Mexico vs Nigeria

Mexico is 2.1 times larger than Nigeria — 1,964,375 against 923,768 km². Nigeria is 1.8 times more populous than Mexico — 237,527,782 against 131,946,900 people.

Side by side

Population density

Nigeria is 3.8 times more densely populated than Mexico — 257 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 Mexican peso and the Nigerian naira.
• Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Africa.

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.

Nigeria

The most populous country in Africa, with roughly one African in six. The Niger Delta is the largest river delta in Africa at about 70,000 km², a maze of creeks and mangrove covering an area the size of Ireland.

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.