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title: "Mexico vs Peru — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Peru is 1,285,216 km² with 34,576,665. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-peru/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Peru

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

1,964,375 km² vs 1,285,216 km² · 131,946,900 vs 34,576,665

Mexico is 1.5 times larger than Peru — 1,964,375 against 1,285,216 km². Mexico is 3.8 times more populous than Peru — 131,946,900 against 34,576,665 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Peru |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Lima |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 1,285,216 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 34,576,665 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 26.9 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Peruvian sol (PEN) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Aymara, Quechua, Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +51 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | South America |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | PE / PER |

## Population density

Mexico is 2.5 times more densely populated than Peru — 67 against 27 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 Peruvian sol.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — North America and South America.

## 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.

## Peru

Peru holds the source of the Amazon and about sixty percent of its territory is Amazon basin, but most people live on the dry Pacific coast. Cotahuasi and Colca are among the deepest canyons in the world, both over 3,000 m. The Nazca lines, drawn on the coastal desert between about 500 BC and AD 500, cover some 450 km² and are only legible from the air or the surrounding hills.

> 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 Peru?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 1,285,216 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 34,576,665.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Peru](https://atoneplace.net/country/peru/)
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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]