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title: "Croatia vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Croatia is 56,594 km² with 3,876,200 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/croatia-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Croatia vs Mexico

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

56,594 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 3,876,200 vs 131,946,900

Mexico is 35 times larger than Croatia — 1,964,375 against 56,594 km². Mexico is 34 times more populous than Croatia — 131,946,900 against 3,876,200 people.

## Side by side

|  | Croatia | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Zagreb | Mexico City |
| Area | 56,594 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 3,876,200 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 68.5 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Croatian | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+01:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +385 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | North America |
| ISO codes | HR / HRV | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Croatia is slightly more densely populated, by 2.0% — 68 against 67 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 Euro and the Mexican peso.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Europe and North America.

## Croatia

The Adriatic coast is about 1,780 km long as the crow flies but roughly 6,000 km including the 1,200-odd islands, islets and reefs, of which about fifty are inhabited. Plitvice is sixteen terraced lakes linked by waterfalls, dammed by travertine that the water itself deposits and which is still growing about a centimetre a year.

## 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 Croatia bigger than Mexico?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 56,594 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 3,876,200.

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

Croatia is UTC+01:00 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

- [Croatia](https://atoneplace.net/country/croatia/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
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- [China vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Croatia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-croatia/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Croatia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-croatia/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs Croatia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-croatia/)
- [France vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-mexico/)
- [Germany vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/germany-vs-mexico/)
- [Italy vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/italy-vs-mexico/)
- [Mexico vs United States](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-united-states/)

## 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]