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title: "Argentina vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Argentina is 2,780,400 km² with 45,851,378 people; Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/argentina-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Argentina vs Mexico

**Argentina vs Mexico: Argentina is larger; Mexico has more people**

2,780,400 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 45,851,378 vs 131,946,900

Argentina is 1.4 times larger than Mexico — 2,780,400 against 1,964,375 km². Mexico is 2.9 times more populous than Argentina — 131,946,900 against 45,851,378 people.

## Side by side

|  | Argentina | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Buenos Aires | Mexico City |
| Area | 2,780,400 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 45,851,378 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 16.5 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Argentine peso (ARS) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-03:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +54 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | North America |
| ISO codes | AR / ARG | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Mexico is 4.1 times more densely populated than Argentina — 67 against 16 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Practical differences

- Different currencies: the Argentine peso and the Mexican peso.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — South America and North America.

## Argentina

The eighth-largest country in the world and the largest Spanish-speaking one. Aconcagua at 6,961 m is the highest mountain outside Asia; the Laguna del Carbón, about 1,000 km away, is 105 m below sea level and the lowest point in the western hemisphere. Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost city of any size on Earth.

## Mexico

Mexico has the fourth-highest count of vertebrate and plant species of any country, and more reptile species than anywhere else. Chicxulub, under the northern Yucatán, is the roughly 180 km crater left by the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The Sistema Sac Actun beneath the same peninsula is the longest known underwater cave system in the world, over 370 km surveyed.

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is Argentina bigger than Mexico?

Argentina is larger — 2,780,400 km² against 1,964,375 km².

### Which has more people, Argentina or Mexico?

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 45,851,378.

### What is the time difference between Argentina and Mexico?

Argentina is UTC-03:00 and Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Argentina](https://atoneplace.net/country/argentina/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]