---
title: "Dominican Republic vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Dominican Republic is 48,670 km² with 11,520,487 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/dominican-republic-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Dominican Republic vs Mexico

**Dominican Republic vs Mexico: Mexico is larger; Mexico has more people**

48,670 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 11,520,487 vs 131,946,900

Mexico is 40 times larger than Dominican Republic — 1,964,375 against 48,670 km². Mexico is 11 times more populous than Dominican Republic — 131,946,900 against 11,520,487 people.

## Side by side

|  | Dominican Republic | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Santo Domingo | Mexico City |
| Area | 48,670 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 11,520,487 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 236.7 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Dominican peso (DOP) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-04:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +1 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | North America |
| ISO codes | DO / DOM | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Dominican Republic is 3.5 times more densely populated than Mexico — 237 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 Dominican peso and the Mexican peso.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## Dominican Republic

Shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Pico Duarte at 3,098 m is the highest point in the Caribbean, and Lago Enriquillo, at about 40 m below sea level, is the lowest — both in the same country. The lake is saltier than the sea and holds American crocodiles.

## 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 Dominican Republic bigger than Mexico?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 48,670 km².

### Which has more people, Dominican Republic or Mexico?

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 11,520,487.

### What is the time difference between Dominican Republic and Mexico?

Dominican Republic is UTC-04:00 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

- [Dominican Republic](https://atoneplace.net/country/dominican-republic/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [India vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Dominican Republic](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-dominican-republic/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Dominican Republic](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-dominican-republic/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs Dominican Republic](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-dominican-republic/)
- [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]