---
title: "Greece vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Greece is 131,957 km² with 10,413,962 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/greece-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Greece vs Mexico

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

131,957 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 10,413,962 vs 131,946,900

Mexico is 15 times larger than Greece — 1,964,375 against 131,957 km². Mexico is 13 times more populous than Greece — 131,946,900 against 10,413,962 people.

## Side by side

|  | Greece | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Athens | Mexico City |
| Area | 131,957 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 10,413,962 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 78.9 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Greek | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+02:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +30 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | North America |
| ISO codes | GR / GRC | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Greece is 1.2 times more densely populated than Mexico — 79 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.

## Greece

Somewhere between 1,200 and 6,000 islands depending on how you count a rock, of which about 227 are inhabited. Greece has roughly 13,700 km of coastline, the longest in the Mediterranean and eleventh longest in the world. No part of the mainland is more than about 137 km from the sea, and Mount Olympus reaches 2,917 m.

## 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 Greece bigger than Mexico?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 131,957 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 10,413,962.

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

Greece is 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

- [Greece](https://atoneplace.net/country/greece/)
- [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 Greece](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-greece/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Greece](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-greece/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs Greece](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-greece/)
- [France vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-mexico/)
- [France vs Greece](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-greece/)
- [Germany vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/germany-vs-mexico/)
- [Germany vs Greece](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/germany-vs-greece/)

## 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]