---
title: "Iceland vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Iceland is 103,000 km² with 392,404 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/iceland-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Iceland vs Mexico

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

103,000 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 392,404 vs 131,946,900

Mexico is 19 times larger than Iceland — 1,964,375 against 103,000 km². Mexico is 336 times more populous than Iceland — 131,946,900 against 392,404 people.

## Side by side

|  | Iceland | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Reykjavík | Mexico City |
| Area | 103,000 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 392,404 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 3.8 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Icelandic króna (ISK) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Icelandic | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+00:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +354 | +52 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | North America |
| ISO codes | IS / ISL | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Mexico is 18 times more densely populated than Iceland — 67 against 4 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 Icelandic króna and the Mexican peso.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Europe and North America.

## Iceland

Iceland sits astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, so the North American and Eurasian plates pull apart across the country at about 2 cm a year. Roughly eleven percent of it is under glacier, Vatnajökull alone covering some 7,900 km². Almost all its electricity and heating come from hydro and geothermal sources.

## 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 Iceland bigger than Mexico?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 103,000 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 392,404.

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

Iceland is 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

- [Iceland](https://atoneplace.net/country/iceland/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
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- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
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## 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]