---
title: "Mexico vs Puerto Rico — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Puerto Rico is 9,104 km² with 3,184,835. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-puerto-rico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Puerto Rico

**Mexico vs Puerto Rico: Mexico is larger; Mexico has more people**

1,964,375 km² vs 9,104 km² · 131,946,900 vs 3,184,835

Mexico is 216 times larger than Puerto Rico — 1,964,375 against 9,104 km². Mexico is 41 times more populous than Puerto Rico — 131,946,900 against 3,184,835 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Puerto Rico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | San Juan |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 9,104 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 3,184,835 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 349.8 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | United States dollar (USD) |
| Official languages | Spanish | English, Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC-04:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +1 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | North America |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | PR / PRI |

## Population density

Puerto Rico is 5.2 times more densely populated than Mexico — 350 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 United States dollar.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## 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.

## Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rico Trench off the north coast reaches about 8,400 m, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean. El Yunque is the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest system. Mosquito Bay on Vieques is the brightest bioluminescent bay in the world, lit by dinoflagellates in the water.

> 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 Puerto Rico?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 9,104 km².

### Which has more people, Mexico or Puerto Rico?

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 3,184,835.

### What is the time difference between Mexico and Puerto Rico?

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Puerto Rico is UTC-04:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Puerto Rico](https://atoneplace.net/country/puerto-rico/)
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- [India vs Puerto Rico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-puerto-rico/)
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- [China vs Puerto Rico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-puerto-rico/)
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- [Japan vs Puerto Rico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-puerto-rico/)
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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]