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title: "Mexico vs Portugal — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Portugal is 92,090 km² with 10,804,871. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-portugal/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Portugal

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

1,964,375 km² vs 92,090 km² · 131,946,900 vs 10,804,871

Mexico is 21 times larger than Portugal — 1,964,375 against 92,090 km². Mexico is 12 times more populous than Portugal — 131,946,900 against 10,804,871 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Portugal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Lisbon |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 92,090 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 10,804,871 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 117.3 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Portuguese |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC-01:00, UTC+00:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +351 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | PT / PRT |

## Population density

Portugal is 1.7 times more densely populated than Mexico — 117 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 Euro.
- 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.

## Portugal

Mainland Portugal plus the Azores and Madeira, which push its exclusive economic zone to one of the largest in Europe. Cabo da Roca is the westernmost point of mainland Europe. Portugal produces around half the world's cork, most of it from the montado oak landscapes of the Alentejo.

> 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 Portugal?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 92,090 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 10,804,871.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Portugal](https://atoneplace.net/country/portugal/)
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- [India vs Portugal](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-portugal/)
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- [China vs Portugal](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-portugal/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Japan vs Portugal](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-portugal/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
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- [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]