Can you name the most prevalent countries of origin of foreign-born residents of Mexico? - sporcle

Can you name the most prevalent countries of origin of foreign-born residents of Mexico? Enter a country in the box below Correctly named countries will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order Source: Mexican Census 2000 You have 4 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Popular trivia games today Fast Math 2 23892 One-Word #1 Songs 19346 Political Parties with Electoral Votes 9521 Sports Figures In Other Words 8521 Vowel-less Book Titles 7831 Four Letter Things 7246 Populated Neighboring Countries 4390 And more...
Ready? Click to Start Enter country: 0/22 countries correct	Time remaining:

Rank	Country	Population
1		343,597
2		23,957
3		21,114
4		6,647
5		6,465
6		6,215
7		5,768
8		5,751
9		5,595
10		5,537
11		3,904

Rank	Country	Population
12		3,848
13		3,749
14		3,722
15		2,936
16		2,823
17		2,688
18		2,522
19		2,320
20		2,175
21		2,100
22		2,001

Javascript is not currently enabled on your browser.
If you do have Javascript enabled:
This site uses javascript to make the magic happen.
Please turn on javascript and reload this page, or use a more current browser (like Firefox)

There are 56 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

Mexican Foreign Born Population

Rating:	Share
Created by: Booger
Plays: 52,123
Published: December 27th, 2009
Report a mistake

Tags: rank, mexico, resident, foreign-born, origin, country, prevalent, population, born, foreign, mexican

Archived comments: show them

Comment below threshold: show it

	American:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:03 GMT	48 points
	The colored columns made my day!

	Gumpster:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT	0 points
	i found canada to be the most surprising on this list, i dont know why.

	BagelPopper:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT	9 points
	yeah haha, very clever color scheme.

	Meredith:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT	9 points
	got south korea, but missed canada. Thats just sad.

	Eliot:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	19 points
	Prevalent. Not "prevelant", PREVALENT. Like, they "prevail" in Mexico over other foreign-borns.

	BamaRainbow:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 06:11 GMT	10 points
	Of course. The only country I didn't get was the single Central American country I didn't try.

Comment below threshold: show it

	conradmcmasters:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 06:59 GMT	-1 points
	Same boat as BamaRainbow.

	mattk77:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 07:09 GMT	15 points
	You work your mind through the Americas and there is always one country you inexplicaby miss, Venezuela eluded me.

Comment below threshold: show it

	nhrafan:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 07:50 GMT	37 points
	um, guys, its not where mexicans are living now. its the people who are currently living in mexico, but were born in a different country. i can't imagine there are many mexicans in germany, but apparently there are a fair few germans in mexico

	MRD:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 09:02 GMT	30 points
	Why does this misinterpretation always happen in all of these quizzes?

Comment below threshold: show it

	Duke_of_Prunes:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 11:05 GMT	13 points
	I wasn't surprised where they all came from as much as how few there actually are.

	shel99:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 12:15 GMT	-1 points
	Interesting! Never would have thought there were so many Asians moving to Mexico.

	epicfatality18:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 12:34 GMT	1 point
	forgot italy why would you move to mexico when living in italy

	Havok3595:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 13:22 GMT	10 points
	@epicfatality18: The southern half of Italy has historically been very poor with poor soil and growing conditions. The country isn't all Rome and Florence. And I would bet it is less expensive to move over and try to start in Mexico than to try to break into the significantly wealthier north.

Comment below threshold: show it

	RavenEleni:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 14:00 GMT	-4 points
	would have got them all if i hadnt typed north korea, then decided south korea wouldnt be there either then and not tried :( i fail. good quiz tho

Comment below threshold: show it

Comment below threshold: show it

Comment below threshold: show it

	SowCrates:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 16:51 GMT	0 points
	~450,000 out of 108 million... it seems like a fairly low ratio, but it's actually higher than Brazil's was in 2005 (641,000 out of 186,000), which kind of surprises me.

	ChinaWhite:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT	1 point
	South Korea surprised me..... could have guessed for another 5 minutes and probably wouldnt have gotten it

	CSniker:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 17:29 GMT	4 points
	Spelling errors in titles are very annoying, especially if they've apparently lasted this long as to still exist on a published game that's been posted for at least 13 hours. (Prevalent)

	BillyMumphrey:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 17:31 GMT	30 points
	Those Italian-Mexicans would be the best cooks ever.

	RoloTomasi:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 18:24 GMT	11 points
	Samsung has a huge factory in Tijuana. I imagine a large number of Korean nationals living in Mexico are employed by either Samsung, LG or one of the Korean oil and gas companies investing in Mexico. 2100 people is not a lot when you consider there are over 8000 Koreans living here in Austin, Texas, a city of barely one million people.

	RoloTomasi:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 18:40 GMT	5 points
	@Havok3595: There aren't many Italians who have moved to Mexico, where they don't speak the language, for a better life. Most of the non Spanish speaking residents of Mexico are short stay contract workers with multinational corporations or work for embassies or do charity/religious work. The rest are mostly ex-pat retirees.

Comment below threshold: show it

Comment below threshold: show it

	ted:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 22:50 GMT	5 points
	I'm surprised Belize didn't make it (even though they are an English-speaking country).

	kagomeshuko:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 23:08 GMT	0 points
	Good quiz. I'm surprised I got as many as I did!

Comment below threshold: show it

	Sinistercharlo:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 23:47 GMT	3 points
	Nice concept, although eventually I just started guessing the biggest countries I could think of. That strategy worked out pretty well. :D

	hannnnaa:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 00:15 GMT	0 points
	Woot I really didn't expect to get them all on this quiz, but I randomly typed South Korea with 12 seconds left!

	sean2088:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 00:30 GMT	1 point
	interesting quiz, some countries here that i didn't expect to see. great colour scheme too!

Comment below threshold: show it