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title: "Greenland vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Greenland is 2,166,086 km² with 56,831 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/greenland-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Greenland vs Mexico

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

2,166,086 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 56,831 vs 131,946,900

Greenland is 1.1 times larger than Mexico — 2,166,086 against 1,964,375 km². Mexico is 2322 times more populous than Greenland — 131,946,900 against 56,831 people.

## Side by side

|  | Greenland | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Nuuk | Mexico City |
| Area | 2,166,086 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 56,831 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 0.0 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | krone (DKK) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Greenlandic | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-04:00, UTC-02:00, UTC+00:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +299 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | North America |
| ISO codes | GL / GRL | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Mexico is 2560 times more densely populated than Greenland — 67 against 0 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 krone and the Mexican peso.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## Greenland

The largest island in the world, and about eighty percent of it is under an ice sheet up to 3 km thick — enough water to raise global sea level roughly 7 m if it all melted. There are no roads between towns; travel is by boat, plane or snow. Its population of under 60,000 lives almost entirely on the ice-free coastal fringe.

## 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 Greenland bigger than Mexico?

Greenland is larger — 2,166,086 km² against 1,964,375 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 56,831.

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

Greenland is UTC-04:00, UTC-02:00, UTC+00:00 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

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

## 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]