---
title: "Indonesia vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Indonesia is 1,904,569 km² with 285,721,236 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/indonesia-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Indonesia vs Mexico

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

1,904,569 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 285,721,236 vs 131,946,900

Mexico is slightly larger, by 3.1% — 1,964,375 against 1,904,569 km². Indonesia is 2.2 times more populous than Mexico — 285,721,236 against 131,946,900 people.

## Side by side

|  | Indonesia | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Jakarta | Mexico City |
| Area | 1,904,569 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 285,721,236 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 150.0 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Indonesian rupiah (IDR) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | Indonesian | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +62 | +52 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Asia | North America |
| ISO codes | ID / IDN | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Indonesia is 2.2 times more densely populated than Mexico — 150 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

- They drive on opposite sides — Indonesia on the left, Mexico on the right.
- Different currencies: the Indonesian rupiah and the Mexican peso.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Asia and North America.

## Indonesia

The largest archipelago in the world: official surveys count more than 17,000 islands, of which around 6,000 are inhabited, spread over 5,100 km of ocean. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and has about 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country. It also holds more of the world's remaining tropical peatland than anywhere except the Congo basin.

## 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 Indonesia bigger than Mexico?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 1,904,569 km².

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

Indonesia, with 285,721,236 against 131,946,900.

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

Indonesia is UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00 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

- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [India vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-mexico/)
- [India vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-indonesia/)
- [China vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-indonesia/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-indonesia/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-indonesia/)
- [France vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-mexico/)
- [France vs Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-indonesia/)
- [Germany vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/germany-vs-mexico/)

## 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]