---
title: "Mexico vs Palestine — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Palestine is 6,220 km² with 5,413,596. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-palestine/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Palestine

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

1,964,375 km² vs 6,220 km² · 131,946,900 vs 5,413,596

Mexico is 316 times larger than Palestine — 1,964,375 against 6,220 km². Mexico is 24 times more populous than Palestine — 131,946,900 against 5,413,596 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Palestine |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Ramallah |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 6,220 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 5,413,596 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 870.4 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Israeli new shekel (ILS) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Arabic |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+02:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +970 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Asia |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | PS / PSE |

## Population density

Palestine is 13 times more densely populated than Mexico — 870 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 Israeli new shekel.
- 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.

## Palestine

The territory is in two separate parts: the West Bank, about 5,860 km², and the Gaza Strip, about 360 km². The West Bank includes the northern shore of the Dead Sea, the lowest exposed land on Earth at roughly 430 m below sea level. Jericho, in the Jordan Valley, is among the oldest continuously inhabited settlements known, with remains going back around 11,000 years.

> 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 Palestine?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 6,220 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 5,413,596.

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

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Palestine is UTC+02:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country/palestine/)
- [India vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-mexico/)
- [India vs Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-palestine/)
- [China vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-palestine/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Japan vs Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-palestine/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-palestine/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-palestine/)
- [New Zealand vs Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/new-zealand-vs-palestine/)
- [France vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-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]