Mexico is not only known by this name, although it's the most common in the world.
The official name of this country, i.e. the one we use for official documents and all that stuff, is a ridiculous copy from the 'name' of our northern neighbour (the USA)... A stupid mate thought that this nation should have a similar name, so since 1912 or something we've got the "Mexican United States".
We're not only "americans" then, or "northamericans" and that, but we're "unitedstaters" too!!. Funny, isn't it??
Another common name is "Mexican Republic". It's better, less ridiculous and smart, but there are lots and lots of countries that have got already a name like this (Republic of Peru, Czeck Republic, etc.).
And people have created new ways to call Mexico (rather for jokes than seriously, but it counts):
* "El país de los tacos" (The taco country), you imagine why.
* "La tierra del maguey" (The land of 'maguey').
* "Mexicalpan de las tunas", this is because many rural towns have names that sound like that.
* "Cuerno de la abundancia" (Abundance horn), because of the shape of this land... no comment.
And there are surely some other names that appear everyday but haven't come to my ears.
But as you can see, my favourite name is just "Mexico": original, phonetically sweet, logical, and soooo on.
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