---
title: "Mexico vs Russia — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Russia is 17,098,242 km² with 143,513,328. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-russia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Russia

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

1,964,375 km² vs 17,098,242 km² · 131,946,900 vs 143,513,328

Russia is 8.7 times larger than Mexico — 17,098,242 against 1,964,375 km². Russia is slightly more populous, by 8.8% — 143,513,328 against 131,946,900 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Russia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Moscow |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 17,098,242 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 143,513,328 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 8.4 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Russian ruble (RUB) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Russian |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +7 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | RU / RUS |

## Population density

Mexico is 8.0 times more densely populated than Russia — 67 against 8 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 Russian ruble.
- Russia spans 11 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.

## Russia

The largest country in the world by land area, close to twice the size of the next one, and it spans eleven time zones. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 m and holds roughly a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water — more than all five North American Great Lakes combined. Russia and China each border fourteen countries, more than any other state.

> 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 Russia?

Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 1,964,375 km².

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

Russia, with 143,513,328 against 131,946,900.

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

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Russia is UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

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

## 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]