Mexico vs Philippines

Mexico is 6.5 times larger than Philippines — 1,964,375 against 300,000 km². Mexico is 1.1 times more populous than Philippines — 131,946,900 against 116,786,962 people.

Side by side

Population density

Philippines is 5.8 times more densely populated than Mexico — 389 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 Philippine peso.
• 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.

Philippines

An archipelago of 7,641 islands, of which about 2,000 are inhabited. The Philippine Trench off the east coast reaches 10,540 m, one of the deepest points in any ocean. The country sits in the most typhoon-exposed part of the planet and takes around twenty named storms a year.

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.