Mexican Citizenship Study Links
Whether you've chosen Mexico as your new home, or you have deep-rooted ties and want to make it official, these are the resources worth your time while preparing for the Mexican citizenship exam. Below you'll find the official SRE study guide, the books and video courses we recommend most, and the community where people going through naturalization help each other. ¡Buena suerte!
Official References
The Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores publishes the official study guide for the naturalization exam. It was revised in 2026 — the first update since the 2017 edition — so check that you are studying from the current version:
Guía de Estudios para la Naturalización (SRE)
Nueva Historia Mínima de México
The most important resource listed in the SRE naturalization bibliography is a book called Nueva historia mínima de Mexico. This book is a survey of Mexican history from pre-hispanic to modern times. It is highly recommended to read this book cover-to-cover for a broad summary of Mexican history, starting with the Olmecs. There are several editions of the book.
Interactive Edition
There is a new interactive version of the book for iOS & Android, available in Spanish only. It can be downloaded for free from the publisher's website, Colegio de México.
English Edition
There is an English edition of Nueva historia mínima de México. It is called A New Compact History of Mexico, and is available as an e-book for Amazon Kindle and Kobo.
Traditional E-Book
The non-interactive Spanish edition is also available for Amazon Kindle. Choose this version if you would like to read in Spanish on your kindle, without the images and other media in the new interactive edition.
Kindle Edition in SpanishVideos Resources
Maya to Aztec - Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed
This fantastic course from The Great Courses covers Mexican history from pre-hispanic times to the arrival of the Spanish. There are 48 separate lectures of 30 minutes each, with each lecture covering a different topic. This is our favourite and most recommended resource and a great place to start. It can either be purchased from The Great Courses, or viewed on their streaming service The Great Courses Plus.
Maya to Aztec - Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed
Nueva Historia Mínima de México - Video Series
The Colegio de México produced a videos series based on the book. This is an older production and not HD quality, but may be very useful for some.
The series of 7 videos is available in Spanish only, and it may require a level of Spanish greater than that required to pass the exam to fully understand.
Nueva Historia Mínima de México
Bully Magnets
Bully Magnets is a Youtube channel, whose theme is history. It is not only Mexican history, but most are. They have a Mexican History list which may be of interest to people studying for the citizenship exam.
Bully Magnets - Historia de México
Community
Naturalización en México — Asesoría y Tips
A Facebook group for people going through the naturalization process. Worth joining for questions the official documentation doesn't answer — appointment waits, what actually happens on exam day, and how the process differs between offices.
Naturalización en México — Asesoría y Tips
Other Links
Quizlet
We love the Mexican citizenship flash cards on our site, but we know some people may prefer Quizlet. For those people, we have exported some of the questions from our site to a Quizlet deck.
You will also find a number of other Mexican citizenship flash card decks on Quizlet if you do a search. We like ours because we personally curated and validated every question and answer in our deck.
Mexican Citizenship Quizlet Deck
Pueblos Mágicos
A full list of the 132+ Pueblos Mágicos can be found on the Secretaría de Turismo site:
On This Site
We also keep a set of study tools here. They are free, and none of them require an account:
- Practice test — ten questions drawn at random from the full pool, in the same format as the official exam.
- Flash cards — the whole question pool, sorted by how often each question comes up, in English or Spanish.
- Review — goes through the cards one at a time and brings back the ones you miss, so your time goes to what you don't know yet.
- Printable study guide — every card as a PDF, ordered from most to least important, if you would rather study on paper.