What is difference between Mezcal and Tequila?

Both distilled spirits are made from agave, but tequila must be made from a certain type blue Weber agave and it can only be produced in the state of Jalisco and some parts of Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, and Tamaulipas. … Mezcal, on the other hand, can be made from more than 30 types of agave