---
title: "Colombia vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Colombia is 1,138,910 km² with 53,425,635 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/colombia-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Colombia vs Mexico

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

1,138,910 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 53,425,635 vs 131,946,900

Mexico is 1.7 times larger than Colombia — 1,964,375 against 1,138,910 km². Mexico is 2.5 times more populous than Colombia — 131,946,900 against 53,425,635 people.

## Side by side

|  | Colombia | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Bogotá | Mexico City |
| Area | 1,138,910 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 53,425,635 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 46.9 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Colombian peso (COP) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +57 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | North America |
| ISO codes | CO / COL | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Mexico is 1.4 times more densely populated than Colombia — 67 against 47 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 Colombian 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.

## Colombia

The only South American country with coastline on both the Pacific and the Caribbean. It has more bird species than any other country, around 1,900, and more orchid species too. The Andes split into three separate ranges here, and the Chocó on the Pacific side is among the wettest places on Earth, with over 10 m of rain a year in places.

## 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 Colombia bigger than Mexico?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 1,138,910 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 53,425,635.

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

Colombia is UTC-05:00 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

- [Colombia](https://atoneplace.net/country/colombia/)
- [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]