1st largest North American auto producing nation
1st supplier of trucks and autoparts to the United States
1st supplier of consumer appliances to the United States, 25%
1st largest number of US citizens’ abroad home with more than a million
1st culture that use the concrete, rubber vulcanization, and wheel
1st culture that use the zero number, and astronomical observatories
1st largest Spanish media company in the Spanish-speaking, Televisa
1st largest bread producer of the world, Bimbo
1st largest producer of corn flour and tortillas in the world, Gruma
1st richest man in the world, Carlos Slim
1st place where the vanadium was discovered, Andrés Manuel del Río
1st place where the color-wheel color television was invented, Guillermo González Camarena
1st place where the contraceptive pill was invented, Luis Miramontes
1st place where the glove, that can translate sign language into speech, was invented, José Hernández-Rebollar
1st place where the method of predicting premature rupture in pregnant women was patented, Felipe Vadillo
1st place where the method for cable for adhesion to over molded sensor body was invented, Benjamín Valles
1st place where the invented air-pressure powered driver for pneumatic VAD was invented, Emilio Sacristán
1st automatic rifle in the world, Mondragon Rifle
1st cost competitive place to do business around the world
1st culture that use the domestication of corn, bubble gum, chocolate, avocado, guava, chayote, and zucchini
1st culture that use the epazote, camote, jícama, nopal, tejocote, huitlacoche, sapote, and mamey
1st culture that use the tomato, maize, vanilla, many varieties of beans, and a greater variety of chiles
1st largest exporter of papaya around the world
1st largest exporter of watermelon around the world
1st largest exporter of avocado around the world
1st largest exporter of fresh tomato around the world
1st largest biodiversity in reptiles
1st most populous hispanophone country
2nd largest producer of construction materials
2nd largest exporter of televisions around the world
2nd largest Coca Cola bottler in the world, Femsa
2nd largest convenience store chain, OXXO
2nd largest biodiversity in ecosystems
2nd largest biodiversity in mammals
3rd largest exporter of refrigerators around the world
3rd largest cement conglomerate in the world, Cemex
4th largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers
4th largest biodiversity in overall species
4th largest biodiversity in amphibians
4th largest biodiversity in flora
5th largest country in the Americas
5th largest food producer of the world, Bimbo
5th largest milk producer of the world, Lala
6th largest oil producer in the world
6th largest producer of mobile phones
6th largest brewer worldwide, Modelo
7th largest tourist destination
8th ranked International Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey
11th largest economy in the world
11th most populous country
11th largest by purchasing power parity
13th largest nominal GDP
14th largest independent nation in the world
