Mexico Dialing Codes, which asks the same country at the area code level. The neighbours are Brazil States and Canada Provinces, and maps in exactly this shape elsewhere: US States, Nigeria States and India States.
