---
title: "Brazil vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 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/brazil-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Mexico

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

8,515,770 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 212,812,405 vs 131,946,900

Brazil is 4.3 times larger than Mexico — 8,515,770 against 1,964,375 km². Brazil is 1.6 times more populous than Mexico — 212,812,405 against 131,946,900 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Mexico City |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | North America |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Mexico is 2.7 times more densely populated than Brazil — 67 against 25 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 Brazilian real 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.

## Brazil

The fifth-largest country in the world and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It holds about sixty percent of the Amazon rainforest, and the Amazon River discharges roughly a fifth of all the fresh water that reaches the world's oceans — more than the next seven rivers combined. Brazil borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.

## 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 Brazil bigger than Mexico?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 1,964,375 km².

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

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 131,946,900.

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

Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 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

- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
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- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)
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- [Mexico vs New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-new-zealand/)

## 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]