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title: "Mexico vs Nepal — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Nepal is 147,181 km² with 29,618,118. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-nepal/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Nepal

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

1,964,375 km² vs 147,181 km² · 131,946,900 vs 29,618,118

Mexico is 13 times larger than Nepal — 1,964,375 against 147,181 km². Mexico is 4.5 times more populous than Nepal — 131,946,900 against 29,618,118 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Nepal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Kathmandu |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 147,181 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 29,618,118 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 201.2 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Nepalese rupee (NPR) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Nepali |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+05:45 |
| Calling code | +52 | +977 |
| Drives on the | right | left |
| Continent | North America | Asia |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | NP / NPL |

## Population density

Nepal is 3.0 times more densely populated than Mexico — 201 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 — Mexico on the right, Nepal on the left.
- Different currencies: the Mexican peso and the Nepalese rupee.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — North America and Asia.

## 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.

## Nepal

Eight of the world's fourteen peaks above 8,000 m are here, including Everest at 8,849 m on the Chinese border. Elevation runs from 59 m in the southern plains to the top of the world in about 200 km. Nepal keeps its clock 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of UTC — the only country whose national standard time sits on a 45-minute offset.

> 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 Mexico bigger than Nepal?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 147,181 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 29,618,118.

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

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Nepal is UTC+05:45. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

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

## 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]