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Mexico Map Study
Answer the following questions below as you study the map of Mexico. You may want to do the
map study once a day for a few days until you are sure you know the map well. Then move on to
the geography drill on the next two pages.
1. What is the northernmost state in Mexico?
2. What is the name of the large body of water that borders Mexico on the west?
3. What is the southernmost state in Mexico?
4. What country borders Mexico to the north?
5. What island (isla) lies off the coast of Quintana Roo?
6. What is the name of the bay (bahia) that borders Mexico?
7. What island (isla) lies off the coast of Baja California?
8. What three major gulfs border Mexico?
9. What island (isla) lies off the coast of Nayarit?
10. What countries border Mexico to the south?
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Mexico Geography Drill
Now that you are familiar with the map of Mexico, use it to answer the following questions. See if
you can answer them all in less than five minutes. Once you are done, set the map and drill aside
for a few days. Try the drill again and see if you can still do it in less than five minutes. Can you get
your time down to less than three minutes? Less than two minutes?
1. What two states make up Baja California?
2. What three states make up the Yucatan Peninsula?
3. What two states border the Golfo de Tehuantepec?
4. What state has the capital of Tepic?
5. What state borders the Gulf of California and has the capital of Culiacan?
6. What landlocked state has the capital of Saltillo?
7. What state has the capital of Monterrey?
8. What state that borders the Bahia (Bay) of Capeche has the capital of Xalapa?
9. What state borders the country of Belize?
10. What state is bordered by the states of Puebla, Mexico, and Hidalgo?
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11. What state has the capital of Tuxtla Guiterrez?
12. What county has the same name as the breed of a dog?
13. What coastal state is surrounded by the states of Jalisco and Michoacan?
14. What two states border the Federal District?
15. What state is surrounded by the states of Zacatecas and Jalisco?
16. What state is the northernmost state to border the Gulf of Mexico?
17. What four states border the country of Guatemala?
18. What state has the capital of Hermosillo?
19. What state has the capital of Chilpancingo?
20. What six states border the country of the United States?
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Mexico Map Study Answer Key
1. Baja California
2. Pacific Ocean
3. Chiapas
4. The United States
5. Isla de Cozumel
6. Bahia de Campeche
7. Isla Cedros
8. Gulf of California, Gulf (Golfo) of Tehuantepec, and Gulf of Mexico
9. Isla Marias
10. Guatemala and Belize
Mexico Geography Drill Answer Key
1. Baja California and Baja California Sur.
2. Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and Campeche
3. Oaxaca and Chiapas
4. Nayarit
5. Sinaloa
6. Coahuila
7. Nuevo Leon
8. Veracruz
9. Quintana Roo
10. Tlaxcala
11. Chiapas
12. Chihuahua
13. Colima
14. Mexico and Morelos
15. Aguascalientes
16. Tamaulipas
17. Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Quintana Roo
18. Sonora
19. Guerrero
20. Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas
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