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title: "Mexico vs Norway — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Norway is 323,802 km² with 5,610,870. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-norway/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Norway

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

1,964,375 km² vs 323,802 km² · 131,946,900 vs 5,610,870

Mexico is 6.1 times larger than Norway — 1,964,375 against 323,802 km². Mexico is 24 times more populous than Norway — 131,946,900 against 5,610,870 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Norway |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Oslo |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 323,802 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 5,610,870 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 17.3 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Norwegian krone (NOK) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Sami |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +47 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | NO / NOR |

## Population density

Mexico is 3.9 times more densely populated than Norway — 67 against 17 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 Norwegian krone.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — North America and Europe.

## 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.

## Norway

The mainland coastline is about 2,500 km end to end, but roughly 25,000 km following the fjords, and over 100,000 km counting the islands — one of the longest coastlines of any country. Sognefjord runs 205 km inland and is 1,308 m deep. Norway generates almost all its electricity from hydropower.

> 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 Norway?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 323,802 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 5,610,870.

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

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Norway is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

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- [Norway](https://atoneplace.net/country/norway/)
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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]