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We like to talk big here in the city that never sleeps, but one of the most interesting facts about Mexico is that Mexico City is actually the oldest and most populous city in North America, with a population of 8.9 million people. The city is also home to over 140,000 taxi cabs, the largest fleet in the world. If you're itching for a big, vibrant city, CDMX is the place to go.

Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies migrate to the warm climates of Mexico to wait out the winter before returning to the U.S. and Canada in the spring. If you're lucky enough to be in Mexico between November and March, you can get a glimpse of these beautiful creatures at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve north of Mexico City.

The Yucatán Peninsula is one of Mexico's iconic geographic features (and also gives its name to the state of Yucatán). But the origin of the name "Yucatán" is actually the result of a pretty classic misunderstanding.

Mexico has a long-standing tradition for incredible art, from Frida Kahlo to José Clemente Orozco. Through a program called Pago en Especie (Payment in Kind) artists pay their taxes by giving pieces of their art to the government. The Pago en Especie public collection contains over 7,000 pieces, including paintings, sculptures, and graphics. The pieces are housed in museums all over the world, and if you're visiting Mexico you can see many of them in the national heritage collection at the Museo Nacional del Arte in Mexico City.

Attention beer lovers! Mexico houses a $3.8 billion beer industry, making it the largest beer exporter in the world. It's one of those facts about Mexico you'll want to remember the next time you're sipping on a Corona, chilling with a Dos Equis, or cooling down with a Modelo

That's right, so many of your favorite foods come from Mexico. Corn was first developed by indigenous tribes of Mexico about 7,000 years ago, and it started as a grass called teosinte. Chili peppers were first cultivated in the Tehuacán Valley in 5,000 B.C. and had a huge presence in Mayan and Aztec traditions

Historians have traced the origins of chocolate back to the ancient Olmecs, who lived in what is now southern Mexico around 1500 B.C. The Olmecs passed the craft on to the Mayans, who revered chocolate and used chocolate drinks in many of their ceremonies. But chocolate really took off with the Aztecs, who lived in central Mexico from 1300 to 1521. The Aztecs called chocolate the "drink of the gods," and even cacao beans as currency, valuing them more precious than gold. (Which, of course, any chocoholic will agree with.)

Not only is Mexico linguistically diverse, but it's also considered to be an ecologically megadiverse country. The country is home to 10-12% of the world's biodiversity, with over 200,000 different types of species. There are over 170,000 square kilometers of Protected Natural Areas, along with many conservation efforts. Spider monkeys, volcano rabbits, jaguars, axolotls, and ocelots are just a few of the cool animals you might find in Mexico.

Most non-Mexicans would guess that Spanish is the official language of Mexico. But the government actually additionally recognizes 68 indigenous languages as official languages. There are currently over 150 different indigenous languages spoken in Mexico, and the country is currently home to over 6 million speakers of those languages.

One of the most interesting facts about Mexico is that you don't even know its proper name. That's right, the country is not really called "Mexico." After gaining its independence from Spain in 1821, the newfound country took on the title Estados Unidos Mexicanos in 1824. That's because it wanted to model itself after the democracy in the United States (Estados Unidos).

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