---
title: "Mexico vs Saudi Arabia — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Saudi Arabia is 2,149,690 km² with 36,973,555. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-saudi-arabia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Saudi Arabia

**Mexico vs Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia is larger; Mexico has more people**

1,964,375 km² vs 2,149,690 km² · 131,946,900 vs 36,973,555

Saudi Arabia is slightly larger, by 9.4% — 2,149,690 against 1,964,375 km². Mexico is 3.6 times more populous than Saudi Arabia — 131,946,900 against 36,973,555 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Saudi Arabia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Riyadh |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 2,149,690 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 36,973,555 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 17.2 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Saudi riyal (SAR) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Arabic |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+03:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +966 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Asia |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | SA / SAU |

## Population density

Mexico is 3.9 times more densely populated than Saudi Arabia — 67 against 17 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 Saudi riyal.
- 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.

## Saudi Arabia

The Rub' al Khali, the Empty Quarter, is the largest continuous sand desert in the world at about 650,000 km² — bigger than France. Saudi Arabia has no permanent rivers or lakes at all, which is true of only a handful of countries. It holds roughly a sixth of the world's proven oil reserves.

> 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 Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia is larger — 2,149,690 km² against 1,964,375 km².

### Which has more people, Mexico or Saudi Arabia?

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 36,973,555.

### What is the time difference between Mexico and Saudi Arabia?

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Saudi Arabia is UTC+03:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://atoneplace.net/country/saudi-arabia/)
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- [India vs Saudi Arabia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-saudi-arabia/)
- [China vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Saudi Arabia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-saudi-arabia/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Japan vs Saudi Arabia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-saudi-arabia/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Saudi Arabia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-saudi-arabia/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-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]