---
title: "Ecuador vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Ecuador is 283,561 km² with 18,289,896 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/ecuador-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Ecuador vs Mexico

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

283,561 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 18,289,896 vs 131,946,900

Mexico is 6.9 times larger than Ecuador — 1,964,375 against 283,561 km². Mexico is 7.2 times more populous than Ecuador — 131,946,900 against 18,289,896 people.

## Side by side

|  | Ecuador | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Quito | Mexico City |
| Area | 283,561 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 18,289,896 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 64.5 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | United States dollar (USD) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +593 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | North America |
| ISO codes | EC / ECU | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Mexico is slightly more densely populated, by 4.1% — 67 against 65 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 United States dollar 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.

## Ecuador

The summit of Chimborazo is the point on the Earth's surface farthest from the centre of the planet — about 2 km farther out than Everest — because the equatorial bulge lifts it. The Galápagos, 900 km offshore, are volcanic islands whose isolated species shaped Darwin's thinking. Ecuador is the smallest Andean country but holds a comparable share of the range's biodiversity.

## 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 Ecuador bigger than Mexico?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 283,561 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 18,289,896.

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

Ecuador is UTC-06:00, 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

- [Ecuador](https://atoneplace.net/country/ecuador/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
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- [China vs Ecuador](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-ecuador/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Ecuador](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-ecuador/)
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- [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]